http://www.theworldlink.com/ The latest news from the www.theworldlink.com website! Newsys Template Engine News http://backend.userland.com/rss 60 newsys-454274350 http://www.theworldlink.com/articles/2009/11/21/news/doc4b07a6b2a7cce669421904.txt Staff Sgt. Lawrence Salcido only had two weeks to go, before boarding a plane home to his wife and three daughters in Southern California. Instead, the former Coos Bay man was flown to Germany — in a back brace. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:13:18 -0800 newsys-455437442 http://www.theworldlink.com/articles/2009/11/21/news/doc4b07a634b688d607237942.txt As Congress wrangles over a national health care overhaul, the bigger issue for the South Coast may be a program that’s already in place — Medicare. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:13:18 -0800 newsys-458165653 http://www.theworldlink.com/articles/2009/11/21/news/doc4b07a42f2cdb7275233826.txt COQUILLE — Chickens. They’re the only kind of animal Bobbye Cikanek can own for the next five years, according to her sentence for abusing and neglecting her 10 horses. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:13:18 -0800 newsys-454274348 http://www.theworldlink.com/articles/2009/11/21/news/doc4b07a348dcd0b996994960.txt COQUILLE — The day before a downpour hammered Coquille this week, United Valley Christian Academy installed new gutters. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:13:18 -0800 newsys-455437441 http://www.theworldlink.com/articles/2009/11/21/news/doc4b07a2b756aa7599313638.txt WINCHESTER BAY — The Winchester Bay Sanitary District board will wait one more month to decide whether to hike fees affecting RVs and mobile homes. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:13:17 -0800 newsys-455437440 http://www.theworldlink.com/articles/2009/11/21/news/doc4b07a239b2bd2294076666.txt Question: I want to know why we are mailing our county tax assessment to a bank in Portland? As we have many banks in Coos County that could handle this business and keep the cash at home, or just mail a check to Coquille tax department. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:13:17 -0800 newsys-455058172 http://www.theworldlink.com/articles/2009/11/21/news/doc4b07a1cf783d0955222590.txt SEATTLE (AP) — The federal Government Accountability Office has denied an appeal of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s decision to move its research fleet from Seattle’s Lake Union to Newport. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:13:17 -0800 newsys-454274349 http://www.theworldlink.com/articles/2009/11/21/news/doc4b079fcb47759140305746.txt ROME (AP) — A Vatican researcher has rekindled the age-old debate over the Shroud of Turin, saying that faint writing on the linen proves it was the burial cloth of Jesus. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:13:17 -0800 newsys-454274351 http://www.theworldlink.com/articles/2009/11/21/news/doc4b079ff7330d4800947111.txt GENEVA (AP) — Scientists circulated beams of protons in the world’s largest atom smasher Friday night for the first time following a year of repairs caused by a spectacular failure after the $10 billion machine was heavily damaged by a simple electrical fault. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:13:17 -0800 newsys-458165654 http://www.theworldlink.com/articles/2009/11/21/news/doc4b07a02a7d2ef484750061.txt MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s top domestic security official said Friday that sectors of the general public have cooperated with drug cartels in the violent border city of Ciudad Juarez, and the government is about to launch new social programs there to combat gangs. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:13:17 -0800 newsys-455058173 http://www.theworldlink.com/articles/2009/11/21/news/doc4b07a04a0fe5c836216185.txt HAVANA (AP) — The husband of an acclaimed dissident Cuban blogger was punched and shouted down by a pro-government mob Friday after he challenged the presumed state agents who earlier roughed up his wife to a street corner debate. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:13:17 -0800 newsys-455437443 http://www.theworldlink.com/articles/2009/11/21/news/doc4b07a068d70b3547905139.txt FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — A 5-year-old North Carolina girl was raped and killed the same day she was taken from her home, according to an arrest warrant released Friday. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:13:17 -0800 newsys-454274360 http://www.theworldlink.com/articles/2009/11/21/news/doc4b07a09c7c569519897557.txt OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A former Marine has been charged with six counts of first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of four people whose bodies were found in a burning home, including a prostitute featured on the HBO reality series “Cathouse.” Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:13:17 -0800 newsys-454274345 http://www.theworldlink.com/articles/2009/11/21/news/doc4b07a0d02e0fd254372738.txt ATLANTA — Four North Carolina patients at a single hospital tested positive for a type of swine flu that is resistant to Tamiflu, health officials said Friday. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:13:17 -0800 newsys-454274355 http://www.theworldlink.com/articles/2009/11/21/news/doc4b07a10299eca872210396.txt WASHINGTON — Suitably opaque, Section 2006 takes up only a few dozen lines in a sweeping health care bill that runs to 2,074 pages and mentions neither Sen. Mary Landrieu nor her state of Louisiana. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:13:17 -0800 newsys-454274343 http://www.theworldlink.com/articles/2009/11/21/news/doc4b07a14927e42603086242.txt WASHINGTON (AP) — There may be additional e-mails that could have tipped off law enforcement or military officials to the Fort Hood shooter before he went on his rampage, a top senator said Friday. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:13:17 -0800 newsys-454274357 http://www.theworldlink.com/articles/2009/11/21/news/doc4b07a172365a6424108835.txt WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department intends to drop manslaughter and weapons charges against one of the Blackwater Worldwide security guards involved in a deadly 2007 Baghdad shooting, prosecutors said in court documents Friday. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:13:17 -0800 newsys-455058170 http://www.theworldlink.com/articles/2009/11/21/news/doc4b07a19f6a06d295063259.txt MEDFORD (AP) — Jackson County officials say they don’t know whether a two-year spike in teen suicide represents a trend or an anomaly. Either way, it’s worrisome. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:13:17 -0800 newsys-454274347 http://www.theworldlink.com/articles/2009/11/21/news/doc4b07a3e2abda8996041675.txt WASHINGTON — Republicans are seizing on this week’s recommendations for fewer Pap smears and mammograms to fuel concern about government-rationed medical care — and to try to chip away support by women for President Barack Obama’s proposed health care overhaul. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:13:18 -0800