9 month old pees (some times poops) in crate

Have you tried changing the substance of the bedding or taking it away entirely?  Dogs connect pottying with the surface they go on, if he goes in his crate a lot then just being in there will stimulate him to go and it's a hard cycle to break. 

If I were you I would construct a safe, dog proof area to leave him in when you go out and have the crate open inside it.  This way he is still protected from destroying your house or eating something harmful but he's not forced to go in his crate.  Quadruple the value of the treat he gets for going outside to give him an incentive to wait until you get back to let him out.  I like to use liver cake - it's smelly and disgusting and most dogs go mad for it.

Have you tried doing a forum search?  A lot of people have posted with this problem or similar ones.
 
ETA - Example, "House training expectations?" (in this section) contains some info relevant to your situation I think.  [linkhttp://forum.dog.com/asp/tm.asp?m=239648]http://forum.dog.com/asp/tm.asp?m=239648[/link]

There are a lot better trainers on this site than I am but I know what I'd do: If the crate is the only place he has accidents and if he's already good when in the house alone I'd try keeping him in the kitchen using baby gates. If he doesn't pee in there while you're gone then the problem is solved.
 

I have tried changing the bedding but he doesn't seem to care.  I can't use babygates because he can jump over them and I have another dog that stays out upstairs so he would destroy the gate to get to her.

Dog gate?  Different dimensions, taller, most dogs can't leap over them.

Well, you're not crating him for very long so there should be no physical reason for him to soil the crate. Do you make sure that he potties before you leave? Does he only do it while you're out of the house? If the answer to both questions is yes you might want to consider separation anxiety as the cause....

Definitely remove the bedding!  Dogs learn really quick that bedding will absorb the mess, he may still do it once or twice after the bedding is removed, so be prepared to give him some baths.  But he should soon learn that he's going to have to sit or lay in a puddle if he continues to do that and it should stop him.

Have you been crate training this dog since 6 wks of age?  If the dog is hardly ever crated (left in the house at night, often left in the house during 1-2 hour periods of absences) then perhaps it's foreign to him and he hates it?  We crated from the get-go for periods of absence, overnight, to keep him out of the way while we're home, etc.  At 8 wks he wasn't overly found of it, but he got used to it because we use it every single day.  If the dog hardly spends time in his crate, he doesn't necessarily come to regard it as his den or his bedroom and if he doesn't regard it as the former, that might explain why he pees in it?  The idea is to use the crate regularly, aka a lot, so it's his special place, as opposed to a rare cage you use intermittenly.