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Track & field: Class 5A Special District 1 Meet

Redmond boys and Summit girls prevail

• The Panthers top defending state champion Summit on the boys side; Storm girls claim eighth straight title

May 19, 2013 4:00 am

REDMOND — There was no way that medal was coming off Gabe Giacci’s neck. After missing out on the state track meet by a single place in each of the previous two years, Giacci, Redmond’s colorful senior thrower, won the boys discus....MORE

Golf roundup

Bradley maintains lead at Byron Nelson

May 19, 2013 4:00 am

IRVING, Texas — Keegan Bradley still hasn’t gotten things right on the 18th hole at the Byron Nelson Championship, even when finally going left. The bogeys on the closing hole at TPC Four Seasons haven’t cost him the lead yet.....MORE

Plank by plank, infamous cabin gets a new home

May 19, 2013 4:00 am

EDISTO ISLAND, S. C. — The floors creaked. The walls swayed in a strong breeze. Rot and termites had destroyed parts of the rickety structure built before the Civil War. But when curators from the Smithsonian's new African-American history....MORE

U.S. Paralympic Team members take on the PPP The PPP, at a glance

May 19, 2013 4:00 am

Members of the U. S. Paralympic Team competed in Saturday’s U. S. Bank Pole Pedal Paddle while in Central Oregon for a training camp at Mt. Bachelor ski area. Legally blind athlete Kevin Burton, of Boulder, Colo., crossed the finish line at....MORE

Sarah Max comes from behind to defeat Zoe Roy and take her third career women’s title

May 19, 2013 4:00 am

When Zoe Roy passed Sarah Max under the Bill Healy Memorial Bridge during the 5-mile run stage of Saturday’s U. S. Bank Pole Pedal Paddle, Max thought the race was over.“I really just kind of accepted that I was going to finish second,"....MORE

PPP rookie Santiago Ocariz wins after passing five-time winner Marshall Greene late in the race

May 19, 2013 4:00 am

Santiago Ocariz paddled his sleek kayak upstream on the Deschutes River, less than 10 feet behind Marshall Greene, waiting for the right moment as crowds of eager onlookers gathered on the footbridge above. Ocariz surged past Greene near the end of....MORE

Burned church faces long road

May 19, 2013 4:00 am

Nearly three months after a string of fires near downtown Bend, Trinity Episcopal Church is finding the process of rebuilding more daunting than previously thought. In the early morning hours of March 6, an arsonist or arsonists burned Trinity....MORE

Scoreboard

May 19, 2013 4:00 am

ON DECKTuesdayBoys lacrosse: Bend at Jesuit in OHSLA playoffs second round, 7 p. m. WednesdayBaseball: Pendleton at Bend in first round of Class 5A state playoffs, 4:30; Liberty at Redmond in first round of Class 5A state playoffs, 5 p. m.; Astoria at....MORE

In Obama’s style, seeing a paradox

May 19, 2013 4:00 am

President Barack Obama’s professed ignorance of the targeting of conservatives by one government agency and his support of tracking journalists’ sources by another highlight one of the great paradoxes of his presidency: Sometimes he....MORE

Youth compete to build the best wind turbine

May 19, 2013 4:00 am

PRINEVILLE — On an otherwise calm Saturday morning, the wind inside the gym at Crook County Middle School was howling. The Prineville school hosted Oregon's first ever KidWind, a competition where students are challenged to design and build....MORE

Impasse in Salem

Sticking point: PERS

May 19, 2013 4:00 am

SALEM — The political talking points coming from both sides of the aisle ring familiar: Both parties want to see a more robust education budget and each blames the other for the inability to strike a grand bargain. On Friday, Oregon Democratic....MORE

Today

May 19, 2013 4:00 am

It's Sunday, May 19, the 139th day of 2013. There are 226 days left in the year. HistoryHighlight: In 1943, in his second wartime address to the U. S. Congress, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill pledged his country's full support in the fight....MORE

In perspective

What are the odds? For Powerball, abysmal

May 19, 2013 4:00 am

With the majority of possible combinations of Powerball numbers in play, someone is almost sure to win the game's highest jackpot, a windfall of hundreds of millions of dollars — and that's after taxes. The problem, of course, is those same....MORE

