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 64.0 College Picks: LSU looks to shake up SEC
LSU has a chance to prevent that Alabama-Florida SEC championship game that everyone seems to be looking forward to in December. The ninth-ranked Tigers will be in Tuscaloosa on Saturday to face the third-ranked Crimson Tide, which can wrap up the SE...
4.1K - Nov. 5, 2009; scored 102.0 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 64.0 Israel commandos seize ship loaded with guns
JERUSALEM (AP) Israeli commandos seized a ship today that defense officials said was carrying hundreds of tons of weapons bound for Lebanon s Iranian-backed Hezbollah guerrillas the largest arms shipment Israel has ever commandeered. The Israeli ...
5.6K - Nov. 4, 2009; scored 64.0 Johnson 50th Anniversary
Gary and Betsy (Spear) Johnson, of Bandon, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary Oct. 29. Gary was a North Bend boy, the son of Melvin and Ruth Johnson. Betsy was a Coos Bay girl, the daughter of Charlie and Elizabeth Spear. Growing up, they knew...
1.7K - Nov. 2, 2009; scored 102.0 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 150.0 Columbia signs U.S. military base pact
BOGOTA In a private, low-key ceremony, the U.S. ambassador and three Colombian ministers today signed a pact to expand Washington s military s presence, a deal that Venezuela s Hugo Chavez has called a threat to the region s security. U.S. Ambassad...
2.6K - Oct. 30, 2009; scored 64.0 Search resumes for Navy plane, two pilots off Texas
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) The U.S. Coast Guard has resumed its search for two missing Navy pilots and their plane along the central Texas coast. The search had to be suspended Thursday night because of stormy weather. Petty Officer Charles Reaves ...
0.8K - Oct. 30, 2009; scored 874.0 China's military buildup concerns U.S. Navy leader
HONG KONG (AP) A U.S. Navy admiral expressed new concern today over China s military buildup and urged Beijing to be clearer about its intentions. With China s military growing at an unprecedented rate, the U.S. wants to ensure that expansion doe...
1.9K - Oct. 30, 2009; scored 259.0 Plane, copter collide
LOS ANGELES (AP) The U.S. Coast Guard and Navy were searching early today for as many as nine people off the Southern California coast following a collision between a Coast Guard plane and a Marine Corps helicopter, officials said. The crash was re...
2.4K - Oct. 30, 2009; scored 389.0 Dave Callender
Memorial services will be held for L. David Callender Jr., 70, of North Bend, formally of Winston, at a later date. Dave was born Nov. 19, 1938, in Urania, La., the son of Luther Callender Sr. and Fairleen (Kinney) Callender. He died Oct. 17, 2009, i...
0.9K - Oct. 28, 2009; scored 64.0 LeRoy V. Geroux
Due to a family illness, a memorial service is pending for LeRoy V. Geroux, 84, of Reedsport at the Powers Cemetery. LeRoy was born on July 15, 1925, in Roseau, Minn. He died Oct. 22, 2009, at the Life Care Center in Coos Bay. He was a veteran of Wor...
1.3K - Oct. 28, 2009; scored 64.0 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 Japan warship collides with commercial vessel
TOKYO A Japanese navy destroyer has collided with a commercial vessel off southern Japan, starting fires on both ships and injuring three crew members, defense officials said today. The destroyer JS Kurama collided with the South Korean container ...
2.1K - Oct. 27, 2009; scored 102.0 All in the family for Beavers
The James and Jacquizz Show is a post-game fixture for Oregon State. Older brother James Rodgers takes the lead while Jacquizz provides the comic relief when the two face reporters together. It s like the Abbott and Costello of college football. An...
4.4K - Oct. 22, 2009; scored 64.0 Coast Guard awards lifesavers
CHARLESTON Eight months after rescuing an elderly man near the Coos Bay jetties, two U.S. Coast Guard deputies have emerged from the ranks to receive achievement medals. They call us guardians, because we protect the public, Capt. Scott Kitchen sa...
2.3K - Oct. 18, 2009; scored 64.0 Searchers find debris in Atlantic
CHARLESTON, S.C. Debris and an oil slick were spotted in the Atlantic off the South Carolina coast as the search expanded Friday for an F-16 fighter pilot whose jet collided with another during night training exercises. We did have a report of an o...
4.7K - Oct. 18, 2009; scored 64.0 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 64.0 Coast Guard awards lifesavers
CHARLESTON Eight months after rescuing an elderly man near the Coos Bay jetties, two U.S. Coast Guard deputies have emerged from the ranks to receive achievement medals. They call us guardians, because we protect the public, Capt. Scott Kitchen sa...
2.3K - Oct. 17, 2009; scored 64.0 Searchers find debris in Atlantic
CHARLESTON, S.C. Debris and an oil slick were spotted in the Atlantic off the South Carolina coast as the search expanded Friday for an F-16 fighter pilot whose jet collided with another during night training exercises. We did have a report of an o...
4.7K - Oct. 17, 2009; scored 64.0 | 
