By KAREN VELIE Family and friends of Veronica Osio are asking the public to report sightings of her missing 10-year-old Jack Russel Terrier. The dog went missing from her Arroyo Grande home the night her son stabbed and killed her... (Continue reading)
By KAREN VELIE The 29-year-old Arroyo Grande man who allegedly killed his father, attempted to kill his mother and torched their home is also accused of assaulting a police animal. Prosecutors have filed felony charges of murder, attempted murder, arson... (Continue reading)
By KAREN VELIE A 29-year-old man is in jail after he allegedly killed his father, attempted to kill his mother and set his parents’ Arroyo Grande home and daycare on fire on Monday night. Alan Fonseca Osio, a man with... (Continue reading)
By KAREN VELIE The 34-year-old man charged with murdering his close friend in Pismo Beach pleaded not guilty on Monday. Andrew Frederick Rodriguez and the murder victim, 39-year-old Jonathan Campbell Perez, worked together at Giuseppe’s in Pismo Beach – Rodriguez... (Continue reading)
By KAREN VELIE The 34-year-old suspect in last week’s murder of a Pismo Beach bartender left the scene of the crime and drove to Ventura where he allegedly cut his own neck and then jumped off a pier in a... (Continue reading)
By JOSH FRIEDMAN The suspect in the Vandenberg Village homicide over the weekend is accused of murdering her own mother, whom authorities have identified as 71-year-old Denise Ann Carter. Shortly after 7 a.m. on Saturday, a witness reported suspicious circumstances... (Continue reading)
By JOSH FRIEDMAN Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s detectives arrested a suspect on Saturday for the alleged murder of a woman in the Vandenberg Village area of Lompoc. Shortly after 7 a.m., a witness reported suspicious circumstances in the area... (Continue reading)
By JOSH FRIEDMAN Santa Barbara County prosecutors have charged two men for the 2021 murder of a 17-year-old from Shandon, which took place in Los Olivos. On March 7, 2021, a 911 caller reported a single vehicle accident in the... (Continue reading)
By JOSH FRIEDMAN A suspect or suspects shot two men in Santa Maria Saturday night, killing one of the victims and wounding the other. Shortly after 10 p.m., a 911 caller reported a shooting in the 400 block of N.... (Continue reading)
By JOSH FRIEDMAN A judge has sentenced a 44-year-old man to 96 years to life in prison for murdering a 64-year-old man and mutilating his remains in the Bianchi Open Space area behind Megan’s Organic Market in San Luis Obispo.... (Continue reading)