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Kristin Smart disappeared during her freshman year at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo more than 25 years ago.

“Our officer was a little nervous to make sure (the casket) was empty,” the CHP said.

Bodyboarder Tomas Butterfield, 42, was bitten in the head, chest and shoulder in the attack at Morro Bay, some 200 miles north of L.A., official reports say. It was a great white shark that killed him on Christmas Eve, the reports conclude.

Authorities have concluded that a great white shark killed a bodyboarder last Christmas Eve in central California.

A bodyboarder was attacked by a great white shark in central California on Christmas Eve and died within minutes, official reports have concluded. Tomas Abraham Butterfield, 42, was bitten in the head, chest and shoulder in the Morro Bay attack and died from “complications of multiple penetrating blunt force traumatic injuries,” according to a coroner's report, The Tribune of San Luis Obispo County reported Tuesday. A piece of what appeared to be a shark's tooth was found on his body, the Tribune said, citing a report by a sheriff's detective that was among documents released to the paper under a public records request.

On her last night, her husband and friends gathered around and they listened to music and told stories.

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A portion of the highway near Nipomo is also flooded, according to CHP.

A California prison guard was arrested this week on suspicion of beating a Wells Fargo branch manager and calling him a racial slur after being asked to wear a mask inside the bank, police said. James Allen Jones, Jr., 50, was arrested at his job at the California Men's Colony in San Luis Obispo on Tuesday following a 10-day investigation into the Sept. 3 attack. The bank manager told the San Luis Obispo Tribune that a customer became upset when he asked the man to put on a mask, as required by local health orders, called him a racist slur and caused a commotion in the lobby.

California prosecutors say more than two dozen women have described disturbing encounters, including sexual assaults, with the man charged with killing missing college student Kristin Smart.

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As two police departments in California mourn the loss of officers who were shot and killed, new details have emerged about the violence that occurred during a week meant to honor law enforcement nationwide.

Authorities say two California police officers were shot and killed and a third was wounded within 24 hours this week in two separate incidents.

Ruben Flores, 80, pleaded not guilty to accessory after murder, and his son, Paul Flores, 44, pleaded not guilty to murder in the 1996 killing of the college student.

San Luis Obispo County Sheriff Ian Parkinson announced Tuesday that Paul Flores and his father, Ruben, were arrested in connection to the 1996 disappearance of Kristin Smart, who was a student at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. She remains missing. Watch his remarks here.

Fred Woods, will remain behind bars at the California Men's Colony in San Luis Obispo. (CNN) - The last of the three infamous Chowchilla school bus kidnappers remaining in prison, Fred Woods, will remain behind bars at the California Men's Colony in San Luis Obispo. In 1976, Woods, along with Richard and James Schoenfeld, kidnapped 26 children and their bus driver in Chowchilla, California. Woods was denied parole Tuesday for the 17th time, according to information provided by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. On Tuesday's decision, she said she "doesn't give much thought on Fred Woods."