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again the third most expensive in the country.”

Marie Dodds, AAA Oregon/Idaho Public Affairs Director

Relief on the way

BY JONATHAN J. COOPER The Associated Press

South Coast motorists soon should see lower fuel prices ■

By Lou Sennick, The World

World newspaper carrier Ric Seavello loads his Wednesday papers into his rental car.The day before, he and a Coos Bay Rail Link train on Front Street collided, totaling his car.

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COOS BAY — As always, fingers must remain crossed, but experts say the price of a gallon of gas should start to drop a little bit faster in the weeks to come.

Pump prices typically fall during this time of year due to decreased demand and the transition to winter-blend gasoline. Starting Sept. 15, retailers can begin selling a blend of gasoline that is less expensive to produce because it does not have to meet the same federal emissions reduction requirements that are required during warmer summer months.

That is likely one reason the cost of a gallon of regular unleaded in Coos Bay has dropped from an average of $3.96 last week to $3.89 this week.

AAA Oregon/Idaho Public Affairs Director Marie Dodds says it remains a good news/bad news storyline for the state.

“Retail gas prices are moving down in most markets, however the Oregon average is once again the third most expensive in the country after spending the last two weeks in fourth place,” Dodds said. “For the week, the national average for regular unleaded falls a nickel to $3.38 a gallon while Oregon's average loses four cents to $3.82 per gallon.”

While overseas struggles are always something to keep an eye on, particularly as to how they influence oil prices, one of the success stories this year has to do with how little those tragic events are impacting prices at the pump.

Speaking by phone on Wednesday, Dodds says it would have been a different situation even a couple of years ago. That is because the U.S., she says, is producing more domestic product these days.

So, with more domestic gas being produced, why has the west coast struggled to keep up with the rest of the nation?

“Persisting regional refinery issues and the resulting

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COOS BAY — Just to let everyone know — Ric is OK. One of The World’s more well-known newspaper carriers is shaken but unharmed after a chance encounter with a locomotive Tuesday morning.

Ric Seavello’s Toyota Matrix was dragged more than 100 feet by a locomotive that collided with the car Tuesday morning on Front Street in Coos Bay. Seavello has a newspaper delivery route that covers much of downtown Coos Bay. According to the Coos Bay Police Department log, officers were dispatched to the crash at 11:27 a.m.

Seavello said that as he turned onto Front Street from Date Street off U.S. Highway 101, he found a commercial truck blocking his view.

As he navigated past the truck, he

said, he was suddenly confronted by the lights of a train bearing down on him.

On instinct, he pulled as far to the side of the road as possible, but the train caught the front left side of his car, dragging it along the roadway.

“The cop said (I'm) lucky to be alive,” Seavello said. His Matrix, however, is totaled, and he’s currently waiting to hear back from his insurance company.

He’s currently delivering papers in a rental car until his claim is resolved.

World Publisher Jeff Precourt said Seavello is one of the company’s most reliable and enthusiastic carriers.

“When I heard this news, I immediately wanted to know if he was alright,” Precourt said. “I’m happy to see him back to doing what he loves.”

Reporter Thomas Moriarty can be reached at 541-269-1222, ext. 240, or by at thomas.moriarty@theemail worldlink.com. Follow him on Twitter: @ThomasDMoriarty.

SALEM — Federal rules will likely force a major overhaul of Oregon’s groundbreaking system for providing publicly funded caregivers to elderly and disabled people, state officials said in a report presented to the Legislature’s budget committee on Wednesday.

The rules adopted last year extend minimum wage and overtime requirements to 20,000 home care workers paid through the state’s Medicaid program. That will mean a massive increase in costs unless the state curtails services for certain clients, officials say.

Gov. John Kitzhaber has asked the U.S. Department of Labor for a delay, saying in a letter to Labor Secretary Thomas Perez that Oregon hasn’t had enough time to negotiate changes to the program.

“These issues quickly become quite personal for consumers,” the governor wrote in his letter dated Aug. 14. The Labor Department has not formally responded.

Complying with the federal rule would cost the state $18 million during the first six months of next year, an amount that hasn’t been budgeted. The price tag for the next two-year budget cycle, which begins next summer, would be $75 million for the state and $168 million for the federal government, according to a report prepared for Legislature’s Ways and Means Committee.

In Oregon’s Medicaid-funded home care system, workers help 21,000 elderly and disabled Oregonians with chores such as cooking, bathing and taking medications. The program saves money by avoiding more expen-

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pledged airstrikes as well but is adamant that he won’t send U.S. combat troops to battle the Islamic extremists.

“We must pursue a comprehensive and sustained counterterrorism strategy, and a bipartisan coalition in the House voted to support a critical component of that strategy,” Obama said after the vote.

The Senate was to vote Thursday on the measure, which

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The measure is the last major business on Capitol Hill before lawmakers depart this week to return to their districts and states to campaign for re-election.

The new authority is part of $500 million that Obama requested in May to train and equip Syrian

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GRANTS PASS — For the second time this year, federal officials are releasing additional water from a Northern California reservoir to combat a parasite that threatens to kill thousands of salmon in the drought-parched Klamath River.

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation says it doubled the outflows from Lewiston Dam into the Trinity River on Tuesday, and will keep them up for seven days.

The decision was made following the discovery of a parasite known as Ich, which attacks salmon in stagnant water conditions. The agency increased flows last month to combat the same problem.

Sampling this week found the parasite in nine of the 20 fish tested.

“This is the only possible means of preventing or reducing the

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Secretary of State John Kerry points Wednesday on Capitol Hill in Washington to a newspaper photo of the recent Arab summit in Saudi Arabia as an example of the kind of coalition he expects in combating Islamic State extremists in Iraq and Syria.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s request for congressional backing to train and arm Syrian rebels battling Islamic State group militants is halfway home, after approval by the GOP-controlled House sent the issue to the Senate, where leaders in both parties say it’s expected to pass handily.

Obama won support from staunch Republicans who typically are reflexively against him and lost the votes from some of his most loyal Democratic allies in the 273156 House tally. Republicans backed Obama by a more than 2-1 margin; Democrats backed him as well, but to a lesser degree.

Top leaders of both parties stood with the president despite reservations that his strategy of arming moderate rebel groups could backfire or won’t be enough to blunt the advance of Islamic State group forces. Obama has

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severity of a parasite outbreak,” David Murillo, the bureau’s regional director, said in a statement.

He added the agency was concerned about the effect on water levels in Trinity Reservoir, which also sends water into the Sacramento River for salmon and agriculture.

A federal judge denied an irrigation district’s bid to stop earlier releases for Klamath salmon.

Yurok Tribe Chairman Thomas P. O’Rourke Jr. said in a statement there have been no confirmed salmon deaths linked to the parasite, but the tribe is very concerned.

Tribal biologists last week delivered imprints of the gills of fish believed stricken by the parasite to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Fish Health Center, and federal biologists sampled fish Monday.

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For native people and early settlers, huge salmon runs along Oregon’s coastal rivers were part of the year’s rhythm. The Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw hold a salmon ceremony each August to welcome the fall Chinook run, and the Coquille Tribe hosts the Mill-Luck Salmon Celebration at the Mill Casino-Hotel each September, with a traditional salmon bake.

Even without those observances, no one could miss the fall salmon run that draws anglers to the Umpqua,Coos,Coquille and Rogue rivers.Local and visiting boats are thick on the water in August and September, and the Coos Bay waterfront is crowded with the lawn chairs of teenagers and other boatless anglers. Where else can you stand on the bank in the middle of downtown, throw a line in the water and reel in a 20-pound salmon?

From the 1880s until 1958, populations of Chinook salmon, their smaller cousins the coho, and their distant relations the steelhead (a seagoing trout) were devastated by splash dam logging. Loggers built temporary dams on mountain streams and collected logs in the resulting ponds, then broke the dams to wash the logs downstream to the mill.

The resulting floods scoured away salmon habitat. Loggers now take measures to preserve the shady gravels and submerged snags that salmon need. But both human and natural factors still threaten salmon populations. In an effort to stabilize them, Oregon’s Salmon and Trout Enhancement Program enlists volunteers to run hatcheries, count fish and restore habitat. Coos County schoolchildren learn about this species by donning waders to wrestle hatchery salmon during field trips.

In April through August, commercial fishermen troll off the Oregon coast for salmon that originate in California rivers. After the practically fishless years of 2006-2008, catches are on the rise, though they’re half what they were in the 1980s.

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Bay Area Fun Festival features cars, music and more in Coos Bay

Arts Fair and Battle of the Bones cook-off in Reedsport

Bandon Historical Society museum open house

CPR training offered Saturday TODAY Jedidiah Smith: His Oregon Adventures 10:30 a.m., Ocean Ridge Assisted Living, 1855 Ocean Blvd., Coos Bay. Guest speaker: Cindy Farber from Umpqua Discovery Center.

Humbug Mountain Weavers and Spinners Meeting Noon, Langlois Fire Hall, 94322 First St., Langlois.

ARRRG Home Rule Meeting 1:30-3:30 p.m. and 5:30-7:30 p.m., Owen Building, 225 N. Adams St., Coquille. Preview Coos County Home Rule Charter 2014.

Lower Umpqua Hospital District’s 50th Anniversary Celebration 3-7 p.m., Lower Umpqua Hospital, 600 Ranch Road, Reedsport. Free events and food: 3-6 p.m. health fair at LUH; 5-6 p.m. open house at walk-in clinic; 3-5 p.m. bicycle rodeo in parking lot; 6-7 p.m. DuneFest chairity auction fund giveaway at LUH. Christine Hanlon Art Opening 5-8 p.m., Bandon Public Library, Sprague Room, 1204 11th St. SW, Bandon. Refreshments.

FRIDAY Bay Area Seniors Computer Club Meeting 9:15-11 a.m., Gloria Dei Lutheran Church, 1290 Thompson Road, Coos Bay. Seniors welcome. Help stations. Topic: Google’s free Picasa photo editing program. 541-269-7396 or www.bascc.info.

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Old Town Marketplace 10 a.m.-4 p.m., 250 First St. SW, Bandon. Farmers and artisans on the waterfront.

Singles 50+ Get Acquainted Picnic 11 a.m.-1 p.m., Sunset Bay State Park, 89814 Cape Arago Highway, Charleston. Beach park grassy area. Bring your chair and lunch. 541-266-1012.

Fund Racing for Alzheimer’s 3:30-6 p.m., Ocean Ridge Assisted Lliving, 1855 Ocean Blvd., Coos Bay. Vintage car show featuring Over the Hill Car Club and music by Worn Out Frets. Car sponsorship $20. 541-267-4000.

Mindpower Gallery 25th Anniversary Celebration 4-9 p.m., Mindpower Gallery, 417 Fir Ave., Reedsport. 541-271-2485.

BachRock Concert 6 p.m., Hauser Community Church, 69411 Wildwood Road, North Bend. BackRock musicians 6-12 years old and Metro Gnomes 9-14 years old. 541-290-1562.

The Young Bucs Live 7-10 p.m., The Mill CasinoHotel, 3201 Tremont, North Bend. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. for the Cruz the Coos Dance Party.

SATURDAY Scottsburg Bake Sale 9 a.m.-noon, Speedy Mart, 32841 Highway 38, Elkton.

Port Orford Farmers Market 9 a.m.-noon, Port Orford Community Co-op, 812 Oregon St., Port Orford.

South Slough Big Canoe Trip 9 a.m.-noon, South Slough Reserve Interpretive Center, 61907 Seven Devils Road, Charleston. Participants will be expected to: paddle for two hours; raise to standing from seating on the bottom of the canoe; lift 50 pounds and one mile up uneven terrain.

Canoe, PFD and paddles provided. Dress for muddy launch and take out, and weather. Limited to 4-6 participants. Register by calling 541-8885558.

Sunset Classic Chevy Car Show & Shine 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Shore Acres State Park, 89039 Cape Arago Highway, Charleston. Limited to 300 1979 and older vehicles. Parking $5. Gates open at 8 a.m., Check-in and registration 9-11 a.m., Judging 11 a.m., Trophy presentation 2 p.m. http://www.sunsetclassicchevys.com.

The World’s Parking Lot Sale 9 a.m.-2 p.m., The World, 350 Commerical Ave., Coos Bay. Hit & Miss — South Coast Tractor Show 10 a.m., Oregon Coast Historical Railway, 766 S. First St., Coos Bay. Vintage tractors, antique steam engines and hit and miss motors. Admission is by donation.

Old Town Marketplace 10 a.m.-4 p.m., 250 First St. SW, Bandon. Farmers and artisans on the waterfront.

Orchid Day 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Shore Acres State Park, 89039 Cape Arago Highway, Charleston. Pacific Orchid Society will host display and have experts on hand and refreshments will be served in the Garden House. Parking $5.

A Sea of Quilts XX By Coos Sand 'n Sea Quilters 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Boys & Girls Club of Southwestern Oregon, 3333 Walnut Ave., Coos Bay. Admission $5 for ages 12 and older. Quilts, vendor mall, member boutique, raffle, hourly demonstrations.

Mindpower Gallery 25th Anniversary Open House 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Mindpower Gallery, 417 Fir Ave., Reedsport. 541-271-2485 Meet & Greet the Artist: Alex Linke 11 a.m-4 p.m., Second Street Gallery, 210 Second St., Bandon.

Old Town Art Fair Noon-5 p.m., along U.S. Highway 101 and state Highway 38, Old Town Reedsport.

Battle of the Bones Barbecue Cook-off Noon-5 p.m., follow your nose, Old Town Reedsport.

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No Lazy Kates Spinning 1 p.m., Wool Company, 990 U.S. Highway 101, Bandon. 541-347-3115.

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Bay Area Teen Idol Finals 2 p.m., Bay Area Fun Festival, main stage downtown Coos Bay. Event moves to Egyptian Theatre in the event of rain.

THE WORLD Medical volunteers will offer free “60 Seconds To Save A Life” training at Saturday’s Prefontaine Memorial Run. They’ll teach a hands-only version of cardiopulmonary resuscitation, employing chest compressions without the traditional mouth-to-mouth breathing.

Fear of communicable disease has made many people unwilling to perform mouthto-mouth resuscitation, said Deanna Prater, a registered nurse at Bay Area Hospital.

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Hospital employees will join volunteers from Bay Cities Ambulance and North Bend Medical Center to provide the training. Bay Cities Ambulance will provide the mannequins.

In addition to CPR training, Bay Area Hospital will offer heart health education, including instruction in the emergency use of automated external defibrillators.

The CPR and AED training will take place 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Saturday, in the infield of Marshfield High School’s Pete Susick Stadium, where the 10-kilometer race will conclude.

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A bittersweet farewell Over the past two years we’ve built an amazing team for you here at The World. We’ve added more local content, a better online experience and even have some awards from the Oregon Newspaper Press Association to show for it.

On the business side of things our customers tell us their service and results are better than ever. We’re even in the hunt for a dynamic director of our circulation team to ensure our print editions are delivered on time

and our PUBLISHER audience continues to grow. But, as always, with growth comes change.

Today’s JEFF topic of PRECOURT change comes in the form of a departure — mine. I’m moving north to run the Lee Enterprises MidValley Media Group in Albany, Corvallis and Lebanon. While this is an exciting move for my

career and for my family, I find it hard to express how bittersweet it is. We immediately fell in love with Oregon’s South Coast. All that Oregon has to offer, in both the people and the surroundings, have been a gift. We are excited to try something new and thrilled to continue living in the state we proudly call home.

In the interim this doesn’t mean much change at all. I’ll be serving as publisher during the search for my replacement. And we’re going to continue to

innovate. We recently had a visit from our Total Content Management System team from Lee Enterprises. They evaluated our current processes in order to change our news gathering for the better. Soon our reporters and photographers will be writing and shooting on location and sending their content to the web and the printed page simultaneously. This will enable us to break news faster online. At the same time it will free us up to dig deeper into the story for

the print editions to follow. We’re also going to continue to expand our local coverage. We’ve just restructured our news beats and have three reporters starting in a few weeks.

The World has changed for the better in the past two years. We’ve built an award winning news operation that cares for our employees and is dedicated to bringing the very best coverage to the communities we serve. That commitment will never change.

The measles are back No, it’s not a rock group. You’re lucky if you can’t remember. It’s a disease that was gone, and now it’s back. So, by the way, is whooping cough,another dreaded childhood disease that had been effectively wiped out.

Every child is supposed to be immunized before they start kindergarten. Children with medical issues, such as a weakened immune system, are entitled to medical exemptions.

These children, along with family members who cannot be vaccinated, depend on the rest of the community to protect them.

According to accepted public health standards, “herd immunity” requires that 92 percent of the students in the classroom be vaccinated. By vaccinating our own children, we protect them — and those children who cannot be vaccinated and might face the worst outcomes if they were to fall sick.

While all states require certain vaccinations, parents who claim that vaccinations are against their “personal beliefs” are entitled to exemptions. The number of parents seeking such exemptions has doubled in the past seven years, and, according to an analysis by the Los Angeles Times, the rates — and dangers — are actually greatest in private schools and many of the wealthiest public school districts.

In the Santa MonicaMalibu (Calif.) Unified School District, for example, the exemption rate is nearly 15 percent. In the Montecito district in Santa Barbara, more than 27 percent of the parents are claiming it is against their personal beliefs to SUSAN vaccinate. Among private ESTRICH schools in California, nearly 25 percent of the Columnist kindergartens are reporting vaccination rates that put them below the 92 percent rate. In some cases, literally half of the students aren’t getting vaccinated. Ten percent of the public school kindergartens surveyed reported that “herd immunity” no longer protects their students.

Parents who don’t vaccinate their otherwise healthy children claim that they are protecting their children’s health. I have yet to find a reputable doctor or public health expert who agrees. Measles and pertussis are potentially serious illnesses, even for healthy children. And they can be deadly for children and family members who cannot be vaccinated, already have compromised immune systems or are being treated for cancers — in short, for people who depend on the community to keep them safe.

Not vaccinating your child is both dangerous and selfish.

This is not a religious issue, at least not for the overwhelming majority of California residents who opt out of vaccination. The most dangerous schools in the state are schools populated by parents who think they know better than public health officials and, in making that mistake, are exposing not only their own children, but also their most vulnerable classmates and family members, as well as teachers and staff, to potentially deadly threats.

