Pickup led 'Clunker' trade-ins
WASHINGTON Billed as a way for the government to put more fuel-efficient vehicles on highways, the popular $3 billion Cash for Clunkers program mostly involved swaps of old Ford or Chevrolet pickups for new ones that have only marginally bette...
 6.4K - Nov. 5, 2009; scored 157.0 Toyota pulls out of F1 racing
TOKYO Toyota is pulling out of Formula One racing, the world s largest automaker announcing today that it needs to cut costs and focus on its core business. Based on the current economic environment, we realize we have no choice but to withdraw fro...
3.9K - Nov. 4, 2009; scored 99.0 Congress begins climate debate;
WASHINGTON Republicans boycotted the start of committee debate today on a bill to curb greenhouse gases, protesting that the bill s costs have not been fully examined. The action put a spotlight on the difficulties Democratic leaders face in moving...
3.9K - Nov. 3, 2009; scored 99.0 SOCC vigilant after sex attack
Coos Bay police officers are investigating the sexual assault of a woman, after one or more people attacked her inside a dorm room at Southwestern Oregon Community College. The attack occurred early Thursday morning at the college s Coos Bay campus, ...
5.0K - Nov. 1, 2009; scored 99.0 Library talks focuses on political crisis
Do the failures of modern governance and politics have more to do with a crisis of leadership or a crisis of citizenship? What can citizens do to improve the political discourse and the quality of public life? This is the focus of Of the People or f...
1.3K - Nov. 1, 2009; scored 99.0 A lofty goal ” to be better than his dad
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. ” Rookie Bills safety Jairus Byrd likes to remind his father, former Chargers defensive back Gill Byrd, that he intends to one day have more interceptions in the NFL. Jairus never mentioned anything about trying to do it all...
4.4K - Oct. 31, 2009; scored 99.0 SOCC vigilant after sex attack
Coos Bay police officers are investigating the sexual assault of a woman, after one or more people attacked her inside a dorm room at Southwestern Oregon Community College. The attack occurred early Thursday morning at the college s Coos Bay campus, ...
5.0K - Oct. 31, 2009; scored 99.0 "Piecing Earth Back Together" on Nov. 6
Church Women United will host Piecing Earth Back Together at 1:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 6, at the Holy Trinity Catholic Church, 355 Oregon Ave., Bandon. The theme focuses on the environment and how people are called to work together to be good steward...
1.0K - Oct. 30, 2009; scored 99.0 The nursery gets back to basics
Once upon a time, the ideal for a child s room was a cozy haven filled with sturdy push-pull toys, handmade dolls and a few baskets of dress-up clothes. That was before batteries, computer programs for toddlers, and the array of stuff that talks, squ...
4.9K - Oct. 30, 2009; scored 157.0 College sees bump in numbers
Officials at Southwestern Oregon Community College say the economy, efforts to woo new students and increased interest in its programs have led to a 7 percent increase in enrollment. Those 300 extra students fit right in the 5 percent to 10 percent s...
4.1K - Oct. 28, 2009; scored 99.0 College sees bump in numbers
Officials at Southwestern Oregon Community College say the economy, efforts to woo new students and increased interest in its programs have led to a 7 percent increase in enrollment. Those 300 extra students fit right in the 5 percent to 10 percent s...
4.2K - Oct. 27, 2009; scored 99.0 Senate opens hearing on climate bill
WASHINGTON (AP) The lead author of a Senate climate bill says action to combat global warming will raise energy prices, but also create jobs and that inaction could cause even worse economic and security problems. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., said Am...
1.0K - Oct. 27, 2009; scored 399.0 What's up with Dems?
I have traveled since Labor Day to more than a dozen states, including Florida and Colorado, both of which switched from red to blue in the last presidential election, as well as Texas and Tennessee, which remained bright red. Regardless of which sta...
3.0K - Oct. 26, 2009; scored 99.0 Payton s legacy lives on
CHICAGO ” It s been a decade since liver disease did something defenders struggled to do and took down Walter Payton. Even so, No. 34 still looms large. His son Jarrett has daily conversations with him about what I m doing and what I should b...
7.1K - Oct. 25, 2009; scored 99.0 Scruffy helps catch poachers
If you re an avid hunter, you ve probably heard about Scruffy. Still, hunters get caught each year shooting illegally at the decoy animal set up by the Oregon State Police. Scruffy, the black-tailed deer decoy, was shot twice on opening day, just hou...
2.8K - Oct. 25, 2009; scored 99.0 Payton s legacy lives on
CHICAGO ” It s been a decade since liver disease did something defenders struggled to do and took down Walter Payton. Even so, No. 34 still looms large. His son Jarrett has daily conversations with him about what I m doing and what I should b...
7.1K - Oct. 24, 2009; scored 99.0 Scruffy helps catch poachers
If you re an avid hunter, you ve probably heard about Scruffy. Still, hunters get caught each year shooting illegally at the decoy animal set up by the Oregon State Police. Scruffy, the black-tailed deer decoy, was shot twice on opening day, just hou...
2.8K - Oct. 24, 2009; scored 99.0 Groups advocate for unwanted pets
This letter is written in reference to the Oct. 7 article in The World. I appreciate the fact that Pacific Cove Humane Society receives so much publicity and that s a good thing. However, there are several other wonderful animal rescue organizations ...
1.7K - Oct. 21, 2009; scored 99.0 Dance will offer clean fun
Steve Scibelli remembers dancing when he was a teenager. We used to have dances almost after every football and basketball game, the North Bend police chief recalled. They probably kept him and his classmates out of trouble at least a little bit....
4.5K - Oct. 21, 2009; scored 99.0 SOCC authors read from latest works
Two students from the Southwestern Oregon Community College autobiography class one current and one former will offer short presentations on a books they partially worked on during class and later published. The presentations will be held at 3:15...
1.5K - Oct. 21, 2009; scored 99.0 | 
