Casey: Shootings leading to a hard look at Army
WASHINGTON (AP) The Army s chief of staff says the Army is taking a hard look at itself to make certain that something like the Fort Hood rampage doesn t happen again. The shootings left 13 dead and 29 wounded. The alleged gunman, Maj. Nidal Malik ...
 0.8K - Nov. 8, 2009; scored 64.0 Sports Briefs: College band buses crash in Arkansas
FORDYCE, Ark. ” A dozen students and a bus driver are being treated for injuries after three buses carrying members of the renowned Grambling State University marching band were involved in a traffic crash in southern Arkansas. Arkansas State ...
2.7K - Nov. 7, 2009; scored 64.0 Man injured in Highway 38 crash
Medics took a 42-year-old man to a hospital following a crash Thursday night on state Highway 38 near Scottsburg. Police responded to milepost 21, where a westbound 2003 Chrysler PT Cruiser went off the road into trees and knocked over a fence, the D...
0.8K - Nov. 7, 2009; scored 128.0 911 call prompts arrest
Coos County deputies arrested a Myrtle Point man Thursday after a dispatcher reported receiving a threatening 911 call. Deputies responded to 51511 Old Big Creek Road in Bridge after a man called 911 and said he had a weapon and would kill police if ...
0.9K - Nov. 7, 2009; scored 128.0 Subject officers to random drug tests
Am I the only one who sees the illegal activities that go on within the county of Coos? I mean law enforcement are the most crooked/corrupt members of this community. Law officials spend way too much time trying to fix an arrest and conviction agai...
1.5K - Nov. 7, 2009; scored 64.0 Don't blame women for sex assaults
Once again, I read the paper only to feel frustrated at the lack of critical knowledge about the horrible crime of rape or sexual assault. I am saddened by the story on the front page of last Saturday s paper SOCC vigilant after sex attack. For 10 y...
2.7K - Nov. 7, 2009; scored 64.0 Police search college dorms
Coos Bay police officers shook down some dorm rooms at Southwestern Oregon Community College on Friday morning in their ongoing investigation into a recent sexual assault. Officers served several search warrants within student housing and interviewed...
2.3K - Nov. 7, 2009; scored 592.0 Inmate release program criticized
SALEM - Anti-crime activists and some prosecutors are taking aim at the Oregon Legislature s move to reduce many state prison inmate sentences as a way to save money. Oregon Anti-Crime Alliance spokeswoman Tara Lawrence said Friday that courts and di...
3.1K - Nov. 7, 2009; scored 64.0 Grand jury clears cop of rape charge
A Coos County grand jury has decided not to charge a North Bend police officer with a crime after he was accused of sexually assaulting a 21-year-old woman. North Bend Police Chief Steve Scibelli put officer Jason Griggs, 36, on administrative leave ...
2.1K - Nov. 7, 2009; scored 491.0 Egypt stops leader's travel to U.S.
CAIRO (AP) Egyptian authorities have prevented a leading political dissident from traveling to the U.S., saying Friday that the conditions of his early release from prison do not permit him to travel abroad. Ayman Nour, freed on Feb. 18 for health ...
2.7K - Nov. 7, 2009; scored 64.0 France hunts for bank heist driver
PARIS (AP) French police conducted a nationwide search Friday for a security driver who vanished with $7.4 million in cash from a bank in the central city of Lyon, authorities said. Lyon prosecutor Xavier Richard said 39-year-old Tony Musulin ...
2.2K - Nov. 7, 2009; scored 149.0 NJ jurors convict Florida man in 'fat defense' trial
HACKENSACK, N.J. (AP) ” A jury convicted a Florida man Friday of murdering his former son-in-law, rejecting the man s defense that he was too fat to have run up and down a flight of stairs to commit the crime and make a quick getaway. Edward A...
3.4K - Nov. 7, 2009; scored 64.0 Former employee opens fire at Orlando office tower - 1 dead, 5 injured
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) ” Officials searched Friday for a gunman who opened fire in a downtown office building where he used to work. At least six people were hurt. People streamed out of the 16-story Legion Place office building around lunchtime a...
2.3K - Nov. 7, 2009; scored 128.0 Medford withdraws appeal of panhandling
MEDFORD (AP) The Medford City Council has withdrawn its appeal of a ruling that found its panhandling ordinance unconstitutional. The city had tried to prevent aggressive panhandling with an ordinance that prohibited people from asking for money at...
0.8K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 64.0 Pastors urge families to give DNA samples
CLEVELAND (AP) Police say there s only one way for the families of missing women to know for sure if their loved ones are among the victims found in suspected serial killer Anthony Sowell s house: Give DNA samples. But relatives with checkered past...
1.4K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 128.0 British PM: Afghan success is vital
LONDON (AP) Prime Minister Gordon Brown warned Afghanistan s government today to take action against corruption, saying he would not risk more British lives there unless it reforms. Brown said in a speech that success in Afghanistan is vital to Bri...
1.1K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 64.0 New Multnomah Co., Ore., sheriff sworn in
PORTLAND (AP) Multnomah County has sworn in a new sheriff to replace one forced to resign. It s the second time in 16 months that s happened. Twenty-year sheriff s office veteran Lt. Dan Staton took the oath as sheriff on Thursday. Bob Skipper name...
0.9K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 64.0 Hotel deck collapse sends five into water
ASTORIA (AP) Astoria police say a deck outside a room of the Red Lion Inn of Astoria has collapsed, dropping five men into a mooring basin of the Columbia River. Sgt. Brian Aydt said by the time police responded to a call about the 5 p.m. Thursday ...
0.7K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 101.0 Man fatally shot by ex-wife after breaking into her house
REDMOND (AP) A man was shot and killed by his ex-wife after he broke into her house in Redmond and tried to attack her with an improvised weapon as she defended her children, authorities said. Patrick S. Hankins, 41, of Bend, was fatally shot We...
1.6K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 64.0 Official: discipline needed for Oregon custody death
PORTLAND (AP) The Portland city commissioner who oversees police has recommended that two officers be disciplined in the custody death of a mentally ill man in 2006. A recommendation released Wednesday by Commissioner Dan Saltzman goes beyond the d...
2.6K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 214.0 | 