A few years ago, it was very “fashionable” to believe that vaccinations caused autism. I say “fashionable” because there was never one ounce of scientific proof establishing any such connection, and yet you could turn on your television and see the topic being debated as if it were one about which reasonable authorities could disagree. The so-called studies suggesting a link to autism were thoroughly and totally discredited.

The number of measles cases in America reached a 20-year high last year. A preventable disease is back. California is facing a whooping cough epidemic this year.

Of course, parents should be able to raise their children as they please.I’m not one who thinks we need the state to tell us what our kids can eat for lunch or what size sodas they can buy.But vaccinations are another matter.

Personal choice should not extend to exposing children to unacceptable and unnecessary risks — particularly when those being exposed are the most vulnerable among us, who have no choice.

Letters to the Editor Does critic have better idea?

Raymond Straub’s Sept. 15 Public Forum letter was very critical of President Obama.

In fact, Straub didn’t have a kind word for our president.

Since Straub seems to have much historical knowledge about past military engagements, I wonder what action

he would suggest against ISIL for the good of our nation.

Surely he must have some ideas that would help in our struggle against terrorism. I wish he would share them with us, especially since he might have some notions that would make our nation safer.

It sounds as if Straub might have even served in one of the wars he mentioned. It’s one thing to always criticize, but

it’s quite another to offer something constructive. And if he offers something constructive, perhaps he could also share his suggestion with the Republican-dominated Congress. So far, all it has accomplished is to criticize everything that comes out of the White House.

Sharon Ramirez North Bend

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The new GOP hope: Romney Richard Nixon lost the presidency in 1960, was pilloried in his own party for losing to so inexperienced an opponent as John F. Kennedy and eight years later was elected to the White House.

Ronald Reagan tried twice,in 1968 and 1976, and didn’t win the Republican nomination until 1980, when he was elected president.

If you and I know that, then surely Mitt Romney does, too — and there are growing signs that Romney, fortified by the conviction that he was right more often than he was wrong in his campaign against a president who now suffers from plunging public support, may be looking at a third presidential race as well.

This is not merely musings for a September morning. Nationally regarded Republican political operatives — among the party’s shrewdest and most experienced analysts, mostly of the breed who recoil at the thought of Rand Paul of Kentucky or Ted Cruz of Texas heading the GOP ticket — are talking privately of the appeal Romney might have in 2016.

Of course all the planets would have to align perfectly, but that is true of any presidential run; most White House campaigns are failures. Still, if Obama continues to record poor poll results — and if increasing numbers of Americans remind the former Massachusetts governor that he was right about Russia and the economy, if the Republican insurgents look as though they will split the primary vote, and if former Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida does not mount a campaign of his own, then Romney could emerge as a powerful contender.

A Romney campaign would be all the more formidable in the unlikely event that former of Secretary State Hillary R o d h a m DAVID Clinton does not run for SHRIBMAN A Columnist president.

Republican veteran of nine presidential campaigns told me, in reference to the retiring governor of Maryland, a Democrat: “Mitt Romney versus Martin O’Malley wouldn’t be close.”

The potential Romney surge — actually, more of a stealth operation — would be fueled by his involvement in midterm congressional and gubernatorial contests this autumn. Several top Republican operatives say GOP officials may supply Romney — one of the most-requested surrogate campaigners in the country — with a plane to campaign for Republican candidates.

“He could fill the day four times over with legitimate requests for his time,” says Ron Kaufman, a former Republican National Committee budget chairman and a White House official in the first Bush years.

That sort of political scut work has paid dividends before. Nixon was considered politically dead after losing the White House in 1960 and then being defeated in the California gubernatorial race two years later. It was after that loss to Edmund G. Brown Sr. that the former vice president, in his you-won’t-have-Nixon-to-

kick-around-anymore remarks, declared that he had given his last press conference and would be withdrawing from politics.

By 1966, Nixon was perhaps the most prominent and ardent Republican surrogate campaigner in American political history.

“1966 is very important in understanding Nixon’s re-emergence because it was an off-year congressional campaign period where the spotlight was really on Nixon,” recalled Dwight Chapin, a veteran Nixon hand who became White House appointments secretary, in an oral-history the Nixon for interview Presidential Library and Museum.

“He took full advantage of it. He earned a lot of chits with the various congressional candidates.”

With Nixon’s help, the Republicans gained 47 seats in the House and three in the Senate — a major blow to President Lyndon B. Johnson. The president was so angered by the Nixon offensive that, according to Chapin, he referred to Nixon as “a chronic campaigner.”

Nixon was an avid student of American politics and understood that his 1960 loss was in part a reflection of the overall weakness of his party — a weakness that only grew after Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona lost the 1964 election in a landslide.

“So we had to increase the number of governors. We had to increase the number of senators, increase the number of congressmen,” Nixon said in recorded 1983 interviews with former aide Frank Gannon and available through the University of Georgia, adding: “And that’s exactly what we accomplished in that 1966 cam-

paign. In that campaign, I was pretty perceptive. I must say I didn’t have any polls to base this on. I just sensed this as I campaigned around the country.”

The result,according to Nixon: “So that gave the party the new life. It created a new plateau ... for the (presidential) candidate to pole-vault from in order to win in 1968.”

The 2016 race is shaping up to be considerably different from the 1968 race, in which Nixon’s only real party rival was Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York, though Romney’s father appeared for a time to be a strong candidate and Gov. Reagan of California mounted a spirited though intermittent campaign. The next presidential race may include a number of Republican contenders, including Jeb Bush, who as a member of the Republican establishment occupies much the same profile in a potential race as Romney.

Three months ago, the Granite State Poll conducted for WMURTV by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center found that nearly 40 percent of likely Republican voters in the state’s first-in-the-nation primary would side with Romney if he ran, pushing all the other potential candidates to support levels beneath 10 percent.

Every presidential race has its own contours and rhythms, and Nixon’s 1966 gambit hasn’t been repeated on that scale by any candidate in nearly a half century, with one signal exception: Ronald Reagan. The only political figure in a position to repeat it this time around is Romney. The key to the 2016 race may be whether he chooses to do so.

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State Daughter appalled by callous treatment of her dad’s ashes DEAR ABBY: My dad died in April after a brief illness.

Before he passed, my stepmother encouraged him to donate his body to science because she is to be buried with her first husband, and she didn’t want the expense of burying Dad. I went to pick up my father’s ashes as she requested. When I got there, she invited me into her bedroom to see that she had made a shrine to her first husband, who had DEAR died three years before she and Dad were married. The one photo she had of Dad was 2 inches by 3 inches, and was the one JEANNE PHILLIPS from his memorial invitation.

With a broken heart I made my way to the door.

Abby, she was married to my dad for 30 years. He supported her, took care of her, and worked to the age of 75 to keep her happy — and that was a task!

As I reached the front door, I remembered what I was there for in the first place — my dad’s ashes.

They were still in the UPS wrap, in a bench that he kept his shoes and boots in by the door. Seriously, who does that? —GRIEVING DAUGHTER IN NEW YORK DEAR GRIEVING DAUGHTER: Please accept my deepest sympathy for the loss of your father. Unless he spent the entire 30 years of his marriage sharing his bedroom with the shrine to your stepmother’s first husband, inviting you in to see it was beyond insensitive on her part. The only bright side I can see to this is that you’re now in possession of your beloved father’s ashes, and you will probably never have to see her again.

DEAR ABBY: I am the father of an 8-year-old daughter, “Lindsey.” She is my world. Her mom and I split when Lindsey was 2.

She has remarried. We are all civil, and things are good.

Lindsey is getting to the age in which sleepovers at friends’ houses are happening, which is fine because I know a few of them and their parents. I’m worried about the fathers or older brothers of the ones I don’t know.

How do you ask or tell an 8year-old about the dangers of pedophiles without scaring her? This is my biggest fear. — DAD IN LOUISIANA DEAR DAD: I assume that, as a conscientious parent, you are not sending your little girl off to stay with complete strangers. Make it a point to meet and talk with the parents of the girls who are having the sleepovers. If that’s not possible, your ex should do it so you can both be assured that the party will be properly supervised.

You should also make sure your daughter knows that she can talk to you anytime about ANYTHING and you will listen, answer her questions and support her.

I assume that Lindsey’s mother has already started the dialogue about the facts of life. Talk to your ex about your concerns and ask what she has discussed with Lindsey about boundaries, inappropriate touching and that Lindsey knows she can come to either of you if anyone makes her uncomfortable. The most effective way to protect a child is to ensure that there is open, comfortable communication on any subject.

Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips.

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Senate candidate says ex-staffer copied policies The Associated Press

This Sept. 15, photo provided by Washington County, Animal Services in Hillsboro, shows a Jack Russell terrier named Gidget.The 7-year-old dog who went missing from her Pennsylvania home outside of Philadelphia.

Dog missing from Pennsylvania home turns up 3,000 miles away PORTLAND (AP) — A Jack Russell terrier that went missing from its Pennsylvania home has turned up at an animal shelter nearly 3,000 miles away.

A good Samaritan this month spotted the 7-yearold dog named Gidget wandering in the Portland suburb of Tualatin, and brought her to the Bonnie L. Hays Animal Shelter, said Deborah Wood, manager of Washington County Animal Services.

Wood said Wednesday that a microchip implanted

in Gidget revealed that the owner lived near Philadelphia. Contacted by the shelter, the owner said her dog has been missing since April 22, two days after Easter.

It’s a mystery how the dog arrived in Oregon.

“She’s never lived here; there is nothing that would bring her here,” Wood said.

“So a human somehow brought her here, but we don’t know who or how.”

Wood says Gidget was a little thin, but otherwise in good shape.

PORTLAND (AP) — Republican U.S. Senate candidate Monica Wehby on Wednesday blamed a former staff member for policy positions that matched statements from other Republicans word-for-word.

Wehby’s campaign took down the entire issues section of her website a day after BuzzFeed reported that Wehby’s health care plan was strikingly similar to poll questions tested by Crossroads GPS, a political group run by Republican operative Karl Rove. Much of Wehby’s plan matched the Crossroads poll questions verbatim.

Another BuzzFeed report showed that Wehby’s economic proposal matched material from two other Republican politicians, Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio and a 2012 congressional candidate, Gary DeLong.

Wehby, a pediatric neurosurgeon and former trustee at the American Medical Association, has made her health care expertise the centerpiece of her campaign

against first-term Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley.

Merkley’s campaign said the revelation that her prescription for fixing the American health care system matched the poll-tested suggestions from Crossroads undermines her case.

“This is more proof that Wehby is in lockstep with national Republicans and their billionaire special interest allies, and will be a rubber stamp for their priorities in the Senate,” Merkley’s campaign manager, Alex Youn, said in a statement on Wednesday.

Wehby said the policy proposals in the Crossroads presentation are common Republican suggestions for fixing the health care system.

“These aren’t proprietary ideas of one particular group,” Wehby told The Associated Press in an interview Wednesday evening. “This is what we all talk about. In every plan, you’ll see the same issues, and that’s why these are good plans. I don’t need some organization to tell me. I’ve been studying this

Obamacare since before it passed.”

Wehby’s health care plan, which she repeated Wednesday, proposes expanding use of health savings accounts, allowing consumers to purchase policies from other states and opening access to cheaper catastrophic insurance plans, which only cover very high health care expenses. She also suggested allowing consumers to use pre-tax money to buy insurance and eliminating the tax on medical devices.

Those ideas are all included in the Crossroads presentation as policies that were popular with the public.

“The concepts and ideas are my concepts and ideas that I agree with,” Wehby said. “But as far as wording goes, I had no idea that the same wording had been used elsewhere until all this happened. So we took it down.”

Wehby sidestepped a question about whether the copied material constituted plagiarism, a word Merkley’s campaign is using.

Oregonians to vote on driving cards for immigrants STATE

PORTLAND (AP) — For a time last year, Oregon joined seven other states in giving driving privileges to people living in the country illegally.

But a small anti-immigrant group rounded up just enough signatures to stop the law and put a measure before voters in November to void it.

Oregonians for Immigration Reform says the state should not encourage illegal immigration.

The law would have allowed immigrants and others to apply for drivers’ cards that cannot be used to vote, board a plane, get benefits or buy firearms. Backers say it improves public safety.

The measure is unexpected in progressive Oregon and comes at a time when law-

makers nationwide have been granting immigrants more privileges. It will be the first time that voters in any state will weigh in on the issue.

Minimum wage increases by 15 cents PORTLAND (AP) — The state Bureau of Labor and Industries says more than 140,000 Oregon workers will get a pay raise when the minimum wage goes up the first of the year.

It’s a 15-cent an hour hike, from $9.10 to $9.25. It will affect 141,822 people, roughly 8 percent of Oregon’s workforce.

The increase means Oregon will have the nation’s second-highest minimum

D I G E S T wage behind Washington.

Oregon’s minimum wage is re-calculated each year as the result of a voter-passed state law that ties it to inflation.

For minimum wage earners working 30 hours a week, the raise translates into $234 more in 2015.

Oracle adds copyright to claims against state PORTLAND (AP) — Oracle America has amended its lawsuit against Oregon over the state’s troubled health insurance website.

The company’s new com-

plaint adds an allegation of copyright infringement on top of the earlier accusations that Oregon breached contracts and failed to act in good faith. The amended suit was filed last week in federal court in Portland.

Oracle filed for protections from the U.S. Copyright Office shortly before filing its amended complaint. The company says Oregon cannot use or modify Oracle’s software because the state has not fully paid for the work Oracle performed.

E. coli investigation clears restaurant PORTLAND (AP) — Health officials in Oregon’s Lincoln County say they

found no trace of E. coli bacteria in a county restaurant as they investigate two cases of E. coli infection, including one that killed a 4-year-old girl.

The Oregonian reports that the county’s public health division director, Rebecca Austen, said Wednesday that swabs taken from the restaurant were negative for the bacteria.

Relatives said the girl and a young friend shared a turkey sandwich at the restaurant over the Labor Day weekend.

Serena Profitt died of complications from the infection. The newspaper says 5-year-old Brad Sutton of Tacoma, Washington, is in satisfactory condition at Seattle Children’s Hospital.

Obituaries

Jeani Davis

Jeani Lyn Davis May 4, 1953 - Sept. 7, 2014

Jeani Lyn Davis, 61, passed away Sept. 7, 2014, from complications of liver disease. She was born May 4,

Virgil L. Conley Aug. 14, 1921 – Aug. 23, 2014

An urnside committal will be held for Virgil L. Conley, 94, of Coos Bay at 3:30 p.m.

Friday, Sept.

19, at Sunset Memorial Park, 63060 M illington Fro n ta ge Road in Coos Bay. Virgil was born Aug. Virgil Conley 14, 1921, in P a i s l e y, oldest of three children to L a u r e l Conley and M a r y (Vernon) Conley. He passed away Aug. 23, 2014, in Coos Bay. Following graduation from Paisley High School, Virgil enlisted in the U.S. Army where he proudly served with the 206th

Death Notices Josephine Linder — 91, of Bandon, passed away Sept.

16, 2014, in Bandon.

Arrangements are pending with Coos Bay Chapel, 541267-3131.

Gerald E. Drumheller — 65, of North Bend, passed away Sept. 17, 2014, in Coos Bay. Arrangements are pending with Coos Bay Chapel, 541-267-3131.

1953, in North Bend, to Warren and Lorraine Hunt.

She will always be remembered as an artist whose talent seemed to pour out effortlessly. She attacked everything from home decorating to the kitchen table with passion, love and creativity not to be soon forgotten.

Jeani’s family will miss her deeply and cherish her memory.

Jeani was preceded in death by her husband of 30 years, Charles Davis due to a fatal heart attack; her son, Chad Canup Davis passed

away in a fatal car accident in 1994; and her father, Warren Hunt of North Bend from brain cancer.

She is survived by her mother, Lorraine Hunt and sister, Jacki Benn both of North Bend; her nephew, Jeff Benn and his family of Eugene; and her stepson, Jamie Davis and family of Creswell.

A celebration of life was held for both Chuck and Jeani Sept. 13, at their family home in Veneta.

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Combat Engineers Battalion.

He participated in the invasion of Normandy, France, and the Battle of the Bulge.

Made famous by the movie “The Bridge on the River Kwai,” Virgil’s unit was responsible for the destruction of the depicted bridge.

Upon his return to the states, Virgil spent time working in the woods as a logger before moving to the Pendleton area where he was employed as a truck driver for a beer distributor. His later years were spent in Keizer working as a janitor at both Keizer High School and Keizer Catholic Church, where wife, Mary Ann would assist him with his duties. He was a longtime member of the LaPine Veterans of Forgein Wars where he was an

active part of their auctions.

In 1996, Virgil lost his wife of 50 years after a battle with cancer. A few years later, spending time in Redmond, Virgil would meet and marry Peggy Sutheard. Following his retirement they settled in Coos Bay area to be near family.

Virgil enjoyed eating out at the different local different and was fond of his morning coffee klatch he faithfully attended while his health allowed. He was loved by many and will be dearly missed.

Arrangements are under the direction of Coos Bay Chapel, 541-267-3131.

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Robert James Putman Dec. 11, 1947 - Aug. 16, 2014

Robert Putman

Robert J a m e s Putman, 66, passed away in his home in Eugene, Aug. 16, 2014, from co m p l i ca tions due to

Dennis William Snell March 26, 1943 - Sept. 2, 2014

Dennis Snell passed away Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2014. He was born Sept. 2, 2014, in Santa Ana, Calif., to parents Jack William and Grace (Glazier) Snell.

Dennis attended BreaOlinda High School and went on to graduate from Humboldt State University.

Dennis retired to Coquille after spending many years on his ranch near Covelo, Calif.

Dennis is survived by his wife, Maureen of Coquille; sister, Diane Gideon of Boise, Idaho; and two nephews, Gary Gideon of Boise and Brian Gideon of Durango, Colo.

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News of the West Border Patrol to test wearing cameras SAN DIEGO (AP) — The U.S. Border Patrol will begin wearing cameras this year at its training academy,a test to see if the technology should be used in the field to blunt criticism about agents’ use of force.

