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The Paso Robles Education Alliance is the recipient of a $10,000 grant from Justin Vineyards and Winery to support the organization&#x92;s ongoing efforts to provide new educational resources and opportunities in Paso Robles public schools. The donation to PREA will help initiate new programs and augment existing initiatives in the district. For information, call 866-620-0584 or visit <a href=http://www.GoPREA.org>http://www.GoPREA.org</a>. <p>Pictured are are, from left, Traci McMahan, Darla Stephenson, David Bowman, Jeff Railsback, David Ricanati, Gwen Severson and Brian Thorndyke.</p> &#8201;

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County supervisors are poised to declare a drought emergency

As the state grapples with the worst drought in its history, the county Board of Supervisors is expected Tuesday to declare a drought emergency, which would improve the chances of receiving state or federal drought-related assistance,

Sports

Former Cal Poly standout Sharon Day-Monroe posted a mark of 49 feet, one-half inch in the shot put portion of the women&#xE2;&#x80;&#x99;s pentathlon during the Indoor World Championships on Friday in Sopot, Poland. Day-Monroe claimed fourth place overall.

Day-Monroe is unable to medal at world indoor championships

On Friday, she finished fourth with 4,718 points. The Netherlands’ Nadine Broersen set a world-leading mark of 4,830 points to edge Canada’s Brianne Theisen Eaton, who set a national record of 4,768 points. The Ukraine’s Alina Fodorova... 3 hours ago

Business

SLO County's unemployment rate ticks up in January

San Luis Obispo County’s unemployment rate in January rose slightly from December but was still down considerably from the same time a year ago, according to figures released Friday by the California Employment Development Department.

Opinion

Adam Weissmuller, a resident of Heritage Ranch, stands next to a dead sheep still in the area he and his wife hiked through last Friday and Saturday where they came across several other dead and dying sheep. Photo by Joe Johnston 03-03-14

Dead sheep deserved better than this

Nothing says spring on the Central Coast like a herd of cute woolly sheep placidly munching greens on a hillside. But, hey, these critters aren’t just there for looks. Sheep have important business to do, keeping all that vegetation in check...

Entertainment

Surfer Gerry Lopez.

Film festival screening 'Five Summer Stories' for Surf Nite

While the annual Surf Nite event at the San Luis Obispo International Film Festival won’t feature the film’s star or director, the band Honk, which has had a cultlike following since the film debuted, should be a big draw.

Living

Trying to understand dieters' temptations

If there's no caramel cheesecake, you're not likely to eat any. But plop one down on a table among a group of friends and the forks come out. That's a simple scene that embodies some of the complex mechanisms that make it so hard for people to lose...

State

Japanese media wait outside the residence, left, of Dorian S. Nakamoto Thursday March 6, 2014, in Temple City, Calif. Nakamoto, the man that Newsweek claims is the founder of Bitcoin denies he had anything to do with it and says he had never even heard of the digital currency until his son told him he had been contacted by a reporter three weeks ago.

Global ho-hum greets hubbub over bitcoin's creator

Who is bitcoin's real creator? The bitcoin community is reacting to that burning question with a collective ho-hum. 57 minutes ago

Nation/World

In this Friday, March 7, 2014 photo, an Afghan girl eats cotton candy as she visits with her mother a cemetery in the center of Kabul, Afghanistan. A gender and development specialist and human rights activist, Afghan Wazhma Frogh says her experience characterizes the women&#x2019;s rights movement in her country- after 12 years, billions of dollars and countless words emanating from the West commiserating with Afghan women, the successes are fragile, the changes superficial and vulnerable.

Frustration in Afghan women's rights struggle

In 2009, the United States gave Wazhma Frogh the International Woman of Courage award for her women's rights activism in Afghanistan. Prominently displayed in Frogh's office is a picture of then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton granting her the... 2 minutes ago