An Indiana man accused of driving to California, murdering his mother in her Grover Beach home, and driving back took the stand in his own defense this week. He testified the purpose of the cross-country road trip was to buy marijuana and an engagement ring for his girlfriend. Read More …
The Santa Maria Police Department is searching for a man they believe shot and killed a 33-year-old man outside a taco shop on Sunday. Read More …
A 33-year-old man died after being shot in front of a Santa Maria taco restaurant on Sunday. Read More …
A Nipomo man is one of a trio of defendants the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office has charged with the murder of an elderly man whose burnt body was found two weeks ago near Joshua Tree National Park. Read More …
Months following a pair of murders in Oceano, the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office says detectives have developed a forensic profile of the killer in one of the homicides, though authorities still have not made an arrest and are not releasing information about potential suspects. Read More …
One of the two teens arrested for a high-profile murder of a police officer in Rome is a Santa Barbara City College student, while the other is also from California. Read More …
A San Luis Obispo judge has ruled a new California law that could free accomplices to murders from prison is unconstitutional and amounts to an encroachment by the Legislature upon the powers of the state’s judicial branch. Read More …
A unknown assailant shot and killed late a man Sunday night or early Monday morning in Lompoc, marking the Santa Barbara County’s fifth homicide since March. Read More …
San Luis Obispo County prosecutors filed a murder charge on Tuesday against a North County man accused of stabbing to death a 23-year-old Paso Robles man in Shandon. Read More …
The gunman who shot and killed two elderly men at a Santa Maria mobile home park on Friday is also believed to have killed his wife and son, according to police. Read More …