R. Gil Kerlikowske, who has led the Border Patrol’s parent agency since March, announced the plans Tuesday to a small group of activists who have pressed for cameras, according to a person who attended the briefing and spoke on condition of anonymity because the discussion was intended to be private. Testing will occur at the Border Patrol academy in Artesia, New Mexico.

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Protection commissioner didn’t tell activists how many cameras were bought or discuss when or whether they would be introduced to any of the roughly 21,000 agents in the field, the person said. The meeting in Detroit was the latest discussion that Kerlikowske has held with some of his most vocal critics of the Border Patrol’s use of force.

Another person briefed on the plans said testing will occur from October and December and that it was unclear if or when they would be introduced in the field.

Kerlikowske scheduled a news conference Thursday in Washington to discuss what his office said were “develop-

ments toward CBP’s commitment to increase transparency and accountability.” Michael Friel, a Customs and Border Protection spokesman, declined to comment on body cameras or the nature of Thursday’s announcement.

The measure is a first step toward satisfying activists who have long demanded cameras as a way to keep a check on potential abuses. It is likely to meet opposition from the National Border Patrol Council, the union representing more than 17,000 agents, which has said cameras would be expensive and may cause agents to hesitate when their The Associated Press lives are threatened.

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Truck firm faces paying millions in Amtrak crash RENO, Nev. (AP) — A Nevada trucking company could be forced to pay more than $5.7 million if a judge formalizes a jury verdict that faulted one of its drivers for a fiery 2011 crash with an Amtrak train that killed six people and injured dozens.

A federal jury in Reno awarded $4.5 million to Amtrak and $210,777 to Union Pacific Railroad for damages resulting from John Davis Trucking Co.'s negligence when one of its trucks slammed into the side of a passenger train at a rural crossing 70 miles east of Reno.

U.S. District Judge Howard McKibben put the judgment on hold until Sept.

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Lawyers for the trucking firm told jurors during the four-week trial last month that Union Pacific Railroad officials manipulated or destroyed evidence that would have proved a malfunctioning crossing gate and signal lights were responsible for the crash.

Railroad attorneys presented video clips from a camera mounted on the locomotive that they said proved the truck driver, Larry Valli of Winnemucca, Nev., ignored flashing lights, a functioning gate and repeated whistle blasts before slamming into the fourth car of the train.

Wildfire shows explosive growth POLLOCK PINES, Calif.

(AP) — An out-of-control wildfire that was threatening more than 2,000 homes in Northern California showed explosive growth, consuming tens of thousands of additional acres, fire officials said Thursday.

The fire east of Sacramento had burned through 111 square miles, up from 44 square miles Wednesday when it forced additional evacuations, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. It was only 5 percent contained.

Most of the threatened homes were in Pollock Pines, 60 miles east of Sacramento.

Hundreds of them were under evacuation orders, but it wasn’t immediately clear exactly how many.

Much of the fire growth on Wednesday was to the northwest, away from the town, according to Cal Fire.

Gov. Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency late Wednesday, freeing up funds for the two fires. Brown had also secured federal grants to fight each of them.

Fire crews might get some help from the weather on Thursday, with the forecast calling for higher humidity and the possibility of rain.

Meanwhile, further north in the town of Weed, where a blaze began Monday and raged across the community, teams of firefighters went house-to-house Wednesday to pin down damage by a wildfire that officials estimated had destroyed 110 homes and damaged another 90.

The new figures were a marked increase from the initial estimate that a total of 150 structures had been destroyed or damaged in the blaze that rapidly swept across the town. Four firefighters lost their homes.

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NATIONAL D I G E S T Apple devices act like one with update NEW YORK (AP) — The scores of new features in Apple’s software update for mobile devices can be boiled down to one word: unity.

Many iPhone owners also have iPads and Mac computers, and family members are likely to have Apple devices, too. With the new iOS 8 software for iPhones and iPads, those devices start to act like one. Apps on those devices start to unite, too.

Google’s Android software can’t compete with iOS’ The Associated Press evolving unity because so Family members follow as an honor guard carries the casket of Pennsylvania State Trooper Cpl. Bryon Dickson for a funeral service Thursday in many different companies Scranton, Pa. Dickson was killed Friday night in an ambush shooting at the state police barracks in Blooming Grove Township.Authorities are lookmanufacture Android devices, ing for 31-year-old Eric Frein, of Canadensis, who is charged with killing one trooper and wounding another outside the barracks. and each adds its own variables. Apple knows what goes into the few products it makes and can break down the walls between them.

Wallenda: Spectacle, legacy inspire walk

Police trooper killed in ambush to be laid to rest

CHICAGO (AP) — Nik Wallenda is all about spectacle, a showman who crossed Niagara Falls and an Arizona gorge on a high wire and now has his sights on Chicago’s iconic skyscrapers — partly because of the city’s reputation for being windy.

Never mind that many historians believe the Windy City nickname was coined because of blowhard politicians. The chance to tread between buildings 50 stories above the city and over the Chicago River — amid glittering lights and on live television aired in 220 countries — was just the kind of encore he was looking for, Wallenda said Wednesday,one day after announcing his Nov. 2 feat that will be broadcast on the Discovery Channel.

“I enjoy taking it up a notch,” Wallenda, 35, a member of “The Flying Wallendas” family, told The Associated Press.“Chicago is home of the world’s first skyscraper and my family is often referred to as the first family of the high wire. Then there’s the Windy City ... which just sounds cool: Nik Wallenda is going to walk in the Windy City.”

SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) — Hundreds of law enforcement officers from around the country waited silently outside a northeastern Pennsylvania cathedral Thursday ahead of a funeral for a state trooper killed in an ambush outside his barracks.

Troopers lined up 10 deep as they waited for the funeral procession that will bring the body of 38-year-old Cpl. Bryon Dickson to St. Peter’s Cathedral in Scranton. Two gigantic American flags were strung between the crossed ladders of fire trucks parked at each end of the block, and a bell tolled for many minutes.

Dickson was gunned down late Friday outside a rural barracks in the Pocono Mountains. Another trooper was wounded.

His funeral was being held amid a mood of grief and fear as a manhunt continues 40 miles away for the killer, identified as a self-taught survivalist who hates police.

Police named Eric Frein, 31, the suspect after finding

School district police stock up military gear

Horse power gains favor among small-scale farmers

LOS ANGELES (AP) — School police departments across the country have taken advantage of free military surplus gear, stocking up on mine resistant armored vehicles, grenade launchers and scores of M16 rifles.

At least 26 school districts have participated in the Pentagon’s surplus program, which is not new but has come under scrutiny after police responded to protesters in Ferguson, Missouri, last month with tear gas, armored military trucks and riot gear.

Now, amid that increased criticism, several school districts say they’ll give some of the equipment back, while others plan to keep the rifles they received. Nearly two dozen education and civil liberties groups sent a letter earlier this week to the Pentagon and the Justice and Education departments urging a stop to transfers of military weapons to school police.

Journalists criticize White House CHICAGO (AP) — Editors and reporters meeting in Chicago raised concerns Wednesday about what they described as a lack of access and transparency undermining journalists’ work, several blaming the current White House for setting standards for secrecy that are spreading nationwide.

Criticism of President Barack Obama’s administration on the issue of openness in government came on the last day of a three-day joint convention of the American Society of News Editors, the Associated Press Media Editors and the Associated Press Photo Managers.

“The White House push to limit access and reduce transparency has essentially served as the secrecy road map for all kinds of organizations — from local and state governments to universities and even sporting events,” Brian Carovillano, AP managing editor for U.S. news, said during a panel discussion.

his abandoned SUV nearby.

They said it contained his driver’s license and spent shell casings matching those at the crime scene.

Dickson, a Marine Corps veteran who joined the state police in 2007 and had worked as a patrol unit supervisor in the Blooming Grove barracks since June, is survived by his wife of 10 years and two young sons.

Randy Millhouse, owner of the Promised Land Inn with his wife, put up a sign outside that said “RIP CRPL BRYON DICKSON,” one of many such public displays of honor, respect and grief for the fallen lawman.

“I was devastated because I have troopers that come in here for dinner and lunch,” Millhouse said. “I was pretty well shook up, and still am until they catch him,” he said, referring to the gunman who police believe is hiding somewhere in the dense forest punctuated by private vacation communities, homes and hunting cabins.

The search for the suspect

entered its sixth day.

On Wednesday, authorities chased down several false sightings in their hunt for Frein, who had shaved his head in a wide Mohawk sometime before the shooting as “part of the mental preparation to commit this cowardly act,” Lt. Col. George Bivens said Wednesday afternoon.

Frein belonged to a military simulation unit based in eastern Pennsylvania whose members play the role of soldiers from Cold War-era eastern Europe, Bivens told reporters.

“In his current frame of mind, Frein appears to have assumed that role in real life,” he said.

Police named Frein the suspect after finding his abandoned SUV, which contained his driver’s license and spent shell casings matching those at the crime scene.

State police have warned the public that Frein, of Canadensis, is dangerous, calling him an anti-law

MARATHON, N.Y. (AP) — While most modern farmers work their fields accompanied by the rumble of a trusty tractor, sheep farmer Donn Hewes labors to the faint jingling of harnesses in rhythm with the hoofbeats of horses and mules.

He readily admits that farming horse-powered takes more time and effort than tractor farming. But as one of a growing number of small-scale farmers dedicatThe Associated Press ed to keeping alive the art of the teamster, he's fine with Donn Hewes leads his work horses back toward the stables from the pasture at The Northland Sheep Dairy Farm in Marathon, N.Y., on that.

"People always want to Wednesday. know how many dollars an hour can I make, and can I really profit from farming haymaking, compost draft animal power. That's with horses," says Hewes. spreading, snow-plowing creating new demand for "We can, but to me, that's and log-hauling. horse-powered equipment, the wrong question. I beneHorse-powered farmers and Amish businesses are fit in so many ways. I cite a number of reasons for responding to making benefit from working with eschewing engines. For equipment that's smaller young stock, building fer- example, horses don't use and more accessible to tility for the farm, and all fossil fuels, their manure beginning farmers." the time I get to spend contributes to the farm's ferDalton, Ohio-based enjoying doing what I'm tility, and they cost less than Pioneer Equipment, an doing." tractors.

Amish manufacturer of Hewes and his wife, As president of Draft horse-drawn farm impleMaryrose Livingston, own Animal Power Network, ments, recently came out Northland Sheep Dairy on Hewes is dedicated to men- with the Homesteader for a hilltop in central New toring and sharing small farms. It has interYork, 40 miles south of experiences with other changeable parts for Syracuse. Livingston milks farmers who want to work plowing, harrowing, discing, grass-fed sheep and sells with horses. planting, cultivating and handmade cheese. Hewes, "Young people are start- harvesting row crops such as who has a night job as a ing organic vegetable farms, carrots, onions and potatoes.

It's hard to quantify how firefighter, works about realizing there's an opportu100 acres of land with nity to make healthy food for many horse-powered farmPercheron and Suffolk local markets," Hewes says. ers there are. Stephen Leslie, draft horses and mules "A segment of that move- who runs a horse-powered pulling implements for ment is finding out about dairy and vegetable farm in

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This photo provided by the Pennsylvania State Police shows Cpl. Bryon Dickson. Dickson was killed by a gunman as he left the police barracks in Blooming Grove, Pa. enforcement survivalist who has talked about committing mass murder.

Some public, parochial and charter schools closed Thursday. Others were holdphysical ing recess, education classes and football practice inside.

Hartland, Vermont, says he has seen a big increase since he and his wife started Cedar Mountain Farm 20 years ago.

"When we started it was hard to find anyone with knowledge or equipment," says Leslie, whose book, "The New Horse-Powered Farm," was published in 2013. "Now, the networking is incredible."

Leslie says horse-powered farm equipment manufacturers, most of which are Amish, all report increasing sales and a growing number of non-Amish customers.

"That's one way to gauge the health of horse farming," he says.

The Draft Animal Power Network has grown to 400 members since it was formed in 2010, Hewes says. "We've had draft animal field days in the Northeast five out of the last seven years, and attendance keeps growing. There were over 1,000 last year at the event in Barton, Vermont."

On a recent afternoon, Hewes put a collar and harness on a young mule he bred from his Mammoth jack donkey and a Percheron mare. Hitching the mule to a chain attached to a heavy log, Hewes began a training session, communicating with whistles, low voice commands, and long leather lines attached to a bit.

Suffolk Downs notifies workers it will close BOSTON (AP) — Suffolk Downs, New England's only thoroughbred horse racing track, has told its workers it will close by year's end because Mohegan Sun did not win a Massachusetts casino license.

Chip Tuttle, the track's chief operating officer, said were told workers Wednesday that the live horse racing season that ends Sept. 29 will be the track's last. The 79-year-old track, which straddles East Boston and Revere, will continue to offer betting on

simulcast racing until November or December, he said.

The news came the day state gambling regulators finalized their award of the lone Boston-area casino license to Wynn Resorts for a $1.6 billion project on the Everett waterfront. Mohegan Sun had proposed a $1.1 billion resort casino at Suffolk Downs.

In the coming days, Tuttle said, track owners will formally notify workers at concession stands and other vendors, as well as the own-

ers, breeders and trainers of horses that compete at Suffolk Downs.

He said the closing would affect nearly 200 workers directly employed by the track, plus hundreds more who work for vendors and with the horses. Tuttle declined to comment on future development plans for the roughly 160-acre site, which has its own subway stop and is located just a few miles from Logan airport and downtown Boston.

"We're focused on sup-

porting our workers through this transition.

We're focused on turning the page," Tuttle said. "We've been at this a long time, and we don't want to create any false sense of hope. We're dealing with some very devastated people here."

Tuttle said the track hasn't been profitable for about seven years and its owners — developer Richard Fields and food concessions entrepreneur Joe O'Donnell — have lost about $50 million to $60 million during that time.

ALBANY, Ga. (AP) — A jury weighing criminal charges Thursday against the owner of a Georgia peanut plant blamed for a nationwide salmonella outbreak five years ago will decide the case without hearing one fact — that nine people died after eating the company’s tainted peanut butter.

Former Peanut Corporation of America owner Stewart Parnell and two co-defendants have been on trial since Aug. 1 and the jury started deliberations last Friday.

Parnell and his brother, food broker Michael Parnell, are charged with knowingly shipping contaminated peanut butter to customers and faking lab tests intended to screen for salmonella.

Tainted peanut butter from the company’s plant in rural Blakely, Georgia, ended up in jars, packaged crackers and other snacks. In 2009, hundreds of people were sickened and the outbreak led to one of the largest food recalls in U.S. history.

The peanut plant’s quality control manager, Mary Wilkerson, is charged along with Stewart Parnell with obstructing justice. Jury deliberations were to resume in U.S. District Court after a three-day recess. Experts say it is the first time food processors have been tried in a federal food-poisoning case.

Prosecutors spent nearly six weeks presenting the jury with 46 witnesses and an estimated 1,000 documents.

Testimony included that people got sick, but attorneys and witnesses never mentioned that some died.

Prosecutor Patrick Hearn, in his closing argument Friday, said Parnell and his co-defendants were greedy enough “to toss food safety to the wind.” But he stopped short of describing the outbreak’s full consequences.

“They served up salmonella to people and they ate it,” Hearn said. “This needs to never happen again.”

Why not tell the jury of the deaths? The Parnell brothers aren’t charged with killing or sickening anybody.

Instead, prosecutors decided they could build a stronger case charging them with defrauding their customers — food producers including Kellogg’s — and selling them tainted goods, said U.S. Attorney Michael Moore of Georgia’s Middle District, whose office tried the case.

“We wanted to make sure we kept the jury focused on the conduct that led to these people’s sickness, but not let the case get into the medical history of every victim out there” with testimony on individual deaths, Moore said.

Defense attorneys have acknowledged the Georgia plant shipped tainted peanut butter and covered up positive salmonella tests, but they say the scheme was carried out behind the backs of the Parnell brothers by two plant managers who pleaded guilty.

World leaders to appear at Festival NEW YORK (AP) — The leaders of India, Bangladesh, Norway and the United Nations are set to appear at the Global Citizen Festival headlined by Jay Z on Sept. 27 in New York’s Central Park.

India’s Narendra Modi, Bangladesh’s Sheikh Hasina, Norway’s Erna Solberg and U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon are all slated to appear at the event, organizers announced Thursday.

Other musical acts include fun., Carrie Underwood, The Roots, No Doubt and Tiesto.

Celebrity hosts include Hugh Jackman, Jessica Alba and Katie Holmes.

Tickets are free for the event, but they must be earned through acts meant to help end extreme poverty around the world.

The festival coincides with the U.N.’s annual gathering of world leaders. It is meant to spotlight the needs of the world’s poor.

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CAREGIVERS Rule changes pay structure Continued from Page A1 sive nursing home care.

Home care workers are employed by their clients, but the money comes from the state Medicaid program, which provides health and long-term care to people who are poor or disabled.

The Department of Labor ruled that the state of Oregon

MILITANTS House GOP more hawkish Continued from Page A1 rebels. The cost, to be covered by leftover war funding from this year, generated virtually no discussion among lawmakers, who focused instead on the possible consequences of a new military mission not long after a warexhausted nation largely pulled out of Afghanistan and Iraq.

Testifying before a Senate committee Wednesday, Secretary of State John Kerry said the forces seeking to create an Islamic caliphate “must be defeated. Period.

End of story.”

On that there was agreement. The question now is whether Obama’s plan will work. GOP hawks called the president’s approach too little, too late, even as many of them supported it as a first step in a broader campaign against Islamic State group extremists, who have taken large swaths of Iraq and Syria and shocked the world by beheading two American journalists and a British aid worker.

“Committing insufficient force in any conflict is selfdefeating, and airstrikes alone cannot win a war,” said Rep. Tom McClintock, RCalif., who voted “nay.”

Despite their doubts, top House Republicans saw little choice but to back the president.

“I am not convinced this train-and-equip effort will change the balance of power on the ground anytime soon, and I believe this approach comes with great risks,”

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is a third-party employer of the workers because the state pays the bills. That means, starting Jan. 1, workers who exceed 40 hours a week must be paid a higher overtime rate, even if no single client exceeds 40 hours. Workers who serve multiple clients on the same day also must be paid while driving between them.

About 80 percent of consumers won’t be affected by the new rules, said Mike McCormick, director of the office of Aging and People With Disabilities at the

Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said. But he also said “voting against this request would send a terrible message” about America’s determination and willingness to stand with its allies.

