May 08, 2008

LOCAL & STATE

• 2 Bend lots still will allow 2 free hours of parking
• Car buyers are thinking small
• Colleges allowing coed dorm rooms
• Controlled burn set for Friday in La Pine
• Culver police chief’s trial set for Sept. 24
• Deschutes default notices are soaring
• Development fee increase could benefit public safety
• Diagnosing a mystery
• Downtown Redmond debates ideas on how to create ‘a fresh new look’
• Fire guts mobile home in Juniper Acres
• In protest, homeless people camp at Portland City Hall
• 1 killed in Scappoose crash with school bus
• Landmark restaurant destroyed by fire
• Near Prineville, another case of poisoned birds has feds investigating
• News of record: Deeds
• News of Record: Police log, Bend fire runs
• Obama counting on big Oregon win
• Obama to campaign in Bend
• Outdoors enthusiasts pass through a surreal urban landscape
• 2 plans in works for timber money
• Proposed bus service reduction protested
• Retreat helps seniors put best feet forward
• Sheriff plans to host open house in La Pine
• Shriners offer free orthopedic screenings
• Your water bill

BUSINESS

• A new type of farm calls Midwest home
• Airline workers voice concerns about merger
• American Airlines ranked last for on-time arrivals in March
• Business Calendar
• Car buyers are thinking small
• Car insurance rates are starting to rise
• Cherry harvest down with the temperatures
• Count to 5 before you send the last mortgage check
• Deschutes default notices are soaring
• Development fee increase could benefit public safety
• Downtown Redmond debates ideas on how to create ‘a fresh new look’
• Drivers are in the dark on tires, gas mileage
• Driving differently can help save gas
• HP says it’s undecided on job cuts in Corvallis
• Little-known firm played crucial role in financial rescue
• Microsoft helps in gathering of digital evidence
• News of record: Deeds
• Oil giants to settle lawsuit for $423M
• Paulson says credit crisis may be fading
• Pope & Talbot’s creditor protection extended
• Productivity rises
• Sprint-Clearwire deal paves way for WiMax
• Stocks retreat as oil nears $124 a barrel
• The big college choice: Prestige or affordability?
• UBS banker detained in tax investigation
• U.S. pending home sales drop in March
• Video game steals a record

SPORTS

• Billy Chinook bull trout on a fly? It's electric
• By the numbers
• Cashing in pikeminnows
• Coming Attractions
• Controlled hunt applications have May 15 deadline
• Crosby content to be a playmaker
• Diamondbacks blow late leads, fall to Phillies
• Even NASCAR isn’t immune to high gas prices
• Ex-Patriots assistant sends tapes to the NFL
• Ferrero upsets Nadal at Rome tournament
• Finding bulls
• Flashback
• Fly-tying corner
• Honor roll
• Hunting & fishing events calendar
• Legendary bullrider embarks on his PBR farewell tour
• Madras to lose assistant coaches
• Many Central Oregon lakes still inaccessible
• Maple Leafs fires coach Paul Maurice
• Muted crowds return to Churchill Downs
• On the Air
• Prineville Reservoir boat ramp set to open
• Qualifying tournaments hit area as state looms
• Safe at second
• Sneckner, Hamel finish first, second at IMC
• TPC Sawgrass is a course for all players — except Tiger
• Warmer temperatures create better hunting opportunities
• Wickiup anglers finding success for kokanee

OBITS

• Alvin Colt was Tony-winning Broadway costume designer
• Gary ‘Gumpy’ S Gumpert
• Ilyas Malayev, 72, was Uzbek musician, poet
• James S. Czmowski
• June Rose Allwein
• McKinsey starred in daytime soap operas
• Polish Olympian won gold in 1972
• Public TV innovator John Iselin dies at 74

NATION & WORLD

• A nest with a view
• 11 activists beaten to death in Zimbabwe
• Alaskan leaves U.S. House race
• At 60, Israel redefines roles for itself — and for Jews the world over
• 2008 Beijing Olympics: Chinese mountaineers take torch to Everest’s peak
• Bush dismisses Castro’s reforms
• Cherry harvest down with the temperatures
• Clinton supporters wavering
• Clinton’s route getting tougher
• CO2 pollution may hurt koalas in Australia
• Colombia extradites paramilitary warlord
• Columbia sea lions not shot to death, exam indicates
• Cyclone’s toll could reach 100,000
• EPA’s top adviser defends boss’s call
• Ex-detainee carried out suicide attack in Iraq
• Genome confirms it: Platypus looks weird on the inside as well
• How S. Korea’s finest get to the Ivy League
• Humanitarian woes grow in Sadr City
• Japan, China agree to strengthen ties
• Lebanese clashes threaten fragile calm
• McCain responds to temper queries
• Medvedev takes office from Putin as leader of Russia
• Nevada flood victims seek to block canal flows
• Old Fort Lewis barracks get face-lift amid $2.8B project
• Police discuss tactics for college drug bust
• Proposed bus service reduction protested
• Roseburg boy, 16, indicted in fatal crash
• Rulings from Oregon Court of Appeals clarify DUII laws
• Senate defeats bill for wind coverage
• Sharpton arrested in protest of police
• Sleeping giant?
• State fines company over asbestos removal
• Student may file suit for his trashed flag
• TV pundits pronounce judgment: It’s all over
• U.S. lags in green survey
• U.S.-Iran talks look increasingly unlikely
• Veto threat hampers Congress’ housing relief
• White pelicans return to Montana
• WWII ends in Europe in 1945

FEATURES

• A heart, brain disease link?
• A mound of trouble
• Abdominal crunch
• Affordable malaria drug is in the works
• Asleep while on the job ...
• Cascade Healthcare has a rough 2007
• Check out the medical database MIB for your insurance information
• Deciphering a smoothie
• Diagnosing a mystery
• Dutch Bros. sales to help ALS research
• Group announces cancer survivor camp
• Health Datebook
• Identifying sleep apnea risks
• Milk matters
• New reason to eat your greens
• People
• Pharmacists aren’t just drug dispensers
• Retreat helps seniors put best feet forward
• Should I stretch out before or after exercise?
• Shriners offer free orthopedic screenings
• Stomach flu in kids is spreading locally
• ‘Tap’ into a different variety of push-ups
• The healthy-food addiction
• 5 things you may not know about cold sores
• Walk (or fidget) off the weight
• You name the issue, exercise may help it

ENTERTAINMENT

• Calendar
• Dutch Bros. sales to help ALS research
• Group announces cancer survivor camp
• HBO turns Florida’s embarrassment from 2000 vote into a funny movie
• J.K. Rowling wins privacy case appeal
• Lava Lands Visitor Center now open
• Lohan honor brings bad press to mommy group
• Saxophonist Rollins to headline jazz fest
• Video game steals a record
• Winehouse arrested in connection with drugs

OPINION

• Billy Chinook bull trout on a fly? It's electric
• Compress elections
• End sour deal for our sugar
• Pull plug on water panel
• Support Redmond bond
• Vote for Obama
• Vote for the candidate you want in the driver’s seat

ROADS & TRAFFIC

• Proposed bus service reduction protested