Hold onto your hat - a storm's coming
Batten down the hatches and check those mooring lines. Head to Shore Acres State Park, not the beaches, to watch the big surf rolling in. Forecasters say a big storm s on the way. On Wednesday, they were busy sending out notices: There s a high wind ...
 2.6K - Nov. 5, 2009; scored 171.0 Recreation Report
SIUSLAW RIVER: Fall Chinook anglers are having slow to fair success. Anglers are catching coho, but only adipose fin-clipped coho may be retained. Fishing for resident and sea-run cutthroat trout is fair to good. COOS COUNTY LAKES: Fishing for largem...
4.3K - Oct. 3, 2009; scored 190.0 Wildfires obscure the sun in Eugene
EUGENE (AP) Smoke from the Boze wildfire in the Umpqua National Forest left people coughing and rubbing their eyes in Eugene. National Weather Service meteorologist Liana Ramirez said little of the smoke that reddened eyes and ash that coated cars ...
0.7K - Sep. 24, 2009; scored 198.0 Southeast floods block highways; eight dead
AUSTELL, Ga. Washed-out roads and flooded interstate highways around Atlanta added to the misery today after days of torrential rain in the Southeast that claimed at least eight lives, including a 15-year-old boy whose body was found in the Chattoo...
4.9K - Sep. 22, 2009; scored 144.0 Heat wave hits coast
It may be the first day of fall, but, with temperatures topping out above 100 degrees around the county, it certainly still feels like summer. People were heading outdoors to bask in the warm weather. Phones were ringing off the hook at Sunset Bay St...
2.3K - Sep. 22, 2009; scored 240.0 LA fire is more than half contained
LOS ANGELES Fire officials tried to stay aggressive in stunting the growth of a huge wildfire north of Los Angeles, but the flames and the winds that fanned them have proved unpredictable. Firefighters have contained 60 percent of the huge wildfire...
2.4K - Sep. 8, 2009; scored 171.0 West Coast embarks on new wave of fishing
HARBOR The West Coast groundfish fleet has struggled to stay afloat during major cutbacks to reverse long-standing problems with overfishing and to protect the seafloor from damage caused by bottom trawling gear. They are now embarking, after years...
4.5K - Sep. 8, 2009; scored 171.0 Firefighters get better control of California fire
LOS ANGELES (AP) Firefighters brought a sprawling wildfire near Los Angeles under greater control today, despite a flare-up in a remote canyon that prompted 15 to 20 nearby homes to be evacuated. The blaze was 38 percent contained this morning, up ...
1.5K - Sep. 3, 2009; scored 198.0 California firefighters gain upper hand
LOS ANGELES Firefighters made more progress today against a giant wildfire that has ravaged a national forest north of Los Angeles, with another day of cooperative weather providing a big assist to beleaguered fire crews. The blaze in the Angeles N...
6.3K - Sep. 2, 2009; scored 282.0 Fire near Los Angeles grows in size
LOS ANGELES A relentless Southern California wildfire raged today with 53 homes up in smoke, thousands more threatened and new rounds of evacuations as towering flames crackled close to foothill neighborhoods in the path of the blaze. Flames plowed...
6.7K - Sep. 1, 2009; scored 263.0 Influenza s influence
WASHINGTON The alarm sounded with two sneezy children in California in April. Just five months later, the never-before-seen swine flu has become the world s dominant strain of influenza, and it s putting a shockingly younger face on flu. So get re...
9.4K - Aug. 31, 2009; scored 171.0 LA blaze threatens 12,000 homes
LOS ANGELES A massive fire in the Angeles National Forest nearly doubled in size overnight, threatening 12,000 homes today in a 20-mile-long swath of flame and smoke and surging toward a mountaintop broadcasting complex. The fire that burned at lea...
5.6K - Aug. 31, 2009; scored 219.0 Back to school, back to swine flu
LONDON As schools around the world reopen, health authorities are bracing for a major spike in swine flu. Schools are ideal breeding grounds for the virus. Not only are children more susceptible than adults to swine flu, but the crowded, sometimes ...
3.9K - Aug. 31, 2009; scored 144.0 Boy missing in rough N.C. surf
CAROLINA BEACH, N.C. (AP) People on the East Coast warily eyed the approaching Tropical Storm Danny, which reinforced the dangers of even a weakening storm after a young boy went missing Friday in rough surf. From the Carolinas to New England, fore...
3.7K - Aug. 29, 2009; scored 171.0 Triple-digit heat records in Oregon
PORTLAND (AP) Temperatures climbed into triple-digit record territory Wednesday in Oregon, including a broiling 106 at The Dalles. National Weather Service meteorologist Paul Tolleson says The Dalles previous record for Aug. 19 was 103, set in 196...
0.8K - Aug. 20, 2009; scored 144.0 Georgia couple killed by pack of wild dogs
LEXINGTON, Ga. (AP) Sherry Schweder worried about a group of mixed-breed dogs she saw wandering near her home, a pack that authorities say mauled her and her husband to death along a rural road in northeast Georgia. The 65-year-old animal lover was...
4.6K - Aug. 19, 2009; scored 144.0 Southern Oregon to feel triple-digit heat
PORTLAND (AP) An excessive heat warning is in effect today for most of northwest Oregon, with the National Weather Service forecasting temperatures in the high 90s. It s going to be hotter than that in the Rogue Valley. A special weather statement ...
0.5K - Aug. 19, 2009; scored 171.0 Claudette weakens as it hits Florida Panhandle
PENSACOLA BEACH, Fla. (AP) A quick-forming tropical storm blew into the Florida Panhandle today and quickly lost steam while the first hurricane of this year s Atlantic season took shape over the open ocean on a track for Bermuda. Claudette was dow...
4.3K - Aug. 17, 2009; scored 198.0 Tsunami signal a mistake
Some TV watchers on the coast, Rogue and Umpqua valleys got a little surprise tsunami warning Tuesday. Ryan Sandler, the warning coordination meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Medford, said weather service employees were doing an inte...
0.8K - Aug. 5, 2009; scored 246.0 Heat related death reported in Seattle
PORTLAND Authorities on Thursday reported the first death and a possible second linked to a Pacific Northwest heat wave even as days of record, triple-digit temperatures began to moderate. Washington's King County Medical Examiner's office said Thu...
3.0K - Jul. 31, 2009; scored 144.0 | 
