December 27, 2008

LOCAL & STATE

• A scramble for deals, sales
• Bank bombing was part of robbery plot, indictment says
• Bigger recycling bins are tons of success
• Counties will try to make progress on status of potential housing sites
• Firefighters rescue gifts in Christmas fire
• For willing workers, snowfall equals cold, hard-earned cash
• Need help shoveling? A Bend locale has your back
• News of Record: Police log, Bend fire runs
• One La Pine-to-Bend bus service gets boost after receiving grants
• People On the Move
• Phone customers to see increase in surcharge
• Portland man accused of using ax in attack
• Portland’s December snowfall is the most since 1950
• Portland’s trash haulers are stalled by the snow
• Private equity firm likely IndyMac buyer
• Redmond family's dog back for Christmas
• Second furniture store closing in Bend
• Tennessee flood of muck worse than first thought
• The 6th night of celebration
• Tsunami victims remembered
• Wal-Mart to start selling iPhones
• What's gong up?

BUSINESS

• A scramble for deals, sales
• As others count losses, Amazon.com celebrates its best year yet
• Bigger recycling bins are tons of success
• Coal, though problematic, is returning to home furnaces
• Gas prices near 5-year low likely to continue rapid drop
• Houses of faith facing foreclosure
• Medical paper trail goes digital
• People On the Move
• Private equity firm likely IndyMac buyer
• Second furniture store closing in Bend
• The bread of life, baked in Rhode Island
• Wal-Mart to start selling iPhones
• What's gong up?

SPORTS

• Baseball
• Cal eager to test Miami mystique in Emerald Bowl
• Celtics’ 2008 will be among best years ever
• College football
• Ellis stops 38 shots, Predators beat Wings
• Florida Atlantic earns Motor City Bowl win
• For Paterno, Carroll mutual admiration
• Horse racing
• If acting hadn’t panned out, I’d be...
• Martin lifts Nuggets to victory over 76ers
• Men’s alpine skiing
• NBA Scoreboard
• NFL football
• No. 2 UConn stays perfect
• On the Air
• Outlaws earn first win of season
• Rutgers’ week is as hard as one, two, three
• Seattle manager blazes a trail not seen by everyone
• Singer’s death prompts new jail drug policy
• Skis, sun and groomed trails
• Soccer
• Still bowling
• Sun Devils now a Pac-10 threat?
• Winless Lions have a last shot to avoid 0-16, infamy

OBITS

• Adrian Mitchell was noted as a populist British poet
• Ibrahim Ibrahim was a leading Arab scholar
• Publisher Caracciolo known as ‘editor prince’
• Thomas Congdon edited many best-selling books

CENTRAL OREGON OBITS

• Death notices
• J. Peter "Pete" Moore
• Phyllis Bundy Robinson

NATION & WORLD

• Adrian Mitchell was noted as a populist British poet
• Blagojevich says he’s fighting for the people
• China admits school failings
• China deploys ships to combat pirates
• Feds to investigate fatal California blast
• Guinea mourns longtime dictator
• Honeybees can get hooked on cocaine
• Ibrahim Ibrahim was a leading Arab scholar
• No furnace, but this house is plenty warm
• One owner’s bet on a smoke-free casino is paying dividends
• Pakistan moves additional troops to Indian border
• Palestinian rocket misfires, kills 2 in Gaza
• Pentagon tightens rules on religion at recruit installations
• ‘Peter Pan’ opened in London in 1904
• 6 police, 7 suspects killed in Iraqi jailbreak
• Preparing for the SAT can be a funny thing
• Publisher Caracciolo known as ‘editor prince’
• Rules open oil and gas companies to more disclosure
• Santa shooter planned to flee U.S.
• Thomas Congdon edited many best-selling books
• West still feeling winter storms

FEATURES

• A scramble for deals, sales
• Bend Memorial Clinic and insurer near agreement
• Calendar
• Call of the canyons
• High Desert Museum seeks volunteers
• Need help shoveling? A Bend locale has your back
• OPB’s ‘Oregon Art Beat’ features Redmond man
• People On the Move
• Religion in Brief
• Woman hates being benchmark for dieter

ENTERTAINMENT

• Calendar
• Call of the canyons
• ‘Fringe’ fails to put Fox on top
• If acting hadn’t panned out, I’d be...
• Movie Times
• OPB’s ‘Oregon Art Beat’ features Redmond man
• Singer’s death prompts new jail drug policy
• ‘Valkyrie’ an excellent thriller, although some facts fudged

OPINION

• A small source of silver lining
• From the Archives
• GOP to blame for recent disasters
• Suterra does not belong at Juniper Ridge development

ROADS & TRAFFIC

• One La Pine-to-Bend bus service gets boost after receiving grants