GOP sweep: Big governor victories in Virginia, N.J.
WASHINGTON Independents who swept Barack Obama to a historic 2008 victory broke big for Republicans on Tuesday as the GOP wrested political control from Democrats in Virginia and New Jersey, a troubling sign for the president and his party heading ...
 6.4K - Nov. 4, 2009; scored 73.0 Johnson 50th Anniversary
Gary and Betsy (Spear) Johnson, of Bandon, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary Oct. 29. Gary was a North Bend boy, the son of Melvin and Ruth Johnson. Betsy was a Coos Bay girl, the daughter of Charlie and Elizabeth Spear. Growing up, they knew...
1.7K - Nov. 2, 2009; scored 73.0 No themed wedding at Sleepy Hollow
SLEEPY HOLLOW, N.Y. (AP) A church made famous by Washington Irving s short story, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, has rejected a couple s request to hold a Halloween-themed wedding. Lisa Panensky and Jim Nieves signed a contract 13 months ago to get...
0.9K - Oct. 31, 2009; scored 293.0 Blasts at Pakistan air base, wedding bus kill 24
ISLAMABAD (AP) A suicide bomber killed seven people near a major air force complex in northwest Pakistan today, while an explosion killed 17 on a bus heading to wedding elsewhere in the region, the latest in a surge of militant attacks this month....
3.8K - Oct. 23, 2009; scored 293.0 Native Americans learn about culture preservation
PORTLAND Malissa Minthorn stands at the back of a cavernous ballroom in the Red Lion Hotel on the River. Blue, yellow, silver and black beads cascade over her shoulders in a dress that her grandmother wore to weddings and funerals on the Umatilla R...
4.7K - Oct. 22, 2009; scored 73.0 Recreation Report
Siuslaw River: Chinook anglers are having better success as fall rains helped move fish into the lower river. Fishing for cutthroat trout is fair to good. Coos County lakes: Rainbow trout were stocked last week in Empire Lakes, Bradley Lake, Powers P...
3.2K - Oct. 18, 2009; scored 73.0 Recreation Report
Siuslaw River: Chinook anglers are having better success as fall rains helped move fish into the lower river. Fishing for cutthroat trout is fair to good. Coos County lakes: Rainbow trout were stocked last week in Empire Lakes, Bradley Lake, Powers P...
3.2K - Oct. 17, 2009; scored 73.0 Stitch for a niche
COOS BAY Halloween is Stacey Kelley s Christmas. The seamstress is steeped in costume orders. In her sewing nook, dozens of garbs soon will spring to life as fairies, executioners, kings and queens if only for a night. This is the crazy time of y...
3.8K - Oct. 16, 2009; scored 190.0 Maine senators open to overhaul
WASHINGTON (AP) Another Republican senator says she s open to voting for a sweeping health care overhaul this year. Maine Sen. Susan Collins said today the status quo is unaccaptable and she shares the goal of passing responsible health care legisl...
6.3K - Oct. 14, 2009; scored 73.0 A strong manager must right wrongs
I remember the first time I got my branch managership job in Albany in 1975. I d just completed 2.5 years of internship. The existing staff wanted nothing to do with me. They had all been trained by the person the company wanted out of there. They ha...
1.6K - Oct. 12, 2009; scored 73.0 Buddy Ray 'Bud' Buckles Sr.
A celebration of life will be held at a later date for Bud Buckles, 79, of North Bend. Cremation rites were held under the direction of North Bend Chapel. Inurnment was held at Sunset Memorial Cemetery Mausoleum. Bud was born July 16, 1930, in Red Cl...
2.9K - Oct. 12, 2009; scored 73.0 Madonna accepts damages from British tabloid
LONDON (AP) Madonna on Tuesday accepted damages from a British newspaper for publishing pictures of her wedding to Guy Ritchie that she said had been stolen from her home. The singer was not in court Tuesday but her lawyer confirmed that she had ac...
1.4K - Oct. 9, 2009; scored 170.0 Dollie Teresa Bailey
A funeral service will be held for Dollie T. Bailey, 87, of Coos Bay, at 1 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 10, at the Bunker Hill Assembly of God Church, 63748 Harriet Road in Coos Bay with the Rev. Howard Thompson presiding. A public visitation will take place...
1.9K - Oct. 8, 2009; scored 73.0 Afghanistan prospects dim
Why would the administration appear to be backing away from policies it seemed so sure of in March, when Obama said the Taliban and al-Qaida must be defeated so Afghanistan never again becomes a base for terrorists? For one thing, Afghanistan s recen...
1.2K - Oct. 5, 2009; scored 73.0 Susan Lucci is going west with All My Children
NEW YORK (AP) When ABC s All My Children makes its move from Manhattan to a new home in Los Angeles, Susan Lucci won t stay behind. The leading lady of this durable daytime drama says she s decided to keep playing oft-wed diva Erica Kane, just as...
1.0K - Oct. 2, 2009; scored 73.0 Recreation Report
Siuslaw River: Anglers are having slow to fair success for fall Chinook. Only adipose fin-clipped coho may be retained. Fishing for resident and sea-run cutthroat trout is fair to good. Coos County Lakes: Fishing for largemouth bass and yellow perch...
3.7K - Sep. 26, 2009; scored 73.0 Sports Briefs: Brady, bride sued by photographers
NEW YORK Two photographers sued New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady and supermodel Gisele Bundchen for $1 million, saying they were shot at during a post-wedding party in Costa Rica. The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Manha...
7.9K - Sep. 23, 2009; scored 73.0 An affair to forget
Reality-show star Jon Gosselin did it. Country singer Shania Twain, whose One has become a wedding standard, wound up a victim of it. An endless parade of politicians has done it, and those are the ones we wind up knowing about. Adultery does happe...
3.1K - Sep. 22, 2009; scored 146.0 Pre look-alike wins annual race
As Bradley Croker rounded the track at Pete Susick Stadium, spectators might have believed he was the second coming of Steve Prefontaine. Sporting a mustache, sideburns and shaggy, dark hair, the sinewy and thin Croker loped across the finish line in...
5.1K - Sep. 21, 2009; scored 73.0 Recreation Report
SIUSLAW RIVER: Fall Chinook are being caught in lower tide water but in small numbers. A good opportunity is to fish the incoming tide by trolling plugs or herring. Fishing for resident and sea-run cutthroat trout is fair to good in most of the mains...
7.1K - Sep. 19, 2009; scored 115.0 | 