Nation & World Briefs

May 19, 2013 4:00 am

Train accident — The commuter train derailment and collision that left dozens injured in Connecticut was not the result of foul play, officials said Saturday, but a fractured section of rail is being studied to determine if it is connected to....MORE

News Q&A

May 19, 2013 4:00 am

Q: There have been numerous reports about shortages of various types of ammunition. Is it possible this shortage is related to the billions of rounds of ammo purchased by the Department of Homeland Security?A: Several members of Congress, including....MORE

May Election

Timber counties at a crossroads

May 19, 2013 4:00 am

The Associated PressO'BRIEN — The last sawmill in Josephine County has closed its doors. “What they tell me is one door closes and another door opens," said Ron Hults, 50, who has no idea what he will do after working there for 18 years. ....MORE

Washington Week

May 19, 2013 4:00 am

WASHINGTON — The Senate unanimously confirmed Ernest Moniz as the next Secretary of Energy on Thursday. President Barack Obama nominated Moniz, a professor of physics and engineering systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to....MORE

Oregon briefs

May 19, 2013 4:00 am

Hydroelectric plan — Baker County commissioners have approved a contact with a firm that will complete the necessary paperwork to build a hydroelectric power plant southwest of Baker City. The Baker City Herald reports the county plans to....MORE

Deaths elsewhere

May 19, 2013 4:00 am

Deaths of note from around the world:William Miles, 82: Self-taught filmmaker whose documentaries revealed untold stories of black America, including those of its heroic black soldiers and of life in its signature neighborhood, Harlem, where he....MORE

Northwest Travel

Tons (and tons) of fun

May 19, 2013 4:00 am

PORTLAND — When Packy the Pachyderm was born at the Oregon Zoo in 1962, the event reverberated through the international community of animal lovers. Packy was the first Asian elephant conceived and born in North America since the waning days of ....MORE

A taste of the wild in Big Sky country

May 19, 2013 4:00 am

BIG SKY, Mont. — This place is absurdly misnamed. That's not a complaint, but it does require an asterisk. If you want truly big sky, head east of here, to the flatter, slightly more mundane plains of this state (or, say, eastern Colorado,....MORE

TV spotlight

'SNL' loses Hader, possibly others

May 19, 2013 4:00 am

With just one departure, “Saturday Night Live" is losing its excitable “Weekend Update" city correspondent, Stefon; its frenetic incarnations of James Carville, Al Pacino, Vincent Price and Julian Assange; and any number of unctuous,....MORE

‘Autistic brain’ a trudge to the roots of autism

May 19, 2013 4:00 am

“The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum" by Temple Grandin and Richard Panek (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 256 pgs. $28)Much of autism’s mystery and fascination lies in a paradox: On one hand, autism seems to create a profound....MORE

An artist transformed

May 19, 2013 4:00 am

“Bad Boy: My Life Onand Off the Canvas" by Eric Fischl and Michael Stone(Crown, 368 pgs., $26)A few words of warning to the Hamptons socialites and view-to-the-ocean magnates who mingle with the artist Eric Fischl on their summer rounds:....MORE

Catching up on the basics of fuel injection

May 19, 2013 4:00 am

Q: I’m hoping you can bring an old-timer up to speed on fuel injection. I used to be pretty good at fixing things but hadn’t even considered trying to work on this one. I’d feel better driving if I had an idea what’s going on ....MORE

Deeds

May 19, 2013 4:00 am

Deschutes County• Susan Backstrom to Burke W. and Kimberly L. Muggoch, West Hills, Lot 5, Block 7, $421,000• Daniel A. and Rebecca S. Christ to Dennis K. and Carrie R. Detberner, Mt. Vista First Addition, Lots 3 and 4, Block 1, $300,....MORE

The long shadow of bad credit in a job hunt

May 19, 2013 4:00 am

The first couple of times Alfred Carpenter was turned down for a job, he didn’t know what to think. He been laid off early in the recession and then had the bad fortune of tearing tendons in his knee just when he didn’t have health....MORE

