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 501.0 Sherbondy will hear sentence on Monday
A Coquille woman will soon find out how much time she ll serve behind bars, when a Coos County judge hands down her sentence for looting more than $10,000 from a fund for graduating high schoolers. On Monday, Gwendolyn Sherbondy will appear in J...
1.0K - Nov. 7, 2009; scored 110.0 France hunts for bank heist driver
PARIS (AP) French police conducted a nationwide search Friday for a security driver who vanished with $7.4 million in cash from a bank in the central city of Lyon, authorities said. Lyon prosecutor Xavier Richard said 39-year-old Tony Musulin ...
2.2K - Nov. 7, 2009; scored 69.0 Judge: Mich. man can sue store he robbed
MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. (AP) A Michigan judge says a man who claims he was chased, shot and beaten by workers at a store he d just robbed can sue the men. But only if he comes up with $10,000 within two weeks. Scott T. Zielinski is serving an 8-y...
0.5K - Nov. 4, 2009; scored 69.0 Gang rape suspects could appear in court
RICHMOND, Calif. (AP) Four teens could appear in court as early as today after being charged in the alleged gang rape of a 15-year-old girl outside her high school homecoming dance in Northern California. The four ages 15, 16, 17 and 19 were ch...
1.0K - Oct. 29, 2009; scored 110.0 Polls: Chavez's popularity slips
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) Hugo Chavez s support has declined in the polls as many Venezuelans say they are fed up with 27 percent inflation, a stagnant economy, faulty public services and a government they see as incapable of doing much about it. T...
5.5K - Oct. 22, 2009; scored 69.0 Coquille woman admits to Project Graduation theft
A Coquille woman who stole more than $10,000 from a fund for graduating high schoolers could face up to three years in prison, when she is sentenced in Coos County court next month. She can get anywhere from probation to prison time. It will all...
2.5K - Oct. 18, 2009; scored 418.0 Coquille woman admits to Project Graduation theft
A Coquille woman who stole more than $10,000 from a fund for graduating high schoolers could face up to three years in prison, when she is sentenced in Coos County court next month. She can get anywhere from probation to prison time. It will all...
2.5K - Oct. 17, 2009; scored 418.0 Sherbondy pleads guilty to theft
A Coquille woman pleaded guilty this morning to the theft of more than $10,000 from the Coquille Project Graduation fund earlier this year. Gwendolyn Sherbondy appeared before Circuit Court Judge Michael Gillespie and admitted to the charge of f...
0.6K - Oct. 16, 2009; scored 278.0 We have our own home-grown terrorists
What you need to know about Michael C. Finton is that he parked a van in front of a federal building in Springfield, Ill., believing it was loaded with explosives. He then twice made cell phone calls that he thought would detonate the bombs. Finton n...
3.2K - Oct. 15, 2009; scored 69.0 Was it the deal or steal of the century?
IRVING, Texas ” Jimmy Johnson has a challenge for anyone who believes the Herschel Walker trade singlehandedly turned the Dallas Cowboys into the dominant team of the 1990s. Trace it, the former Cowboys coach said. You can t do it. Twent...
7.4K - Oct. 10, 2009; scored 69.0 Thefts and Mischief
The following are theft and criminal mischief reports from police logs. Coos Bay Oct. 9, 1:59 a.m., police cited teens for possessing alcohol near Seventh Street and Ferguson Avenue. North Bend Oct. 8, 8:34 a.m., two vicious dogs were reported at Alb...
1.5K - Oct. 10, 2009; scored 69.0 Myrtle Point food pantry appliances disappear
Police are investigating whether someone stole appliances Monday afternoon from the Walter Graham Myrtle Point Food Pantry or where they might have gone. Workers arrived at 3:30 p.m. to find that the stove, dishwasher and three doors were missing, sa...
0.8K - Oct. 2, 2009; scored 69.0 Bank robbery foiled by penmanship
HILLSBORO (AP) Police say a bank robbery attempt in Hillsboro failed after a teller told the woman who handed her a threatening note that she couldn t read the handwriting. According to police, a 30-year-old woman walked into a Wells Fargo bank bra...
0.8K - Oct. 1, 2009; scored 696.0 FBI seeks help on bank robberies
PORTLAND (AP) ” The FBI says it s asking local Oregon law enforcement agencies to take the lead in investigating nonviolent bank robberies. While federal agents will continue to investigate armed bank robberies and serial cases, the FBI wi...
2.4K - Sep. 29, 2009; scored 581.0 Sherbondy case delayed again
A federal judge has decided to again delay a federal case against a Coquille woman accused of robbing a Roseburg Wells Fargo bank. Federal Judge Thomas Coffin reviewed Gwen Sherbondy s case briefly at U.S. District Court in Eugene on Monday. He then ...
1.0K - Sep. 23, 2009; scored 278.0 Crime in Coos County holds steady
Not a great deal has changed for Coos County cities crime rates from 2007 to 2008, the FBI announced in its annual Crime in the United States report for American cities. However, some slight variations were evident. In Coos Bay, 2008 statistics show...
2.8K - Sep. 23, 2009; scored 161.0 Police charge horrorcore rapper in death of pastor
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) A 20-year-old California man calling himself Syko Sam rapped in his horrorcore lyrics on the best feeling derived from killing people slowly, watching their last breaths. Richard Alden Samuel McCroskey III is now accused of kil...
1.6K - Sep. 21, 2009; scored 69.0 Anti-tax measures struggle for signatures
SALEM While business groups look like they will be successful in sending to the voters a measure that could overturn the Oregon Legislature s $733 million tax hike on corporations and high-income earners, two other anti-tax referendum camp...
4.9K - Sep. 21, 2009; scored 69.0 DA seeks tougher sentencing in theft case
COQUILLE ” If a jury finds a Coquille woman guilty of embezzling money from a party fund for high schoolers, the Coos County District Attorney will have to do quick footwork to get her a sentence more severe than probation. District Attorn...
3.7K - Sep. 16, 2009; scored 161.0 | 
