Five Yankees opt to become free agents
NEW YORK World Series MVP Hideki Matsui became a free agent Monday along with New York Yankees teammates Johnny Damon, Eric Hinske, Jose Molina and Xavier Nady. Matsui and Damon both said after the Yankees six-game victory over Philadelphia last w...
 2.0K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 89.0 Ramirez stays with Dodgers
NEW YORK ” Manny Ramirez decided to stay with the Los Angeles Dodgers on Friday, and baseball s trade market sprang to life with a pair of swaps two days after the World Series. Rather than become a free agent, Ramirez exercised his $20 m...
4.4K - Nov. 7, 2009; scored 89.0 Rain drenches area
North Bend street department workers spent several hours Thursday night clearing plugged drains and standing water from several city streets. Water was standing on a gravel road on California Street, as well as on Colorado and Johnson, said Bob Dill...
0.8K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 89.0 Phillies denied chance for repeat championship
NEW YORK One look from the dugout at the celebration on the field was all the incentive the Philadelphia Phillies needed for next year. We want that trophy back, Brad Lidge said. The defending champions fell two wins short in their bid to become t...
4.4K - Nov. 5, 2009; scored 89.0 N.M. calf fitted with prosthetic hind legs
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Meadow the yearling Black Angus calf spends her days frolicking in northeastern New Mexico s cattle country, all with her prosthetic hind legs. The bucolic scene seemed impossible just a few months ago, when rancher Nancy Dickens...
1.9K - Nov. 4, 2009; scored 462.0 GOP sweep: Big governor victories in Virginia, N.J.
WASHINGTON Independents who swept Barack Obama to a historic 2008 victory broke big for Republicans on Tuesday as the GOP wrested political control from Democrats in Virginia and New Jersey, a troubling sign for the president and his party heading ...
6.4K - Nov. 4, 2009; scored 89.0 North Bend Hall of Fame inductees
George Edward Gebhardt (Class of 1933): Gebhardt was born in 1915 and was class president during his time at North Bend High School. He also won the Coos County extemporary speaking contest and was selected Outstanding Senior Boy. He earned a degree...
4.7K - Oct. 31, 2009; scored 89.0 Sports Briefs: Oklahoma QB has shoulder surgery
NORMAN, Okla. Oklahoma s Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback Sam Bradford had surgery on his injured right shoulder and the school called it a success. In a release sent out by the school, Bradford s father says Dr. James Andrews informed him that t...
4.9K - Oct. 29, 2009; scored 89.0 Electric bikes trace route of car executives to DC
WASHINGTON (AP) An Oregon company that makes electric motorcycles thinks it has a homegrown solution to the nation s energy woes. To prove it, the company sent two riders on a 10-day odyssey from Detroit to Washington, re-creating the 2008 trip of ...
3.4K - Oct. 29, 2009; scored 141.0 Sports Briefs: Astros choose Mills for manager
HOUSTON ” Brad Mills is finally getting his chance to run a big-league team. The 52-year-old Mills was hired by Houston on Tuesday after six seasons as Terry Francona s bench coach in Boston. He ll manage in the majors for the first time, thou...
5.1K - Oct. 28, 2009; scored 89.0 Feds pot step was a good move
The Justice Department issued a memo to federal prosecutors in Colorado and 12 other medical marijuana states, telling them to stop enforcing federal marijuana laws against medical marijuana patients. This should result in an end to the mean-spirited...
1.0K - Oct. 26, 2009; scored 141.0 What's up with Dems?
I have traveled since Labor Day to more than a dozen states, including Florida and Colorado, both of which switched from red to blue in the last presidential election, as well as Texas and Tennessee, which remained bright red. Regardless of which sta...
3.0K - Oct. 26, 2009; scored 89.0 Idaho surges into bowl picture
MOSCOW, Idaho ” Everyone s smiling at Idaho quarterback Nathan Enderle these days. The surprising Vandals (6-1) are already bowl eligible and lead the Western Athletic Conference with a 3-0 record, ahead even of archrival No. 6 Boise State. It...
4.7K - Oct. 25, 2009; scored 89.0 Raymond Douglas Harris
Raymond Douglas Harris Jan. 17, 1934 - Oct. 16, 2009 A memorial service will be held for Raymond Douglas Doug Harris, 75, of Cottage Grove, at 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 31, at Smith Lund Mills Chapel in Cottage Grove. Doug was born Jan. 17, 1934, in My...
1.4K - Oct. 25, 2009; scored 141.0 Idaho surges into bowl picture
MOSCOW, Idaho ” Everyone s smiling at Idaho quarterback Nathan Enderle these days. The surprising Vandals (6-1) are already bowl eligible and lead the Western Athletic Conference with a 3-0 record, ahead even of archrival No. 6 Boise State. It...
4.7K - Oct. 24, 2009; scored 89.0 Raymond Douglas Harris
Raymond Douglas Harris Jan. 17, 1934 - Oct. 16, 2009 A memorial service will be held for Raymond Douglas Doug Harris, 75, of Cottage Grove, at 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 31, at Smith Lund Mills Chapel in Cottage Grove. Doug was born Jan. 17, 1934, in My...
1.4K - Oct. 24, 2009; scored 141.0 Sports Briefs: Senator requests BCS investigation
WASHINGTON Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, whose undefeated home state school was bypassed for the college football national championship last season, urged President Barack Obama to ask the Justice Department to investigate the Bowl Championship Series,...
4.7K - Oct. 22, 2009; scored 89.0 College Picks: TCU can make its case for a BCS bid
Boise State better watch its back. TCU is trying to bust into the BCS, too. The sixth-ranked Broncos have drawn the most attention of the teams from the non-automatic BCS qualifying conferences this season. Boise State started the season with a convi...
5.2K - Oct. 22, 2009; scored 89.0 Philadelphia returns to World Series
PHILADELPHIA Now the Philadelphia Phillies can say the word they ve avoided using all year: Repeat. Jayson Werth homered twice, Shane Victorino and Pedro Feliz also connected and the defending champions beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 10-4 in Game 5 o...
6.1K - Oct. 22, 2009; scored 89.0 Oregon offers model to boost nursing faculty
PORTLAND A predicted national shortage of nurses in the next decade could be made worse by a shortage of the experienced nurses who train them at community colleges and universities around the country. In response, nursing education leaders from 11...
4.1K - Oct. 22, 2009; scored 89.0 | 
