Santa Maria police are searching for a man reported to have sexually assaulted several women this month. [KSBY] The suspect has reportedly been riding a bicycle up to women and groping them from behind. Most of the reported assaults have... (Continue reading)
In the past four days, law enforcement officers have twice arrested a Los Osos man accused of committing burglaries from Paso Robles to Los Angeles County. Arroyo Grande police arrested Ryan Antone Dutra, 35, on Sunday after receiving reports of... (Continue reading)
A Cal Poly student was killed in a car crash in Santa Maria last weekend. Sometime Friday night, William Rogers, 24, was traveling up a hill near Clark Avenue and Dominion Road before he crashed through a fence and flipped... (Continue reading)
The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s dive team is contemplating abandoning the search for a missing plane that went down off the coast of Oceano last Tuesday with two people aboard. For the past six days, the department utilized sonar... (Continue reading)
The plane that crashed off the coast of Oceano Tuesday left the Santa Maria airport at about 1:30 p.m. with two people aboard. On Friday, the FAA confirmed two people were killed in the crash. David Casey, 63, of Friday... (Continue reading)
(BULLETIN, today, noon) Abel Maldonado said he is dropping out of the race for governor. Original story – Former lieutenant governor Abel Maldonado is expected to formally announce his bid for the governor’s seat at a press conference at 11... (Continue reading)
Santa Barbara County Sheriff deputies arrested a 43-year-old Santa Maria woman who allegedly choked and then stabbed her ex-boyfriend’s cat to death with a large kitchen knife. On the afternoon of Jan.2, Nellie Palacios, accompanied by her new boyfriend, entered... (Continue reading)
Police officers arrested a Santa Maria Man in Arroyo Grande for allegedly kidnapping a woman on Christmas Eve. [KSBY] Officers responded to the reported kidnapping around 5:30 p.m. Tuesday and searched for the vehicle of 41-year-old Daniel Espinoza. They found... (Continue reading)
OPINION By CAROLEE KRIEGER My name is Carolee Krieger and I represent the California Water Impact Network (C-WIN, online at www.c-win.org). We are a statewide nonprofit organization dedicated to common sense use of California’s scant water resources. We provide context... (Continue reading)
The former president of the Arroyo Grande Rotary Club allegedly robbed a Wells Fargo Bank in Santa Maria on Saturday. Shortly after 9 a.m., Arthur McClay Watkins, wearing a ski mask and brandishing a handgun, entered the bank and demanded... (Continue reading)