NBA: Magic hand first loss to Suns
ORLANDO, Fla. Ryan Anderson had 20 points and 10 rebounds, Dwight Howard scored 25, and the short-handed Orlando Magic defeated the previously unbeaten Phoenix Suns 122-100 on Wednesday night. Playing without injured Vince Carter and suspended Rash...
 4.5K - Nov. 5, 2009; scored 115.0 Pickup led 'Clunker' trade-ins
WASHINGTON Billed as a way for the government to put more fuel-efficient vehicles on highways, the popular $3 billion Cash for Clunkers program mostly involved swaps of old Ford or Chevrolet pickups for new ones that have only marginally bette...
6.4K - Nov. 5, 2009; scored 149.0 Blanchard Irene Davis Lorsung
A Mass of Christian burial will be held for Blanchard Blanche Irene Davis Lorsung, 102, of Coos Bay, at 11 a.m., Wednesday, Nov. 4, at Coos Bay Chapel, 685 Anderson Ave. with the Rev. Karl Schray, of Holy Redeemer Catholic Church, officiating. Buri...
4.0K - Nov. 3, 2009; scored 115.0 County agrees to house Curry juvenile offenders
Coos County has begun providing emergency juvenile detention to Curry County youth. Curry County does not have a juvenile detention facility and instead rents a specific number of beds a day from the Del Norte County in northern California. If there ...
1.9K - Nov. 2, 2009; scored 115.0 Hawthorne wins Crossings Cup
Julie Hawthorne, who lives near Port Orford, captured the second-annual Crossings Cup on Friday, beating Charlie Sriutis in th championship match 5 4. She played amazing, said Bandon Crossings pro Chris Young. There wasn t really anything Charlie...
1.1K - Oct. 31, 2009; scored 206.0 Gas prices chugging up for the holidays
NEW YORK (AP) Americans are paying more for gasoline than they did last year as the holidays approached billions of dollars that could go to books, clothes and Barbie dolls instead being spent at the pump. Gas averaged nearly $2.70 a gallon ...
3.8K - Oct. 31, 2009; scored 115.0 Lee handcuffs Yankees in Series opener
NEW YORK Joe Girardi could take away one comforting thought after watching Cliff Lee shut down the New York Yankees. He can t pitch every day, the Yankees manager said. Lee tickled his teammates with a ho-hum catch, made a behind-the-back snag see...
5.4K - Oct. 29, 2009; scored 115.0 Yvonne Schrader Bower
A celebration honoring the life of Yvonne Schrader Bower, 76, of Coos Bay will be held from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 7, at the Bower home. Yvonne was born Oct. 14, 1932, in Bandon, the daughter of Ivan and Lorna Schrader. She died Oct. 15, 2009, in...
2.1K - Oct. 29, 2009; scored 115.0 McGwire back in baseball with Cardinals
ST. LOUIS ” Mark McGwire is back in baseball, reunited with Tony La Russa as the St. Louis Cardinals hitting coach. La Russa agreed to return for a 15th year as manager Monday with a one-year contract, the first time he hasn t had a multiyear...
4.5K - Oct. 27, 2009; scored 115.0 Recession is over, but job losses aren't
WASHINGTON It s about to become official: The recession is over but not the pain. The government will release figures this week expected to show that the economy has awakened from its deepest slump since the 1930s and is in the early stages of a ...
6.2K - Oct. 27, 2009; scored 182.0 Pendleton man to buy troubled gorge hotel
PORTLAND (AP) The troubled Columbia Gorge Hotel may have found a buyer after it closed last January. Vijay Patel, who owns a small chain of hotels in Eastern Oregon and Washington state, told The Oregonian he will buy the historic hotel for more th...
2.3K - Oct. 26, 2009; scored 115.0 Community Sports: Community Scoreboard for Oct. 24
Bowling North Bend Lanes Oct. 12-18 HIGH GAME Young at Heart Seniors Ray Nichols 215, Richard Dupret 211, NIck Boutin 204, Ray Rockwood 204; Linda Nichols 236, Julie Winn 202, Marge Novak 194. Monday Super Star Juniors Zachary Jones 222, Joey Huf...
7.0K - Oct. 25, 2009; scored 115.0 Payton s legacy lives on
CHICAGO ” It s been a decade since liver disease did something defenders struggled to do and took down Walter Payton. Even so, No. 34 still looms large. His son Jarrett has daily conversations with him about what I m doing and what I should b...
7.1K - Oct. 25, 2009; scored 172.0 Community Sports: Community Scoreboard for Oct. 24
Bowling North Bend Lanes Oct. 12-18 HIGH GAME Young at Heart Seniors Ray Nichols 215, Richard Dupret 211, NIck Boutin 204, Ray Rockwood 204; Linda Nichols 236, Julie Winn 202, Marge Novak 194. Monday Super Star Juniors Zachary Jones 222, Joey Huf...
7.0K - Oct. 24, 2009; scored 115.0 Payton s legacy lives on
CHICAGO ” It s been a decade since liver disease did something defenders struggled to do and took down Walter Payton. Even so, No. 34 still looms large. His son Jarrett has daily conversations with him about what I m doing and what I should b...
7.1K - Oct. 24, 2009; scored 172.0 More homeowners looking to stoves for heat
For 23 years, Julie Gore has heated her Ada, Ohio, home with a wood-burning stove. When the old one wore out, she didn t hesitate to buy another for her family room. It s warm and toasty, said Gore, an administrative assistant at Ohio Northern Unive...
4.5K - Oct. 23, 2009; scored 115.0 All Aboard Travel has new location
Full-service travel agent Julie Stoddard recently opened an office in downtown Coos Bay. All Aboard Travel was previously a home-based operation. She has provided travel services in the Bay Area for seven years. Location: 781 North Bay Shore Drive, ...
0.5K - Oct. 23, 2009; scored 115.0 Sports Briefs: Senator requests BCS investigation
WASHINGTON Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, whose undefeated home state school was bypassed for the college football national championship last season, urged President Barack Obama to ask the Justice Department to investigate the Bowl Championship Series,...
4.7K - Oct. 22, 2009; scored 149.0 $1M bond is set for man arrested in fishing death
TILLAMOOK (AP) A deckhand who joined two Oregon men on a July voyage to Ilwaco, Wash., has told police that a bloody fight aboard the fishing vessel ended with the slaying of John Adkins by his business partner, Erin Rieman, court documents say. Ad...
2.2K - Oct. 22, 2009; scored 191.0 Police arrest business partner of missing man
PACIFIC CITY (AP) A 47-year-old Pacific City man has been arrested in the July disappearance of a friend and business partner last seen in the southwest Washington Port of Ilwaco, Oregon State Police said Tuesday night. Erin Rieman was arrested ear...
1.5K - Oct. 21, 2009; scored 219.0 | 
