North, S. Korea vie in naval clash
SEOUL, South Korea A badly damaged North Korean patrol ship retreated in flames today after a skirmish with a South Korean naval vessel along their disputed western coast, South Korean officials said. The first naval clash between the two sides in ...
 6.8K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 165.0 GOP ducks on health care reform
Late in the game, Republicans are proposing alternatives to Democratic health-care reform, but they re certainly not being bold. If they were, they d follow the lead of Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., the party s foremost Jack Kemp-style conservative, whose ...
3.1K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 71.0 What's Obama thinking?
President Obama and Democrats in Congress hope to cut Medicare spending by nearly a half-trillion dollars over the next decade, and reform plans call for a big expansion of Medicaid during the same period. Is it really possible to take so much money ...
3.0K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 71.0 Kulongoski makes surprise visit to troops in Iraq
GRANTS PASS (AP) Gov. Ted Kulongoski has made another surprise trip to Iraq to visit Oregon National Guard troops. Speaking by telephone from Baghdad, where he was attending a barbecue with soldiers, the governor said Tuesday he was making good on ...
3.8K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 142.0 U.S. troops likely for Afghanistan in January
WASHINGTON (AP) President Barack Obama is nearing a decision to add tens of thousands more forces to Afghanistan, though probably not quite the 40,000 sought by his top general there. The White House emphasized that the president hasn t made a deci...
3.3K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 71.0 Bill Clinton pitches health bill to Dems
WASHINGTON Former President Bill Clinton knows just how high the political stakes are in the fight to overhaul America s health care system. His failed attempt to revamp the delivery of medical care contributed to the Republican takeover of the Hou...
3.8K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 71.0 Housing plan reaches 1 in 5 borrowers
WASHINGTON (AP) After a slow start, the Obama administration s mortgage relief program has reached one in five eligible homeowners, a government report says. More than 650,000 borrowers, or 20 percent of those eligible, have signed up for trials la...
2.1K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 71.0 FBI reassess its past look at Fort Hood suspect
WASHINGTON (AP) Nearly a year before Maj. Nidal Hasan allegedly went on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood, terrorism investigators conducted an assessment of him before deciding he did not pose a threat. After the shooting, the FBI is doing a new a...
5.9K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 165.0 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 112.0 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 185.0 Maj. Hasan earns praise from imam
WASHINGTON (AP) The personal Web site for a radical American imam living in Yemen who had contact with two Sept. 11, 2001 hijackers is praising alleged Fort Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan as a hero. The posting today on the Web site for Anwar ...
0.7K - Nov. 9, 2009; scored 71.0 Fort Hood is on the mend after shootings
FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) Pvt. Joseph Foster took a bullet in the leg during the Fort Hood shooting rampage. He pauses when he s asked about the mayhem, then credits a stout heritage with bringing him through the ordeal and leaving him eager for his sc...
4.0K - Nov. 9, 2009; scored 71.0 Al-Qaida training sites are harder to locate
WASHINGTON (AP) Under growing pressure from U.S. missile strikes, the al-Qaida terror network is relying more heavily on local insurgent groups along the Pakistan border to house training camps that are growing smaller and more mobile, according to...
1.5K - Nov. 9, 2009; scored 71.0 NFL: Saints and Colts stay perfect for season
The New Orleans Saints and Indianapolis Colts keep finding ways to win. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers finally learned how Sunday. The Saints and Colts each improved to 8-0 with come-from-behind victories. The Bucs are a meager 1-7 but they gained a glimme...
7.2K - Nov. 9, 2009; scored 112.0 Pac-10: Beavers dominate Cal for sixth win
BERKELEY, Calif California tailback Jahvid Best slammed to the ground after a terrifying fall into the end zone and the Golden Bears never recovered from losing their star. Sean Canfield and Oregon State were too much for stunned Cal. Canfield thre...
4.1K - Nov. 9, 2009; scored 165.0 NBA: Blazers continue to dominate Timberwolves
PORTLAND Portland coach Nate McMillan s experiment with a three-guard starting lineup has sparked the Trail Blazers. Portland won its second consecutive game since McMillan employed a starting lineup that includes guards Brandon Roy, Andre Miller a...
3.2K - Nov. 9, 2009; scored 71.0 Scientists use disabled HIV in gene therapy
WASHINGTON (AP) French scientists mixed gene therapy and bone marrow transplants in two boys to seemingly halt a brain disease that can kill by adolescence. The surprise ingredient: They disabled the HIV virus so it couldn t cause AIDS, and then us...
3.5K - Nov. 9, 2009; scored 71.0 Thefts and Mischief
The following are theft and criminal mischief reports from police logs. Coos Bay Nov. 5, 5:08 a.m., a prowler was reported in the 800 block of Elrod Avenue. Nov. 5, 10:21 a.m., an illegal fire was reported in the 63400 block of Shinglehouse Slough Ro...
6.3K - Nov. 9, 2009; scored 71.0 We Americans have lost our identity
My favorite magazine by far was Constitution, published by the Foundation for the U.S. Constitution. No longer in existence, it was full of riveting stories for students and adults with beautifully reproduced historic documents, portraits and ...
3.3K - Nov. 9, 2009; scored 71.0 What's next for health care?
WASHINGTON Don t look for the Senate to quickly follow the House on health care overhaul. A government health insurance plan included in the House bill is unacceptable to a few Democratic moderates who hold the balance of power in the Senate. They ...
5.2K - Nov. 9, 2009; scored 71.0 | 
