North, S. Korea vie in naval clash
SEOUL, South Korea A badly damaged North Korean patrol ship retreated in flames today after a skirmish with a South Korean naval vessel along their disputed western coast, South Korean officials said. The first naval clash between the two sides in ...
 6.8K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 110.0 Sports Briefs: Kansas City releases RB Larry Johnson
KANSAS CITY, Mo. The Kansas City Chiefs have run out of patience with running back Larry Johnson s off-the-field problems and released the former Pro Bowl running back the day he was due to come back from his second suspension in a year. Johnson, w...
2.5K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 122.0 Hockey greats join Hall of Fame
TORONTO Steve Yzerman has one regret when looking back on his Hall of Fame career: He wishes he didn t return to ice four years ago after the NHL lockout. I really debated should I come back, is this the right thing or not? the former Red Wings ca...
3.4K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 203.0 Five Yankees opt to become free agents
NEW YORK World Series MVP Hideki Matsui became a free agent Monday along with New York Yankees teammates Johnny Damon, Eric Hinske, Jose Molina and Xavier Nady. Matsui and Damon both said after the Yankees six-game victory over Philadelphia last w...
2.0K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 132.0 Abdul-Jabbar being treated for rare form of leukemia
NEW YORK Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is being treated for a rare form of leukemia, and the basketball great said his prognosis is encouraging. The NBA s all-time leading scorer was diagnosed last December with chronic myeloid leukemia, he told The Associa...
3.4K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 122.0 NBA: Nash has 20 assists in win
PHILADELPHIA Jason Richardson scored 29 points, Steve Nash added 21 points and tied his season-high with 20 assists and the Phoenix Suns beat the Philadelphia 76ers 119-115 on Monday night. The Suns eclipsed the 100-point barrier for the eighth str...
3.6K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 154.0 Steelers rally for victory
DENVER Ben Roethlisberger was missing reads and his receivers, and it had the Pittsburgh Steelers reeling in the first half. It was all so very unlike Roethlisberger. The situation only got worse after halftime, when his sack and fumble led to Robe...
4.2K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 74.0 Thefts & Mischief
The following are theft and criminal mischief reports from police logs. Coos Bay Nov. 9, 8:21 a.m., a man reported his wallet was taken while he was sleeping at the South Coast Gospel Mission, 1999 N. Seventh St. Nov. 9, 8:54 a.m., a student had her ...
3.1K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 110.0 Looking back at 'On the Origin of Species'
It was revolutionary. This month, 150 years ago, Charles Darwin published "On the Origin of Species." Darwin's experiences as the naturalist on the HMS Beagle on its five-year 'round the world voyage were just part of a life-long love of natural scie...
3.5K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 95.0 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 74.0 U.S. troops likely for Afghanistan in January
WASHINGTON (AP) President Barack Obama is nearing a decision to add tens of thousands more forces to Afghanistan, though probably not quite the 40,000 sought by his top general there. The White House emphasized that the president hasn t made a deci...
3.3K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 122.0 Women of the Year:
NEW YORK Even for a venue as grand as New York s Carnegie Hall, there was a pretty dazzling concentration of star power at Glamour magazine s Women of the Year awards. Pop star Rihanna was there, in the most body-hugging of gowns. Tennis star Seren...
4.8K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 169.0 Bill Clinton pitches health bill to Dems
WASHINGTON Former President Bill Clinton knows just how high the political stakes are in the fight to overhaul America s health care system. His failed attempt to revamp the delivery of medical care contributed to the Republican takeover of the Hou...
3.8K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 122.0 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 178.0 FBI reassess its past look at Fort Hood suspect
WASHINGTON (AP) Nearly a year before Maj. Nidal Hasan allegedly went on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood, terrorism investigators conducted an assessment of him before deciding he did not pose a threat. After the shooting, the FBI is doing a new a...
5.9K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 154.0 Curry campus close to reality
The dean of Southwestern Oregon Community College s Curry campus has a lot of hope for her school s future. She s looking forward to the day when all Curry classes will be held under one roof, to the day when she won t have to whisper in her office t...
3.6K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 154.0 Homebrew students learn to customize beer flavors
PORTLAND Learning to brew your own beer in Portland, a.k.a. Beervana, would seem to be pointlessness personified. Yet 80 homebrewers and brewers-to-be spent a rainy Saturday morning doing just that in a stark warehouse warmed only by two boiling k...
4.6K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 95.0 Grandparents can help kids love reading
Within the last week, two grandparents from opposite ends of the country e-mailed to say that they regularly buy books for their grandchildren based on my reviews. Of course, I m very flattered. But more than that, their selfless acts of generosity i...
4.8K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 95.0 Some moms struggle with disappointment
LAS VEGAS My good friend just found out she is pregnant with a boy. It is her first child, and instead of celebrating the good news, she cried during her ultrasound. That s because she really wanted a girl. Good mothers are supposed to say they are...
3.5K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 95.0 No need to knead
For physician Jeffrey Hertzberg and baker Zoe Francois, the journey to no-knead bread began innocently enough. While their toddlers learned to play the xylophone in a Minneapolis music class, Hertzberg began telling Francois about his no-knead, 5-min...
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