Picture of Old Cayucos Tavern in Cayucos, California

After 10 months in its new location at 75 Cayucos Drive, the Cayucos Candy Counter is expanding its boardwalk appeal.

CHICAGO (AP) - Chicago's Shedd Aquarium is now home to an orphaned baby sea otter from Cayucos. Aquarium officials said Thursday that the 10-week-old southern sea otter pup comes from the United States Fish and Wildlife Service.

A local veterinarian got much more than he bargained for while halibut fishing last weekend near Cayucos.

It has no motter or fotter.So Shedd Aquarium will provide a home to an orphaned sea otter.The 10-week-old female pup is the first southern sea otter at the aquarium, which already had Alaskan otters.The 15-pound pup was found stranded near Cayucos, Calif., in early December and came to Shedd as part of a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service conservation program.Pups usually stay with their mothers ...

Last month, an infant Southern sea otter was found stranded near Cayucos, Calif. The orphaned pup was rescued and transported to the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago where she now lives in a nursery with not one — but a dozen human "moms."

LOS ANGELES, CA-- - Eighty-five Southern California hotels and 37 restaurants have earned the 2012 AAA Four Diamond Award®, the Automobile Club of Southern California announced today. Eighteen locations ...

Chicago's Shedd Aquarium is now home to an orphaned baby sea otter from California.

Shedd Aquarium is One of the Country's Top Marine Mammal Conservation Organizations By Sheena Quinn Chicago, IL - Shedd Aquarium, a national leader in sea otter rehabilitation, announced today that it has acquired a 10-week-old orphaned southern sea otter pup (Enhydra lutris nereis) from the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) as part of the conservation effort for the threatened ...

We are now 23 days into 2012, but that didn't stop billions of people around the world from ringing in the new year Monday--the Chinese New Year, that is, the biggest holiday celebration in China and other parts of Asia.

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