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Panel recommends Manson family member for parole

Written on 4 Oct, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 26 comments

A California prison panel on Thursday granted parole to a former Manson family member who is currently incarcerated at the California Men’s Colony in San Luis Obispo. Bruce Davis, 69, is serving life sentences for the 1969 slayings of stuntman... (Continue reading)

California mom goes to jail for letting kids skip school

Written on 4 Oct, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 11 comments

A Kings County mother is spending 180 days in jail for allowing her children to repeatedly miss school [KPMH]. Lorraine Cuevas, 34, violated California’s chronic truancy law by allowing her second and third grade students to skip a combined 116... (Continue reading)

Campaign finance records bolster IRS case against Maldonado

Written on 4 Oct, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 32 comments

California election finance records show that Republican congressional candidate Abel Maldonado raised $35,000 the same day as a 2007 party held on his behalf, which Maldonado’s family business claimed as a business expense on its federal income tax return [McClatchy].... (Continue reading)

Administrative failures result in $1.1 million fine

Written on 4 Oct, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 17 comments

After about six hours of deliberations, the Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board determined that because a 2010 raw sewage spill in Oceano was due to careless and improper maintenance the South San Luis Obispo County Sanitation District will... (Continue reading)

Judge requests two juries in Dystiny Myers trial

Written on 3 Oct, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 10 comments

San Luis Obispo Superior Court Judge Barry LaBarbera has decided to hold one trial with two separate juries in the Dystiny Myers murder case. [SLO Tribune] LaBarbera said Tuesday that one jury will hear the death penalty case of Ty... (Continue reading)

28th Annual Central Coast Writers’ Conference, event photos day 2

Written on 3 Oct, 2012 in Eye on the Coast, Featured | No comments

The 28th Annual Central Coast Writers’ Conference at Cuesta College was a weekend excursion into the world of accomplished authors, agents and eBook publishing. If you would like to buy a high-resolution print of any of these photos, aside from... (Continue reading)

Oceano CSD update

Written on 3 Oct, 2012 in Featured, Opinion | 7 comments

OPINION By JULIE TACKER It’s been awhile since we last talked about the Oceano Community Services District. In August, I explained OCSD General Manager Tom Geaslen had failed to bring the permanent sale of water initiative to an agenda in... (Continue reading)

SLO extends homeless parking program

Written on 3 Oct, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 3 comments

The San Luis Obispo City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to extend a program allowing people living in their cars to park overnight at the Prado Day Center. The parking program, which began in June as a response to police ticketing... (Continue reading)

Movie review: Looper

Written on 3 Oct, 2012 in Discovered, Featured | 2 comments

By MIRANDA FORESMAN I love a good mind trip. More than that, though, I really love a Bruce Willis flick. Count me in, it matters not volume of bloodshed or the lack of plot. The man does what he does... (Continue reading)

Follow the rules, forfeit your home

Written on 3 Oct, 2012 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 65 comments

By DANIEL BLACKBURN Campbell (Cam) Carroll came very close to losing his home to foreclosure earlier this month to people he’d never heard of, the forced sale auction halted only by a last-minute restraining order issued by a San Luis... (Continue reading)