Bill Clinton pitches health bill to Dems
WASHINGTON Former President Bill Clinton knows just how high the political stakes are in the fight to overhaul America s health care system. His failed attempt to revamp the delivery of medical care contributed to the Republican takeover of the Hou...
 3.8K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 221.0 Grandparents can help kids love reading
Within the last week, two grandparents from opposite ends of the country e-mailed to say that they regularly buy books for their grandchildren based on my reviews. Of course, I m very flattered. But more than that, their selfless acts of generosity i...
4.8K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 134.0 At the movies
The following movies are playing at South Coast theaters. Times are shown for movies at Pony Village Cinemas. () indicates showings for Friday-Sunday only. For locations outside the Bay Area, call the theaters for showtimes. Amelia After becoming the...
8.1K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 134.0 Congress set to clear aid to jobless, homebuyers
WASHINGTON (AP) The House is poised to send the White House a bill extending aid to more than a million people in danger of exhausting jobless benefits and additional tax credits for prospective homebuyers crucial to rejuvenating the housing market...
3.1K - Nov. 5, 2009; scored 241.0 Sports Briefs: Seattle releases Edgerrin James
RENTON, Wash. The struggling Seattle Seahawks have released running back Edgerrin James. The Seahawks made the move Tuesday, two days after a lackluster 38-17 loss to the Dallas Cowboys. James signed with Seattle in late August hoping to revitaliz...
4.3K - Nov. 4, 2009; scored 134.0 German leader urges U.S. to act on climate
WASHINGTON (AP) German Chancellor Angela Merkel marked the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall by exhorting the world in a speech to Congress today to tear down the walls of today and reach a deal to combat global warming. Frequently ...
5.3K - Nov. 3, 2009; scored 173.0 New safety worry: Laptops in cockpit
WASHINGTON (AP) Two Northwest Airlines pilots who flew 150 miles past their destination because they were focused on laptop computers instead of cockpit displays may have opened a new avenue of concern for safety regulators distracting personal e...
6.2K - Oct. 27, 2009; scored 134.0 Column: New group lobbies for community sports funding
If the high school and youth sports programs in your town aren t already having trouble paying their bills, they will soon. And if that doesn t sound like headline-worthy news in this battered economy, just wait. You ll have your pick of headlines fr...
6.0K - Oct. 21, 2009; scored 134.0 Would you go mouth to muzzle?
LOS ANGELES Most pet owners would leap into action for an injured pet, even if it meant risking dog breath by going mouth-to-snout. Fifty-eight percent of pet owners 63 percent of dog owners and 53 percent of cat owners would be at least somewh...
5.9K - Oct. 21, 2009; scored 173.0 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 200.0 Obama allies draw comparisons to Bush on security issues
WASHINGTON New cracks are opening in the relationship between President Barack Obama and his liberal allies in Congress over his desire to continue Bush-era tactics against terrorism and his opposition to protecting reporters from revealing their s...
4.9K - Oct. 15, 2009; scored 173.0 Thefts & Mischief
The following are theft and criminal mischief reports from police logs. Coos Bay Oct. 12, 5:48 a.m., police took a 25-year-old man to the Coos County jail on a charge of domestic strangulation from a case in the 100 block of Marino Drive. He was cite...
3.2K - Oct. 13, 2009; scored 134.0 The general's war in Afghanistan
The Pentagon s pre-emptive strike came with the leak of Gen. Stanley McChrystal s confidential review of the Afghan war to Bob Woodward of The Washington Post. McChrystal s painting of the military picture was grim. Failure to gain the initiative and...
4.2K - Oct. 13, 2009; scored 134.0 Rescuing Bandar
WASHINGTON (AP) They became good buddies during the war, the young American soldier and his invaluable Iraqi translator, an easygoing guy who could spot dangers in the shadows and calm jittery nerves in the streets. When it was time to go home, Joe...
13.7K - Oct. 13, 2009; scored 280.0 Wait for health care benefits is 3 years under reform bill
WASHINGTON Sixty years is how long Democrats say they ve been pushing for legislation that provides health care access for all Americans. They ll have to wait another three if President Barack Obama gets a bill to sign this year. Under the Democrat...
5.9K - Oct. 11, 2009; scored 173.0 War briefing might look at troop increases
WASHINGTON The latest in a series of top-level White House meetings about the war in Afghanistan could provide a venue for the first discussion of the troop request submitted by the U.S. commander there. The fourth of five sessions is scheduled thi...
5.3K - Oct. 9, 2009; scored 173.0 Conservative case against G.W. Bush
How many times during the past eight years did you hear that former President Bush was a dangerous right-wing extremist? What you heard less often were expressions of the deep reservations some conservatives felt about Bush s governing philosophy. Co...
4.3K - Oct. 8, 2009; scored 268.0 Recreation Report
SIUSLAW RIVER: Fall Chinook anglers are having slow to fair success. Anglers are catching coho, but only adipose fin-clipped coho may be retained. Fishing for resident and sea-run cutthroat trout is fair to good. COOS COUNTY LAKES: Fishing for largem...
4.3K - Oct. 3, 2009; scored 134.0 Wall of water kills 100 people
APIA, Samoa A massive tsunami unleashed by a powerful earthquake flattened Samoan villages and swept cars and people out to sea, killing at least 99 and leaving dozens missing today. The death toll was expected to rise. Survivors fled the fast-chur...
7.6K - Sep. 30, 2009; scored 134.0 U.S. leads the call to open Iran nuke site
PITTSBURGH President Barack Obama and the leaders of France and Britain said today that the existence of a previously secret Iranian nuclear facility ups the ante on Tehran in international talks next week, declaring that Iran must cooperate on its...
6.2K - Sep. 25, 2009; scored 134.0 | 