Democrats proved to be a harder sell, backing Obama 114-85.

“We simply don’t know if somewhere down the line it will turn our guns back against us,” said Rep. Loretta Sanchez, D-Calif., giving voice to a fear that rebels seeking the removal of Syrian President Bashar Assad would prove unreliable allies eventually.

“It’s hard to see how putting weapons in the hands of folks whose primary objective is to defeat Assad advances the cause of defeating ISIS,” said Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., usually a staunch Obama ally. “Assad is an obstacle to ISIS,” he added, using an alternative name for the Islamic State group.

As the House voted, Rep. James Lankford, R-Okla., a nearly sure bet to win an open Senate seat, sent out a fundraising appeal focusing on the Islamic State group threat and criticizing the president. “While our ‘commander’ in chief is playing golf and taking ambiguous stances on this great threat we need, now more than ever, strong leaders in the Senate willing to take the fight to ISIS’ front door instead of waiting passively for them to come to us,” Lankford wrote.

In the Senate, backing from the top Democratic and Republican leaders ensures swift passage, even as some in the rank and file were lining up against the effort.

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sentatives of clients, and officials from the legislative and executive branches.

Potential solutions could include reducing the hours of service for some individuals or divvying them up among multiple providers.

That might require people now receiving care from a family member to have new, unrelated providers get involved, Kitzhaber noted in his letter to the Labor Department.

McCormick said it’s too soon to know what route the state will go. Policy changes

will ultimately have to be approved by federal officials.

“Our goal is to make responsible program modifications that have the least impact possible on both providers and consumers,” McCormick said.

Heather Conroy, the SEIU’s executive director, said the Labor Department’s new rules are “a recognition that care providing is work just like any other work.” If the state thinks creatively, she said, it can find a way to comply with the rule without cutting service hours.

WATER Parasite attacks gills, suffocating Continued from Page A1 During a 2002 drought, tens of thousands of salmon died in the Klamath, primarily from Ich, short for Ichthyophthirius multifiliis.

The parasite attacks the gills of the fish, suffocating them.

The Trinity is the Klamath’s primary tributary and a source of much cleaner, colder water than the upper reaches of the Klamath River.

Water in the upper reaches goes through a series of reservoirs where it is warmed by the sun and affected by algae and agricultural runoff.

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Gayle Peterson stacks sandbags to protect her home Tuesday in Mesa, Ariz. Phoenix area residents are filling sandbags in anticipation of the remnants of Category 3 Hurricane Odille after it decimated Mexico’s Baja California. Odille’s remnants are expected to hit Arizona in the coming days.

Tropical storm spares Arizona’s metro areas

BY TERRY TANG AND BRIAN SKOLOFF The Associated Press

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A weakened Pacific storm slammed much of southeastern Arizona but spared the state’s major metro areas.

Rainfall from remnants of Hurricane Odile was steadily hitting south and east of Tucson, according to the National Weather Service.

Authorities in Cochise County were watching a rising river in a rural area. Elsewhere, a major street in Nogales was flooded with several inches of water.

However, freeways and streets in Phoenix and Tucson were dry at the start of Thursday’s morning commute.

Officials in Nogales initially thought they would have to evacuate two nearby trailer parks where about 100 families live, Mayor Arturo Garino said late Wednesday. However, the water receded, and the city’s public works department was able to clear the street.

“The debris on the street was minimal,” Garino said. “Everything was taken care of within an hour and a half.”

A larger wash that cuts through the middle of the city was on the edge of spilling over earlier. But it also receded from an at-risk level of 12 feet to between 5 and 6 feet, Garino said. The border city, which is 70 miles south of Tucson, is downhill of Nogales, Sonora, Mexico. As a result, rainwater from the Mexican side doesn’t take long to seep into the city’s washes.

A flash flood warning was in effect in most of Cochise County where the weather service said the San Pedro River was nearing flood stage in a rural area near the U.S.-Mexico border.

Sheriff’s spokeswoman Carol Capas said the county had several road closures.

Meanwhile, a flash flood watch for Tucson that was to expire Thursday was canceled.

The city was originally expected to receive 2 inches to 5 inches of rain, but it now seems to be on the edge of tropical depression Odile.

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tight supplies have kept prices in the Pacific States elevated for the last several weeks,” she said. “The top five most expensive states for gas are all in this region: Hawaii, Alaska, Oregon, Washington and California. (But), It could have been much worse.”

The good news, however, is that AAA says even more relief is on the way, as it expects gas prices to fall another 10 to 20 cents by the end of October. Those numbers may even be on the conservative side.

But, with the little maintenance issues at west coast refineries always a concern, and geopolitical tension still in play, it remains very much a fluid situation that is hard to predict with any certainty.

For now, the national average remains at its lowest price for this date since 2010, when gas averaged $2.73. The five-cent drop in the national average in the last week is the steepest one-week drop since July.

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Washington Obama, Ukraine president to meet at White House WASHINGTON (AP) — In a symbolic show of support for Ukraine’s fledgling government, President Barack Obama is meeting with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in the Oval Office on Thursday after the leader of the former Soviet republic speaks to a rare joint session of Congress.

Poroshenko arrives in Washington seeking more robust U.S military assistance to help his country in its fight against Russian-backed rebels. Obama so far has resisted Ukraine’s request for

lethal assistance, though the U.S. has provided about $60 million in nonlethal aid to Ukraine’s military.

White House officials made clear that Poroshenko’s visit — his first to the U.S. since being elected this summer — was aimed in part at sending a message to Russia about the West’s backing for the embattled former Soviet republic.

“The picture of President Poroshenko sitting in the Oval Office will be worth at least a thousand words — both in English and Russian,” White House spokesman

Josh Earnest said.

Ukraine and Kremlinbacked separatists have been locked in a monthslong fight for control of eastern Ukrainian cities that sit on Russia’s border, aggression that followed Russia’s annexation of the strategically important Crimean Peninsula. The U.S. and Western allies have condemned Russia’s provocations, levying a series of economic sanctions and restricting President Vladimir Putin’s involvement in some international organizations.

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North Korea this week sentenced 24-year-old Matthew Miller of Bakersfield, California, to six years hard labor, deepening U.S. concern over the cases.

Miller, who according to the court tore up his visa on arrival in Pyongyang in April, was convicted of entering the country illegally to commit espionage. Another trial is North Korea rejects expected soon for Jeffrey U.S. offer on prisoners Fowle, of Miamisburg, Ohio, WASHINGTON (AP) — who was arrested in May for North Korea is not accepting leaving a Bible at a sailor’s American offers to send a club. high-level envoy to seek the 30-year mortgage rate release of three detained Americans, a senior U.S. offi- at 4.23 percent WASHINGTON (AP) — cial said Wednesday.

Robert King, the U.S. spe- Average long-term U.S. cial envoy for North Korean mortgage rates surged this human rights issues, told The week, marking their largest Associated Press that freeing one-week gain this year.

Mortgage company the detainees could provide a diplomatic opening between Freddie Mac said Thursday the nations, also snared by the nationwide average for a Pyongyang’s development of 30-year loan jumped to 4.23 nuclear weapons. But he said percent from 4.12 percent Washington would not give last week. The average for a into attempts to “extort” 15-year mortgage, a popular

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Apartment sector reduces home building WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. home construction plunged in August, led by steep decline in the volatile apartment category. But sinhouse gle-family construction, a larger and more stable portion of the market, fell only modestly.

Construction fell 14.4 percent in August to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 956,000 homes, the Commerce Department said Thursday. This reverses the sharp gains in July when the rate of new construction rose to 1.12 million homes, the highest annual rate since 2007.

Last month’s decrease primarily came from builders starting fewer apartment complexes, which plummeted 31.5 percent compared to July. Apartments have propelled much of the growth in residential construction over the past year, but the pace has been volatile from month to month. Apartment starts surged 51 percent in July.

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Australians say terror beheadings plot foiled

BY KRISTEN GELINEAU The Associated Press

SYDNEY — Police on Thursday said they thwarted a plot to carry out beheadings in Australia by supporters of the radical Islamic State group. They detained 15 people and raided more than a dozen properties across Sydney, though nine of those brought in were freed before the day was over.

The raids involving 800 federal and state police officers — the largest in the country’s history — came in response to intelligence that an Islamic State group leader in the Middle East was calling on Australian supporters to kill, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said.

Abbott was asked about reports that the detainees were planning to behead a random person in Sydney.

“That’s the intelligence we received,” he told reporters. “The exhortations — quite direct exhortations — were coming from an Australian who is apparently quite senior in ISIL to networks of support back in Australia to conduct demonstration killings here in this country.”

ISIL refers to the al-Qaida splinter group leading Sunni militants in Iraq, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant,

By the Associated Press

Police remove a sword as part of evidence found at a residential property in the suburb of Marsfield, in Sydney, Australia, on Thursday. Police said they thwarted a plot to carry out beheadings in Australia by supporters of the radical Islamic State group by detaining 15 people and raiding more than a dozen properties across Sydney. which now calls itself simply Islamic State.

“This is not just suspicion, this is intent and that’s why the police and security agencies decided to act in the way they have,” Abbott said.

Nine of those detained were later released, New South Wales police said.

They did not say why, or whether they will face charges later.

The raids came just days after the country raised its terrorism threat to the second-highest level in response to the domestic threat posed by supporters of the Islamic State group. At the time,

Abbott stressed that there was no information suggesting a terror attack was imminent.

Later Thursday, Attorney General George Brandis confirmed that a person born in Afghanistan who had spent time in Australia and is now working with the Islamic State group in the Middle East ordered supporters in Australia to behead people and videotape the killings.

“If the ... police had not acted today, there is a likelihood that this would have happened,” Brandis told the Broadcasting Australian Corp.

Scots’ vote on UK split will be close

BY JILL LAWLESS EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) — Scots held the fate of the United Kingdom in their hands Thursday as they voted in a referendum on becoming an independent state, deciding whether to unravel a marriage with England that built an empire but has increasingly been felt by many Scots as stifling and one-sided.

The question on the ballot paper is simplicity itself: “Should Scotland be an independent country?”

Yet it has divided Scots during months of campaigning, and polls suggest the result is too close to call.

A final Ipsos MORI poll released Thursday put support for the No side at 53 percent and Yes at 47 percent. The phone survey of 991 people has a margin of error of plus or minus three percentage points.

The future of the 307year old union with England will be decided in 15 hours on Thursday; polls close at 10 p.m. (2100GMT, 5 p.m. EDT). Turnout is expected to be high, with more than 4.2 million people registered to vote — 97 percent of those eligible.

On a foggy morning in Scotland’s capital, Edinburgh, voters lined up

outside some polling stations even before they opened at 7 a.m.

The campaign has generated an unprecedented volume and intensity of public debate and participation. The Yes side, in particular, has energized young people and previously disillusioned working-class voters.

As polls opened, the mood was electric, tinged by nervousness.

For some voters, this was a day they had dreamed of for decades.

“Fifty years I fought for this,” said 83-year-old Isabelle Smith, a Yes supporter in Edinburgh’s maritime district of Newhaven, a former fishing port. “And we are going to win. I can feel it in my bones.”

For Smith, who went to the polling station decked out in a blue-and-white pro-independence shirt and rosette, statehood for Scotland was a dream nurtured during three decades living in the United States with her late husband.

“The one thing America has that the Scots don’t have is confidence,” said Smith, who returned to Scotland years ago. “But they’re getting it, they’re walking tall.

WORLD D I G E S T China cracks down on even minor gatherings BEIJING (AP) — More than 30 people had gathered at Beijing’s most august Buddhist temple to remember the siblings, children and parents lost exactly six months earlier when a Malaysia Airlines jet disappeared.

They found themselves encircled by shouting police blocking them from speaking to reporters or entering the temple as a group.

The relatives, dressed in white T-shirts reading “Pray for the return of MH370,” finally made it past the security in a scene that unfolded in front of international media. Once inside, they fell to their knees and wailed for the return of their missing loved ones.

The police response Sept.

8 may have looked unnecessarily blunt for relatives already hit by tragedy. But it was only the latest form of harassment that Chinese authorities have used against any group that mobilizes people outside their control, even if they are not aiming to challenge or criticize the Communist Party.

Sometimes authorities resort to detentions, beatings and confiscations.

The crackdown has hit everyone from Christian churches to independent filmmakers whose activities are not overtly political.

IS group seizes 16 villages in Syria

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BEIRUT (AP) — Islamic State fighters backed by tanks have captured 16 Kurdish villages over the past 24 hours in northern Syria near the Turkish border, prompting civilians to flee their homes amid fears of retribution by the extremists sweeping through the area, activists said.

For more than a year, the Islamic State group and Kurdish militias have been locked in a fierce fight in several pockets of northern Syria where large Kurdish populations reside. The clashes are but one aspect of Syria’s broader civil war — a multilayered conflict that the U.N. says has killed more than 190,000.

Islamic State militants have taken over the 16 Kurdish villages in Syria’s northern Kurdish region of Kobani, also known as Ayn Arab, since Wednesday, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. It said civilians were fleeing their villages for fear that Islamic State group fighters “will commit massacres against civilians.

Survivor of Peru massacre guides team PACCHA, Peru (AP) — This remote hamlet on fertile Andean slopes beside the Apurimac river has been a ghost town for three decades, inhabited only by the buried bodies of villagers slain by security forces who considered them rebel sympathizers.

Earlier this month, forenbegan sic investigators unearthing the remains of the nearly two dozen victims of the July 14, 1984, massacre in this region where government forces regularly hunted alleged collaborators of the Shining Path guerrillas.

Dolores Guzman, the sole survivor, set aside the street stand where she sells hardboiled eggs in the capital of Lima and journeyed last week to Paccha to help forensic experts find the common graves.

In all, 21 sets of human remains were recovered, including those of eight children and a fetus, said Luis Rueda, the forensic archaeologist overseeing the dig.

Some 70,000 people were killed in the 1980-2000 internal conflict, most of them civilians, a truth commission found.

Peruvian prosecutors have only recently begun in earnest to catalog the human rights violations committed during those two decades, and identify those responsible.

Since 2003, the remains of slightly more than 2,400 victims have been recovered.

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Injury news not all bad A look at this week’s games FRIDAY

Marist at North Bend Time: 7 p.m.

Radio: K-Light (98.7 FM) Outlook: The Bulldogs, fresh off blowout wins over North Valley and nemesis Cottage Grove, take a step up in competition when they host the Class 5A Spartans. North Bend is coming off a 56-15 victory over the Lions, who beat them three times the past two seasons. The Bulldogs have been dominant on offense and defense in both their wins. North Bend should get a bigger test on both sides of the ball against Marist, which is coming off a 34-13 loss to Silverton, the top-ranked team in Class 5A.

Newport at Marshfield Time: 7 p.m.

Radio: KMHS (91.3 FM) Outlook: The Pirates had a letdown last week against Sutherlin after opening the season with a win of their own over Cottage Grove. The Pirates look to be more physical this week after being pushed around some by the Bulldogs.

Marshfield also will have Andrew Sharp under center for the first time as a starter, filling in at quarterback for Jake Miles, who continues to fight a nagging injury. Marshfield should get an emotional boost playing in front of its home fans for the first time. The game is the Pirates’ last chance to tune up for the Far West League season, which starts next week at Brookings-Harbor.

Coquille at Bandon Time: 7 p.m.

Radio: KSHR (97.3 FM) Outlook: The unbeaten Tigers should get their first big test this week against the Red Devils in this nonleague game. Bandon’s new spread offense has thrived in wins over Rogue River and Pemberton, a Canadian team the Tigers shut out in the Cranberry Bowl. Bandon quarterback Quentin Coomer wasn’t sacked in either of those wins, but should expect some pressure against the Red Devils. Coquille, meanwhile, will try to get its own offense going despite missing three skill position players for the game. Both teams will have one more game to tune up before Bandon starts Sunset Conference play and Coquille begins in the new Mountain Valley Conference.

Myrtle Point at Powers Time: 4 p.m.

Radio: No local radio Outlook: The two schools will meld the eightman and 11-man games. When the host Cruisers have the ball, the teams will use the eight-man formation, which will be an adjustment for the Bobcats. And when Myrtle Point has the ball, Powers will have to play with 11 defenders.

Fortunately, the Cruisers have a larger roster this year and plenty of players. They also are coming off a win over Yoncalla last week, while Myrtle Point had a close loss to Coquille, hampered by four turnovers. The game also features Myrtle Point’s Marty Stallard coaching against his nephew, Tim Stallard.

Hidden Valley at Siuslaw Time: 7 p.m.

Radio: KCST (106.9 FM) Outlook: The Vikings will try to improve on their 2-0 season start at home, facing a Hidden Valley team that dismantled Siuslaw’s Far West League foe Douglas last week, 41-6. The Mustangs, ironically, beat Douglas by the same scoring margin, 35 points, that Hidden Valley lost to South Umpqua in the opening week.

Siuslaw has a dominant win over Newport and a close victory at Scio on its resume.

Brookings-Harbor at Yreka Time: 7:30 p.m.

Radio: KURY (95.3 FM) Outlook: The Bruins go across the California border as they continue seeking their first win of 2014. Brookings-Harbor lost at home to Phoenix in the season opener and then fell at Illinois Valley last week. The Bruins did score three touchdowns against the Cougars, which was a step up from the opening week.

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Gold Beach at St. Mary’s Time: 7 p.m.

Location: Spiegelberg Stadium, Medford Radio: KGBR (92.7 FM) Outlook: The Panthers play in the famed Medford stadium looking to keep their record perfect under new head coach Justin Storns.

Gold Beach followed an opening 42-30 win over Coquille by shutting out Vernonia 50-0. St. Mary’s has wins over Creswell and Riddle so far this season. While St. Mary’s is a step up one classification for the Panthers, next week they play at Class 5A North Eugene, which is playing an independent schedule this fall.

Pacific gets soccer win THE WORLD Pacific’s soccer team tuned up for its league opener by shutting out Brookings-Harbor’s junior varsity team 4-0 on Wednesday.

Cole Kreutzer and Quentin Fougerolles each had two goals for the Pirates.

Pio Figueroa had a pair of assists for Pacific and Jacob Engdahl had the shutout in goal with nine saves.

