October 10, 2008

LOCAL & STATE

• Area environmental center to host forums
• Ashland schools chief gets statewide honor
• At COCC, students with disabilities learn the ins and outs of the restaurant industry
• Bend City Council candidates take our questions
• Biden: McCain is out of touch
• BLM unveils forest plan for Western Oregon
• Builder is facing $15M suit over Bend project
• Candidate forums begin today
• Classic-car condos
• Columbia River Bank gets new top exec
• Crooked River Ranch man guilty of poisoning dogs, gets jail time
• Dead man’s family sues mower maker
• Downtown Bend chase ends in arrest
• Exhibit delivers dosage of medical history
• Face to face at last in a contentious race
• Family Calendar
• Forum to feature Sisters candidates
• GO! Magazine
• Hanging 10 at 50 (and older)
• Kiddoz center to host Informed Family Fair
• La Pine City Council chooses a new mayor
• La Pine City Council seeks applicants
• Lawyer seeks rare testimony of judges and prosecutors in sex abuse case
• Little laughter goes a long way
• Married suspects link ID theft cases
• McCain focuses on honesty issue
• 9 months after storm – oh, baby!
• News of Record: Police Log and Stolen Vehicles
• Obama buying half-hour time slot
• Obama criticizes McCain rescue plan
• Palin releases own trooper report
• Portland man buys stolen wheelchair, then returns it
• Prineville pharmacist surrenders his license for 3 years
• Redmond City Council forum
• Redmond forums set for this month
• Restaurant Guide
• Snow, so soon?
• State treasurer candidates spar over PERS
• The candidates on energy
• Thornburgh plan gets final OK
• Timber payments to be less than in 2006
• Toys good for young senses
• Women having fewer children

BUSINESS

• Apparel chains report low September sales
• Auto shares plunge
• Behind the market’s last-minute plunge
• Boeing strike hurting company’s suppliers
• Brunswick cuts 1,400 jobs; closing plants
• Builder is facing $15M suit over Bend project
• Business Calendar
• Central Oregon fuel prices
• Classic-car condos
• Columbia River Bank gets new top exec
• Congress eyes a 2nd stimulus - what might it look like?
• Ford flexes its design muscle
• Iceland’s financial system collapses
• Insurance giants join the banking industry on the hot seat
• Jobless claims drop
• Meet the $700B man
• Morgan Stanley sees stock plummet
• Negotiations over Wachovia are ended
• New notebooks to be focus of Apple event
• Slowdown projected for PC chip makers
• Small bites
• Thornburgh plan gets final OK

SPORTS

• Aussie Green shoots 62 to lead Texas Open
• Austrian skier to miss World Cup season
• Baseball Scoreboard
• Bend’s Mountain High is open again, but only for a few days
• Blazers’ Fernandez, Przybilla sidelined
• Breeders’ Cup returning to Churchill Downs
• Cougs romp to win
• Curlin to work out again on Santa Anita’s surface
• Devils Garden
• Equestrian Scoreboard
• For some C.O. hunters, it’s easier on four legs
• Fundraiser features UO-OSU game on TV
• Golf Scoreboard
• Horse Country Calendar
• Jankovic, Davydenko advance in Russia
• La Pine outlasts Sisters
• Lava Bears win in overtime
• Local group to finish trails at sno-park
• McKay Creek
• On the Air
• One big inning gives Phils a 1-0 NLCS lead
• Panthers fall to McKay in shootout, 62-48
• Phillips: ‘Pacman’ will play despite incident
• Prep Scoreboard
• QB or not QB?: This is the question in Pac-10 this year
• Red Wings hand over opener with 19 giveaways to Maple Leafs’ five
• Regan Smith still smarting after losing race at Talladega
• Skinner leads No. 21 Wake past Clemson
• Summit girls soccer rebounds with shutout win
• Summit stays undefeated in league, tops Crook County

OBITS

• Charles Runyon, 86, was a children’s entertainer
• George Kissell, 88, was a mentor to Major League baseball players
• Nadia Nerina was a classical ballerina
• Publishing executive Todd Kiplinger

CENTRAL OREGON OBITS

• Death Notices
• Tracy Michael Rost

NATION & WORLD

• Audubon, other bird artists help breathe life into science
• Charles Runyon, 86, was a children’s entertainer
• Cost overruns bedevil next Mars mission
• Dalai Lama in hospital following checkup
• Face to face at last in a contentious race
• Freed Thai protesters roar defiance
• French writer takes Nobel Prize for literature
• Galapagos tightens border
• George Kissell, 88, was a mentor to Major League baseball players
• Getting a grasp on our troubles
• GPS could help save airlines time and fuel
• Hope meets concern as blast walls disappear
• Inspectors suspect Russian aid to Iran
• Joint Chiefs chairman: Afghanistan will worsen
• Judge offers rap fan Bach, reduced fine
• Mall shooting suspect upset over purchase
• 2 missing Americans turn up in Syria
• Nadia Nerina was a classical ballerina
• North Korea bars inspectors from site
• NSA listened to personal military calls, report says
• On California-Oregon border, a move to create a new state
• Prosecution rests in Stevens trial
• Publishing executive Todd Kiplinger
• Shark pup a result of ‘virgin birth,’ scientists say
• 10,000 still sick from milk in China
• Suicide bomber strikes Pakistani police
• Ukraine plans elections amid tension
• U.S. Naval Academy was established in 1845
• Western conservation group is petitioning for species protection

FEATURES

• Prineville pharmacist surrenders his license for 3 years
• Small bites

ENTERTAINMENT

• Art exhibits
• Art show at David Evans Building
• Autumn outings
• Banjo up with the Tony Furtado Band
• Banter about film ready to talk it up
• BendFilm Awards
• Bo Reynolds: a new album out and lots o’ gigs planned
• Celluloid escape
• Defying the odds
• Gaelic Storm brings Celtic party to Bend
• ‘Iron Man’ packed with many cool goodies
• It’s old-fashioned Ragtime in Shaniko
• ‘Love Makes a Family’ features choir, show
• Make way for ‘de Blob’
• Mixed media art at Thump Coffee
• Music release
• Out of town
• Parents’ Guide to Movies Family movie guide
• Planning ahead
• Schedule
• Shining art
• Small bites
• Story times, library youth events for Oct. 10-16
• Subdued ...
• Synopses
• Talks, classes, museums & libraries
• Tech N9ne returns to Midtown Ballroom
• This week
• Where everybody knows your name
• ‘Will & Grace’ star Messing returns in ‘The Starter Wife’

RESTAURANTS

• Where everybody knows your name

OPINION

• Ballot Measure 60 is not the answer
• Fake change from McCain
• Grease trap program is bad
• Project Homeless Connect returns for another year
• Room tax rate should increase
• The bailout is OK
• Vote for Jim Clinton

ROADS & TRAFFIC

• Snow, so soon?