Attacks kill 4 at college in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan Two suicide attackers bombed an Islamic university in the Pakistani capital today, killing four people and wounding 18 as the army pressed ahead with a critical offensive on a Taliban stronghold near Afghan-istan, authorities s...
 3.3K - Oct. 20, 2009; scored 279.0 Kulongoski wants to head off South Coast gold miners
GRANTS PASS Gov. Ted Kulongoski wants to head off recreational miners who are headed for them thar hills in Oregon after California stopped prospectors from using suction dredges to glean flecks of gold from salmon rivers. The governor sent lette...
4.0K - Oct. 16, 2009; scored 308.0 Afghan leader accused of meddling in fraud probe
KABUL (AP) Afghan President Hamid Karzai s top challenger in disputed elections alleged today the embattled head of state engineered the resignation of a chief fraud investigator to cast doubt over a process that may force a runoff vote. Results fr...
4.6K - Oct. 13, 2009; scored 325.0 Bloody siege at Pakistan army HQ
Nahal Toosi and Zarar Khan, Associated Press Writers RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (AP) Pakistani commandos freed dozens of hostages held by militants at the army's own headquarters Sunday, ending a bloody, 22-hour drama that embarrassed the nation's milita...
6.0K - Oct. 11, 2009; scored 324.0 West s wild horses may move East
WASHINGTON Thousands of mustangs that now roam the West would be moved to preserves in the Midwest and East under a new Interior Department plan to protect wild horse herds and the rangelands that support them. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said ...
3.6K - Oct. 8, 2009; scored 341.0 Fish and Wildlife creates climate change job
PORTLAND (AP) The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Northwest regional headquarters has created a new position to push the agency s new efforts to deal with climate change. The agency announced Tuesday that Carol Schuler will be the new assistant regi...
0.6K - Oct. 7, 2009; scored 187.0 Chandler future is on shaky ground
COOS BAY ” One of the last tenants to leave The Chandler Hotel before workers boarded up its ground-floor windows was Rita Todd. Owner of Design Renaissance, an interior design business, Todd had operated out of a storefront on Second Str...
5.6K - Sep. 17, 2009; scored 370.0 California holds a giant garage sale
SACRAMENTO, Calif. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is hoping that the Great California Garage Sale will turn government clutter like surplus prison uniforms and office furniture into cash to bulk up the state s depleted finances. On offer as the state...
5.7K - Aug. 28, 2009; scored 354.0 Groom's ex lit fire at Kuwait wedding that killed 41 people
KUWAIT CITY (AP) Kuwaiti authorities have apprehended the person suspected of setting fire to a wedding tent and killing 41 people and said today the motive was personal. Local newspapers reported the groom s ex-wife was the arsonist. The inferno S...
3.0K - Aug. 17, 2009; scored 327.0 The Windkeepers
TOWNSHIP 8, RANGE 3, Maine Silent surroundings almost tease the ears as clouds skitter across the top of this eastern corner of Maine. The wind, barely audible, swishes through beech and fir trees crowding the hills of an area so remote it s part o...
7.7K - Aug. 12, 2009; scored 325.0 Taliban leader is killed in airstrike
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) Pakistan s Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud, who led a violent campaign of suicide attacks and assassinations against the Pakistani government, has been killed in a U.S. missile strike, a militant commander and aide to...
7.4K - Aug. 7, 2009; scored 315.0 American student with cold misses ill-fated hike into Iran
SAN FRANCISCO An American linguistics student traveling in northern Iraq didn't go on an ill-fated hiking trip because he had a cold a twist of fate that prevented him from mistakenly wandering into Iran where his three friends were reportedly de...
3.3K - Aug. 3, 2009; scored 281.0 Swiss diplomats ask Iran about missing Americans
BERN, Switzerland (AP) Swiss diplomats are trying to find out what happened to three Americans reportedly captured in Iran, the Foreign Ministry said Sunday. The Swiss Embassy in Tehran is working to learn more about the Americans fate through its...
2.4K - Aug. 2, 2009; scored 293.0 White House scraps Bush logging plan
GRANTS PASS The Obama administration on Thursday scrapped the Bush administration s last-ditch attempt to boost logging in Northwest forests by scaling back protection for the northern spotted owl. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Thursday that ...
4.2K - Jul. 17, 2009; scored 366.0 Moving a town
MARTIN, Ky. - The trucks have come again to haul away soaked sofas and waterlogged mattresses. Cars that weren't moved soon enough have been towed away, their engines and interiors fouled. The 600 people who remain in this once-bustling coal town are...
4.7K - Jun. 17, 2009; scored 312.0 Judge commits Cozad to state
COQUILLE The final day of Henry Cozad s commitment hearing brought Judge Martin Stone to three conclusions. Cozad killed Linda Foley. He is a significant danger to others. His basic needs haven t been met at the home of his father. Stone, who presi...
5.4K - Jun. 13, 2009; scored 300.0 Obama promises more than 600,000 stimulus jobs
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama promised today to deliver more than 600,000 jobs through his $787 billion stimulus plan this summer, with federal agencies pumping billions into public works projects, schools and summer youth programs. Ob...
3.7K - Jun. 8, 2009; scored 300.0 Wind power development begins on public Oregon lands
FIELDS (AP) - Anchored among clumps of sage and purplish lupine, the guy wires of a solitary weather tower thrum with wind heading in a hurry toward Idaho and Nevada. They say that in the summer it shouts, but in the winter it screams, Elon Hasson s...
7.1K - Jun. 1, 2009; scored 324.0 Thefts and mischief
The following are theft and criminal mischief reports from area police department logs. Coos Bay May 18, 8:36 a.m., vandalism was reported at Trinity Lutheran Church, 874 S. Seventh St. May 18, 9:29 a.m., a burglary was reported in the 600 block of 1...
4.1K - May. 21, 2009; scored 293.0 Feds get time to decide course of logging lawsuit
GRANTS PASS - The Obama administration has been given more time to decide whether it wants to defend the lawsuits challenging Bush administration plans to boost logging on federal forests in Western Oregon. In papers filed in the various federal cour...
2.5K - May. 21, 2009; scored 274.0 | 
