July 05, 2008

LOCAL & STATE

• Ancient tusk found in Umpqua River
• 2 arrested in Tumalo break-in, assault
• As the fire season heats up, so does the dispatch center
• Bend police seek driver
• Best view in town?
• Dam begins to come down on Rogue River
• 4 die in early-morning Milwaukee shooting
• Firefighters continue to fight area blazes
• Golf carts may become newest part of Prineville’s fleet in bid to save fuel
• Hops like a fox
• Jogger rapist in protective custody
• Local firefighters train for hard-to-reach blazes
• Making two grass blades grow
• News of Record: Police log, pets at shelters
• Oregon company prepares for more electric vehicles
• Pendleton officer cleared in shooting
• Police seeking driver of truck from hit-and-run
• Redmond schools are harnessing community expertise
• Regionwide bus routes to test demand
• Rescuers unable to recover body in Rogue River rapids
• School garden project vandalized
• Sisters, state fight correct ‘impressions’
• U.S. agent monitored pesticide protest, called Eugene police
• What’s Going Up

BUSINESS

• A town’s City Hall mislocated during construction
• Assists keep coming for basketball legend
• Avatars that play dress-up
• $52B Bell Canada deal salvaged
• Google relents to privacy advocates
• Merrill Lynch may sell stake in Bloomberg
• New bookstore opens; profit not required
• Shopping slowdown has bright side: sales
• What’s Going Up

SPORTS

• Baseball makes a quick comeback in China
• Bend fizzles in final inning of home defeat
• Bend’s Madson reaches semis
• Cubs widen gap in NL Central with win
• Favorites move on in 200 prelims
• Golf scoreboard
• Hamlin takes Nationwide Series race
• Nadal, Federer set for Wimbledon final
• On the Air
• Overton is unlikely leader in PGA tournament field
• Running on the Fourth
• Scoreboard
• Sports festival needs volunteers
• Without many cycling stars, Tour de France starts today

OBITS

• Jules Tygiel a historian with a passion for baseball
• Sen. Jesse Helms a powerful, polarizing conservative force
• Victor Remer guided child aid society

NATION & WORLD

• A second generation of airships?
• A town’s City Hall mislocated during construction
• 2 arrested in Washington state killing
• At upcoming G-8 meeting, a search for direction in a drifting economy
• Auction house to sell Rosa Parks collection
• Baseball makes a quick comeback in China
• Betancourt details her captivity
• Blast at concert injures dozens in Belarus
• Bush lauds Jefferson at Monticello visit
• Champ retains hot-dog eating title in overtime
• Feds question if oil, gas rules apply to them
• GOP tiptoeing on Bush, plans for the convention
• Iran’s response to incentives against nukes called positive
• McDonald’s decision prompts boycott
• More California homes threatened
• N.Y. Sikhs protest attack on girl, 12
• Satellite to research how clouds, particles heat Earth
• Scientist says Pakistan knew of nuclear deal
• Statue of Liberty’s crown may reopen
• Teen charged with putting vote on eBay
• The bikini makes its debut in 1946
• Tortoise returned after 2½ weeks on the lam
• UK court: Pringles are potato-light, tax-free
• U.S. is unprepared for possible asteroid strike, scientists say
• U.S. troops in Iraq celebrate Fourth of July by re-enlisting

FEATURES

• Avatars that play dress-up
• Praying in the name of Jesus
• Rachel Ray employee claims anorexia bias
• Religion in Brief
• Serotonin might be key to SIDS
• Vacation Bible school is new and improved
• Wyden asks VA to allow voter drives at its clinics

ENTERTAINMENT

• A highlight for Paisley: working with Griffith
• Avatars that play dress-up
• Ben Franklin, Betsy Ross actors wed in Philadelphia
• Bend author will give free reading at library
• Calendar
• Clear Summer Nights tickets now available
• ‘Family Guy’: a funny but oh-so-wrong view of life
• Holiday fun, for pets and their people, too
• Just how close are Madonna and A-Rod?
• Library users can download videos
• Movie Times
• New bookstore opens; profit not required
• Poet and memoirist Judith Barrington will lead two workshops at this year’s The Nature of Words
• Rachel Ray employee claims anorexia bias
• Sports festival needs volunteers

OPINION

• City knew shelter decision was wrong
• Homeless need the support and shelter of Shepherd’s House
• Sisters, state fight correct ‘impressions’

ROADS & TRAFFIC

• Regionwide bus routes to test demand