Navajo Code Talkers will take their place in NYC vet parade
NEW YORK The famed Navajo Code Talkers, the elite Marine unit whose unbreakable code stymied the Japanese in World War II, fear their legacy will die with them. Only about 50 of the 400 Code Talkers are believed to be still alive, most living in t...
 5.7K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 95.0 EU feels employment pinch
PARIS (AP) Despite signs of an economic revival gathering pace around the globe, the millions of people laid off are unlikely to see relief any time soon as joblessness is still climbing in many of the world s largest economies. The European Union ...
1.0K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 60.0 Ida heads for U.S. after drenching C. America
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) Former Hurricane Ida drenched Central America as a tropical depression today and forecasters said it had some chance of regaining force and heading toward the U.S. Ida had winds of 75 mph when it hit the central Nicraguan co...
1.2K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 60.0 College Picks: LSU looks to shake up SEC
LSU has a chance to prevent that Alabama-Florida SEC championship game that everyone seems to be looking forward to in December. The ninth-ranked Tigers will be in Tuscaloosa on Saturday to face the third-ranked Crimson Tide, which can wrap up the SE...
4.1K - Nov. 5, 2009; scored 60.0 Caterpillars will turn into striped tiger moths
Question: I want to know about those orange and black caterpillars that come out this time of year crossing the roads? What kind of butterflies do they turn into, etc.? Answer: The orange and black critters, commonly called woolly worm or woolly be...
1.3K - Nov. 5, 2009; scored 60.0 N.M. calf fitted with prosthetic hind legs
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Meadow the yearling Black Angus calf spends her days frolicking in northeastern New Mexico s cattle country, all with her prosthetic hind legs. The bucolic scene seemed impossible just a few months ago, when rancher Nancy Dickens...
1.9K - Nov. 4, 2009; scored 95.0 Airport names director
The Coos County Airport District board has selected a new director to head the North Bend airport. Theresa Cook will begin at the Southwest Oregon Regional Airport in December, bringing with her 14 years of experience in airport management. District ...
1.8K - Oct. 30, 2009; scored 60.0 Search resumes for Navy plane, two pilots off Texas
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) The U.S. Coast Guard has resumed its search for two missing Navy pilots and their plane along the central Texas coast. The search had to be suspended Thursday night because of stormy weather. Petty Officer Charles Reaves ...
0.8K - Oct. 30, 2009; scored 60.0 State fines agents in investment scam
The Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services completed an investigation involving 10 investment brokers including two Bay Area insurance agents who collected more than $5 million from residents, many of them elderly. A state cease...
4.6K - Oct. 30, 2009; scored 60.0 College Picks: Big games will help sort out league races
Much like politics, college football is essentially local. Sure, Florida, Texas and Southern California will play huge rivalry games with national title implications Saturday. But more importantly, those three games will go a long way toward sorting ...
4.2K - Oct. 29, 2009; scored 60.0 Migration drops a crowd of pelicans
Welcome to the pelican convention. If you ve been to the beaches lately or cruised around Coos Bay, it s been hard to miss these lumbering visitors. Thousands of brown pelicans have converged on the south and central Oregon coast, with fall migration...
1.5K - Oct. 28, 2009; scored 60.0 TCU passes Boise State in new BCS standings
NEW YORK Boise State got bumped. TCU now is in position to be this season s BCS buster for now. The Horned Frogs passed the Broncos on Sunday in the Bowl Championship Series standings, with TCU jumping two spots from last week and Boise State fal...
3.6K - Oct. 26, 2009; scored 95.0 Alienated and now radicalized
In the brief age of Obama, we have had truthers, birthers, Tea Party activists and town-hall dissenters. Comes now, the Oath Keepers. And who might they be? Writes Alan Maimon in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Oath Keepers, depending on where on...
3.1K - Oct. 26, 2009; scored 60.0 N.M. hotel owner under fire
TAOS, N.M. (AP) Larry Whitten marched into this northern New Mexico town in late July on a mission: resurrect a failing hotel. The tough-talking former Marine immediately laid down some new rules. Among them, he forbade the Hispanic workers at the ...
5.3K - Oct. 26, 2009; scored 471.0 Idaho surges into bowl picture
MOSCOW, Idaho ” Everyone s smiling at Idaho quarterback Nathan Enderle these days. The surprising Vandals (6-1) are already bowl eligible and lead the Western Athletic Conference with a 3-0 record, ahead even of archrival No. 6 Boise State. It...
4.7K - Oct. 25, 2009; scored 60.0 $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 230.0 Idaho surges into bowl picture
MOSCOW, Idaho ” Everyone s smiling at Idaho quarterback Nathan Enderle these days. The surprising Vandals (6-1) are already bowl eligible and lead the Western Athletic Conference with a 3-0 record, ahead even of archrival No. 6 Boise State. It...
4.7K - Oct. 24, 2009; scored 60.0 $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 230.0 Oregon offers model to boost nursing faculty
PORTLAND A predicted national shortage of nurses in the next decade could be made worse by a shortage of the experienced nurses who train them at community colleges and universities around the country. In response, nursing education leaders from 11...
4.1K - Oct. 22, 2009; scored 60.0 College Picks: TCU can make its case for a BCS bid
Boise State better watch its back. TCU is trying to bust into the BCS, too. The sixth-ranked Broncos have drawn the most attention of the teams from the non-automatic BCS qualifying conferences this season. Boise State started the season with a convi...
5.2K - Oct. 22, 2009; scored 60.0 | 
