December 18, 2008

LOCAL & STATE

• Agreement could save some bison from slaughter
• Approval of Crossing Trails resort is upheld
• Bend council will let some churches open to homeless
• Bend 1031 exchange halts business, citing liquidity
• Bend schools OK $9.1 million loan for Summit field
• BendBroadband may lose Fox
• Bomb expert’s death leaves questions
• Bookstore opens in old Book Barn site
• Britain bomb-plotter to spend life in prison
• British troops to leave Iraq by the end of July
• Calendar
• China prepares to join anti-pirate patrols
• Correction
• Crews extinguish house fire in Bend
• Dropouts find a new chance at graduation
• Elderly care provider arrested in alleged abuse
• 2 get death sentences in China police attack
• Jefferson County case without indictment is being reviewed
• Klamath Tribes buy land near Crater Lake
• Longtime Bend man’s home burns
• Maupin medical clinic may file for bankruptcy
• Meeting in La Pine to tackle master plan
• More snow expected in Portland, mountains
• News of Record
• News of Record: Permits
• No zoning decision on former mine
• Nonprofit for families gets $15,000 in grants
• Oil falls below $40
• Oregon’s Death With Dignity Act
• Overcoming challenges to graduate
• People
• Portland soccer fan settles civil suit
• Russia offers to give Lebanon 10 warplanes
• Shoe-tossing furor derails Iraqi parliament
• Sisters projects set for review tonight
• Stacks of toys – oh boy!
• State gets $1.6 million for coast wetlands
• Teen testifies dad beat sibling with tent pole
• Text scam targets Bank of the Cascades customers
• The best concerts of 2008
• The ears have it
• The local forecast:
• U.N. urges protection for Afghan civilians
• Warrant issued in funeral shooting
• Weather shuts down some DMV offices
• Woman stole identity of slain woman’s sister, DA says
• Wyden, Merkley to give Madoff funds to charity

BUSINESS

• As Fed flattens rates, the dollar gets bruised
• Bend 1031 exchange halts business, citing liquidity
• BendBroadband may lose Fox
• Blackwater security firm may lose license in Iraq
• Bookstore opens in old Book Barn site
• Business Calendar
• Chrysler will close 30 plants for a month
• Correction
• Crews extinguish house fire in Bend
• Disney plans invasion of Russian TV
• French reach deal with Constellation
• Gifts in the spirit of exercise
• GM delays Volt plant
• Honda cuts profit forecast by 64%
• Is it time to buy your first house?
• Klamath Tribes buy land near Crater Lake
• Many Californians are leaving the Golden State
• Meeting in La Pine to tackle master plan
• Morgan Stanley posts $2.37B quarterly loss
• News of Record: Permits
• Nike profit is up 9%
• No zoning decision on former mine
• Nonprofit for families gets $15,000 in grants
• Oil falls below $40
• Recalls
• Repair your damaged portfolio, prepare for a recovery
• SEC knew Madoff as friend, foe
• Sisters projects set for review tonight
• Some small cars receive poor marks for side and rear collision protection
• TaylorMade-Adidas Golf cutting 170 jobs
• Text scam targets Bank of the Cascades customers
• U.S. trade deficit falls
• Weather shuts down some DMV offices
• Where there’s food, there’s SALT

SPORTS

• Auburn hire: Incompetence, not bad intent
• Baseball
• Culver earns win against Sisters JV
• Cycling
• Events Calendar
• Everything’s a miracle
• Fly-tying corner
• For Holmgren, Favre, a special bond
• Forecast is good news for region’s snow-sport enthusiasts
• Go small and heavy for Crooked River rainbows
• Hornets beat Spurs 90-83, Paul sets new NBA steals record
• Hunters should be prepared for cold, snow
• It’s in the air
• Lohan fan arrested at Scottsdale nightclub
• Mountain View stays on a roll at Redmond
• NBA Scoreboard
• NCAA volleyball
• NFL football
• Olympics
• On the Air
• Pair of Cougs named all-state
• Rozsival’s 2nd goal gives Rangers 3-2 OT win
• Saint Mary’s posts 78-73 win at Oregon
• Several lakes in Central Oregon are no longer accessible to anglers
• Snow forces changes in school schedules
• Soccer
• Soulja Boy apologizes for his potty mouth
• Spring chinook a point of contention between Oregon and Washington
• Tennis
• Track and field
• UCLA rolls past Loyola Marymount
• Underwood to sing at People’s Choice Awards
• Weather forces prep cancellations
• With Cowboys, there’s seldom a dull moment
• Woods says leg will be stronger than ever

