North Bend Hall of Fame inductees
George Edward Gebhardt (Class of 1933): Gebhardt was born in 1915 and was class president during his time at North Bend High School. He also won the Coos County extemporary speaking contest and was selected Outstanding Senior Boy. He earned a degree...
 4.7K - Oct. 31, 2009; scored 554.0 Natalie Leach
A funeral service will be held for Natalie Leach, 82, of Bandon at 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 24, at Dunes Memorial Chapel, 2300 Frontage Road, in Reedsport. Natalie was born Dec. 27, 1926, in Albany to Frank and Faye Covell. She died Oct. 14, 2009, in Po...
1.9K - Oct. 21, 2009; scored 579.0 Petty in, Pearson left out of NASCAR Hall of Fame s first class
CHARLOTTE, N.C. ” NASCAR founder Bill France Sr. headlined the five inductees into the first Hall of Fame class, a group that drew mixed reactions to the inclusion of France s son instead of driver David Pearson. France, who formed the Nationa...
6.6K - Oct. 15, 2009; scored 499.0 Pakistan bombs militant sites; thousands flee
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) Pakistani jets pounded suspected militant hide-outs along the Afghan border today as officials said hundreds of thousands of civilians have fled South Waziristan in anticipation of an expected military offensive. Gov...
4.3K - Oct. 14, 2009; scored 420.0 Obama wins peace prize
OSLO (AP) President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize today in a stunning decision designed to encourage his initiatives to reduce nuclear arms, ease tensions with the Muslim world and stress diplomacy and cooperation rather than unilater...
11.2K - Oct. 9, 2009; scored 499.0 Economy hurts churches
NEW YORK (AP) Organized religion was already in trouble before the fall of 2008. Denominations were stagnating or shrinking, and congregations across faith groups were fretting about their finances. The Great Recession made things worse. It s furth...
8.0K - Oct. 3, 2009; scored 743.0 Obama pushes for more school time
WASHINGTON Students beware: The summer vacation you just enjoyed could be sharply curtailed if President Barack Obama gets his way. Obama says American kids spend too little time in school, putting them at a disadvantage with other students around...
6.7K - Sep. 28, 2009; scored 499.0 Jean Loretta Sodorff
A celebration of life memorial service will take place for Jean L. Sodorff, 76, of Coos Bay, at 1 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 16, at the Charleston Community Church on Boatbasin Drive and Metcalf, with Pastor Ross Wilbanks officiating. A potluck will foll...
1.7K - Sep. 12, 2009; scored 420.0 Diagnoses vary on speech
While some were moved to tears by the president s soaring rhetoric, others were moved not at all. Where some saw a new clarity, others saw more vagueness. And while some praised him for reaching out to Republicans, there were those who felt he was ov...
7.0K - Sep. 10, 2009; scored 499.0 Journal entries of AP photographer in Afghanistan
The operation started really early Wednesday morning on this town called Dahaneh. It's south of Now Zad a few miles. It is Taliban-controlled. Alfred (Associated Press writer Alfred de Montesquiou), and Ken (AP Television News Cameraman Ken Teh) were...
21.3K - Sep. 4, 2009; scored 554.0 Casualty of war
DAHANEH, Afghanistan The pomegranate grove looked ominous. The U.S. patrol had a tip that Taliban fighters were lying in ambush, and a Marine had his weapon trained on the trees 70 yards away. If you see anything move from there, light it up, Cpl...
9.7K - Sep. 4, 2009; scored 603.0 Spy chief among 23 killed in blast
KABUL (AP) A Taliban suicide bomber killed Afghanistan s deputy chief of intelligence during a visit to a mosque east of Kabul today in an attack that left 22 others dead. The bombing, which occurred in the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, struck at ...
5.1K - Sep. 2, 2009; scored 420.0 Influenza s influence
WASHINGTON The alarm sounded with two sneezy children in California in April. Just five months later, the never-before-seen swine flu has become the world s dominant strain of influenza, and it s putting a shockingly younger face on flu. So get re...
9.4K - Aug. 31, 2009; scored 640.0 Kennedy succumbs to brain cancer
HYANNIS PORT, Mass. (AP) Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, the last surviving brother in an enduring political dynasty and one of the most influential senators in history, died Tuesday night at his home on Cape Cod after a yearlong struggle ...
7.5K - Aug. 26, 2009; scored 554.0 Former migrant worker about to blast into space
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) He toiled in California's farm fields alongside his Mexican migrant worker parents and didn't learn English until he was 12. Now Jose Hernandez, NASA astronaut, is about to rocket into orbit. His parents will be in Florida...
5.5K - Aug. 22, 2009; scored 420.0 South Korea aborts its rocket launch
SEOUL, South Korea A technical glitch forced South Korea to abort liftoff of its first rocket into space today, delaying a launch that threatened to heat up tensions with rival North Korea even as they joined in mourning the death of an ex-preside...
5.7K - Aug. 19, 2009; scored 499.0 Jakes counsels patience in economic 'sorrows'
CHARLESTON, W.Va . (AP) As the economy continues to grind away at jobs, homes and lifetimes' of savings, Bishop Thomas D. Jakes looks back from his position as one of America's most successful preachers and re-members his own hard times. T.D. Jake...
7.1K - Aug. 15, 2009; scored 554.0 Freed journalists return home
BURBANK, Calif. Two American journalists freed by North Korea returned home to the United States today for a jubilant, emotional reunion with family members and friends they hadn t seen since their arrests nearly five months ago. The jet carrying E...
6.7K - Aug. 5, 2009; scored 823.0 New study finds rise in student injuries in gym class
CHICAGO Injuries to American children during physical education classes increased by 150 percent from 1997-2007, a new study finds. Yet that may have less to do with lively gym programs than with lack of adult supervision, experts said. A decline i...
2.5K - Aug. 3, 2009; scored 420.0 A healthy way to have red meat
Want to be health conscious and a red meat lover? Try bison. Bison (also called buffalo) meat has a flavor that is similar to beef, though many say it is slightly sweeter. But what is most notable, especially to the healthy cook, is that the American...
3.5K - Aug. 3, 2009; scored 499.0 | 
