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Kelly Gearhart’s sentence reduced five years

Written on 18 Jun, 2019 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 17 comments

By KAREN VELIE Notorious North County developer Kelly Gearhart won a five-year sentence reduction on June 11. He is now scheduled for release on March 2, 2023. [Cal Coast Times] In July 2015, U.S. District Court Judge Otis Wright II... (Continue reading)

Police, bomb squad and SWAT raid Grover Beach home

Written on 18 Jun, 2019 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 2 comments

Multiple SWAT teams and the county bomb squad raided a Grover Beach home early Monday morning, waking up neighbors as part of an ongoing criminal investigation, police said. At about 5:30 a.m., Grover Beach officers served a search warrant at... (Continue reading)

Man gets 4 years in jail for sexually assaulting intoxicated woman

Written on 18 Jun, 2019 in Daily Briefs, Featured | One comment

A San Luis Obispo County man was sentenced Monday to more than four years in jail for assaulting an intoxicated woman at the Atascadero Lake Park. [Tribune] David E. Ardebili, 40, is a former resident of Pismo Beach who had... (Continue reading)

Fire displaces residents, destroys Heritage Ranch house

Written on 18 Jun, 2019 in Daily Briefs, Featured | No comments

A fire destroyed a Heritage Ranch house on Monday and spread into nearby vegetation, burning 4.3 acres of wildland, according to Cal Fire. At about 3:30 p.m., a fire was reported burning at a two-story home located at 2760 Saddleback... (Continue reading)

Santa Barbara County supervisors accused of catering to cannabis interests

Written on 17 Jun, 2019 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 6 comments

Santa Barbara County has become the unlikely capital of California’s legal pot market, and two of the county’s supervisors are facing allegations that they have been catering to people in the marijuana industry who have donated to their campaigns and... (Continue reading)

SLO County promoting marijuana over hemp

Written on 17 Jun, 2019 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 12 comments

By KAREN VELIE While growing and selling marijuana is legal in San Luis Obispo County, officials are planning to place a temporary moratorium on the growing of industrial hemp in part to protect the county’s budding marijuana industry. [Cal Coast... (Continue reading)

Two people stabbed on Sunday in Santa Maria

Written on 17 Jun, 2019 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 4 comments

Violent altercations on Sunday in Santa Maria left two men suffering stab wounds, one taking place in the morning and the other at night. [KSBY] At about 8:30 a.m., a man was stabbed in the chest on Newlove Drive. The... (Continue reading)

A wasted, empty gym in Cayucos

Written on 16 Jun, 2019 in Discovered, Featured | 26 comments

Editor’s Note: The following series, “Life in Radically Gentrifying Cayucos by the Sea,” to be posted weekly includes the notes, thoughts, and opinions of an original American voice: author Dell Franklin.  By DELL FRANKLIN The middle school built this state-of-the-art... (Continue reading)

Motorcyclist killed in crash with big rig in Santa Maria

Written on 16 Jun, 2019 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 2 comments

A motorcyclist was killed in a crash with a semi-tractor trailer truck Saturday afternoon in Santa Maria. Shortly after 1 p.m., callers reported a crash on North Broadway near Preisker Lane and Highway 101. Emergency personnel then pronounced the motorcyclist... (Continue reading)

Couple suspected of committing suicide in Goleta parking lot

Written on 15 Jun, 2019 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 3 comments

Investigators suspect two elderly people found dead in a vehicle parked in Goleta Thursday afternoon took their own lives, according to the Santa Barbara Sheriff’s Department. About 1 p.m., emergency personnel found the couple in a vehicle parked on a... (Continue reading)