Donovan takes top honors
LOS ANGELES The busiest and in many ways most difficult year in Landon Donovan s increasingly storied soccer career ultimately could be the most satisfying. That was his judgment Tuesday after claiming an unprecedented sixth Honda Player of the Yea...
 4.6K - Oct. 21, 2009; scored 110.0 'Love Happens,' as do soggy cliches
Love supposedly happens in Love Happens. We ll have to take their word for it. Aaron Eckhart and Jennifer Aniston are so utterly lacking in chemistry with each other (and they re both pretty bland individually) that it s hard to discern any genuine...
4.0K - Oct. 9, 2009; scored 110.0 Coos Bay disputes stifle opportunity
I recently read with amazement that the small coastal town of Warrenton has a Home Depot and is getting a Costco. This reality caused me to do some wondering. I wonder if Warrenton has a city council member who openingly and publicly criticized their...
2.2K - Oct. 6, 2009; scored 142.0 Wildfire exposes, destroys pot plantations
LOS ANGELES The wildfire that has ravaged a national forest near Los Angeles has burned one plant species that authorities were happy to see go: marijuana, lots of it. The fire destroyed an untold number of marijuana plantations in the Angeles Nat...
4.7K - Sep. 19, 2009; scored 142.0 Thefts and Mischief
The following are theft and criminal mischief reports from police logs. Coos Bay Sept. 8, 8:39 a.m., theft of services was reported near Donnelly Avenue and Seventh Street. Sept. 8, 9:37 a.m., two people were seen smoking marijuana in the 300 block ...
4.2K - Sep. 10, 2009; scored 110.0 Which retailers would you like to see in the Coos Bay-North Bend area?
Jake Young Home Depot We always have a project going on. Jake Young, Bandon April Henry TJ Maxx, Gap, Old Navy and Gymboree They have good deals, depending on when you shop, and a good selection. April Henry, Coos Bay Michael Reasor Toys R Us It see...
2.3K - Aug. 29, 2009; scored 733.0 Boxed out?
Warrenton is experiencing a box-store boom.The town is quickly becoming the premier shopping destination in northwestern Oregon s Clatsop County. It has Home Depot, Costco, Walgreens, Rite Aid among other national retailers but a population of on...
7.9K - Aug. 29, 2009; scored 948.0 Aiming for innovation
MYRTLE POINT If only Jim Roman were friends with Donald Trump or Oprah. All he needs is someone with deep pockets to express interest in one of his inventions and he d be in the big leagues. Attracting investors is one of the biggest challenges inv...
6.1K - Aug. 22, 2009; scored 182.0 Struggling Arena Football League closes its doors
The Arena Football League has shut down, this time indefinitely. The league, which previously called off play for the 2009 season but had said it planned to return in 2010, sent a terse, one-paragraph statement to its teams late Tuesday announcing it...
3.6K - Aug. 6, 2009; scored 110.0 Buick ends 50 years of PGA Tour sponsorship
Buick ended more than 50 years of PGA Tour sponsorship when it announced that it no longer will sponsor golf tournaments in Michigan and California because of the court-ordered restructuring of parent General Motors. The decision came two days after ...
4.9K - Aug. 5, 2009; scored 110.0 Northwest dries out in record triple-digit heat
SEATTLE (AP) Forecasters are offering the hope of slightly cooler temperatures to Northwest residents after Seattle recorded the hottest day in its history and Portland fell just 1 degree short of its own record-breaker. The National Weather Servic...
2.2K - Jul. 30, 2009; scored 142.0 Heat beats record
From AP and Staff Reports The mercury didn't hit triple digits in Coquille, but the Coos County seat joined a number of Northwest cities in setting new daily high temperatures for July 28. It was 81 in Coquille on Tuesday, according to the National W...
4.6K - Jul. 29, 2009; scored 174.0 IQ scores linked to prenatal pollution
CHICAGO Researchers for the first time have linked air pollution exposure before birth with lower IQ scores in childhood, bolstering evidence that smog may harm the developing brain. The results are in a study of 249 children of New York City women...
4.3K - Jul. 20, 2009; scored 110.0 Twenty good years
Coquille Indian Tribe members have a lot to celebrate at this weekend s 20th anniversary event, including their culture, their history and prospects for a plentiful future. Tribal leaders say they hope to keep building on the tribe s success, by main...
6.1K - Jun. 27, 2009; scored 214.0 Sports Briefs: NFL tries to stave off work stoppage
NEW YORK The NFL and its players union opened talks in a bid to avoid a work stoppage in 2011, when the current labor contract expires. Commissioner Roger Goodell and DeMaurice Smith, the new executive director of the NFL Players Association, were...
7.0K - Jun. 4, 2009; scored 165.0 Propane suppliers quietly reduce the size of refills
DENVER (AP) Backyard grillers may get a little steamed this holiday weekend when buying refilled propane tanks: They will be getting less fuel for their money than last Memorial Day. When oil prices soared in 2008, propane suppliers quietly reduced...
3.2K - May. 23, 2009; scored 174.0 Owl is at home in Home Depot
HARRISON, Ark. (AP) - A Home Depot in northern Arkansas has someone new looking out for mice in the garden center. Someone with wings. A great horned owl flew inside of the Harrison store's garden center during a January ice storm and built a nest at...
1.6K - Apr. 24, 2009; scored 506.0 Years ago this week, March 8-14
Here's a look back from The World's archives at stories in the news during this week in history. 1931 Monday, March 9 Peter Loggie, 40 years a resident of Coos Bay, is gone. Pneumonia, which he contracted Friday night, was fatal at 1:55 this morn...
5.0K - Mar. 11, 2009; scored 110.0 Consumers cut back spending
WASHINGTON The economy shrank at a 3.8 percent pace at the end of 2008, the worst showing in a quarter-century, as the deepening recession forced consumers and businesses to throttle back spending. Although the initial result was better than econom...
8.3K - Jan. 30, 2009; scored 165.0 Obama reaches out on economy
WASHINGTON President Barack Obama is making good on his promise to hear from Republicans as he pushes for swift passage and bipartisan backing of his massive $825 billion plan intended to jolt the country out of recession. The unanswered q...
4.0K - Jan. 27, 2009; scored 110.0 | 
