Sports Briefs: Group to push for playoffs over BCS
WASHINGTON Lawmakers who have been trying to prod college football to replace the Bowl Championship Series with a playoff system now have a political action committee. A group of college football fans launched the Playoff PAC with the goal of elect...
 6.7K - Oct. 20, 2009; scored 161.0 A light in the tunnel
NOTI The Coos Bay Rail Link has exactly three flatbed railcars riding its rails. No, they aren t hauling any cargo. They are helping restore rail service to shippers along the 111-mile line. Their current home is inside Tunnel 13. It cuts through a...
4.5K - Sep. 19, 2009; scored 274.0 A new line of talks
Port officials are talking with railroad giant Union Pacific about leasing or purchasing the tracks from Coos Bay to Coquille. The short segment of line is considered crucial to operating the railroad successfully. Repairs are under way on four tunne...
2.3K - Sep. 18, 2009; scored 268.0 Repair work begins on rail link tunnels
A Tillamook construction team has started work to fix dangerous tunnels along the Coos Bay Rail Link. LRL Construction began removing rotting timber sets from a tunnel outside Vaughn on Tuesday, the first of four tunnels scheduled for improvements. T...
1.2K - Sep. 10, 2009; scored 126.0 Curtis Dean Mason
A celebration of life for Curtis Dean Mason, 80, of Gold Beach, formerly of Myrtle Point, will be held at 1 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 12, at the Coquille Valley Elks Lodge, 54942 Maple Heights Road in Coquille. Pastor Jim Lloyd will officiate. Curtis "De...
3.8K - Sep. 5, 2009; scored 98.0 NB gym gets glitzy new floor
NORTH BEND Boyd Bjorkquist has spent the past decade looking out his office window onto a drab basketball court, with a synthetic surface that has gradually been wearing out. Now the North Bend athletic director looks out on a shiny new basketball ...
4.8K - Jul. 31, 2009; scored 126.0 Ah, the Washington media elite
Court societies invariably expend amazing amounts of time and energy squabbling over arcane matters of order and degree. Decaying aristocracies become obsessed with hierarchical minutia: who outranks whom, and for precisely which reasons? So it is am...
5.0K - Jul. 21, 2009; scored 98.0 Seattle light rail line debuts
SEATTLE (AP) A new light rail line is set to debut in Seattle. The 13.9-mile Link route between downtown Seattle and the south Seattle suburb of Tukwila opens Saturday. Free rides are being offered Saturday and Sunday. Sound Transit officials have ...
0.6K - Jul. 19, 2009; scored 448.0 Railroad ready for repairs
Contractors could begin repairs to four tunnels on the Coos Bay Rail Link by the end of the month. The Oregon International Port of Coos Bay awarded a contract to LRL Construction of Tillamook to do the work, but it has been delayed by paperwork requ...
1.8K - Jul. 17, 2009; scored 176.0 Nobody ever forgets their first sprint of shame
Joe Hansen, Outdoors Editor Most runners know what the sprint of shame is, although perhaps they don t call it that. It s that point at the end of a jog when a runner has nothing left, but still has to sprint it out because people are watching. It s ...
3.6K - Jul. 6, 2009; scored 98.0 Column, Joe Hansen, OUtdoors Editor: Nobody ever forgets their first sprint of shame
Most runners know what the sprint of shame is, although perhaps they don t call it that. It s that point at the end of a jog when a runner has nothing left, but still has to sprint it out because people are watching. It s ugly, full of flailing arms ...
3.6K - Jul. 4, 2009; scored 98.0 Stimulus money slows traffic on highways
Oh, so you've noticed there are few more cars, trucks, pickups, RVS and motorcycles on the highways these days. OK, a lot more. Here's a rundown of road construction to help you plan your travels through July 10. Coos County Where: U.S. Highway 101 b...
3.6K - Jul. 3, 2009; scored 98.0 Transport chief praises U.S.-made streetcar
PORTLAND (AP) - President Obama's transportation secretary, Ray LaHood, has words of praise for both Portland's mass transit and the first U.S.-made streetcar in decades. LaHood told Oregon's congressional delegation on Wednesday that the region's co...
2.7K - Jul. 2, 2009; scored 146.0 Petroleum train derails in Italy, kills 12, burns 50
VIAREGGIO, Italy - A freight train carrying petroleum gas derailed and exploded in the midst of a small Tuscan town, setting off a fire that killed at least 12 people - many as they slept in their homes - and injured at least 50, Italian officials sa...
6.2K - Jun. 30, 2009; scored 214.0 Port awards contract for tunnel repairs
The Oregon International Port of Coos Bay is moving forward with tunnel repairs that led Central Oregon Pacific Railroad to close the Coos Bay Rail Line in September 2007. The Board of Commissioners awarded a contract to LRL Construction Co. of Til...
0.9K - Jun. 27, 2009; scored 161.0 Investigators look at track censor issues
WASHINGTON (AP) - Commuter rail tracks in the nation's capital are studded with devices that detect passing trains and tell them when to stop or slow down. But those devices on the stretch of track near where nine people were killed in a train crash ...
1.4K - Jun. 25, 2009; scored 98.0 Bailout review may tag banks strong or weak
NEW YORK - The government is set to announce as early as this morning which of the country's biggest banks will be able to repay billions in federal bailout dollars in a decision that risks creating a two-tier banking system - winners and losers. Con...
6.2K - Jun. 9, 2009; scored 98.0 Summer Bird spoils jockey s Triple Crown
NEW YORK This was a Belmont for the Birds. It was Summer Bird, not Mine That Bird and jockey Calvin Borel, who came roaring down the long stretch and won the final jewel of the Triple Crown on Saturday. For a brief moment on the turn for home, Bore...
4.9K - Jun. 8, 2009; scored 98.0 Borel seeks jockey Triple Crown today
NEW YORK A Cajun, a cowboy and a tough little gelding have teamed up to make this Triple Crown season one to remember. In today s Belmont Stakes, Cajun rider Calvin Borel will be reunited with trainer Chip Woolley s Kentucky Derby winner Mine That ...
5.3K - Jun. 6, 2009; scored 126.0 Notebook: Another Bird looms at Belmont
NEW YORK There were two Birds in the Kentucky Derby. Mine That Bird took the inside route, hugging the rail under a crafty ride by Calvin Borel to fly straight to the winner s circle. The other, Summer Bird, had an overland journey, hung out extrem...
5.5K - Jun. 4, 2009; scored 98.0 | 
