Sports Briefs: College band buses crash in Arkansas
FORDYCE, Ark. ” A dozen students and a bus driver are being treated for injuries after three buses carrying members of the renowned Grambling State University marching band were involved in a traffic crash in southern Arkansas. Arkansas State ...
 2.7K - Nov. 7, 2009; scored 276.0 Patrick Swayze, 57, loses battle with cancer
LOS ANGELES (AP) Patrick Swayze personified a particular kind of masculine grace both on and off screen, from his roles in films like Dirty Dancing and Ghost to the way he carried himself in his long fight with pancreatic cancer. Swayze died fr...
8.9K - Sep. 15, 2009; scored 375.0 Palin gives few hints as she blasts media
JUNEAU, Alaska Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin didn t wait long to give some hint of what her political life might look like after she leaves office at the end of the month. After staying out of the public eye for most of Saturday, a day after abruptly ann...
7.4K - Jul. 6, 2009; scored 320.0 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 378.0 Music for all
Jordan Rain of Yogoman Burning Band says his mission is to unite people through music and dance. His goal is for the band s music to appeal to people of all ages and cultures. I want to be able to connect with as many people as possible, the 34-ye...
3.5K - Mar. 6, 2009; scored 375.0 Mister independent
Aaron Johnson isn t your typical teenager. While most teens his age are living at home, counting down until graduation day, the Coos Bay native has bid farewell to adolescence in order to follow what seems to be a promising career as a jazz musician....
5.6K - Feb. 6, 2009; scored 393.0 Portland police say gunman was feeling depressed, jobless
PORTLAND Police searching for the motive for a deadly downtown shooting rampage say the only thing they have learned so far is that the 24-year-old gunman was feeling depressed, possibly over being unemployed. Erik Ayala died Tuesday of a self-infl...
3.0K - Jan. 29, 2009; scored 288.0 South Coast residents make D.C. trip for inauguration
Daina Swanson hopes she can catch a glimpse of history. Jonathan Holland is looking forward to the chance to network, while meeting interesting and important people. Judy Bjornestad will be visiting a daughter in the area and got lucky. So did Mike C...
4.3K - Jan. 17, 2009; scored 345.0 Oregon band to march in inaugural
PORTLAND (AP) Portland s Get a Life Marching Band has been picked to be in President-elect Barack Obama s inaugural parade Jan. 20. It will join about 100 other bands. About 1,400 bands applied. Members are mostly from Oregon and southwest Washingt...
0.8K - Jan. 7, 2009; scored 1000.0 Playing for fun
EMPIRE Music has always been part of John Pundt s life, although never the money-making part. The owner of Orcoast Music and Stray Katz Bar, 57-year-old Pundt began playing in bands in his early teens. His early aspirations to earn a living playing...
4.7K - Nov. 21, 2008; scored 475.0 | 
