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SLO County’s repeat hash lab exploder?

Written on 5 Feb, 2015 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 10 comments

What comes around apparently goes around for a Los Osos resident with a liking for manufacturing hash oil in his apartment. The man severely burned in a hash lab explosion on Tuesday was convicted in 2010 of manufacturing oil in... (Continue reading)

SLO crash traps injured woman in car

Written on 5 Feb, 2015 in Daily Briefs, Featured | No comments

San Luis Obispo firefighters needed to extricate a woman who was trapped inside a car after a collision with a truck Wednesday morning. The woman, a passenger in the car, survived and is in stable conditions with unknown injuries, according... (Continue reading)

Cal Poly student acquitted of sexual assault

Written on 5 Feb, 2015 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 20 comments

A San Luis Obispo jury has acquitted a Cal Poly student charged with a sexually assaulting a female friend. [Tribune] Jury forewoman Alice Fisus said prosecutors did not present enough evidence to convict Frank Nguyen, 21, of sexual battery and... (Continue reading)

San Luis Coastal teachers demand new contracts

Written on 4 Feb, 2015 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 67 comments

San Luis Coastal Unified teachers attended a school board meeting Tuesday in Los Osos to protest an impasse in contract negotiations between the district and their union. [Tribune] Nearly 300 people, mostly teachers, packed the Los Osos Middle School cafeteria... (Continue reading)

Supervisors to let Paso groundwater ordinance expire

Written on 4 Feb, 2015 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 16 comments

On a 3-2 vote with supervisors Bruce Gibson and Adam Hill in the minority, the San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors chose Tuesday to abandon an ordinance that restricts water use in the Paso Robles Groundwater Basin. In 2013,... (Continue reading)

Man burned in Los Osos hash lab fire

Written on 4 Feb, 2015 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 16 comments

A Los Osos man is receiving treatment in the Fresno Burn Center after a hash oil lab he was allegedly operating exploded Tuesday afternoon. Matthew David Culver, 32, used a fire extinguisher to put out a blaze in his apartment... (Continue reading)

Orcutt women are Super Bowl cheerleaders

Written on 3 Feb, 2015 in Daily Briefs, Featured | No comments

Two women from Orcutt performed as cheerleaders in the Super Bowl on Sunday. [KEYT] Courtney Moore, a 2003 graduate of Righetti High School, cheered for the Seattle Seahawks while Stefani Swaim, a 2009 graduate of St. Joseph High, led cheers... (Continue reading)

Randy Quaid’s video meltdown

Written on 3 Feb, 2015 in Daily Briefs, Featured, Screening Room | 23 comments

Randy Quaid attacks Rupert Murdoch, Warner Brothers and News Corp in a recently released video that shows him pretending to have sex with his wife who is wearing a Murdoch mask while a dog barks in the background. “For good... (Continue reading)

Atascadero murder suspect heading to trial

Written on 3 Feb, 2015 in Daily Briefs, Featured | No comments

An Atascadero man who said he shot his neighbor because he felt an “evil” coming from her is heading for trial in San Luis Obispo Superior Court. [KSBY] Jury selection begins Tuesday in the murder trial of Mark Alan Andrews,... (Continue reading)

Cal Poly sexual assault case goes to jury

Written on 3 Feb, 2015 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 4 comments

A San Luis Obispo jury will decide whether a 21-year-old Cal Poly student is guilty of sexual battery and of penetrating a female peer with a foreign object. [Tribune] Frank Nguyen is not charged with rape, but he does face... (Continue reading)