Exhibit will honor veterans' service
The Bandon Historical Society Museum will offer veteran talks Saturday and an exhibit in honor of Veterans Day. The event will run from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, at the museum, 270 Fillmore and U.S. Highway 101 (by the downtown streetlight). Several...
 0.9K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 233.0 Gunman: 'Allahu Akbar!'
FORT HOOD, Texas Soldiers who witnessed the shooting rampage at Fort Hood that left 13 people dead reported that the gunman shouted Allahu Akbar! an Arabic phrase for God is great! before opening fire, the base commander said Friday. U.S. A...
9.0K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 182.0 Army post shooting rampage leaves 13 dead, 30 hurt
FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) Military officials were starting Friday to piece together what may have pushed an Army psychiatrist trained to help soldiers in distress to turn on his comrades in a shooting rampage that killed 13 people and wounded 30 in Tex...
7.3K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 233.0 Museum will host Veterans Day program
The Bandon Historical Society Museum will offer veteran talks and an exhibit in honor of Veterans Day. The event will run from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the museum, 270 Fillmore and U.S. Highway 101 (by the downtown streetlight). Several veterans will tal...
1.4K - Nov. 5, 2009; scored 233.0 Iranian protest sparks battles
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) Iranian security forces beat anti-government protesters with batons today on the sidelines of state-sanctioned rallies to mark the 30th anniversary of the U.S. Embassy takeover. The counter-demonstrations were the opposition s fir...
5.6K - Nov. 4, 2009; scored 315.0 U.S. reverses policy, engages Myanmar
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) The United States began a new policy of engagement with Myanmar s ruling military junta today, sending two senior diplomats for the highest-level visit in more than a decade. Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell, the top ...
2.8K - Nov. 3, 2009; scored 264.0 Karzai wins Afghan election without a vote
KABUL Afghanistan s election commission proclaimed President Hamid Karzai the victor of the country s tumultuous ballot today, canceling a planned runoff and ending a political crisis two and a half months after a fraud-marred first round. The Obam...
6.2K - Nov. 2, 2009; scored 244.0 President honors fallen soldier
DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Delaware Standing in the pre-dawn darkness, President Barack Obama saw the real cost of the war in Afghanistan: The Americans who return in flag-covered cases while much of their nation sleeps in peace. In a midnight dash to ...
4.6K - Oct. 29, 2009; scored 359.0 8 US troops die; Oct. Afghan war's deadliest month
KABUL (AP) Eight American troops were killed in multiple bomb attacks Tuesday in southern Afghanistan, making October the deadliest month of the war for U.S. forces since it began in 2001. The eight deaths occurred during multiple, complex bomb s...
2.4K - Oct. 27, 2009; scored 328.0 Helicopter crashes kill 14 Americans in Afghanistan
KABUL Helicopter crashes killed 14 Americans today in the deadliest day for the U.S. mission in Afghanistan in more than four years. The deaths came as President Barack Obama prepared to meet his national security team for a sixth full-scale confer...
6.3K - Oct. 26, 2009; scored 428.0 Blasts at Pakistan air base, wedding bus kill 24
ISLAMABAD (AP) A suicide bomber killed seven people near a major air force complex in northwest Pakistan today, while an explosion killed 17 on a bus heading to wedding elsewhere in the region, the latest in a surge of militant attacks this month....
3.8K - Oct. 23, 2009; scored 242.0 Donovan takes top honors
LOS ANGELES The busiest and in many ways most difficult year in Landon Donovan s increasingly storied soccer career ultimately could be the most satisfying. That was his judgment Tuesday after claiming an unprecedented sixth Honda Player of the Yea...
4.6K - Oct. 21, 2009; scored 244.0 Gates: Disputed U.S. airfield should stay on Okinawa
TOKYO (AP) U.S. leaders expect Japan s new government to stick with existing agreements between the two nations, America s top defense official said Tuesday amid debate over whether to shutter a U.S. military air field on Okinawa. Japanese official...
3.9K - Oct. 20, 2009; scored 371.0 Coming Soon
The Southwest Oregon Chapter of the Professional Engineers of Oregon invites all active and retired engineers, and those interested in engineering issues in the bay area, to the next meeting of the Professional Engineers of Oregon. The meeting will b...
0.9K - Oct. 20, 2009; scored 153.0 Coming Soon
Coming Soon Meet Bigfoot During Saturday s Coquille Community Celebration folks can meet and have their picture taken with Bigfoot. The elusive creature, from McAvene Designs in N. Hollywood, Calif., will be in downtown Coquille from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m...
1.3K - Oct. 16, 2009; scored 211.0 Scene & Heard
Concerts This weekend Ambush Blue Moon. Rock, classic rock. 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday. www.dbabluemoon.com . Bent McFarlin s. Rock. 8:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday. 329-1200. Charlie Freak Rogers Zoo. Rock, blues. 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday. 75...
11.0K - Oct. 16, 2009; scored 153.0 'Mighty Mo' goes in for preservation
HONOLULU Mike Weidenbach has walked across the historic teakwood decks and through the metal hallways of the USS Missouri countless times in the past decade. But he recently realized how massive the aging battleship is from a new perspective unde...
4.4K - Oct. 16, 2009; scored 182.0 Gunmen kill 39 in five attacks in Pakistan's cultural capital
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) Teams of gunmen launched coordinated attacks on three law enforcement facilities in Pakistan s cultural capital of Lahore, and car bombs exploded in two cities near the Afghan border today, killing 39 people in an escalating ...
7.2K - Oct. 15, 2009; scored 284.0 Bush is gone; media forget caskets
Remember the controversy over the Pentagon policy of not allowing the press to take pictures of the flag-draped caskets of American war dead as they arrived in the United States? Critics accused President George W. Bush of trying to hide the terrible...
4.2K - Oct. 15, 2009; scored 306.0 Pakistan bombs militant sites; thousands flee
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) Pakistani jets pounded suspected militant hide-outs along the Afghan border today as officials said hundreds of thousands of civilians have fled South Waziristan in anticipation of an expected military offensive. Gov...
4.3K - Oct. 14, 2009; scored 233.0 | 
