World leaders needed at talks to cut climate deal
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) After two years of tough U.N. climate talks often pitting the world s rich against the poor, negotiators said Friday a new global agreement now rides on industrial nations pledging profound emissions cuts next month in Copenha...
 5.7K - Nov. 7, 2009; scored 56.0 Early returns show school bond passing
VERNONIA (AP) Vernonia schools damaged by Nehalem River flooding in 2007 may be replaced if early returns in a $13 million bond measure hold up. Columbia County voters were approving the measure about 3-to-2 to provide funding for a new K-12 s...
0.6K - Nov. 5, 2009; scored 56.0 Storm kills 23 in Vietnam
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) Tropical Storm Mirinae unleashed severe flooding in parts of central Vietnam, killing 23 people, leaving two missing and stranding families on rooftops, disaster officials said today. The death toll in the hardest-hit province o...
2.8K - Nov. 3, 2009; scored 146.0 Tornado topples steeple, kills man
SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) One man is dead and a landmark church steeple toppled onto a car in Louisiana after a line of thunderstorms spawned several tornadoes there and in neighboring Arkansas. Authorities said an unnamed 20-year-old driver died when h...
0.9K - Oct. 30, 2009; scored 56.0 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 56.0 Weakened tropical storm Rick nears Mexico resorts
LOS CABOS, Mexico Once-powerful Hurricane Rick lost most of its punch as it headed toward Mexican resort regions as a tropical storm today, but local authorities still prepared for evacuations due to flooding. Rick had been the strongest hurricane ...
2.5K - Oct. 20, 2009; scored 56.0 Reedsport saves big money on levee deal
REEDSPORT The city of Reedsport has partnered with the U.S. Forest Service to get its flood levees inspected and certified by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Not only will the move save the city tens of thousands of dollars, it will prevent resid...
3.4K - Oct. 19, 2009; scored 517.0 Hurricane Rick strengthens
ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) Hurricane Rick swiftly strengthened Friday off Mexico s Pacific coast with winds near 100 mph, and forecasters warned it could soon become a major hurricane. Rick, a Category 2 hurricane, was centered about 260 miles south-sou...
1.0K - Oct. 18, 2009; scored 56.0 Dangeorus Hurricane Rick grows off Mexico
MEXICO CITY (AP) Hurricane Rick quickly strengthened into an extremely dangerous Category 4 storm off Mexico s Pacific coast on Saturday and forecasters said it could strike the Baja California Peninsula in about five days. The storm had sustaine...
1.7K - Oct. 17, 2009; scored 56.0 Hurricane Rick strengthens
ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) Hurricane Rick swiftly strengthened Friday off Mexico s Pacific coast with winds near 100 mph, and forecasters warned it could soon become a major hurricane. Rick, a Category 2 hurricane, was centered about 260 miles south-sou...
1.0K - Oct. 17, 2009; scored 56.0 Grant could add cargo dock to LNG project
Port officials could have a greater stake in the liquefied natural gas project proposed for Coos Bay if a sizable federal grant comes their way. The Oregon International Port of Coos Bay has filed a $45.3 million application for a Transportation...
2.7K - Oct. 15, 2009; scored 56.0 North Korea: Naval clash is a possibility
SEOUL, South Korea North Korea warned South Korea today that a rash of reckless incursions at their disputed maritime border could spark a naval clash. North Korea s navy accused South Korean warships of routinely broaching its territory 10 tim...
3.6K - Oct. 15, 2009; scored 89.0 Jobless rate linked to foreclosures
WASHINGTON The number of households caught up in the foreclosure crisis rose more than 5 percent from summer to fall as a federal effort to assist struggling borrowers was overwhelmed by a flood of defaults among people who lost their jobs. The for...
3.8K - Oct. 15, 2009; scored 56.0 Out of the bog
Aiming to capitalize on a growing demand for raw, organic produce, the Coquille Tribe is taking the hard route to harvesting cranberries this season. To harvest deep red berries in the raw, the tribe will put its back into the year s bountiful crop t...
3.5K - Oct. 13, 2009; scored 56.0 N. Korea test fires 5 short-range missiles
SEOUL, South Korea North Korea fired five short-range missiles off its east coast today, news reports said, even as South Korea proposed working-level talks with its communist neighbor. South Korea s Yonhap news agency, citing an unidentified South...
3.4K - Oct. 12, 2009; scored 56.0 Mudslides kill more than 160 in Philippines
MANILA, Philippines (AP) Rescuers struggled through mud and pounding rain Friday to clear mountain roads and retrieve more than 160 dead from dozens of landslides that buried villages and cut off towns in the rain-soaked northern Philippines. The l...
1.4K - Oct. 9, 2009; scored 225.0 Russia: U.S. can't fight Afghan drugs alone
MOSCOW (AP) Russia s counter-narcotics chief today criticized U.S. and NATO anti-drug efforts in Afghanistan as inadequate and called for joint action against the Afghan heroin flooding into the former Soviet Union. In an interview with The Associa...
4.0K - Oct. 7, 2009; scored 56.0 Oversight lacking on controlling war costs
WASHINGTON (AP) During a routine check of a watch tower at a U.S. military base in Kuwait, an Army sergeant found the guard leaning back in a chair, his sunglasses on, apparently sound asleep. When the soldier woke the guard, an employee of a defen...
5.3K - Oct. 7, 2009; scored 56.0 Woman mauled by pack of raccoons
LAKELAND, Fla. (AP) Animal control officers hope to trap a pack of raccoons that mauled a 74-year-old Florida woman who tried to chase them from her yard. The sheriff in Polk County, east of Tampa, says Gretchen Whitted fell when five raccoons surr...
0.9K - Oct. 5, 2009; scored 56.0 Wall of water kills 100 people
APIA, Samoa A massive tsunami unleashed by a powerful earthquake flattened Samoan villages and swept cars and people out to sea, killing at least 99 and leaving dozens missing today. The death toll was expected to rise. Survivors fled the fast-chur...
7.6K - Sep. 30, 2009; scored 56.0 | 
