What's next for health care?
WASHINGTON Don t look for the Senate to quickly follow the House on health care overhaul. A government health insurance plan included in the House bill is unacceptable to a few Democratic moderates who hold the balance of power in the Senate. They ...
 5.2K - Nov. 9, 2009; scored 75.0 Fort Hood is on the mend after shootings
FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) Pvt. Joseph Foster took a bullet in the leg during the Fort Hood shooting rampage. He pauses when he s asked about the mayhem, then credits a stout heritage with bringing him through the ordeal and leaving him eager for his sc...
4.0K - Nov. 9, 2009; scored 75.0 Senator: Senate will investigate Army shootings
WASHINGTON (AP) The chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee says he plans to begin a congressional investigation of the shootings at Fort Hood. An Army major, Nidal Malik Hasan, is suspected of killing 13 people and wounding 29 others at...
0.9K - Nov. 8, 2009; scored 75.0 Tough road ahead in Senate for health care bill
WASHINGTON (AP) The Democratic-controlled House narrowly passed far-reaching health care legislation, handing President Barack Obama a hard-won victory on his chief domestic priority though the road ahead in the Senate promises to be rocky. The 220...
4.3K - Nov. 8, 2009; scored 75.0 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 75.0 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 75.0 Cleveland general manager gone
BEREA, Ohio The Cleveland Browns invisible general manager has disappeared. George Kokinis, the hand-picked GM of first-year coach Eric Mangini, who was rarely seen or heard in Cleveland, left the team Monday under unexplained circumstances after ...
4.2K - Nov. 3, 2009; scored 75.0 Activists rally to OK gay nuptials
SALEM Gay rights backers kicked off a voter education campaign Monday aimed at eventually overturning Oregon s ban on same-sex marriage. Evan Wolfson of the national gay rights group Freedom to Marry said Monday he thinks hearts and minds are chan...
3.4K - Nov. 3, 2009; scored 75.0 Thefts & Mischief
The following are theft and criminal mischief reports from police logs. Coos Bay Oct. 29, 9:02 a.m., a vehicle was broken into overnight in the 500 block of South Broadway Street. Oct. 29, 9:58 a.m., police cited a minor for possession of tobacco at ...
2.2K - Oct. 30, 2009; scored 75.0 Sports Briefs: Astros choose Mills for manager
HOUSTON ” Brad Mills is finally getting his chance to run a big-league team. The 52-year-old Mills was hired by Houston on Tuesday after six seasons as Terry Francona s bench coach in Boston. He ll manage in the majors for the first time, thou...
5.1K - Oct. 28, 2009; scored 75.0 Man charged with killing UConn football player; lawyer says he was trying to break up fight
STORRS, Conn. (AP) The lawyer for a 21-year-old man charged with killing University of Connecticut football player Jasper Howard says his client was trying to break up a fight and was not involved in the stabbing that took the starting cornerback s...
1.2K - Oct. 28, 2009; scored 75.0 Thefts & mischief
The following are reports from police logs. Coquille Oct. 23, 11:44 a.m., police arrested a teenager on charges of theft and unauthorized entry into a vehicle at Coquille High School. Oct. 23, 1:32 p.m., a fork lift was found in a ditch and reported ...
5.4K - Oct. 26, 2009; scored 75.0 Window decorators aim to brighten downtown CB
During the discontent of the 1960s and 70s, people found inspiration in music. In today s economic turbulence, artists again are lifting up the community. This time it is through windows of hope. The Coos Bay Oregon Coast Etsy Artist Network, OCEAN,...
3.2K - Oct. 26, 2009; scored 75.0 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 75.0 Friend: Balloon mom will 'go down with the ship'
FORT COLLINS, Colo. On an episode of ABC s Wife Swap, Mayumi Heene pounds her fists and shouts in frustration because she believes her co-star isn t paying enough attention to one of his sons. Off-camera, the mother of Colorado balloon boy Falc...
5.5K - Oct. 22, 2009; scored 119.0 Getting braces young good for some kids, not all
NEW YORK (AP) Nadia Czekajewski got braces on her teeth when she was 8. Now she s in third grade, turning 9, and she ll be done before she begins fourth grade, said her father, Tomasz Czekajewski. It was a wise decision to start young, said Czek...
4.7K - Oct. 21, 2009; scored 75.0 As election looms, the fundraising Obama emerges
WASHINGTON Nearly one year removed from his own election, President Barack Obama is dashing into campaign mode again, devoting coveted time toward getting Democrats elected in November and generating cash for his party in 2010. The concentrated pu...
3.6K - Oct. 20, 2009; scored 75.0 Sports Briefs: Button clinches Formula One title
SAO PAULO Jenson Button clinched his first Formula One title with a fifth-place finish at the Brazilian Grand Prix on Sunday and his Brawn GP team made history by becoming the first to take the constructors crown in its debut season. Red Bull s Ma...
3.5K - Oct. 19, 2009; scored 151.0 Twin pleads not guilty in sexual assault case
MILFORD, Conn. (AP) A former Connecticut police officer has pleaded not guilty to allegations he posed as his twin brother to have sex with a woman, and then raped her when she realized the ruse and tried to leave. Twenty-five-year-old Jared Rohrig...
0.9K - Oct. 8, 2009; scored 75.0 2 Americans, 1 Israeli win Nobel chemistry prize
STOCKHOLM (AP) Two Americans and an Israeli scientist won the 2009 Nobel Prize in chemistry today for atom-by-atom mapping of the protein-making factories within cells a feat that has spurred the development of antibiotics. The Royal Swedish Acad...
6.7K - Oct. 7, 2009; scored 75.0 | 
