Salvage firm is planning Titanic expedition in 2010
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) The company that has exclusive rights to salvage the Titanic is planning a possible expedition to the world s most famous shipwreck in 2010. The first expedition to the North Atlantic wreck site since 2004 is revealed in a filing ...
3.7K - Oct. 26, 2009; scored 1000.0

Governor wants to use Carissa funds for ocean projects
FLORENCE (AP) Gov. Ted Kulongoski has proposed using the remaining $2.8 million the state received in a settlement from the New Carissa shipwreck for research projects on seafloor mapping, wave energy and marine reserves. The money could g...
2.1K - Feb. 5, 2009; scored 65.0

June
SOCC's Hansen controvery comes to a boil Discontent with the local community college president balloons into a full-blown controversy in June. Though President Judith Hansen has succeeded at building relations between the Southwestern Oregon Communit...
1.3K - Dec. 31, 2008; scored 65.0

July
Horizon pullout dims airport gala Southwestern Oregon Regional Airport opens its new terminal with a gala featuring 320 invited guests. But the festivities are overshadowed by Horizon Air s announcement, just four days before, that it will discontinu...
1.4K - Dec. 31, 2008; scored 84.0

September
Coos Bay finance director loses job The city of Coos Bay fires Finance Director Janell Howard, but Oregon State Police conclude there is insufficient evidence to charge Howard with shoplifting. Despite the findings, City Manager Chuck Freeman announc...
1.3K - Dec. 31, 2008; scored 65.0

Drop in scrap market delays departure of Carissa remains
The New Carissa isn t gone yet. All but a few hundred tons of the infamous shipwreck still sits piled at the Sause Bros. yard in Empire, where the scrap was offloaded from a floating barge. Titan Salvage spent the summer cutting up the rusting hulk o...
2.7K - Dec. 20, 2008; scored 158.0

Firm tests wave power in Hawaii
KANEOHE BAY MARINE CORPS BASE, Hawaii The road to the lookout is rarely used. Grass grows in cracks in the pavement. Just to get there requires crossing a golf course, enduring odd stares from golfers. But behind the golf course, over the hill and ...
6.8K - Nov. 29, 2008; scored 98.0