Sports Briefs: Woods holds share of lead with Watney
SHANGHAI Tiger Woods has shot another 5-under 67 in the HSBC Champions, this one giving him a share of the 36-hole lead with Nick Watney in the final World Golf Championship of the year. Woods overcame mild frustration early in his round Friday by ...
 6.0K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 139.0 Former Blazer eyes run for governor
SALEM Chris Dudley s free throw shots were always iffy propositions. Now the former Portland Trail Blazer is in a new arena taking aim at a governor s chair and Oregon s Republicans think he can score. Dudley hasn t formally announced a bid for t...
3.6K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 172.0 Poets give reading at NB library
Northwest poets Gary Adams and Bill Siverly give a free reading at 1 p.m. Saturday at the North Bend Public Library. Siverly s latest book is Clearwater Way (2009), poems inspired by the Wasco myth cycle about Coyote, and the authors experiences alo...
1.4K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 115.0 Works of the Northwest
Northwest poets Gary Adams and Bill Siverly give a free reading at 1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 7, at the North Bend Public Library. Siverly s latest book is Clearwater Way (2009), poems inspired by the Wasco myth cycle about Coyote, and the authors experi...
1.4K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 115.0 Who will teach nurses?
COOS BAY Experienced nurses have seen it before. In a recession, retired and semi-retired RNs come out of the woodwork to support their families. But once this economic slump ends, nurses including Susan Walker foresee a shortage of medical worker...
4.6K - Nov. 5, 2009; scored 128.0 Ducks crush Trojans
EUGENE As the T-shirts worn in Oregon s student section proclaimed, it was Fright Night at Autzen Stadium. It certainly was for USC. Jeremiah Masoli threw for 222 yards and a touchdown and ran for 164 more yards with another score and the 10th-rank...
5.2K - Nov. 2, 2009; scored 259.0 Johnson 50th Anniversary
Gary and Betsy (Spear) Johnson, of Bandon, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary Oct. 29. Gary was a North Bend boy, the son of Melvin and Ruth Johnson. Betsy was a Coos Bay girl, the daughter of Charlie and Elizabeth Spear. Growing up, they knew...
1.7K - Nov. 2, 2009; scored 158.0 Reports: Federal stimulus sends $1.8B to Oregon
PORTLAND (AP) Oregon has received about $1.8 billion in the first eight months of the federal stimulus program credited with saving or creating nearly 10,000 jobs in the state. Reports released Friday showed the largest number of jobs saved by...
3.1K - Nov. 2, 2009; scored 218.0 North Bend Hall of Fame inductees
George Edward Gebhardt (Class of 1933): Gebhardt was born in 1915 and was class president during his time at North Bend High School. He also won the Coos County extemporary speaking contest and was selected Outstanding Senior Boy. He earned a degree...
4.7K - Oct. 31, 2009; scored 240.0 Don Schirmer
A celebration of life will be held for Don Schirmer, 79, of Myrtle Point, at 5 p.m., Monday, Nov. 2, at the Oaks Pavillion at the Coos County Fairgrounds. Pastor Jeff May, of the Broadbent Community Church, will officiate. Don was born Sept. 1, 1930,...
4.4K - Oct. 31, 2009; scored 134.0 Livestock association to host meeting
The Coos County Livestock Association will host its annual meeting next month. It will be held Saturday, Nov. 21 at the Coquille Community Building. Registration will begin at 6 p.m. followed by the business meeting promptly at 6:30 p.m. A catered be...
0.6K - Oct. 31, 2009; scored 97.0 Sports Briefs: Beaver QB Moevao needs surgery on ankle
CORVALLIS Oregon State backup quarterback Lyle Moevao will need surgery after injuring his ankle during practice. The senior started most of last season but had a slow recovery from offseason shoulder surgery and settled into a backup role behind S...
4.0K - Oct. 30, 2009; scored 153.0 Some who get vaccine not in high-risk groups
LOS ANGELES It was bound to happen: Some people who aren t at high risk for swine flu complications got the much-in-demand vaccine. Sometimes they were healthy adults or senior citizens instead of kids, pregnant women and people with health problem...
5.3K - Oct. 30, 2009; scored 97.0 Shooting victim sues Oregon State fraternity
CORVALLIS (AP) A homeless man shot by an Oregon State University fraternity member three years ago is asking for more than $380,000 in a civil trial that began in Corvallis this week. Dennis Sanderson was shot in the thigh with a .22-caliber r...
0.5K - Oct. 30, 2009; scored 97.0 State fines agents in investment scam
The Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services completed an investigation involving 10 investment brokers including two Bay Area insurance agents who collected more than $5 million from residents, many of them elderly. A state cease...
4.6K - Oct. 30, 2009; scored 199.0 4-H kids pony up for new fair barn
A group of ambitious youngsters have dug into their own pockets to help fund a covered arena at the Coos County Fairgrounds in Myrtle Point. They are halfway to their goal of $40,000. Now, they are calling on the community to help come up with t...
3.1K - Oct. 30, 2009; scored 115.0 Deadly sea foam puzzles scientists
PORTLAND (AP) Scientists know what caused the ocean foam that has killed thousands of seabirds in Oregon and Washington, but they don t know exactly why it suddenly showed up in such deadly abundance off the Northwest coast. The organism is a singl...
3.1K - Oct. 29, 2009; scored 172.0 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 134.0 Veteran talks about stress disorder
I didn t have issues. There were just stupid people around me doing stupid things, Eddie Black told about 50 people at Southwestern Oregon Community College on Tuesday night. That s how Black felt when he returned home from serving in Baghdad, Iraq,...
3.0K - Oct. 28, 2009; scored 115.0 Mapping vessel finds offshore ridge is busy and changing
Scientists mapping the seafloor off Oregon found a surprising sight 20-foot vertical upheavals they had never known existed in the middle of the Juan de Fuca Plate, where some odd swarms of earthquakes were detected last year. Oregon State Universi...
2.6K - Oct. 27, 2009; scored 115.0 | 
