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THE WORLD A jury found Charles Crum guilty of charges that he menaced four police officers on Christmas day last year. The verdict handed down last Friday means Crum, 52, of Bandon, will face up to a year in jail and a fine of up to $6,250. Sentencing is set for Sept. 16. Crum was accused of brandishing a pellet gun at four police officers at his home on Dec. 25. The police were backing up medics answering a 911 call placed by Crum. Police were called, according to the prosecution, because of an outstanding warrant that Crum had for failing to appear in court on another matter. As police were leaving, Crum allegedly swung his door open and lifted the pellet gun over his head. Police proceeded to shoot 30 to 50 bullets at Crum. He was treated for injuries at Coquille Valley Hospital. To convict on the charge of menacing, the jury needed to find that Crum put the officers in immanent fear of serious physical injury or death.
UN says Syria refugees top 2 million mark
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James Smith, brewer at Arch Rock Brewing Co. in Gold Beach, holds up his award-winning porter, which took gold in the North American Brewers Association competition in June.
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GENEVA — The civil war in Syria has forced over 2 million people out of the country and over 4 million others are displaced within its borders, making Syrians the nation with the largest number of people torn from their homes, U.N. officials said Tuesday. “Syria has become the great tragedy of this century — a disgraceful humanitarian calamity with suffering and displacement unparalleled in recent history,” U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres said, speaking about the impact of the civil war, which began as a rebellion against President Bashar Assad’s regime in March 2011. “The only solace is the humanity shown by the neighboring countries in welcoming and saving the lives of so many refugees.” Almost 5,000 citizens a day on average are flowing out of Syria, many of them with little more than the clothes they are wearing, Guterres said. What’s particularly alarming, he added, is that the number of refugees has surged by 1.8 million in just 12 months — up from almost 231,000 a SEE SYRIA | A12
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GOLD BEACH — Inside a former cabinet shop outside Gold Beach, a veteran brewer seems to have stumbled on the secrets of craft beer alchemy. Arch Rock Brewery, which poured its first beer Jan. 25, came out on top six months later at the North American Beer awards with a gold medal for its Balticstyle porter. Brewer James Smith said he’s just getting started. “We’ll hopefully hit 500 barrels this year — my hope would be to get to 1,000 the following year,” he said. Smith is no stranger to the craft beer industry, having previously worked at Uinta Brewing in Salt Lake City and Grand Teton Brewing in Victor, Idaho. He said the brewery’s success is due largely to the freedom he’s been given by
Arch Rock fills and sells growlers between 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. out of its brewery at 28779 Hunter Creek Loop, Gold Beach. The brewery also has taps in the following Coos County restaurants and taverns: High Tide Cafe, Charleston Benetti’s, Coos Bay Walt’s Pourhouse, Coos Bay Captain’s Cabin, Coos Bay Liberty Pub, North Bend North Bend Lanes, North Bend Ashworth’s Market & Deli, North Bend Mr. Zacks Restaurant & Lounge, Coquille Spruce Street Bar & Grill, Myrtle Point
owner Larry Brennan, who recruited him from Grand Teton. “It’s finally been my chance to branch out and do my own thing,” Smith said. Despite setting up shop in a region
known for heavily hopped pale and India pale ales, Smith said he wasn’t worried about marketing a porter. “In my mind, I saw how much Black Butte was out there,” he said, referring to a popular porter from Bend’s Deschutes Brewery. He was right. Ethan Tobin, who co-owns North Bend’s Liberty Pub with his wife Karen, said that while he sells more draft IPA than any other style of beer, the Arch Rock porter has been a close second — even in the middle of summer. In addition to the porter, Arch Rock is currently brewing a lager, a pale ale and a witbier. Smith said the pale is slightly hoppier than the many regional pale ales, but less hoppy than many full-fledged IPAs brewed in the Pacific Northwest. SEE ARCH ROCK | A12
Students across U.S. return to the classrooms
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WASHINGTON — Schools and classrooms are spiffed up — maybe. New textbooks have been ordered — perhaps. Teachers are energized — hopefully. What’s certain is that millions of children in the United States are heading to school after the summer. Many are there for the first time, while others are in the final year of their formal education. There will be tears, from some prekindergarten and kindergarten
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youngsters starting school, and from parents as they leave their new college students at the dorm. Statistics make clear that those with college degrees generally will do better than their peers who do not graduate and that those who drop out from high school face an even more dismal future. As the school year begins, some facts and figures about education in America:
How many students are there? The National Center for Education Statistics estimated that in 2013, 50.1 million children will be enrolled in U.S. public schools and
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5.2 million will be in private school. That doesn’t include students who are home-schooled. The Education Department’s statistics arm also estimated there were 1.5 million U.S. students home-schooled in 2007; advocates of home schooling advocates put the number higher. Enrollment in colleges and universities was estimated to reach a record 21.8 million this fall, according to NCES, the Education Department’s statistics arm.
Who’s teaching them? There are about 3.3 million elementary and secondary public teachers in 2013, leading to a stu-
dent teacher ratio of 15-to-1, NCES said. The average teacher in a public school earned about $56,000 for the school year that ended in 2011, according to the agency. When adjusted for inflation, that salary is only 3 percent higher than it was for the year that ended in the spring of 1991.
What about spending on kids? Teacher salaries are just part of the total spent on educating children. All told, NCES says $591 billion will be spent during the new school year. That breaks down to an average $11,810 for each student.
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What are students being taught? The buzz word these days is Common Core. The Common Core State Standards establish benchmarks for student learning in math and reading. Forty-five states and the District of Columbia have adopted the standards, which critics decry as tantamount to a national curriculum. Supporters counter that the standards are necessary to ensure that high school graduates are ready for college or career. SEE STUDENTS | A12
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