Power outage hits Bay Area
Approximately 3,600 Pacific Power customers were in the dark Tuesday afternoon, after a substation transformer blew a fuse in North Bend. The outage darkened homes, businesses and traffic lights for about 45 minutes from 1:30 to about 2:15 p.m. i...
 0.8K - Nov. 4, 2009; scored 896.0 Polls: Chavez's popularity slips
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) Hugo Chavez s support has declined in the polls as many Venezuelans say they are fed up with 27 percent inflation, a stagnant economy, faulty public services and a government they see as incapable of doing much about it. T...
5.5K - Oct. 22, 2009; scored 89.0 Power snafu puts Coquille in the dark
More than 3,000 Pacific Power customers in Coquille lost power Monday night, after a damaged insulator caused a blown fuse in a substation. The problem initially left about 1,600 customers without power starting at 8:15 p.m., said spokesman Tom Gau...
1.3K - Oct. 21, 2009; scored 358.0 Power snafu puts Coquille in the dark
More than 3,000 Pacific Power customers in Coquille lost power Monday night, after a damaged insulator caused a blown fuse in a substation. The problem initially left about 1,600 customers without power starting at 8:15 p.m., said spokesman Tom Gaun...
1.3K - Oct. 20, 2009; scored 358.0 Wind zaps power
Windy weather was to blame for apower outages Wednesday morning in Coquille, Powers, Lakeside and the Coos River area that knocked out service to more than 500 Pacific Power and Central Lincoln People s Utility District customers. A Pacific Power spo...
1.1K - Oct. 15, 2009; scored 537.0 Phillies get rematch with Dodgers in NLCS
DENVER Brad Lidge was at the center of the celebrations, mobbed on the mound and then later bathed in bone-chilling ice water inside the clubhouse. Those recent ninth-inning meltdowns? A fading memory for the Philadelphia Phillies closer. Lidge was...
5.7K - Oct. 14, 2009; scored 89.0 California storm cuts power to thousands
LOS ANGELES (AP) A powerful fall storm packing strong winds, drenching rain and heavy snow has moved into Southern California where residents near fire-scarred hillsides braced for possible mudslides and debris flows. The storm prompted evacuation ...
0.7K - Oct. 14, 2009; scored 89.0 Wall of water kills 100 people
APIA, Samoa A massive tsunami unleashed by a powerful earthquake flattened Samoan villages and swept cars and people out to sea, killing at least 99 and leaving dozens missing today. The death toll was expected to rise. Survivors fled the fast-chur...
7.6K - Sep. 30, 2009; scored 89.0 County dump truck crashes in Coquille
A Coos County dump truck tipped over and crashed Monday when its raised box got tangled in wires outside the county shop in Coquille. Coquille police responded to the 1300 block of West Central Boulevard, where the truck had crashed and was blocking ...
1.1K - Sep. 29, 2009; scored 89.0 Jimena skirts resorts
LOS CABOS, Mexico (AP) Hurricane Jimena pounded the middle of Mexico s Baja California Peninsula today after lashing the Los Cabos resort region with driving rains and thundering surf. Winds from the once-mighty storm had fallen to near 105 mph by ...
5.7K - Sep. 2, 2009; scored 89.0 Hydroelectric plant accident kills 10 in Russia
MOSCOW (AP) An accident during repair work at Russia s largest hydroelectric plant today killed at least 10 workers, while as many as 65 others were missing after an engine room was suddenly flooded, officials said. The cause of the accident at the...
3.7K - Aug. 17, 2009; scored 89.0 Attack on lone blogger leaves Web a-Twitter
NEW YORK (AP) The outage that knocked Twitter offline for hours was traced to an attack on a lone blogger in the former Soviet republic of Georgia but the collateral damage that left millions around the world tweetless showed just how much havoc ...
6.5K - Aug. 8, 2009; scored 268.0 S. Korea on high alert for more cyber attacks, suspicious of north
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) South Korea was on high alert today for more cyber attacks amid suspicions that North Korea was behind a recent wave of Web site outages in the South and in the United States. The South warned that computer networks of key i...
1.4K - Jul. 9, 2009; scored 89.0 Raw sewage spill on Newport beach
NEWPORT (AP) Newport City Manager Jim Voetberg says about 1,000 gallons of raw sewage spilled onto Nye Beach after a pump failed during a power outage. A backup generator kicked in, but then stopped after it was plugged with debris. Pump software a...
0.5K - Jul. 7, 2009; scored 89.0 Jackson death was twittered, texted in mass
NEW YORK Ladies and gentlemen, Michael Jackson has just died, the woman called out breathlessly upon boarding a Manhattan bus, moments after the news had broken. Not a word was spoken in response. But nearly every passenger reached for a BlackBer...
7.0K - Jun. 27, 2009; scored 89.0 Weighing facts and details
A flawed fact is like any other defective product. If it leaves the store scuffed or wobbly, the dealer should replace it with one that works. So The World has an aggressive policy about correcting news stories. When misinformation appears in a story...
2.9K - Jun. 22, 2009; scored 141.0 Police detain three teen burglary suspects
North Bend and Coos Bay police apprehended two Coos Bay boys and a North Bend girl early this morning following six vehicle break-ins and a garage burglary in North Bend. Officers, along with Oregon State Police troopers and a police dog, went out in...
1.6K - Jun. 12, 2009; scored 89.0 Fire caused power outage
Five Pacific Power customers lost power for about half an hour Wednesday morning after some equipment failed in the 900 block of North Bayshore Drive in Coos Bay. Firefighters responded to a report of a pole fire, though Fire Chief Stan Gibson said t...
0.6K - Jun. 11, 2009; scored 358.0 Crash zaps power in Charleston
About 2,500 Pacific Power customers lost power Monday at 4:24 p.m., after a pickup ran into a power line off Cape Arago Highway. A 2002 Ford pickup was eastbound near milepost 6 when it drove off the road and struck a utility pole, then crossed the h...
0.9K - May. 27, 2009; scored 89.0 Tree causes Douglas County outage
About 1,000 Douglas Electric Cooperative members lost power Sunday after a tree got caught in a power line. Homes from Elkton to Loon Lake were affected by the outage, which occurred at about 2 p.m. Electricity was restored about two hours later....
0.3K - May. 4, 2009; scored 896.0 | 
