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Mandy Matney’s Murdaugh Murders and Hedley Thomas’s The Teacher’s Pet have recently seen the subjects of their investigations jailed. But why are podcasts doing the work of police, and can the legal system keep up?

A new book borrows from the slow food movement to propose a more thoughtful, less competitive form of bird-watching.

Highlights include, soon, Benedetta Jasmine Guetta on “Cooking Alla Giudia," about the Jewish food of Italy, and Jessica Nordell on “The End of Bias, a Beginning." Events run through June; many are in person, and some are virtual, in this annual Lee and Bernard Jaffe Family festival.

A woman has come forward alleging Paul Flores confessed to the murder of Kristin Smart at party in 1996.

Kristin Smart vanished in 1996. Now, longtime suspect Paul Flores has been convicted of her murder. His father Ruben was found not guilty of being an accessory after the fact.

The second annual Vendor Village Marketplace Fundraiser for the Smart Family took place at the Kennedy Club Fitness in Arroyo Grande.

The family of Kristin Smart, who was murdered in California in 1996, is hoping the guilty verdict against her killer will bring them some closure.

San Luis Obispo County resident Trish Norman's hoots of jubilation pierced the afternoon silence on the patio at San Luis Obispo's Libertine Brewing Company on...

A podcast reignited interest in the cold case of Kristin Smart who went missing from her college campus in 1996. In October 2022, a California jury found long time suspect Paul Flores guilty of her murder.

A Monterey County jury has reached a verdict in the case against a man accused of raping and murdering Cal Poly student Kristin Smart, and his father.