Cal QB seeks redemption
BERKELEY, Calif. ” Two years after his fourth-quarter mistake against Oregon State cost California a shot at becoming the top-ranked team in the nation, Kevin Riley can t escape the images of his blunder. At least now the Golden Bears senior q...
 4.4K - Nov. 7, 2009; scored 61.0 Stanford tries to slow Ducks
STANFORD, Calif. ” Stanford has been pointing to the brutal four-game November stretch as the defining moment for the season ever since arriving at fall camp. The Cardinal end the season with arguably their four toughest games, facing No. 7 Or...
4.3K - Nov. 7, 2009; scored 96.0 Church for dogs
LOS ANGELES When the Rev. Tom Eggebeen took over as interim pastor at Covenant Presbyterian Church three years ago, he looked around and knew it needed a jump start. Most of his worshippers, though devoted, were in their 60s, attendance had bottome...
5.1K - Nov. 7, 2009; scored 96.0 Skate park brings economic gain to city
In between rain drops skater Boomer used one of his T-shirts and a towel to dry the bowl of the Mingus Skate Park. Following the same line over and over on the rain slick surface, he practiced the same moves over and over to perfection. With full hel...
1.6K - Nov. 7, 2009; scored 61.0 Fewer sea lions eat more salmon
Killing or removing 25 California sea lions over the past two years has not reduced the toll on salmon at the base of Bonneville Dam in the Columbia River. A new report from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers estimates sea lions ate 4,960 salmon and st...
3.1K - Nov. 7, 2009; scored 141.0 Judge to defendant: Prove it
COQUILLE Bobbye Cikanek knows she probably won t be able to own horses anymore. But the woman convicted of abusing and neglecting 10 Tennessee walking horses hopes a Coos County Court judge will let her continue breeding and owning more than a doze...
3.9K - Nov. 7, 2009; scored 61.0 Rain drenches area
North Bend street department workers spent several hours Thursday night clearing plugged drains and standing water from several city streets. Water was standing on a gravel road on California Street, as well as on Colorado and Johnson, said Bob Dill...
0.8K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 61.0 New therapists bring skills to area
Cory Dorland made an offer that John Bain and John Soukup just couldn t refuse. At least that is how Southwest Physical Therapy s two newest physical therapists feel about the situation. Bain, who relocated from California, joined the therapy center ...
2.3K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 61.0 'Fourth Kind' is a half-baked mess
The flat-lining, alien-abduction thriller The Fourth Kind offers a close encounter that buries an interesting idea under a barrage of gimmicky, carnivallike hokum. The movie s unwieldy mix of degraded pseudo-documentary footage and Unsolved Myster...
3.3K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 61.0 Twin Tigers
BANDON For twins, Karli and Kacy Crook have a lot of differences. The Bandon seniors and fraternal twins contrast in many ways. Karli, who is seven minutes older, is more organized and punctual. She ll wake up earlier than me, Kacy said. Without ...
5.1K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 61.0 Elton John released from hospital; plans to resume US shows with Billy Joel
LONDON (AP) Elton John has been released from a London hospital after being treated for flu and an E. coli bacterial infection. The singer s spokesman Gary Farrow says John was at home Friday and was feeling fine. He left the hospital early Thursda...
0.7K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 61.0 Childhood chums paddle the Rogue to the sea
MEDFORD Waking in a sleeping bag to a bone-drenching rain on the fifth day of a nine-day raft trip down the Rogue River, Sam Jackson and his two childhood pals wondered whether this adventure would match what it looked like on paper. For 91 miles, ...
4.8K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 61.0 Pickup led 'Clunker' trade-ins
WASHINGTON Billed as a way for the government to put more fuel-efficient vehicles on highways, the popular $3 billion Cash for Clunkers program mostly involved swaps of old Ford or Chevrolet pickups for new ones that have only marginally bette...
6.4K - Nov. 5, 2009; scored 96.0 State finds child abuse and neglect at school
The state of Oregon has shut down a boarding school for troubled teens in Central Oregon after allegedly finding a pattern of child abuse and neglect of its students, forcing parents around the country to scramble to bring home their children. Our fi...
5.9K - Nov. 5, 2009; scored 61.0 College Picks: LSU looks to shake up SEC
LSU has a chance to prevent that Alabama-Florida SEC championship game that everyone seems to be looking forward to in December. The ninth-ranked Tigers will be in Tuscaloosa on Saturday to face the third-ranked Crimson Tide, which can wrap up the SE...
4.1K - Nov. 5, 2009; scored 96.0 Power outage hits Bay Area
Approximately 3,600 Pacific Power customers were in the dark Tuesday afternoon, after a substation transformer blew a fuse in North Bend. The outage darkened homes, businesses and traffic lights for about 45 minutes from 1:30 to about 2:15 p.m. i...
0.8K - Nov. 4, 2009; scored 61.0 Small deals don't require big payoffs
Taxpayers find plenty of reasons to chastise local officials over how they spend the public s money. Sometimes they deserve the needling, but they also deserve pats on the back when they make wise fiscal decisions. So thank you, Coos County commissio...
1.8K - Nov. 4, 2009; scored 96.0 Obama coaxes states to change with school dollars
WASHINGTON One year after his election, President Barack Obama is coaxing states across the country to rewrite education laws and cut deals with unions as they pursue his vision for school reform. Obama is visiting Wisconsin, where lawmakers are po...
4.0K - Nov. 4, 2009; scored 61.0 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 61.0 Coos Bay man is arrested
Coos Bay police officers arrested a Coos Bay man on Tuesday after a woman complained her husband wouldn t let her leave her home and her son also was inside. At about 7:41 p.m., officers responded to 1396 California Ave., where they learned that Kada...
0.6K - Nov. 4, 2009; scored 61.0 | 
