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RPD and city officials honored the fallen heroes during the city’s Police Officers’ Memorial Service at the police training academy on Thursday morning.

/ Lompoc is getting a new fire chief in August, and its the first female chief in the citys history. First female chief in citys history A Central Coast community is going to have what may be the first female fire chief in the region. The City of Lompoc has hired Alicia Welch as its new chief. Welch has been a firefighter for nearly three decades. She was with the Los Angeles Fire Department for 27 years, starting as a firefighter and rising to become a Battalion Chief. In 2018, she became Fir...

WEST CHESTER — A dark night in rural Chester County. A lonely stretch of road. A speeding, weaving automobile is spotted by a police officer on patrol, who begins a pursuit. When the driver rolls down his window after pulling over, the officer detects the unmistakable odor of burnt marijuana coming from the passenger compartment. Suspecting that there may be more weed in the car because the driver admits to smoking the drug, the officer orders the driver out of the car, puts him in the ...