Pacific, 3-1 on the season, opens play in Class 3A-2A-1A District 5 with a game against Lakeview at Medford on Saturday.

The Pirates, a combined program with Bandon that no longer plays in the Class 4A Far West League because the combined enrollment for the two schools has dipped below the Class 4A limit, also will face Cascade Christian, St. Mary’s, Canyonville Christian, Illinois Valley and Milo Adventist Academy in league play.

Photos by Lou Sennick, The World

Southwestern’s Gidget Gonzalez dribbles the ball downfield against the visitors from Rogue Community College as a light rain fell Wednesday afternoon in Coos Bay.

Lakers earn home sweep

BY GEORGE ARTSITAS The World

COOS BAY — After a trying season to date for both Southwestern Oregon Community College men’s and women’s soccer programs, both squads cruised to easy wins against club teams from Rogue Community College on Wednesday.

The Laker women ran away with a 6-1 win while the men finished off the Rogue team 4-0 in the nightcap.

The women played first and separated themselves in the first half, with four different Lakers scoring on the way to SWOCC’s first win of the year. The Lakers matched their season output in goals by the end of the first half to go into break with a 4-1 lead.

“We knew they were a club team, they’re new, so I played everybody and kept it balanced,” SWOCC head coach Allan Ledesma said. “You get to work on things you work on at practice.

“There’s less pressure because it’s an easier team and everybody gets to play.”

Ledesma really tried to mix up the minutes, giving 21 players a chance to play on the day.

Bianca Delgado and Olivia Pizano stole the show, with each touching in two goals in the victory.

“Personally I did good,” Delgado said, adding she got 60 minutes of playing time. “I didn’t expect as much playing time as I got.”

On Delgado’s first goal, her teammate Sadie Bailey — who added a goal of her own Wednesday— gave her a heeltouch pass that left her one-onone with Rogue goalie Ashley Green before hitting her, trapping the ricochet and sliding the second shot past her.

The second goal came in the second half on a one-time from a cross from Gidget Gonzales, who had two assists and a goal as well Wednesday.

“We did a lot of good things out there and we did while we were improving,” Delgado said. “We’re going to do good in league.”

Local Lakers, 2013 graduates Mikena Shay of North Bend and Elizabeth Chavez of Marshfield, each contributed three shots on the day.

Taylor Baughman and Jasmine Perez both had little to do splitting

SWOCC’s Perison Saydee goes up for the ball against Rogue Community College. time at goalkeeper (Perez relieved Baughman in the 79th minute).

Rogue only mustered one shot, a first half goal by Alexis Scott.

Sara Ayala and Shasteena Adkisson are two players Ledesma highlighted as Lakers who are coming around and finally learning his wing-centric system.

“Today they did good,” Ledesma said. “It’s very positive.”

The Lakers sit at 1-6-1 overall and 0-4-1 in NWAC play with conference games against North Idaho at 2 p.m. Friday and Yakima Valley at noon Saturday. They host Pierce the following Saturday, Sept. 27, at noon. the women Following Wednesday, the men made quick work of Rogue, jumping up to an early 2-0 first-half lead to cruise to a 4-0 shutout behind two goals from Carlos Aguilar.

Aguilar’s first score came off a corner kick in the 17th minute.

The Laker freshman figured if

he came our from the crowded area, that if the ball landed in front of him, he’d be able to “pick up the trash and put it in the net.”

On the kick, the ball nicked off a defender’s head and ended up right in front of Aguilar. He punched it through the net, deflecting off another defender for the goal.

The second goal came in the 69th minute on an Alan Rodridguez miss off the post with Aguilar there again to put it back in.

“Both goals I just picked up like they were garbage,” Aguilar said.

“I just got into the box and luckily I was there to put them in.”

Rodriguez had scored the Lakers’ first goal in the 16th minute.

Juan Martinez put in the final score on the day in the 81st minute.

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New rules improve kickoff safety At the beginning of the season last year, the National Federation of State High School Associations made an important change to a rule about kickoffs to make the action safer for players. That rule states “no member of the kicking team shall initiate contact to block an opponent on a kickoff until the kick has traveled 10 yards, or a member the receiving team initiates a block” in the 10yard area separating the two teams.

This year, the NFHS added two additional rules to make kickoffs safer. The first rule instituted this year requires there to be at least four players lined up on each side of the kicker prior to the kickoff.

This balances the kicking team formation and reduces the number of players that can arrive at a

given spot on the field at the same time. This will have the greatest effect on onside kicks, and make IT’S THE the play safer for the members of the receiving team.

The other rule change related to kickoffs requires all members of the kicking team, except the kickMARK er, to line up STEPHENS within five yards of the line the ball is placed on to kick. This rule limits the maximum run-up distance for the kicking team after the ball is kicked, making the action safer for players on both

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teams, especially on short, or onside kicks. The kicker can line up more than five yards back, but once in that position, is the only person on the team who can kick the ball on that play. On the other hand, if no player on the kicking team moves more than five yards back to kick, any player on the kicking team may kick the ball.

To improve enforcement of these rules, a change has been made to the positioning of officials on kickoffs when there is a five person crew. This season you will see both the wing officials, the Head Linesman and the Line Judge, positioned at the 50 yard line to monitor the action of both teams prior to and immediately after the kickoff. Watch for this at the next Friday night high school game you attend!

One thing I love about high school sports is the thrill of the crowd after a big play.

One thing I don’t love about the games is the collective cringe that goes up after an injury.

It happened three times in two days last week to local athletes.

On Thursday night, Coquille’s Tori Howard went down with a knee injury during a volleyball match in Myrtle Point.

Then a night later, both Marshfield’s Rylee Trendell and Coquille’s Austin Layton had to be helped off the football field.

I’m almost embarrassed to say in all three cases, my first thought was hoping they wouldn’t miss their next season.

Both Trendell and Layton are standout basketball players.

Howard shines on the softball SPORTS field in the spring.

I didn’t feel bad about my initial reaction when I found out the kids all had the same thought.

Fortunately, at least for the JOHN two football G UNTHER players, the injuries didn’t turn out to be worst-case.

Trendell feared he had torn knee ligaments, which would have ended his football and basketball seasons. But the ligaments appear fine. He won’t play Friday night, but he should be back with the Pirates soon.

Layton’s fear was his ankle.

He, too, got lucky. He suffered a bad sprain, but no break. He will miss at least a few weeks of football, but should be fine in the long run.

Howard wasn’t so lucky. She will have surgery next month to repair a torn anterior cruciate ligament.

The best-case scenario would be for her to return during softball.

“We are hoping for the best,” said her mom and coach, Dondi.

I had conversations in the past few days with three other athletes who suffered serious injuries during their high school careers. They all had different experiences.

Hailey Iverson of Bandon suffered a torn ACL the summer before her senior year, which knocked her out of cross country and much of the basketball season.

Iverson was a phenomenal runner, so I was sad that she wasn’t able to finish that sport. But she had what I considered to be a great perspective about basketball.

Iverson told me she was happy she was healthy when the Tigers had a better team — they were very young last year.

Coquille’s Taylor GeDeros suffered the same injury, but earlier, during the summer after her freshman year.

That injury ended her volleyball career, but she found a love for running when she turned to cross country to get in shape for basketball. She ended up qualifying for state in that sport as a senior and had two healthy basketball seasons to finish her high school years.

Britney Wilson, one of the Taylor’s best friends, wasn’t so fortunate.

She had nagging injuries throughout high school, though she did have one great season.

Wilson grew up playing tennis and was healthy one year to play with Marshfield’s team as part of a cooperative agreement with Coquille. That season, she and her doubles partner, Heidi Boesl, qualified for state and then upset the top seed in their first match.

While I’m sure Wilson would love to have been able to play volleyball and more than one season of tennis, that one state trip is a memory she will cherish.

Sadly, injuries will always be a part of sports.

There always will be athletes who end up missing most or all of their final seasons.

Fortunately, other athletes will suffer bad injuries early in their careers and enjoy great senior years.

One example now is North Bend’s Cam Lucero, who tore the labrum in his shoulder during the football playoffs and missed all of his basketball season last year.

Lucero has returned to shine as North Bend’s quarterback and looks forward to the same in basketball.

Here’s hoping he — and all the other athletes on the South Coast — stay healthy.

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Greg, his representatives and GOLF the Carolina Panthers on this matter. We support this deci- Scott parts ways with sion and hope the best for Tiger’s former caddie him and his family.”

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The team removed Hardy from its active roster Wednesday, ending three weeks of indecision regarding his playing status. He played Week 1 and sat out Week 2.

The Panthers placed Hardy on the exempt-commissioner’s permission list just hours after the Vikings took a similar disciplinary Panthers put Hardy on approach with Adrian NFL exempt list Peterson.

Hardy was convicted July CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The Panthers finally made a 15 of assault on a female and tion on Wednesday and are cooperating with the investigation. Dwyer has been deactivated from all team activities. The NFL said the case will be reviewed under the league’s personal-conduct policy.

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Angels beat Mariners, wrap up division title THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ANAHEIM, Calif. — The Los Angeles Angels clinched the AL West title Wednesday night, getting seven dominant innings of one-hit ball from C.J. Wilson in a 5-0 victory over the Seattle Mariners.

C.J. Cron hit a three-run homer for the major league-leading Angels (95-57), who wrapped up their first division crown since 2009 when Oakland lost to Texas about an hour after Los Angeles’ game ended.

MLB The Angels had already Recap secured a playoff spot Monday.

They have won 12 of 14.

Howie Kendrick sparked the Angels’ five-run rally in the seventh by scoring from first base when Chris Denorfia misplayed David Freese’s single to right for an error.

Los Angeles’ surge broke up a pitchers’ duel between Wilson and Seattle rookie James Paxton, who traded zeros until the seventh.

Wilson (13-9) earned his third straight victory, striking out seven and allowing just four baserunners in a major improvement from recent starts.

Paxton (6-3) yielded four hits and had eight strikeouts for the Mariners, who have lost six of eight.

Seattle managed just one hit and is two games behind Kansas City and Oakland for the second AL wild card.

Rangers 6, Athletics 1: Sean Doolittle allowed a three-run homer to J.P. Arencibia during a six-run ninth inning, and Oakland lost to the last-place Texas Rangers.

It was the fourth blown save in 25 chances for Doolittle (1-4) this season.

The bearded closer’s meltdown on the mound negated a stellar start

by Jeff Samardzija and ended Oakland’s two-year reign as AL West champions. The Los Angeles Angels clinched the division with their win and the loss by the A’s.

Oakland dropped into a tie with Kansas City for the AL’s top wild card.

Sam Fuld’s single in the fifth drove in Oakland’s only run.

Royals 6, White Sox 2: Lorenzo Cain hit a three-run homer, Nori Aoki kept up his tear at the plate and Kansas City roughed up Chicago ace Chris Sale (12-4) to cut Detroit’s AL Central lead to a half-game.

The Royals will face the Tigers in a weekend series in Kansas City.

Aoki went 3-for-4 to finish with 11 hits in the three-game series, the most ever for the Royals.

Twins 8, Tigers 4: Danny Santana tripled, doubled and drove in two runs and Minnesota beat Detroit.

David Price (14-12) allowed eight hits and five runs. He’s 3-4 since joining Detroit in a trade with Tampa Bay. Yankees 3, Rays 2: Derek Jeter ended an 0-for-28 slump that was the second-worst of his career, and New York beat Tampa Bay. The retiring Yankees captain lined a single off Alex Cobb leading off the sixth inning. Jeter had an 0for-32 stretch in April 2004.

Jeter, who lives in nearby Tampa, went 1-for-4 and scored a run in his final game at Tropicana Field. He got a loud ovation from the announced crowd of 26,332 before grounding out in his last at-bat in the seventh.

Indians 2, Astros 0: Carlos Carrasco (8-5) threw a two-hitter with a career-high 12 strikeouts to

lead Cleveland past Houston.

Yan Gomes had an RBI single in the fourth inning and a run-scoring triple in the sixth.

Orioles 6, Blue Jays 1: Steve Pearce homered twice and drove in four runs and AL East champion Baltimore beat Toronto for a threegame sweep.

NATIONAL LEAGUE Rockies 16, Dodgers 2: Justin Morneau tied a season high with six RBIs — five in an eight-run first inning against spot starter Carlos Frias — and Colorado routed Los Angeles.

The loss left the NL West-leading Dodgers two games ahead of San Francisco.

Morneau had a three-run homer and a two-run single in the first to help the Rockies chase Frias (0-1) after just two outs.

Morneau had three hits and a sacrifice fly, raising his average to .320 and leaping over Pittsburgh’s Josh Harrison for the NL batting lead. Charlie Blackmon went 5-for5 with a solo homer.

Giants 4, Arizona 2: Pinchhitter Matt Duffy had a tiebreaking single in the ninth inning for San Francisco.

Duffy’s one-out hit came on a full count against closer Addison Reed (1-6). Pablo Sandoval walked with one out, Brandon Crawford singled for his fourth hit and pinchhitter Brandon Belt walked, setting up Duffy.

Cardinals 2, Brewers 0: Adam Wainwright posted his 19th win, pitching a shutout as St. Louis beat 1 Milwaukee to hold its 2 ⁄2-game edge in the NL Central.

Wainwright (19-9) worked around seven hits and tied for the major league lead in wins and shutouts (three).

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Mike Trout and Kole Calhoun celebrate with Los Angeles Angels teammate Howie Kendrick after he scored on a David Freese single to break a scoreless tie in the seventh inning Wednesday against Seattle.

St. Louis has won four of five and kept its advantage over secondplace Pittsburgh. Milwaukee 1 dropped 2 ⁄ 2 games behind the Pirates for the second NL wild-card spot.

It was the Cardinals’ 21st shutout of the season, their most since they had 30 in 1968.

Braves 3, Nationals 1: Three runs scored on Christian Bethancourt’s single in the sixth inning and Atlanta beat Washington, a day after the Nationals wrapped up the NL East title.

Cubs 3, Reds 1: Kyle Hendricks (7-2) kept up his impressive rookie season, pitching seven strong innings to help Chicago beat Cincinnati for a series sweep.

Marlins 4, Mets 3: Henderson Alvarez ended a three-start winless streak, and Miami beat New York to finish a trying 10-game trip in which they lost All-Star slugger Giancarlo Stanton to a season-end-

ing injury when he was hit in the face by a pitch.

Before the game, the Marlins said Stanton won’t play again in the majors this season. Stanton was hit by a fastball from Milwaukee’s Mike Fiers last Thursday and sustained facial fractures, concussion symptoms, dental damage, cuts that required stitches and two black eyes.

Phillies 5, Padres 2: Cole Hamels (9-7) dominated San Diego again as Philadelphia ended a three-game losing skid.

Hamels, who attended nearby Rancho Bernardo High and grew up a Padres fan, is 9-2 against San Diego.

INTERLEAGUE Pirates 9, Red Sox 1: Gregory Polanco, Neil Walker and Ike Davis homered and Pittsburgh beat Boston to maintain its grip on the second National League wild-card spot.

Scoreboard On The Air Today NFL Football — Tampa Bay at Atlanta, 5:25 p.m., CBS and NFL Network.

College Football — Auburn at Kansas State, 4:30 p.m., ESPN. Major League Baseball — Seattle at Los Angeles Angels, 7 p.m., Root Sports.

Golf — Yokohama Tire LPGA Classic, 2 p.m., Golf Channel; Web.com Tour Championship, 11 a.m., Golf Channel; European Tour Wales Open, 2:30 a.m., Golf Channel.

Friday, Sept. 19 H i g h S c h o o l F o o t b a l l — Newport at Marshfield, 7 p.m., KMHS (91.3 FM); Marist at North Bend, 7 p.m., K-Light (98.7 FM); Coquille at Bandon, 7 p.m., KSHR (97.3 FM); Hidden Valley at Siuslaw, 7 p.m., KCST (106.9 FM).

College Football — Connecticut at South Florida, 5 p.m., ESPN. Major League Baseball — Los Angeles Dodgers at Chicago Cubs, 11 a.m., WGN; Seattle at Houston, 5 p.m., Root Sports.

Auto Racing — Formula One Singapore Grand Prix practice, 6:30 a.m., NBC Sports Network; NASCAR Sprint Cup Sylvania 300, practice at 9 a.m. and qualifying at 1:30 p.m., Fox Sports 1; NASCAR Camping World Truck Series New Hampshire, practice at 10:30 a.m. and noon, Fox Sports 1; NASCAR Nationwide Series Kentucky practice, 3:30 p.m., Fox Sports 1.

Golf — Yokohama Tire LPGA Classic, 2 p.m., Golf Channel; Web.com Tour Championship, 11 a.m., Golf Channel; Champions Tour Hawaii Championship, 4:30 p.m., Golf Channel; European Tour Wales Open, 2:30 a.m., Golf Channel.

Saturday, Sept. 20 High School Football — Gold Beach at St. Mary’s, 7 p.m., KGBR (92.7 FM).

College Football — Georgia Tech at Virginia Tech, 9 a.m., ESPN; Bowling Green at Wisconsin, 9 a.m., ESPN2; Eastern Washington at Montana State, noon, Root Sports; Utah at Michigan, 12:30 p.m., ABC; Florida at Alabama, 12:30 p.m., CBS; Virginia at BYU, 12:30 p.m., ESPN; Texas A&M at Southern Methodist, 12:30 p.m., ESPN2; Louisville at Florida International, 12:30 p.m., Fox Sports 1; Mississippi State at LSU, 4 p.m., ESPN; Oklahoma at West Virginia, 4:30 p.m., Fox; Clemson at Florida State, 5 p.m., ABC; Miami at Nebraska, 5 p.m., ESPN2; Oregon at Washington State, 7:30 p.m., ESPN and KWRO (630 AM and 100.3 FM); San Diego State at Oregon State, 7:30 p.m., Fox Sports 1 and KBBR (1340 AM).

Major League Baseball — Detroit at Kansas City, 10 a.m., Fox; Cincinnati at St. Louis, 4 p.m., Fox Sports 1; Seattle at Houston, 4 p.m., Root Sports.

Major League Soccer — Vancouver at Portland, 2 p.m., NBC Sports Network; Seattle at New York Red Bulls, 4:30 p.m., NBC Sports Network.

