Oceano News

San Luis Obispo city firefighters and police responded to a man who fell into Stenner Creek near Chorro and Lincoln streets around 8 p.m. Wednesday.

Home-brewed coffee lovers, take note: More than a million coffee makers are being recalled after dozens of reports of the brewers spraying hot liquid, coffee grounds or tea leaves onto people.

The Five Cities Fire Authority is still in its infancy, but leaders of the South County fire agency are already talking about the next step: going to local voters to lock in long-term funding.

Sierra Vista's designation as a level-three trauma center means patients with life-threatening traumatic injuries will be taken directly to the San Luis Obispo hospital.

A Times Square street vendor who alerted police to an attempted car bombing in 2010 said Tuesday that he is running for Congress.

A convicted New York mortgage fraudster who then tried to get a key witness killed in revenge has gotten another eight to 16 years in prison.

Two more local residents have been arrested in connection with recent burglaries in San Luis Obispo County, police said today.

Correction: An earlier version of this story misstated the job title of a woman accused of having sex with a student.

A co-founder of the popular frozen yogurt chain Pinkberry has pleaded not guilty to beating a homeless man with a tire iron in Los Angeles.

Rescuers in the south Seattle suburb of Federal Way have pulled a man from a vehicle that ran off a road, plunged down a ravine and wound up in a creek.

The Arroyo Grande City Council considered a slew of ideas this week, including becoming a charter city and dipping into sales tax funds normally earmarked for local projects in order to reduce an estimated $900,000 shortfall in next fiscal year’s budget.

A former investigator with the city of Los Angeles claims Atlanta police rejected his job application solely because he has HIV, a decision he said breaks the law and perpetuates stereotypes about people with the virus.

County officials have delayed action on awarding a $106,000 contract to a consultant helping it deal with invasive quagga mussels at Nacimiento Lake until they can meet with a five-member group charged with overseeing the lake.

The Harbor Commission will hold a special meeting at 6 p.m. on Feb. 7 to likely name a replacement.

A Connecticut jury has convicted a man of the 1986 killing of a mother of four, after another man who served 20 years in prison for the crime was exonerated.

A man who acknowledged killing four people in a rampage of stabbings, carjackings and other crimes is scheduled to be sentenced.

When Nipomo teen Michael Blanchard first visited a small Oceano park this past spring, he noted a number of areas needing improvement.

This booking photo provided Wednesday Dec. 7, 2011, by the Cherokee Sheriff’s Department, shows Ryan Brunn,20, of Canton after his arrest for the murder in the beating death of a 7-year-old Jorelys Rivera, who was abducted and killed at an apartment complex and her body left in a trash bin.

A proposed local law that would make it more difficult for minors in San Luis Obispo County’s rural areas to skip school will be discussed Tuesday morning at the county Board of Supervisors meeting.

An office that reports directly to the U.S. attorney general is looking into questions about the Justice Department's handling of an investigation into former Veco Corp.