Sports Briefs: College band buses crash in Arkansas
FORDYCE, Ark. ” A dozen students and a bus driver are being treated for injuries after three buses carrying members of the renowned Grambling State University marching band were involved in a traffic crash in southern Arkansas. Arkansas State ...
 2.7K - Nov. 7, 2009; scored 272.0 Man injured in Highway 38 crash
Medics took a 42-year-old man to a hospital following a crash Thursday night on state Highway 38 near Scottsburg. Police responded to milepost 21, where a westbound 2003 Chrysler PT Cruiser went off the road into trees and knocked over a fence, the D...
0.8K - Nov. 7, 2009; scored 272.0 Sports Briefs: Woods holds share of lead with Watney
SHANGHAI Tiger Woods has shot another 5-under 67 in the HSBC Champions, this one giving him a share of the 36-hole lead with Nick Watney in the final World Golf Championship of the year. Woods overcame mild frustration early in his round Friday by ...
6.0K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 136.0 Jury rejects suspect's insanity defense
EUGENE (AP) A Lane County jury has rejected the insanity defense of a man who confessed to kidnapping and raping a 10-year-old girl. The panel of eight women and four men took less than two hours Wednesday to decide that Malcolm Michael Gerlach bel...
0.8K - Nov. 5, 2009; scored 68.0 Man rescued after truck goes into river
DAMASCUS (AP) A 57-year-old man whose pickup drifted off state Highway 224, then crashed down an 80-foot embankment and into the Clackamas River has been plucked to safety by a Clackamas County water rescue team. Oregon State Police said Richard Sa...
0.7K - Nov. 4, 2009; scored 68.0 Thefts & Mischief
The following are theft and criminal mischief reports from police logs. Coos Bay Nov. 1, 9:20 a.m., an attempted burglary was reported in the 600 block of South Wasson Street. Nov. 1, 10:24 a.m., domestic harassment was reported in the 700 block of D...
7.5K - Nov. 3, 2009; scored 68.0 Caution ends Talladega
TALLADEGA, Ala. NASCAR stopped the bumping, at least for a while. There was nothing that could be done about the blocking. In the end, Sunday looked like most every other event at Talladega Superspeedway: There was a surprise winner, two harrowing ...
4.2K - Nov. 2, 2009; scored 191.0 Hang up and drive law comes Jan. 1
SALEM As of Jan. 1, you can get slapped with a $90 fine if you use a hand-held cell phone while driving in Oregon. Will that be enough to encourage motorists to keep their full attention on the road? And how well can the law be enforced? Orego...
6.2K - Nov. 2, 2009; scored 136.0 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 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 Crashes sends teens to hospitals
Two separate crashes sent teenagers to the hospital earlier this week. On Friday at 2:33 a.m., Coos County Sheriff s deputies, along with Charleston Fire Department, responded to Coos Head Road in Charleston. There they found a full-sized pickup, dri...
1.0K - Oct. 31, 2009; scored 760.0 Adjusting to life on the coast
Approaching my third month of living in Coos Bay, I find the natural beauty makes it simple to adjust to Northwest living after 22 years in the Midwest. Maybe the southern Oregon coast still is shiny and new, but I intend to enjoy everything this are...
2.5K - Oct. 31, 2009; scored 68.0 Flat income raises concern
WASHINGTON (AP) Flat incomes suggest more weakness ahead in consumer spending, reinforcing concerns about a ho-hum holiday shopping season and a sluggish economic recovery. This recovery is going to be very weak. Consumers are in no position or moo...
4.0K - Oct. 31, 2009; scored 68.0 Plane, copter collide
LOS ANGELES (AP) The U.S. Coast Guard and Navy were searching early today for as many as nine people off the Southern California coast following a collision between a Coast Guard plane and a Marine Corps helicopter, officials said. The crash was re...
2.4K - Oct. 30, 2009; scored 68.0 Jeter receives Clemente award
NEW YORK Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter has won the Roberto Clemente Award. The Yankees captain was presented with the award Thursday before the start of Game 2 of the World Series between New York and the Philadelphia Phillies. The award is given a...
0.8K - Oct. 30, 2009; scored 68.0 Driver: didn't see rabbit driving pedicab
PORTLAND (AP) The Mercedes driver testified he didn t see the 6-foot-tall orange rabbit driving a pedicab because he was fumbling for a dropped cell phone. Pedicab driver Kate Altermatt tells The Oregonian she finds that hard to believe, noting she...
0.9K - Oct. 30, 2009; scored 107.0 Obama mulls a reduce troop plan
WASHINGTON President Barack Obama is considering a scaled-down version of the war plan advanced by his top Afghanistan commander, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, U.S. officials say. Such a narrowed military mission would increase American forces to accom...
5.7K - Oct. 29, 2009; scored 68.0 President honors fallen soldier
DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Delaware Standing in the pre-dawn darkness, President Barack Obama saw the real cost of the war in Afghanistan: The Americans who return in flag-covered cases while much of their nation sleeps in peace. In a midnight dash to ...
4.6K - Oct. 29, 2009; scored 107.0 Woman jailed for driving drunk, stealing vehicle
North Bend police arrested a North Bend woman Tuesday on drunken driving and car theft charges. Officers responded to the 2300 block of Oak Street shortly after midnight where a 1989 Oldsmobile ran over two mailboxes and crashed. Police arrested the ...
0.8K - Oct. 28, 2009; scored 68.0 NB man will not face charges
A Douglas County grand jury has decided a North Bend man should not face a charge of criminally negligent homicide in the death of Heidi Johnson. Douglas County Deputy District Attorney Deborah Stoll presented evidence against John Flaxel last week t...
1.9K - Oct. 28, 2009; scored 158.0 | 
