Abdul-Jabbar being treated for rare form of leukemia
NEW YORK Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is being treated for a rare form of leukemia, and the basketball great said his prognosis is encouraging. The NBA s all-time leading scorer was diagnosed last December with chronic myeloid leukemia, he told The Associa...
 3.4K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 61.0 Huskies hope to stop slide Saturday at OSU
SEATTLE Seven weeks after what was believed to be a landmark victory over then-No. 3 Southern California that would expedite the quick turnaround Steve Sarkisian preached was going to happen at Washington, the Huskies spent Monday trying to digest ...
4.4K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 61.0 Women of the Year:
NEW YORK Even for a venue as grand as New York s Carnegie Hall, there was a pretty dazzling concentration of star power at Glamour magazine s Women of the Year awards. Pop star Rihanna was there, in the most body-hugging of gowns. Tennis star Seren...
4.8K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 61.0 Housing plan reaches 1 in 5 borrowers
WASHINGTON (AP) After a slow start, the Obama administration s mortgage relief program has reached one in five eligible homeowners, a government report says. More than 650,000 borrowers, or 20 percent of those eligible, have signed up for trials la...
2.1K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 96.0 Rolling for a record
BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) It was the roll of a lifetime. Hundreds of amateur sushi chefs at the University of California, Berkeley got their hands fishy Sunday as they assembled a 330-foot California roll. A university spokeswoman says Sunday s rice-an...
1.0K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 366.0 College Basketball: Boeheim earns 800th victory
SYRACUSE, N.Y. Jim Boeheim became the eighth Division I coach to reach 800 wins with milestone coming over Albany, 75-43 on Monday night in the 2K Sports Classic. The 65-year-old Boeheim got his first victory, 75-48 over Harvard on Nov. 26, 1976. B...
3.1K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 96.0 Much of stimulus goes to schools
PORTLAND The math isn t so hard when it comes to the faculty of the Tigard-Tualatin school district. This year, the district employs 640 teachers on a full-time equivalent basis. That s 56 fewer teachers than than a year ago. That s also 55 more te...
5.8K - Nov. 9, 2009; scored 61.0 Best out of hospital
BERKELEY, Calif. California star tailback Jahvid Best has been released from the hospital and will miss at least one game after sustaining a concussion on a terrifying fall in the end zone. Best spent the night at Highland General Hospital in Oakla...
1.3K - Nov. 9, 2009; scored 61.0 Pac-10: Beavers dominate Cal for sixth win
BERKELEY, Calif California tailback Jahvid Best slammed to the ground after a terrifying fall into the end zone and the Golden Bears never recovered from losing their star. Sean Canfield and Oregon State were too much for stunned Cal. Canfield thre...
4.1K - Nov. 9, 2009; scored 96.0 Stanford stuns Ducks
STANFORD, Calif. Toby Gerhart and Stanford did to the Oregon defense what the Ducks did a week ago to Southern California, opening up the Pac-10 race with a program-defining victory. Gerhart ran for a school-record 223 yards and three scores, Andre...
5.0K - Nov. 9, 2009; scored 61.0 Thefts and Mischief
The following are theft and criminal mischief reports from police logs. Coos Bay Nov. 5, 5:08 a.m., a prowler was reported in the 800 block of Elrod Avenue. Nov. 5, 10:21 a.m., an illegal fire was reported in the 63400 block of Shinglehouse Slough Ro...
6.3K - Nov. 9, 2009; scored 61.0 Eye on Government
Today North Bend City Council 4:30 p.m., council chambers, city hall, 835 California St.; work session. Oregon Virtual Academy 6 p.m., 1810 Monroe St., North Bend; regular meeting also accessible via teleconference at (888) 824-5783, ext. 1668287...
1.7K - Nov. 9, 2009; scored 96.0 Cal QB seeks redemption
BERKELEY, Calif. ” Two years after his fourth-quarter mistake against Oregon State cost California a shot at becoming the top-ranked team in the nation, Kevin Riley can t escape the images of his blunder. At least now the Golden Bears senior q...
4.4K - Nov. 7, 2009; scored 61.0 Stanford tries to slow Ducks
STANFORD, Calif. ” Stanford has been pointing to the brutal four-game November stretch as the defining moment for the season ever since arriving at fall camp. The Cardinal end the season with arguably their four toughest games, facing No. 7 Or...
4.3K - Nov. 7, 2009; scored 96.0 Church for dogs
LOS ANGELES When the Rev. Tom Eggebeen took over as interim pastor at Covenant Presbyterian Church three years ago, he looked around and knew it needed a jump start. Most of his worshippers, though devoted, were in their 60s, attendance had bottome...
5.1K - Nov. 7, 2009; scored 96.0 Fewer sea lions eat more salmon
Killing or removing 25 California sea lions over the past two years has not reduced the toll on salmon at the base of Bonneville Dam in the Columbia River. A new report from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers estimates sea lions ate 4,960 salmon and st...
3.1K - Nov. 7, 2009; scored 141.0 Judge to defendant: Prove it
COQUILLE Bobbye Cikanek knows she probably won t be able to own horses anymore. But the woman convicted of abusing and neglecting 10 Tennessee walking horses hopes a Coos County Court judge will let her continue breeding and owning more than a doze...
3.9K - Nov. 7, 2009; scored 61.0 Skate park brings economic gain to city
In between rain drops skater Boomer used one of his T-shirts and a towel to dry the bowl of the Mingus Skate Park. Following the same line over and over on the rain slick surface, he practiced the same moves over and over to perfection. With full hel...
1.6K - Nov. 7, 2009; scored 61.0 Twin Tigers
BANDON For twins, Karli and Kacy Crook have a lot of differences. The Bandon seniors and fraternal twins contrast in many ways. Karli, who is seven minutes older, is more organized and punctual. She ll wake up earlier than me, Kacy said. Without ...
5.1K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 61.0 'Fourth Kind' is a half-baked mess
The flat-lining, alien-abduction thriller The Fourth Kind offers a close encounter that buries an interesting idea under a barrage of gimmicky, carnivallike hokum. The movie s unwieldy mix of degraded pseudo-documentary footage and Unsolved Myster...
3.3K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 61.0 | 
