Museum will host Veterans Day program
The Bandon Historical Society Museum will offer veteran talks and an exhibit in honor of Veterans Day. The event will run from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the museum, 270 Fillmore and U.S. Highway 101 (by the downtown streetlight). Several veterans will tal...
 1.4K - Nov. 5, 2009; scored 68.0 Pakistan army enters Taliban stronghold
ISLAMABAD (AP) Pakistani soldiers battled Taliban fighters today in the streets of a key militant stronghold, officials said, as government forces pressed ahead with their offensive in the tribal region of South Waziristan. The soldiers were fighti...
3.6K - Nov. 4, 2009; scored 107.0 Israel commandos seize ship loaded with guns
JERUSALEM (AP) Israeli commandos seized a ship today that defense officials said was carrying hundreds of tons of weapons bound for Lebanon s Iranian-backed Hezbollah guerrillas the largest arms shipment Israel has ever commandeered. The Israeli ...
5.6K - Nov. 4, 2009; scored 545.0 Avoidance won't end overseas war
Our military waits for Obama to act on his commanding general s request for more personnel. These additional troops are needed to effectively defeat the Taliban in Afghanistan. While our brave men and women in uniform wait for reinforcements, Obama s...
1.3K - Nov. 3, 2009; scored 107.0 The public option and the vaccine
My internist told me he is now using the technique he learned many decades ago in the military, when supplies of vaccine were short and they had to split doses. I wouldn t even think of asking. But I did ask my rheumatologist, since rheumatoid arthri...
3.4K - Nov. 3, 2009; scored 68.0 N. Korea aims for direct U.S. talks
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) North Korea said today it has reprocessed 8,000 spent nuclear fuel rods and extracted enough plutonium to bolster its atomic stockpile, raising the stakes in an apparent effort to push the U.S. into direct negotiations. Repr...
3.0K - Nov. 3, 2009; scored 68.0 Factory orders rise 0.9 percent in September
WASHINGTON (AP) Orders to U.S. factories rebounded in September, helped by strength in autos, heavy machinery and military aircraft. The fifth increase in six months bolstered hopes that a revival in manufacturing will help support an overall econo...
0.9K - Nov. 3, 2009; scored 68.0 Storm kills 23 in Vietnam
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) Tropical Storm Mirinae unleashed severe flooding in parts of central Vietnam, killing 23 people, leaving two missing and stranding families on rooftops, disaster officials said today. The death toll in the hardest-hit province o...
2.8K - Nov. 3, 2009; scored 68.0 Israel: Gaza rockets can reach metro Tel Aviv
JERUSALEM (AP) Hamas militants in Gaza have successfully test-fired an Iranian rocket able to reach Israel s largest urban center, the country s military intelligence chief said today. Maj. Gen. Amos Yadlin told parliament s foreign affairs and def...
3.0K - Nov. 3, 2009; scored 158.0 U.S. reverses policy, engages Myanmar
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) The United States began a new policy of engagement with Myanmar s ruling military junta today, sending two senior diplomats for the highest-level visit in more than a decade. Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell, the top ...
2.8K - Nov. 3, 2009; scored 107.0 Pakistan Taliban: 'We are prepared for a long war'
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) A Taliban spokesman denied today that Pakistan has won a series of battlefield victories in its offensive in tribal South Waziristan, saying the militants are drawing government soldiers into a trap. We are prepared for a lo...
2.0K - Nov. 3, 2009; scored 107.0 Sailing home
NEW YORK The new U.S. Navy assault ship USS New York, built with World Trade Center steel, arrived in its namesake city today with a 21-gun salute near the site of the 2001 terrorist attack. First responders, families of Sept. 11 victims and the pu...
3.4K - Nov. 2, 2009; scored 68.0 Coast Guard suspends search for survivors in military aircraft crash; investigation continues
LOS ANGELES (AP) With the possibility of finding survivors all but gone and the ocean search shifted from a rescue effort to a recovery mission, focus fell today on what caused a Marine Corps helicopter and U.S. Coast Guard plane to collide over th...
1.2K - Nov. 2, 2009; scored 272.0 Suicide bomber kills 30 near Pakistan's capital; UN suspends work
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (AP) A suicide bomber killed 30 people outside a bank near Pakistan s capital today, as the U.N. said spreading violence had forced it to pull out some expatriate staff and suspend long-term development work in areas along the ...
1.3K - Nov. 2, 2009; scored 68.0 N. Korea pushes for talks with U.S.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) North Korea pressed the United States to accept its demand for direct talks on the communist regime s nuclear program, issuing a veiled threat today that Pyongyang will expand its nuclear arsenal unless Washington agrees. Th...
3.7K - Nov. 2, 2009; scored 68.0 Karzai wins Afghan election without a vote
KABUL Afghanistan s election commission proclaimed President Hamid Karzai the victor of the country s tumultuous ballot today, canceling a planned runoff and ending a political crisis two and a half months after a fraud-marred first round. The Obam...
6.2K - Nov. 2, 2009; scored 68.0 China's military buildup concerns U.S. Navy leader
HONG KONG (AP) A U.S. Navy admiral expressed new concern today over China s military buildup and urged Beijing to be clearer about its intentions. With China s military growing at an unprecedented rate, the U.S. wants to ensure that expansion doe...
1.9K - Oct. 30, 2009; scored 1000.0 At the movies
The following movies are playing at South Coast theaters. Times are shown for movies at Pony Village Cinemas. () indicates showings for Friday-Sunday only. For locations outside the Bay Area, call the theaters for showtimes. Astro Boy Set in futurist...
7.3K - Oct. 30, 2009; scored 68.0 Columbia signs U.S. military base pact
BOGOTA In a private, low-key ceremony, the U.S. ambassador and three Colombian ministers today signed a pact to expand Washington s military s presence, a deal that Venezuela s Hugo Chavez has called a threat to the region s security. U.S. Ambassad...
2.6K - Oct. 30, 2009; scored 490.0 Pakistanis voice frustrations
ISLAMABAD (AP) U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton came face-to-face today with Pakistani anger over U.S. aerial drone attacks in tribal areas along the Afghan border, a strategy that U.S. officials say has succeeded in killing key terro...
5.1K - Oct. 30, 2009; scored 107.0 | 
