Multnomah sheriff asks state for investigation
PORTLAND (AP) The new sheriff of Multnomah County has asked the state agency that oversees police certification to speed up its investigation into a high-ranking officer. Sheriff Dan Staton contacted the Oregon Department of Public Safety Standards...
 0.9K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 101.0 Smash up leads to ticket for driver
Oregon State Police troopers cited a Charleston man Monday following a two-vehicle crash on Cape Arago Highway south of Coos Bay. A 2002 Ford Ranger pickup pulled into traffic from a driveway near Driftwood Lane and collided with a 1989 Cadillac Eldo...
0.6K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 128.0 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 64.0 Police look for driver who fled crash scene
Medics took a Coos Bay woman to a hospital Friday, following a single-vehicle accident near Bastendorff Beach. Coos County deputies responded to Coos Head Road where they found a crashed Ford Ranger pickup. The driver and a passenger reportedly fled ...
0.5K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 332.0 Police ticket Springfield woman after crash
Coos County deputies arrested a Springfield woman Sunday morning on drunken-driving charges, following a single-vehicle crash near U.S. Highway 101 north of North Bend. North Bay firefighters and deputies responded to North Bay Road near the intersec...
0.7K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 64.0 Bunker Hill assault report lands man in jail
Coos County deputies arrested Mark Potter, 30, of Coos Bay, this morning on charges of first-degree burglary and fourth-degree assault. Police responded to 93613 W. Howard Road in Bunker Hill, where the owner said he d been assaulted by his neighbor....
0.4K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 64.0 Don't deny a person's innocence
You can t have it both ways. Either a defendant is proven guilty or not. If not, then the defendant is innocent. You can t be maybe guilty in our legal system as implied in an editorial. Just because the police make an arrest or the DA s office bri...
0.6K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 101.0 Shoving tobacco smoke out the door
Smokers may wonder how much guff they must endure from a disapproving society. The answer is: More all the time, so get used to it. Back in the day, lighting up was as stylish as the tilted brim of Humphrey Bogart s fedora. People did it everywhere, ...
1.9K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 64.0 2 dead, reports of others shot at Tualatin office
TUALATIN, Ore. (AP) Oregon police say a shooting at drug-testing facility in a suburban Portland office park has left two people dead and two others wounded. Police say the apparent shooter was among those killed, apparently from a self-inflected g...
1.0K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 101.0 Bomb kills 24, wounds 102 in NW Pakistan
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) A car bomb exploded outside a crowded market in northwestern Pakistan today, killing at least 24 people in the latest attack by suspected militants apparently aimed at avenging an army offensive along the Afghan border. The ...
2.5K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 64.0 Coos County implements DUI task force
Coos county police agencies have created the state s first South Coast DUI Task Force. And officials are hoping other Oregon counties will follow their lead in combating drunken driving. It s a pilot program, Coquille Police Chief Mark Dannels said....
3.6K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 149.0 Police search for woman
The Coos County Search and Rescue Team is looking for a 31-year-old Coquille woman who went missing Monday under suspicious circumstances. Jayme Austin called her mother, Cindy Gisholt, who was at work Monday morning and told her she didn t have any ...
1.4K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 64.0 Sherbondy in prison for 2 years
COQUILLE When Gwen Sherbondy stole money from a graduation fund for Coquille seniors, she didn t just take $11,665. As a parent helper for the fundraiser, she also betrayed the community s trust to pay for her gambling addiction. It s for this...
4.2K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 101.0 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 167.0 Assault leads to Brookings man s arrest
Brookings police arrested a 41-year-old man on multiple charges Saturday morning. Police arrested Donald Lawson, of Brookings, at 2:20 a.m. on charges of fourth-degree assault, harassment and reckless endangerment. No further details of the incident ...
0.4K - Nov. 9, 2009; scored 101.0 Fight lands man in jail on drug charge
One Coos Bay bank was closed Saturday, but police picked up a man in the parking lot, and soon after made a deposit at the Coos County jail. At 2:27 a.m., officers responded to a call about man and woman fighting outside Sterling Savings Bank, 150 S....
0.6K - Nov. 9, 2009; scored 64.0 Suspect is awake
SAN ANTONIO (AP) A U.S. Army hospital spokesman says the man suspected in a deadly shooting spree at Fort Hood, Texas, is conscious and able to talk. Dewey Mitchell, a spokesman at Brooke Army Medical Center, says Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan remains in ...
0.8K - Nov. 9, 2009; scored 64.0 Fort Hood is on the mend after shootings
FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) Pvt. Joseph Foster took a bullet in the leg during the Fort Hood shooting rampage. He pauses when he s asked about the mayhem, then credits a stout heritage with bringing him through the ordeal and leaving him eager for his sc...
4.0K - Nov. 9, 2009; scored 64.0 Landslides hit 20 homes, killing 14
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) Torrential rains triggered a series of landslides on Indonesia s Sulawesi island, killing at least 14 residents and burying many more, a local official said today. The downpours sent a mass of mud slamming into about 20 hous...
0.9K - Nov. 9, 2009; scored 64.0 CB officials begin search for city manager
The city of Coos Bay has scheduled a special council meeting Tuesday to decide who should manage City Hall. The council will consider whether to hire an interim city manager from a list of candidates compiled by the League of Oregon Cities, ask forme...
1.2K - Nov. 9, 2009; scored 64.0 | 
