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Quota International of Atascadero recently participated in the annual Trivia Brain Challenge at the Paso Robles Senior Center. The club donated $1,700 to the facility, which offers services and programs that improve physical and mental health and intellectual and social well-being of seniors.

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A set of 20-foot-plus storm waves at the Point San Luis breakwater on Saturday, March 1, 2014.

Storm pinwheeled across the Pacific, slamming the coast with winds, waves

An intense Pacific storm slammed the San Luis Obispo County coast a week ago, its powerful winds and high surf coming from the southwest, threatening piers usually sheltered from storms. What caused this unusual system?

Sports

Cal Poly forward Chris Eversley (33) looks for position as UC Santa Barbara’s Michael Bryson, left, defends during the Gauchos’ 71-55 road win Saturday night at Mott Athletics Center.

Gauchos spoil Mustangs’ senior day

Well, there are five days to make sure that doesn’t happen all over again.

Business

United Rentals to acquire National Pump for $780M

United Rentals says it's buying National Pump, the second-largest pump rental company in North America, for $780 million. 7 minutes ago

Opinion

SLO needs to explore Styrofoam container ban

The city of San Luis Obispo has some serious issues on its plate, first among them the order to repeal binding arbitration. There also are development proposals, homelessness, the drought, ubiquitous town-gown controversies and many more.

Entertainment

Mark Parsons, author of the young adult novel "Road Rash," explains his book, playing drums and his family band, Risky Whippet (with wife/fellow author Wendelin Van Draanen) while offering a tour of his Pismo Beach recording studio.

Pismo couple supported each other in quest to become published authors

Before Wendelin Van Draanen became a popular author of young adult novels, she received 10 years’ worth of rejections. Those setbacks, which arrived in the mail with cruel consistency, might have discouraged most aspiring novelists. But Van Draanen...

Living

Hot Property: 'Supernatural' star Jared Padalecki sells Valley house

LOS ANGELES - Jared Padalecki, who stars on the long-running CW series "Supernatural," has recorded a very down-to-earth house sale in the San Fernando Valley for $2.4 million.

State

Two students comfort each other after a stage collapsed during a student event at Servite High School in Anaheim, Calif., Saturday, March 8, 2014. Authorities said 30-40 people were taken to hospitals with mainly minor injuries.

2 dozen injured as California school stage falls

Investigators combed through a collapsed theater stage at a Southern California high school Sunday, trying to determine why it buckled during a performance that sent 25 students to the hospital with mainly minor injuries. 7 minutes ago

Nation/World

U.S. Department of Energy Carlsbad Field Office Manager Joe Franco, left, answers questions during a town hall in Carlsbad, N.M. on Thursday, March 6, 2014. Operations at the nation's only underground nuclear waste repository were halted in February following a truck fire and a release of radiation nine days later.

Air testing at nuclear dump shows no contamination

New air testing in the nation's only underground nuclear repository showed no detectable radioactive contamination from a leak last month, the U.S. Department of Energy said Sunday. 7 minutes ago