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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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The Jose Maria Villavicencio adobe at the Corral de Piedra Rancho in 1920, courtesy of the Southwest Museum.

Great drought leads to great land grab in 19th century California

Drought has long played a role in California history, including the disastrous Great Drought of 1862-64 that marked the end of the Californio rancho days along the Central Coast. Investors snapped up the land with varying success.

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

In this photo released by Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency, a patrol vessel of Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency searches for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane off Tok Bali Beach in Kelantan, Malaysia, Sunday, March 9, 2014. Military radar indicates that the missing Boeing 777 jet may have turned back, Malaysia’s air force chief said Sunday as scores of ships and aircraft from across Asia resumed a hunt for the plane and its 239 passengers.

Lack of passport checks expose air security flaw

When you travel, airport security agents may pat you down, inspect your deodorant and scan your body from head to toe. But there's a good chance that no one's checking whether you're using someone's lost or stolen passport. 25 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

FILE - In this Oct. 19, 2009 file photo, Samuel Bagdorf of San Francisco, who suffers from anxiety disorders, lights his marijuana pipe at the San Francisco Medical Cannabis Clinic in San Francisco, Monday, Oct. 19, 2009. Law and order may soon be coming to the Wild West of Weed. A California lawmaker has introduced legislation to regulate the state’s free-wheeling medical marijuana industry, the farmers that grow the drug, the hundreds of storefront shops that sell it and especially the doctors who write recommendations allowing people to use it.

State oversight may tame California pot shops

Law and order may soon be coming to the Wild West of weed. 25 minutes ago

Nation/World

Police detain participants in the pre-St. Patrick's Day "Blarney Blowout" near the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Mass. on Saturday, March 8, 2014. Amherst police said early Sunday that 73 people had been arrested after authorities spent most of the day Saturday attempting to disperse several large gathering around the UMass campus for the party traditionally held the Saturday before spring break. The partying carried through Saturday evening into early Sunday, and Amherst Police Capt. Jennifer Gundersen said in a statement that police were busy with numerous reports of fights, noise and highly intoxicated individuals.(AP Photo/The Republican, Robert Rizzuto) MANDATORY CREDIT

UMass latest to deal with rowdy St. Pat's parties

The chaos at the University of Massachusetts over the weekend during a pre-St. Patrick's Day celebration brought new attention to an old problem affecting colleges across the country: How to deal with alcohol-fueled revelers during the March festivities... 25 minutes ago