Insurers pay for alternative care
Acupuncture, not pain pills that make me loopy, is what Cynde Durnford-Branecki wants for her aching back, and a treatment costs her only a $20 copayment. If I didn t have insurance, there s no way I could afford to go, said the 51-year-old g...
 5.2K - Nov. 9, 2009; scored 193.0 Community Sports: Community Scoreboard for Nov. 7
Bowling North Bend Lanes Oct. 26-Nov. 1 HIGH GAME Young at Heart Seniors Bruce Watts 248, Bill Sullivan 225, Ray Rockwood 224; Patty Rockwood 214, Sally Ash 205, Linda Nichols 195. Monday Super Star Juniors Kyronn Morgan 239, Joey Hufman 204, Jor...
10.0K - Nov. 7, 2009; scored 193.0 KEEP ON TRUCKIN'
MILLINGTON Ingrid Hill never found a full-time job after getting laid off last year, but she did find a dump truck. Hill has 22 years of experience in the construction industry, most recently working for Knife River Corp., but cutbacks last year ca...
3.8K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 193.0 Holiday outlook improves as jobs, spending rally
The Associated Press The U.S. economy yielded some encouraging news today on two of its biggest trouble spots consumer spending and jobs. Consumers, enticed by cooler weather and an improving economy, spent a little more in October. They gave the ...
1.7K - Nov. 5, 2009; scored 306.0 Builder loses bid for height variance
The Coos Bay Planning Commission has denied a request to build a 38-foot tall house on 294 N. 11th St., near Mingus Park. The city initially approved plans for the 4,151-square-foot home, with a 1,140-square-foot garage on the edge of the park, but i...
1.0K - Nov. 5, 2009; scored 193.0 Coming Soon
Tonight Lifting quilts Join the Coos Sand N Sea Quilters meeting at 7 tonight at Gloria Dei Lutheran Church, 1290 Thompson Road, Coos Bay. Doors open at 6:15 p.m. Featured speaker Kara Alexander will present Lift the Quilts Out of Your Stash. She ...
2.6K - Nov. 5, 2009; scored 193.0 Berkshire buying Burlington Northern
NEW YORK (AP) Legendary investor Warren Buffett is making what he calls an all-in wager on the U.S. economy $34 billion to buy a major railroad that hauls everything from corn to cars across the country. Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp.,...
5.9K - Nov. 4, 2009; scored 193.0 State gets good credit rating, says treasurer
SALEM (AP) The Oregon treasurer s office says national credit rating firms are reporting that Oregon remains a safe credit risk at a time when many states are being warned about potential downgrades. Moody s, Fitch Inc. and Standard and Poor s last...
1.0K - Nov. 4, 2009; scored 193.0 Housing authorities ban indoor smoking
NORTH BEND Alan Pape doesn t like going into smokers apartments. But as the maintenance mechanic for the North Bend City/Coos-Curry Housing Authorities, it s part of the job. When you have to stand in them for two or three hours at times and breat...
4.7K - Nov. 4, 2009; scored 306.0 Jeld-Wen resorts cut 27 jobs in Oregon
BEND (AP) Jeld-Wen Inc. says it has cut 27 jobs at a pair of the resorts it operates in Central Oregon. The Klamath Falls-based window and door manufacturer said its Brasada Ranch in Powell Butte eliminated 16 positions while the Eagle Crest Resort...
0.8K - Nov. 2, 2009; scored 193.0 Lithia plans to buy more dealerships
ASHLAND (AP) Lithia Motors Inc. says it plans to start buying more auto dealerships after an 18-month stretch when it closed or sold 20 dealerships. Lithia announced this week it had obtained a franchise from Korean automaker Kia for Anchorage, Ala...
1.0K - Nov. 2, 2009; scored 193.0 Community Sports: Community Scoreboard for Oct. 31
Bowling North Bend Lanes Oct. 19-25 Young at Heart Seniors Bruce Watts 242, Nick Boutin 226, Berrel Vinyard 218; Linda Nichols 216, Phyllis Hewitt 213, Susan Peck 210. Monday Super Star Juniors Joey Huffman 257, Nicholas Slowik 204, Jordan Clark ...
10.6K - Oct. 31, 2009; scored 502.0 Steven V. Weeks
At his request, no services will be held for Steven V. Weeks, 68, of Coquille. Steve was born Aug. 20, 1941, in Bandon and raised by his parents, Virgil and Lucile Weeks, in Green Acres, along with his brother Paul. He died Oct. 29, 2009, in Coquille...
1.6K - Oct. 31, 2009; scored 193.0 Bridge closure snarls traffic for second day
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Engineers desperately tried to repair the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge as commuters encountered a second day of heavy traffic and crowded trains today after a 5,000-pound piece of steel plummeted onto the span during rush hou...
2.7K - Oct. 29, 2009; scored 193.0 Electric bikes trace route of car executives to DC
WASHINGTON (AP) An Oregon company that makes electric motorcycles thinks it has a homegrown solution to the nation s energy woes. To prove it, the company sent two riders on a 10-day odyssey from Detroit to Washington, re-creating the 2008 trip of ...
3.4K - Oct. 29, 2009; scored 193.0 CB library looks to expand building
Ever go to the library wanting to check e-mail and all the computers were occupied? Ever go to a children s event at the library and had to wait for a second show because there wasn t enough room? Ever want to grab a cup of coffee to go with a page-t...
2.9K - Oct. 28, 2009; scored 775.0 New safety worry: Laptops in cockpit
WASHINGTON (AP) Two Northwest Airlines pilots who flew 150 miles past their destination because they were focused on laptop computers instead of cockpit displays may have opened a new avenue of concern for safety regulators distracting personal e...
6.2K - Oct. 27, 2009; scored 193.0 Pendleton man to buy troubled gorge hotel
PORTLAND (AP) The troubled Columbia Gorge Hotel may have found a buyer after it closed last January. Vijay Patel, who owns a small chain of hotels in Eastern Oregon and Washington state, told The Oregonian he will buy the historic hotel for more th...
2.3K - Oct. 26, 2009; scored 193.0 Firm to settle suit over Sunwest affiliate
SALEM (AP) A tentative settlement has been reached in a lawsuit filed against a law firm that represented an affiliate of Sunwest Management Inc., one of the largest senior-living chains in the nation. Michael Grassmueck, a court-appointed receiver...
1.1K - Oct. 26, 2009; scored 193.0 Salvage firm is planning Titanic expedition in 2010
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) The company that has exclusive rights to salvage the Titanic is planning a possible expedition to the world s most famous shipwreck in 2010. The first expedition to the North Atlantic wreck site since 2004 is revealed in a filing ...
3.7K - Oct. 26, 2009; scored 449.0 | 
