Huskies hope to stop slide Saturday at OSU
SEATTLE Seven weeks after what was believed to be a landmark victory over then-No. 3 Southern California that would expedite the quick turnaround Steve Sarkisian preached was going to happen at Washington, the Huskies spent Monday trying to digest ...
 4.4K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 89.0 Bandon turns down semi-truck ban request
BANDON Grumbly neighbors weren t persuasive enough to convince Bandon s city councilors to ban semi-truck parking in city limits. The City Council decided on a 4-2 vote Monday not to prohibit truck drivers from parking their semis in residential ne...
2.8K - Nov. 5, 2009; scored 89.0 College needs to first solve crimes
This is about the article concerning smokers (The World, Oct. 28) College May Snuff out Smokers. Why? This is still the United States of America and we should still have some rights left, without having intimidation hanging over our heads. Nonsmoke...
2.5K - Nov. 4, 2009; scored 89.0 Karzai wins Afghan election without a vote
KABUL Afghanistan s election commission proclaimed President Hamid Karzai the victor of the country s tumultuous ballot today, canceling a planned runoff and ending a political crisis two and a half months after a fraud-marred first round. The Obam...
6.2K - Nov. 2, 2009; scored 89.0 Savoring a school house
RANDOLPH A good site, money and a passion for history that s what Charlie Ruddell had. After four years, a lot of research and creative problem solving, he now has a renovated historic schoolhouse, too, at Randolph about 6 miles north of Bandon....
5.1K - Oct. 31, 2009; scored 89.0 At the movies
The following movies are playing at South Coast theaters. Times are shown for movies at Pony Village Cinemas. () indicates showings for Friday-Sunday only. For locations outside the Bay Area, call the theaters for showtimes. Astro Boy Set in futurist...
7.3K - Oct. 30, 2009; scored 89.0 Suggestion powers Paranormal Activity phenom
The no-budget ghost story Paranormal Activity arrives 10 years after The Blair Witch Project, and the two horror movies share more than a clever construct and shaky, handheld camerawork. Like its predecessor, Paranormal Activity has been making...
3.6K - Oct. 30, 2009; scored 89.0 It's time to solve Leah's murder
Nearly a decade ago, my daughter s life was cut tragically short when she was murdered at 15 years old in Coquille. My daughter is Leah Freeman and today, Oct. 29, she would have turned 25. As I endure this painful anniversary I am again reminded of ...
2.3K - Oct. 29, 2009; scored 89.0 Don't mess up a good program
Social Security is a glossy piece of paper on which nearly every politician wants to finger-paint an agenda. But Social Security has no need of ornament. It is a very grown-up program. Come January, for the first time since 1975, Social Security paym...
3.1K - Oct. 29, 2009; scored 89.0 Polarization menaces debt control effort
Suddenly, it s occurred to liberals as well as wonky budget hawks that the nation s fiscal future is unsustainable. But the chances of action are near zero. Blame political polarization. For years, Republicans have complained about runaway entitleme...
3.2K - Oct. 28, 2009; scored 89.0 A Nobel for showing freedom works
Pundits and politicians act as if government can solve almost any problem. At the slightest hint of trouble, the ruling class reflexively assumes that knowledgeable, wise and public-spirited government regulators are capable of riding to the rescue. ...
3.7K - Oct. 27, 2009; scored 179.0 At the movies
The following movies are playing at South Coast theaters. Times are shown for movies at Pony Village Cinemas. () indicates showings for Friday-Sunday only. For locations outside the Bay Area, call the theaters for showtimes. Astro Boy Set in futurist...
7.3K - Oct. 23, 2009; scored 89.0 NATO needs to leave Afghanistan
The request by the United States and NATO commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, for an additional 40,000 troops sharply highlights NATOs rapidly worsening problems. There is, however, a void at the centre of NATO policy on Afghanistan...
1.0K - Oct. 19, 2009; scored 89.0 At the movies
The following movies are playing at South Coast theaters. Times are shown for movies at Pony Village Cinemas. () indicates showings for Friday-Sunday only. For locations outside the Bay Area, call the theaters for showtimes. All About Steve On a blin...
7.9K - Oct. 16, 2009; scored 89.0 Palestinians say hopes in Obama 'evaporated'
JERUSALEM The Palestinian president s political party says all hopes in the Obama administration have evaporated, accusing the White House of caving in to pressure from the pro-Israel lobby and backing off a demand to freeze Jewish settlement. Ma...
4.9K - Oct. 13, 2009; scored 89.0 School seeks information about thefts
With a reward fund totaling nearly $4,400, the Port Orford/Langlois School District is offering more details about vandalism at Pacific High School, in an effort to catch the perpetrators. Police have few leads and are hoping people in the c...
2.1K - Oct. 13, 2009; scored 89.0 Crows hang around all year
Many birds are migrating, but some will stay here through the year. A Coos Bay couple who e-mailed me about their food-begging crow can expect to play caterer all year long. Crows are both predators and scavengers, eating anything from eggs and nestl...
3.6K - Oct. 10, 2009; scored 89.0 Volunteers clean up crab pots
REEDSPORT A handful of boats in Oregon s crabbing fleet returned to sea last week for one last hurrah. Their quarries were the derelict pots and buoys left behind this year by commercial crab boats. During a volunteer effort held nearly seven weeks...
3.1K - Oct. 10, 2009; scored 141.0 At the movies
The following movies are playing at South Coast theaters. Times are shown for movies at Pony Village Cinemas. () indicates showings for Friday-Sunday only. For locations outside the Bay Area, call the theaters for showtimes. All About Steve On a blin...
6.6K - Oct. 9, 2009; scored 89.0 Russia: U.S. can't fight Afghan drugs alone
MOSCOW (AP) Russia s counter-narcotics chief today criticized U.S. and NATO anti-drug efforts in Afghanistan as inadequate and called for joint action against the Afghan heroin flooding into the former Soviet Union. In an interview with The Associa...
4.0K - Oct. 7, 2009; scored 89.0 | 
