Bend company preserves national X-mas tree
BEND Santa Claus isn t the only one with a lot of responsibility this Christmas. A Bend company is tasked with keeping the nation s Christmas tree fresh from its cutting later this week until its arrival in Washington, D.C., three weeks later. The ...
 2.8K - Nov. 4, 2009; scored 243.0 Gas prices chugging up for the holidays
NEW YORK (AP) Americans are paying more for gasoline than they did last year as the holidays approached billions of dollars that could go to books, clothes and Barbie dolls instead being spent at the pump. Gas averaged nearly $2.70 a gallon ...
3.8K - Oct. 31, 2009; scored 135.0 Sports Briefs: Oakland coach won t face assault charges
NAPA, Calif. Oakland Raiders coach Tom Cable won t face charges after being investigated over allegations that he assaulted one of his assistants. Napa County district attorney Gary Lieberstein said that the investigation concluded no charges were ...
4.2K - Oct. 23, 2009; scored 201.0 Rita Patricia Dye
A celebration of life will be held for Rita Patricia Dye, 87, of Bandon at 1 p.m. Nov. 21 at Pacific Community Church, 48967 Highway 101, in Bandon. Rita was born Nov. 11, 1921, in Carlotta, Calif., to George and Lydia (Meyer) Wilson. She died on Oct...
2.6K - Oct. 21, 2009; scored 135.0 Gitmo detainee ordered released
WASHINGTON (AP) A federal judge has ordered the release of a Kuwaiti man held at Guantanamo Bay and rebuked the U.S. government for relying on scant evidence, uncredible witnesses and coerced confessions to hold him for more than seven years. In an...
6.0K - Sep. 26, 2009; scored 174.0 Scotland frees terminally ill Lockerbie bomber
EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) Scotland freed the terminally ill Lockerbie bomber on compassionate grounds Thursday, allowing him to go home to Libya to die and rejecting American pleas for justice in the 1988 attack that killed 270 people. As the White ...
6.1K - Aug. 20, 2009; scored 201.0 Obama needs Dem support
Too big to fail is the tagline health lobbyist Fred Graefe applies to the health care reform effort, and he s got it dead right. The failure of an overwhelmingly Democratic Congress to pass President Barack Obama s No. 1 priority would be a politica...
3.0K - Aug. 13, 2009; scored 135.0 Best of Opry'
Little Ole Opry s season-closing Best of Opry shows are Saturday and Sunday at Little Theatre on the Bay. The country-western musical variety show features local performers. Show times are 8 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $12...
0.6K - Aug. 7, 2009; scored 135.0 In God's name
The tanking economy has not been kind to Nancy Layne. She moved back to Coos Bay last fall to help care for her mom, taking some part-time jobs to pay the bills. But when her employers cut costs, she found herself without work. Instead of feeling sor...
6.8K - Aug. 1, 2009; scored 213.0 Going Out
Theater etc. This weekend The Sound of Moolah, a puppet show about the fight over national health care, will be presented at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Labor Hall, 3427 Ash St., in North Bend; and at 1 p.m. Sunday at VFW Post 3440, 55382 Bates Road, in ...
4.8K - Jul. 24, 2009; scored 174.0 Day Planner
Today NALS of Southern Oregon 5:30 p.m., Books by the Bay, 1875 Sherman Ave., North Bend. (888-6338) Sea Breeze Chorus rehearsals 6:30 p.m., First United Methodist Church, 123 Ocean Blvd., Coos Bay. (759-2339) Christmas in July Review Meeting 6...
9.2K - Jul. 21, 2009; scored 135.0 Going out
Theater etc. This weekend Murder s in the Heir will be presented by New Artists Productions this weekend at the Harbortown Events Center, 325 Second St. SE, in Bandon. Written by Billy St. John, comedy murder mystery about an investigation into the ...
4.4K - Jul. 17, 2009; scored 135.0 Cars and guitars
NORTH BEND The bankruptcy and bailout of General Motors have provided an occasion for all sorts of venues to assess the place of the car in American culture. The topic is especially relevant to country music, which has long romanticized American ca...
5.0K - Jul. 3, 2009; scored 223.0 Mo. family Christmas photo turns up in Czech ad
ST. LOUIS (AP) It s an international mystery: How did a Missouri family s Christmas card photo end up in the Czech Republic, splashed across a huge storefront advertisement? Danielle Smith said Wednesday that the photo taken of her family last year...
2.4K - Jun. 11, 2009; scored 174.0 Sports Briefs: Judge says attorneys can t ask Bonds trial jurors about A-rod
SAN FRANCISCO A judge barred attorneys in the Barry Bonds trial from asking potential jurors their opinion of Alex Rodriguez. Bonds attorneys wanted to ask people being considered for the jury whether they had heard of the New York Yankees third b...
4.6K - Feb. 18, 2009; scored 135.0 Study: Climate sends U.S. birds much farther north
WASHINGTON When it comes to global warming, the canary in the coal mine isn t a canary at all. It s a purple finch. As the temperature across the U.S. has gotten warmer, the purple finch has been spending its winters more than 400 miles farther nor...
5.2K - Feb. 10, 2009; scored 135.0 Legislature is right to ban novelty lighters
If you have children in the house, you should have enough sense not to bring home a cigarette lighter that looks like a toy. You certainly should have enough sense not to leave it where the kids can find it. You should, but not everyone does. So now ...
2.2K - Feb. 5, 2009; scored 135.0 Profit at all costs trumps everything
With Christmas over and people happy with all of their goodies, they should ask themselves: Where was this item actually made? Not: Where were the parts built, but from what country was it assembled? I bought what I thought was a Swiss watch this yea...
1.4K - Jan. 17, 2009; scored 223.0 Of course, it's a rubber stamp for Hillary
If I were Gov. Bill Richardson, still smarting somewhere in New Mexico over his lost Cabinet post in the incoming Obama administration, I would be plenty sore about Sen. Hillary Clinton. Why? As the story goes, Richardson wasn t forthcoming enough ab...
3.9K - Jan. 15, 2009; scored 135.0 Gideons celebrate 100 years of Bible distribution
NASHVILLE, Tenn. Long before cable television, spa treatments and eco-friendly soaps and shampoos became staples in hotel rooms, there was the Bible the Gideon Bible. And the book with the familiar two-handled pitcher and torch on its cover that ...
6.8K - Jan. 3, 2009; scored 135.0 | 
