Exhibit will honor veterans' service
The Bandon Historical Society Museum will offer veteran talks Saturday and an exhibit in honor of Veterans Day. The event will run from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, at the museum, 270 Fillmore and U.S. Highway 101 (by the downtown streetlight). Several...
 0.9K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 91.0 Exxon, Shell win Iraq oil field deal
BAGHDAD A consortium grouping U.S. and European oil giants Exxon Mobil Corp. and Royal Dutch Shell PLC today signed a $50 billion deal to develop one of Iraq s most prized oil fields, as the OPEC nation looks to revamp its battered energy sec...
4.1K - Nov. 5, 2009; scored 58.0 Museum will host Veterans Day program
The Bandon Historical Society Museum will offer veteran talks and an exhibit in honor of Veterans Day. The event will run from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the museum, 270 Fillmore and U.S. Highway 101 (by the downtown streetlight). Several veterans will tal...
1.4K - Nov. 5, 2009; scored 91.0 N. Korea aims for direct U.S. talks
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) North Korea said today it has reprocessed 8,000 spent nuclear fuel rods and extracted enough plutonium to bolster its atomic stockpile, raising the stakes in an apparent effort to push the U.S. into direct negotiations. Repr...
3.0K - Nov. 3, 2009; scored 485.0 N. Korea pushes for talks with U.S.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) North Korea pressed the United States to accept its demand for direct talks on the communist regime s nuclear program, issuing a veiled threat today that Pyongyang will expand its nuclear arsenal unless Washington agrees. Th...
3.7K - Nov. 2, 2009; scored 559.0 SKorea's Uni-chem to take over Eugene plant
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) A South Korean company will sign a formal contract with Hynix Semiconductor Inc. to buy a plant the memory chip maker closed in the United States, an official said Wednesday. Uni-chem Co. will take over Hynix s memory chip p...
1.7K - Oct. 22, 2009; scored 116.0 N. Korean diplomat scores a U.S. visa
WASHINGTON (AP) A North Korean official says a senior diplomat from his country is planning to visit the United States this month. Kim Myong Gil, a minister at the North Korean U.N. mission in New York, said Friday that the State Department had app...
0.8K - Oct. 18, 2009; scored 58.0 N. Korean diplomat scores a U.S. visa
WASHINGTON (AP) A North Korean official says a senior diplomat from his country is planning to visit the United States this month. Kim Myong Gil, a minister at the North Korean U.N. mission in New York, said Friday that the State Department had app...
0.8K - Oct. 17, 2009; scored 58.0 Earl LeRoy Taylor
Funeral services will be held for Earl LeRoy Taylor, 81, of Coquille, 11 a.m., Saturday, Oct. 17, at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 2405 Shelly Road in Coquille. Interment will follow at Myrtle Crest Memorial Gardens, 94105 Rink Cre...
2.5K - Oct. 16, 2009; scored 58.0 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 1000.0 Oregon universities recruit more foreign students
CORVALLIS (AP) On the board of a classroom at Oregon State University recently, new international engineering students made two lists about what it s like to study in the United States. Under hard, they wrote: homework, wake up at the morning ...
6.1K - Oct. 14, 2009; scored 58.0 Russia: New Iran sanctions won't fly
MOSCOW (AP) Russia pushed back today at U.S. efforts to threaten tough new sanctions if Iran fails to prove its nuclear program is peaceful, a setback to the Obama administration s desire to present a united front with Moscow. After meeting with U....
5.1K - Oct. 13, 2009; scored 58.0 Pentagon wants behemoth bunker buster ASAP
WASHINGTON The Pentagon is speeding up delivery of a colossal bomb designed to destroy hidden weapons bunkers buried underground. Call it Plan B for dealing with Iran, which recently revealed a long-suspected nuclear site deep inside a mountain nea...
4.6K - Oct. 13, 2009; scored 91.0 Partisan attackers never learn
The braying from the anti-Obama contingent of the right is beginning to look like a replay of the rude left s nonstop criticism of President George W. Bush. But no matter where it comes from or which president is the target it s vapid partisan cl...
1.0K - Oct. 12, 2009; scored 91.0 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 559.0 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 58.0 Congress should say no to socialism
Public Forum I wish to convey to you the seriousness of the situation America finds itself in at this time in history. America and the Constitution are under attack like never before. We have enemies such as al-Qaida, the Taliban, Iran and North Kore...
2.6K - Oct. 1, 2009; scored 58.0 Tebow out of hospital
GAINESVILLE, Fla. ” Florida quarterback Tim Tebow was out of the hospital and back home Sunday, recovering from the concussion he sustained during the Gators 41-7 victory at Kentucky. Tebow was released from the University Medical Center ...
5.2K - Sep. 28, 2009; scored 91.0 Buyer for shuttered Eugene plant
PORTLAND (AP) A South Korean leather manufacturer that s jumping on the solar bandwagon reportedly plans to buy the closed Hynix semiconductor plant in Eugene and make solar cells and modules there. An official of a company affiliated with South Ko...
1.1K - Sep. 28, 2009; scored 300.0 Sports Briefs: Gay beats Powell in 100 meters
DAEGU, South Korea American sprinter Tyson Gay won the 100 meters, edging Jamaican Asafa Powell at the Daegu Pre-Championships Meet. Gay finished in 9.94 seconds on Friday, while Powell was second in 10.00 at Daegu Stadium. It was Tyson s third com...
4.3K - Sep. 25, 2009; scored 58.0 | 
