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Voters to decide on Price Canyon development issues

Written on 3 Jul, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 12 comments

Pismo Beach voters will get to decide between two development plans for Price Canyon after a proposed initiative received the required approvals to be placed on the Nov. 3 ballot. A group dubbed Save Price Canyon garnered the required signatures... (Continue reading)

Paso Robles getting a new mayor

Written on 3 Jul, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 19 comments

Paso Robles Mayor Duane Picanco has opted not to seek reelection this November but rather to make a run for a city council seat. [KSBY] Picanco has served five terms as the mayor of Paso Robles. He has served a... (Continue reading)

Humpback whale beaches at Montana de Oro

Written on 2 Jul, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 13 comments

The carcass of a 35-foot humpback whale is lying on the beach at Montan de Oro State Park. [KEYT] The whale beached on Friday and has been lying there since. Scientists performed a necropsy and determined that the whale has... (Continue reading)

Slo council signs off Measure Y renewal

Written on 2 Jul, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 15 comments

By JOSH FRIEDMAN The San Luis Obispo City Council voted 4-1 Tuesday to place a renewal of Measure Y, the city’s half-cent sales tax, on the November ballot. A simple majority vote on November 4 would extend the sales tax... (Continue reading)

Vandenberg launches carbon dioxide measuring satellite

Written on 2 Jul, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 3 comments

An unmanned rocket carrying a satellite to study carbon dioxide was successfully launched early Wednesday morning from Vandenberg Air Force Base. At a cost of $468 million, the mission is to collect global measurements of carbon dioxide levels in the... (Continue reading)

Six Los Angeles Sheriff’s deputies convicted of obstructing an investigation

Written on 1 Jul, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 12 comments

Six sworn officers who were working in the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department were found guilty today of obstruction of justice for interfering with a federal civil rights investigation into misconduct at the Men’s Central Jail, according to a Department of... (Continue reading)

Police dispute that Ray is a target

Written on 1 Jul, 2014 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 107 comments

By KAREN VELIE San Luis Obispo County Supervisor Caren Ray contends a pellet or BB shot through her window was done purposely by someone standing in her small private front yard, an allegation police say the evidence does not support.... (Continue reading)

Woman arrested for attempted murder in Santa Maria

Written on 1 Jul, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | One comment

Santa Maria police arrested a woman for attempted murder Monday evening after she stabbed another woman several times for no apparent reason. [KSBY] Felicia Ann Donaldson, 28, is accused of stabbing the victim multiple times on her head and neck.... (Continue reading)

Vandals strike Templeton market

Written on 1 Jul, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | No comments

Rocks have flown through windows of the Templeton Market and Deli twice in the past three months. Around 1:35 a.m. on March 30, a vandal threw a rock through windows on the south side of the market Last week, a... (Continue reading)

FBI agents thwart Ventura bank robbery

Written on 1 Jul, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 11 comments

A Los Angeles man is in jail after his attempt to rob a Ventura bank on Monday was foiled by two FBI agents who just happened to be in the building. At about 3 p.m., Manuel Hernandez, 28, slipped a... (Continue reading)