By KAREN VELIE For nine hours a boy who recently turned 6-years-old waited for his father, locked in a car with the windows rolled up while outside temperatures reached 99 degrees. The child is dead, his mother now knows where... (Continue reading)
By KAREN VELIE Weeks before a Mexican national allegedly murdered his son, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued a detainer to deport the San Luis Obispo County Jail inmate. Federal and local prosecutors say the child would be alive today... (Continue reading)
By JOSH FRIEDMAN Santa Maria police officers arrested a man who allegedly killed a woman in the northern Santa Barbara County city on Friday. Shortly before 11 a.m., a 911 caller reported a possible stabbing in the 1700 block of... (Continue reading)
By KAREN VELIE Paul Flores, the former Cal Poly San Luis Obispo student who was convicted in the 1996 murder of Kristin Smart, last fall appealed his conviction claiming judicial error. State prosecutors responded on April 14 with a brief... (Continue reading)
By KAREN VELIE A lengthy investigation resulted in charges against a Santa Maria man for a murder that occurred more than seven years ago, the Santa Barbara County District Attorney’s Office announced Monday. On Sept. 3, 2017, the suspect allegedly... (Continue reading)
By KAREN VELIE San Luis Obispo County prosecutors recently added a murder charge to the criminal complaint against a driver who allegedly struck two bicyclists in a hit-and-run in July that resulted in the death of 87-year-olf Saul Goldberg of... (Continue reading)
By KAREN VELIE Santa Maria police officers arrested two teenagers on Friday who are suspected of murdering 20-year-old Anthony Hernandez earlier this month. Shortly before 9 p.m. on Dec. 10, a caller reported a shooting in the 300 block of... (Continue reading)
By KAREN VELIE A hearing for a 34-year-old man charged with murdering his close friend in Pismo Beach was reschedule after his attorney argued he was never provided the autopsy report. Andrew Frederick Rodriguez is charged with murdering 39-year-old Jonathan... (Continue reading)
By KAREN VELIE A 21-year-old Paso Robles man is facing charges of murder, animal cruelty and a hate crime in the stabbing death of 32-year-old Todd Pinion of Atascadero, a gay man. Pinion had been missing for more than a... (Continue reading)
By KAREN VELIE The body of a 32-year-old Atascadero man missing for more than a week was found near a creek in rural Santa Margarita. His alleged killer, a 21-year-old Paso Robles man, is in custody. Last seen on the... (Continue reading)