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 288.0 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 476.0 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 288.0 Coho plan regulation has disastrous results
The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife is allowing fishing for fin-clipped coho salmon in the Pacific Ocean and it is a disaster. Only 29,108 have been caught to date with 39,860 wild and undersized coho released. At least 22,720 of those release...
1.3K - Aug. 8, 2009; scored 372.0 Research: Winds are slowing way down
WASHINGTON - The wind, a favorite power source of the green energy movement, seems to be dying down across the United States. And the cause, ironically, may be global warming - the very problem wind power seeks to address. The idea that winds may be ...
5.5K - Jun. 10, 2009; scored 288.0 Sports Briefs: Birdie binge gives Crane lead
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. Ben Crane should have known what was coming when he rolled in a 30-foot birdie putt on the first hole of the day. He kept right on pouring them in until he had a 7-under 65 and a one-shot lead in The Players Championship. Cr...
5.4K - May. 8, 2009; scored 288.0 Study: Rivers see flow decline
WASHINGTON (AP) - The flow of water in the world's largest rivers has declined over the past half-century, with significant changes found in about a third of the big rivers. An analysis of 925 major rivers from 1948 to 2004 showed an overall decline...
4.8K - Apr. 21, 2009; scored 1000.0 Clean water expert targets farm runoff in Gulf of Mexico
MOBILE, Ala. - A clean water expert at Auburn University hopes a new project that enlists middle and high school students will help reduce farm runoff that is a growing pollution threat to the Gulf of Mexico. Bill Deutsch said colleagues in Veracruz,...
5.5K - Apr. 10, 2009; scored 430.0 Can marine shipping ease traffic?
NORFOLK, Va. An idea that dates to Lewis and Clark s trek west is experiencing a rebirth thanks to the truck traffic that increasingly chokes highways: shift more of the nation s freight burden to boats that can traverse rivers, lakes, canals and c...
6.9K - Feb. 23, 2009; scored 694.0 Surfin' USA
From sea to shining sea, two surfing buddies found waves wherever they went. Stefan Hunt and Jonno Durrant hung 10 on a prodigious pile of sugar beets in Idaho, caught swells behind a boat in an alligator-infested Mississippi swamp and were towed b...
7.1K - Jan. 31, 2009; scored 288.0 Nursery damage put at $18 to $31 million
PORTLAND Damage estimates to Oregon s nursery stock industry from late December storms suffered by 160 growers in 12 counties range from $18 to $31 million in a survey conducted by the Oregon Association of Nurseries. It s now cle...
2.6K - Jan. 8, 2009; scored 288.0 Storms helped Gulf Coast fish
It turns out there may be an upside to a busy Gulf of Mexico hurricane season if you happen to be a shrimp or a clam. The silver lining on the storm clouds has to do with the effect of tumultuous tropical weather on the Gulf s oxygen-depleted dead...
5.5K - Nov. 28, 2008; scored 288.0 Claude Junior Lemon
A celebration of life will be held for Claude Junior Lemon, 81, of Bandon at 2 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 22, at the Independent Order of Odd Fellows Hall, Highway 42 S. Services will be offered by Pastor John P. Gustafson, of the Tri-City Baptist Church i...
3.8K - Nov. 15, 2008; scored 288.0 | 