Auto Racing — NASCAR Sprint Cup Sylvania 300 practice, 6 a.m. and 8:30 a.m., Fox Sports 1; NASCAR Camping World Truck Series New Hampshire, qualifying at 7 a.m. and race at 10 a.m., Fox Sports 1; Formula One Singapore Grand Prix qualifying, 9:30 a.m., NBC Sports Network; NHRA AAA Texas FallNationals qualifying, 12:30 a.m., ESPN2.

Golf — Yokohama Tire LPGA Classic, 2 p.m., Golf Channel; Web.com Tour Championship, 11 a.m., Golf Channel; Champions Tour Hawaii Championship, 4:30 p.m., Golf Channel; European Tour Wales Open, 5:30 a.m., Golf Channel.

Local Schedule Today High School Volleyball — Sunset Conference: Bandon at Myrtle Point, 7 p.m.; Toledo at Reedsport, 7 p.m.; Waldport at Gold Beach, 7 p.m. Nonleague: Coquille at North Bend, 6 p.m.

High School Girls Soccer — Far West League: North Bend at Douglas, 3 p.m.; BrookingsHarbor at Coquille, 3 p.m.; Marshfield at South Umpqua, 3 p.m.

High School Boys Soccer — Far West League: North Bend at Douglas, 5 p.m.; BrookingsHarbor at Coquille, 5 p.m.; Marshfield at South Umpqua, 5 p.m.

Friday, Sept. 19 H i g h S c h o o l F o o t b a l l — Newport at Marshfield, 7 p.m.; Marist at North Bend, 7 p.m.; Coquille at Bandon, 7 p.m.; Myrtle Point at Powers, 4 p.m.; Reedsport at Glide, 7 p.m.; Hidden Valley at Siuslaw, 7 p.m.; BrookingsHarbor at Yreka, 7:30 p.m.

High School Volleyball — Skyline League: Days Creek at Pacific, 5:30 p.m.; Umpqua Valley Christian at Powers, 6 p.m.

College Volleyball — SWOCC at Treasure Valley Crossover, Ontario, all day.

College Women’s Soccer — North Idaho at SWOCC, 2 p.m.

College Men’s Soccer — North Idaho at SWOCC, 4:15 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 20 High School Football — Gold Beach at St.

Mary’s, 7 p.m.

High School Volleyball — North Bend at Sisters tournament, 9 a.m.; Coquille, Pacific at Bandon Tournament, 10 a.m.; Reedsport vs. St. Paul, noon, and Reedsport vs. Culver, 1 p.m., Regis High School.

H i g h S c h o o l B o y s S o c c e r — Pacific vs.

Lakeview, 1 p.m., Medford.

College Volleyball — SWOCC at Treasure Valley Crossover, Ontario, all day.

College Women’s Soccer — Yakima Valley at SWOCC, noon.

Pro Baseball American League East Division W L Pct GB x-Baltimore 92 60 .605 — 77 74 .510 141⁄2 New York 1 Toronto 77 74 .510 14 ⁄2 1 Tampa Bay 74 79 .484 18 ⁄2 66 86 .434 26 Boston Central Division W L Pct GB — 84 68 .553 Detroit 1 Kansas City 83 68 .550 ⁄2 1 Cleveland 78 73 .517 5 ⁄2 69 83 .454 15 Chicago Minnesota 65 87 .428 19 West Division W L Pct GB x-Los Angeles 95 57 .625 — 1 Oakland 83 68 .550 11 ⁄2 1 Seattle 81 70 .536 13 ⁄2 67 85 .441 28 Houston 1 59 92 .391 35 ⁄2 Texas x-clinched division Wednesday’s Games Pittsburgh 9, Boston 1 Baltimore 6, Toronto 1 N.Y. Yankees 3, Tampa Bay 2 Kansas City 6, Chicago White Sox 2 Cleveland 2, Houston 0 Minnesota 8, Detroit 4 L.A. Angels 5, Seattle 0 Texas 6, Oakland 1 Today’s Games Texas (N.Martinez 3-11) at Oakland (Gray 13-8), 12:35 p.m.

Boston (Workman 1-9) at Pittsburgh (Cole 9-5), 4:05 p.m.

Toronto (Dickey 13-12) at N.Y. Yankees (Greene 5-3), 4:05 p.m.

Cleveland (Salazar 6-7) at Houston (Feldman 8-11), 5:10 p.m.

Seattle (F.Hernandez 14-5) at L.A. Angels (Weaver 17-8), 7:05 p.m.

Friday’s Games Boston (Webster 4-3) at Baltimore (M.Gonzalez 9-8), 4:05 p.m.

Toronto (Buehrle 12-9) at N.Y. Yankees (Kuroda 10-9), 4:05 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Quintana 8-10) at Tampa Bay (Hellickson 1-3), 4:10 p.m.

Cleveland (Bauer 5-8) at Minnesota (P.Hughes 15-10), 5:10 p.m.

Detroit (Lobstein 1-0) at Kansas City (J.Vargas 11-9), 5:10 p.m.

Seattle (C.Young 12-8) at Houston (Peacock 48), 5:10 p.m.

Philadelphia (D.Buchanan 6-7) at Oakland (Lester 15-10), 6:35 p.m.

Texas (Bonilla 1-0) at L.A. Angels (H.Santiago 5-8), 7:05 p.m.

National League East Division W L Pct GB 87 64 .576 — x-Washington 76 76 .500 111⁄2 Atlanta 13 74 77 .490 Miami 73 80 .477 15 New York 1 Philadelphia 70 82 .461 17 ⁄2 Central Division W L Pct GB St. Louis 84 68 .553 — Pittsburgh 81 70 .536 21⁄2 Milwaukee 79 73 .520 5 1 Cincinnati 71 82 .464 13 ⁄2 16 68 84 .447 Chicago West Division W L Pct GB 86 66 .566 — Los Angeles 84 68 .553 2 San Francisco 1 San Diego 70 81 .464 15 ⁄2 Arizona 62 90 .408 24 Colorado 61 91 .401 25 x-clinched division Wednesday’s Games Colorado 16, L.A. Dodgers 2 San Francisco 4, Arizona 2 Pittsburgh 9, Boston 1 Miami 4, N.Y. Mets 3 Atlanta 3, Washington 1 Chicago Cubs 3, Cincinnati 1 St. Louis 2, Milwaukee 0 Philadelphia 5, San Diego 2 Today’s Games Boston (Workman 1-9) at Pittsburgh (Cole 9-5), 4:05 p.m.

Washington (G.Gonzalez 8-10) at Miami (Hand 3-7), 4:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Greinke 15-8) at Chicago Cubs (Wada 4-3), 5:05 p.m.

Milwaukee (Lohse 12-9) at St. Louis (S.Miller 10-9), 5:15 p.m.

Arizona (Nuno 0-6) at Colorado (Flande 0-5), 5:40 p.m.

Philadelphia (K.Kendrick 9-12) at San Diego (Erlin 3-4), 6:10 p.m.

Friday’s Games L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 19-3) at Chicago Cubs (E.Jackson 6-14), 11:20 a.m.

Milwaukee (Gallardo 8-10) at Pittsburgh (Locke 7-5), 4:05 p.m.

Washington (Fister 14-6) at Miami (Koehler 99), 4:10 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (Za.Wheeler 10-10) at Atlanta (Teheran 13-12), 4:35 p.m.

Arizona (C.Anderson 9-6) at Colorado (Lyles 63), 5:10 p.m.

Cincinnati (Holmberg 1-1) at St. Louis (Lackey 2-2), 5:15 p.m.

Philadelphia (D.Buchanan 6-7) at Oakland (Lester 15-10), 6:35 p.m.

San Francisco (T.Hudson 9-11) at San Diego (T.Ross 13-14), 7:10 p.m.

Wednesday’s Linescores Orioles 6, Blue Jays 1 Toronto 000 000 100 — 1 5 1 Baltimore 001 030 11x — 6 9 0 Happ, Aa.Sanchez (7), Janssen (8) and Thole, Kottaras; B.Norris, Matusz (6), Brach (7), McFarland (9) and C.Joseph. W—B.Norris 14-8.

L—Happ 9-11. HRs—Baltimore, Pearce 2 (20), Lough (4).

Yankees 3, Rays 2 New York 000 021 000 — 3 4 0 Tampa Bay 000 101 000 — 2 5 0 McCarthy, Betances (8), Dav.Robertson (9) and B.McCann; Cobb, Riefenhauser (7), Balfour (7), Jo.Peralta (9) and Hanigan, Casali. W— McCarthy 7-4. L—Cobb 9-8. Sv—Dav.Robertson (37). HRs—Tampa Bay, Longoria (22).

Royals 6, White Sox 2 Chicago 001 000 010 — 2 5 2 Kansas City 004 100 10x — 6 11 1 Sale, Cleto (6), Snodgress (7), Lindstrom (8) and Flowers; Ventura, W.Davis (8), G.Holland (9) and S.Perez. W—Ventura 13-10. L—Sale 12-4.

HRs—Kansas City, L.Cain (5), A.Escobar (3).

Indians 2, Astros 0 Cleveland 000 101 000 — 2 7 1 Houston 000 000 000 — 0 2 1 Carrasco and Y.Gomes; Oberholtzer, Foltynewicz (8) and J.Castro. W—Carrasco 8-5. L— Oberholtzer 5-12.

Twins 8, Tigers 4 Detroit 220 000 000 — 4 11 0 Minnesota 300 003 02x — 8 13 0 D.Price, Alburquerque (6), K.Ryan (6), Ji.Johnson (7), Coke (8) and Holaday, J.McCann; Gibson, Pressly (7), Duensing (8), Tonkin (8), Burton (9) and K.Suzuki. W—Gibson 12-11. L— D.Price 14-12.

Rangers 6, Athletics 1 Texas 000 000 006 — 6 10 1 Oakland 000 010 000 — 1 7 0 D.Holland, Sh.Tolleson (7), Kirkman (8), Klein (8), Ross Jr. (8) and Chirinos; Samardzija, Doolittle (9), J.Chavez (9), Abad (9) and G.Soto.

W—Ross Jr. 3-6. L—Doolittle 1-4. HRs—Texas, Arencibia (10).

Angels 5, Mariners 0 Seattle 000 000 000 — 0 1 2 Los Angeles 000 000 50x — 5 6 0 Paxton, Farquhar (7), Leone (7) and Sucre; C.Wilson, J.Smith (8), Street (9) and Iannetta.

W—C.Wilson 13-9. L—Paxton 6-3. HRs—Los Angeles, Cron (11).

Prates 9, Red Sox 1 Boston 000 010 000 — 1 5 1 Pittsburgh 131 040 00x — 9 15 1 Buchholz, S.Wright (5), M.Barnes (6), Hembree (8) and Vazquez; F.Liriano, Ju.Wilson (7), Axford (8), J.Gomez (9) and R.Martin, C.Stewart. W— F.Liriano 6-10. L—Buchholz 8-9. HRs—Pittsburgh, G.Polanco (7), N.Walker (21), I.Davis (11).

Rockies 16, Dodgers 2 Los Angeles 000 000 011 — 2 6 2 Colorado 801 321 01x — 16 21 1 Frias, Elbert (1), Correia (3), Coulombe (6), C.Perez (7), Y.Garcia (8) and Federowicz; J.De La Rosa, Nicasio (7), Scahill (8) and Rosario, Ja.Williams. W—J.De La Rosa 14-11. L—Frias 0-1.

HRs—Los Angeles, Barney (3). Colorado, Morneau (16), Blackmon (18), B.Barnes (8).

Giants 4, Diamondbacks 2 San Francisco 010 010 002 — 4 6 1 Arizona 010 010 000 — 2 9 0 Bumgarner, Machi (7), Romo (8), Casilla (9) and Susac; Chafin, Delgado (7), E.Marshall (8), A.Reed (9), Stites (9) and Gosewisch. W—Romo 6-4. L—A.Reed 1-6. Sv—Casilla (17).

Marlins 4, Mets 3 Miami 210 000 100 — 4 11 0 New York 000 020 010 — 3 8 0 H.Alvarez, M.Dunn (7), A.Ramos (7), Hatcher (8), Cishek (9) and Mathis; Gee, Edgin (7), C.Torres (7), Familia (8), Mejia (9) and T.d’Arnaud. W—H.Alvarez 11-6. L—Gee 7-8. Sv— Cishek (37).

Braves 3, Nationals 1 Washington 000 010 000 — 1 5 1 Atlanta 000 003 00x — 3 7 0 Treinen, Detwiler (6), Barrett (7), Blevins (8) and S.Leon; A.Wood, D.Carpenter (7), J.Walden

(8), Kimbrel (9) and Bethancourt. W—A.Wood 1110. L—Detwiler 2-3. Sv—Kimbrel (44). HRs— Washington, Souza Jr. (1).

Cubs 3, Reds 1 Cincinnati 100 000 000 — 1 7 0 Chicago 020 000 01x — 3 5 0 Corcino, Villarreal (6), M.Parra (7), Ju.Diaz (8) and Barnhart; Hendricks, Strop (8), H.Rondon (9) and W.Castillo. W—Hendricks 7-2. L—Corcino 0-1. Sv—H.Rondon (25).

Cardinals 2, Brewers 0 Milwaukee 000 000 000 — 0 7 1 St. Louis 000 000 20x — 2 3 0 Fiers, Duke (8) and Lucroy; Wainwright and Y.Molina. W—Wainwright 19-9. L—Fiers 6-3.

Phillies 5, Padres 2 Philadelphia 000 041 000 — 5 9 0 San Diego 000 100 001 — 2 9 1 Hamels, Diekman (8), Giles (9) and Ruiz; Stults, R.Alvarez (5), Wieland (6), Campos (8), A.Torres (9) and Rivera. W—Hamels 9-7. L—Stults 7-17.

Pro Football NFL AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct Buffalo 2 0 0 1.000 1 1 0 .500 Miami N.Y. Jets 1 1 0 .500 1 1 0 .500 New England South W L T Pct 2 0 0 1.000 Houston Tennessee 1 1 0 .500 Jacksonville 0 2 0 .000 Indianapolis 0 2 0 .000 North W L T Pct 2 0 0 1.000 Cincinnati Baltimore 1 1 0 .500 Pittsburgh 1 1 0 .500 Cleveland 1 1 0 .500 West W L T Pct Denver 2 0 0 1.000 San Diego 1 1 0 .500 Oakland 0 2 0 .000 0 2 0 .000 Kansas City NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct 2 0 0 1.000 Philadelphia Washington 1 1 0 .500 1 1 0 .500 Dallas N.Y. Giants 0 2 0 .000 South W L T Pct Carolina 2 0 0 1.000 Atlanta 1 1 0 .500 0 2 0 .000 New Orleans Tampa Bay 0 2 0 .000 North W L T Pct Minnesota 1 1 0 .500 Chicago 1 1 0 .500 Detroit 1 1 0 .500 1 1 0 .500 Green Bay West W L T Pct Arizona 2 0 0 1.000 1 1 0 .500 Seattle San Francisco 1 1 0 .500 1 1 0 .500 St. Louis Today Tampa Bay at Atlanta, 5:25 p.m.

Sunday, Sep. 21 Dallas at St. Louis, 10 a.m.

Minnesota at New Orleans, 10 a.m.

San Diego at Buffalo, 10 a.m.

Washington at Philadelphia, 10 a.m.

Houston at N.Y. Giants, 10 a.m.

Tennessee at Cincinnati, 10 a.m.

Baltimore at Cleveland, 10 a.m.

Green Bay at Detroit, 10 a.m.

Indianapolis at Jacksonville, 10 a.m.

Oakland at New England, 10 a.m.

San Francisco at Arizona, 1:05 p.m.

Denver at Seattle, 1:25 p.m.

Kansas City at Miami, 1:25 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Carolina, 5:30 p.m.

Monday, Sep. 22 Chicago at N.Y. Jets, 5:30 p.m.

PF 52 43 43 50 PF 47 36 27 51 PF 47 42 36 53 PF 55 47 28 27

PA 30 49 45 40 PA 20 36 75 61 PA 26 29 53 54 PA 41 39 49 50

PF 64 47 43 28 PF 44 47 58 31 PF 41 48 42 47 PF 43 57 48 25

PA 44 27 38 60 PA 21 58 63 39 PA 36 43 38 60 PA 31 46 45 51

Auto Racing NASCAR Sprint Cup schedule and Winners x-non-points race Feb. 15 — x-Sprint Unlimited (Denny Hamlin) Feb. 20 — x-Budweiser Duel 1 (Matt Kenseth) Feb. 20 — x-Budweiser Duel 2 (Denny Hamlin) Feb. 23 — Daytona 500 (Dale Earnhardt Jr.) March 2 — The Profit on CNBC 500, Avondale, Ariz. (Kevin Harvick) March 9 — Kobalt 400, Las Vegas (Brad Keselowski) March 16 — Food City 500, Bristol, Tenn. (Carl Edwards) March 23 — Auto Club 400, Fontana, Calif.

(Kyle Busch) March 30 — STP 500, Ridgeway, Va. (Kurt Busch) April 7 — Duck Commander 500, Fort Worth, Texas (Joey Logano) April 12 — Bojangles’ Southern 500, Darlington, S.C. (Kevin Harvick)

April 26 — Toyota Owners 400, Richmond, Va. (Joey Logano) May 4 — Aaron’s 499, Talladega, Ala. (Denny Hamlin) May 10 — 5-hour ENERGY 400, Kansas City, Kan. (Jeff Gordon) May 16 — x-Sprint Showdown, Concord, N.C. (Clint Bowyer) May 17 — x-NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race, Concord, N.C. (Jamie McMurray) May 25 — Coca-Cola 600, Concord, N.C. (Jimmie Johnson) June 1 — FedEx 400, Dover, Del. (Jimmie Johnson) June 8 — Pocono 400, Long Pond, Pa. (Dale Earnhardt Jr.) June 15 — Quicken Loans 400, Brooklyn, Mich.

