DA clears track coach
The state has dropped sex abuse charges against Wendi Boutiette, but she s still reeling from the events of the past nine months. Her 9-year-old son has wondered whether his mom would go to jail. She stepped down as Coquille High School s track coach...
 4.1K - Oct. 23, 2009; scored 679.0 Latest Coos County swine flu Q&A
Here are answers for frequently asked questions about the H1N1 vaccine. When can I get an H1N1 swine flu vaccination? Coos County got its first shipment on Oct. 5. Additional shipments will come each week. Vaccine is being shipped to the Health Dep...
9.3K - Oct. 15, 2009; scored 805.0 Frequently Asked Questions About H1N1 Vaccine
When can I get an H1N1 swine flu vaccination? Coos County got its first shipment on October 5 th . Additional shipments will come each week. Vaccine is being shipped to the Health Department, medical clinics, hospitals, and the Indian tribes. ...
14.2K - Oct. 12, 2009; scored 817.0 Culture collection
October is National Arts and Humanities month, hailed as a coast-to-coast collective celebration of culture. For the next four weeks there will be proclamations, poetry readings, performances and prizes and in Oregon, an expansive menu of cultural ...
4.8K - Oct. 2, 2009; scored 694.0 State grant pays for new sidewalk
A favorable bidding climate will allow the city of Coos Bay to build a sidewalk on Ocean Boulevard thanks to a state grant city officials originally missed out on. The city needed $193,000 to complete the project, but the state s Bicycle and...
3.4K - Aug. 19, 2009; scored 716.0 Make sure millions are spent locally
It has been a long process for the Coos Bay Fire Department, but they are finally going to get their new fire station. I'm sure many construction companies, both local and out-of-the-area, will submit bids. The Board of Directors must go through the ...
1.5K - Jul. 1, 2009; scored 548.0 Sports Briefs: Reinsdorf will make bid to buy Phoenix Coyotes
PHOENIX Chicago Bulls and White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf has promised to make an offer by Friday to buy the bankrupt Phoenix Coyotes and keep the team in Arizona. Reinsdorf s attorney Alan Klein said his client is in the midst of conversations wit...
5.3K - Jun. 23, 2009; scored 712.0 Stallworth gets 30 days in jail
MIAMI Cleveland Browns wide receiver Donte Stallworth began serving a 30-day jail sentence Tuesday for killing a pedestrian while driving drunk in Florida, a punishment made possible by his cooperation with investigators and the fervent wish by th...
4.2K - Jun. 17, 2009; scored 645.0 South Coast residents make D.C. trip for inauguration
Daina Swanson hopes she can catch a glimpse of history. Jonathan Holland is looking forward to the chance to network, while meeting interesting and important people. Judy Bjornestad will be visiting a daughter in the area and got lucky. So did Mike C...
4.3K - Jan. 17, 2009; scored 638.0 Here comes 150: Oregon s birthday brings a year-long celebration
If it were your birthday, you d probably want to celebrate it by eating your favorite meal, taking in a show and seeing all your friends. It s no different for Oregon s 150th birthday, except the state gets to party all year long. In Coos County, a v...
8.7K - Jan. 10, 2009; scored 1000.0 It s business nonsense
The Editorial (The World, Dec. 11) repeated the same tired mantra that in a free market economy the government must step out of the way and let business do business. Yet few question the continual misuse of the term free market. A subsequent lett...
2.8K - Jan. 7, 2009; scored 563.0 Child killer Downs changes her story - again
After nearly 25 years in prison, Diane Downs has once again changed her story about the night she and her children were shot on a lonely rural road near Springfield. Downs was convicted of killing her 7-year-old daughter, Cheryl Lynn, and wounding 3-...
5.3K - Dec. 8, 2008; scored 690.0 Obama announces Clinton for Cabinet
CHICAGO (AP) President-elect Barack Obama announced today that Robert Gates would remain as defense secretary, making President Bush s Pentagon chief his own as he seeks to wind down the U.S. role in Iraq. Obama picked former campaign rival Hillary...
8.2K - Dec. 1, 2008; scored 761.0 WADA criticizes five sports for testing programs
LONDON Gymnastics, wrestling and volleyball were among five Olympic sports cited by the World Anti-Doping Agency for failing to implement consistent out-of-competition testing programs. Handball and modern pentathlon were also described as falling ...
4.4K - Nov. 29, 2008; scored 679.0 | 
