U.S. reverses policy, engages Myanmar
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) The United States began a new policy of engagement with Myanmar s ruling military junta today, sending two senior diplomats for the highest-level visit in more than a decade. Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell, the top ...
 2.8K - Nov. 3, 2009; scored 83.0 Vaccine helps prevent AIDS
BANGKOK (AP) For the first time, an experimental vaccine has prevented infection with the AIDS virus, a watershed event in the deadly epidemic and a surprising result. Recent failures led many scientists to think such a vaccine might never be possi...
8.1K - Sep. 24, 2009; scored 635.0 New era of street food
LOS ANGELES Peruvian rice, steaming Greek falafels, satay dripping with peanut sauce, doughy Salvadoran pupusas, slippery Thai noodles. In much of the world, they are just on-the-go eats for the masses. But in the U.S., a growing cadre of chefs and...
7.1K - Sep. 24, 2009; scored 83.0 New era of street food
LOS ANGELES Peruvian rice, steaming Greek falafels, satay dripping with peanut sauce, doughy Salvadoran pupusas, slippery Thai noodles. In much of the world, they are just on-the-go eats for the masses. But in the U.S., a growing cadre of chefs and...
10.1K - Sep. 22, 2009; scored 83.0 Home cooking
Fifty years after graduating from Marshfield High School, Lynn Savage still has a soft spot in her heart for Coos Bay. I really, really like coming back to the town, Savage said last Friday as she prepared for her 50th high school reunion. Coos Bay...
3.6K - Aug. 18, 2009; scored 83.0 Strong quakes shake Tokyo area
YAIZU, Japan (AP) A pair of powerful earthquakes struck at opposite ends of Asia just 12 minutes apart Tuesday, leaving one dead and more than 100 injured in Japan and sending panicked islanders in the Indian Ocean running into the streets. The fir...
3.6K - Aug. 11, 2009; scored 83.0 Harrington keeps lead at Firestone
AKRON, Ohio (AP) Padraig Harrington and Tiger Woods were side-by-side on the practice range, warming up for another round at the Bridgestone Invitational, their routines nothing alike. Woods, a four-time winner on the PGA Tour this year, was conven...
5.2K - Aug. 8, 2009; scored 83.0 Clinton to N. Korea: No friends left
PHUKET, Thailand Faced with a fresh refusal by North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons program, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said today the communist regime has no friends left to shield it from punishing U.N. penalties. Nort...
6.1K - Jul. 23, 2009; scored 131.0 Clinton makes push to end nuke program
PHUKET, Thailand (AP) North Korea must completely and irreversibly end its nuclear weapons program or face further isolation and the unrelenting pressure of international sanctions, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday. A...
6.2K - Jul. 22, 2009; scored 83.0 Clinton: Burma-N. Korea ties worry
BANGKOK U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said today that the Obama administration is concerned by the possibility that North Korea, with a history of illicit sales of missiles and nuclear technology, is developing military ties to Mya...
5.1K - Jul. 21, 2009; scored 131.0 Earthquake forces evacuations
BEIJING More than 400,000 people have left their homes after an earthquake rocked southwestern China, killing one person and destroying thousands of houses, state media said today. Thursday s magnitude-6.0 temblor, centered in Yunnan province s Yao...
2.6K - Jul. 10, 2009; scored 83.0 Thai police: Carradine death may be accidental
BANGKOK The body of American actor David Carradine, best known for the 1970s TV series Kung Fu, was found in a hotel room closet with a rope tied to his neck and genitals, and his death may have been caused by accidental suffocation, Thai police ...
4.4K - Jun. 5, 2009; scored 131.0 WHO says Tamiflu use should be limited
MEXICO CITY (AP) With swine flu still spreading, the U.N. health agency is warning countries to limit their use of antiviral drugs to only high-risk patients to ensure adequate supplies in case the virus should mutate and become more dangerous. The...
1.2K - May. 13, 2009; scored 83.0 Out of his comfort zone
NORTH BEND - AmeriCorps volunteer Jon Guss likes to make himself uncomfortable. At least that's how one supervisor describes the 23-year-old's knack for jumping in and then fitting in. After spending time in Coos County for his assignment as the Coos...
4.1K - Apr. 16, 2009; scored 83.0 Just what are those unusual blocks of brown sugar?
Pervaiz Shallwani For The Associated Press Even adventurous cooks might be intimidated the first time they discover palm sugar tucked among the Asian ingredients at the grocer. These hard, sometimes oddly large chunks of brownish sugar don t exactly ...
4.3K - Mar. 31, 2009; scored 83.0 Big dreams coming true
John Ambrosini, owner of The Green Spot in Coos Bay, has big dreams dreams that include making improvements to his own business and to the community as well. So far he has managed to fulfill some of them. When he and his wife, Sandy, purchased the ...
3.9K - Mar. 30, 2009; scored 83.0 Florence Anne Grove
A memorial service will be held for Florence Anne Grove, 74, of Coos Bay, at 1 p.m. Thursday, March 26, at Nelson's Bay Area Mortuary, 405 Elrod Ave, Coos Bay. The Rev. Don Berney will officiate. Inurnment will follow at Ocean View Memory Gardens in ...
1.5K - Mar. 24, 2009; scored 83.0 Mickelson masterful around greens
DORAL, Fla. Tiger Woods returned to stroke play for the first time since winning the U.S. Open, and so much of it felt familiar except for the leaderboard at Doral. His name was nowhere to be found Thursday at the CA Championship. His wife, Elin, w...
5.8K - Mar. 13, 2009; scored 83.0 Sports Briefs: Buffalo takes a chance on receiver Owens
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. Terrell Owens needed only two days to find another place to play. The Buffalo Bills decided to take a chance on the talented but high-maintenance receiver, signing Owens to a $6.5 million, one-year deal Saturday. The 35-...
4.7K - Mar. 9, 2009; scored 83.0 Sports Briefs: Coker hired to start football program in Texas
SAN ANTONIO Former Miami coach Larry Coker has been hired to lead the new Texas-San Antonio football program, his first coaching job since the Hurricanes fired him in 2006. Texas-San Antonio plans to play its first season in 2011 in the Football Ch...
6.6K - Mar. 6, 2009; scored 131.0 | 
