Search and rescue team looks for missing man
A Coos County sheriff's search and rescue team is searching for a man who took a walk last night in the Blue Ridge area and didn't return.

Holiday will not disrupt mail delivery
All post offices will be open on Friday, but many will shorten retail lobby hours and close at noon for the holiday weekend.

Marines exchange fire with Taliban
NAWA, Afghanistan - U.S. Marines hiked through searing heat and took fire from small pockets of militants today after landing in this Taliban-controlled southern region of tree-lined fields, mud homes and crisscrossing waterways in the first major operation under President Barack Obama's strategy to stabilize Afghanistan.

Coos Bay man will face attempted murder charge
SALEM (AP) - A 23-year-old Coos Bay man has been jailed on charges of using a boxcutter to slit the throat of an auctioneer in Woodburn.

 Water rates will rise
COOS BAY - Summer usually brings sunshine and more visitors to the South Coast. It also means greater water demands for the Coos Bay-North Bend Water Board's treatment plant.

Waterfall Center gathers a windfall
The Waterfall Community Health Center can patch its leaky roof, update its computers and ultimately treat more patients thanks to a federal stimulus grant.

Oscar-winning actor Karl Malden dead at 97
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Karl Malden, the Academy Award-winning actor whose intelligent characterizations on stage, screen and television made him a star despite his plain looks, died Wednesday, his family said. He was 97.

FBI notes: Saddam feared Iran
WASHINGTON (AP) - After his capture, Saddam Hussein told the FBI that he falsely allowed the world to believe Iraq had weapons of mass destruction because he feared revealing his weakness to Iran, the hostile neighbor he considered a bigger threat than the U.S.

 Key Dems trim health care price tag
WASHINGTON - Determined to advance President Barack Obama's health care agenda, key Senate Democrats are calling for a government-run insurance option to compete with private plans, as well as a $750-per-worker annual fee on larger companies that do not offer coverage to employees.

Transport chief praises U.S.-made streetcar
PORTLAND (AP) - President Obama's transportation secretary, Ray LaHood, has words of praise for both Portland's mass transit and the first U.S.-made streetcar in decades.

North Korea test fires four missiles
SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea test-fired four short-range missiles today, South Korea's Defense Ministry said, a move that aggravates already high tensions following Pyongyang's recent nuclear test and U.N. sanctions imposed as punishment.