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The county district attorney’s office announced that 25-year-old Daniel Angel Saliganpatricio has been sentenced to serve 5 years and 4 months in state prison. His sentencing is from an incident on November 21, 2022, where Saliganpatrictio accelerated his vehicle to around 60 miles per hour on Sacramento drive in San Luis Obispo, approaching a nearly…
Essential maintenance work on the 13th street bridge in Paso Robles is set to begin on Tuesday, April 16th. The work will take place during night time hours, beginning at around 9 pm, and should take between 3 to 4 hours, according to the city. The city says that the primary objective of this maintenance…
The San Luis Obispo county sheriff’s office released a statement of an incident that took place near Oceano yesterday evening. Deputies were dispatched to a fight in the area, when one of the witnesses reported seeing one of the men involved get into a vehicle and flee the scene. Deputies located the suspect vehicle, which…
Cal Poly is offering free baseball & softball tickets for Paso Robles day for its home games on April 21st and 27th. On the 21st, Cal Poly softball will face Long Beach State at Bob Janssen field on Cal Poly’s campus. Then, their home baseball game on the 27th will be against UC Davis at…
In its meeting yesterday, the county board of supervisors voted 3 – 2 to move forward with the process of testifying to pass senate bill 977 for the county of San Luis Obispo. The bill would create an independent redistricting commission for the county’s supervisorial districts, citing consisting of 11 members of the public. Supervisors…
Woods Humane Society announced that they will be holding a Pet Pantry donation drive on Saturday, April 27th from 11 am to 2 pm. The Pet Pantry event first began in 2020 during the covid-19 pandemic in response to a large number of pet parents who were facing hardships, unable to provide their pets with…
Santa Rosa Park in San Luis Obispo has received significant damage through vandalism this past weekend. The San Luis Obispo police department says that parks maintenance discovered the vandalism early Monday morning: multiple large circles cut into the grass that appear to be caused by a driver doing donuts on the ballfield. The police department…
Cal Fire, alongside California State Parks and the air pollution control district will be working together for a series of prescribed burns at Montaña de Oro state park. The burns will be taking place between April 9th and May 2nd. Specific days have not yet been decided, and will depend on weather conditions and burn…
Cal Poly SLO announced in a release that one of its students died Saturday in “an accident during a trip to Big Sur.” The student was third-year mechanical engineering student Kenneth Taylor. Taylor is from Richland, Washington, and was said to be an “outdoor enthusiast,” a founding member of the Alpine Club, and served as…
Kristin Smart’s family attempted to file a lawsuit against Cal Poly San Luis Obispo earlier this year. The lawsuit alleges negligence, negligent infliction of emotional distress, and wrongful death, alleging that Cal Poly failed the Smart family in a multitude of ways in the investigation for Smart’s initial disappearance. In a court filing on April…