The trek to a yogurt less sweet

May 19, 2013 4:00 am

WHITE PLAINS, N. Y. — Dannon yogurt had a secret it didn’t want you to know. Until recently. Its Danimals Smoothies, a line of yogurt drinks in Technicolor packaging for the pint-sized set, have gotten a little bit healthier. Since....MORE

Review

Challenger has retro attitude

May 19, 2013 4:00 am

The 2013 Dodge Challenger lives up to the muscle car standards it has been setting since the 1970s, starting with the retro-styled exterior and, depending on the model, a beast of an engine under the hood. Among its cool design features are a....MORE

The least taxing state: Delaware

• Oregon has second-lowest business tax, Alaska highest, says economic group report

May 19, 2013 4:00 am

Overall business taxes are lowest in Delaware and highest in Alaska, according to a study from economic consulting firm Anderson Economic Group. But how much company pays depends on the kind of business it is. Businesses in Delaware paid 5.1 percent....MORE

Death notices

May 19, 2013 4:00 am

Ardith "Bonnie" Yvonne Baldwin, of BendJune 20, 1940 - May 12, 2013Arrangements: Autumn Funerals, Bend 541-318-0842 www. autumnfunerals. netServices: A Memorial Service will be held on Saturday, May 25, 2013 at 1:00 PM at Christian Life Center,....MORE

Patricia Pat Joan Funk

May 19, 2013 4:00 am

Dec. 17, 1932 - May 10, 2013Patricia Pat J. Funk of Bend, Oregon, passed away peacefully on Friday, May 10, with friends and family by her side. She was 80 years old. Pat was born in San Jose, California, to Jack Dundon and his wife, Grace Murray....MORE

Diane L. McGivern

May 19, 2013 4:00 am

July 8, 1945 - May 13, 2013Diane L. McGivern, a Bend resident, passed away peacefully on Monday, May 13, 2013, at her home. She was 67. Diane was born in Mansfield, Ohio, on July 8, 1945, to Alfred and Freida Klein. She graduated from Mansfield....MORE

Johnson — Abel

May 19, 2013 4:00 am

Ashley Johnson and Zachary Abel, both of Redmond, plan to marry Sept. 21 in Madras. The future bride is the daughter of Alan and Delight Johnson, of Burns. She is a 2010 graduate of Burns High School and is studying early childhood educationat....MORE

Habitat seeks applicants

May 19, 2013 4:00 am

The Bend Area Habitat for Humanity is seeking families for its homeownership program in Bend. The organization is hosting a Homeownership Interest Session at 5:30 p. m. Tuesday and noon Friday at the Bend Area Habitat Office, 860 N. E. 4th St., Bend.....MORE

Conversation set to discuss arson

May 19, 2013 4:00 am

Several local churches, religious groups and social justice organizations plan a community conversation at 3:15 p. m. Thursday so residents can discuss prejudice, hatred and healing in the wake of the early March arson attacks on several downtown....MORE

Nature of Words is keeping busy amid changes

May 19, 2013 4:00 am

The Nature of Words (NOW), the nonprofit literary education center and festival based in Bend, recently made several announcements. In late April, Stephen Archer resigned after two years as president of the NOW board. Kristin Kovalik, previously the ....MORE

Steele

May 19, 2013 4:00 am

Oliver Paul Steele III, of Bend, celebrated his 90th birthday with a soiree hosted by his family at the Shilo Inn in Bend. Mr. Steele was born May 13, 1923. He has been married to Bonnie Steele for 68 years. He has three children, Penny (and Thomas)....MORE

Pisani

May 19, 2013 4:00 am

Richard and Jeanne (Bullock) Pisani, of Bend, will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary with a dinner Aug. 3 in San Ramon, Calif. The couple were married Aug. 3, 1963, at Bethany Lutheran Church in Berkeley, Calif. They have three children, Mitch,....MORE

Lady Liberty is worth a look

May 19, 2013 4:00 am

Q: With the Ellis Island Immigration Museum not reopening in 2013, what is there to see on the island? Is it worth the expensive ferry trip?A: The museum has always been the high point of that trip for me, and you are correct, it’s not....MORE