Don't blame women for sex assaults
Once again, I read the paper only to feel frustrated at the lack of critical knowledge about the horrible crime of rape or sexual assault. I am saddened by the story on the front page of last Saturday s paper SOCC vigilant after sex attack. For 10 y...
 2.7K - Nov. 7, 2009; scored 374.0 Inmate release program criticized
SALEM - Anti-crime activists and some prosecutors are taking aim at the Oregon Legislature s move to reduce many state prison inmate sentences as a way to save money. Oregon Anti-Crime Alliance spokeswoman Tara Lawrence said Friday that courts and di...
3.1K - Nov. 7, 2009; scored 392.0 Lab Band leaders head to trial
COQUILLE The founder of Oregon Coast Lab Band and his wife plan to fight charges they stole from the nonprofit organization. The two, Greg and Patricia Young, appeared in Coos County Circuit Court this morning before Judge Michael Gillespie, who se...
2.2K - Nov. 2, 2009; scored 318.0 Former Coos lawyer up for U.S. attorney
PORTLAND (AP) A former Coos County prosecutor is among the final three candidates for U.S. attorney for Oregon. U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden s office has announced the finalists Tuesday. Their names are being forwarded to President Obama. The list includes ...
1.5K - Oct. 28, 2009; scored 293.0 Questions surface in Astoria LNG probe
ASTORIA (AP) When liquefied natural gas developer Peter Hansen met Port of Astoria Director Peter Gearin and marketing consultant Susan Trabucco in San Jose, Calif., in October 2004, there was a moment when Hansen thought the two might be more than...
6.6K - Oct. 25, 2009; scored 505.0 Questions surface in Astoria LNG probe
ASTORIA (AP) When liquefied natural gas developer Peter Hansen met Port of Astoria Director Peter Gearin and marketing consultant Susan Trabucco in San Jose, Calif., in October 2004, there was a moment when Hansen thought the two might be more than...
6.6K - Oct. 24, 2009; scored 505.0 Nonprofit director faces theft charges
A Lane County Circuit Court judge arraigned Siuslaw Outreach Services former executive director Tuesday on a grand jury indictment, charging four counts of first-degree theft. The embezzlement charges are connected to an undisclosed amount of missin...
1.5K - Oct. 22, 2009; scored 377.0 Feds back off medical marijuana users
WASHINGTON Federal drug agents won t pursue pot-smoking patients or their sanctioned suppliers in states including Oregon that allow medical marijuana, under new legal guidelines to be issued today by the Obama administration. Two Justice Departmen...
4.2K - Oct. 19, 2009; scored 344.0 Task force warns kids of Internet predators
COOS BAY - A couple of special agents from the Oregon Department of Justice gave some Coos County middle school students some unusual advice Wednesday. Don t tell the truth. At least not while using the Internet. Their message wasn t intended to scar...
4.1K - Oct. 2, 2009; scored 974.0 Task force warns kids of Internet predators
COOS BAY - A couple of special agents from the Oregon Department of Justice gave some Coos County middle school students some unusual advice Wednesday. Don t tell the truth. At least not while using the Internet. Their message wasn t intended to scar...
4.1K - Oct. 1, 2009; scored 974.0 Judge tells child porn suspect to get lawyer
COQUILLE A Coos County man, arrested at a Bend hotel last week, could spend the rest of his life in prison if convicted with the maximum sentence on 40 felony charges related to child pornography. John C. Hudson III, 43, entered a not guilty plea a...
2.6K - Sep. 25, 2009; scored 308.0 Judge tells child porn suspect to get lawyer
COQUILLE A Coos County man, arrested at a Bend hotel last week, could spend the rest of his life in prison if convicted with the maximum sentence on 40 felony charges related to child pornography. John C. Hudson III, 43, entered a not guilty plea a...
2.4K - Sep. 24, 2009; scored 308.0 Child porn suspect arrested in Bend
Police have tracked down a man wanted in Coos County for child pornography at a motel in Bend. U.S. Marshals Oregon Fugitive Task Force arrested 43-year-old John Hudson of Coos Bay on Thursday night, at the Westward Ho Hotel. He is being charged with...
1.1K - Sep. 19, 2009; scored 357.0 Isham resigns as Marion County sheriff
SALEM (AP) Sheriff Russ Isham of Marion County resigned Wednesday as part of an agreement with the Oregon Department of Justice. In a statement, Isham acknowledged an affair with a woman who has no ties to the sheriff s office. This relationship, w...
1.9K - Aug. 20, 2009; scored 346.0 Senator offers foreign prosecution bill
SALEM (AP) Some top Oregon law enforcement officials are backing legislation proposed by Sen. Ron Wyden to streamline prosecution of Mexicans who commit violent crimes in this country and then flee back across the border. There are accused criminal...
2.8K - Aug. 11, 2009; scored 443.0 Clatsop County commission OK's LNG terminal
ASTORIA (AP) Clatsop County commissioners have again given land-use approval for a liquefied natural gas terminal along the Columbia River. Opponents say they ll appeal again. Last year the commission approved zone changes to allow NorthernStar Nat...
2.1K - Jul. 19, 2009; scored 280.0 California to turn immigrant inmates over to the feds
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - With California slipping into a financial sinkhole, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is proposing to save more than $180 million by cutting short the sentences of thousands of immigrants in the state's prisons and turning the...
5.2K - Jun. 20, 2009; scored 359.0 Judge's ruling frees alleged baby seller
ALBANY (AP) - A Linn County judge has ruled in favor of a man accused of trying to sell his girlfriend's baby. Andrew D. McCullom, 28, was indicted April 8 on a charge of buying or selling a minor. The authorities said he offered to sell, in December...
1.6K - Jun. 18, 2009; scored 283.0 Lab Band investigation done
North Bend Police Department has completed its investigation of the Oregon Coast Lab Band, but its report is sitting untouched in the district attorney's office. Police Chief Steve Scibelli said he had the report delivered to Coquille earlier this we...
1.3K - Jun. 6, 2009; scored 267.0 AG: Drug bust one of largest in state
HILLSBORO - Oregon Attorney General John Kroger says a nearly two-year investigation into Mexican drug trafficking began with a single tip and resulted in one of the largest racketeering cases in state history. The drug ring was centered in Washingto...
2.5K - Jun. 6, 2009; scored 364.0 | 
