We need jobs not health care
How many times have you heard Barack Obama talk about the fierce urgency of now ? The president has used the quote, from Martin Luther King Jr., to call for quick action on the war in Iraq, on global warming, on homelessness, on education you name...
 3.1K - Nov. 5, 2009; scored 58.0 When no child is left behind
President Obama s secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, now has nearly $5 billion in Race to the Top stimulus funds to enable each child to be a confident lifelong learner, not just a nameless statistic in national reading and math scores. At l...
3.2K - Nov. 2, 2009; scored 58.0 Shooting victim sues Oregon State fraternity
CORVALLIS (AP) A homeless man shot by an Oregon State University fraternity member three years ago is asking for more than $380,000 in a civil trial that began in Corvallis this week. Dennis Sanderson was shot in the thigh with a .22-caliber r...
0.5K - Oct. 30, 2009; scored 58.0 Man puts ferret in pants, uses as weapon
JACKSONVILLE BEACH, Florida (AP) Police say a homeless man stole a live ferret by stuffing it in his pants. Thirty-eight-year-old Rodney Bolton is charged with theft over the $129 animal that police say he took from a pet store in Jacksonville...
0.8K - Oct. 29, 2009; scored 58.0 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 772.0 Thefts & Mischief
The following are theft and criminal mischief reports from police logs. North Bend Oct. 21, 7:50 a.m., a hit-and-run occurred in the 700 block of Virginia Avenue. Oct. 21, 8:16 a.m., police seized a small amount of marijuana from a 13-year-old studen...
2.5K - Oct. 22, 2009; scored 58.0 Groups advocate for unwanted pets
This letter is written in reference to the Oct. 7 article in The World. I appreciate the fact that Pacific Cove Humane Society receives so much publicity and that s a good thing. However, there are several other wonderful animal rescue organizations ...
1.7K - Oct. 21, 2009; scored 58.0 We need spay and neuter programs
Thank God there is somebody in the journalism arena that gets it. I have been fostering for years in many counties and just can t believe the indifference in Coos Bay and North Bend. It would get so many homeless pets off the streets in this economic...
0.5K - Oct. 18, 2009; scored 58.0 We need spay and neuter programs
Thank God there is somebody in the journalism arena that gets it. I have been fostering for years in many counties and just can t believe the indifference in Coos Bay and North Bend. It would get so many homeless pets off the streets in this economic...
0.5K - Oct. 17, 2009; scored 58.0 Thefts & Mischief
The following are theft and criminal mischief reports from police logs. Coos Bay Oct. 12, 5:48 a.m., police took a 25-year-old man to the Coos County jail on a charge of domestic strangulation from a case in the 100 block of Marino Drive. He was cite...
3.2K - Oct. 13, 2009; scored 58.0 Devereux food service to change
People s Modern Grocery and Meal Site will no longer be serving meals at the Nancy Devereux Center, but volunteers still will be handing out food. Barbara Anderson, a volunteer director, said The Nancy Devereux Center plans to keep the Wednesday lunc...
0.9K - Oct. 13, 2009; scored 58.0 Thefts & Mischief
The following are theft and criminal mischief reports from police logs. Coos Bay Oct. 9, 10:18 a.m., an 81-year-old woman was the victim of a telephone scam in the 900 block of Seagate Avenue. Oct. 9, 11:28 a.m., neighbors made numerous complaints of...
6.2K - Oct. 12, 2009; scored 58.0 A society, if humane, cares for pets
Not many local groups can net $10,000 in a night s fundraiser. Pacific Cove Humane Society can. It s a testament to the community s backing for a new shelter. After nine years of fundraising and growing support, the group now needs help from...
1.9K - Oct. 7, 2009; scored 58.0 Aid reaches deeper in Indonesia quake zone
PADANG PARIAMAN, Indonesia Aid workers reached farther into Indonesia s disaster zone today, delivering food and water for the first time to villages cut off for a week by earthquake-triggered landslides. House after house in the village of Lubuk L...
3.6K - Oct. 7, 2009; scored 58.0 Thefts and Mischief
The following are theft and criminal mischief reports from police logs. Coos Bay Oct. 5, 8:42 a.m., police cited a 20-year-old woman for having less than an once of marijuana within 1,000 feet of a school and referred a 15-year-old to the juvenile de...
2.2K - Oct. 6, 2009; scored 58.0 Cup of clamor
COOS BAY As the Logos Players of Gloria Dei Lutheran Church put on their second production, they re counting on getting some of their best performances from an unlikely source: unsuspecting members of the audience. At Mayhem in Mayville, which pl...
4.2K - Oct. 2, 2009; scored 58.0 Two women found alive in quake's rubble
PADANG, Indonesia Rescuers pulled two women alive from a collapsed college, nearly two days after a powerful earthquake devastated western Indonesia, as cries for help from a flattened hotel spurred the frantic search for more survivors today. The ...
7.0K - Oct. 2, 2009; scored 92.0 Modern serving
COOS BAY The phrase modern grocery shopping and dining may conjure images of organic produce and conveyer-belt sushi bars. But on Wednesday afternoons at the Nancy Devereux center, it looks like volunteers refilling iced teas for homeless people, w...
4.2K - Sep. 26, 2009; scored 117.0 Pitched tents offer a new kind of home
LEBANON, Tenn. Terry Lee Ballard holds a sign when he goes looking for work in front of hardware stores. It reads: No job. No food. Almost homeless. He s almost homeless because he lives at a campground in a tent with a roommate, two cats and a d...
4.4K - Sep. 25, 2009; scored 468.0 Mom pleads not guilty in infant death
PORTLAND (AP) The mother of a newborn girl found dead inside a Dumpster has pleaded not guilty to charges of concealing the birth of an infant and abuse of a corpse. Denise L. Flanary of Medford appeared Wednesday before Jackson County Judge Lisa G...
0.6K - Sep. 24, 2009; scored 58.0 | 
