Israel commandos seize ship loaded with guns
JERUSALEM (AP) Israeli commandos seized a ship today that defense officials said was carrying hundreds of tons of weapons bound for Lebanon s Iranian-backed Hezbollah guerrillas the largest arms shipment Israel has ever commandeered. The Israeli ...
 5.6K - Nov. 4, 2009; scored 79.0 Obama coaxes states to change with school dollars
WASHINGTON One year after his election, President Barack Obama is coaxing states across the country to rewrite education laws and cut deals with unions as they pursue his vision for school reform. Obama is visiting Wisconsin, where lawmakers are po...
4.0K - Nov. 4, 2009; scored 568.0 Georgiana Gamble Smithers
A celebration of life will be held for Georgiana Gamble Smithers, 81, of Coos Bay, at 10:30 a.m., Wednesday, Nov. 4, at Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Fourth and Highland in Coos Bay. The service and sacrament will be officiated by the Rev. Stephen Tyson...
4.2K - Nov. 3, 2009; scored 79.0 Joseph Larry Jackson
Joseph Larry Jackson Sept. 24, 1938 Oct. 17, 2009 A public visitation will be held for Joseph L. Jackson, 71, of Coos Bay, from 9 a.m. to noon on Friday, Oct. 30, at Coos Bay Chapel, 685 Anderson Ave. A graveside service with military honors provid...
1.3K - Oct. 25, 2009; scored 79.0 Joseph Larry Jackson
Joseph Larry Jackson Sept. 24, 1938 Oct. 17, 2009 A public visitation will be held for Joseph L. Jackson, 71, of Coos Bay, from 9 a.m. to noon on Friday, Oct. 30, at Coos Bay Chapel, 685 Anderson Ave. A graveside service with military honors provid...
1.3K - Oct. 24, 2009; scored 79.0 Donations kept food bank open
On behalf of the Coos Bay Seventh-day Adventist church, I would like to thank our community for thoughtfulness and support. As Thanksgiving nears, it makes me count my blessings. Last year, we found our funding had dried up and we were faced with clo...
1.1K - Oct. 23, 2009; scored 79.0 Report: Smoking bans protect nonsmokers' hearts
WASHINGTON A major report confirms what health officials long have believed: Bans on smoking in restaurants, bars and other gathering spots reduce the risk of heart attacks among nonsmokers. If you have heart disease, you really need to stay away f...
4.8K - Oct. 19, 2009; scored 79.0 Message to Coos Bay: Get along or lose businesses
COOS BAY A facilitator with the League of Oregon Cities has given Coos Bay city councilors an incentive to resolve their differences. A dysfunctional city council could negatively impact one of its primary goals: economic development, she warned. P...
3.6K - Oct. 14, 2009; scored 79.0 Message to Coos Bay: Get along or lose businesses
COOS BAY A facilitator with the League of Oregon Cities has given Coos Bay city councilors an incentive to resolve their differences. A dysfunctional city council could negatively impact one of its primary goals: economic development, she warned. P...
3.8K - Oct. 13, 2009; scored 79.0 Cruising undersea - virtually
What are some of the interesting things you have seen so far? asked a student from Lighthouse Charter School in North Bend. From aboard a 200-foot research vessel in the Gulf of Mexico, GK-12 fellow Kira Triebergs posted her answer online. She liste...
3.8K - Oct. 12, 2009; scored 79.0 State police look for answers in bus crash
BOISE, Idaho (AP) State Police say they are piecing together information to understand just how a bus carrying a Utah high school band veered off a southeastern Idaho interstate, killing a 33-year-old band teacher and injuring dozens of student mus...
1.1K - Oct. 12, 2009; scored 79.0 Volunteers clean up crab pots
REEDSPORT A handful of boats in Oregon s crabbing fleet returned to sea last week for one last hurrah. Their quarries were the derelict pots and buoys left behind this year by commercial crab boats. During a volunteer effort held nearly seven weeks...
3.1K - Oct. 10, 2009; scored 79.0 NASA looks for moon ice
WASHINGTON Take that, moon! NASA smacked two spacecraft into the lunar south pole Friday morning in a search for hidden ice. Instruments confirm that a large empty rocket hull barreled into the moon at 7:31 a.m., followed four minutes later by a pr...
4.3K - Oct. 9, 2009; scored 79.0 Diplomats head to Honduras for post-coup talks
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras Diplomats from throughout the hemisphere were converging today on Honduras to resolve a standoff that has left the impoverished Central American country with two presidents, a capital scarred by protests and a bitterly divided...
3.9K - Oct. 7, 2009; scored 79.0 Emery Sydney Hanson
A celebration of life memorial service will be held for Emery Hanson, 90, of Coos Bay, at 11 a.m., Saturday, Oct. 10, at Coos Bay Chapel, 685 Anderson Ave., with Pastor Ross Wilbanks, of Charleston Community Church, presiding. A potluck will follow t...
3.1K - Oct. 7, 2009; scored 79.0 History repeats; taxpayers dinged
Andy Nasburg, lifetime friend of the Coos Bay mayor, argues (The World, Sept. 26) the people of Coos Bay needs Jeff s kind of leadership. Absolute baloney! Good leaders are team players, who accomplish much and inspire others. They do not manage by...
2.6K - Oct. 5, 2009; scored 79.0 Chinook fishing slow in some rivers
Chinook fishing in the Coos River has slowed this past week. But with a forecast of rain and larger tide exchanges, we should see more salmon coming into the river. The wild coho season on the Coos has closed but you may still retain fin-clipped coho...
4.1K - Oct. 3, 2009; scored 79.0 City might have legal right to cut sewer service
The Coquille Tribe doesn t think the city can do it. But a representative of the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality says the city of North Bend, in its lawsuit against the tribe, just might be able to legally shut off sewer services to The Mi...
4.3K - Sep. 30, 2009; scored 79.0 Dale C. Bushong
A celebration of life will be held for Dale C. Bushong, 88, of Salem, at 2 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 4, at the Salem Masonic Temple, 1625 Brush College Road NW in Salem. Dale was born March 23, 1921, in Mayger, to Charles and Lila Bushong. He died Sept. 28 ...
1.0K - Sep. 30, 2009; scored 79.0 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 124.0 | 
