NB boys surge into soccer playoffs
NORTH BEND When Todd Ransom took over as coach of the North Bend boys soccer team after Blaine Deming retired last spring, someone suggested to him this would be a rebuilding year. I said, We ll see, Ransom recalled Wednesday. I m competitive a...
 3.3K - Nov. 5, 2009; scored 150.0 Matchups set for state soccer playoffs
The soccer matchups for the playoffs involving South Coast teams were finalized in matches around the state on Tuesday. Coquille s boys learned that they will host North Marion on Saturday after the Huskies beat Estacada 5-1 in a Capital Conference p...
1.5K - Nov. 4, 2009; scored 150.0 Bulldogs perfect in volleyball
NORTH BEND North Bend s volleyball team has spent most of the season as the No. 1 team in Class 4A. On Saturday, the Bulldogs finally could say they were officially No. 1 in the Far West League as well, clinching the outright league title by winnin...
4.3K - Nov. 2, 2009; scored 602.0 Joseph Larry Jackson
Joseph Larry Jackson Sept. 24, 1938 Oct. 17, 2009 A public visitation will be held for Joseph L. Jackson, 71, of Coos Bay, from 9 a.m. to noon on Friday, Oct. 30, at Coos Bay Chapel, 685 Anderson Ave. A graveside service with military honors provid...
1.3K - Oct. 25, 2009; scored 150.0 Joseph Larry Jackson
Joseph Larry Jackson Sept. 24, 1938 Oct. 17, 2009 A public visitation will be held for Joseph L. Jackson, 71, of Coos Bay, from 9 a.m. to noon on Friday, Oct. 30, at Coos Bay Chapel, 685 Anderson Ave. A graveside service with military honors provid...
1.3K - Oct. 24, 2009; scored 150.0 Shelling in Somali capital kills 20
MOGADISHU, Somalia Islamic insurgents fired mortars at Somalia s airport as the president was boarding a plane today, sparking battles that killed at least 20 people as return fire slammed into residential areas and a market, officials said. The pr...
3.2K - Oct. 22, 2009; scored 150.0 Gearhart crash report: Pilot was disoriented
GEARHART (AP) The pilot of a small plane that crashed into an Oregon vacation house failed to maintain control because of spatial disorientation, a federal agency said in its report on the tragedy that left five people dead. Jason Ketcheson, 36, of...
2.3K - Oct. 18, 2009; scored 150.0 Gearhart crash report: Pilot was disoriented
GEARHART (AP) The pilot of a small plane that crashed into an Oregon vacation house failed to maintain control because of spatial disorientation, a federal agency said in its report on the tragedy that left five people dead. Jason Ketcheson, 36, of...
2.3K - Oct. 17, 2009; scored 150.0 Myrtle Point Hall of Fame capsules
Frank Grove (Coach): Grove graduated in 1944 from Powers High School, where he was a member of the 1944 state champion basketball team, and served in the Navy from 1944 to 1946. He competed in basketball and track and field for two years each at Lew...
8.6K - Oct. 10, 2009; scored 150.0 Military searches for bodies, brings aid to tsunami-stricken Samoas as death toll rises
LALOMANU, Samoa (AP) Some frightened Samoans who fled to the hills as a tsunami tore through their seaside villages vowed never to return to the coastline, while aid workers delivered water and medicine amid the growing stench of decay. Grieving su...
1.2K - Oct. 2, 2009; scored 150.0 Bulldogs win big volleyball tournament
North Bend s volleyball team won the 16-school Sisters tournament on Saturday, besting a field that included eight of the top 10 schools in Class 4A and top 3A teams Burns and Vale. The girls played extremely well, said North Bend coach Les Willett....
5.5K - Sep. 28, 2009; scored 150.0 Washington man dies in climbing accident
SEASIDE (AP) The Clatsop County sheriff s office says a Vancouver, Wash., man who vanished on a weekend hike in Oregon has been found dead. The sheriff s office says search and rescue teams reached the body of 18-year-old Jacob L. Gillett on Monday...
0.5K - Sep. 22, 2009; scored 237.0 Strong hurricane threatens Mexico
CABO SAN LUCAS, Mexico Emergency workers built shelters for thousands of endangered families as a strengthening Hurricane Jimena roared toward Mexico s resort-studded Baja California peninsula today. Jimena, a dangerous Category 4 storm, could rak...
2.7K - Aug. 31, 2009; scored 150.0 Marshfield honors champions, mentors
It was a night to honor state champions and standout coaches and in one case both. Marshfield High School inducted the seventh class for its Hall of Fame on Saturday at The Mill Casino-Hotel, recognizing four individuals former coaches Wayne Van ...
7.9K - Aug. 24, 2009; scored 150.0 Carl Nels Pyritz
A potluck memorial will be held for Carl Nels Pyritz, 71, of Coos Bay, at 1 p.m., Saturday, Aug.15, at the Lower Umpqua Senior Center, 460 Winchester Ave., Reedsport. Cremation rites will be held at Ocean View Memory Gardens Crematory in Coos Bay und...
1.3K - Aug. 13, 2009; scored 237.0 Rep. Wu defends health care reform
PORTLAND (AP) U.S. Rep. David Wu spent much of his time at a town hall meeting Tuesday repeatedly telling a heckler and other critics in the audience that their claims about plans to overhaul the nation s health care system were misunderstood, inac...
3.8K - Aug. 12, 2009; scored 150.0 Shark, stuck in crab lines, dies off Oregon coast
DEPOE BAY It was a big weekend for shark sightings off the Oregon coast, from the 12-foot great white shark that apparently got snared by a fisherman s crab pot at Depoe Bay to a shark warning that Seaside police issued to beach crowds. Dick Teeny,...
3.1K - Aug. 11, 2009; scored 301.0 Families mend slowly after Gearhart plane crash
GEARHART (AP) A year after a single-engine plane crashed into a Gearhart house, creating an inferno and killing five people, seeds of hope are beginning to spread. In Portland, a soccer field named after 10-year-old Julia Reimann, who died in the f...
4.8K - Aug. 6, 2009; scored 150.0 Clinton to N. Korea: No friends left
PHUKET, Thailand Faced with a fresh refusal by North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons program, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said today the communist regime has no friends left to shield it from punishing U.N. penalties. Nort...
6.1K - Jul. 23, 2009; scored 150.0 Clinton makes push to end nuke program
PHUKET, Thailand (AP) North Korea must completely and irreversibly end its nuclear weapons program or face further isolation and the unrelenting pressure of international sanctions, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday. A...
6.2K - Jul. 22, 2009; scored 150.0 | 
