Electric bikes trace route of car executives to DC
WASHINGTON (AP) An Oregon company that makes electric motorcycles thinks it has a homegrown solution to the nation s energy woes. To prove it, the company sent two riders on a 10-day odyssey from Detroit to Washington, re-creating the 2008 trip of ...
 3.4K - Oct. 29, 2009; scored 105.0 Agassi admits meth use
NEW YORK ” Andre Agassi s upcoming autobiography contains an admission that he used crystal meth in 1997 and lied to tennis authorities when he failed a drug test ” a result that was thrown out after he said he unwittingly took the su...
5.4K - Oct. 28, 2009; scored 70.0 Columbia River commerce protected by weakened wall
ASTORIA (AP) It s a mild October morning on the Oregon Coast. Yet, even on a windless day with the ocean glassy smooth, it s a rough ride at the point where the Columbia River smashes into the Pacific Ocean. A 60-ton boat, designed to ferry elite p...
6.7K - Oct. 26, 2009; scored 127.0 Late-night rumblings of thunder
It woke me up ” thunder rumbling through the night sky. I didn t need to open the curtains to know that somewhere in the dark clouds there were flashes of lightning, too. Clouds, such as the dense blanket that night, form as relatively warmer,...
3.9K - Oct. 25, 2009; scored 70.0 Late-night rumblings of thunder
It woke me up ” thunder rumbling through the night sky. I didn t need to open the curtains to know that somewhere in the dark clouds there were flashes of lightning, too. Clouds, such as the dense blanket that night, form as relatively warmer,...
3.9K - Oct. 24, 2009; scored 70.0 Late goal gives Americans top spot in World Cup group
WASHINGTON ” American players wanted to win for Charlie. They didn t, but it sure felt like a victory when the United States scored with just seconds remaining in its final World Cup qualifier. After Jonathan Bornstein s goal in the fifth minu...
4.8K - Oct. 15, 2009; scored 91.0 Feds consider critical habitat for sea turtles
Federal fisheries managers have agreed to consider designating critical habitat for endangered leatherback sea turtles in the Pacific Ocean off Oregon and California. NOAA Fisheries officials said Thursday they will make a decision whether to go forw...
2.0K - Oct. 9, 2009; scored 70.0 OSU sets record amount in funding
PORTLAND (AP) Oregon State University research efforts attracted more than $252 million in outside funding in 2008-09. OSU President Ed Ray said the record amount is $21 million more than the previous year. He described the succes...
0.9K - Sep. 25, 2009; scored 70.0 U.N. climate summit puts China, India in spotlight
UNITED NATIONS ” The highest-level conference yet on climate change opened today with 100 world leaders gathering at the United Nations to try to jump-start stalled negotiations toward a global climate pact. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-m...
5.3K - Sep. 22, 2009; scored 116.0 Winemakers finding new uses for old places
EMERYVILLE, Calif. Forget wine chateaux shimmering under the Napa sun. A new wave of vintners is choosing city life over the green acres of wine country, setting up shop in warehouses, business parks and other locales that offer more grit than glam...
5.5K - Sep. 15, 2009; scored 70.0 Kim relishes second chance
SUGAR GROVE, Ill. Christina Kim s victory was four years in the making. The personable and outgoing some might call her loud American teamed with Natalie Gulbis to beat European heavyweights Suzann Pettersen and Sophie Gustafson 4-and-2 Friday ...
5.9K - Aug. 22, 2009; scored 91.0 Basterds has its glorious moments
If only Quentin Tarantino the director weren t so completely in love with Quentin Tarantino the writer, Inglourious Basterds might have been a great movie rather than just a good movie with moments of greatness. Everything that s thrilling and madd...
4.2K - Aug. 21, 2009; scored 70.0 Researchers make maps of seafloor
FLORENCE (AP) A survey of the ocean floor off the Oregon coast is under way to provide detailed undersea maps to help protect marine habitat. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Oregon State University will study water depths, s...
2.4K - Aug. 19, 2009; scored 126.0 The heat is on
MYRTLE POINT It s been an original year for the Colgate Country Showdown. At every stage of the local competition, there s been more original music than ever before. That trend will culminate Saturday, when for the first time a local final will fea...
3.8K - Jul. 31, 2009; scored 70.0 Fair goes green
The Coos County Fair is going green in more ways than one as the annual summer event kicks off Tuesday. Recycling bins will dot the Myrtle Point fairgrounds for the first time, along with a couple of tents highlighting the area's natural resources an...
3.2K - Jul. 28, 2009; scored 116.0 Fair goes green
The Coos County Fair is going green in more ways than one as the annual summer event kicks off Tuesday. Recycling bins will dot the Myrtle Point fairgrounds for the first time, along with a couple of tents highlighting the area's natural resources an...
3.1K - Jul. 27, 2009; scored 116.0 High-level U.S.-China talks open
WASHINGTON President Barack Obama, opening two days of high-level talks with China, said the discussions could lay the groundwork for a new era of sustained cooperation, not confrontation in a relationship likely to shape the 21st century. Obama ...
5.8K - Jul. 27, 2009; scored 91.0 Wave energy makes topic list for fish conference
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife marine biologist Cristen Don will discuss wave energy development at an ODFW fish conference in September. As the United States looks for ways to reduce its dependence on fossil fuels the Oregon coast is gaining...
2.0K - Jul. 27, 2009; scored 946.0 S. Korea on high alert for more cyber attacks, suspicious of north
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) South Korea was on high alert today for more cyber attacks amid suspicions that North Korea was behind a recent wave of Web site outages in the South and in the United States. The South warned that computer networks of key i...
1.4K - Jul. 9, 2009; scored 105.0 Panel will supply a local voice on reserves
The first round of local jawboning about marine reserves confirmed what everyone knew: The 35-member panel convened by port officials is supremely unlikely to agree. But maybe that s OK. The advisory panel will provide an orderly public dialogue, con...
2.0K - Jun. 30, 2009; scored 126.0 | 
