December 01, 2008

LOCAL & STATE

• A bit cooler this week, but still mild
• Bend police arrest man in arson case
• Boys & Girls Clubs locations reopen today
• Get your permit, then start hunting for the perfect tree
• Hawaii prosecutor says marijuana law invalid
• How’d the big buying weekend turn out locally?
• Man on mission to keep swans away from lead-poisoned lake
• Mayor-elect has ‘heart for Madras’
• Mild fall makes for fatter deer
• News of Record: Bankruptcies, civil suits
• Patricia Marand, 74, Broadway’s Lois Lane
• Tough decisions expected in state spending

BUSINESS

• Business Calendar
• Chinese president warns of slowdown
• FDA to detail its safety campaign
• How’d the big buying weekend turn out locally?
• Insurance woes: What it means for you
• It’s looking like winter in some places
• Leaders of Big 3 prepare refined aid pleas
• More sales expected for Cyber Monday
• Only the rich can afford it; should taxpayers back it?
• Scandalous snowboards
• Stimulus: How much to spend and where to spend it?
• Trying to draw market share with touch screens
• Web video: The new alternative to cable
• You are leaving a digital trail. Should you be worried?

SPORTS

• After loss to Ducks, Beavs root for UCLA
• Alabama, Florida top AP poll, foes set to battle for SEC title
• Aldridge, Oden lead Blazers past Pistons
• Armstrong plans to have program running in time for first official race
• Austria’s Hermann Maier wins World Cup super-G in Canada
• BCS favors OU over Texas
• Changing gears in auto racing in 2008
• Cougars set some lofty goals
• Dropping the checkered flag on the auto-racing season
• Ducks, Beavers and chimps … all in one place
• Gonzaga beats No. 12 Tennessee 83-74 to win Old Spice Classic
• NBA Scoreboard
• Niedermayer leads Ducks past Hurricanes
• Oregon St. breaks 25-game losing streak, beats Fresno St.
• Steelers’ defense stifles struggling Patriots
• Swedes shoot 63 to claim World Cup of Golf victory

OBITS

• Jorn Utzon designed Sydney Opera House
• Pastor who helped get ‘under God’ in Pledge dies
• Renowned clarinetist Mitchell Lurie dies
• Verne Orr, Air Force secretary for Reagan

CENTRAL OREGON OBITS

• Death notices

NATION & WORLD

• A whisper, perhaps, from the universe’s dark side
• Chavez again seeks to end term limits
• Colleges boost their global feel
• Conference highlights Web’s role in child porn
• Cyberbullying case shines light on seldom read ‘terms of service’
• Discourse on Congo, from a U.S. living room
• Explosions heighten tensions in Thailand
• Get your permit, then start hunting for the perfect tree
• India pledges a strong response to terror attacks
• Iraqi bomb deaths show slight rise
• Jorn Utzon designed Sydney Opera House
• Leftist party takes most votes in Romania
• North Korea tightens border with South
• Obama to introduce security team, one made up of competing views
• Online betting a gamble in more ways than one
• Palin to campaign for Georgia senator
• Pastor who helped get ‘under God’ in Pledge dies
• Renowned clarinetist Mitchell Lurie dies
• Report sounds alarm over bioterror
• Rosa Parks arrested in 1955
• Shuttle safely back on Earth
• Some doctors may give up vaccines
• Suicide bombing kills 2 in Kabul
• Survey tests student cheating, theft levels
• Swiss voters approve legal heroin program
• Ukrainian tanker could be freed soon
• Uneasy calm returns to Nigeria; 300 dead
• Verne Orr, Air Force secretary for Reagan

ENTERTAINMENT

• Calendar
• Movie Times
• Moviegoers turn to a Christmas comedy
• Station takes call letters of TV show

OPINION

• Big, green hurry
• COCC was first
• Diaper perils
• Environmentalists right
• Federal stimulus should focus on long-term benefits
• Hunt for the hungry
• No pardon for Stevens
• Open piggy bank