December 05, 2008

LOCAL & STATE

• Abandoned boats sometimes vex ports
• Admiring the morning person while sipping my crucial cup of joe
• Awbrey Butte to house new 200-foot-tall emergency dispatch tower
• Beaverton man challenges measure
• Charter school classroom change may be opportunity
• Crescent resort gets tentative approval
• DEQ fines contractors in asbestos demolition
• Dispatches
• Dogs at Big Sky Park
• Eagle watch in Idaho
• EPA levies fines of $3.1M in the Northwest for 2008
• Ex-martial arts teacher sentenced in online sex case
• Family Calendar
• Feds to fine Hanford contractor
• Gottschalks has loss
• Gov. Kulongoski opens new park south of Brookings
• Group seeks to reverse ruling on Yellowstone snowmobiles
• Hillsboro officer under investigation
• 4 in Bend arrested after series of thefts
• Lego robotics tourney set for this weekend
• Local girls are invited to special symposium
• News of Record: Police log, Bend fire runs, pets at shelters, stolen vehicles
• Obama raised $750 million in campaign
• Officer revives baby, authorities say
• OSU replaces head of branch campus
• Piled up and ready
• Port of Coos Bay to buy rail line
• Portland scales back on plan to require green construction
• Portland teacher wins national award
• Re-create the phases of the moon
• Redmond deals with loss of leaders
• Restaurant Guide
• Seventh Mountain faces new lawsuit
• Siletz man sought in Polk County assault
• Smooth sailing
• State projects clearer skies in Columbia River Gorge
• Story times, library youth events for Dec. 5-11
• Surface mine hearing continued to Dec. 17
• Thinking outside the (gift) box
• Washington environmental groups outline their priorities
• With sale of bonds, Redmond can move on schools
• Woman gets probation for igniting tow truck
• Woman swept to sea during marriage proposal

BUSINESS

• A hard sell for Big 3 execs as Congress grows weary
• Awbrey Butte to house new 200-foot-tall emergency dispatch tower
• Black Friday couldn’t save November sales
• Business Calendar
• Business diners take a rain check
• Crescent resort gets tentative approval
• DEQ fines contractors in asbestos demolition
• Dispatches
• DuPont to cut jobs, reduce contractors
• Europe’s central banks slash interest rates
• Ex-martial arts teacher sentenced in online sex case
• Far-out cars of the future
• Gottschalks has loss
• Gun sales soar
• Here today, gone tomorrow: New hybrids are short lived
• Holiday bazaars
• 4 in Bend arrested after series of thefts
• New jobless claims drop unexpectedly
• Oil below $44 a barrel, gas prices fall to $1.80
• Seventh Mountain faces new lawsuit
• Starbucks says it may miss analyst estimates
• Stock upswing ends
• Surface mine hearing continued to Dec. 17
• Washington shifts focus of its rescue strategy to homeowners
• With sale of bonds, Redmond can move on schools

SPORTS

• Abrams leads No. 8 Texas over No. 12 UCLA, 68-64
• Alabama against Florida for SEC title packs a powerful 1-2 punch
• Bend golfer still trails at Q-School
• Bend grad to play in NAIA soccer semis
• Chargers pile up the points in victory against Raiders
• Cougars go 1-2 at wrestling tourney
• Equestrian Events Calendar
• Feds drop 4 counts against Barry Bonds
• Giants’ Pierce: ‘It’s a bump, and we move on with it.’
• Giants sign shortstop Edgar Renteria
• Hands on horses
• Hines is M’s new third base coach
• Honda pulls out of 2009 F1 competition
• Increase in MLB salary slowed in 2008
• Indoor soccer team opens new season
• Judge rejects sale of Curlin, ownership to remain split
• Melrose returning to ESPN as analyst
• NBA Scoreboard
• NFL union seeks to block suspensions
• NFR kicks off, but locals finish out of the money
• On the Air
• Parker sparks Spurs past Nuggets in Denver
• Quirky American is flowing along this season
• Red Sox finalize deal with Japanese pitcher
• Roller derby bouts to be held in Bend
• Roy appears headed for another All-Star season
• Scoreboard
• Stenson leads in South Africa
• Team player? Armstrong ready to let Contador lead
• The Peninsula
• Thornton leads Sharks to 9th straight win
• USC coach may be tabbed by UW

OBITS

• Bend educator ‘got the job done right’
• McKelvey built Monster.com into job search powerhouse
• Mormon church loses its oldest living apostle
• Odetta sang soundtrack of civil rights movement
• Selfridge was pioneer in artificial intelligence

CENTRAL OREGON OBITS

• Death notices

NATION & WORLD

• Aging Air Force planes need better upkeep, some mechanics say
• as 17 are killed in Iraq
• Berlin’s star polar bear turns 2, faces eviction
• Brain injuries linked to more long-term issues
• Broad implications
• Bushes buy home in select Dallas area
• Canadian parliament shut down
• Countries looking to U.S. on climate
• Cruise ship carrying 122 adrift in Antarctica
• Doctors, saving lives, fear for their own
• Episcopal leader says further losses unlikely
• Flood washes away some qualms over Venice barrier
• in Fort Dix defendants
• In Mumbai, more links to Pakistan’s involvement
• Israeli troops drag Jewish settlers from contested historic building
• LBJ library releases last of recordings
• Long after Katrina, children still suffer
• McKelvey built Monster.com into job search powerhouse
• NASA delays launch of new Mars rover
• New study illuminates 16th century star blowup
• Odetta sang soundtrack of civil rights movement
• Online rant leads to criminal charges
• Pakistani police struggle in fight against terrorism
• Prohibition is repealed in 1933
• Putin peppered with economy queries
• Security pact approved
• Selfridge was pioneer in artificial intelligence
• Small company’s camera snaps big-time images of ancient prizes
• Smile - turns out happiness is contagious
• Soldier acquitted in officers’ deaths
• Testimony shows doubt
• Thai monarch cancels speech due to illness
• to European DNA ruling
• Troubled fund has tough dilemma for investors
• Zimbabwe declares health emergency

ENTERTAINMENT

• A little bit dysfunctional
• A peek backstage at ‘The Nutcracker’
• ART EXHIBITS
• Art museum in Los Angeles in a tailspin
• Brass quintet, vocalist pair up for concert
• Business diners take a rain check
• COCC choir, quartet plan fall concerts
• For more theater ...
• Gallery Walk returns to Bend tonight
• GO! Magazine
• Goodness prevails once again in ‘Narnia: Prince Caspian’
• Heating element
• Hip-hoppers Grouch and Eligh visit Bend
• Holiday bazaars
• It could be better
• MOVIE TIMES * For the week of Dec. 5
• Music releases
• New dvd releases: The following movies were released to DVD on Dec. 2.
• New TNT drama ‘Leverage’ lures Hutton back to TV
• On local screens
• OPB lineup changing
• Out of town
• Parents’ Guide to Movies
• Photographers show work at Cafe Sintra
• Planning ahead
• PoetHouse Art hosts fundraising show
• Pretty slick
• Superheroes are taking over consoles
• Symphonic band plays family-friendly show
• Talks, classes, museums & libraries
• Thai on the fly
• The return of blackflowersblacksun
• This week
• Turning 30
• Upcoming Concerts

RESTAURANTS

• Thai on the fly

OPINION

• Bend must do what it can to save city bus service
• Breakthrough in Iraq overlooked
• Keystone Kops start a fire
• UAW steps up

ROADS & TRAFFIC

• Piled up and ready