Atascadero News

An Atascadero man who killed his wife in 2008 behaved normally at a family member’s Las Vegas wedding a week before the murder, according to testimony presented Friday.

UPDATE 4:35 p.m.: Andrew Guy Pratt also worked as an umpire for the city of Atascadero’s adult softball league from August 2009 until November 2010, said Brady Cherry, director of the city’s community services department.

Congressional Democrats are urging a modest six-week cut in the number of weeks that unemployed workers can receive jobless benefits as House-Senate talks on a payroll tax cut slowly inch along.

Three Canadian family members attempting to cross the Pacific in a sailboat are safe Thursday after being thrown overboard following an encounter with rough seas that battered and disabled their vessel, leaving them "adrift with no hope of survival" hundreds of miles from Hawaii.

Some 40 law enforcement and rescue personnel were called out to search for an Atascadero man who was reported missing Wednesday morning.

Investigators say a 6-year-old Pittsburgh boy set fire to a piece of paper that caught a couch on fire, sparking a blaze that killed a couple who lived in an upstairs apartment.

In cop lingo, a fence is a dubious character that accepts stolen property for resale and conceals the property's ill-gotten origins.

A psychologist testified Wednesday that an Atascadero man, who is accused of bludgeoning his wife to death with a hammer in 2008, believed he was sacrificing her to perform God’s will.

A San Luis Obispo man was arrested Tuesday after allegedly breaking into an office building near the San Luis Obispo airport.

Atascadero Junior High School will get a new look but keep its current site, school board members decided Tuesday night.

Atascadero High student Sean Murphy and his mentor, Larry Price, represented the school’s Greyhound Revolutionary Robotics team at today’s White House Science Fair in Washington, D.C. President Barack Obama called on Tuesday for millions of dollars in new funding to improve math and science education, an effort he said would be crucial to ... (more)

Judge John Trice ruled today in San Luis Obispo Superior Court that Downs did not know that what he was doing was morally or legally wrong.

The Atascadero Unified School District Board of Trustees is expected to vote Tuesday on whether to renovate or relocate the junior high school.

Sigmund Freud and others involved with dream interpretation could have a field day with Philip Carey’s current exhibits at two venues.

Obama said in a pre-Super Bowl interview on NBC that his administration is creating more than 250,000 jobs a month, the most since 2005, and a reversal from the 750,000 jobs the economy was losing three years ago.

Authorities say 11 people have been arrested in Washington's McPherson Square since Park Police began clearing away tents from one of the nation's last remaining Occupy sites.

A woman has won $975,000 in a federal jury trial, 14 years after giving birth in a jail cell in Washington state.

A second doctor who examined double-homicide suspect Andrew Downs testified in a court hearing Friday that the defendant was criminally insane at the time of the crime.

Motorists should expect various road closures in Atascadero until summertime while Caltrans installs landscaping and irrigation systems at the Highway 101/41 interchange.

Teaberry Frozen Yogurt Café , a locally owned and operated frozen treats and sandwich shop, is open for business in downtown San Luis Obispo.