December 28, 2008

LOCAL & STATE

• Audit uncovers bad spending
• Baxter — Brandon
• Bend boy’s arm reattached after accident
• Best photos of 2008: Andy Tullis
• Best photos of 2008: Melissa Jansson
• Best photos of 2008: Pete Erickson
• Best photos of 2008: Rob Kerr
• Births
• Boston’s raises $12,400 for Boys & Girls Clubs
• Car bombs kill dozens near Baghdad shrine
• Cash-strapped states may lease roads, parks
• Chinese dairies to pay victims of tainted milk
• Deschutes officials gather a wish list for the Legislature
• Domestic partnerships OK’d
• Donations help La Pine parks, but future hazy
• Economic meltdown
• For senior skiers, thrill of the slopes is still a big draw
• Foundation boosts FAN
• Gas price roller coaster
• Group plans crab feed, live music as fundraiser
• Guinea coup leader vows no corruption
• Historic election
• Ice may flood Midwest; Northwest also melting
• Joblessness mounts
• Legislators won't call on Obama aides to testify
• Local feature shots
• Man held on $1M bail in Christmas fire
• 911 may need to dial 911
• Military parents support troops - and one another
• Milwaukie man struck by car dies in hospital
• Mt. Bachelor shake-up
• New security rule worries Washington fruit packers
• News of Record: Deeds
• One man, 6 years of food in storage
• Oregon Community
• 150,000 Pakistanis mark one year since Bhutto’s slaying
• Pederson — Petterson
• Pit bulls quarantined after attack on man
• Police: Noisy man shot in Philadelphia theater
• Portland men indicted in homeless assaults
• Rare rocket attack kills 3 teens in Afghanistan
• Redmond Airport grows
• Santa gunman lost job, wife before gory attack
• Self-reliance and selflessness serve Mormons in hard times
• Skier dies in avalanche at Tahoe’s Squaw Valley resort
• Suicide at St. Charles
• The final rewind
• The Nature of Words receives $10,000 grant
• The recessions of old vs. today
• Tillamook girl to be honored for heroism
• Timber payments stay
• Tofte
• Tree knocks out cable, power in part of Bend
• Unprecedented times
• Weather closes parts of I-84
• When storing your car, use the right fluids — and in the right places
• 14,500 will appear on Iraq’s Jan. 31 ballot
• Wolfe
• 25 YEARS AGO

BUSINESS

• Airlines to their passengers: Learn to live with bag fees
• FCC, TV, Internet to see big shift in 2009
• Forecast: More than 1M job cuts in 2009
• How to choose a new credit card
• IRS collections from audits fall in 2008
• News of Record: Deeds
• Once a household name, Amway angles for a U.S. comeback
• Starbucks loses round in union fight
• Target takes a back seat to Wal-Mart - again
• The recessions of old vs. today
• Tree knocks out cable, power in part of Bend
• TURNED OFF

SPORTS

• A young heart saved by a chance checkup
• Adam Craig
• American places 2nd in Nordic combined
• Artificial surface becomes a reality
• Barbara Buchan
• Before a bowl game, a civil rights lesson
• Big names, great games everywhere
• Cal takes Emerald Bowl
• Cascade Cycling Classic
• Cougs head here and here Mountain View loses in opener of Lake Oswego tournament
• Girls’ fab fall
• >>Headliners
• Holmgren’s farewell as Seattle’s coach comes against Arizona
• Inspiring Bend teen loses fight against leukemia
• NBA Scoreboard
• NFL’s final week: A lot of ifs still remain
• On the Air
• Prep sports
• QBs from Texas have star power
• Roy scores 32 as Blazers top Raptors
• Sisters Rodeo
• Sports in Brief
• Surging Bruins win seventh straight
• The Tradition
• Thunder and Wizards combine to make NBA’s worst matchup ever
• West Virginia thumps No. 15 Ohio State in Columbus
• World Cup downhillers worried about icy course conditions in Italy

OBITS

• Dorothy Sarnoff, a stage star who later was a self-help guru
• Hillary Waugh wrote early police procedurals
• ‘Man of La Mancha’ playwright Wasserman dies

CENTRAL OREGON OBITS

• Death notices
• William Glenn Landy

NATION & WORLD

• Asthmatics may abstain after switch to ‘green’ inhalers
• Cabinet picks set off a scramble
• Dorothy Sarnoff, a stage star who later was a self-help guru
• Earthquake, tsunami kill about 70,000 in Messina, Italy, in 1908
• First-time parents - 5 times over - in N.Y.
• Group: Health warnings not strong enough for ash spill
• Hillary Waugh wrote early police procedurals
• How normal will Obama girls’ lives be?
• How WaMu built its empire: Always say yes
• In California, compost laws can get you in a pickle
• Israeli airstrikes set Arab world aflame
• Last big VHS supplier hits the eject button
• ‘Man of La Mancha’ playwright Wasserman dies
• Mixed reviews in GOP for Obama CD parody
• Obama’s overseas playbook: Will much change from Bush’s?
• Seattle holdout had a story to tell
• Study ties lack of sleep to plaque in the arteries
• Walden, DeFazio on opposite sides of stimulus

FEATURES

• A bona fide hell-raiser
• Boy Scouts see Hispanics as key to boosting ranks
• Calendar
• Experiencing Israel
• GALILEE
• Galilee: A haunting landscape right out of the New Testament
• JERUSALEM
• Military parents support troops - and one another
• News of Record
• Planning your trip to Israel
• Post-holiday trash yields memories, treasures
• Scraping off windshield ice? How about melting it off?
• Spirit of the Season
• TEL AVIV
• Tel Aviv: Ancient land with a modern pulse
• TELEPHONES
• TO LEARN MORE
• TURNED OFF
• When storing your car, use the right fluids — and in the right places

ENTERTAINMENT

• Best-sellers
• Calendar
• Examining the effects of war
• Hailing the chief
• Memoirs of a princess: What you may not know about Carrie Fisher
• Movie Times
• Pet lovers sure to find something to chew on
• Predictable toughness, clichés tie story together
• Spirit of the Season
• TV bounces back from writers’ strike
• World-building effort is brilliant, but too lengthy

OPINION

• A healthy doctor-patient relationship is crucial
• An energy gift with a bright future
• Audit uncovers bad spending
• ‘Best of the worst’ award was bestowed too soon
• Cardinal Avery Dulles epitomized a particular kind of American life
• Good, yet sinful, deeds?
• It’s time to reboot America
• 911 may need to dial 911
• No-regrets president did not rise to the occasion
• That was then, this is now

ROADS & TRAFFIC

• Deschutes officials gather a wish list for the Legislature
• When storing your car, use the right fluids — and in the right places