Jerseys put to good use
SEATTLE Rich Stearns works and lives just outside Seattle. He grew up in New York state. He lived in Philadelphia for 10 years. So he was torn as a fan watching the Yankees and Phillies in the just-completed World Series. He couldn t wait for someo...
 4.6K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 499.0 Area agencies won't surrender to flu bug
NORTH BEND It may seem like a remote possibility now, but if Coos County were struck by an especially severe influenza outbreak, the city of North Bend would be prepared. Police Chief Steve Scibelli said each city department has developed an operat...
4.6K - Nov. 3, 2009; scored 644.0 Red Cross seeks volunteers
The Oregon Pacific Chapter of the American Red Cross is seeking new disaster response volunteers. Free training classes are registering now for fall. Participants will learn how to respond to both local and national disasters. All training is free, b...
1.0K - Oct. 23, 2009; scored 898.0 Two women found alive in quake's rubble
PADANG, Indonesia Rescuers pulled two women alive from a collapsed college, nearly two days after a powerful earthquake devastated western Indonesia, as cries for help from a flattened hotel spurred the frantic search for more survivors today. The ...
7.0K - Oct. 2, 2009; scored 1000.0 Katrina case nets guilty plea
GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) A former Gulfport mayor was sentenced to probation Friday in a plea deal on Hurricane Katrina fraud charges that let him and his wife walk out of court with no prison time. Brent Warr pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Gu...
2.7K - Sep. 26, 2009; scored 499.0 Formula One Pioneer weighs in on state of sport
GOLD COAST, Australia It s one of the most enduring moments in auto racing history and the memories from that race 50 years ago are still vivid for Jack Brabham. And well they should be for the 83-year-old Australian, a three-time Formula One champ...
7.2K - Sep. 12, 2009; scored 499.0 Army squad has new commander
WEST POINT, N.Y. Rich Ellerson thumbs through the old program that sits atop the coffee table in his office. It s from the 1962 Army-Navy game. The Black Knights new football coach quickly finds the page he s looking for clearly he has done thi...
6.5K - Sep. 3, 2009; scored 499.0 Savory subjects
LAKESIDE Frosted cupcakes and library books hardly seem like a harmonious match. Mixed with the warring political factions in the city of lakeside, it all sounds like a downright disaster. But during the last session of the Lakeside Public Library ...
4.7K - Aug. 28, 2009; scored 499.0 Savory subjects
LAKESIDE Frosted cupcakes and library books hardly seem like a harmonious match. Mixed with the warring political factions in the city of lakeside, it all sounds like a downright disaster. But during the last session of the Lakeside Public Library ...
4.9K - Aug. 27, 2009; scored 499.0 Switzerland has the right idea
Anyone who thinks that a single-payer health care system is the answer to health care coverage for all our citizens refuses to face proven facts. Medicare a success? But it is going broke, even though it reimburses hospitals and health care provide...
2.4K - Jul. 13, 2009; scored 499.0 City in line for disaster center funding
Brookings is hoping to get $350,000 in federal money to help improve its disaster response efforts. Congressman Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., has put in a $350,000 appropriation request to fund an emergency operations center, a press relea...
1.3K - Jun. 12, 2009; scored 826.0 Two states offer models for gov't plans
Laid off from her job in Massachusetts, Danielle Marks thought immediately about losing her health insurance. How could she afford the medication and physical therapy she needed to heal after shoulder surgery? Valerie Nash, laid off in Tennessee, tho...
7.5K - Jun. 1, 2009; scored 499.0 Police: Suspects aimed to commit jihad
NEW YORK - Four men arrested after planting what they thought were explosives near two synagogues and plotting to shoot down a military plane were bent on carrying out a holy war against America, authorities said today. The suspects were arrested Wed...
6.8K - May. 21, 2009; scored 499.0 The ins and outs of tennis can teach life lessons
Midway through a tennis match at the William J Sweet Memorial Tennis Center on May 4, Marshfield s Jon Massie blasted a forehand shot that got past North Bend s Nathan Kahler on the endline. Massie asked across the net if the shot was in- or out-of-b...
5.2K - May. 13, 2009; scored 499.0 A year later, Myanmar remembers Cyclone Nargis
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) A year after Cyclone Nargis swept away entire villages, turned fertile rice paddies into wasteland and killed nearly 140,000, people across Myanmar marked the anniversary today with quiet remembrance and prayer. The ruling mili...
4.6K - May. 2, 2009; scored 1000.0 At the movies
The following movies are playing at South Coast theaters: Earth The story of three animal families and their amazing journeys across the planet we all call home. The film combines rare action, unimaginable scale and impossible locations by capturing ...
6.9K - May. 1, 2009; scored 644.0 Derby makes safety improvements
LEXINGTON, Ky. A sport that loses three athletes a day is undertaking new steps toward beefing up safety, the result of disasters that claimed the lives of two of its top competitors. The sport is horse racing, and the deaths of 2006 Kentucky Derby...
7.0K - Apr. 28, 2009; scored 499.0 Health budget may be optimistic
Coos County Public Health's proposed budget - as bare-bones as it is - is an optimistic view of money the department will receive in 2009-10. Last year the total budget was $2.2 million, through mid-year cutbacks the department was able to s...
4.3K - Apr. 28, 2009; scored 644.0 At the movies
The following movies are playing at South Coast theaters: Crank: High Voltage Hitman Chev Chelios (Jason Statham) is kidnapped by a mysterious Chinese mobster. Three months later, he wakes up to discover his nearly indestructible heart has been surgi...
7.8K - Apr. 24, 2009; scored 644.0 At the movies
The following movies are playing at South Coast theaters: Adventureland During the summer of 1987, recent college grad James Brennan (Jesse Eisenberg) takes what he thinks is a going-nowhere job at his local amusement park, only to discover it s a pe...
8.0K - Apr. 17, 2009; scored 644.0 | 
