March 13, 2009

LOCAL & STATE

• A musical journey
• A turn with ‘Te Deum’
• Aid workers abducted in Sudan
• ART EXHIBITS
• Better brain trauma testing is urged for those at war
• Breaking through
• Call to artists
• Canadian helicopter ditches into Atlantic
• China formally protests U.S. resolution on Tibet
• Clear for takeoff
• Climate change effects seen in Antarctic winds
• Congress keeps its automatic pay raises
• Coos Bay rail purchase gets federal money
• Court stays Brown execution
• Crook schools chief finalist bows out
• Customer support center has 350 job openings
• Death notices
• Deputies search new areas for Florida girl
• Dining out at Three Creeks
• Dispatches
• Does nighttime program keep kids awake?
• Elk takes a breather
• 3EStrategies shifts gears to for-profit
• Eugene shelter closes from too much demand
• Famed restaurant reopens after scare
• Family Calendar
• First lady visits military families
• Germany mourns school shooting victims
• Gift card confusion frustrates Sportsman’s Warehouse customers
• GO! Magazine
• Google executive to take over AOL
• Grandparents get in free at kids’ museum
• Green Team members take on recycling
• Grow your own pot of good-luck gold
• Here’s what’s showing on Central Oregon movie screens
• Household wealth falls by trillions
• I confess, I’m a text junkie
• Investors respond to a few glimmers of hope
• Iraqi who threw shoes at Bush sentenced to three years in jail
• Johnny "John" Earl Coonce
• La Pine clinic gets $600K grant
• Learning disabilities focus of free talk
• Living together, apart
• Lourene E. Bateson Selander
• Machining company relocates to Redmond
• Man recovering after Niagara plunge
• Maniscalco testifies Lovisco wasn’t impaired
• Merkley has first White House chat
• Mmmmmmmm … Hot Club Sandwich
• MOVIE TIMES * For the week of March 13
• Music releases
• News of Record: Police Log, Bend fire runs, Stolen vehicles, Pets
• North Korea continues plans for rocket launch
• Oil spill befouls Australian beaches
• Other stuff to go and see and do and hear
• Out of town
• Papermaking events
• Party chief: GOP can win here
• Planet Uranus discovered in 1781
• Planning ahead
• Prineville business fined $4,343 by DEQ
• ‘Quants’ apply science to Wall Street problems
• Researchers buzzing over humble fruit fly and its genetic wealth
• Restaurant Guide
• Ryan, Jacobs-Strain bring Sisters the blues
• Sea lion euthanized at Bonneville Dam
• Seeing stars
• Senior year is delight for ‘High School Musical’
• Silver Moon’s music-filled weekend
• Space station evacuated amid near miss by debris
• Special ed students reach record number
• State courts get lost workday back
• Story times, library youth events for March 13-19
• Students aren’t getting enough physical education, report says
• Talks, classes, museums & libraries
• The right combination
• Thoreau, the economy inspire students to learn lessons of less
• Threat of layoffs looms at Sheriff’s Office
• Towing company’s owner, 22, arrested
• Trailer jackknifes, closes Santiam Pass
• Two top spots filled at Justice Department
• Upcoming Concerts
• U.S. tries to ease tensions as political crisis roils Pakistan
• What’s in a name?
• Zimbabwe releases prominent politician

BUSINESS

• A $30 million energy debate
• Business Calendar
• Customer support center has 350 job openings
• Dispatches
• 3EStrategies shifts gears to for-profit
• For beleaguered bank and its hometown, a time to look inward
• Gift card confusion frustrates Sportsman’s Warehouse customers
• Google executive to take over AOL
• Guilty as charged
• Have smartphone, can travel
• Household wealth falls by trillions
• Machining company relocates to Redmond
• Prineville business fined $4,343 by DEQ
• Recalls

SPORTS

• Adventure Sports Events Calendar
• Baseball
• Cascade Crest ski race Saturday at Mt. Bachelor
• College football
• Cycling
• Eaton honored, awaits indoor championships
• Fernandez recovers from L.A. incident
• For some mushers, one town is the Iditarod ‘spa’ stop
• La Pine reaches state semis
• Lakers clinch playoff spot in San Antonio
• Lefty tied for lead, Tiger sputters
• Mt. Bachelor Nordic Center
• No. 18 Syracuse outlasts No. 3 UConn in six OTs
• On the Air
• Reasoner lifts Thrashers past Oilers
• Redmond grad earns 1A title as coach
• Scoreboard
• Skiing
• Speedskating
• Tennis
• Trikked out
• Warner Mountain Fire Lookout

OBITS

• Mercado shaped careers of Latin stars
• Philanthropist Leonore Annenberg

FEATURES

• This week

ENTERTAINMENT

• Mellow out with these games
• New dvd releases
• Parents’ Guide to Movies

OPINION

• Congress flexes
• How to grow
• Legislation aimed at pit bull owners will accomplish little
• Oregon in the pot biz?
• Punishing dissent
• Some change
• Stimulus for deer
• Where’s the change?

ROADS & TRAFFIC

• Trailer jackknifes, closes Santiam Pass