March 18, 2009

LOCAL & STATE

• A little messy, but worth the effort
• All tied up in creative self-expression
• Anti-logger schoolbook replaced in Grants Pass
• Bend projects more room tax declines
• Cable prices set to increase
• Caterpillar to lay off 2,454 employees
• DeFazio slams security at Portland airport
• Deschutes could send inmates to Jefferson
• Highway 26 blocked for 3 hours by crash
• Housing data helps fuel market climb
• In speech, Bush declines to criticize his successor
• Kids in the hall
• Logging lawsuit includes endangered species claims
• Man faces kidnapping charge in gun incident
• News of Record: Bankruptcies
• News of Record: Police Log, Bend fire runs
• Odd allies get behind wilderness legislation
• Pack light, save money
• Puppy mill case going to trial
• Redmond man sentenced for shooting gas station worker
• Redmond schools seek grant
• Steps to take if your child is suspended
• Transit panel offers its recommendations
• Web site helps 1 in 4 discover forgotten funds, pocket the cash

BUSINESS

• Bend projects more room tax declines
• Bend shoe store takes steps to help needy
• Business Calendar
• Cable prices set to increase
• Caterpillar to lay off 2,454 employees
• Color coded
• From art of enamel to leather
• Housing data helps fuel market climb
• New details of AIG bonuses fuel outrage in Washington
• Over 55 and out of a job: What now?
• Pack light, save money
• Proposals aim to make money funds more secure
• Recalls
• Ski areas could soon add more summer attractions
• Top entertainment sellers

SPORTS

• Aspen Lakes offering free golf next week
• Bend’s Eaton earns national honor
• Boxer’s injury called a brain hemorrhage
• Cavs edge Magic in East showdown
• Central Oregonians rack up OGA awards
• College basketball
• Cycling
• Devils’ Brodeur sets wins mark
• Golf Scoreboard
• Jim Ramey, Sunriver Resort
• Mackey leads, nears finish line in Nome
• Madras baseball tops Sisters
• Madras rallies late, tops Sisters
• Natasha Richardson critically injured in skiing accident
• NBA
• NCAA tournament abounds with great storylines
• Off and running
• On the Air
• Prep Scoreboard
• Prep sports
• Raking rings around the diamond
• Steelers owner tapped as envoy to Ireland
• Team USA reaches semis of WBC
• Teeing it up
• The things caddies hate to hear their players say

CENTRAL OREGON OBITS

• Death notices
• Delicia Leilani San Juan (Sanchez)
• Ernest Edward Widger
• John F. Lussenhop
• Leland I. Andersen
• Mabel M. Lentz

NATION & WORLD

• Drunken revelers test an already tense Northern Ireland
• Faith and healing — have one, and you’ll likely seek the other
• Former 1970s radical released from prison
• Global dimming?
• IRS: Madoff victims will get a tax break
• Mistrial by cell phone: How jurors" Web forays wreak havoc on justice
• On trip to Africa, pope says condoms won’t stop AIDS
• Senators: U.S. shares blame for Mexican drug violence
• Shuttle reaches station
• Soviet cosmonaut takes first spacewalk in 1965
• Steelers owner tapped as envoy to Ireland
• Stimulus funds going to clear forest brush
• U.S. weighs deeper push into Pakistan
• Worlds apart on curbing climate change

FEATURES

• Cut cleaning cost with homemade cleansers
• Pack light, save money
• Redmond schools seek grant

ENTERTAINMENT

• A fashion honor for first lady Obama
• Calendar
• It’s a ‘Throwdown!’: Men of meat grill it out
• Movie Times
• Natasha Richardson critically injured in skiing accident
• Parker Posey set for off-Broadway show
• Top entertainment sellers

OPINION

• Bureaucrats vs. food
• Free speech
• Metolius ‘land grab’ heads to Legislature
• No sales tax
• Save for rainy day
• Stimulus dollars should be spent on things we already need

ROADS & TRAFFIC

• Highway 26 blocked for 3 hours by crash