September 29, 2008

LOCAL & STATE

• 500-acre Wizard Fire 10 percent contained
• Calendar
• Canine group joins walk for Alzheimer’s
• For businesses, a renters’ market
• In Wasilla, Palin received perks
• Language, culture and maybe a global edge in China class
• Measure 65 forum Tuesday
• News of Record: Bankruptcies and Civil Suits
• Obama, McCain put styles on display
• OSU campus enters its 8th year today
• Rescue faces a tough test - and it’s today
• Several area road projects still going strong
• Voter groups take up case of felons
• Warm weather to cool by weekend
• With improved technology, polling goes real-time

BUSINESS

• Airline profits appear to be ready for takeoff
• At hedge funds, concern grows over an investor exodus
• Bailout proposal fails in House vote
• Beyond FDIC: Protecting your money
• Business Calendar
• Chip maker wins some battles, but it faces a bigger war
• For businesses, a renters’ market
• Money market funds in a new world of risk
• Regulators in Britain, Belgium move swiftly to rescue 2 lenders
• Regulators push for Wachovia sale
• Sleeping on the job: It might help
• Slowing economy drags on auto sales
• Virtual worlds, real punishment
• Wall Street Journal tries wine promotion

SPORTS

• A tough challenge
• Alonso wins, Hamilton cushions lead in Singapore
• Auto Racing Scoreboard
• Brewers clinch final playoff spot in the NL
• Correction
• Ethiopian breaks marathon record
• Golf Scoreboard
• Italian earns men’s road race world title
• Johnson speeds into points lead
• Old QBs meet and Favre has it, Warner doesn’t
• On the Air
• Pac Am Golf Classic tees off
• Roddick, Jankovic win titles in Beijing
• Scoreboard
• Skins shock Cowboys with an upset in Dallas
• Villegas wins second straight tourney at Tour Championship
• With one playoff spot left, baseball goes extra innings
• World of college football is turned on its head with one wild week

OBITS

• English historian Woodruff, 92, wove stories of his childhood
• Ex-oil executive Edfred Shannon dies
• Former coroner Kornblum handled high-profile cases
• Loren Pope convinced Frank Lloyd Wright to design his home

NATION & WORLD

• A new test for would-be U.S. citizens
• Bailout proposal fails in House vote
• 5 bombs kill 27 Iraqis in Baghdad attacks
• Chinese astronauts make a safe return
• College test study presented
• 4 dead in Maryland medical copter crash
• Deal ripples far beyond the markets
• Ecuador approves new constitution
• English historian Woodruff, 92, wove stories of his childhood
• Ex-oil executive Edfred Shannon dies
• Far right makes gains in Austrian vote
• Farmers bet green eatery will be a hit
• Finding the genetic error
• For busy kids, life’s about balance, 2 studies contend
• Former coroner Kornblum handled high-profile cases
• Historic carrier returning to NYC
• Loren Pope convinced Frank Lloyd Wright to design his home
• Maine readies for brush with Hurricane Kyle
• Mustangs on their way to Europe
• New security group aims to prevent nuclear theft
• Off Somalia, pirates vow to fight to death
• Pope John Paul I found dead in ’78 after a month in office
• Study confirms it: Our politics are hard-wired
• Taliban claim killing of female officer
• U.S. Army deploys radar system in Israel

FEATURES

• Canine group joins walk for Alzheimer’s
• Ex-judge talks about prisons, the mentally ill
• Good reading habits learned early pay lifelong dividends

ENTERTAINMENT

• Heather Locklear arrested on DUI count
• Movie Times
• Scarlett Johansson, Ryan Reynolds marry
• Tina Fey reprises role as Sarah Palin on ‘SNL’

OPINION

• Deschutes County tries to reduce septic costs
• In Pakistan, honor killings and Taliban bombings share link
• Let logging trucks help with thinning
• Me-ism versus active citizenship

ROADS & TRAFFIC

• Measure 65 forum Tuesday
• Several area road projects still going strong