Coos County News

The state lifted its health advisory today for Sru Lake and Tenmile Lake in Coos County after tests confirmed that blue-algae levels had subsided.

A 46-year-old Medford man was sentenced today to more than 15 years in prison for a spree of bank robberies committed while he was on release from a detention center.

A sign on the Josephine County side of Bear Camp Road offers sound advise to motorists.

Little blessings count big in an intensive care unit. A blink of an eye. A sign of life.

It's that time of year again when the uninformed make the mistake of trying to use Bear Camp Road as a shortcut from Galice to Agness - and it appears that GPS systems may be the culprits.

For the third time in less than a month, an act of violence has claimed a life in Coos County.

COQUILLE - Coos County authorities arrested a 41-year-old man accused of fatally stabbing his younger brother.

Coquille a ' Coos County authorities are investigating another homicide case, the third violent death this month.

COQUILLE, Ore. -The investigation continues into an attempted murder/suicide that left one woman in extremely critical condition and her husband dead.

After all the hype during last November's Primary Election, it would seem the lines at the ballot boxes have dwindled down.

Details emerged on Thursday indicating that a Coos County woman who was critically wounded by her husband was worried about her safety.

Attorney General John Kroger says John Calvin Hudson III was arrested in September at a Bend motel.

The Coos County district attorney says it appears Travis Kendall slipped into his wife's car on Commercial Street in Coos Bay and waited for her while she visited a lawyer Tuesday night regarding a divorce matter.

Coos County authorities say a Myrtle Point man shot his wife in the back after hiding in her car while she met with a divorce attorney.

The man accused of killing his sister-in-law last week in Fairview learns that he could face the death penalty if convicted.

Coquille a ' A man accused of killing his sister-in-law made his first court appearance in Coos County Monday.

COQUILLE - The Coos County district attorney says autopsy results show that a 31-year-old woman found in a shallow grave last week had been strangled by a pair of hands.

Salem will continue efforts to bring back commercial air service after getting the green light to do so Monday night.

Coos County searchers believe they have found the body of a missing Coquille woman.

A Coquille woman will spend the next two years in prison after being sentenced Monday for stealing thousands of dollars from the Coquille High School Class of 2009 Project Graduation Fund.