December 24, 2008

LOCAL & STATE

• A last dose of discounts
• As mercury drops, blood supplies hit critical levels
• Balloon man arrested on suspicion of DUII
• Bank of the Cascades opens Salem office
• China, trying to charm Taiwan, sends pandas
• Christmas wish lists becoming more basic as economy slips
• Coup follows death of dictator in Guinea
• Dangerous driving
• Driveway snow piles irk some
• Environmental group petitions EPA over ozone concern
• Family gets snowed in, and an early Christmas present, too
• Harmony for the holidays
• Home sales decline sharply in November
• In storms, fish use temporary streams
• India rejects acting
• Kindergarten Christmas carols
• Minnesotans must wait till ’09 to meet new senator
• News of Record
• Parents plead guilty in baby’s death
• 3Q GDP dips 0.5%; 4Q outlook bleak
• Scholars call for release of Chinese dissident
• Seattle won’t use salt on snow-packed roads
• Snow cleared from train tracks
• St. Charles pharmacy open on Christmas
• 600 stranded at Chicago Amtrak station
• unilaterally on Pakistan
• Walden slams Wu’s interference in plans for area casino
• What’s open and closed for Christmas week?

BUSINESS

• A last dose of discounts
• Activists’ new allies: U.S. unions
• American Greetings posts a $193M loss
• As Big 3 plants close, SUV era comes to an end
• Bank of the Cascades opens Salem office
• Business Calendar
• Christmas wish lists becoming more basic as economy slips
• Congress presses banks on bailout spending
• Court reinstates EPA’s clean air rule
• Home sales decline sharply in November
• Madoff investor found dead in office suicide
• Many (happy) returns
• New Saturday market
• offers artisans’ wares
• 3Q GDP dips 0.5%; 4Q outlook bleak
• Recalls
• Ring in ’09 with a touch of bling
• Top entertainment sellers
• Treasury issues $4.7B in bailout funds to banks
• Walden slams Wu’s interference in plans for area casino
• Wal-Mart agrees to pay $352M in wage settlement
• Wells Fargo, Wachovia shareholders OK deal

SPORTS

• Aspen Lakes food drive a success
• Baseball
• Bend lands national cyclocross events
• Broncos worn out defense can’t come through at end
• College football
• Flames score 3 in third to beat Ducks
• Hit ball, drag bag and burn some calories, too
• Lava Bear boys drop nonconference game
• NBA Scoreboard
• NFL football
• No. 7 Gonzaga falls to Portland State
• Out with the old?
• Panther girls ride second-half charge to win over White Buffs
• Prep Scoreboard
• South Eugene lays 69-30 setback on Redmond boys
• Sports in Brief On the Air
• Tam Bronkey: Eagle Crest Resort
• Victory helps Blazers get back at Nuggets
• Women’s basketball

OBITS

• Curiosity took filmmaker down to Titanic wreck
• First director of Los Angeles Head Start program dies
• Page Cavanaugh created jazz hits
• William Kaufmann was key Cold War nuclear strategist

CENTRAL OREGON OBITS

• Death notices
• Jack L. Stuart
• John David Kingsmith
• Norma Christine Dent
• Randall Gordon James
• Richard Joseph Davis
• Virginia M. Perdue Harvey

NATION & WORLD

• Apollo 8 orbits the moon on Christmas Eve 1968
• Curiosity took filmmaker down to Titanic wreck
• Drug rehab or revolving door? States are asking
• First director of Los Angeles Head Start program dies
• General: Murky details in Iraq security accord may affect withdrawal
• Guilty of aiding Israel in ’48; pardoned in ’08
• Obama, aides met with investigators
• Obama picks Lincoln Bible to take the oath
• Page Cavanaugh created jazz hits
• The South"s stubborn drought
• What’s open and closed for Christmas week?
• William Kaufmann was key Cold War nuclear strategist
• 6-year-old, kidnapper shot in L.A.

FEATURES

• As mercury drops, blood supplies hit critical levels
• Balloon man arrested on suspicion of DUII
• Calendar
• Cutbacks? Yes. Cheap Scotch? No thanks.
• Drawing a line on spending is easy — staying in line isn’t
• Family gets snowed in, and an early Christmas present, too
• My other family is the office
• Same-sex marriage introduces unique question of etiquette
• St. Charles pharmacy open on Christmas
• Wash away pricey beauty regimens

ENTERTAINMENT

• Calendar
• Court agrees to boost payout for Spears’ dad
• Movie Times
• Not too bad of a year for TV
• Top entertainment sellers

OPINION

• Ban pit bulls
• Cancer support
• Follow the process
• Go, Fox
• Good people
• No comparison

ROADS & TRAFFIC

• Dangerous driving
• Driveway snow piles irk some