December 17, 2008

LOCAL & STATE

• Bad weather brews bad accidents in Idaho
• Board begins review of Minnesota ballots
• Body found outside Bend in woods
• California doctor killed when washed off jetty
• Cheney lauds Obama’s national security picks
• Cold spell getting under locals’ skin - and hoods
• Court wants more studies on Ochoco logging plan
• Dennis Quaid, wife, settle with hospital
• Dip in fees hurt Bend long term
• DMV to begin verifying
• Doctor found guilty in Glasgow airport attack
• Even Santa can have a bad day
• Explosives found in Paris department store
• Father of bank bombing suspect arrested
• First Book hosts raffle at Barnes & Noble
• Flooding deals a tough blow to northwest Bend businesses
• Foundation accepting award nominations
• Highland teacher wins classroom grant
• immigration in 2009
• It’s time for Americans to kick the high-debt habit
• Jack Black to invade Dunder Mifflin
• Kennedy mystique rattles Senate rivals
• Kidnapping expert abducted in Mexico
• Kids in the hall
• Kids ‘Shop With a Cop’ for holiday gifts
• Lost Piglet is given to Bend’s Ronald McDonald House
• Love of meringue pie points Jones to career
• Man gets 10 years for marijuana conspiracy
• Mount Angel stabbings
• Mugabe henchman wounded in ambush
• New district ranger coming to Crescent
• News of Record
• No charges filed in
• Proposed gun ban is blasted in Seattle
• Rashit Yangirov, respected historian of Soviet cinema
• Redmond fees set to change
• Ringing in remorse
• Russian ships causing no ripples at Pentagon
• Schools across region struggle with needs of English learners
• Somalia’s president appoints new premier
• Students pen Christmas tales
• Sunriver Village Mall sold to Salem investor group
• 110 to graduate from ChalleNGe program
• U.N. approves land, air attacks on pirates
• U.S. is cutting back on driving, study finds
• Verizon boosts cell coverage on Bachelor
• Watts, Schreiber welcome baby Samuel

BUSINESS

• Adobe profit grows
• Aloha Cafe open in NorthWest Crossing
• Bend on display for USA Cycling official
• Best Buy profit sinks, offers staff buyouts
• Business Calendar
• Clarification
• Clock ticking for those who are shipping
• Consumer prices drop
• Detroit papers reduce home delivery days
• Dip in fees hurt Bend long term
• Ex-General Re exec gets 2 years in prison
• Finding safe toys via text message
• Flooding deals a tough blow to northwest Bend businesses
• Geography plays a role in Medicare cancer coverage
• Geothermal leases up for auction
• Gold medalist Phelps diving into video games
• Goldman Sachs posts first loss since 1999
• Holiday gift cards have new meaning in today’s economy
• Judge allows sales of WaMu investments
• Olive Garden has its eye on a location in north Bend
• OPEC likely to further reduce its oil output
• Oregon gas prices rise
• Pile burning project begins in La Pine
• Rate cut won’t affect most consumer credit
• Redmond fees set to change
• Ringing in remorse
• SEC chief admits agency’s failures in Madoff case
• Southern California sees home prices drop
• Sunriver Village Mall sold to Salem investor group
• Verizon boosts cell coverage on Bachelor
• White House pressed from all sides on rescue

SPORTS

• At 46, Holyfield says he’s ready to win a title
• Auto racing
• Baseball
• Basketball
• Beavers top D-II Seattle Pacific
• Blazers destroy Kings, end three-game slide
• College football
• Cycling
• For C.O. golfer, a return to Oregon
• Golf Scoreboard
• Golf Week
• Madras girls top Sisters
• NBA coaches find they have no time to lose
• NBA Scoreboard
• No. 16 Tennessee takes battle of top-25 teams
• On the Air
• Panthers topple Cougs, latest IMC foe
• Peyton and Eli: QB brothers to play in Pro Bowl
• Player of the year, for a reason
• prep Scoreboard
• Ryan Davis, Kah-Nee-Ta High Desert Resort
• Sisters slows Madras offense
• Soccer
• Struggling Stars win in overtime
• 3-time All-American from Ohio State heads AP team
• Track

OBITS

• Abstract sculptor Lawrence Fane was inspired by Renaissance artist
• Founder of influential interior design firm dies
• Museum of Modern Art curator championed graphic design, posters

CENTRAL OREGON OBITS

• Death notices
• Irene Pearl Remillard

NATION & WORLD

• Abstract sculptor Lawrence Fane was inspired by Renaissance artist
• 90 arrested in raids to thwart Mafia regroup
• Civil war takes notably bloody turn in Sri Lanka
• Donated documents detail U.S. pursuit of Nazis’ crimes
• Education nominee’s modest reform record
• Founder of influential interior design firm dies
• Geothermal leases up for auction
• Guantanamo inmates sent to Bosnia
• Jackson was a past informant on Illinois governor
• Museum of Modern Art curator championed graphic design, posters
• Pile burning project begins in La Pine
• Shoe-tosser faces court in Baghdad
• Unlocking an ocean
• U.S. worried about need for warrants in Iraq
• Wright brothers conduct first successful manned powered-airplane flights in 1903
• 27 years later, police close Adam Walsh case

FEATURES

• Calendar
• How to learn more about a charity before you donate
• Taking holiday gifts into their own hands

ENTERTAINMENT

• Aloha Cafe open in NorthWest Crossing
• Bend on display for USA Cycling official
• Calendar
• Clarification
• ‘Idol’ tweaks format for 8th season
• Movie Times
• Olive Garden has its eye on a location in north Bend

OPINION

• Adolescents at work
• An education nominee to please everybody
• Motor-free mountain
• No marine reserves
• No new center
• Slippery slope
• Trouble brewing on the riverfront