Two industries see job growth
WASHINGTON Businesses in the South and Southwest benefited most from the first federal contracts awarded under President Barack Obama s stimulus program, according to initial data released by a government oversight board. Military construction and...
 6.5K - Oct. 16, 2009; scored 150.0 Oversight lacking on controlling war costs
WASHINGTON (AP) During a routine check of a watch tower at a U.S. military base in Kuwait, an Army sergeant found the guard leaning back in a chair, his sunglasses on, apparently sound asleep. When the soldier woke the guard, an employee of a defen...
5.3K - Oct. 7, 2009; scored 237.0 Howard files lawsuit against city
Coos Bay s former finance director has formally filed a lawsuit against the city and city manager, claiming her free speech rights were violated and that she was wrongfully terminated. Janell Howard, who now works as a finance director for Brookings,...
1.6K - Sep. 19, 2009; scored 150.0 Nursery struggles
The Oregonian PORTLAND Teufel Nursery Inc., one of the area s largest nursery and landscaping operations, is fighting for its life after its longtime lender withdrew financing in May. Textron Financial Corp. demanded immediate payment of the &#...
3.8K - Aug. 15, 2009; scored 150.0 Reporting forces police accountability
It s not news when planes stay in the sky, and it shouldn t be news when police officers use the least amount of force necessary to make an arrest. That just means police are doing their jobs exactly as they should be done. The recent report on the u...
1.9K - Jul. 31, 2009; scored 150.0 California sprouts marijuana green rush
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) A drug deal plays out, California-style: A conservatively dressed courier drives a company-leased Smart Car to an apartment on a weekday afternoon. Erick Alvaro hands over a white paper bag to his 58-year-old customer, who inspec...
15.8K - Jul. 19, 2009; scored 150.0 Other editorial views
The following are editorial excerpts from newspaper's around the country. Madoff wasn t the only crook Bernard Madoff got what he deserved. The 71-year-old financial swindler will never see another day as a free man after being sentenced Monday to 15...
5.8K - Jul. 6, 2009; scored 150.0 Suspended driver denies taking drug
CHARLOTTE, N.C. Jeremy Mayfield denied Thursday ever taking methamphetamines, doesn t know how he failed a random drug test and said his indefinite suspension from NASCAR has ruined his driving career. Mayfield s denial comes in an affidavit that w...
5.1K - Jun. 27, 2009; scored 150.0 Less aid goes to hurting areas
WASHINGTON - Counties suffering the most from job losses stand to receive the least help from President Barack Obama's plan to spend billions of stimulus dollars on roads and bridges, an Associated Press analysis has found. Although the intent of the...
9.0K - May. 11, 2009; scored 150.0 State questions agency for blind s spending
PORTLAND (AP) A state audit has found $61,000 in spending by the Oregon Commission for the Blind went for items such as a leather jacket, men s cologne, football jerseys, a bike trip to San Juan Islands and other expenditures. Funding for ...
2.8K - May. 9, 2009; scored 237.0 Brookings hires ex-Coos Bay finance boss
The city of Brookings hired Coos Bay's former finance director, Janell Howard, on Tuesday as its administrative services director. Howard has served as Brookings' interim director since March, following the resignation of Patti Dunn. Brookings City M...
1.7K - Apr. 15, 2009; scored 150.0 Oregon's stimulus chief says effort on track
SALEM - In a nondescript office building near the State Capitol, Brian Shipley and his crew are working behind the scenes on a historic undertaking - guiding the infusion of billions of federal stimulus dollars into Oregon to help unthaw the economic...
4.3K - Apr. 6, 2009; scored 150.0 Salmonella taking toll on food industry
WASHINGTON (AP) - The mortgage meltdown exposed the weakness of self-regulation in financial markets. Now the salmonella outbreak is doing the same for the food industry. A House subcommittee Thursday released new documents that showed how private in...
4.1K - Mar. 20, 2009; scored 237.0 Then it's securities fraud
Anyone who has watched Law Order over the years, as I have, knows that the ending must feel right. The circumstances of the crime may be complex and the legal issues muddy, but in the end, most viewers are left feeling that some justice has been ...
2.8K - Mar. 19, 2009; scored 150.0 Madoff's accountant charged with fraud
NEW YORK (AP) - Bernard Madoff's longtime accountant was arrested on fraud charges today, accused of aiding the man who has admitted cheating thousands of investors out of billions of dollars in the past two decades. The charges against David Friehli...
4.4K - Mar. 18, 2009; scored 237.0 Stanford investment officer to be released
HOUSTON (AP) The chief investment officer of troubled Stanford Financial Group was expected to be released on $300,000 bond Friday after a court hearing in which she was painted alternately as the scapegoat for a massive fraud and as one o...
5.1K - Feb. 28, 2009; scored 150.0 General Motors posts $9.6 billion quarterly loss
DETROIT (AP) General Motors Corp. posted a $9.6 billion fourth-quarter loss and said it burned through $6.2 billion of cash in the last three months of 2008 as it fought the worst U.S. auto sales climate since 1982 and sought gove...
1.5K - Feb. 26, 2009; scored 301.0 Missing money puts Astoria school at risk
ASTORIA (AP) A Catholic school in Astoria is at risk of closing amid allegations a parish priest mishandled money. Advisers for the St. Mary Star of the Sea School told parents and parishioners late Monday that the Rev. Ted Prentice acknowledged ta...
1.5K - Feb. 3, 2009; scored 150.0 North Bend audit clean; some deficiencies
NORTH BEND A Portland-area accounting firm has given the city of North Bend a clean audit report. However, the city will have to step up some of its processes to continue to comply with the Auditing Standards Board s rules under SAS No. 112 : Comm...
2.5K - Feb. 2, 2009; scored 301.0 New accounting firm opens two offices
Dennie Wheeler and Billi Grimes, formerly Billi Ludington, have teamed up to open a new accounting firm Wheeler Grimes, CPAs LLC. They will manage two offices, one in Bandon and one in Myrtle Point, a press release said. Wheeler has been a reside...
1.1K - Jan. 24, 2009; scored 237.0 | 
