December 26, 2008

LOCAL & STATE

• A papal message of hope on Christmas
• Bears in Ashland seek holiday meal
• Book examines history of Zumwalt Prairie
• Burglary suspect found
• Christmas is a time to give and receive
• Create your own salt crystal snowflakes
• Drop off your old electronics free of charge
• Eugene Police Department maps crime online
• Family Calendar
• Fire damages Bend mobile home
• Forest Service rule change would clear way for pipeline
• Fueled by H2O?
• GO! Magazine
• Have yourself a fowl holiday season
• High school roof in Olympia collapses from recent storms
• Holiday stress weighs on Americans
• Internet safety resources available for parents
• Municipal court move will ease crowding
• on Christmas Eve
• Oregon DHS sued in alleged foster care sex abuse
• 6 people hospitalized in Highway 97 crash
• Portland mayor praised at final council meeting
• Portland snow is over for now
• Prison doctor resigns over executions
• Rain to ease winter woes after snowfall
• Restaurant Guide
• Story times, library youth events for Dec. 26-Jan. 1
• ‘This year I will ...’
• Where there’s no smoke, will there be customers?

BUSINESS

• An old industrial giant tries to remake itself
• Business Calendar
• China looks to U.S. for fresh talent in finance
• Corporate jet market goes into free fall
• Fueled by H2O?
• Genetic engineering - attempted at home
• Google reveals new holiday habits
• Holiday sales drop at least 5.5 percent
• In digital era, kids books are jumping off the page
• Japan sees big drop in auto production
• Long-lived, but not immortal: Fears fade on hybrid batteries
• Mortgage pioneers become pariahs in banking
• Teaching the world of hedge fund management
• Why would anyone play a Dairy Queen video game?

SPORTS

• College football
• Dashing through the snow
• East is beast of NBA again?
• Events Calendar
• Lakers end Celtics’ win streak at 19
• Mavericks spoil Blazers’ Christmas
• NBA basketball
• NBA Scoreboard
• NFL football
• On the Air
• ‘Professor Pete’ gets his point across at USC in unconventional ways
• Tennis
• Tumalo Falls
• Walk this way: Slacklining is growing in popularity
• Walton Sno-park
• Who’s the MVP? It might be a Dolphin

OBITS

• ‘Giving back’ to cities of Bend and Eugene
• Harold Pinter was a master of menacing words
• ‘Sex kitten’ Eartha Kitt starred on many stages

NATION & WORLD

• Blind, yet seeing: the brain’s subconscious ability to sense things
• Death Valley works to preserve night sky
• Divorce drove Christmas Eve killings
• Expanded clinics are a success for Bush
• Faster climate change feared
• Giving vs. earning: a balancing act
• Going home a gift for Iraqi Christians
• Guinea coup leader strengthens grip
• Harold Pinter was a master of menacing words
• Homeland Security forecasts 5-year look
• In Afghan fight, CIA finds that creativity, Viagra are winners
• Israel warns Hamas after Gaza attacks
• Lawyer aims to put Obama staff on stand
• Pakistan warns India it will respond to any attack
• Police detain 59 in Tibet, China says
• Prosecutors push court on Jefferson trial
• States driven to make deeper cuts in Medicaid
• Tsunami kills more than 200,000, mostly in southern Asia, in 2004
• Two Chinese on trial in tainted milk scandal
• Water safe from ash, first tests indicate

FEATURES

• Christmas is a time to give and receive
• Library series features writer, poet Waterston
• New class explores electronic music
• PARTNERS in life and work
• Planning ahead
• Sax ensemble forming at School of Music
• Talks, classes, museums & libraries

ENTERTAINMENT

• A harmless family film
• ‘Animal Crossing’ finds fun in daily life
• ART EXHIBITS
• Bad dog, good tale
• CELEBRATE THE YEAR IN MUSIC
• CLASSIC MODERN
• Curiously disappointing
• ‘Despereaux’ lovely to look at
• Going after the monster
• Here’s what’s showing on Central Oregon movie screens.
• High-flying adventure
• Kennedy Center show honors Streisand, Daltrey and Freeman
• Library series features writer, poet Waterston
• Lisa C. Pollock visits Bend this weekend
• Martini bars team up to host hip-hop, DJs
• Music releases
• New class explores electronic music
• New dvd releases
• Out of town
• Parents’ Guide to Movies
• PARTNERS in life and work
• Planning ahead
• Right man at the right time
• Sax ensemble forming at School of Music
• ‘Sex kitten’ Eartha Kitt starred on many stages
• Tackling the tough questions
• Talks, classes, museums & libraries
• The Erins back together in Bend
• ‘The Spirit’ is weak
• Things are looking up
• This week
• Travel to the center of the Earth – from home
• Upcoming Concerts
• Ups and downs at Applebee’s
• What’s happening elsewhere in the area

RESTAURANTS

• Ups and downs at Applebee’s

OPINION

• David’s double
• Public education
• Where’s the hope?

ROADS & TRAFFIC

• Burglary suspect found
• Fire damages Bend mobile home
• on Christmas Eve
• 6 people hospitalized in Highway 97 crash