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California’s battling tax hike initiatives

Written on 12 Dec, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 10 comments

Californians overwhelmingly support raising taxes to support public education, but three such competing initiatives could be defeated because of voter confusion. [LosAngelesTimes] Funding for California’s public school system ranks 42nd among states in student spending. In addition, university students face... (Continue reading)

Armed Robbery at San Luis Obispo Subway

Written on 12 Dec, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 23 comments

San Luis Obispo police are looking for a man who allegedly held up a Subway restaurant at gunpoint Saturday evening. [KCOY] At about 10 p.m., the robber wearing a nylon stocking mask entered the Marsh Street store, took out a... (Continue reading)

Santa Maria bank robbery suspect arrested

Written on 12 Dec, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 9 comments

Law enforcement officers arrested a 45-year-old Santa Maria man on Sunday for allegedly robbing the Rabobank on North Broadway on Thursday. [KSBY] Officers took James Welbaum  into custody without incident in the area of Main and Pine streets in Santa... (Continue reading)

California prison psychologist allegedly faked her own rape

Written on 11 Dec, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 23 comments

Police arrested a prison psychologist for making a false report of rape in order to convince her husband to move out of their Sacramento neighborhood. [WashingtonPost] Laurie Ann Martinez, 36, allegedly split her lip, scraped her knuckles with sandpaper, had... (Continue reading)

Salmonella prompts cilantro recall

Written on 10 Dec, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 26 comments

Cilantro samples from a Salinas-based company have been found to be contaminated with Salmonella and a seven state recall has been initiated, according to Pacific Cilantro. On Friday, Pacific Cilantro said the Food and Drug Administration found salmonella in a... (Continue reading)

Paltry pot inventory pushes prices up

Written on 10 Dec, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 58 comments

Supply, demand, plant mold, and federal busts are pushing up the price of marijuana in California. [California Watch] And braced by threats from the U.S. Justice Department, property owners who rent to dispensaries now face the possibility of their property... (Continue reading)

Brazen Santa Maria bank Robbery

Written on 9 Dec, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 25 comments

FBI investigators and Santa Maria Police officers are investigating the Thursday robbery of the Rabobank on North Broadway in Santa Maria. At about noon, the robber passed a note written on the back of a deposit slip to a teller... (Continue reading)

Two arrested for SLO ecstasy lab

Written on 9 Dec, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 35 comments

A San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s surveillance of a pair of suspected drug dealers led to the discovery Wednesday of an ecstasy lab in SLO. After discovering ecstasy tablets in a car the suspects were traveling in, deputies arrested Marcus... (Continue reading)

Two police officers shot in Santa Maria

Written on 8 Dec, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 27 comments

A gunman shot two Santa Maria Police officers before being shot and killed by police during a shootout that occurred shortly after 8 a.m. today on the 300 block of Agnes Avenue. [SantaMariaTimes] The two currently unnamed officers are undergoing... (Continue reading)

Central Coast leads California in falling incomes

Written on 8 Dec, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 35 comments

Residents of the Central Coast of California have been hit the hardest in the great recession with median incomes plummeting 18 percent since 2007, according to a report released today by the Public Policy Institute of California. The report defines... (Continue reading)