(Jimmie Johnson) June 22 — Toyota/Save Mart 350, Sonoma, Calif. (Carl Edwards) June 28 — Quaker State 400, Sparta, Ky. Brad Keselowski) July 6 — Coke Zero 400, Daytona Beach, Fla. (Aric Almirola) July 13 — Camping World RV Sales 301, Loudon, N.H. (Brad Keselowski) July 27 — The John Wayne Walding 400, Indianapolis (Jeff Gordon) Aug. 3 — GoBowling.com 400, Long Pond, Pa. (Dale Earnhardt Jr.) Aug. 10 — Cheez-It 355 at the Glen, Watkins Glen, N.Y. (AJ Allmendinger) Aug. 17 — Pure Michigan 400, Brooklyn, Mich.

(Jeff Gordon) Aug. 23 — Irwin Tools Night Race, Bristol, Tenn.

(Joey Logano) Aug. 31 — Oral-B USA 500, Hampton, Ga. (Kasey Kahne) Sept. 6 — Federated Auto Parts 400, Richmond, Va. (Brad Keselowski) Sept. 14 — MyAFibStory.com 400, Joliet, Ill. (Brad Keselowski) Sept. 21 — Sylvania 300, Loudon, N.H. Sept. 28 — AAA 400, Dover, Del. Oct. 5 — Hollywood Casino 400, Kansas City, Kan. Oct. 11 — Bank of America 500, Concord, N.C. Oct. 19 — GEICO 500, Talladega, Ala. Oct. 26 — Goody’s Headache Relief Shot 500, Ridgeway, Va. Nov. 2 — AAA Texas 500, Fort Worth, Texas Nov. 9 — Quicken Loans Race for Heroes 500, Avondale, Ariz.

Nov. 16 — Ford EcoBoost 400, Homestead, Fla. Driver Standings (Through Sept. 14): 1. Brad Keselowski, 2,059. 2. Jeff Gordon, 2,052. 3. Joey Logano, 2,049. 4. Kevin Harvick, 2,047. 5. Dale Earnhardt Jr., 2,042. 6. Jimmie Johnson, 2,041. 7.

Kyle Busch, 2,041. 8. Denny Hamlin, 2,041. 9.

Kurt Busch, 2,039. 10. Kasey Kahne, 2,034. 11.

Matt Kenseth, 2,034. 12. Carl Edwards, 2,030. 13.

Ryan Newman, 2,029. 14. AJ Allmendinger, 2,025. 15. Greg Biffle, 2,021. 16. Aric Almirola, 2,007.

Pro Soccer Major League Soccer EASTERN CONFERENCE W L T Pts GF GA D.C. United 14 9 5 47 42 31 Sporting KC 13 10 6 45 43 34 New England 13 12 3 42 41 39 New York 9 8 11 38 44 41 Columbus 9 9 10 37 40 36 Philadelphia 9 9 10 37 45 43 Toronto FC 9 11 7 34 36 43 9 13 5 32 33 50 Houston Chicago 5 7 15 30 34 40 5 17 6 21 32 52 Montreal WESTERN CONFERENCE W L T Pts GF GA 17 7 3 54 51 37 Seattle Los Angeles 14 5 9 51 57 30 Real Salt Lake 12 6 10 46 44 35 FC Dallas 13 9 6 45 48 37 Vancouver 8 7 13 37 36 36 Portland 8 8 12 36 49 48 8 13 7 31 39 48 Colorado San Jose 6 11 10 28 33 39 Chivas USA 6 16 6 24 23 51 NOTE: Three points for victory, one point for tie.

Friday, Sept. 19 Colorado at Real Salt Lake, 7 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 20 Vancouver at Portland, 2 p.m.

Houston at Philadelphia, 4 p.m.

New England at Columbus, 4:30 p.m.

San Jose at Montreal, 4:30 p.m.

Seattle FC at New York, 4:30 p.m.

D.C. United at Chicago, 5:30 p.m.

FC Dallas at Los Angeles, 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, Sept. 21 Chivas USA at Toronto FC, noon

Transactions BASEBALL Major League Baseball MLB — Suspended umpire Joe West one game for grabbing the jersey of Philadelphia RHP Jonathan Papelbon during a Sept. 14 game

against Miami. Suspended Toronto RHP Marcus Stroman six games and fined him an undisclosed amount for intentionally throwing a pitch in the head area of Baltimore C Caleb Joseph during a Sept. 15 game.

American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Selected the contract of INF Christian Walker from Norfolk (IL).

BOSTON RED SOX — Recalled OF Bryce Brentz, OF Rusney Castillo, INF-OF Garin Cecchini, LHP Edwin Escobar, RHP Heath Hembree and C-1B Ryan Lavarnway from Pawtucket (IL).

MINNESOTA TWINS — Signed a four-year player development contract with Chattanooga (SL) through the 2018 season.

National League COLORADO ROCKIES — Announced a four-year player development contract with Albuquerque (PCL) through the 2018 season and a two-year working agreement with New Britain (EL) through the 2016 season.

LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Announced they will change its Triple-A affiliation to Oklahoma City (PCL) next year. Signed a two-year working agreement with Tulsa (Texas) through the 2016 season.

MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Announced a fouryear player development contract extension with Biloxi (SL) through the 2018 season and a two-year PDC extension with Brevard County (FSL) through the 2016 season.

SAN DIEGO PADRES — Extended their player development contract with Fort Wayne (MWL) for two years through the 2016 season.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association NBA — Suspended Denver F-C J.J. Hickson five regular-season games for violating the terms of the NBA/NBPA Anti-Drug Program.

HOUSTON ROCKETS — Acquired G Jason Terry and 2015 and 2016 second-round draft picks from Sacramento for G-F Alonzo Gee and G Scotty Hopson.

MIAMI HEAT — Promoted David Fizdale to assistant head coach. Named Keith Smart and Juwan Howard assistant coaches; Chris Quinn and Dan Craig assistant coaches for player development; Octavio De La Grana player development coach and director of minor league operations; Brandon Gilliam assistant trainer and director of rehabilitation; Wes Brown assistant trainer and Eric Foran assistant strength and conditioning coach.

MINNESOTA TIMBERWOLVES — Signed F Glenn Robinson III. NEW YORK KNICKS — Signed F Orlando Sanchez.

FOOTBALL National Football League NFL — Announced a new performanceenhancing drug policy, reducing the four-game suspensions of Denver WR Wes Welker, Dallas DB Orlando Scandrick and St. Louis WR Stedman Bailey to two games.

CAROLINA PANTHERS — Placed DE Greg Hardy on the exempt/commissioner’s permission list.

CHICAGO BEARS — Signed TE Blake Annen, CB Jordan Sullen and WR Chris Williams to the practice squad.

CINCINNATI BENGALS — Activated CB Chris Lewis-Harris.

MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Placed RB Adrian Peterson on the exempt/commissioner’s permission list.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Re-signed DB Daxton Swanson to the practice squad.

Canadian Football League CFL — Fined Toronto RB Steve Slaton an undisclosed amount for kicking an opponent during a Sept. 13 game against Calgary.

COLLEGE AUBURN — Suspended junior S Jermaine Whitehead from Thursday’s football game against Kansas State for violating team rules.

MISSOURI — Suspended freshmen basketball Fs Jakeenan Gant and D’Angelo Allen after getting arrested on suspicion of misdemeanor third-degree assault.

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Employment FREE 200 $5.00

213 General Circulation$12.00 $12.00 Director

201 Accounting

$17.00

$7.00

Looking for OBTP licensed tax preparers.

If you are not currently licensed, but would like to become licensed, we will be offering IRS & OBTP approved TAX SCHOOL beginning in early September. Please contact our office at 541-982-2209 for more information. (OBTP# B15363; Licensed by Oregon Higher Education Coordinating Commission (OAR) 715-045-0033 (6). Students must pass the Tax Preparer exam given by Oregon Board of Tax Practitioners before preparing tax returns for others)

202 Admin./Mgmt.

Ron’s Oil now hiring: Office Secretary - FT - Pay DOE Quick Books/Payroll Experience A Plus Apply at Ron’s Oil or call 541-396-5571 ask for Victoria

204 Banking We are excited to announce an available position for a

Mortgage Loan Closer in Coos Bay, Oregon.

Salary Range: $ 11.00 - $22.00.

First Community Credit Union is an equal opportunity employer of protected Veterans and individuals with disabilities. For more details please apply online: www.myfirstccu.org

We are excited to announce the following career opportunities with First Community Credit Union:

Teller positions in Florence and Myrtle Point, OR. Salary Range: $ 9.50 - $17.00

Commercial Loan Processor in Coquille, OR. Salary Range: $ 10.00 - $19.00

Operations Support in Coquille, OR. Salary Range: $ 10.00 - $19.00

The World in Coos Bay, OR seeks a proven leader to direct and oversee our circulation department. The circulation director will build circulation through sales and promotion programs, the timely distribution and availability of The World products, and adherence to service standards and practices that satisfy the expectations of the customers. The circulation director will play a vital role on The World’s management team which determines short and long-term strategy and implements the tactics necessary to grow the enterprise.

The successful applicant will know how to coach, mentor and develop an enthusiastic staff to promote and distribute The World Newspaper and products.

They will develop and administer revenue and expense budgets and set and maintain standards of service for subscribers, single copy buyers, carriers, retailers and other World customers to their satisfaction.

Coos Bay is the largest city on the Oregon Coast and serves readers across three counties and beyond. Oregon’s south coast features Pacific shorelines with cliffs, beaches and recreational dunes. A perfect refuge from the faster pace and challenges of a larger metropolitan area, it is a fantastic place to work and live.

The World provides a meaningful work environment for our employees, rewards innovation and risk-taking, and offers opportunities for career development. As part of Lee Enterprises, The World offers excellent earnings potential and a full benefits package. We are an equal opportunity employer and a drug-free workplace. All applicants considered for employment must pass a post-offer drug screen and background/DMV check prior to commencing employment.

Please apply online at http://www.lee.net/careers

Credit Quality Specialist in North Bend, OR. Salary Range: $ 10.00 - $19.00 First Community Credit Union is an equal opportunity employer of protected Veterans and individuals with disabilities. For more details please apply online: www.myfirstccu.org

207 Drivers RON’S OIL COMPANY Truck Driver Wanted Class A CDL. Hazmat/Doubles Endorsements are a plus! $20 Per Hour Please call Victoria for application information. 541-396-5571

208 Education

The South Coast Education Service District’s Board of Directors announces an opening on its Board for Position #7 (At large) for a term expiring June 30, 2015. If you are interested, please contact Jammie Thompson at 541-266-3946 or email jammiem@scesd.k12.or.us by October 3, 2014.

211 Health Care

*Now Hiring*  Psych RN  On-site Resident Mgr  OnCall Residential Associate For our Coos Bay locations Visit our website: www.columbiacare.org click our Career Center page to apply online

213 General RON’S OIL COMPANY Is Now Hiring for a Maintenance/Handyman position. 40 Hours per week. Pay DOE. Must have Valid DL. Apply at Ron’s Oil or call 541-396-5571 ask for Victoria

SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS: Find your niche here! Tell them what your business has to offer on the Bulletin Board.

Affordable advertising customized just for you! Call

541-269-1222 Ext. 269 to get started today.

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227 Elderly Care

The Historic McMenamins Gearhart Hotel is hiring a Property Manager.

Located on the beautiful Northern Oregon Coast, just blocks from the ocean and adjacent to the Gearhart Golf Course, this property features a hotel, bustling pub, event spaces and on-site catering. This position is responsible for managing all kitchen, catering, hotel and pub-related operations. The Property Manager is also the community and tourism liaison, representing McMenamins at various chamber of commerce and city events. McMenamins is looking for someone who is interested in growing the overall year-round business at this pristine coastal location. Qualified applicants must have a minimum of 3 years hospitality management experience (in a general management capacity) at a multi-department property; enjoy working in a busy customer service-oriented environment; and have an open and flexible schedule, including days, evenings, weekends and holidays. We offer a first-rate work environment along with a competitive benefits package. We are interested in people who want a long-term career in the hospitality industry. Mail cover letter and resume to: Attn. Human Resources: 430 N. Killingsworth St., Portland, OR 97217.

Call 503-952-0598 for information on other ways to apply. Please no phone calls or emails to individual locations!

E.O.E.

215 Sales

HARMONY HOMECARE “Quality Caregivers provide Assisted living in your home”.

541-260-1788

Coos Bay Close to Lakes, SWOCC and shopping, 3 bed $490, 3bed $530 no pets. Apply at 324 Ackerman 541-888-4762

ISENBURG CAREGIVING SERVICE. Do you need help in your home?

We provide home care as efficiently and cost-effective as possible.

Coquille - Coos Bay - Bandon. Lilo Isenburg, 541-396-6041.

Coos Bay: Are you looking for a clean, quiet 2 bdrm. Apt? Look no further, your best option. Off street, 1 level, near park, shopping, w/d hook up, private carport, w/s pd. like new carpet and vinyl. Sorry no pets/smoking. $710 plus dep. 541-888-6078 before 9pm.

ISENBURG Adult Fosterhouse

PACIFIC PINES APARTMENTS 859 Chicago Avenue SE Bandon, Oregon 97411 Phone: (541)-347-7303 TDD: 1-800-735-2900

541-267-6278

Room Available Lilo: 541-396-6041.

Notices 400 406 Public Notices WANTED Vintage 1950s photos of “Fern’s” beauty salon at the corner of Second and Golden. Interior and exterior.

Please call 541-267-3435.

Services 425

1 Bdrm Handicapped accessible apartment available Section 8 Applicants are welcome USDA Rural Development subsidized apartment homes may be available at this time.

Income restrictions apply.

USDA Rural Development is an Equal Opportunity Lender, Provider, and Employer.

Complaints of discrimination should be sent to: USDA Director, Office of Civil Rights, Washington, D.C. 20250-9410 Professionally Managed by Guardian Management LLC. 503 802 3600

Real Estate 500

501 Commercial PUBLISHER’S NOTICE All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Fair Housing Act which makes it illegal to advertise “any preference, limitations or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin, or an intention, to make any such preference, limitation or discrimination.” Familial status includes children under the age of 18 living with parents or legal custodians, pregnant women and people securing custody of children under 18.

This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of the law.

Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis. To complain of discrimination call HUD toll-free at 1-800-669-9777. The toll-free telephone number for the hearing impaired is 1-800-927-9275.

504 Homes for Sale 4 bd, 1.5 ba, Coquille, must sell! $139K, conv financing or assumable 502 loan ($0 down, low pmts) also consider owner carry.541-404-9123, info@coquillehouse.com

View of Coos & Millicoma River 7 min out 2600sq. ft., on 7 ac. knotty pine & cedar inside & out. Pasture, garden, timber, barn. creek, 2 Kitchens, $360,000. 541-269-1343

506 Manufactured Doublewide 2 Bedroom 2 bath home in well kept 55+ park with great rates & excellent location in CB. Carport, covered decks, all appliances. 3115 Pacific Loop. More info.

530-459-5279 $39,500

Rentals 600

604 Homes Unfurnished COOS BAY: 2 bedroom, 1 bath on Section 8 ok, washer/ dryer hookups. Call 541-888-8125.

WOOF!! YES your pet is family.

Near Charleston, 2 bedroom 1 bath, 1 car garage and laundry area. Large family room. Fully fenced yard. sewer, water, and garbage paid. 1 pet included, mobile home, section 8 accepted $680 Rent $450 dep. Call 801-915-2693 available 9/6/14

612 Townhouse/Condo BAYFRONT TOWNHOMES Wooded setting, fireplace, decks, view of bay and bridge.

2 bedrooms, 1.5 baths.

Tamarac 541-759-4380

Other Stuff 700

The World is seeking another member for our great team of sales professionals. We are looking for an experienced, outgoing, creative, detail-oriented individual to join our team of professional advertising representatives and creative staff.

18 volt reciprocating saw, charger and i-on battery. $60 call 541-759-1045 Lakeside.

We are an equal opportunity, drug-free workplace and all applicants considered for employment must pass a post-offer drug screen and background/DMV check prior to commencing employment.

Please apply online at http://www.lee.net/careers.

Care Giving 225

$15.00 541-808-0803

$45.00 Tune Up or Repair Windows 7 $20.00 Call 541-294-9107

$55.00

805 Horses/Equine

$59.95

Recreation/ Sports 725

729 Exercise Equipment Nordic Track Ski Exerciser excellent condition 541-294-0928 50.00

2 GEORGOUS Horses for sale. AQHA 9 Yr. Bay Mare + 8 Yr. Roan Mare.

14-15 hands.Some form train.Not ridden/able to saddle. Want to sell as pair.Call for appt.541-294-9836 or 541-808-9014 $1100 firm

808 Pet Care

734 Misc. Goods

Pet Cremation

Wolverine brand new steel toe work boots black leather size 10.5M 541-294-0928 $80

541-267-3131

Market Place 750

909 Misc. Auto

754 Garage Sales Coos Bay Estate Sale Some Furniture, Mostly Guys Stuff.

62393 Olive Barber Rd Sun 11-4 PM

Coos Bay Yard Sale! Furniture incl patio set and bookcase/desk Tools, Clothes, & much more 2560 N 19th St (off Thompson) Fri and Sat 8-3pm Myrtle Point Estate Sale! I am have having an estate sale before I kick the bucket, This includes furniture, lamps and everything else you need. Monday thru Saturday 18044 Hwy 42. (mile post 29)

HONDA WORLD

$6,990 1998 Toyota Camry LE 4 Door, Auto, Low Miles. #B3562/212113

$9,990 2006 buick Lucerne CXL Leather, Low Miles #14074A1/164348

Older lady and son who purchased Hp printer from garage sale at 450 Simpson NB Sat 7th, you forgot power cord . 541 756 5081 nc

756 Wood/Heating

$10,990 2005 Toyota Corolla ll LE Auto, Low Miles. #B3588/439510

Seasoned Firewood Fir, Myrtle, Maple mix. Excellent load, split and delivered $150/cord.

541-396-6134 Umpqua Wood Stove with aluminum decoration door and chrome feet $200.00 with wall heart call 541-808-4411

$12,990 2007 Nissan Altima 2.5S, Auto, Moonroof, 47K Miles. #B3524/452555

$17,990

777 Computers free recycling for broken vista laptops 541-294-9107 coos bay free

2 sets portable Goldblatt heavy duty scaffold units. 5 pieces each plus 4 wheels for each set. Used but in good condition. Pieces snap together. Call Rick at 541-297-8659

710 Miscellaneous Above ground exercise therapy pool 52” deep X 8’ round, step, 1hp pump, 50 gal sand filter, 100 kw LP heater help you move. $250 or will part out.

