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Regulate marijuana like wine?

Written on 6 Aug, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 27 comments

Supporters are gathering signatures for an initiative that would decriminalize marijuana in California for those older than 21. The measure, dubbed the Regulate Marijuana Like Wine Act, would tax and regulate the cultivation, production and sale of cannabis using grape... (Continue reading)

Lindamood-Bell program grows brain

Written on 6 Aug, 2011 in Daily Briefs | 18 comments

In a new study researchers found a San Luis Obispo headquartered company, Lindmood-Bell Learning Processes, helped grow gray matter in the brains of children with dyslexia using a reading intervention program. The independent study, conducted by researchers from the Center for... (Continue reading)

Weisenberg convicted of second-degree murder

Written on 5 Aug, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 12 comments

A jury convicted Kaylee Weisenberg of second-degree murder and gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated in a packed San Luis Obispo courtroom Friday morning. Weisenberg, 23, crashed into and killed CHP Officer Bret Oswald while driving on South River Road on June... (Continue reading)

Child abducted from Atascadero homeless shelter

Written on 5 Aug, 2011 in Daily Briefs | 15 comments

A 4-year-old Atascadero boy was allegedly kidnapped from the Echo Shelter in Atascadero at about 4:30 a.m. on Friday. Police issued an Amber Alert for Jeremy Guthrie after his mother discovered him missing on Friday morning. Guthrie was last seen... (Continue reading)

Skateboarder dies in Cayucos downhill accident

Written on 5 Aug, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 5 comments

Seth Dunn, a 20-year-old from Fresno, died from blunt force to the head following a skateboard accident in Cayucos on Monday. [The Tribune] He wasn’t wearing a helmet as he skateboarded down Bakersfield Avenue, which has a steep incline. A... (Continue reading)

Police raid raw food cooperative

Written on 5 Aug, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 23 comments

Raw food enthusiasts in California took a hit this week as police raided a Venice Beach cooperative, removing $70,000 of raw, organic produce and dairy products from the shelves and placing the goods onto the back of a flatbed truck.... (Continue reading)

Morro Bay man arrested for allegedly torturing girlfriend

Written on 5 Aug, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 5 comments

Police arrested a Morro Bay man suspected of locking his girlfriend in a closet and repeatedly assaulting her with a knife. [Tribune] Andrew David Mattson, 27, and his girlfriend allegedly engaged in an argument on Tuesday night that quickly escalated... (Continue reading)

Nazis, Nukes, and the Bible: Vandenberg to stop mixing the three

Written on 4 Aug, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 17 comments

For two decades Vandenberg’s officers’ training on how to launch nuclear weapons  included instruction on the morality of war with the aid of quotes from the Bible and a former Nazi SS officer. [Truthout] The ethics briefing ended abruptly after... (Continue reading)

Weisenberg’s fate in jury’s hands

Written on 4 Aug, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 3 comments

The prosecution and defense made their closing arguments Wednesday in the controversial second-degree murder trial of Kaylee Weisenberg in a San Luis Obispo Superior courtroom. Now Weisenberg’s fate is up to the jury. In their closing remarks Deputy District Attorney Lee Cunningham... (Continue reading)

Three Pismo Beach shark sightings in five days

Written on 3 Aug, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 2 comments

Three shark sightings in five days at Pismo Beach have many tourists staying on the beach and out of the water. [KSBY] At about 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday, a surfer reported seeing an approximately 12-foot shark in the ocean about... (Continue reading)