Federal investigators have traced a nationwide E. coli outbreak involving contaminated romaine lettuce, in part, to a Santa Maria farm that is owned by the family of Santa Barbara County Supervisor Peter Adam. Read More …
A male victim was shot and killed in Santa Maria Thursday night, according to the city’s police department.
At about 10:25 p.m., a shooting occurred in the area of Bunny Avenue and Blosser Road. Read More …
An unlicensed legal consultant pretending to be an attorney allegedly scammed immigrant farmworkers on the Central Coast, resulting in two individuals paying a combined total of $12,000 in legal fees, only to have deportation proceedings initiated against them. Read More …
An attempted traffic stop in Santa Maria on Tuesday turned into a chase that ended with a man and his girlfriend barricading themselves in an apartment bathroom and setting the home on fire. The man died, and his girlfriend was hospitalized after being resuscitated by emergency responders. Read More …
The Paso Robles Police Department tipped off Santa Barbara County law enforcement on Tuesday about a threat made on Facebook relating to shooting up a Santa Maria school, which resulted in an Orcutt man getting mental health treatment. Read More …
Morro Bay police officers were able to track down and arrest a pair of Santa Maria women who were allegedly using methamphetamine and committing numerous thefts, by trailing a stolen credit card. Read More …
A pair of Friday night shootings in Santa Maria left one man dead and two people wounded, according to the city’s police department. Read More …
Santa Maria police are searching for a man who allegedly attempted to abduct a girl who was walking to school Monday morning.
At about 9 a.m., the man was following the girl in a black truck, according to the Santa Maria Police Department. Read More …
A pair of former Hancock College basketball players received sentences Monday of life in prison without the possibility for parole for a late 2014 botched robbery of a drug dealer that ended in a murder. Read More …
A Santa Maria man who shot and killed his 13-year-old brother in what authorities described as an accident received a four-year prison sentence on Thursday. Read More …