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 139.0 Berkshire buying Burlington Northern
NEW YORK (AP) Legendary investor Warren Buffett is making what he calls an all-in wager on the U.S. economy $34 billion to buy a major railroad that hauls everything from corn to cars across the country. Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp.,...
5.9K - Nov. 4, 2009; scored 139.0 College Picks: Big games will help sort out league races
Much like politics, college football is essentially local. Sure, Florida, Texas and Southern California will play huge rivalry games with national title implications Saturday. But more importantly, those three games will go a long way toward sorting ...
4.2K - Oct. 29, 2009; scored 139.0 TCU passes Boise State in new BCS standings
NEW YORK Boise State got bumped. TCU now is in position to be this season s BCS buster for now. The Horned Frogs passed the Broncos on Sunday in the Bowl Championship Series standings, with TCU jumping two spots from last week and Boise State fal...
3.6K - Oct. 26, 2009; scored 139.0 College Picks: TCU can make its case for a BCS bid
Boise State better watch its back. TCU is trying to bust into the BCS, too. The sixth-ranked Broncos have drawn the most attention of the teams from the non-automatic BCS qualifying conferences this season. Boise State started the season with a convi...
5.2K - Oct. 22, 2009; scored 139.0 Vets visit 'war mom'
GREENACRES When the plane touched down in North Bend, the stewardess made an announcement over the loud-speaker. Instead of asking everyone to stay seated, she pointed out five soldiers on board and recognized them for their service, asking that th...
3.5K - Oct. 14, 2009; scored 139.0 West s wild horses may move East
WASHINGTON Thousands of mustangs that now roam the West would be moved to preserves in the Midwest and East under a new Interior Department plan to protect wild horse herds and the rangelands that support them. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said ...
3.6K - Oct. 8, 2009; scored 139.0 College Picks: Saturday has two big games
The Southern California-Ohio State game will have to share the spotlight Saturday with an old and storied rivalry being played just to the north that became far more interesting after the first week of the season. Before the third-ranked Trojans and ...
4.3K - Sep. 10, 2009; scored 139.0 Clock is ticking for health care deal
WASHINGTON Lawmakers returning to Capitol Hill a day ahead of President Barack Obama s health care speech wasted no time today showing just how hard his selling job will be. In a fresh sign of divisions in the president s own party, a key House Dem...
4.8K - Sep. 8, 2009; scored 219.0 Harry Ambrose Achenbach
Memorial services will be held for Harry "Dutch" Ambrose Achenbach Jr., 69, of Casper, Wyo., at 11 a.m., Wednesday, Aug. 26, at the Newcomer Funeral Home with Pastor Quin Williams officiating. Dutch was born March 2, 1940, in Rawlins, Wyo., the son o...
1.6K - Aug. 28, 2009; scored 219.0 Autopsy shows Wyo. mom shot husband, strangled son
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) Autopsy results reveal that a 31-year-old Cheyenne woman shot her husband, strangled her 2-year-old son and then shot and killed herself last month. The bodies of Joy Hofer, her 28-year-old husband Kelly and son Gunnar, were fou...
1.0K - Aug. 26, 2009; scored 139.0 TCU hopes to end Utah s run in MWC
The Mountain West Conference title has spent all but one of the last six years in the state of Utah. TCU s 2005 championship was the only one since 2003 not won by Utah or BYU. The Horned Frogs came painfully close to winning another last year, but a...
7.7K - Aug. 22, 2009; scored 322.0 State farmers lead in computer use
SALEM (AP) A recent nationwide government survey indicates that Oregon farmers and ranchers are among the leaders nationally for using computers in their agricultural operations. The survey shows Oregon near the top in nearly all computer categorie...
2.1K - Aug. 20, 2009; scored 139.0 ACT college test scores hold steady
Average scores on the ACT college entrance exam held steady for the high school class of 2009, a sign of modest progress considering the pool of students taking the test continues to expand. Nationally, more students earned scores indicating they re ...
4.0K - Aug. 19, 2009; scored 139.0 Climber not deterred by heart transplant
CHEYENNE, Wyo. Like any mountaineer, Kelly Perkins depends on an abundance of heart and nerve to reach a summit. What sets her apart is that the heart she relies on isn t her own. Since receiving a heart transplant in 1995, Perkins has climbed seve...
5.8K - Aug. 15, 2009; scored 139.0 Agriculture secretary calls for new emphasis on forests
SEATTLE U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on Friday outlined a vision for managing the nation s forests that placed a high priority on restoration to protect water resources and combat climate change. Conserving our forests is not a luxury, b...
3.7K - Aug. 15, 2009; scored 139.0 South Coast stars came through in clutch
As John Qualman was soliciting funds to send the South Coast All-Stars to the 14-year-old Babe Ruth Northwest Regional tournament in Idaho, he told people that the club had great potential. During the championship game of the tournament on Sunday, th...
5.6K - Aug. 11, 2009; scored 139.0 Feds holding back $100 million
SALT LAKE CITY Brian Wixom s company has paid the U.S. government hundreds of thousands of dollars for leases to drill for oil and gas on federal lands over the years, only to never put a rig in the ground. The money simply sits in a federal bank a...
6.0K - Aug. 10, 2009; scored 219.0 Babe Ruth team one win from nationals
The South Coast s 14- and 15-year-old Babe Ruth baseball team is one win away from a trip to nationals. With a 10-0 win over Wyoming Friday in Centralia, Wash., the team earned a game against Southern Washington today for a berth to the national tour...
1.9K - Aug. 8, 2009; scored 278.0 Officials: 28 sick from Calif. beef in 3 states
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Health officials in three Western states said Friday at least 28 people have reported illnesses tied to recalled ground beef that may be tainted with salmonella. On Thursday, Fresno-based Beef Packers Inc. recalled nearly 826,000...
1.7K - Aug. 8, 2009; scored 219.0 | 
