ODFW continues Chetco River closure
The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife is extending the current angling closure on the Chetco River upstream of Highway 101 until further notice. The season was expected to reopen today, but will remain closed to protect spawning fall Chinook. Pa...
 3.0K - Nov. 7, 2009; scored 75.0 Four rescued from burning apartment
WILSONVILLE (AP) Firefighters rescued four people, including an infant, from the third floor of a burning apartment building in Wilsonville. A Tualatin Valley Fire spokesman said no one was injured Wednesday in the two-alarm fire at the Sundial Apa...
0.7K - Nov. 5, 2009; scored 303.0 Deaths Nov. 5
Robert H. Gift 73, of North Bend, died Nov. 3, 2009, in Eugene. Marlynn Deadmond 47, of Florence, died Nov. 2, 2009, in Florence. Arrangements are pending with Burns s Riverside Chapel Florence Funeral Home, (541) 997-3416. JoLee Moore 56, of J...
0.4K - Nov. 5, 2009; scored 75.0 A different kind of pet rescue
NEWPORT (AP) By day, Duane Parton III is known as the dog whisperer; and his cohort James Erdman, the cat whisperer. Both earned those designations for their winning ways with the critters at the Lincoln County Animal Shelter. By night, however the...
4.7K - Nov. 4, 2009; scored 75.0 Mark Martin is enjoying the ride
MARTINSVILLE, Va. ” Mark Martin senses that this is going to be a good week for him as he continues chasing Jimmie Johnson and the NASCAR season championship he so covets. If he s right, it would only add to what has been an emotional ride for...
5.1K - Oct. 31, 2009; scored 75.0 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 75.0 Savoring a school house
RANDOLPH A good site, money and a passion for history that s what Charlie Ruddell had. After four years, a lot of research and creative problem solving, he now has a renovated historic schoolhouse, too, at Randolph about 6 miles north of Bandon....
5.1K - Oct. 31, 2009; scored 75.0 Suggestion powers Paranormal Activity phenom
The no-budget ghost story Paranormal Activity arrives 10 years after The Blair Witch Project, and the two horror movies share more than a clever construct and shaky, handheld camerawork. Like its predecessor, Paranormal Activity has been making...
3.6K - Oct. 30, 2009; scored 75.0 The good, the ad, the ugly
Do you have NOPQ? If so, ask your doctor about Nopquease. I can t tell you how many times I ve watched commercials for medicine on TV without ever figuring out what malady the medicine is supposed to cure. Do you have shortness of breath? Loss of ea...
3.1K - Oct. 30, 2009; scored 75.0 Thefts & Mischief
The following are theft and criminal mischief reports from police logs. Coos Bay Oct. 28, 8:37 a.m., someone stole tools from the 100 block of South Wasson Street. Oct. 28, 11:07 a.m., fraud was reported at Walmart, 2051 Newmark Ave. Oct. 28, 11:30 a...
2.4K - Oct. 29, 2009; scored 119.0 Logging activists win court battle
PORTLAND People against logging old growth forests won an Oregon Court of Appeals ruling Wednesday that struck down a state law on grounds it treats an environmental dispute differently. The case grew out of arrests in March 2005 in the Siskiyou Na...
3.0K - Oct. 29, 2009; scored 75.0 Salem project gives free care for pets of homeless
SALEM (AP) Tammy Thompson lives in a tarp-covered tent on Salem s fringe, sharing her little spot in the woods with three much-loved dogs. They re my children. They re everything to me, said Thompson, 44. That s why she was grateful for a local ...
3.0K - Oct. 28, 2009; scored 75.0 Mayors ask Obama to visit Japanese A-bomb cities
TOKYO Japanese newspapers and activists are calling for Barack Obama to become the first sitting U.S. president to visit Hiroshima or Nagasaki, the only two cities ever devastated by atomic bombs, ahead of his visit to Japan next month. The two cit...
4.4K - Oct. 27, 2009; scored 75.0 Alienated and now radicalized
In the brief age of Obama, we have had truthers, birthers, Tea Party activists and town-hall dissenters. Comes now, the Oath Keepers. And who might they be? Writes Alan Maimon in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Oath Keepers, depending on where on...
3.1K - Oct. 26, 2009; scored 75.0 N.M. hotel owner under fire
TAOS, N.M. (AP) Larry Whitten marched into this northern New Mexico town in late July on a mission: resurrect a failing hotel. The tough-talking former Marine immediately laid down some new rules. Among them, he forbade the Hispanic workers at the ...
5.3K - Oct. 26, 2009; scored 75.0 Geologists debunk soil impact on wine
PORTLAND (AP) Geologists say wine critics may be stretching things a bit when they talk about the soil giving a vintage a distinct flavor. Wine critics often use the French phrase, gout de terroir (goo deh TAIR-wahr), which means taste of the so...
4.3K - Oct. 26, 2009; scored 151.0 Scientists seek origins of obesity in the womb
NEW YORK When Kathy Perusse had weight-loss surgery and shed 120 pounds, she may have done more than make her own life easier. She went on to have two daughters, and she may have boosted their chances of avoiding becoming obese, like her two older ...
6.4K - Oct. 23, 2009; scored 75.0 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 240.0 Torch will start trek to Vancouver
ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece The flame for the Vancouver Olympics was successfully lighted by the sun s rays in an ancient ceremony today, heralding the start of the torch relay for the 2010 Winter Games. The sun shone just enough over the fallen temple...
3.1K - Oct. 22, 2009; scored 75.0 Sports Briefs: Pujols to have surgery on elbow
ST. LOUIS For the second straight offseason, Albert Pujols will undergo arthroscopic surgery on his right elbow. The St. Louis Cardinals said in a brief news release that the two-time NL MVP will undergo a debridement procedure which could be use...
3.7K - Oct. 21, 2009; scored 75.0 | 
