Crash kills man near Myrtle Point
A 43-year-old Myrtle Point man is recovering from injuries from a crash that left a local man dead Saturday near Myrtle Point. Lonnie E. Wilson, 43, town unavailable, died in the rollover crash, a Coos County Sheriff's Office press release said. Offi...
 1.3K - Sep. 28, 2009; scored 369.0 Officer's crash blamed on a lighting system failure
Oregon State Police have preliminarily determined a sheriff s office cruiser crashed on TransPacific Parkway on Thursday because of a lighting system malfunction in the car. A Coos County sheriff s deputy was driving the cruiser about 2 miles down th...
1.4K - Aug. 22, 2009; scored 989.0 Court date for horse suspect
A North Bend woman accused of abusing and neglecting 10 horses will stand before a Coos County Circuit Court judge for a plea-change hearing on Monday morning. Last week, Judge Martin Stone ordered that 63-year-old Bobbye L. Cikanek forfeit ownership...
0.8K - Jul. 23, 2009; scored 239.0 Police chase masked ATV driver
A Coos County sheriff's deputy arrested a Coos Bay man Sunday, after the ski-masked driver of a four-wheeler took police on a chase through town. At about 9 p.m., the Coos Bay Police Department received a report of a man operating an ATV in downtown...
1.8K - Jul. 20, 2009; scored 432.0 ATV crash puts woman in hospital
An Elk Grove, Calif., woman went to a hospital with cuts Wednesday after an ATV accident at the Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area. At about 2:21 p.m., the Coos County Sheriff's Office and Hauser Rural Fire Protection District responded to a repor...
0.7K - Jul. 16, 2009; scored 187.0 Searchers find Coos Bay man safe in Blue Ridge area
A Coos Bay man who wandered lost for a night and day in the Blue Ridge area east of Coos Bay is now safe and receiving care at Bay Area Hospital. At about 4:40 p.m., searchers located 42-year-old Richard D. Smith just east of radio tower sites on Blu...
2.1K - Jul. 3, 2009; scored 415.0 Search and rescue team looks for missing man
A Coos County sheriff's search and rescue team is searching for a man who took a walk last night in the Blue Ridge area and didn't return. Sgt. Pat Downing said Richard Smith, 48, was with a few other people at Blue Ridge southeast of Coos Bay when h...
0.9K - Jul. 2, 2009; scored 260.0 Car ablaze in Charleston
Coos County sheriff's deputies and local fire agencies are investigating a Wednesday car fire on Seven Devils Road near Charleston. At about 6:50 p.m., the Coos County Sheriff's Office, the Charleston Rural Fire Protection District, and the Coos Fore...
0.8K - Jun. 25, 2009; scored 334.0 Court delays decision on horses
Future ownership of 10 allegedly mistreated horses won't be decided until early next month. A spokeswoman for Coos County Circuit Court said public defender Allen Goldman had asked for more time to meet with his client, Bobbye L. Cikanek of North Ben...
1.5K - Jun. 25, 2009; scored 358.0 Arson investigation continues
North Bend police are still searching for suspects in an arson fire that damaged a building on Southwest Oregon Regional Airport property on May 24. The building houses the offices and a warehouse associated with an apparent salvage yard business. ...
2.0K - Jun. 4, 2009; scored 260.0 Coos Bay man charged in brother's death
A Coos Bay man accused of killing a man believed to be his half brother is set to be arraigned at 3 this afternoon in Coos County Circuit Court. Nickolas L. Crooks, 59, faces a murder charge following a shooting Saturday afternoon in the Barview area...
1.5K - Jun. 1, 2009; scored 361.0 Name released of Coos Bay man who died at Sunset Bay
Police have released the name of a 77-year-old man who died Wednesday morning in Sunset Bay State Park. Clarence Buxton of Coos Bay died following a boating trip with a longtime friend, Phillip Bonham of Canyonville, a Coos County Sheriff's Office pr...
1.0K - May. 29, 2009; scored 288.0 Sheriff's office releases description in Lakeside mugging
Police are looking for a would-be robber reported to have stabbed a Lakeside man as he went for a stroll late Wednesday night. Police sent out a press release describing the attacker as a Hispanic man, about 5 feet 7 or 8 inches tall, slightly overwe...
1.2K - May. 29, 2009; scored 266.0 Fisherman dies at Sunset Bay
Police have little information today on an incident in which a 77-year-old fisherman died Wednesday morning in Sunset Bay. Charleston firefighters responded to a call for help to the north point of Sunset Bay, where a small boat had landed on the sho...
0.8K - May. 28, 2009; scored 187.0 Sheriff's department seeks suspect
Coos County sheriff's deputies are looking for a suspect in the Monday assault of a North Bend woman. At about 5:28 p.m., deputies received a report of a fight between a man and woman at 67624 Spinreel Road at the Dunes Mobile Ranch Trailer Park in N...
0.9K - May. 27, 2009; scored 353.0 Deputies arrest one on weapon and trespassing charges
Coos County sheriff's deputies arrested a 52-year-old Knoxville, Tenn., woman Tuesday on weapon and criminal trespassing charges at about 9:25 p.m. Deputies went to 67450 E. Bay Road in North Bend on a report of a transient living in a tool shed on t...
0.7K - May. 27, 2009; scored 239.0 No quick trial for abuse case
COQUILLE - The exchange student who reported sex abuse involving Coquille businessman Curtis Jack will have to stay longer in the United States or make a return trip to Coos County if the case goes to trial. The girl had been living with Jack's famil...
3.7K - May. 27, 2009; scored 334.0 DA suspects arson in airport fire
NORTH BEND Police evacuated arson investigators after finding a handmade explosive device inside a burned-out building near Southwest Oregon Regional Airport on Sunday, but it was found to be inoperable. Dispatchers first sent police and fire crews...
2.1K - May. 26, 2009; scored 320.0 North Bend man leads police on high-speed chase
Sirens blared through town as a North Bend man led police officers on a high-speed chase starting in North Bend and ending near Coquille. The chase hit speeds upward of 100 miles per hour after officers tried to arrest the driver of the green van on ...
1.9K - May. 21, 2009; scored 383.0 Exchange program reports sex abuse
Friday's arrest of a Coquille businessman on sex abuse charges stemmed from an incident involving a foreign exchange student. Curtis Jack is charged with first-degree and third-degree sex abuse involving a female teenager who had been attending schoo...
2.2K - May. 20, 2009; scored 187.0 | 
