An inmate escaped yesterday from the California Men’s Colony. 26-year-old David Gray Hall drove away in a state vehicle, described as a white 1997 ford Aerostar van. Gray was serving a five-year sentence for second-degree robbery. He’s been at the prison since 2015. He was scheduled to be released next year. He’s describes as an…
A San Luis man who threatened the organizers of an event on social media is forced to give up his firearms for ten years. Daniel Phares faced up to a year in county jail for writing, “I will kill every one of you and make you like it”. He wrote that on Facebook in August…
Today, Cal Fire is going to conduct a 138-acre controlled burn near Santa Margarita lake, along west Pozo road. The burn is intended to reduce the highly flammable vegetation. The burn is being conducted in cooperation with the San Luis Obispo county range improvement association. It will improve forage conditions for livestock and wildlife. You…
It’s Halloween in the north county. Downtown Paso Robles is offering trick or treating for kids tonight. In Atascadero, Halloween on Entrada will be a big event, beginning with Farmers Market at the Sunken Gardens from 3-6. In Templeton, a hearse is parked outside the haunted house known as the Nightmare On Main Street in…
Mostly sunny today, highs in the upper 70’s. Tonight, clear with temperatures near 40. Tomorrow, sunny, highs again in the upper 70’s.
The Templeton Eagles girls volleyball team hosts San Luis Obispo in a second round CIF-CS play-off game. That game gets underway at seven this evening at Templeton high school. The winner will likely advance to play top-seeded Exeter.
Nightmare On Main Street in Templeton reopens tonight. The old haunted house is open from 7 until 11 tonight. Tickets are $10. For $17, you get a VIP ticket, which puts you at the front of the line. Nightmare On Main Street is open tonight and tomorrow from 7-11. Proceeds benefit local scholarships, the sheriff’s…
A San Luis Obispo high school graduate is named president of the national Future Farmers of America. Luke O’Leary is an agricultural leadership and development major at Texas A&M university. He graduated from San Luis Obispo high school in 2016. He also served as the California FFA president last year. As president of the FFA,…
In Napa county, a vineyard worker died yesterday in an accident involving a grape-harvesting machine. Emergency crews responded to a report of a worker stuck inside the equipment at the Napa area Deconinck Vineyards. 49-year-old Leon Marcelo Luna died at the scene. His family says that he was working next to the device when a…
A mountain lion roaming the parking lot of a busy office complex in Pleasanton was tranquilized with the help of a drone using a thermal imaging camera. The one-year-old male cougar was about 80 pounds. It took four tranquilizer darts to bring him down. California Department of Fish and Wildlife officers wanted to transport the…
