January 08, 2009

LOCAL & STATE

• Badlands bill on the fast track
• Books fly off shelves as library use soars
• Burglars target student rentals during UO break
• Calendar
• Correction
• Eckman is Bend’s new mayor
• Environmental group backs canal to bypass troubled California delta
• GOLDEN GLOBE
• Gottschalks’ uncertain future
• Highway deaths decline in 2008
• Local group strives to help patients live with disease
• Lowest median price in 4 years
• Man arrested in church shooting
• Man sentenced for child porn
• New Culver council may not support embattled police chief
• News of Record
• Northwest Oregon under flood watches and warnings
• Nursery, greenhouse damage from storms at $18M to $31M
• Oregon Zoo breaks attendance record
• OSU students apply for food aid
• Police arrest teens in Pendleton bomb threat
• Rain after snow causes flooding in Washington
• Sisters resurrects school levy
• Slick Web scammer leaves Bend man out of $3,600
• Teenage driver cell phone law tough to enforce
• Washington teenager charged in baby’s death
• ‘Zombie Bandit’ suspected in Medford robbery

BUSINESS

• Bank of America sells shares in Chinese bank
• Bend may escape Cessna’s next ax
• Books fly off shelves as library use soars
• Business Calendar
• Correction
• Data company plans layoffs, better profits
• earnings hits stocks
• Gottschalks’ uncertain future
• Identity thieves, modern-day grave robbers
• Lodging chief named
• Lowest median price in 4 years
• Microsoft, Dell, Verizon
• Monsanto earnings double, outlook strong
• New papers filed in Madoff case
• News of Record
• Outsourcing company Satyam admits huge accounting fraud
• Parkinson’s study shows promise, but with risks
• Paulson says Fannie, Freddie need changes
• Poor outlook for jobs,
• Putting health care costs under the knife
• Slick Web scammer leaves Bend man out of $3,600
• strike deal on searches
• Time Warner expects $25 billion charge

SPORTS

• Auto racing
• Baseball
• Basketball
• Bull trout opportunities on Lake Billy Chinook
• Canucks defeat Oilers in Sundin’s return to hockey
• College football
• Ex-Cowboy wrestler shines at Oklahoma
• Family ties: Obama calls OSU coach
• Fly-tying corner
• Grizzlies come up empty on the road
• Hold that pose: Florida, Oklahoma play for BCS title
• NFL football
• No. 2 Duke tops Davidson, 79-67
• On the Air On the Air
• On trails, it’s ‘mashed potatoes and gravy’
• Redmond alum earns honor
• Scoreboard
• Slicing through the snow
• Summit grad starts indoor track season
• Summit looks to challenge Bend this year
• Tennis
• Trail Blazers beat Pistons by a point
• Walking on water
• Wrestling this week at fairgrounds
• Young hunter bags his Christmas goose

CENTRAL OREGON OBITS

• Death notices
• Dwight M. Wendell
• Elayne Alyce Angus
• John Herman Wildermuth
• Leroy Scott McMahan
• Virginia Ann (Leeds) Matson Fraser

NATION & WORLD

• Army sends survivors ‘John Doe’ letters
• Cambodia marks fall of Khmer Rouge
• Democrats remove roadblocks for Burris
• Downed trees: Some see a hassle, others a table
• Economic woes in U.S. prompt Guardsmen to extend tours
• Elective C-sections carry increased risk, study finds
• EU intervenes in gas dispute between Russia and Ukraine
• Extra sleep may lead to a healthier heart
• Fairness doctrine not needed, most agree
• Ghana’s new president vows to ‘heal wounds’
• Important person joins the parent-teacher talk
• Israel resumes onslaught after humanitarian ‘pause’
• Joe the Plumber now Joe the War Reporter
• 7 killed in latest wave of violence in Tijuana
• More teachers are trying out video games
• Mumbai gunman is Pakistani, official says
• No shoes? No problem for this college interview
• PTSD sufferers won’t get Purple Hearts
• Rock legend Elvis Presley is born in 1935
• Scientists tickled pink over lizard discovery
• Shiite holy day brings tight security across Iraq
• Social Security, Medicare revamp top Obama’s list
• Study: Mississippi leads in teen birth rates
• Vitamin D tests may be flawed

FEATURES

• Community Datebook
• Correction
• Couple tosses and turns over sharing the covers
• Fending off colds and flu
• Gallbladder
• Health Datebook
• How to lighten your drinks
• Insurance company complaints
• Local group strives to help patients live with disease
• On-the-go meals are the unhealthy norm
• People
• Racing to ease YOUR APPETITE
• Spice up your meals with medicinal benefits of turmeric
• Using too many painkillers can create a migraine rut
• When the snow piles high, grab a shovel and burn off a few calories

ENTERTAINMENT

• Art scholarships up for grabs for area students
• Bend library to host basement book sale
• Bend may escape Cessna’s next ax
• Cascade Horizon Band to give free concert
• earnings hits stocks
• Here comes the new ‘Idol’ judge
• Lodging chief named
• Movie Times
• People
• Poor outlook for jobs,

OPINION

• Appoint Leonard
• Equal treatment
• Governor revives bad Metolius bill
• Land use chief cuts public from meetings
• Officer on trial?
• Politicians are far too eager to spend taxpayers’ money
• Restorative justice
• Tax follies

ROADS & TRAFFIC

• The worst is behind us; milder weather expected for the region