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SLO city attorney gets a raise

Written on 23 Apr, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 33 comments

Amid a recent agreement between the city and its management staff to forgo raises for two years, on April 17 the San Luis Obispo City Council approved a 3.5 percent performance based raise for the city attorney. Before the 4-1... (Continue reading)

SLO family awarded $74 million for medical malpractice

Written on 21 Apr, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 7 comments

After two days of deliberation, a jury found a local physician responsible for not properly delivering a baby and awarded a San Luis Obispo family $74 million. Sofia Blunt, now almost three years old, suffered brain damage when she was... (Continue reading)

Cal Poly faculty to vote on strike

Written on 16 Apr, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 30 comments

Faculty at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo will begin voting today on whether the faculty will grant their union, the California Faculty Association, the authority to call a strike, according to the association’s website. The end of mediation sets... (Continue reading)

Scolari’s to close California stores

Written on 13 Apr, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 6 comments

Scolari’s Markets announced Thursday they plan to close all four Central Coast locations in the next 60 days. On Thursday after lunch, managers informed employees at the San Luis Obispo, Paso Robles, Pismo Beach and Santa Barbara stores that the... (Continue reading)

New plans for Sunny Acres

Written on 12 Apr, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 6 comments

After years of battling over code requirements, Dan De Vaul, community members, public officials, and a group of students are working together to makeover Sunny Acres, a sober living facility that sets north of San Luis Obispo on Los Osos... (Continue reading)

Popular teacher arrested for criminal threats

Written on 12 Apr, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 18 comments

Police arrested a popular San Luis Obispo High School teacher on March 29 after he sent threatening emails and then created a ruckus when he refused to leave the district’s continuation campus. Brian Sanford Miller, 55, had been on voluntary... (Continue reading)

Cal Poly students cleaning up Sunny Acres

Written on 11 Apr, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 38 comments

A group of Cal Poly students is working to bring Dan De Vaul’s 72-acre ranch and sober living facility   north of San Luis Obispo up to code. [Tribune] After years of the county battling De Vaul over code requirements, in... (Continue reading)

Lawsuit filed on behalf of San Luis Obispo’s homeless

Written on 9 Apr, 2012 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 48 comments

By KAREN VELIE San Luis Obispo city officials are accused of discrimination, harassment and the criminalization of homeless people, in a lawsuit filed on Friday. At the behest of city officials, police wake up homeless sleeping in their cars and... (Continue reading)

SLO prowler suspect arrested

Written on 5 Apr, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 7 comments

San Luis Obispo police arrested a prowler after a resident said they spotted him looking into their bedroom window at 2 a.m. on Monday. While on the phone with a police dispatcher, the resident of the home in the area... (Continue reading)

Prosecutor dumped after declining firefighter assault case

Written on 4 Apr, 2012 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 127 comments

By KAREN VELIE The San Luis Obispo County prosecutor who decided not to prosecute firefighter Ryan Mason who is accused of savagely beating a man in June has been removed from the case. Deputy District Attorney Karen Gray told the... (Continue reading)