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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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AARP offers a helping hand in Morro Bay during tax time

For more than 25 years, AARP Foundation Tax-Aide volunteers have been available from February through April 10 to prepare and file tax forms for free. 1 hour ago

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

File-This file photo from Tuesday May 3, 2011 by France's air accident investigation agency, the BEA, shows the flight data recorder from the 2009 Air France flight that went down in the mid-Atlantic. In June 2009, an Air France flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris crashed during a bad storm over the Atlantic Ocean. The Airbus A330’s airspeed indicators were giving false readings. (AP Photo/BEA, Johann PESCHEL) NO SALES

Why Malaysia Airlines jet might have disappeared

The most dangerous parts of a flight are takeoff and landing. Rarely do incidents happen when a plane is cruising seven miles above the earth. 23 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

A supporter of California Gov. Jerry Brown and those opposing fracking listen to Brown during a general session at the California Democrats State Convention on Saturday, March 8, 2014, in Los Angeles.

California Democrats in good shape for now, but registration slide, party tensions loom large

If 2014 promises to be another banner year for the California Democratic Party, its more distant future is less certain. The party is slowly losing – not gaining – registered voters as a proportion of the electorate. 14 minutes ago

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Oscar Pistorius, in the dock on the second day of his trial at the high court in Pretoria, South Africa, Tuesday, March 4, 2014. Pistorius is charged with murder for the shooting death of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, on Valentines Day in 2013.

Pistorius trial: Stunning testimony in 1st week

The testimony in the first week of Oscar Pistorius' murder trial was jaw dropping at times, and more riveting evidence is expected as the prosecution seeks to prove beyond reasonable doubt that the double-amputee athlete intentionally shot dead his... 23 minutes ago