February 15, 2009

LOCAL & STATE

• A curl for cancer
• Area builders remodel their homes - and business plans - to survive
• Birthday bash draws thousands
• Births
• Burris changes story on Senate selection
• Calendar
• Desperate? Don’t be — what to do if your key just won’t turn
• Finally, a guide for dinner clubs
• Fitness, marching and rifle twirling as JROTC students compete in Bend
• GM, Chrysler labor talks stall as deadline nears
• Hardly the best and the brightest
• Mail carrier rolls vehicle on icy road
• Mall owners confident in Gottschalks
• News of Record: Deeds
• NIU students mourn victims one year later
• Opponents to state tax cite climbing Coos Bay costs
• Oregon lawmaker: Limit school board recalls
• Pilot Butte may be site of new park by summer
• Recycle It’s the new operating procedure at St. Charles Bend
• Spend or save? For consumers, it’s a trick question
• Toxic algae threat spawns proposals to monitor risks
• Wilson
• With money tight, Redmond to look at infrastructure plans
• Woman killed in crash near Santiam Pass
• 25 YEARS AGO

BUSINESS

• Area builders remodel their homes - and business plans - to survive
• Ethanol, just recently a savior, is struggling
• Ex-Enron CEO to take appeal to high court
• Former owner of Merenda and Deep leaves country — and unpaid debts
• IRS softens several measures against taxpayers in hardship
• Mall owners confident in Gottschalks
• News of Record: Deeds
• Prosecutors weigh options in salmonella scare
• Rates on 30-year fixed mortgages fall
• Toned-down toys for 2009
• Toyota to cut pay, offer buyouts in U.S.

SPORTS

• Arizona earns upset of No. 11 UCLA
• Baseball
• Capitals defenseman sets record for goals in consecutive games
• Crook County takes IMC victory on road
• Cycling
• Daytona 500 starts what may be tough NASCAR season
• Joe Goldstein drummed up a buzz for everything from ESPN to Evel Knievel
• NBA names finals MVP award after legend Bill Russell
• On the Air
• Oregon State wins at Wazzu
• Porter scores 33 for Oregon, but Ducks lose big
• Redmond boys take second at districts
• Robinson wins NBA slam dunk contest
• Scoreboard
• Speedskating
• Summit nears IMC title
• Summit sweeps at districts
• Tennis
• The next chapter
• Tour of California starts in Sacramento
• Vonn falls in slalom at worlds, Riesch wins
• Wie falters in final round
• Wild horses may get some help

OBITS

• Joe Goldstein drummed up a buzz for everything from ESPN to Evel Knievel

CENTRAL OREGON OBITS

• Death notices
• Dorothy Ann McCool

NATION & WORLD

• After stimulus, Obama shifts to deficit
• Climate-warming gases rising faster than forecast
• Europeans take shots at Geithner on stimulus
• First stop, Tokyo; but China"s the heart of Clinton"s first trip
• France goes halfway on marriage, unions
• Graft inquiry in Iraq turns to U.S. officers
• Ice menace returns with Buffalo crash
• In Gingrich mold, a new voice for GOP resistance
• In need of a new Net?
• In tough times, immigrants’ golden years lose some luster
• Military to offer making migrants citizens
• Small planes taking on bigger share of skies
• The Maine blows up in Havana Harbor in 1898
• U.S. missile strike kills 27 in Pakistan
• Valentine’s day: Not only a human affair
• Wal-Mart’s health care lesson for reformers
• Wild horses may get some help

FEATURES

• A curl for cancer
• Buy, buy, buy: Shopaholics find deals much too sweet
• Desperate? Don’t be — what to do if your key just won’t turn
• Fashion world’s birthday gift to Barbie: 50 frocks
• Finally, a guide for dinner clubs
• High-def makeup adjustments
• Impreza: A driver"s car for anyone’s budget
• News of Record: Reunions, Military notes, College Notes, , Youth Notes,
• Pop question, don’t break bank
• Recycle It’s the new operating procedure at St. Charles Bend
• Thank you to the lifesavers in my life
• Thanks for help with groceries — and more

ENTERTAINMENT

• A chain saw, a hunk of ice and a delicate touch
• Artificial intelligence
• Best-sellers
• Engaging ‘Eve’ offers fresh look at the first woman
• Former owner of Merenda and Deep leaves country — and unpaid debts
• Haskell’s new book is more essay than novel
• Higgins pulls you along with ‘A Darker Place’
• Kevin Costner, wife welcome another son
• Kids books tell of Abe’s words, life
• Latino Film Fiesta to screen 4 indie films
• Life as a garden
• Lincoln bio has surprises to share
• Memory plays a big part in Grant’s deep narrative
• Movie Times
• New guide to attracting men
• No opening night for Albee; he sees a movie
• ‘Promises’ is J.D. Robb at her best
• Spaghetti feed planned to aid memorial fund
• Sykes to entertain at correspondents’ dinner
• Whence came Abe Lincoln’s eloquence?

OPINION

• A printing lesson for local schools
• Let’s try this: an open-door bailout plan
• Marriage as a 50-50 proposition: It’s not all talk
• Mission: intelligence
• Money or Metolius? It’s an easy pick
• The bust: 6 lessons
• They couldn’t crack the code. Can you?

ROADS & TRAFFIC

• Desperate? Don’t be — what to do if your key just won’t turn
• Mail carrier rolls vehicle on icy road
• With money tight, Redmond to look at infrastructure plans
• Woman killed in crash near Santiam Pass