August 15, 2008

LOCAL & STATE

• A bigger downtown for Sisters?
• A blast from the past
• Al Moody Park dedicated in Bend
• Art exhibits
• BEAT to bring holiday classic to Tower
• Bend woman hurt in Highway 20 accident
• Campaign Calendar
• Caught at sunset
• Clinton to get roll-call vote at the convention
• COCC disc golf course temporarily closed
• Crews let fires burn in Ochoco forest
• David Elijah Steele
• DEQ gets tough on chemical site
• Deschutes County will allow trash rate hike
• Dispatches
• Family Calendar
• Fans can meet the Ewings at a ‘Dallas’ family reunion
• Federal court rejects challenge to domestic partnership law
• Female suicide bomber kills 20
• Gates warns of threat to U.S.-Russian relationship
• Getting to know you
• GO! Magazine
• Good, free, outdoor music everywhere!
• Grand jury to take up man’s beating death
• Heat wave to move in for the weekend
• In Africa, fertility clinics give hope to the stigmatized
• In Colorado, McCain touts his national security credentials
• In the Sahara, Stone Age graves reveal the region’s greener days
• Industrial steamroller art demo planned
• Jackson Browne sues McCain over song use
• Japan announces surrender in 1945
• Japanese, if you please
• Judge bans general from Guantanamo trial role
• Jump-starting U.S. infrastructure
• Lawyers’ ties in Edwards case suggest extent of hiding affair
• Local artist’s painting in juried exhibition
• Marcella Luman
• Memorial planned for copter crash victims
• Men are more likely to adopt, report finds
• Mount Angel police investigate stabbings
• Mount Washington Wilderness fire grows
• Munch & Music takes a final summer spin
• Musharraf set to resign, officials say
• Music releases: Alice Cooper
• Music releases: Black Kids
• Music releases: Black Sabbath
• Music releases: Buddy Guy
• Music releases: Candlebox
• Music releases: CSS
• Music releases: Miley Cyrus
• Music releases: Rick Springfield
• Music releases: Sugarland
• Music releases: Tony Rice
• New allegations raised against jogger rapist
• News of Record: Police Log, Bend Fire Runs, Stolen Vehicles and Pets
• Nigeria turns over disputed territory
• Nike swimmers wear Speedo suit, cover logo
• Obama doesn’t want Kilpatrick in Denver
• Obama urges feedlot to recognize union
• Out of town
• Paraguay to inaugurate ex-bishop as president
• Planning ahead
• Portraits of the world
• Prices bring energy boom back where it started
• Puzzle, Crayola markers brighten the imagination
• R you ready?
• Racist, homophobic speech OK, court says
• Restaurant Guide
• Russia adamant on the disputed separatist areas
• Savor the flavor
• Sensor network uses GPS to track geologic motion
• Shipe releases 8th CD, plays at Silver Moon
• Sometimes, horses are the best therapy
• State fire crews brace for a busy weekend
• State GOP will seek repeal of ethanol law
• State is seeking lower emissions from coal plant
• Stellar cast shines in modern-day fairy tale
• Stevens questions FBI authority in corruption case
• Story times, library youth events for Aug. 15-21
• Talks, classes, museums & libraries
• Teacher is accused of soliciting girl online
• 2 testify meds weren’t enough to cause overdose
• The Bulletin seeks student columnists
• The circus visits Idaho
• The Machine cancels Tower Theatre show
• ‘There may be more to it,’ officer says of cyclist death
• This week
• U.S. highway crashes kill more than 41,000 in ’07
• U.S., Poland set missile deal
• Work to restrict traffic on Murphy Road
• Year’s first cases of West Nile recorded
• You know them, but did you know them as spies?
• Youth choir auditions set for Aug. 28
• Yo-Yo Ma
• Zimbabwe opposition leader’s passport held

BUSINESS

• A bigger downtown for Sisters?
• Banks settle securities market investigation
• BMW betting on a hybrid of a different ilk
• Business Calendar
• Central Oregon fuel prices
• Dispatches
• ‘Dream’ phone with Google software to be available via T-Mobile in ‘08
• FAA wants to fine American $7.1 million
• Living costs rising; wages can’t keep up
• Median home prices fall in most of U.S.
• Newspaper giant plans to cut 1,000 jobs
• Nordstrom profit falls
• Sale of drilling rights sets onshore record
• Shipping problem plagues Netflix
• Shopping for a motorcycle or scooter? Here are some things to keep in mind
• Small bites
• State GOP will seek repeal of ethanol law
• Wal-Mart says profit up 17%, raises outlook

SPORTS

• A river trail with many faces and a chance to sample them
• After a strong 2007 Tradition, Texan is back in the hunt
• Among seven leaders, one has never won
• China loves its soccer. Its team? Don’t ask.
• Crater Lake National Park
• Cubs heat up on road, beat Braves
• Elks’ season ends with loss in playoffs
• Fire danger puts disc golf on hold at COCC
• Golf Scoreboard
• Harrington still finds ray of hope in Atlanta
• Horse Country Events Calendar
• Jacobsen withdraws, citing a sore hip
• Officials keep an eye on hot weather
• Olympic Scoreboard
• On the Air
• Ouch! White Sox slugger Quentin plunked again
• Pair of unknowns tie course mark with 63s
• Phelps earns his sixth gold medal of Beijing Games
• Riders get some mental exercises
• Roddick pulls out comeback win
• Scoreboard
• Selig expects instant replay announcement ‘very shortly’
• Sisters in summer
• Steins Pillar
• Sunriver logjam
• The volunteers who make it all work and pay to do so
• Tradition Scoreboard
• Tree projects aim to help fish, prevent forest fires
• United States’ Liukin claims all-around victory
• U.S. basketball dominant in win
• Whats Next?

OBITS

• Clean-seeking Archie Comics chairman Michael Silberkleit
• Eleo Pomare, dancer and rebel, dies at 70
• ‘Papa Jack’ Weil, a legend in Western wear, dies at 107
• Temperament test writer Robert Taylor dies at 88

FEATURES

• Small bites

ENTERTAINMENT

• Better than ever
• Family movie guide

OPINION

• Another reason to drill in the U.S.
• Don’t blame Democrats
• Drill soon
• Festival’s sad demise
• No self-serve gas
• Support wilderness bill
• Tiktin sticks up for the public
• Too many parents skip out on child support payments

ROADS & TRAFFIC

• Campaign Calendar
• Jump-starting U.S. infrastructure