OBITS

• Folk musician Davy Graham
• Sam Bottoms was from family of actors

CENTRAL OREGON OBITS

• Death notices
• Lemuel Fait (Butch) Keeling

NATION & WORLD

• After an intricate operation, a woman’s face is remade
• As millions retire, are our kids prepared to step in?
• Attorney: Blagojevich won’t fill Senate seat
• Debate over bisphenol rages on
• Folk musician Davy Graham
• Generals give Obama their Iraq timetable
• Medicare giving doctors more incentive to ditch their prescription pads
• Official interfered with sage grouse review, report says
• Parents ask Bush to set ‘American Taliban’ free
• Psychiatrists may be changing their minds on what is ‘normal’
• Ready to teach
• Sam Bottoms was from family of actors
• Stimulus plan, nearing $1 trillion, becoming Obama’s earliest test
• 13th Amendment abolishing slavery enacted in 1865
• Urban Obama picking rural representatives

FEATURES

• Community Datebook
• Dark truth about chocolate
• Do you need to take more vitamin D? Probably, experts say
• Dropouts find a new chance at graduation
• Have a AAA card or Costco card? Membership can be a money saver
• How to avoid winter weight gain
• Orchestrated greetings strike sour note with churchgoers
• Oregon’s Death With Dignity Act
• People
• Ski conditioning: tuck jump
• Vital stats
• Where there’s food, there’s SALT
• Yoga’s stress relief may help alleviate other problems, too

ENTERTAINMENT

• April 11, Crook County High School
• Aug. 28, Les Schwab Amphitheater
• Benga, ‘Diary Of An Afro Warrior’ (Tempa)
• Big names planned for inauguration
• Blitzen Trapper, ‘Furr’ (Subpop)
• Boomers make some noise
• Community Datebook
• Darker My Love, ‘2’ (Dangerbird)
• Dungen, ‘4’ (Kemado)
• ept. 22, Domino Room
• Erykah Badu, ‘New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)’ (Universal Motown)
• George Strait, ‘Troubadour’ (MCA Nashville)
• Hayes Carll, ‘Trouble In Mind’ (Lost Highway)
• Hip-hop dominates local music scene in ‘08
• Jamie Lidell, ‘Jim’ (Warp)
• Kathleen Edwards, ‘Asking For Flowers’ (Zoe)
• Kilgore to perform in jazz concert at CTC
• Lohan fan arrested at Scottsdale nightclub
• Metal School: Old vs. New
• Movie Times
• My Morning Jacket, ‘Evil Urges’ (ATO)
• Oct. 31, Silver Moon Brewing & Taproom
• Promo Tool of the Year: The counter at Ranch Records
• Raphael Saadiq, ‘The Way I See It’ (Columbia)
• S
• Santogold, ‘Santogold’ (Downtown)
• Short but sweet: The beauty of the EP
• Sigur Ros, ‘Meo Suo I Eyrum Vio Spilum Endalaust’ (XL)
• Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, ‘Pershing’ (Polyvinyl)
• Soulja Boy apologizes for his potty mouth
• The 10 best local releases of 2008
• The Black Angels, ‘Directions To See A Ghost’ (Light In The Attic)
• The Helio Sequence, ‘Keep Your Eyes Ahead’ (Subpop)
• The Swimmers, ‘Fighting Trees’ (MAD Dragon)
• Throw Me The Statue, ‘Moonbeams’ (Secretly Canadian)
• TK Webb & The Visions, ‘Ancestor’ (Kemado)
• Tobacco, ‘F---ed Up Friends’ (Anticon)
• Toy-train display returning to library
• Underwood to sing at People’s Choice Awards
• Vampire Weekend, ‘Vampire Weekend’ (XL)
• Various Artists, ‘DECA: A Hush 10th Anniversary Compilation’ (Hush)
• Wale, ‘The Mixtape About Nothing’ (www .elitaste.com)
• What others thought
• Will Quinlan & The Diviners, ‘Navasota’ (Ironweed)

OPINION

• Change foreign policy
• DeFazio’s forest stimulus scheme
• More ethanol pork on menu for Iowa
• No free lunch
• ‘Peace’ bridge
• Random kindness
• The secret to success: environment and initiative

ROADS & TRAFFIC

• Approval of Crossing Trails resort is upheld