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DUI driver sentenced to 6 years

Written on 1 May, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 20 comments

A 55-year-old Paso Robles woman was sentenced to six years in prison after she received her fourth DUI for driving under the influence of prescription drugs. [Tribune] In 1999, Denise Gafner Mendoza, received her first DUI. Two years later, she... (Continue reading)

Three teens arrested for carjacking

Written on 18 Apr, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 7 comments

Three teenage boys were arrested Wednesday on Highway 101 just north of Santa Margarita on suspicion of carjacking a woman in Visalia. Two teens allegedly jacked the car and a purse from a woman in a Target store parking lot... (Continue reading)

Ten dead after bus owned by SLO company crashes

Written on 11 Apr, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 5 comments

A tour bus owned by a San Luis Obispo company crashed on Interstate 5 in Northern California Thursday evening, killing 10 people and hospitalized 35. [KSBY] The bus was carrying high school students from the Los Angeles area to Humboldt... (Continue reading)

Woman airlifted from North County crash

Written on 19 Feb, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | One comment

Emergency personnel airlifted a woman early Tuesday morning from a car crash on Highway 46. [Tribune] Around 4:13 a.m. Tuesday, a woman driving east on Highway 46 near Gruenhagen Flat veered into the westbound lane and clipped a Peterbuilt truck... (Continue reading)

Body of missing Nipomo woman found in Avila Beach

Written on 11 Feb, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | No comments

San Luis Obispo County sheriff’s deputies discovered the body of a missing Nipomo woman lying near an Avila Beach intersection Sunday evening. Investigators ruled 41-year-old Maria De La Cruz Albarran Uribe’s death a suicide. Uribe had gone missing in late... (Continue reading)

Former Rotary president and alleged bank robber dies in crash

Written on 3 Feb, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 9 comments

The California Highway Patrol has identified the person who died after he crashed his RV over the side of a cliff on Highway 1 on Sunday as Arthur McClay Watkins, 56, of Arroyo Grande. Watkins, a former president of the... (Continue reading)

Driver dead after crashing into Cayucos home

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

An elderly man was found dead inside a car he drove into a home on Hacienda Drive in Cayucos on Saturday afternoon. [Tribune] California Highway patrol officers found the 79-year-old Cayucos man unresponsive in his car. Paramedics transported the man... (Continue reading)

Paso Robles man injures daughter in crash after fleeing CHP

Written on 27 Jan, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 3 comments

A Paso Robles man and his 5-year-old daughter went to the hospital Saturday evening after twice fleeing California Highway Patrol officers and crashing a car into a dirt embankment in Paso Robles. [KSBY] Claude Cowans was driving a Ford on... (Continue reading)

Man convicted of attempted murder for shootout with officer

Written on 25 Jan, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | No comments

A San Diego man who engaged in a shootout with a California Highway Patrol officer in Paso Robles was convicted of attempted murder Thursday. Clifford Scott, 23, battled CHP Officer Adrian Ayala in a shootout on Oct. 27, 2012, after... (Continue reading)

Nipomo man arrested for hit and run

Written on 11 Jan, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 2 comments

California Highway Patrol officers arrested a 27-year-old Nipomo man for allegedly crashing into a bicyclist and then leaving the scene Friday morning. Shortly after 10 a.m., witnesses said a white truck hit the bicyclist near the corner of Orchard Road... (Continue reading)