DA clears track coach
The state has dropped sex abuse charges against Wendi Boutiette, but she s still reeling from the events of the past nine months. Her 9-year-old son has wondered whether his mom would go to jail. She stepped down as Coquille High School s track coach...
 4.1K - Oct. 23, 2009; scored 327.0 DA dismisses charges against former track coach
The Douglas County District Attorney s office has filed a motion to dismiss sex-abuse charges against former Coquille High School track coach Wendi Boutiette. The filing was prompted by the unwillingness of Boutiette s alleged victim to cooperate wit...
1.4K - Oct. 22, 2009; scored 286.0 Sports Briefs: Saban inks big contract extension
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. Alabama coach Nick Saban has received a three-year contract extension that will reward him richly if he sticks around for the next nine seasons. The university system s Board of Trustees compensation committee unanimously approved ...
4.7K - Sep. 10, 2009; scored 220.0 Coach in trouble over 'sports massages'
PORTLAND (AP) A track coach has been convicted of molesting two teen girls under the guise of giving them sports massages. A Multnomah County Circuit Court jury acquitted Askia Brown in the case of a third girl. Brown was convicted Tuesday of six c...
1.0K - Sep. 2, 2009; scored 279.0 Coach passes lie detector
NORTH BEND - The former Coquille track coach accused of having sex with a teenager has passed a polygraph test, supporting her claim of innocence. Wendi Boutiette's attorney, David Terry of Roseburg, filed a motion Wednesday to have the test results ...
2.1K - May. 21, 2009; scored 279.0 Ex-track coach will go to trial
Former Coquille track coach Wendi Boutiette will go to trial to fight sex abuse charges. In court today, a judge set the trial for the week of Oct. 26 in Coos County Circuit Court. Coquille police arrested Boutiette in February, alleging she had sexu...
0.8K - May. 20, 2009; scored 264.0 Sports Briefs: Vikings still are looking at Favre
MARSHALL, Minn. Minnesota Vikings president Mark Wilf said the team is still interested in supposedly retired quarterback Brett Favre. Several conflicting and contradictory media reports swirled last week around the possibility of Favre, who retire...
5.3K - May. 12, 2009; scored 167.0 Boutiette hearing continued to May 14
Judge Paula Bechtold continued a plea change hearing today to May 14 for Wendi Boutiette, the former Coquille High School track coach accused of having sex with one of her athletes. Boutiette s attorney, David Terry of Roseburg, said he provided the ...
1.1K - Apr. 30, 2009; scored 199.0 Sports Briefs: Stallworth charged with manslaughter in Florida
MIAMI Cleveland Browns wide receiver Donte Stallworth has surrendered on a DUI manslaughter charge. Stallworth appeared in a Miami courtroom today on charges that he was drunk when his car struck and killed 59-year-old Mario Reyes last month. The c...
5.0K - Apr. 2, 2009; scored 288.0 Sports Briefs: Paris earns fourth All-American honor
Courtney Paris of Oklahoma is the first four-time All-American in women s college basketball, and sophomore Maya Moore of Connecticut is a unanimous selection in her second appearance on The Associated Press All-America team. Moore was joined Tuesda...
7.5K - Apr. 1, 2009; scored 351.0 Judge eases restrictions on Coquille track coach
NORTH BEND - Coquille High School's former track coach pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges she had sex with one of her athletes. Coos County Circuit Court Judge Paula Bechtold arraigned Wendi S. Boutiette, 36, on charges of second-degree sex abuse,...
2.7K - Mar. 18, 2009; scored 327.0 Sex triangle factored into murder investigation
Marshfield High School graduate Jeremy Scully was planning to visit an acquaintance and help repair his roof the day he went missing last spring. Three days later, on April 27, deputies found Scully's body with multiple bullet wounds down an embankme...
2.2K - Mar. 13, 2009; scored 167.0 Police arrest suspect in Marshfield grad's shooting death
Police arrested a Lebanon man Wednesday on a charge he murdered a Marshfield graduate last spring who was living in Washington. According to a Skagit County, Wash., Sheriff s Office press release, Lebanon police and Linn County deputies aided Skagit ...
1.3K - Mar. 12, 2009; scored 199.0 Sports Briefs: Manny Ramirez turns down another offer from Dodgers
PHOENIX Manny Ramirez has rejected yet another offer from the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Dodgers announced the star outfielder s agent, Scott Boras, had declined a $25 million, one-year contract with a $20 million player option for ...
8.7K - Feb. 27, 2009; scored 254.0 Cheers & Jeers
Leadership at a discount Cheers to Gov. Ted Kulongoski for taking a voluntary pay cut. At $93,600 annually, he s already one of America s lowest-paid governors. His 5 percent reduction tells taxpayers he s sharing our pain. Raindrops keep fa...
2.1K - Feb. 21, 2009; scored 167.0 DA shifts sex case
COQUILLE Coos County District Attorney R. Paul Frasier recused his office from prosecuting the sex abuse case against Coquille s suspended track coach, citing family connections with the defendant. Prosecutors from the Douglas County District Attor...
4.3K - Feb. 19, 2009; scored 463.0 Lawyer: Coquille coach did no wrong
COQUILLE The lawyer for Coquille High School s track coach says she is guilty only of showing kindness to an athlete. Following a court hearing this morning, David Terry of Roseburg criticized the Coquille Police Department, suggesting it rushed it...
4.7K - Feb. 18, 2009; scored 1000.0 Family of accused coach reports harassment
A Coquille coach accused of sexually abusing an athlete has been facing harassment following her arrest Saturday. Coquille police Chief Mark Dannels said police received a report from the family of someone repeatedly driving past Wendi S. Boutiette s...
1.7K - Feb. 17, 2009; scored 361.0 Coquille coach arrested
Police arrested the Coquille High School track coach Saturday on charges she sexually abused at least one of her athletes during a previous school year. Police Chief Mark Dannels said a citizen told officials at the school of sexual misconduct involv...
1.3K - Feb. 17, 2009; scored 310.0 Coquille coach arrested
Police arrested the Coquille High School track coach Saturday on charges she sexually abused at least one of her athletes during a previous school year. Police Chief Mark Dannels said a citizen told officials at the school of sexual misconduct involv...
1.3K - Feb. 16, 2009; scored 310.0 | 
