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Sierra Club walks from Patterson

Written on 25 Apr, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 39 comments

County Supervisor Jim Patterson, erstwhile darling of local environmentalists, won’t be getting the support of the Santa Lucia Chapter of the Sierra Club in his upcoming battle for reelection to his Fifth District seat. [The Tribune] Patterson told a reporter... (Continue reading)

Teacher files to run for SLO City Council

Written on 25 Apr, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 14 comments

Pacific Beach High School teacher Jeff Aranguena filed papers in his bid for a seat on the San Luis Obispo City Council earlier this month. Aranguena, 29, and current council members Dan Carpenter and John Ashbaugh are each vying for... (Continue reading)

Jellyfish-like creature forces Diablo into partial shutdown

Written on 25 Apr, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 13 comments

An influx of a jellyfish-like creature into the intake at Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant has forced operators to reduce power to 15 percent capacity. On Monday night, operators discovered a clog of a small barrel-shaped plankton called salps in... (Continue reading)

Attorney Tom McCormick dies

Written on 24 Apr, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 8 comments

Local attorney Thomas Gerald McCormick, who represented criminal defendants in some of this county’s highest profile cases, died Monday in an Arroyo Grande care facility. He was 55. Details of McCormick’s death were not immediately available although he had been... (Continue reading)

Allen earns police commander stripes

Written on 24 Apr, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 9 comments

A veteran of the Atascadero Police Department, Joe Allen, has been elevated to the rank of commander, Chief Jerel Haley said. Allen joined the local department in 1995 after a four-year stint in Monrovia as a member of that community’s... (Continue reading)

Three cross burning suspects reach plea deal

Written on 24 Apr, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 6 comments

Three of the four defendants accused of committing a hate crime against a black teen in Arroyo Grande last year agreed to plea deals in exchanged for reduced sentences on Monday in San Luis Obispo Superior Court. Jason Kahn, 36,... (Continue reading)

Prisoner accused of murdering another inmate at CMC

Written on 24 Apr, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 19 comments

An inmate at the California Men’s Colony in San Luis Obispo County died following a fight with another inmate on Saturday morning. The suspected assailant is currently housed in the administrative segregation  unit and the prison has been placed on... (Continue reading)

SLO city attorney gets a raise

Written on 23 Apr, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 33 comments

Amid a recent agreement between the city and its management staff to forgo raises for two years, on April 17 the San Luis Obispo City Council approved a 3.5 percent performance based raise for the city attorney. Before the 4-1... (Continue reading)

Oxnard corruption probe shows abuse, but no arrests

Written on 23 Apr, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 6 comments

A nearly two-year criminal probe of Oxnard by the Ventura County District Attorney’s office ended last week with no charges or arrests, even though the investigators found “serious financial abuses.” [VenturaCountyStar] In the 99-page report, investigators describe lax accounting and... (Continue reading)

Sex offender lived across from Oceano school

Written on 21 Apr, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 3 comments

A man registered as a sex offender for previously committing lewd acts on a child under 14, was arrested Tuesday for claiming to be a transient while living in a home across the street from the Oceano Elementary School. Francis... (Continue reading)