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 303.0 Grand jury clears cop of rape charge
A Coos County grand jury has decided not to charge a North Bend police officer with a crime after he was accused of sexually assaulting a 21-year-old woman. North Bend Police Chief Steve Scibelli put officer Jason Griggs, 36, on administrative leave ...
2.1K - Nov. 7, 2009; scored 226.0 Iran covered up rape of detainees
Iran covered up rape of detainees CAIRO (AP) An international human rights group said Friday it has documented three cases of sexual assault against detainees arrested during Iran s postelection turmoil, including one that was supported by an offic...
3.2K - Nov. 7, 2009; scored 378.0 At the movies
The following movies are playing at South Coast theaters. Times are shown for movies at Pony Village Cinemas. () indicates showings for Friday-Sunday only. For locations outside the Bay Area, call the theaters for showtimes. Amelia After becoming the...
8.1K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 151.0 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 303.0 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 303.0 At the movies
The following movies are playing at South Coast theaters. Times are shown for movies at Pony Village Cinemas. () indicates showings for Friday-Sunday only. For locations outside the Bay Area, call the theaters for showtimes. All About Steve On a blin...
7.9K - Oct. 16, 2009; scored 151.0 Oregon man accused of lining up group sexual assaults
NEWBERG (AP) An Oregon man is accused of sex crimes involving two teenagers and a 4-year-old girl, and police say he used the Internet to line up people to have a group sex with one of the victims. Darrin Vaughn Daily, 44, of Newberg, faces numerou...
2.3K - Oct. 7, 2009; scored 270.0 Slain student's mother grateful case over
CORVALLIS After more than five years of uncertainty, Cammy Wilberger says she is grateful the man arrested in her daughter s abduction finally admitted his guilt and led police to her body. The mother of 19-year-old Brooke Wilberger spoke briefly M...
4.2K - Sep. 22, 2009; scored 295.0 NB man faces trial on rape, murder for hire
A North Bend man accused of raping a teenage girl six times and asking a man to kill two people will go to trial in December. If Kenneth E. Moore is convicted, he could be imprisoned for life. Earlier this month, a Coos County Circuit Court judge arr...
3.7K - Aug. 29, 2009; scored 251.0 Kidnapped girl returns after 18 years
PLACERVILLE, Calif. A man suspected of snatching an 11-year-old girl and hiding her for nearly two decades in his backyard faced a Friday court appearance, as the woman s family reunited with their daughter and met the two children fathered by her ...
8.3K - Aug. 28, 2009; scored 425.0 Charges reduced in rape case
COQUILLE Two teenage boys accused of raping a 14-year-old girl in early June pleaded guilty Monday to reduced charges of sexual misconduct. Both originally faced adult charges in the case, including first-degree rape and third-degree sexual abuse....
3.5K - Aug. 25, 2009; scored 273.0 CIA interrogations turned chaotic in post-Sept. 11 rush
WASHINGTON With just two weeks of training, or about half the time it takes to become a truck driver, the CIA certified its spies as interrogation experts after Sept. 11, 2001 and handed them the keys to the most coercive tactics in the agency s ar...
6.0K - Aug. 25, 2009; scored 151.0 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 151.0 Man charged in prostitution ring
EUGENE (AP) An investigation into an alleged prostitution ring that advertised underage girls on the Internet has resulted in a federal child sex trafficking charge against a Springfield man. The U.S. attorney s office charged DeSean Lavar Milton w...
2.4K - Aug. 3, 2009; scored 226.0 Activists: N. Korea executed Christian
SEOUL, South Korea North Korea publicly executed a Christian woman last month for distributing the Bible, which is banned in the communist nation, South Korean activists said today. Ri Hyon Ok, 33, also was accused of spying for South Korea and the...
3.1K - Jul. 24, 2009; scored 151.0 Jailed for 10 weeks, suspect says he s the victim
A man recently exonerated on rape charges says the accusation s aftermath has made him the victim. Joe G. Rudder, 32, said he has experienced depression, nightmares and anger after North Bend police arrested him April 30 at The Mill Casino-Hotel. A ...
4.2K - Jul. 23, 2009; scored 356.0 Roethlisberger faces lawsuit
RENO, Nev. In the last year, Ben Roethlisberger led the Pittsburgh Steelers to a Super Bowl title and solidified his legacy as one of the game s great big-game quarterbacks. But it s what happened at a celebrity golf tournament in Lake Tahoe in the...
6.1K - Jul. 22, 2009; scored 240.0 No one feels safe in Zimbabwe
The BBC s Mike Thomson, in a series of reports from Zimbabwe in early June, spoke to a Zimbabwean mother and (13-year-old) daughter who are still too afraid to return home after being abducted and repeatedly raped by militiamen from President Robert...
3.9K - Jul. 8, 2009; scored 196.0 Abuse in jails makes life a prison
116. That s about how many prisoners in America s jails are raped every day, according to a new report. Alarmingly, More prisoners reported abuse by staff than abuse by other prisoners, says Pat Nolan, vice chairman of Prison Fellowship, an organiz...
3.1K - Jun. 30, 2009; scored 288.0 | 
