Building location faces city fine
The city of Coos Bay has imposed fines on the owner of an unfinished building on North Broadway. The property, owned by Bay Cities Building Co. of Coos Bay, is intended to be the future home of KDCQ radio. But construction ground to a halt after the ...
 3.0K - Oct. 20, 2009; scored 336.0 Ambulance finally has a place to call home
BANDON ” Bay Cities Ambulance crew and vehicles have a permanent home ” at last ” across U.S. Highway 101 from the Bandon Rural Fire Department s main station. Mast Bros. Towing, which operates out of the opposite e...
2.5K - Sep. 26, 2009; scored 1000.0 Bandon woman faces DUI charge after crash
A Bandon woman is facing driving under the influence charges connected to a Sunday single-vehicle accident. At about 10:31 p.m., the Bandon Fire Department and Bay Cities Ambulance received a report of a crash at milepost 5.5 on West Beaver Hill Road...
0.7K - Jul. 20, 2009; scored 108.0 Pageant seeks glamorous grannies
Charismatic grandmothers are invited to jump onto center stage Thursday in North Bend, for the Gorgeous Gramma pageant. Hosted by Inland Point Senior Community, the event is open to grandmothers across the community, and 100 percent of the proceeds...
1.6K - Jul. 20, 2009; scored 108.0 Accidents
North Bend Police cited a Coos Bay woman Friday night following a two-vehicle accident. A 2003 Mercury and 1997 Toyota crashed at the intersection of Newmark Street and Sherman Avenue. The driver of the Mercury, Esmeralda Perez Aguilar, 28, was cited...
1.4K - Jul. 6, 2009; scored 170.0 Skate at your own risk
COOS BAY - On his first day back at the Mingus Skateboard Park since smacking his head on concrete, Gregory Barber wanted to take things easy. Still sore from his fall at the park, the Coos Bay resident recalled how he skated up a 10-foot-wall Sunday...
4.0K - Jul. 3, 2009; scored 180.0 Crash jams bridge traffic
Medics took a Reedsport woman and a Medford woman to the hospital Wednesday following a three-vehicle accident that shut down the McCullough Bridge for more than an hour and a half. Jackie Bernard, 54, of Reedsport, who was driving a 2003 Chrysler PT...
2.2K - Jun. 25, 2009; scored 172.0 Thefts and mischief
The following are theft and criminal mischief reports from area police department logs. Coos Bay June 16, 5:24 a.m., illegal camping was reported in the 800 block of Telegraph. June 16, 10:09 a.m., a man was seen sleeping on the sidewalk near Market ...
4.9K - Jun. 17, 2009; scored 128.0 ATV crash sends California woman to local hospital
A Bay Cities Ambulance crew took a California woman to Bay Area Hospital on Friday following an ATV accident in the Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area. At about 1:56 p.m., dispatchers sent Sheriff's Dunes Patrol deputies and personnel from the Hau...
0.9K - May. 11, 2009; scored 170.0 Volunteers made sure kids had fun
The Children s Advocacy Program would like to publicly thank the businesses who generously supported our efforts to make the six-annual Run for the Kids and Family Fun day a huge success. Special thanks to Northwest Natural, The Coach House, KDOCK, P...
1.2K - Apr. 17, 2009; scored 155.0 Police investigate cause of crash
Medics took a Bandon man to the hospital Monday after his Dodge pickup crashed into a utility pole on Seven Devils Road. The 2002 Dodge Dakota was southbound near milepost 9, about three miles south of Charleston, when it failed to negotiate a curve ...
0.9K - Apr. 14, 2009; scored 128.0 Crashes kill two on coast
Two people died in the region following single-vehicle crashes over the weekend, one south of Bandon and another east of Scottsburg. Langlois' David L. Allen, 74, was hurt when his northbound 2005 Jeep Cherokee crossed the Highway 101 center line nea...
2.1K - Apr. 6, 2009; scored 148.0 March
Where have all the salmon gone? As state and federal scientists begin to digest salmon return data from the fall of 2007, the numbers are shocking: Only 88,000 fish returned, compared with 267,900 to 775,500 each year from 2002 to 2006. Other March n...
1.1K - Dec. 31, 2008; scored 108.0 Crash on Highway 42 sends three to hospital
Ambulance crews took three Crescent City, Calif., residents to the hospital Friday following a two-vehicle accident on state Highway 42. At about 1:05 p.m., a 1987 Chevrolet pickup driven by Coos Bay resident Sylvester M. Malabag, 67, was attempting ...
0.8K - Dec. 30, 2008; scored 128.0 Area ambulance company hopes for slow business Christmas Day
Calls are rare on Christmas to Bay Cities Ambulance. John Magruder is just fine with not racing lights-siren to emergencies and is looking forward to an uneventful holiday. The paramedic is among four Bay Cities Ambulance crews on duty. His shift run...
1.7K - Dec. 24, 2008; scored 736.0 Fall from car sends CB teen to hospital
A teenage boy was flown to Eugene Sunday after he fell off the back of a moving car. At about 2:45 p.m., Coos Bay Police officers went to the 1400 block of Anderson Avenue in Coos Bay, following a report of the accident. When they arrived, they found...
1.2K - Nov. 24, 2008; scored 180.0 Charleston woman struck by car, in critical condition
A Charleston woman remained in critical condition this morning in a Portland hospital after being struck by a car Saturday night in Coos Bay. The accident happened as Jack Granby, 66, of Coos Bay was southbound in the 1900 block of Woodland Drive, po...
1.5K - Nov. 17, 2008; scored 192.0 Driver jailed after crash injures other driver
North Bend police arrested a Coos Bay man Thursday following a two-vehicle accident that sent an 18-year-old man to the hospital. According to the North Bend police log, at about 5:30 p.m., a 1998 Ford Explorer Utility and a 1997 Volvo crashed at the...
3.2K - Nov. 14, 2008; scored 142.0 | 
