January 03, 2009

LOCAL & STATE

• After 16 months, Bend council plans final vote on UGB map
• Bend bank amends earnings reports
• Cable company offering rabbit ears - free to those needing a fix of Fox
• Coos County to lay off 22 road workers
• Correction
• Fallen trees close Shevlin Park
• Floods, slides stymie Oregon
• GMAC gives up some GM car financing
• Housing grant to help 75 families pay rent
• in Costco parking lot
• In 8 years as judge, Cooper never settled for 2nd-class status
• Man charged in death of roadside helper
• 1 man, 1 night, 2 lives changed
• Manufacturing index drops to 28-year low
• Martin Luther is excommunicated in 1521
• Mountain View High cheerleader dies in crash
• New faces will be sworn in as cities, counties return to business
• News of Record
• No one injured in fire at Cannon Beach inn
• Oregon takes the lead in effort to ditch gas tax for mileage tax
• Parents joyous - despite missing the ‘08 tax break
• 3 people hospitalized in crash near Millican
• People on the Move
• Police seek man they say fired at deputies
• Sunwest CEO files for personal bankruptcy
• What's going up?
• What’s government’s role?
• 17-year-old arraigned after double killing

BUSINESS

• After 16 months, Bend council plans final vote on UGB map
• Bend bank amends earnings reports
• Cable company offering rabbit ears - free to those needing a fix of Fox
• Correction
• DESPERATE RETAILERS
• Energy-hogging TVs targeted by Calif. regulators
• Foreign workers face stress amid rising unemployment
• How can you save for college without taking on huge risks?
• People on the Move
• Stocks rally for 2009; is January an omen?
• What's going up?

SPORTS

• A championship mecca?
• Auto racing
• Baseball
• Colts quarterback Manning is named AP’s NFL MVP
• Culver rolls to fifth victory in boys hoops
• Golf majors for minors — a world champion at age 6
• NBA basketball
• NBA Scoreboard
• NFL football
• No. 17 Arizona St. hands Stanford 1st loss, 90-60
• No. 5 seeds have inside tracks in NFL playoffs
• No. 12 UCLA downs Oregon State 69-46
• Nuggets’ Anthony sinks Thunder with late three
• On the Air
• Oregon falls in opener
• Richards leads Flyers to 5-4 win
• Scoreboard
• Tennis
• Trail Blazers lose steam, Hornets win down stretch
• Utes get a sweet victory
• Year of parity for Pac-10?

OBITS

• Donald Westlake was Grand Master of mystery novels

CENTRAL OREGON OBITS

• Death notices

NATION & WORLD

• Airline apologizes for pulling Muslims
• Australia, Britain hesitant on detainees
• Bomber kills at least 23 tribal leaders
• Crew fights off Somali pirates
• Crucial Khyber Pass briefly reopens
• Democrats plan cool reception for Illinois governor’s appointee
• Denver schools chief in line to complete senator’s term
• Donald Westlake was Grand Master of mystery novels
• For Obama, a test on executive power is set to come early
• General surgeons: crucial, rare and getting rarer
• India questions Pakistani crackdown
• Iranian Nobel winner has home vandalized
• Israel, still bombing, lets foreigners leave
• Religion class spurs suit in Indiana
• Republican moderates are low in numbers, not influence
• Search called off for cruise employee
• To fill priestly ranks, parishes look overseas
• Two advisers defend Bush

FEATURES

• Calendar
• General surgeons: crucial, rare and getting rarer
• In 8 years as judge, Cooper never settled for 2nd-class status
• 1 man, 1 night, 2 lives changed
• Parents joyous - despite missing the ‘08 tax break
• People on the Move
• Religion in Brief

ENTERTAINMENT

• Best of the year! Even if I haven’t seen them
• Calendar
• Girl Scouts seek troop leaders, volunteers
• Modern battle brews over building a Wal-Mart at Civil War battlefield
• Movie Times
• New place, time for Inter-Cultural planning
• She’s really shy, but that’s a secret
• Smith voted top money-making star

OPINION

• Black is to blame
• Chicken appreciated
• Crook school board’s ban
• David Black is a victim of Oregon’s criminal justice system
• More healthy, but less free
• Pardon David Black