Tax breaks cost state more than predicted
PORTLAND (AP) State officials deliberately underestimated the cost of Gov. Ted Kulongoski s plan to lure green energy companies to Oregon with big taxpayer subsidies, resulting in a program that cost 40 times more than unsuspecting lawmakers were t...
 11.0K - Nov. 2, 2009; scored 832.0 State cougar hunting plan draws protests
SALEM Wildlife advocates are protesting the state s move to expand hunting of cougars to reduce conflicts with livestock, big game, people and pets. Opponents say it will only lead to more unnecessary hunting and killing of the big cats. This kind ...
2.5K - Oct. 10, 2009; scored 602.0 Study: Killing cougars didn t stop issues
MEDFORD (AP) State wildlife biologists say they will abandon a 3-year-old study to see whether killing cougars in southwestern Oregon would reduce complaints from people about attacks on livestock and pets. The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildli...
2.4K - Sep. 26, 2009; scored 451.0 Rule leads to wealth of talent in Division II
ELLENSBURG, Wash. This is not how Matt Ah You s final season of college football was supposed to play out against Division II talent on a browning, wind-swept practice field pocked with dusty divots. This is a Division I linebacker, someone with ...
6.5K - Sep. 5, 2009; scored 899.0 Thefts and Mischief
The following are theft and criminal mischief reports from police logs. Coos Bay Aug. 31, 7:44 a.m., two cows were in the street near the 100 block of Schoneman Street. Aug. 31, 9:05 a.m., someone entered and damaged a vehicle in the 1000 block of 11...
3.6K - Sep. 1, 2009; scored 556.0 Sports Briefs: Federer tunes up for U.S. Open with Cincinnati Masters title
MASON, Ohio Roger Federer showed that he s in top-of-the-world form after his time off to become a father. A 6-1, 7-5 victory over Novak Djokovic brought him the Cincinnati Masters title, his first championship since his twin girls were born last m...
4.1K - Aug. 24, 2009; scored 464.0 This land is whose land?
Several downtown Coos Bay landowners have been surprised to learn the state held claims to property they ve owned for decades. But the state has known about the clouded titles for more than 35 years. The titles were cleared in July, when the city of ...
3.7K - Aug. 24, 2009; scored 1000.0 Horseshoe masters compete for world title
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. Entire families compete at once. Announcers ask competitors to volunteer for scorekeeping duty so the next round can begin. Welcome to the most relaxed championship on the planet the world horseshoe pitching tournament. Players,...
5.1K - Aug. 6, 2009; scored 652.0 Bullet Bob lands in Hall of Fame
DALLAS Now that Bob Hayes is going into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, people hearing his story for the first time are going to wonder what took so long. After all, he changed the game. Hayes brought a new kind of speed to pro football: Olympic gol...
5.9K - Aug. 5, 2009; scored 518.0 Sports Briefs: Blue Jays place July 28 deadline for Halladay trade
TORONTO Blue Jays general manager J.P. Ricciardi still hasn t received an appropriate trade offer for Roy Halladay, and has set a July 28 deadline to complete a deal for the 2003 Cy Young Award winner. Baseball s non-waiver trade deadline is July 3...
5.0K - Jul. 22, 2009; scored 635.0 Legendary CBS anchor Walter Cronkite dies
NEW YORK Walter Cronkite, the premier TV anchorman of the networks' golden age who reported a tumultuous time with reassuring authority and came to be called the most trusted man in America, died Friday. He was 92. Cronkite died at 7:42 p.m. with...
14.2K - Jul. 18, 2009; scored 778.0 Study: Women athletes have advantage in college sports
Greg Beacham, AP Sports Writer Women athletes have far more opportunities than men to earn scholarships and to participate in many college sports, according to a study by an organization which advocates Title IX reform. The College Sports Council lar...
4.4K - Jul. 16, 2009; scored 594.0 Pistons quick to make moves
The Detroit Pistons are acting quickly to remake a former championship contender. The Pistons agreed to five-year contracts Wednesday with Ben Gordon and Charlie Villanueva, a person with knowledge of the negotiations told The Associated Press. Those...
3.7K - Jul. 2, 2009; scored 493.0 Montana s son will play for Huskies
SEATTLE Just like his dad, Nick Montana will don a golden helmet in college. Unlike his famous father, he ll be doing it on the shores of Lake Washington and not under the watchful eye of Touchdown Jesus. Nick Montana, the son of former Notre Dame ...
2.7K - Jun. 11, 2009; scored 464.0 Signs target airport manager
NORTH BEND A local business owner upset over the airport s handling of leases has set up a semi-truck sign on Southwest Oregon Regional Airport lease property making a personal attack against the airport s executive director. At this point, no one ...
4.5K - May. 22, 2009; scored 640.0 Chromite mining company answers questions
The Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries is moving forward with processing a permit for Oregon Resources Corp. to mine land in Coos County. The company needs the permit before it can begin mining chromite, zircon and garnet on five sit...
1.8K - Apr. 29, 2009; scored 414.0 Sports Briefs: Boston GM Ainge has heart attack
BOSTON Boston Celtics general manager Danny Ainge was hospitalized after suffering what the team described as a minor heart attack. The Celtics issued a brief statement saying that Ainge, 50, was taken to a Boston hospital but provided few other de...
6.7K - Apr. 17, 2009; scored 589.0 Veteran reaches hall of fame
COOS BAY - Jim Davidson has a scale model of the World War II B-25 bomber Yankee Doodle Dandy hanging in his Coos Bay home. It's the very same plane he was shot down in over Italy in 1945. Being blasted out of the sky by German flak is not a happy...
6.4K - Apr. 4, 2009; scored 577.0 Big contract sends wrong message
While John Calipari was deliberating, Greg Bamberger was cutting. The men s soccer team at Kutztown University got the ax Tuesday as the Pennsylvania college moved to cut costs in the athletic department. So, too, did the swimming team. It wasn t one...
5.3K - Apr. 1, 2009; scored 686.0 New head of NOAA says science will guide policy
GRANTS PASS - The new head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will not only be talking the talk on global warming, she will be walking the walk - eight blocks from the Metro station to her office. Former Oregon State University ma...
5.2K - Mar. 20, 2009; scored 510.0 | 
