June 22, 2008

LOCAL & STATE

• An artifact collector - with little collection left
• Biker leads police officers on a three-town chase at 100 mph
• Births
• Driver accused in pedestrian death
• Environmentalists aim to stretch burn ban past the Olympic trials
• Fire causes $25,000 damage to Bend home
• Floods add to food markets' stress
• Fraley
• Gallion — Enright
• Grasshoppers raise worries in state’s east
• Historic buildings, carefully kept up, open to the public
• Immigrant gets 75 years in sexual abuse of 5 kids
• LNG project seeks to halt competition
• Newborn’s suffocation prompts a warning
• News of Record: Deeds
• Plans proceed for new Sisters post office site
• Rutherford
• Selling used books the old-fashioned way
• To go or not to go, that is the question as folks eye travel’s costs
• Washburn — Barrett

BUSINESS

• A shift that seems to be sticking
• As costs skyrocket in China, manufacturers look to Vietnam
• Building a better browser: Firefox keeps innovating
• Data demand puts engineers in spotlight
• Delta trims Salt Lake service from Salem
• Floods add to food markets' stress
• Keep wheels clean without elbow grease
• Microsoft adds 11,200 employees — a record
• News of Record: Deeds
• Selling used books the old-fashioned way
• Summer suits you
• Top mileage just got better
• Wal-Mart rolls back another price - that of its own energy bill
• Why not diesel and electric?
• 30-year mortgage rates jump to 6.42%

SPORTS

• Angels’ Saunders gets 11th victory
• Benefit ride
• C.O. players shine in Les Schwab Bowl
• Divers earn spots on U.S. Olympic team
• Edwards shoves his way to a Milwaukee victory
• Elks win a pair at home
• Georgia reaches CWS final
• Golf Scoreboard
• Hamm makes U.S. gymnastics squad
• In High Desert Dash, driven by team spirit
• Jockey is hurt, horse put down at Churchill Downs race
• Match over
• NBA draft likely to finally separate Stanford’s twins
• NHRA driver killed in crash In Brief
• Norwegian takes lead in Wegmans LPGA
• On the Air
• Russia advances to semis in Euro 2008
• Scoreboard
• Spaniard wins his first title on grass

OBITS

• Allen ‘Red’ Gagnon ran well-known seafood shack
• Death Notices
• Gene Persson, film and theater producer
• Henry Chadwick an expert on early Christianity
• Hewitt Crane rose with early computer industry
• Michael Shernoff wrote about the emotional toll of the early AIDS epidemic
• Scott Michael Hailey

CENTRAL OREGON OBITS

• Death Notices
• Scott Michael Hailey

NATION & WORLD

• Afghanistan deaths may pass Iraq’s again
• An artifact collector - with little collection left
• Battle for Okinawa ends in Allied victory in 1945
• Battle looms over ‘death with dignity’ initiative
• Boy turns in birthday bike as stolen in 1983
• Calls for change ignored, levees remain patchwork
• Dentist, 90, ready to cap his long career with a hug or two
• Heat wave strains Southern California
• Housing rescue may be final chance for bargaining
• Inside the interrogation of a 9/11 mastermind
• Mugabe: Opposition lies about violence
• Near L.A., not your usual Chinatown
• Obama calls McCain out on tax cuts, infrastructure
• Olympic torch parades through a heavily guarded Tibet
• Refueling can hit credit card limits
• Rice plans N. Korea trip, sees sign of cooperation
• Rural town worries as water’s sold downriver
• Showdown looms a day before Saudi oil summit
• South Korea, U.S. agree to limited beef imports
• Typhoon kills 80 in Philippines
• U.S. close to goal on refugees
• U.S. zoos unravel the Golden Years
• Washington Lottery pulls its candy-themed tickets

FEATURES

• A taste of Europe — on cruise control
• An everlasting connection
• At Georgia Aquarium, guests swim with the whale sharks
• Fine food, music, a dash of strategy
• Gray Line of Seattle culinary tours begin
• Newborn’s suffocation prompts a warning
• News of Record: Reunions, Military Notes, College Notes and Youth Notes
• Photo synthesis
• Ready for fireworks?
• Ripley’s Marvelous Mirror Maze opens
• To go or not to go, that is the question as folks eye travel’s costs

ENTERTAINMENT

• An everlasting connection
• Best-selling books
• Calendar
• Carell hosts charity ‘Smart’ screening
• Diamond B Wranglers to perform in Sisters
• Father, son bond in ‘The Film Club’
• Fine food, music, a dash of strategy
• I love what you didn’t do to your chipped nails
• It’s back to Wal-Mart for author’s fourth novel
• Naomi Campbell guilty, avoids jail in rage case
• Outlandish plots and fierce thrills abound
• Rapper Young Jeezy charged with DUI
• Redundancy good, redundancy bad
• Scrapbook examines Frank Sinatra’s life
• Store sales to benefit Historical Society
• ‘Traces of the Trade:’ A tale from the deep north
• Ultimate Bond girl cashes in

OPINION

• A not very private feud over terrorism
• Answers for Iraq still inscrutable
• Don’t retrofit women for cultural whims and ideas
• Internet sellers cheat states by dodging sales taxes
• Keep recreation fees
• Learning from H.L. Mencken
• Let faith guide your vote
• Stop tax-grabbers before they devastate e-commerce
• Wait on bus advertising
• What's Obama's change, really?
• Why not diesel and electric?

ROADS & TRAFFIC

• To go or not to go, that is the question as folks eye travel’s costs