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 75.0 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 75.0 Cleveland general manager gone
BEREA, Ohio The Cleveland Browns invisible general manager has disappeared. George Kokinis, the hand-picked GM of first-year coach Eric Mangini, who was rarely seen or heard in Cleveland, left the team Monday under unexplained circumstances after ...
4.2K - Nov. 3, 2009; scored 75.0 Activists rally to OK gay nuptials
SALEM Gay rights backers kicked off a voter education campaign Monday aimed at eventually overturning Oregon s ban on same-sex marriage. Evan Wolfson of the national gay rights group Freedom to Marry said Monday he thinks hearts and minds are chan...
3.4K - Nov. 3, 2009; scored 75.0 Thefts & Mischief
The following are theft and criminal mischief reports from police logs. Coos Bay Oct. 29, 9:02 a.m., a vehicle was broken into overnight in the 500 block of South Broadway Street. Oct. 29, 9:58 a.m., police cited a minor for possession of tobacco at ...
2.2K - Oct. 30, 2009; scored 75.0 Sports Briefs: Astros choose Mills for manager
HOUSTON ” Brad Mills is finally getting his chance to run a big-league team. The 52-year-old Mills was hired by Houston on Tuesday after six seasons as Terry Francona s bench coach in Boston. He ll manage in the majors for the first time, thou...
5.1K - Oct. 28, 2009; scored 75.0 Man charged with killing UConn football player; lawyer says he was trying to break up fight
STORRS, Conn. (AP) The lawyer for a 21-year-old man charged with killing University of Connecticut football player Jasper Howard says his client was trying to break up a fight and was not involved in the stabbing that took the starting cornerback s...
1.2K - Oct. 28, 2009; scored 75.0 Thefts & mischief
The following are reports from police logs. Coquille Oct. 23, 11:44 a.m., police arrested a teenager on charges of theft and unauthorized entry into a vehicle at Coquille High School. Oct. 23, 1:32 p.m., a fork lift was found in a ditch and reported ...
5.4K - Oct. 26, 2009; scored 75.0 Window decorators aim to brighten downtown CB
During the discontent of the 1960s and 70s, people found inspiration in music. In today s economic turbulence, artists again are lifting up the community. This time it is through windows of hope. The Coos Bay Oregon Coast Etsy Artist Network, OCEAN,...
3.2K - Oct. 26, 2009; scored 75.0 College Picks: TCU can make its case for a BCS bid
Boise State better watch its back. TCU is trying to bust into the BCS, too. The sixth-ranked Broncos have drawn the most attention of the teams from the non-automatic BCS qualifying conferences this season. Boise State started the season with a convi...
5.2K - Oct. 22, 2009; scored 75.0 Friend: Balloon mom will 'go down with the ship'
FORT COLLINS, Colo. On an episode of ABC s Wife Swap, Mayumi Heene pounds her fists and shouts in frustration because she believes her co-star isn t paying enough attention to one of his sons. Off-camera, the mother of Colorado balloon boy Falc...
5.5K - Oct. 22, 2009; scored 119.0 Getting braces young good for some kids, not all
NEW YORK (AP) Nadia Czekajewski got braces on her teeth when she was 8. Now she s in third grade, turning 9, and she ll be done before she begins fourth grade, said her father, Tomasz Czekajewski. It was a wise decision to start young, said Czek...
4.7K - Oct. 21, 2009; scored 75.0 As election looms, the fundraising Obama emerges
WASHINGTON Nearly one year removed from his own election, President Barack Obama is dashing into campaign mode again, devoting coveted time toward getting Democrats elected in November and generating cash for his party in 2010. The concentrated pu...
3.6K - Oct. 20, 2009; scored 75.0 Sports Briefs: Button clinches Formula One title
SAO PAULO Jenson Button clinched his first Formula One title with a fifth-place finish at the Brazilian Grand Prix on Sunday and his Brawn GP team made history by becoming the first to take the constructors crown in its debut season. Red Bull s Ma...
3.5K - Oct. 19, 2009; scored 151.0 Twin pleads not guilty in sexual assault case
MILFORD, Conn. (AP) A former Connecticut police officer has pleaded not guilty to allegations he posed as his twin brother to have sex with a woman, and then raped her when she realized the ruse and tried to leave. Twenty-five-year-old Jared Rohrig...
0.9K - Oct. 8, 2009; scored 75.0 2 Americans, 1 Israeli win Nobel chemistry prize
STOCKHOLM (AP) Two Americans and an Israeli scientist won the 2009 Nobel Prize in chemistry today for atom-by-atom mapping of the protein-making factories within cells a feat that has spurred the development of antibiotics. The Royal Swedish Acad...
6.7K - Oct. 7, 2009; scored 75.0 Supreme Court begins new term
WASHINGTON (AP) The Supreme Court began its new term trying to decide how long a suspect s request for a lawyer is valid. The justices heard their first arguments of the 2009 term this morning. The court will have to decide whether to throw out a p...
2.5K - Oct. 5, 2009; scored 75.0 School drinking water contains toxins
CUTLER, Calif. Over the last decade, the drinking water at thousands of schools across the country has been found to contain unsafe levels of lead, pesticides and dozens of other toxins. An Associated Press investigation found that contaminants hav...
7.6K - Sep. 26, 2009; scored 75.0 Coach aquitted in player death
LOUISVILLE, Ky. ” Despite a former high school football coach s acquittal in the death of a player who collapsed during practice on a hot day, one of the prosectuors said he hoped the case would prompt coaches to pay closer attention to th...
5.4K - Sep. 18, 2009; scored 75.0 Heckling of president is rare in American history
Some 150 years ago, a congressman from South Carolina, angered by a speech on slavery, entered the Senate chamber and beat a senator from Massachusetts into unconsciousness with a metal-topped wooden cane. Years earlier on the House floor, a represen...
7.0K - Sep. 12, 2009; scored 75.0 | 
