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 936.0 Field of schemes
COQUILLE Coquille s prominent citizens have something new to look forward to: the possibility of being immortalized as characters in a play at the Sawdust Theatre. Last year s experiment with mixing reality into the theater s customary melodrama ...
6.3K - May. 29, 2009; scored 1000.0 VA doctor goes to bat for veteran denied benefits over AWOL
Jolene Guzman, Staff Writer COOS BAY When Stacy McLain volunteered to go to Vietnam, he was a teenager a 17-year-old eager to serve his country. I wanted to do the right thing, he said. Two years later, he returned to his country a man and a d...
5.9K - May. 23, 2009; scored 872.0 Father: Army 'broke' accused shooter
SHERMAN, Texas (AP) The father of a U.S. soldier accused of killing five fellow troops in Iraq said his son forfeited his life but the military bears some responsibility for the rampage. Wilburn Russell said Tuesday that 44-year-old Army Sgt. Joh...
4.3K - May. 13, 2009; scored 922.0 Nazi find sheds light on Egypt's sensitive past
CAIRO (AP) Nazi hunters urged Egypt on Friday to come clean about how much it knew about a fugitive dubbed Dr. Death, who reportedly lived here for decades until he died in 1992. But Egypt has long kept a strict silence about former Nazis reporte...
7.1K - Feb. 7, 2009; scored 876.0 Ex-spy used son to get Russian money
PORTLAND A letter that convicted ex-CIA spy Harold Nicholson sent to his girlfriend from prison contained a line about his youngest son that may be prophetic Nathan is exactly like I am. On Thursday, the graying, balding but still fit 58-year-ol...
3.4K - Jan. 30, 2009; scored 803.0 Thieves target Charleston
When Charleston resident Jim Thornton came home from vacation two months ago, he discovered an unpleasant surprise. Uninvited guests had been in his house. It looked like they had been living there, he said. The live-in burglars slept in his home. T...
7.7K - Nov. 22, 2008; scored 853.0 Familiar Democrats fill out fledgling candidate, Daschle to be Obama s health secretary
WASHINGTON (AP) President-elect Barack Obama promised the voters change but has started his Cabinet selection process by naming several Washington insiders to top posts. Obama is enlisting former Senate leader Tom Daschle as his health secretary. H...
1.4K - Nov. 20, 2008; scored 538.0 Veteran spends retirement helping vets
Coos Bay resident Bill Kendrick spent his working life in service to others. He plans to spend his retirement in the same way. The 75-year-old U.S. Navy veteran moved here about six years ago, after retiring as a police officer and fireman in Sunnyva...
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