Blanchard Irene Davis Lorsung
A Mass of Christian burial will be held for Blanchard Blanche Irene Davis Lorsung, 102, of Coos Bay, at 11 a.m., Wednesday, Nov. 4, at Coos Bay Chapel, 685 Anderson Ave. with the Rev. Karl Schray, of Holy Redeemer Catholic Church, officiating. Buri...
 4.0K - Nov. 3, 2009; scored 139.0 Chinese Mecca-bound pilgrims get flu shots
BEIJING (AP) China will give swine flu vaccinations to thousands of Muslims about to make the annual pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia, state media said, as authorities reported the mainland s third death from the illness. Concerns over the hajj, which at...
0.9K - Oct. 27, 2009; scored 558.0 Globalism versus Americanism
Down at the Chinese outlet store in Albany known as Wal-Mart, Chinese tires have so successfully undercut U.S.-made tires that the Cooper Tire factory in that south Georgia town had to shut down. Twenty-one hundred Georgians lost their jobs. The tale...
4.9K - Oct. 8, 2009; scored 139.0 Saudi gets 5 years in jail for frank TV sex talk
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) A Saudi court today convicted a man for publicly talking about sex after he bragged on a TV talk show about his exploits, sentencing him to five years in jail and 1,000 lashes, his lawyer said. Talking about sex publicly i...
2.9K - Oct. 7, 2009; scored 319.0 Iran FM accuses U.S. in nuke scientist disappearance
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) Iran s foreign minister said today that the United States may have had a role in the disappearance of an Iranian nuclear scientist in Saudi Arabia earlier this year, state TV reported. Scientist Shahram Amiri vanished during a pil...
2.2K - Oct. 7, 2009; scored 358.0 OPEC committee recommends no cuts
VIENNA (AP) OPEC appeared poised to hold oil production quotas unchanged today, with its ministers voicing satisfaction with current global crude prices. Instead, the focus at the organization s meeting in Vienna was to be on persuading members not...
5.2K - Sep. 9, 2009; scored 180.0 Court rules against Ashcroft
BOISE, Idaho (AP) A federal appeals court has ruled that former Attorney General John Ashcroft may be held liable for people who were wrongfully detained as material witnesses after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. In a harshly worded ruling handed ...
3.0K - Sep. 5, 2009; scored 139.0 Yemeni at Guantanamo: prisoner without a country
WASHINGTON (AP) Legally speaking, Guantanamo Bay detainee Alla Ali bin Ali Ahmed should be a free man. He remains behind barbed wire in Cuba because he has nowhere to go. Ahmed, a 26-year-old Yemeni captured at a Pakistan guesthouse in 2002, was or...
4.0K - Aug. 2, 2009; scored 251.0 Turkish commandos capture five pirates off Somalia coast
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) Turkish commandos captured five pirates in the Gulf of Aden today as part of an international mission to curb piracy off the coast of Somalia, the military said. Navy commandos aboard the Turkish frigate TCG Gediz, part of a NAT...
4.7K - Jul. 24, 2009; scored 139.0 Island of sin?
MANAMA, Bahrain This tiny Gulf island nation is sick of its reputation as a seedy off-shore Las Vegas and a hotspot of sin for Saudis, so it's starting to rein in the booze. Already it's flooded with Saudis looking for tamer fare they can't get at ...
5.2K - Jul. 21, 2009; scored 546.0 Geithner: Global recession is receding
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said today his country had a special responsibility to help guide the world through its worst recession in decades, and stressed that while a recovery was ongoing, setbacks were l...
4.7K - Jul. 14, 2009; scored 358.0 Saudi anti-smoking campaign targets grooms
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - The catchy slogan, Kicking the habit is on you, and marriage is on us, is meant to entice young grooms to give up smoking by offering an attractive incentive. And, indeed, hundreds have expressed interest in the first anti-sm...
4.2K - Jun. 29, 2009; scored 890.0 Biomass could add to local economy
The South Coast has learned not to expect some huge corporation to swoop in and single-handedly revitalize our economy. Our future prosperity probably will depend on modestly sized enterprises, many of them homegrown, slowly building a sustainable ec...
1.9K - Jun. 23, 2009; scored 139.0 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 139.0 Sports Briefs: NASCAR reduces Long s suspension
NASCAR driver Carl Long s suspension has been reduced from a record 12 to eight races, but his record $200,000 fine remains. National Stock Car Racing commissioner Charles Strang heard Long s final appeal Monday in Chicago. He announced the ...
3.0K - Jun. 18, 2009; scored 220.0 The spin around the Axis
The Obama administration is confronting what s left of the Axis of Evil. The strategy is to enlist friends like Saudi Arabia, Japan, South Korea and China to pressure the two rogue states, Iran and North Korea, to stop developing nuclear arsenals....
2.9K - Jun. 12, 2009; scored 220.0 Obama calls for 2-state solution
WEIMAR, Germany (AP) President Barack Obama toured a World War II concentration camp today after prodding the international community to redouble efforts toward separate Israeli and Palestinian states in hopes of resolving a conflict fueled by the ...
5.7K - Jun. 5, 2009; scored 139.0 Gates trip will reassure allies
SHANNON, Ireland - Defense Secretary Robert Gates is on a delicate mission, seeking to reassure long-term U.S. allies in the Persian Gulf region that efforts by Washington to reach out to Iran will not come at their expense. In fact, Gates told repor...
3.3K - May. 4, 2009; scored 1000.0 Qatar boosts gas output as world demand shrinks
RAS LAFFAN, Qatar - This tiny U.S. ally is showing few signs of the world economic crisis, even as some of its Persian Gulf neighbors struggle with debt, stalled projects and the collapse in oil prices. The force driving Qatar: A virtual pipeline to ...
4.7K - Apr. 10, 2009; scored 139.0 U.S. names religious freedom violators
WASHINGTON On its final working day in office, the Bush administration re-designated eight countries as severe violators of religious freedom but waived possible sanctions against Saudi Arabia and Uzbekistan, officials said Monday. The moves were r...
2.1K - Apr. 2, 2009; scored 392.0 | 
