Umpires have another long night in playoffs
ANAHEIM, Calif. The umpires had another rough night in Game 4 of the AL championship series. Two blown calls went against the Angels during a 10-1 loss to the New York Yankees. Neither cost Los Angeles a run, but it was the latest round of shaky um...
 4.3K - Oct. 21, 2009; scored 1000.0 Commission to combat teen drinking
The Coos County Commission on Children and Families in partnership with the Local Public Safety Coordinating Council has received a five-year grant for $625,000 to address teen alcohol abuse issues. The money comes from the Federal Departmen...
2.0K - Oct. 7, 2009; scored 1000.0 New postmaster works on image
NORTH BEND Carter Clark hates the term going postal. So much so, that he and fellow U.S. Postal Service workers have started using it, in hope of changing its meaning to represent strong, community-oriented customer service. That s what going post...
4.8K - Oct. 1, 2009; scored 1000.0 Guitar Hero 5 makes rocking out easier than ever
A few suggestions for the folks who acquire the songs for Guitar Hero : How about a moratorium on Kiss? They were lousy when they started, and their songs haven t gotten better with time. Why so little love for punk and New Wave? Dozens of neglected...
3.1K - Sep. 11, 2009; scored 1000.0 Oregon lottery works to end slump with slots
SALEM In recent weeks, Oregon Lottery officials have installed 400 new casino-style slot machines in bars and taverns across the state in hopes of boosting player interest and ending a slump in lottery play. Lottery Director Dale Penn said the plan...
2.9K - Aug. 29, 2009; scored 1000.0 Groom's ex lit fire at Kuwait wedding that killed 41 people
KUWAIT CITY (AP) Kuwaiti authorities have apprehended the person suspected of setting fire to a wedding tent and killing 41 people and said today the motive was personal. Local newspapers reported the groom s ex-wife was the arsonist. The inferno S...
3.0K - Aug. 17, 2009; scored 1000.0 Local stimulus
Call it the Coos Bay stimulus package. City leaders formally broke ground on a new fire station Friday and work on a new Visitor Information Center is slated to begin this coming week. Construction jobs have been hard to come by with the slumping hou...
4.7K - Aug. 15, 2009; scored 1000.0 Scene & Heard
Concerts This weekend Hookah Stew The Mill. Rock, pop funk. 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Friday and Saturday. 756-8800 or www.themillcasino.com . Leon Russell The Green Spot. Rock n roll legend. 7 p.m. Friday. $15 advance, $20 at door....
10.3K - May. 15, 2009; scored 1000.0 Scene & Heard
Concerts This weekend Diego s Umbrella, Ring Broadway Theater/Shark Bites. Experimental/flamenco/rock. 9 p.m. Saturday. 266-9020, www.myspace.com/waxersvenue . The Freemartins The Mill. Modern rock, pop and funk. 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., Friday and Sa...
10.1K - May. 8, 2009; scored 1000.0 YouTube launches university channel
College too expensive? Try YouTube. It might seem counterintuitive to look for higher education alongside Avril Lavigne music videos, but the video-sharing site has become a major reservoir of college content. The Google Inc.-owned YouTube has for th...
3.7K - Apr. 10, 2009; scored 1000.0 Doctor by trade, outdoorsman by necessity
One stormy night in Coos Bay found Dr. William Horsfall, an early Coos County doctor who began practicing in 1892, stranded in a sinking rowboat as a baby was ready to be delivered in Eastside. As the story goes, the unborn baby's father had come to ...
3.5K - Apr. 1, 2009; scored 1000.0 Hidden coal mines of Riverton Hills
RIVERTON It fit in the palm of his hand and fell apart easily. Leland Simpson described the large lump he picked up from a pile of slag next to his driveway as soft coal. Simpson s driveway is covered in it, overlaid with slag tiny pieces of the...
4.0K - Mar. 4, 2009; scored 1000.0 Hidden coal mines of Riverton hills
RIVERTON It fit in the palm of his hand and fell apart easily. Leland Simpson described the large lump he picked up from a pile of slag next to his driveway as soft coal. Simpson s driveway is covered in it, overlaid with slag tiny pieces of the...
3.9K - Feb. 26, 2009; scored 1000.0 Black gold in Coos County
In 1854, A.G. Aiken shipped the first 200 tons of coal from Coos Bay to San Francisco. It was the beginning of a coal industry that was to last on the South Coast for more than 60 years. Aiken s success attracted gold miner Patrick Flanagan, an Irish...
2.3K - Feb. 25, 2009; scored 1000.0 Hidden coal mines of Riverton Hills
RIVERTON It fit in the palm of his hand and fell apart easily. Leland Simpson described the large lump he picked up from a pile of slag next to his driveway as soft coal. Simpson s driveway is covered in it, overlaid with slag tiny pieces of the...
6.1K - Feb. 25, 2009; scored 1000.0 Hidden coal mines of Riverton hills
RIVERTON It fit in the palm of his hand and fell apart easily. Leland Simpson described the large lump he picked up from a pile of slag next to his driveway as soft coal. Simpson s driveway is covered in it, overlaid with slag tiny pieces of the...
4.1K - Feb. 25, 2009; scored 1000.0 Video lottery sales down
SALEM A sour economy, a smoking ban and a blast of brutal weather conspired to dampen play of the Oregon Lottery s video gambling games in recent weeks. It s been tough for everybody, Lottery spokeswoman Mary Loftin said of the drop-off in play on...
2.6K - Jan. 27, 2009; scored 1000.0 Cheers and Jeers
Takes the trophy Cheers to Marshfield High School s girls basketball team for shooting all the way to the championship game in this week s holiday tournament. And how about the organizers who gave life to the tourney? Three cheers for the boosters. T...
2.3K - Jan. 4, 2009; scored 1000.0 A rising tide of happy tidings
Clark Walworth, Publisher and Editor If you re like me, you re weary of the endless drizzle of gloomy economic news. We re heading into the Advent season, which is supposed to be about proclaiming glad tidings. So where is the alleged gladness? In fa...
2.6K - Nov. 28, 2008; scored 1000.0 | 
