Kulongoski makes surprise visit to troops in Iraq
GRANTS PASS (AP) Gov. Ted Kulongoski has made another surprise trip to Iraq to visit Oregon National Guard troops. Speaking by telephone from Baghdad, where he was attending a barbecue with soldiers, the governor said Tuesday he was making good on ...
 3.8K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 75.0 Ida weakens to a tropical depression, heads east
DAUPHIN ISLAND, Ala. (AP) Ida sloshed ashore with rain and gusty winds before losing its tropical storm strength today, leaving weather-hardened Gulf Coast residents largely unscathed. The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said Ida s center f...
1.6K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 75.0 Ida weakens as it approaches Gulf
MIAMI (AP) Ida is no longer a hurricane as it loses strength over the water on its way to a landfall on the U.S. Gulf Coast sometime early Tuesday. The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami downgraded Ida to a tropical storm this morning after it...
0.7K - Nov. 9, 2009; scored 75.0 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 75.0 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 119.0 Report: State standards are set low
WASHINGTON Many states set achievement standards so low that they can say their students are reading and doing math at their grade level when they haven t truly mastered the subjects, the Education Department asserted today. The Obama administratio...
4.2K - Oct. 29, 2009; scored 75.0 Strict Oklahoma abortion laws spark court battles
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) Two new laws being challenged in the Oklahoma courts would give the state some of the strictest abortion laws in the country by forcing women to answer questions about race and their relationships, and to listen to a doctor talk ...
5.1K - Oct. 25, 2009; scored 75.0 Strict Oklahoma abortion laws spark court battles
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) Two new laws being challenged in the Oklahoma courts would give the state some of the strictest abortion laws in the country by forcing women to answer questions about race and their relationships, and to listen to a doctor talk ...
5.1K - Oct. 24, 2009; scored 75.0 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 75.0 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 75.0 Insurers dropping Chinese drywall policies
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. James and Maria Ivory s dreams of a relaxing retirement on Florida s Gulf Coast were put on hold when they discovered their new home had been built with Chinese drywall that emits sulfuric fumes and corrodes pipes. It got wor...
7.8K - Oct. 16, 2009; scored 75.0 Obama will listen to Katrina survivors
WASHINGTON (AP) President Barack Obama, who accused former President George W. Bush of leading a government that sits on its hands while a major American city drowns, is hearing directly from New Orleans residents who have struggled to rebuild th...
1.1K - Oct. 15, 2009; scored 75.0 Sports Briefs: Americans cruise to win in Presidents Cup
SAN FRANCISCO ” Tiger Woods provided a fitting conclusion to a perfect week at the Presidents Cup, for him and an American team that remains perfect at home. With a flop shot out of the trees to set up one last birdie, Woods won the point ...
4.8K - Oct. 12, 2009; scored 75.0 Sports Briefs: Phoenix forces Game 5 in finals
INDIANAPOLIS Cappie Pondexter scored 22 points and the Phoenix Mercury beat the Indiana Fever 90-77 in Game 4 of the WNBA finals, tying the best-of-five series. Penny Taylor added 17 points for the Mercury while Diana Taurasi and Tangela Smith each...
4.8K - Oct. 8, 2009; scored 75.0 College Picks: SEC in spotlight with big Saturday
Throughout the college football season, there will be at least a couple of weekends when the Southeastern Conference overshadows just about everything else going on around the country. This is one of those weekends. How is this for a double-header: N...
4.3K - Oct. 8, 2009; scored 119.0 Top chili cooks are heading to West Virginia
CHARLESTON, W.Va . (AP) Frog jumping and armadillo racing were among the activities Doug Wilkey and some college buddies stoked their competitive fires with over the years. Chili cook-offs outlasted them all. Wilkey won his first chili competition...
5.9K - Oct. 6, 2009; scored 75.0 Blount may get to play again for Ducks
EUGENE ” Oregon running back LeGarrette Blount s season-long suspension for punching an opponent could be lifted if he meets certain conditions, coach Chip Kelly said. It s not a football decision, it s a human being decision. It s about t...
3.8K - Oct. 3, 2009; scored 75.0 Money laundering case keeps DeLay doing legal limbo
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) Republican Tom DeLay danced the cha-cha and the tango on TV, but he s tiptoeing through a legal web as his criminal case crawls through the courts in Texas. The former U.S. House majority leader who s competing on ABC s hit show ...
5.3K - Oct. 3, 2009; scored 75.0 College Picks: Cal, Miami can bounce back with big wins
This is not the ideal way to bounce back from a loss. Miami and California, both coming off ugly performances in their first defeats of the season, get thrown right back into the grinder Saturday. The 17th-ranked Hurricanes are home after a soggy and...
4.0K - Oct. 1, 2009; scored 119.0 College Picks: Miami can enter BCS discussion
It s one of the most asked questions by college football fans and media members: Is (insert lagging program name here) back? as in back to being one of the elite program it once was. Alabama has been back and forth a bunch over the last decade or...
4.4K - Sep. 24, 2009; scored 151.0 | 
