More than 148,000 residences from Solvang to Cambria are without power from an outage that started at about 9:30 p.m. on Sunday. PG&E online says that the outage was caused by interruption to a main transmission line. Santa Barbara County... (Continue reading)
A Santa Maria man was sentenced Monday to 158 years in state prison for the drive-by murder of Arroyo Grande teenager Gabriel Salgado. The youth was gunned down Nov. 17, 2011, by Armando Yepez while standing on a street corner... (Continue reading)
A probationer led officers on a chase from Oceano to Santa Maria on Sunday before crashing her vehicle. At 6:20 p.m., a San Luis Obispo County Sheriff deputy spotted Jeanne Sepeda, 32, driving near the intersection of 19th and Paso... (Continue reading)
Santa Maria police officers are searching for a man who escaped custody. On Sunday, officers arrested Juan Coria Olayo, 24, on drug- and theft-related charges. After officers transported Olayo to the police department, the unattended suspect wiggled out of his... (Continue reading)
About 80 protesters marched in Santa Maria Wednesday, calling for a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants. [KCOY] The protesters marched to the corner of Main St. and Broadway, where they held signs, many of which saying, “The time is... (Continue reading)
Criminal child abuse charges against an elderly Orcutt woman will not be refiled after a Santa Maria jury failed to reach a verdict, ending a three-year legal odyssey. (Santa Maria Times) Bertha Savoy, 74, a longtime special education teacher, had... (Continue reading)
Santa Maria police arrested a 10th suspect Tuesday in the murder of Anthony Ibarra, whom officers found dead in the back of a U-Haul truck last month. [KCOY] Officers arrested 29-year-old Jason Castillo for murder with a gang enhancement shortly... (Continue reading)
A Paso Robles man whose motorcycle collided with an automobile in Santa Maria April 3 has died, and relatives have identified him as 59-year-old Julian “Jay” Hall. Hall was leaving a gas station and turning onto Betteravia Road when his... (Continue reading)
Three days after the conclusion of the Dystiny Myers murder trial, the Santa Maria Police Department released its finding into the investigation of another Santa Maria homicide victim whose body the alleged killers attempted to disappear. [KCOY] The police department... (Continue reading)
Authorities in Santa Maria have taken four more men into custody in connection with Tuesday’s murder of Anthony Iberra, 28, joining four others arrested earlier. (Noozhawk) Among those suspected of conspiracy in the torture slaying are David Murillo Maldonado, 55;... (Continue reading)