March 26, 2009

LOCAL & STATE

• Agencies are forced to review spending
• Baker City endorses ordinance limiting temporary signs
• Bend visitor research is available online
• Bend-area home damaged by fire
• Business Calendar
• Cautious optimism over iced Missouri River
• COCC halts enrollment for spring
• 2 colleges in Klamath Falls are offering free tuition after job loss
• Correction
• Ex-sheriff runs for education board
• Father sentenced to 50 years in sex abuse of daughter
• Father, son arrested in skier attack
• Good news for the Badlands
• Gottschalks’ lease being shopped
• Hearing on Bend shelter packed
• Home sales increase
• Homebuilder will pay mortgage for 6 months if buyer loses job
• House passes bullying bill
• iTunes to raise prices for hottest tracks
• Lumber group expects drop in demand
• News of Record: Permits
• News of Record: Police Log, Bend fire runs, Pets
• Prognosis isn’t good for boxer
• Suspect is arrested in death of girl who vanished in 1998
• They’re watching you like a hawk – at the high desert museum
• United Way seeks Days of Caring help
• 10-year-old boy hurt in dog attack

BUSINESS

• Bend visitor research is available online
• Dish Network faces telemarketing lawsuit
• Expectations are lowered for the return of the bull
• Gottschalks’ lease being shopped
• Home sales increase
• Homebuilder will pay mortgage for 6 months if buyer loses job
• IBM to lay off 5,000 employees in U.S.
• In Idaho, selling ads on tests
• iTunes to raise prices for hottest tracks
• Merkley gives first speech in Senate
• News of Record: Permits
• Obama rallies budget support
• Online age quiz is also a window for drugmakers
• Pay to stay?
• Recalls
• Teams start moving fish through chute
• Treasury auction draws a tepid response

SPORTS

• A bullish getaway
• A closer look at the NCAA’s Sweet 16
• Baseball
• Beavers win, set to play in CBI finals
• College basketball
• Cougars work extra innings for their first win of season
• Cycling
• Ducks beat Avalanche, win their fifth straight game
• Figure skating
• Fly-tying corner
• Goodell wants longer regular season for NFL
• Hill’s late bucket lifts streaking Suns past Jazz
• Hunting & Fishing Calendar
• La Pine earns split at Sisters tourney
• Magazine rates Bend No. 1 for mountain biking
• On the Air
• Prep Scoreboard
• Reservoirs recently stocked
• Scoreboard
• Scout now to improve turkey hunting success
• Senate reviewing how college football picks No. 1
• Until next winter .... Spring grips sno-parks
• Want a grueling workout? Sisters man has a machine for you
• Wet day at Dry Creek
• Your summer on a budget

OBITS

• Former Oregon farmer, 110, dies at Corvallis care facility
• Uriel Jones, drummer on Motown hits

CENTRAL OREGON OBITS

• Barbara Barbie Ray Cunningham Harcourt
• Death notices
• Joanna F. Mason
• John R. (Bob) Crabtree II
• LeRoy H. Fassett
• Shirley Denyse

NATION & WORLD

• A big push to update textbooks for Obama
• AIG executive resigns in N.Y. Times column
• Bodies of 39 Heaven’s Gate cult members found in 1997
• Clinton: U.S. feeds Mexican narcotics trade
• Consumers can reapply for digital TV box coupons
• Good news for the Badlands
• Incoming Israeli premier softens stance on peace
• Merkley gives first speech in Senate
• Officials apologize for inauguration shutout
• Report calls for new U.S. food safety agency
• 4s and 3s are substituted for A"s and B"s ... for what?
• Scientists, scouring the Sudanese desert, catch a shooting star - for the first time
• Study: Circumcision helps prevent 2 STDs
• Treasury seeking broader authority
• Uriel Jones, drummer on Motown hits
• U.S. role in Afghan war grows

FEATURES

• Age isn’t the only factor in losing a sense of taste
• Cold season is in full swing
• Got angst? Knitting can be the cure
• Health Datebook
• If your nose is running, should you be running?
• Missed savings
• New inhalers draw complaints
• People
• Prognosis isn’t good for boxer
• Protect your vision
• Red or white?
• Spring clean your pantry
• State law alters insurance pricing
• To work your brain, work your body
• Want fries with that? Bake a batch of sweet potato fries next time
• Week seven: Torso twist

ENTERTAINMENT

• All-ages film festival for the adventurous
• Bulletin seeks your Easter egg hunt info
• Calendar
• Community Datebook
• Do not resuscitate: ‘ER’ to air series finale
• Family friend says Richardson was donor
• HBO working on movie about Clinton, Blair
• Movie Times
• People
• The Dead to auction choice seats for charity

OPINION

• Deer tunnels
• Democrats used to consider minority opposition patriotic
• Dog parks
• Enterprise zone to dead zone
• Huge tax hikes
• Misguided suggestion
• No chips in animals
• Speech happens