IRS has unclaimed refunds
Were you expecting a tax refund, but didn’t get it? The Internal Revenue Service might have your money.

Curry campus close to reality
The dean of Southwestern Oregon Community College’s Curry campus has a lot of hope for her school’s future.

Events planned for Veterans Day
Local organizations are planning events Wednesday to honor vets on Veterans Day. Here’s a look:

Bandon library beckons birders
BANDON — Ameri-Corps volunteer Kelly Balcarczyk needs some local volunteers to help with her community project.

 Sherbondy in prison for 2 years
COQUILLE — When Gwen Sherbondy stole money from a graduation fund for Coquille seniors, she didn’t just take $11,665.

 FBI reassess its past look at Fort Hood suspect
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly a year before Maj. Nidal Hasan allegedly went on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood, terrorism investigators conducted an “assessment” of him before deciding he did not pose a threat.

Police search for woman
The Coos County Search and Rescue Team is looking for a 31-year-old Coquille woman who went missing Monday under suspicious circumstances.

 Navajo Code Talkers will take their place in NYC vet parade
NEW YORK  — The famed Navajo Code Talkers, the elite Marine unit whose unbreakable code stymied the Japanese in World War II, fear their legacy will die with them.

Bill Clinton pitches health bill to Dems
WASHINGTON — Former President Bill Clinton knows just how high the political stakes are in the fight to overhaul America’s health care system.

Ida weakens to a tropical depression, heads east
DAUPHIN ISLAND, Ala. (AP) — Ida sloshed ashore with rain and gusty winds before losing its tropical storm strength today, leaving weather-hardened Gulf Coast residents largely unscathed.

Coos County implements DUI task force
Coos county police agencies have created the state’s first South Coast DUI Task Force. And officials are hoping other Oregon counties will follow their lead in combating drunken driving.

 Women of the Year:
NEW YORK — Even for a venue as grand as New York’s Carnegie Hall, there was a pretty dazzling concentration of star power at Glamour magazine’s Women of the Year awards.

Housing plan reaches 1 in 5 borrowers
WASHINGTON (AP) — After a slow start, the Obama administration’s mortgage relief program has reached one in five eligible homeowners, a government report says.

I want to know: Casino workers won't get vaccine
Question: I would like to know why the general public is having trouble getting H1N1 flu shots, yet The Mill Casino-Hotel is giving them to their employees who are not in the high-risk categories?

 Boston subway train stops in nick of time
BOSTON (AP) — The driver of Boston subway train that came to a screeching halt just before hitting a woman who had fallen onto the tracks has been hailed as a hero.

Bomb kills 24, wounds 102 in NW Pakistan
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A car bomb exploded outside a crowded market in northwestern Pakistan today, killing at least 24 people in the latest attack by suspected militants apparently aimed at avenging an army offensive along the Afghan border.

U.S. troops likely for Afghanistan in January
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is nearing a decision to add tens of thousands more forces to Afghanistan, though probably not quite the 40,000 sought by his top general there.

Kulongoski makes surprise visit to troops in Iraq
GRANTS PASS (AP) — Gov. Ted Kulongoski has made another surprise trip to Iraq to visit Oregon National Guard troops.

Fire engulfs Portland school
PORTLAND (AP) — A three-alarm fire has been reported at a southeast Portland elementary school.

2 dead, reports of others shot at Tualatin office
TUALATIN, Ore. (AP) — Oregon police say a shooting at drug-testing facility in a suburban Portland office park has left two people dead and two others wounded.

Multnomah sheriff asks state for investigation
PORTLAND (AP) — The new sheriff of Multnomah County has asked the state agency that oversees police certification to speed up its investigation into a high-ranking officer.

Removing dam would end live fish counts
MEDFORD (AP) — After decades of counting live salmon and steelhead reaching the upper Rogue River, biologists will be stuck counting only dead ones if Gold Ray Dam and its long-standing fish-counting station disappear as proposed next fall.

Willamette Queen runs aground near Salem
SALEM (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard says the Willamette Queen sternwheeler has run aground near Salem.

Homebrew students learn to customize beer flavors
PORTLAND  — Learning to brew your own beer in Portland, a.k.a. Beervana, would seem to be pointlessness personified. Yet 80 homebrewers and brewers-to-be spent a rainy Saturday morning doing just that in a stark warehouse warmed only by two boiling kettles.

GOP targets lawmakers' health care vote
SALEM (AP) — National and local Republicans are betting that Oregon Congressman Kurt Schrader’s vote for a national health care reform bill will make him vulnerable in 2010.

 Wave watching
Storm watchers headed out to Shore Acres State Park on Friday afternoon to catch a glimpse of 30 foot waves crashing along the coast line. Heavy seas from a Pacific Ocean storm and high tides sent large waves into cliffs and onto beaches all weekend.