March 25, 2009

LOCAL & STATE

• Bend employee health plan gets some scrutiny
• Bend police seeking knife-wielding woman
• Blue Moon closing
• Central Oregonians get assistance from 211 line
• Correction
• Document-shredding offered in April
• Empire offramp to close Friday night
• Exhibits take shape
• Exxon Valdez disaster: Could it happen again?
• Fashion with curve appeal
• Free assistance with financial aid forms
• Free health screenings for kids in Sunriver
• Give help; get help
• Kids in the hall
• Madras student gets 4-H scholarship
• Metolian plan may have hit big snag
• News of Record: Bankruptcies
• News of Record: Police Log, Bend fire runs, Pets
• Officials speed up schedule for urban renewal
• One women’s store closing; one opening
• Patient sues, says stapler misfired in surgery, injuring her
• Students keep busy, have fun and learn new skills on break
• The home stretch for The Oxford Hotel
• Woman hurt in crash on O’Neil Highway

BUSINESS

• A few top hedge fund managers still bringing in billions
• As men lose jobs, wives pick up the slack
• Blockbuster to rent, sell movies via TiVo
• Blue Moon closing
• Business Calendar
• Central Oregonians get assistance from 211 line
• China calls for new global currency
• Correction
• Cover up that iPod or iPhone
• Document-shredding offered in April
• Exhibits take shape
• Fashion with curve appeal
• Metolian plan may have hit big snag
• Mountaintop mining permits delayed
• One women’s store closing; one opening
• OSU-Cascades students to compete
• Recalls
• Sick people may get insurance break
• The home stretch for The Oxford Hotel
• Wise up and clean up your Internet act
• Wrap it up again and again with fabric
• Your reusable bag at Ray’s helps charities, environment

SPORTS

• Armstrong: Collarbone injury is just a ‘setback’
• Baseball
• Basketball
• Bend baseball earns first win of season
• Bend’s King set to compete in world championships
• C.O. squads fielding strong relays
• College sports
• Ducks edge Preds in race for West’s final spot
• Golf on TV
• Golf Scoreboard
• Jazz narrow Nuggets’ lead in Northwest with victory over Rockets
• Local sports
• Lots of deals at local private clubs
• NFL passes four player safety rules
• No. 1 seed Duke falls in second round
• Nolan Halterman, Pronghorn
• On the Air
• Prep Scoreboard
• Redmond earns a split
• Scoreboard

CENTRAL OREGON OBITS

• Death notices
• Esther F. Williams
• Jack E. Gardner
• Lois Aliene (Jones) Brown
• Robert T. Hagner
• Rodney Punk Hufstader
• Ruth Bertha Stone

NATION & WORLD

• A $10 treasure or good hoax? Spyglass might have belonged to Hemingway
• Afghan officials arrest TV station manager
• Anti-Clinton movie elicits mixed reactions from Supreme Court
• Captured Americans face interrogation
• Clinton, Obama will attempt to head off a neighborly feud
• Code crackers’ pride is undimmed by time
• Conference canceled amid Dalai Lama flap
• Czech government is voted out of power
• Financial woes forcing states to rethink prisons
• France to compensate nuclear test victims
• King leads Montgomery, Ala., march in 1965
• Lines between friend, foe can blur in fight to protect environment
• Moderates join Israel’s right-wing government Protest turns violent
• President pleads for patience
• Wall Street dissecting bank plan, seeking a way to profit
• We heard a markedly more somber Obama

FEATURES

• Bend employee health plan gets some scrutiny
• Cover up that iPod or iPhone
• Free health screenings for kids in Sunriver
• Patient sues, says stapler misfired in surgery, injuring her
• Sick people may get insurance break
• Study links brain’s cortex to depression

ENTERTAINMENT

• Big issues engage in ‘Love’ season finale
• Blockbuster to rent, sell movies via TiVo
• Calendar
• Letterman marries longtime girlfriend
• Lopez to host late-night talk show
• Movie Times
• Top entertainment sellers

OPINION

• Find workable solutions to grazing
• Go slow on food bill
• Having more boots on the ground gives the U.S. options
• Kick-start Oregon

ROADS & TRAFFIC

• Empire offramp to close Friday night
• Officials speed up schedule for urban renewal
• Woman hurt in crash on O’Neil Highway