No injuries from refinery fire in LA
LOS ANGELES (AP) A fire is burning at an oil refinery south of downtown Los Angeles but the fire department says there are no injuries or evacuations. The fire at the Tesoro refinery in the Wilmington area was reported shortly after 5 a.m. More tha...
 0.9K - Sep. 25, 2009; scored 723.0 Obama wants to end fossil fuel subsidies
WASHINGTON (AP) President Barack Obama is calling on the world to end massive government subsidies that encourage the use of fossil fuels blamed for global warming. The president, who is set to host the G-20 economic summit opening Thursday in Pitt...
5.3K - Sep. 23, 2009; scored 658.0 New jobless claims fall more than expected
WASHINGTON (AP) First-time claims for jobless benefits fell more than expected last week, evidence that companies are laying off fewer workers as the economy improves. The Labor Department said today that initial claims for unemployment insurance f...
3.3K - Sep. 10, 2009; scored 346.0 Infantry trains to aid local Iraqi governments
FORT STEWART, Ga. It was just another day for the U.S. Army in war-weary northern Iraq: insurgents in Mosul, political turf battles in Kirkuk, an attack on the Bayji oil refinery in Salah ad Din. All needed to be dealt with immediately. And all by ...
6.6K - Jul. 6, 2009; scored 618.0 Pump prices rise to $2.60 in Oregon
PORTLAND (AP) Gas prices are up almost 9 cents a gallon in Oregon this week with the average cost of regular unleaded at $2.60 a gallon. That s still much cheaper than this time last year, when the price topped $4. Oregon AAA spok...
0.7K - Jun. 3, 2009; scored 346.0 Price gouging is hurting locals
It's very hard to make ends meet let alone keep up with the cost of living in this bad recession and the continuation of rising gas prices. A few months ago, the price of gas was actually down around $1.67. Ever since then, the gas stations ...
2.1K - Apr. 14, 2009; scored 447.0 Falling fuel demand idles oil supertankers
NEW YORK Supertankers that once raced around the world to satisfy an unquenchable thirst for oil are now parked offshore, fully loaded, anchors down, their crews killing time. In the United States, vast storage farms for oil are almost out of room...
4.9K - Mar. 4, 2009; scored 1000.0 NASCAR owner Rousch promotes propane power
If Jack Roush has anything to say about it, propane soon will be used for more than grilling hamburgers and hot dogs at the infield cookout. In the wake of Sunday s Daytona 500 victory by Roush-Fenway NASCAR team driver Matt Kenseth, Roush was back a...
5.7K - Feb. 21, 2009; scored 447.0 Buy American - or bye, bye America
British jobs for British workers! thundered Gordon Brown, as he emerged from the shadow of Tony Blair to become prime minister. His populist sloganeering has now come back to bite him. Across Britain, thousands laid down tools in wildcat strikes in...
4.2K - Feb. 17, 2009; scored 346.0 Chevron posts fourth-quarter earnings of $4.9 billion
NEW YORK (AP) Chevron Corp. says it earned $4.9 billion in the fourth quarter though revenues plunged 26 percent with oil prices in sharp decline. Chevron, the second-largest U.S. oil company, reported Friday it earned $2.44 per s...
2.3K - Jan. 30, 2009; scored 693.0 Mary Beth Schafer
Funeral services will be held for Mary Beth Schafer, 85 of Myrtle Point, at 11 a.m. Monday, Dec. 22, at the Myrtle Point Chapel of Amling/Schroeder Funeral Service. Pastor Ronald Eichinger, of the Myrtle Point Baptist Church, will officiate. Visitati...
1.8K - Dec. 19, 2008; scored 346.0 Cow power: Dairy tests new manure-energy tech
GRANTS PASS Oregon s largest dairy will test a new generation of technology that captures methane from cow manure tapping an underused energy source and lowering greenhouse gas emissions. NW Natural and Bonneville Environmental Foundation are bui...
3.2K - Dec. 12, 2008; scored 346.0 Russian president visits Cold War ally Cuba
HAVANA (AP) Russia s president visited old Cold War ally Cuba on Thursday, spending hours with President Raul Castro on the final leg of a Latin America tour designed to increase Moscow s profile in a region long dominated by the United States. Dmi...
4.6K - Nov. 28, 2008; scored 517.0 Congress has fast-track tools
President-elect Barack Obama will have limited authority to overturn federal regulations approved in the waning months of the Bush administration. But a little-used power offers the new Democratic Congress an early test of how aggressively lawmakers ...
5.6K - Nov. 15, 2008; scored 346.0 | 
