Mathew Burciaga
Santa Maria Times
Santa Maria, CA, United States
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🎻🎺Santa Maria Philharmonic's 'Fly Me to the Moon' at Pacific Christian Center this Sunday 🎹🥁
This uplifting music and multimedia show will transport you to other worlds! → Read More
Major injuries reported in Buellton rollover on Highway 246
A rollover crash on Highway 246 in Buellton has resulted in major injuries, according to emergency radio traffic. → Read More
FFA, 4-H youth take top honors at Santa Barbara County Fair
Connor Hayes will go out on top after a decade of raising and showing livestock at the Santa Barbara County Fair. → Read More
Why so serious? You have to laugh to survive Rodeo Clown College
Teachers and professors expect you to have the hang of things by the start of your second year. → Read More
Santa Maria woman arrested with methamphetamine, license plates in Orcutt
Deputies arrested Santa Maria resident Erica Woolum, 37, on several alleged offenses including transporting/selling methamphetamine and prowling. She was booked into Santa Barbara County Jail on $30,000 bail. → Read More
California bans controversial pesticide chlorpyrifos linked to developmental delays
The nation's most productive agricultural state is moving to ban a pesticide widely used to control a range of insects but blamed for harming brain development in babies. California officials → Read More
Alleged MS-13 defendants to stand trial February 2020
Eleven alleged members of transnational gang MS-13 will stand trial early next year in connection to 10 homicides, 14 attempted murders and other violent crimes that occurred in Santa Maria → Read More
Grape prices in SLO, Santa Barbara, Ventura counties 5th-highest in state
The average price of grapes grown in Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura counties remained the 5th-highest in California last year, cashing in at roughly $1,670 per ton. → Read More
Three Northwest gang members connected to fatal 2017 shooting will stand trial
The three men charged in connection to the September 2017 shooting of Edward Ramirez will stand trial for criminal street gang conspiracy and a slew of related charges after a → Read More
Lompoc man to spend 10 years in prison for fatal 2018 crash on Hwy 1
A Lompoc man charged with murder and felony DUI in connection with a September 2018 crash that killed an Oxnard resident, will spend a decade in state prison under a → Read More
New Cuyama man sentenced to state prison for fatal July 2017 hit and run
Even after he was sentenced Thursday afternoon to three years in state prison, Douglas Allen Lewis maintained that he never meant to strike the 41-year-old New Cuyama man he considered → Read More
Reading rules! St. Louis de Montfort wins junior high Battle of the Books
Seventy-five seventh- and eighth-grade students from five local schools went head-to-head to Monday in the annual junior high Battle of the Books. → Read More
Olive Grove Charter sues Lompoc, Santa Ynez school districts over funding dispute
Olive Grove Charter Schools, a nonprofit program with locations throughout Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties, is seeking a court mandate to compel two local school districts to make → Read More
Jury deciding whether Nipomo man shot in self-defense or with intent to kill at Conserv Fuel gas station
A Santa Maria Superior Court jury began deliberating Friday afternoon on whether Pedro Santiago Lopez acted in self-defense or with intent to kill when he shot a man in the → Read More
Six-figure verdict upheld in crash involving Santa Maria Police officer
A judge on Tuesday denied requests from an attorney representing the city of Santa Maria to substantially lower the six-figure judgment awarded by a jury to two men injured by → Read More
New Cuyama man faces 3 years in state prison for fatal hit-and-run
A New Cuyama man will face three years' prison time for a July 2017 hit-and-run that left one man dead on the side of Highway 166. → Read More
For first time, Hancock College co-hosts Latina Leadership Network conference
More than 185 Latina students and professionals from community colleges across California crowded meeting and conference rooms at the Santa Ynez Valley Marriott in Buellton on Thursday, Friday and Saturday → Read More
Three men charged in 2017 fatal shooting allegedly formed squad to revitalize Northwest gang
The three men charged in connection to the September 2017 death of Edward Ramirez allegedly were working to revitalize Northwest, the Santa Maria street gang, police investigators testified Friday. → Read More
Ex-Olive Grove Charter employee alleges mismanagement, misuse of funds
Olive Grove Charter School, a nonprofit charter program with locations throughout Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties, is facing scrutiny this month after a former employee filed a lawsuit → Read More
Nipomo woman sentenced to jail for embezzling money from nonprofit agriculture group
A Nipomo woman on Tuesday was sentenced to 90 days in San Luis Obispo County Jail and ordered to pay more than $11,800 in restitution for embezzling money from a → Read More