Crash sends woman to Coquille hospital
Medics took a Shady Cove woman to a hospital Monday following a single-car crash on state Highway 42 east of Myrtle Point. A 1999 Oldsmobile Alero was westbound on Highway 42 near milepost 26 when it left the wet roadway and crashed into vegetation a...
 0.5K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 186.0 Best out of hospital
BERKELEY, Calif. California star tailback Jahvid Best has been released from the hospital and will miss at least one game after sustaining a concussion on a terrifying fall in the end zone. Best spent the night at Highland General Hospital in Oakla...
1.3K - Nov. 9, 2009; scored 193.0 Local panel fields questions on health policy
When Rep. Peter DeFazio visited the coast three months ago, people crowded into town halls to vehemently voice concerns and ask questions about public health care reform. It was a different setting Saturday morning at Coos Bay City Hall. A panel of e...
7.2K - Nov. 9, 2009; scored 186.0 Man injured in Highway 38 crash
Medics took a 42-year-old man to a hospital following a crash Thursday night on state Highway 38 near Scottsburg. Police responded to milepost 21, where a westbound 2003 Chrysler PT Cruiser went off the road into trees and knocked over a fence, the D...
0.8K - Nov. 7, 2009; scored 186.0 Matthew Gary Ramey
A memorial service will be held for Matthew Gary Ramey, 43, of St. Helens at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 15, 2009, at the Port Orford Christian Center in Port Orford. Graveside services will follow at the Port Orford Cemetery. Matt was born May 1, 1966, i...
2.8K - Nov. 7, 2009; scored 145.0 Who will teach nurses?
COOS BAY Experienced nurses have seen it before. In a recession, retired and semi-retired RNs come out of the woodwork to support their families. But once this economic slump ends, nurses including Susan Walker foresee a shortage of medical worker...
4.6K - Nov. 5, 2009; scored 217.0 Man rescued after truck goes into river
DAMASCUS (AP) A 57-year-old man whose pickup drifted off state Highway 224, then crashed down an 80-foot embankment and into the Clackamas River has been plucked to safety by a Clackamas County water rescue team. Oregon State Police said Richard Sa...
0.7K - Nov. 4, 2009; scored 161.0 Thefts & Mischief
The following are theft and criminal mischief reports from police logs. Coos Bay Nov. 1, 9:20 a.m., an attempted burglary was reported in the 600 block of South Wasson Street. Nov. 1, 10:24 a.m., domestic harassment was reported in the 700 block of D...
7.5K - Nov. 3, 2009; scored 161.0 This little piggy used hand wipes
The best thing to be said about the swine flu epidemic is, it could be worse. Vaccines have been slow to arrive. Even high-risk population groups remain mostly unimmunized. The illness has decimated classrooms and offices. But some things are going w...
1.9K - Nov. 3, 2009; scored 193.0 Accident sends woman to hospital
Medics took a Coos Bay woman to the hospital Monday night after she lost control of her car, sliding into a ditch. The tan Buick Century, driven by 60-year-old Karen Woods, was eastbound on Cape Arago Highway near Painter Avenue, when it left the roa...
0.6K - Oct. 27, 2009; scored 145.0 Second wave of H1N1 flu could hit
COOS BAY Oregon is preparing for four times as many influenza cases this year, because of the emergence of the new H1N1 strain. That could mean four times as many hospitalizations and four times as many deaths. All of the flu cases so far this year...
4.9K - Oct. 27, 2009; scored 384.0 Health care forum planned
As changes to health care policy have been a prevalent part of the public debate in recent months, members of the local League of Women Voters wondered about the realities: What are the current problems in delivering health care locally? How will som...
1.6K - Oct. 27, 2009; scored 122.0 Pendleton man to buy troubled gorge hotel
PORTLAND (AP) The troubled Columbia Gorge Hotel may have found a buyer after it closed last January. Vijay Patel, who owns a small chain of hotels in Eastern Oregon and Washington state, told The Oregonian he will buy the historic hotel for more th...
2.3K - Oct. 26, 2009; scored 145.0 Two killed in crash near Roseburg
TENMILE (AP) An Oregon man and a Minnesota woman have died in a single car crash near Tenmile. Oregon State Police say 37-year-old Jason Wiess, of Tenmile, was westbound on state Highway 42 at about 9:35 p.m. Saturday, when he lost control of his C...
0.9K - Oct. 26, 2009; scored 209.0 Runner. Teacher. Singer?
Doug Veysey wasn t even a runner until five years ago. Since then, he has run seven marathons and qualified for the prestigious Boston Marathon. And last week the Myrtle Point teacher was presented the 2009 Governor s Fitness Leadership Award. It s p...
2.9K - Oct. 23, 2009; scored 161.0 College provides career training in health care
Southwestern Oregon Community College has several opportunities for people interested in health care careers. Southwestern offers both a face-to-face and an online version of the basic nursing assistant courses, and is hoping to have its first cohort...
1.9K - Oct. 23, 2009; scored 169.0 Gardiner crash sends 1 to hospital
A Florence man remained in the hospital this morning, after crashing on U.S. Highway 101 in Gardiner on Wednesday afternoon. Around 4 p.m., a 1983 Toyota RN5, driven by Jason Perrington, 39, was northbound on Highway 101 near Fivemile Road. The vehic...
0.9K - Oct. 22, 2009; scored 163.0 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 250.0 Sports Briefs: Pujols to have surgery on elbow
ST. LOUIS For the second straight offseason, Albert Pujols will undergo arthroscopic surgery on his right elbow. The St. Louis Cardinals said in a brief news release that the two-time NL MVP will undergo a debridement procedure which could be use...
3.7K - Oct. 21, 2009; scored 243.0 OSU says more than 200 with swine flu
CORVALLIS (AP) A health official at Oregon State University says the swine flu has sickened more than 200 students in the past two weeks. Health Services director Phill Histand says none of the students required hospitalization. He says the flu has...
0.4K - Oct. 16, 2009; scored 122.0 | 
