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Public urination prompts Paso Robles drug bust

Written on 24 Mar, 2015 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 11 comments

Paso Robles police responded to a report of public urination Sunday evening and ended up arresting the suspect for drug offenses. Around 10:40 p.m., police received a report of man getting out of his vehicle and urinating on the driveway... (Continue reading)

Traveler tested for Ebola in Santa Barbara County

Written on 23 Mar, 2015 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 2 comments

Doctors are testing and monitoring a traveler who recently returned from one or more countries that experienced an Ebola epidemic. [KSBY] Santa Barbara County health officials say the case is a low risk situation and highly unlikely to be Ebola.... (Continue reading)

California initiative calls for killing gays

Written on 23 Mar, 2015 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 45 comments

Signature gatherers may soon approach California voters with a plan to institute the death penalty as punishment for gay sex. Huntington Beach attorney Matt McGlaughlin is proposing the “Sodomite Suppression Act,” a planned state ballot measure for which he submitted... (Continue reading)

Fatal head-on accident near Paso Robles

Written on 23 Mar, 2015 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 12 comments

Two people were killed and two others injured Monday in a head-on collision at the intersection of State Route 41 and State Route 46 in San Luis Obispo County east of Paso Robles. Shortly before 7 a.m., witnesses reported the... (Continue reading)

Son burned, father arrested in Morro Bay pyro mishap

Written on 23 Mar, 2015 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 9 comments

San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s deputies arrested a Grover Beach man after a homemade pyrotechnic device burned his 13-year-old son. Around 10:15 a.m. Sunday, deputies responded to a report that a powder flare discharged and injured a juvenile on Canet... (Continue reading)

Updating Morro Bay parks commissioner story: clarification

Written on 22 Mar, 2015 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 13 comments

In a Feb. 23 story about former Morro Bay parks commissioner Aaron Ochs and a robo-call regarding his online activity, CalCoastNews erred when it wrote that Ochs was considering getting a gun. To clarify Ochs’ statement, he said it was... (Continue reading)

Will Lois Capps’ daughter run for Congress?

Written on 22 Mar, 2015 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 54 comments

Democratic Rep. Lois Capps’ daughter and son-in-law have given up their bicoastal life to settle fulltime in Santa Barbara fueling speculation the Laura Capps plans to run for her mother’s 24th District seat in 2016. Rumors have been circulating for... (Continue reading)

Pismo Beach pays $1 million to reduce pension liability

Written on 22 Mar, 2015 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 9 comments

Pismo Beach City Council voted unanimously on Tuesday to approve a $1 million payment to reduce the city’s unfunded pension liability costs. Currently, the city has an unfunded pension liability of $13.6 million. This includes $6.3 million in the safety... (Continue reading)

Lawsuit claims wines contain dangerous arsenic levels

Written on 21 Mar, 2015 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 11 comments

A Lawsuit filed Thursday against more than two-dozen wineries claims they are producing low-cost wines that contain dangerously, high levels of arsenic, according to the lawsuit filed in Los Angele Superior Court. The suit claims dozens of wineries are violating... (Continue reading)

SLO settles lawsuit over convicted cop

Written on 21 Mar, 2015 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 9 comments

The city of San Luis Obispo has settled a lawsuit filed by two confidential informants of a former police officer who was convicted of extortion. FBI agents arrested Cory Pierce in Feb. 2013 after an undercover investigation revealed that the... (Continue reading)