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Steve and Katherine Anderson

Arroyo Grande couple turns glass-art hobby into business

Nine years ago Katherine Anderson of Arroyo Grande, retiring from a career in education and student services director at San Luis Coastal Unified School District, wondered what she would do next.

Sports

UCLA's Kyle Anderson shoots over UC Santa Barbara's Zalmico Harmon, left, during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game, Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2013, in Los Angeles. UCLA won 89-76.

No. 18 UCLA beats UC Santa Barbara 89-76

UC Santa Barbara couldn't match its strong first half against No. 18 UCLA with another solid 20 minutes.

Business

A former car dealership on Monterey Street in San Luis Obispo is being transformed into the new headquarters of iFixit.

New iFixit headquarters under construction in SLO

Construction is well underway for the new “employee-friendly” headquarters of San Luis Obispo tech company, iFixit, but chief executive officer Kyle Wiens is staying tight-lipped about the Monterey Street project until it is closer to completion...

Opinion

Simone Viola volunteers to ring the bell for Salvation Army donations outside the Farrell Smyth office in the Village of Arroyo Grande.

Don’t shut out Salvation Army’s drive

Like Santa Claus and Christmas trees, the Salvation Army’s red kettles are a holiday tradition, as well as a powerful fundraising tool.

Entertainment

Pink Martini will perform Wednesday at the Cohan Center.

The diverse musicality of Pink Martini

Pink Martini has released a total of eight albums that blur genre barriers between classical, jazz, Latin and old-fashioned pop music. Their hits, which include “Amado Mio,” “¿Dónde Estás, Yolanda?” and “Hey...

Living

The Bagwell home features a mix of Western and wine country décor.

Tour Paso Robles homes decorated for Christmas

Becky Lewis is a home tour aficionado. She has been on more than 40 home and garden tours, driving as far as 250 miles to attend a particularly intriguing one. So when she was brainstorming fundraising ideas for her Relay For Life Pink Angels Team...

State

Tentative agreement signed in Klamath water wars

Gov. John Kitzhaber and representatives of the Obama administration have signed a breakthrough agreement for sharing scarce water in the Upper Klamath Basin, where irrigation was shut off to ranchers last summer after the Klamath Tribes exercised... 17 minutes ago

Nation/World

A train passes by the scene of repair efforts at the site of a train derailment in the Bronx borough of New York, Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2013. The National Transportation Safety Board says right now, it doesn't know whether faulty brakes or human error caused Sunday's derailment of a New York City train that killed four people and injured more than 60. But NTSB member Earl Weener says information from the train's two data recorders shows the train was going 82 mph on a turn when it should have been going no more than 30 mph.

Lawyer: Engineer in 'daze' before NYC train crash

An engineer whose speeding commuter train ran off the rails along a curve, killing four people, experienced a hypnotic-like "daze" and nodded at the controls before he suddenly realized something was wrong and hit the brakes, a lawyer said. 17 minutes ago

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