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From left, Jim Balint, Natasha and Dan Costello with baby Cai, volunteer Barbara Keir and Ranger Iain Beveridge.

Duffel bag takes road trip, is returned safe and sound

Natasha and Dan Costello, with baby Cai, were visiting the North Coast from Canada when they realized they’d lost their duffel bag. Thanks to a good Samaritan and a stubborn Cambria volunteer, the bag was reunited with its owners.

Sports

Hansen in top 25 at amateur tourney

Los Osos native and Morro Bay High graduate Matt Hansen shot an even-par 71 Wednesday at the Western Amateur Championship in Chicago to stay 2-under and tied for 21st overall through two rounds.

Business

Jason Close demonstrates a robot's video capabilities as registered nurse Kirsten Featherstone and Dr. David Ketelaar watch at Marian Regional Medical Center in Santa Maria.

Robots let faraway doctors help stroke patients at French, A.G. hospitals

Stroke patients at Dignity Health hospitals on the Central Coast may find a robot at their bedside, allowing expert neurologists to “beam in” and support local physicians providing treatment. 3 hours ago

Opinion

Phil Dirkx

California's PUC could use a leader like Paso's former police chief

The California Public Utilities Commission has gotten cozy with PG&E. The PUC badly needs a leader like former Paso Robles Police Chief John Nelson. He led our police force from 1985 to 1996, strictly enforcing the law without fear or favor.

Entertainment

Erik Stein as Ringmaster Polk and other cast members during a rehearsal for PCPA Theaterfest's production of "The San Patricios."

New play 'The San Patricios' reveals American history

The San Patricios,” which makes its world premiere Friday at PCPA Theaterfest, tells how Mexican soldiers and Irish immigrants fought side-by-side in the Mexican-American War.

Living

Chavo is one of many small dogs available for adoption at the San Luis Obispo County Animal Services shelter.

Small dogs in need of big love at shelter

Chavo’s so small his kennel may appear empty. The adopters who do see him may pass him by because they want a younger dog (Chavo’s 8 years old) or the healed wound on one of his paws makes him look less than perfect. Yet he has so much...

State

An inmate sits at the mental health unit at the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation's Stockton Health Facility in Stockton. The California Association of Psychiatric Technicians union says that employees at the facility were instructed to routinely falsify suicide watch records.

Union: Employees forced to falsify suicide-watch documents

The union representing California state psychiatric technicians says that two of members were forced to fake inmate suicide-monitoring records and were then disciplined when video recordings revealed the false documentation. 44 minutes ago

Nation/World

A Palestinian man cries after bringing a child, wounded during fighting between Israeli forces and Hamas militants near a compound housing a U.N. school in Beit Hanoun, in the northern Gaza Strip, in the northern Gaza Strip, to the emergency room room of the Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahiya, Thursday, July 24, 2014.

Gaza truce comes after days of pushing for a deal

Israel and Hamas agreed Thursday to a 72-hour “humanitarian cease-fire” in the fighting in Gaza that’s to be followed by immediate negotiations on a durable truce, the first sign that diplomacy finally may bring an end to three... 23 minutes ago