Bandon library beckons birders
BANDON Ameri-Corps volunteer Kelly Balcarczyk needs some local volunteers to help with her community project. On assignment with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Bandon, Balcarczyk is recruiting potential bird watchers who regularly visit the ...
 3.5K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 99.0 Dems target overdraft fees
WASHINGTON (AP) Senior congressional Democrats say legislation is still needed to limit when and how lenders charge customers for overdrafts, even though some big banks have curbed their fees for exceeding account balances. Rep. Barney Frank, the c...
2.1K - Oct. 30, 2009; scored 99.0 Man sentenced in prison food bribes
EUGENE (AP) A Maryland businessman has been sentenced to three months in federal prison for his role in an Oregon prison food bribery scandal. Douglas R. Levene had pleaded guilty two years ago to paying more than $600,000 in bribes to former ...
0.8K - Oct. 28, 2009; scored 99.0 $205 Million man says he sold meth chemical
MEXICO CITY (AP) A Chinese-Mexican businessman arrested after police found a $205 million stash of cash in his Mexico City mansion has told U.S. prosecutors he sold tons of a chemical used to make methamphetamine on the black market, a top Mex...
6.8K - Oct. 25, 2009; scored 99.0 $205 Million man says he sold meth chemical
MEXICO CITY (AP) A Chinese-Mexican businessman arrested after police found a $205 million stash of cash in his Mexico City mansion has told U.S. prosecutors he sold tons of a chemical used to make methamphetamine on the black market, a top Mex...
6.8K - Oct. 24, 2009; scored 99.0 College tuition is up amid recession
With the economy struggling, parents and students dared to hope this year might offer a break from rising college costs. Instead, they got another sharp increase. Average tuition at four-year public colleges in the U.S. climbed 6.5 percent, or $...
6.0K - Oct. 21, 2009; scored 99.0 Recall Rebound
WASHINGTON Go figure: Food makers processed more peanuts over the past year than nearly any other time on record despite a national salmonella outbreak blamed for killing nine people and scaring consumers away from peanut products for months. Peanu...
4.8K - Oct. 20, 2009; scored 99.0 Feds back off medical marijuana users
WASHINGTON Federal drug agents won t pursue pot-smoking patients or their sanctioned suppliers in states including Oregon that allow medical marijuana, under new legal guidelines to be issued today by the Obama administration. Two Justice Departmen...
4.2K - Oct. 19, 2009; scored 99.0 Thefts & Mischief
The following are theft and criminal mischief reports from police logs. Coos Bay Oct. 9, 10:18 a.m., an 81-year-old woman was the victim of a telephone scam in the 900 block of Seagate Avenue. Oct. 9, 11:28 a.m., neighbors made numerous complaints of...
6.2K - Oct. 12, 2009; scored 99.0 Was it the deal or steal of the century?
IRVING, Texas ” Jimmy Johnson has a challenge for anyone who believes the Herschel Walker trade singlehandedly turned the Dallas Cowboys into the dominant team of the 1990s. Trace it, the former Cowboys coach said. You can t do it. Twent...
7.4K - Oct. 10, 2009; scored 99.0 Thefts & Mischief
The following are theft and criminal mischief reports from police logs. Coos Bay Oct. 8, 1:05 a.m., someone broke into a vehicle at Southwestern Oregon Community College, 1988 Newmark Ave. Oct. 8, 3:13 a.m., a prowler was reported in the 500 block o...
1.9K - Oct. 9, 2009; scored 99.0 Astronomers discover big Saturn ring
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) The Spitzer Space Telescope has discovered the biggest but never-before-seen ring around the planet Saturn, NASA s Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced late Tuesday. The thin array of ice and dust particles lies at the far reac...
2.2K - Oct. 7, 2009; scored 99.0 Senate Democrats propose surveillance law changes
WASHINGTON (AP) Democratic senators, beginning work on revisions to the nation s major counterterrorism law, want the government to meet tougher tests when requesting the right to conduct surveillance and seize records and other property. Three exp...
3.6K - Sep. 23, 2009; scored 99.0 Senate Dems plan tweaks in Baucus bill
WASHINGTON ” Senate Democrats see plenty of room for improvement in a sweeping health care overhaul bill, starting with changes to a tax on high-cost insurance policies that could hit middle-class Americans hard. Senate Finance Committee C...
5.1K - Sep. 18, 2009; scored 99.0 Senate votes to deny funds to ACORN
WASHINGTON (AP) ” The Senate voted Monday to block the Housing and Urban Development Department from giving grants to ACORN, a community organization under fire in several voter-registration fraud cases. The 83-7 vote would deny housing an...
3.6K - Sep. 16, 2009; scored 99.0 Vernon Brecke
A celebration of life potluck with sharing of stories and memories will be held for Vernon Brecke, 57, of Coos Bay, from 3 to 6 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 19, at the Southwestern Oregon Community College Culinary Arts Center, 1988 Newmark Ave., Coos Bay. ...
3.8K - Sep. 15, 2009; scored 99.0 Police find body
NEW HAVEN, Conn. Police are hunting for the killer who stuffed a body believed to be that of a Yale University graduate student behind a wall in the high-security laboratory building where she worked. Police found the body around 5 p.m. Sunday, on ...
4.8K - Sep. 14, 2009; scored 99.0 Soldier killed in Iraq war honored with base name
REDMOND An air passenger terminal at a base northeast of Baghdad has been named for Pfc. Cody J. Eggleston, a soldier from Oregon who died from injuries in the Iraq war. The 21-year-old was wounded in an Oct. 16 attack at Forward Operating Base War...
1.6K - Sep. 5, 2009; scored 99.0 Thefts and Mischief
The following are theft and criminal mischief reports from police logs. Coos Bay Sept. 2, 11:59 a.m., a man told police his neighbors are continually harassing him in the 600 block of Central Avenue. Sept. 2, 12:26 p.m., two girls were opening the ti...
4.4K - Sep. 3, 2009; scored 99.0 Another Sen. Kennedy in Massachusetts?
WASHINGTON Another Kennedy just might occupy the Kennedy seat in the Senate. Amid the emotional public outpouring over the death of Sen. Edward Kennedy, talk of a successor has focused on his widow, Victoria Reggie Kennedy, and his nephew, Joseph K...
4.9K - Sep. 1, 2009; scored 99.0 | 