541-347-8147 $250 Chop Saw 10” $30, Belt sander $15, Plunge router w/bits $20, Steam Vac rug shampooer $30, reflector telescope 675X $35, 30 gal shop vac $15, 541-347-8147

Pets/Animals 800

Local School Sports, Photos & Scores Recreational Sports Scoreboard National Stories Subscribe today!

Call 541-269-9999 or 800-437-6397.

$19,990 2012 Honda Accord EXL A/T, Leather, 16K Miles #B3596/048111

Found Young yellow male cat area of Sheridan and Tower, NB. 9/5/2014 Very friendly. 541-751-7828.

$22,990 2010 Jeep Wrangler Sport Auto, V6, 9K Miles! #14050A/313612

HONDA WORLD 1350 Ocean Blvd., Coos Bay HondaWorld.com 541-888-5588  1-800-634-1054

911 RV/Motor Homes

Coos Bay For Sale High Quality Exercise Equipment, Furniture, Dishes and Misc. 1810 Lincoln Rd Call 541-404-79611010

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$17,990 2003 Toyota Tacoma Dbl. Cab TRD Pkg, V6, Auto, 1 Owner, Low Miles, More #B3577/249213

FERAL CAT CLINIC is coming to Coquille!

SEPTEMBER 21, 2014.

Please call 541-294-4205, leave a message and please speak clearly.

Free 1979 Double Wide 24x40 Manufactured home 2bd/1bth, you must move, owner will pay $1000 for moving call 541-297-2348

Oakley Sunglass Kit brand new Elite Special Forces includes 2 lenses 541-294-0928 $100

2006 Honda Element EX-P 4WD, 5 Spd, Low miles. #B3581/023513

802 Cats

Danner work boots, size 10 1/2, width D. Brand new, made in the USA. Black in color. 541-294-0928 $150

As a sales consultant with The World you will handle an established account list while pursuing new business. You will manage the creation, design and implementation of advertising campaigns as well as identify, create and implement product strategies. You will make multi-media presentations, work with the public and must have a proactive approach to customer service.

As part of Lee Enterprises, The World offers excellent earnings potential and a full benefits package, along with a professional and comfortable work environment focused on growth opportunities for employees.

Chuggles/Puggles Puppies for Sale 4 females , 3 males Males $150/Females $200 each.

707 Tools

Every Day

SALES CONSULTANT

803 Dogs

Pressure Asssisted Wall-Mounted $35.00 Toliet Model # 2093 $200 Call $15.00 541-267-7234

Coos Bay Garage Sale High Quality Exercise Equipment, Furniture, Dishes and Misc. 1810 Lincoln Rd Fri 3pm to 6pm, Sat 9am to 6pm

430 Lawn Care SOUTH COAST LANDSCAPE MAINTENANCE for your everyday lawn care needs. #10646.Call Chris @541-404-0106

710 Miscellaneous

Kohl’s Cat House Adoptions on site.

541-294-3876

SK-SWM3 DIRCTV Slimline automatic Antenna for RV’s used one time. Have sold RV price $1000 paid $1800 Call 520-709-0927

BRIDGE F. Scott Fitzgerald said, “All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.”

That is an interesting concept. I wonder how he typed while swimming.

When the card play has finished, the contract will either be underwater or have floated safely ashore. If it has been defeated, though, declarer should not worry about how far it has sunk, as long as he took his best shot to make the contract. (Yes, if you are playing in a pair event scored by matchpoints, that is not necessarily

true.)

In this deal, South is in three notrump. After West leads the diamond king, how should declarer swim?

North’s jump-shift rebid guarantees extra values and forces to game.

South starts with six top winners: four hearts, one diamond and one club. In addition, he hopes to take either four club tricks or three clubs and one spade.

First, South should hold up dummy’s diamond ace until at least the second round to confirm the split. Yes, it is likely to be 6-0 or 5-1 because otherwise West would probably have led a different suit (presumably spades).

Declarer takes the second trick with dummy’s diamond ace, cashes his hearts and runs the club 10. East wins with his king and shifts to a low spade.

What should South do?

If West has the spade ace, the contract will drown. So declarer should play his spade king. Here, it wins and the contract comes up for air. But if the king loses, South has potentially gone down two instead of down one — a small price to pay for trying to collect a vulnerable game bonus.

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914 Travel Trailers

2006 McKensie Star wood SL 29’ 5th wheel, includes hitch. New awning and 5 new tires load E. Excellent condition.

North Bend. $14,800. 602-882-6431.

916 Used Pick-Ups TRUCK. 1998 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 ext. cab. Low mileage, good condition and tires, new windshield shocks, radio, one owner. $4995 OBO. 714-307-2603.

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Legals 100 NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE On Monday, October 13, 2014 at the hour of 10:00 a.m. at the Front Door of the Coos County Courthouse, 250 North Baxter St. Coquille, Oregon, the defendant’s interest will be sold, subject to redemption, in the real property commonly known as: 92679 Libby Lane, Coos Bay OR 97420,. The court case number is 14CV0106, where Homestreet Bank, is plaintiff, and Gregory Kuehne is defendant.

The sale is a public auction to the highest bidder for cash or cashier’s check, in hand, made out to Coos County Sheriff’s Office. For more information on this sale go to: www.oregonsheriffs.com/sales.htm PUBLISHED: The World - September 04, 11, 18 and 25, 2014 (ID-20259395)

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Bucs look for first win tonight

Smith grows up for Jets

BY BARRY WILNER The Associated Press

FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) — The New York Jets had just seen a tying touchdown erased from the scoreboard by an ill-timed timeout call when Geno Smith and the offense huddled up again.

There was no whining about what could have been.

No frustration from the quarterback, either.

The Jets still needed to convert a fourth-down play to give themselves a chance against the Green Bay Packers. The game was on the line, and Smith was as cool and calm as ever.

“He wasn’t worried about that play,” wide receiver Jeremy Kerley said Wednesday. “He was worried about the next play. That showed a lot of character on his part.”

So, the second-year quarterback went right back to work and converted on fourth down — again — with a 6-yard pass to David Nelson on fourth-and-4 from the Packers 36. The drive was still alive, and so were the Jets.

“That right there was a really good test,” Kerley said.

“I think the big transformation between Geno from last year to this year is his poise.

He has definitely shown to be, not necessarily a different guy, but his poise is definitely starting to show.

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The Tampa Bay Buccaneers were supposed to be vastly improved this year.

The standings show a big, fat zero in the win column.

Yes, the talent base looks good on both sides of the ball. New coach Lovie Smith was a winner in Chicago and has brought a freshness to the environment in Tampa.

Yet his team lost two straight at home, both in close calls, but still defeats.

Next up is tonight’s trip to Atlanta.

“That wasn’t a part of the master plan,” Smith said. “As much as anything for us, if we can just get to 1-2, get that first win. We weren’t able to get it done at home and that’s disappointing.”

Getting the victory could be made tougher by star defensive tackle Gerald McCoy’s broken left hand.

He’ll be a game-time decision.

Atlanta fell flat in Cincinnati one week after a rousing comeback win against the Saints. Whether or not McCoy plays, the Falcons must find a way to better protect quarterback Matt Ryan, who comes off a bad performance.

“I don’t think there’s any doubt that Matt is going to bounce back,” said the other coaching Smith in this matchup, Atlanta’s Mike. “I know we’ve got to take care of the football. That’s the most important thing.”

The Falcons, tied for 17th in the AP Pro32 with, oddly, 1 the archrival Saints, are 6 ⁄2point favorites over No. 30 Tampa Bay. That spread is too big ... FALCONS, 23-20 Oakland (plus 14) at New England: Raiders get routed before heading across Atlantic ... BEST BET: PATRIOTS, 33-10.

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New York Jets quarterback Geno Smith prepares for a pass during Sunday’s game against Green Bay. “That’s one thing I pride him on and I think it’s going to carry this team.”

The Jets’ drive stalled after that conversion and the Packers ran out the clock to hang on for a 31-24 victory. It was a frustrating end to a game in which the Jets held an 18-point lead at one point, but Smith had them in position to tie it in the final moments.

Small consolation, as far as he is concerned.

“The fact that we went back out there and got the fourth down, that’s a positive thing,” Smith said. “We’re still fighting, but we should’ve scored. My opinion, we should’ve scored. We should’ve went down on that drive and tied it up, but we didn’t. Hats off to Green Bay, but that’s over with.

“We’ve got the Bears coming up and we’ll be ready for them.”

It took a lot for Smith to get to that point, though.

After the loss — on the flight home, the next day reviewing

film and the days before finally getting back on the field Wednesday — the missed opportunities ate away at him.

“It took me until today’s practice,” he said. “I was (ticked) off for about two days, so today’s practice allowed me to flush that out of my system and just get back to playing football.”

Smith prides himself on being able to put mistakes and losses behind him quickly, pushing forward to the next challenge. This time, though, was different.

“We lost,” he said.

“Anytime you lose, I hate losing. That’s really what happened. I was pretty upset about it.”

He finished 16 of 32 for 176 yards, including a touchdown pass to Eric Decker, and also ran for a score.

Smith also threw an interception that wasn’t entirely his fault near the goal line before halftime, a wobbly toss that came as he was hit in his legs. He missed a few

receivers who were wide open at times.

Smith remains a work in progress, a quarterback who flashes at times with terrific plays that make the Jets believe they might have something special.

There was a third-and-6 play in the third quarter when Smith spun out of what appeared to be a sure sack, found running back Bilal Powell open and flipped him the ball for a 20-yard gain. It led to a tying field goal, and was another example of a quarterback refusing to panic even when the pocket is collapsing around him.

“Last week, I learned that we’re a pretty tough team,” Smith said. “We’re pretty disciplined. We went in on the road, had a bunch of silent counts, went no huddle and the communication was great. For the most part, we played a clean game, but just didn’t come away with enough big plays to win the game.

“We’re still growing.”

ball and it slid off his shin, so Martinez, holding his position near the back of the box, tracked it down and shot it in for the goal.

“It’s a boost of confidence you could say,” Martinez, who also had two assists Wednesday, said of the win.

“I’m not trying to say this team wasn’t good enough,

they gave us a good challenge and they had good players, but for us preseason hasn’t gone too well, and this win gives us confidence and a little boost that we can win a game, we can score goals and we can get ahead.”

SWOCC, which is 3-5 overall but O-5 in NWAC play, hosts North Idaho on

Friday at 4:15 p.m. and Pierce the following Saturday at 2:15 p.m.

“We were kind of struggling really bad and this game was to pick up our confidence and play like we know how to play,” Aguilar said. “After today we know what we can do and hopefully we can take advantage of it.”

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Pac-12 chases Oregon

BY RALPH D. RUSSO

BY JOHN MARSHALL The Associated Press

PHOENIX — Three weeks into the season, No. 2 Oregon has proven to be the class of the Pac-12, a legitimate national-title contender.

Below the Ducks, the water gets a bit more murky as some teams have outperformed expectations, others have underperformed and a couple are dealing with injuries to key players.

With that in mind, we’re going to take a look at how the Pac-12’s two divisions are shaping up before the teams The Associated Press jump into their full confer- Oregon running back Byron Marshall runs for a touchdown during the ence schedules next week. second quarter against Wyoming at Autzen Stadium on Saturday.

THE NORTH Pretty much everyone is chasing the Ducks in this division.

Oregon annihilated its two lower-level opponents and notched a marquee win by outlasting No. 7 Michigan State at home.

The Ducks again are top10 in total offense (573.3 yards per game) and scoring (52.0), and have a Heisman Trophy front-runner in quarterback Marcus Mariota.

“They’re quick enough to make up for their mistakes,” said Washington State coach Mike Leach, Oregon’s opponent this week. “If somebody else makes a mistake, it might go for 15 yards. Oregon makes a mistake, it might go for six.”

The rest of the North is a little more muddled.

No. 16 Stanford is the twotime defending Pac-12 champion and, despite losing 10 starters from last season, was expected to contend for another trip to the Rose Bowl.

The Cardinal have blowout wins over UC Davis and Army so far this season, but also lost a tight game to Southern California.

The Cardinal are still in good shape with a bye this week before facing Washington.

State: The phrase Upset Alert has never been more loosely applied. Ducks have won seven straight against Cougars, scoring at least 43 Some victories can be a sign that a pro- points in each game ... OREGON 48-24. gram that has hit hard times could be heading UPSET SPECIAL for better days.

Mississippi State (plus 10) at No. 8 LSU: Florida and West Virginia are coming off Tigers have won 14 straight against Bulldogs. those types of wins.

Then there are victories that have the So Mississippi State is due, right? ... MISSISpotential to change a season, accelerate the SIPPI STATE 24-23. rebuilding process and alleviate the pressure on a coach who has been facing heavy scruti- WORTH A LOOK Virginia (plus 14) at No. 21 BYU: Long way ny.

The Gators and Mountaineers have a to go, but the mere thought of how an unbeaten BYU will be treated by playoff chance for that kind of breakselection committee makes for interesting through Saturday. Florida speculation ... BYU 27-17. is at No. 3 Alabama. West 1 Miami (plus 7 ⁄2) at No. 24 Nebraska: Virginia hosts No. 4 Hurricanes vs. Cornhuskers used to mean a Oklahoma. national championship was on the line. The The Gators are coming difference between ranked and unranked ... off a 37-30 overtime win against Kentucky. Beating the Wildcats NEBRASKA 28-20. won’t stamp Florida as a Southeastern Conference contender, but the Gators’ new BEST BET Indiana (plus 131⁄2) at No. 18 Missouri: Yet spread offense was potent. Just the cure coach Will Muschamp was hoping for after a another chance for the Big Ten to get a little credibility back, though this could be a tall 4-8 season.

“They’re all statement games,” order ... MISSOURI 42-21.

Muschamp said this week. “They’re all important. They all count for one, so we CONFERENCE CALLS No. 14 South Carolina (minus 211⁄2) at understand the importance of the game. “ West Virginia’s spread gave Alabama trou- Vanderbilt: Gamecocks finally get a breather ble in the opener, and the Mountaineers have after tough opening three games ... SOUTH followed up that encouraging performance CAROLINA 33-10. with two straight victories, including last UNRANKED BUT NOT UNINTERESTING week’s 40-37, last-second win at Maryland.

Iowa (plus 61⁄2) at Pittsburgh: Panthers Mountaineers coach Dana Holgorsen entered this season looking to reverse a trend going for first 4-0 start since 2000 ... IOWA of dwindling wins in Morgantown. Upsetting 21-20.

North Carolina (plus 2) at East Carolina: the Sooners might qualify as the biggest vicPirates try to make it two straight against the tory of his four-year tenure.

ACC. With a victory, could be honorary The picks: members of Coastal Division ... NORTH MARQUEE MATCHUPS CAROLINA 42-39.

Utah (plus 5) at Michigan: Wolverines No. 5 Auburn (minus 9) at No. 20 Kansas State, today: Tigers have rushed for at least can’t afford any missteps at home consider200 yards in each of last 13 games, longest ing their struggles away from the Big House active streak in FBS. Even more impressive, (7-12 under coach Brady Hoke) ... MICHIAuburn has rushed for 300 in eight of the last GAN 28-21.

Northern Illinois (plus 14) at Arkansas: 11. The magic number for the Wildcats to pull the upset is probably around 250 ... AUBURN Huskies might be able to test Razorbacks’ defense, but Arkansas’ powerful running 35-24.

No. 22 Clemson (plus 16) at No. 1 Florida game is too much to withstand ...

State: Introducing Sean Maguire, the ARKANSAS 35-17.

Seminoles’ backup quarterback who will try to keep FSU moving while Jameis Winston MISMATCHES No. 6 Texas A&M (minus 33) at SMU: serves first-half suspension ... FLORIDA Mustangs’ first game since coach June Jones STATE 34-17. stepped down ... TEXAS A&M 54-14.

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Troy (plus 391⁄2) at No. 13 Georgia: Todd last three meetings by average score of 34-10 Gurley gets two or three touchdowns and the ... ALABAMA 34-10.

No. 4 Oklahoma (minus 71⁄2) at West fourth quarter off — at least ... GEORGIA 48-7 Bowling Green (plus 26 1⁄ 2) at No. 19 Virginia: Sooners have won both meetings since Mountaineers joined Big 12 — by a com- Wisconsin: Falcons lost to Western Kentucky, then beat Indiana ... WISCONSIN bined 10 points ... OKLAHOMA 38-28 No. 2 Oregon (minus 231⁄2) at Washington 42-17.

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The Huskies are one of the harder teams to figure out.

Washington needed its defense to outlast Hawaii, then its offense to do the same against Eastern Washington before soundly beating Illinois last week. The Huskies face Georgia State this week before starting a gauntlet of Pac-12 games — Stanford, California, Oregon and Arizona State — that will likely determine where they really stand.

Oregon State and California are both 2-0, though both should get big tests this weekend; The Beavers face San Diego State and the Bears, who have doubled their win total from last season, head to the desert to face high-flying Arizona.

THE SOUTH Injuries could play a huge role in how the South ends up.

No. 12 UCLA was picked to win the division, but has not exactly been dominant, scraping past Virginia, Memphis and Texas. Worse yet, Brett Hundley, their Heisman Trophy-candidate quarterback, injured his left arm and had to leave the game against the Longhorns.

Hundley could come back

for UCLA’s Sept. 25 game against Arizona State, but ASU quarterback Taylor Kelly will not.

He injured his right foot against Colorado on Saturday and has been ruled out for the heavy-hitting matchup against the Bruins.

Junior Mike Bercovici, who has thrown 24 career passes, will start until Kelly returns.

USC looked like a playoffcaliber team when it knocked off Stanford, only to get pushed around by Boston College in its 37-31 loss last week. That dropped the Trojans eight spots in the AP poll, to No. 17.

USC is off this week before facing Oregon State.

Two other teams in the South are undefeated still: Arizona and Utah.

The Wildcats opened the season by setting a school record with 787 yards of offense, but still have plenty of questions after victories over Texas-San Antonio and Nevada.

The Utes have been an explosive offense, scoring 115 points in routs over Idaho State and Fresno State.

Utah faces a much bigger challenge against Michigan in the Big House this week.

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