911 call prompts arrest
Coos County deputies arrested a Myrtle Point man Thursday after a dispatcher reported receiving a threatening 911 call. Deputies responded to 51511 Old Big Creek Road in Bridge after a man called 911 and said he had a weapon and would kill police if ...
 0.9K - Nov. 7, 2009; scored 64.0 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 64.0 Area agencies won't surrender to flu bug
NORTH BEND It may seem like a remote possibility now, but if Coos County were struck by an especially severe influenza outbreak, the city of North Bend would be prepared. Police Chief Steve Scibelli said each city department has developed an operat...
4.6K - Nov. 3, 2009; scored 64.0 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 64.0 Grow lamp sends pot, home up in smoke
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) The very thing helping to allegedly grow an Eagan man s marijuana may have been his downfall. Ryan James Parranto is facing drug charges after authorities say a lamp being used to grow marijuana started a fire at his house in April...
0.8K - Oct. 29, 2009; scored 64.0 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 64.0 Horse euthanized after hayloft collapses
BEAVERCREEK (AP) A hayloft collapsed at an equestrian center in at Beavercreek, dropping 30 tons of hay on two horses. The Oregonian reports one Appaloosa suffered two broken legs Friday and had to be euthanized at Wacker Performance Horses. Firefi...
0.6K - Oct. 27, 2009; scored 102.0 8 US troops die; Oct. Afghan war's deadliest month
KABUL (AP) Eight American troops were killed in multiple bomb attacks Tuesday in southern Afghanistan, making October the deadliest month of the war for U.S. forces since it began in 2001. The eight deaths occurred during multiple, complex bomb s...
2.4K - Oct. 27, 2009; scored 64.0 Electrical cord blamed for garage fire
A garage caught fire Saturday morning at 93144 Snedden Lane in Coos Bay. Sixteen firefighters responded to the call at 12:30 a.m. The garage had collapsed by that point. It was not a threat to surrounding structures, said Battalion Chief Mark Anderso...
0.8K - Oct. 26, 2009; scored 64.0 Helicopter crashes kill 14 Americans in Afghanistan
KABUL Helicopter crashes killed 14 Americans today in the deadliest day for the U.S. mission in Afghanistan in more than four years. The deaths came as President Barack Obama prepared to meet his national security team for a sixth full-scale confer...
6.3K - Oct. 26, 2009; scored 102.0 Police investigate motorcycle crash
A Coquille motorcyclist went to a hospital early Wednesday morning, after his cycle crashed into a parked emergency vehicle. At about 1:12 a.m., the Coquille Police Department responded to report of a motorcycle accident in the 900 block of North Kno...
0.9K - Oct. 22, 2009; scored 64.0 Attacks kill 4 at college in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan Two suicide attackers bombed an Islamic university in the Pakistani capital today, killing four people and wounding 18 as the army pressed ahead with a critical offensive on a Taliban stronghold near Afghan-istan, authorities s...
3.3K - Oct. 20, 2009; scored 64.0 Blast kills four soldiers
KABUL (AP) A roadside bomb killed four American troops in southern Afghanistan, the U.S. said Friday, as a U.N.-backed panel finished most of its investigation into whether the level of fraud in the August presidential election would force a runoff...
4.5K - Oct. 18, 2009; scored 64.0 Blast kills four soldiers
KABUL (AP) A roadside bomb killed four American troops in southern Afghanistan, the U.S. said Friday, as a U.N.-backed panel finished most of its investigation into whether the level of fraud in the August presidential election would force a runoff...
4.5K - Oct. 17, 2009; scored 64.0 Charleston Fire Station holds open house
Charleston Fire Station invites the public to come meet Freddie the fire truck Wednesday during its open house. From 5:30 until 8 p.m., there will be food, fun and games. Hamburgers, hot dogs and chips will be served, while kids can participate in th...
0.5K - Oct. 13, 2009; scored 259.0 Fire station dedicated in honor of Reverend
It s been in the works for years, but Sunday it became official. The Charleston Fire District in conjunction with the Charleston Volunteer Firefighter s Association dedicated the Deputy Chief J. Malcolm Turkington Memorial Fire Station. The station, ...
1.6K - Oct. 12, 2009; scored 102.0 Debris pile fire creates anxiety
North Bend firefighters rushed out to a home on Union Street Tuesday to extinguish a debris pile burn that got a bit big. A neighbor of the home at 2543 Union St. called the North Bend Fire Department at 4:58 p.m. to report the blaze. Fire Chief Scot...
1.2K - Oct. 7, 2009; scored 129.0 New life for old digs
From the corner of Second and Adams streets, the old brick city hall in Coquille looks like nothing more than a historic government building. But inside it is slowly being transformed by the artistic vision of its new owners. So far, only a theater a...
3.9K - Oct. 7, 2009; scored 64.0 Cooler weather gives firefighters some help
WRIGHTWOOD, Calif. (AP) Cooling temperatures and higher humidity early today gave firefighters some welcome relief as they waged an ongoing assault against a wildfire that had burned to the edges of a popular resort town in the San Gabriel Mountain...
0.9K - Oct. 5, 2009; scored 259.0 Fire department teaches prevention
The Coquille Fire Department will host its annual fire prevention open house at fire station No. 1 from 6 to 8 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 8. The station is at 89 W. Third St. There will be interactive presentations, including crawling through a smoke fille...
0.6K - Oct. 5, 2009; scored 64.0 | 
