Israel commandos seize ship loaded with guns
JERUSALEM (AP) Israeli commandos seized a ship today that defense officials said was carrying hundreds of tons of weapons bound for Lebanon s Iranian-backed Hezbollah guerrillas the largest arms shipment Israel has ever commandeered. The Israeli ...
 5.6K - Nov. 4, 2009; scored 555.0 Sailing home
NEW YORK The new U.S. Navy assault ship USS New York, built with World Trade Center steel, arrived in its namesake city today with a 21-gun salute near the site of the 2001 terrorist attack. First responders, families of Sept. 11 victims and the pu...
3.4K - Nov. 2, 2009; scored 592.0 China's military buildup concerns U.S. Navy leader
HONG KONG (AP) A U.S. Navy admiral expressed new concern today over China s military buildup and urged Beijing to be clearer about its intentions. With China s military growing at an unprecedented rate, the U.S. wants to ensure that expansion doe...
1.9K - Oct. 30, 2009; scored 365.0 'Mighty Mo' goes in for preservation
HONOLULU Mike Weidenbach has walked across the historic teakwood decks and through the metal hallways of the USS Missouri countless times in the past decade. But he recently realized how massive the aging battleship is from a new perspective unde...
4.4K - Oct. 16, 2009; scored 555.0 North Korea: Naval clash is a possibility
SEOUL, South Korea North Korea warned South Korea today that a rash of reckless incursions at their disputed maritime border could spark a naval clash. North Korea s navy accused South Korean warships of routinely broaching its territory 10 tim...
3.6K - Oct. 15, 2009; scored 486.0 Army squad has new commander
WEST POINT, N.Y. Rich Ellerson thumbs through the old program that sits atop the coffee table in his office. It s from the 1962 Army-Navy game. The Black Knights new football coach quickly finds the page he s looking for clearly he has done thi...
6.5K - Sep. 3, 2009; scored 698.0 The last of a dynasty
WASHINGTON In the quiet of a Capitol elevator, one of Edward M. Kennedy s fellow lawmakers asked whether he had plans for a family Thanksgiving away from the nation s capital. No, the Massachusetts senator said with a shake of his head, and mentio...
12.3K - Aug. 26, 2009; scored 433.0 Britain honors last WWI vet
WELLS, England (AP) Church and state, hundreds of warriors of other battles and ordinary townsfolk paid final tribute today to Britain s last World War I infantry veteran, in a memorial service marking his death at age 111. Hundreds of people lined...
5.6K - Aug. 6, 2009; scored 365.0 Loren Hughes
A celebration of life service will be held for Smokey Hughes, 63, of North Bend, at 1 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 1, at the Family Worship Center, 2050 Lincoln St. in North Bend with Pastor Richard Merando officiating. Cremation rites were held at Ocean Vie...
1.3K - Jul. 25, 2009; scored 365.0 U.S. image abroad surges
WASHINGTON President Barack Obama's popularity has boosted America's image abroad even though deep suspicions about the U.S. persist in the Muslim world, according to a poll released Thursday. The survey of two dozen nations conducted this spring b...
4.3K - Jul. 24, 2009; scored 804.0 North Korea promises to enlarge its arsenal
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea vowed today to enlarge its atomic arsenal and warned of a fire shower of nuclear retaliation in the event of a U.S. attack, as the regime marked the 1950 outbreak of the Korean War. The anniversary came as the ...
1.1K - Jun. 25, 2009; scored 365.0 Palau president: Gitmo detainees still fear China
MELEKEOK, Palau - Some Chinese Muslims detained at Guantanamo Bay who have been offered resettlement in Palau are leery of moving to the tiny Pacific island nation for fear that it cannot protect them from China, Palau's president said Tuesday. Palau...
3.4K - Jun. 23, 2009; scored 502.0 Brian Alan Boyd
A memorial service will be held for Brian Alan Boyd, 61, of Lakeside at 3 p.m. Sunday, July 12, at the Reedsport Church of God, 2191 Birch Ave., in Reedsport. Brian was born Sept. 14, 1947, in Waltham, Mass., to Kenneth E. and Lynn C. (Stadden) Boyd....
1.2K - Jun. 23, 2009; scored 365.0 Obama: U.S. prepared for N. Korea
SEOUL, South Korea - President Barack Obama assured Americans in an interview broadcast today that the U.S. is prepared for any move North Korea might make, amid reports that Pyongyang is planning a long-range missile test to follow up its provocativ...
4.6K - Jun. 22, 2009; scored 592.0 Brazil crash families get paid
PARIS (AP) - Air France focused on aiding families of victims from the crash of Flight 447, offering a first advance on compensation on Friday while investigators worked quietly to solve the mystery of what brought the jet down. The top European air ...
2.8K - Jun. 20, 2009; scored 433.0 The Mill, Sandfest add jets to Independence Day celebration
The shriek of jets and the sounds of other flying machines will join the traditional hiss and boom of fireworks come Independence Day weekend, when the first air show in years makes its debut in North Bend. Meant to honor veterans and current members...
5.4K - Jun. 17, 2009; scored 433.0 Remember the lives lost to end that war
Duty! Honor! Country! Those words have stood out in my mind for some 65 years; from that day when I was a lad volunteering as a Canadian Boy Scout working in a canteen. It was, as I recall a quiet summer evening and I took a moment on June 6, 1944, t...
2.3K - Jun. 6, 2009; scored 365.0 Poll: US divided over torture, Gitmo
WASHINGTON (AP) Just over half of Americans say torture is at least sometimes justified to thwart terrorist attacks and are evenly divided over whether to close the Guantanamo Bay prison, according to a poll that underscores the challenges Presiden...
6.1K - Jun. 3, 2009; scored 433.0 They saw fire in the sky
It was a typical day. Bert Long and a few other students were on their way home from school. C. Elwood Mitchell was sitting on the back porch of his Monroe Street home in North Bend. Both were students at North Bend High School when on that clear day...
2.9K - May. 27, 2009; scored 486.0 Airport Board seat 2 candidates differ in management style
Airline ticket prices are too high, one candidate says. The airline scheduling just doesn't work, says another. They hope to do something about it, if only voters will mark their names on the May 19 ballot. Here's the first part of coverage the race ...
7.8K - May. 1, 2009; scored 502.0 | 
