By KAREN VELIE The suspect in the murder of Kristin Smart attempted to make a plea deal in 2003. Paul Flores would lead San Luis Obispo County law enforcement to her body in exchange for a minor sentence, according to... (Continue reading)
By JOSH FRIEDMAN A unknown suspect stabbed and killed a man in Santa Maria late Tuesday night. Just before midnight, a caller reported an assault in the 700 block of E. Betteravia Road, according to the Santa Maria Police Department.... (Continue reading)
By JOSH FRIEDMAN The state of California has selected a site near Atascadero State Hospital as one of five locations for new affordable housing developments. As part of an effort to build more than 1 million units of affordable housing... (Continue reading)
By KAREN VELIE At a San Simeon Community Services District meeting on Tuesday, the directors voted unanimously not to pay their attorney firm because attorney Jeffrey Minnery is refusing to provide them unredacted bills. During the past two monthly meetings,... (Continue reading)
By JOSH FRIEDMAN San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s deputies arrested an Arroyo Grande man who pepper sprayed a group of demonstrators on a Highway 101 overpass in Templeton Tuesday morning. [Tribune] At about 9 a.m., a group of six to... (Continue reading)
By JOSH FRIEDMAN and KAREN VELIE Witnesses in the Kristin Smart murder trial testified this week about human blood found under a defendant’s home and an alleged confession, before the prosecution rested its case on Tuesday. The defense will call... (Continue reading)
By KAREN VELIE Paso Robles firefighters are working to clean up 50 gallons of gasoline after a hose on a truck removing gas from a station in Paso Robles broke on Tuesday evening. At about 7 p.m., a truck from... (Continue reading)
By KAREN VELIE A judge on Monday sentenced a Santa Barbara man to 45 years in prison for driving into oncoming traffic on Highway 154 and killing a mother and her two young children in 2019. Several months after John... (Continue reading)
By KAREN VELIE More than 2,300 PG&E customers in San Luis Obispo are without power on Tuesday morning as power outages are becoming common events. In an area northwest of Paso Robles, 2,106 customers lost power at 10:31 a.m. The... (Continue reading)
By KAREN VELIE While gas prices continue to fall in most of the country, prices in California are still inching back up. During the past week, the average price of gas in San Luis Obispo County increase one cent to... (Continue reading)