April 04, 2009

LOCAL & STATE

• Asbestos scare closes Redmond High gym
• Audit finds drugs for Oregon foster children not reviewed
• Brothers arraigned in drug-dealing case
• Cascade Bancorp asks shareholder to invest $25M
• Community center receives $5,000 grant
• Good news for travelers to Denver, San Francisco
• Good time to trampoline
• Investigator to inspect plane crash wreckage
• Klamath Falls man convicted of rape
• Klamath irrigation to begin flowing
• Monkeys escape from primate research center
• News of Record: Police Log, Bend fire runs, Pets
• People On The Move
• Redmond Airport boardings fall
• Redmond firm gets state help for show
• Ritz Camera closing after liquidation sale
• State budget estimate: We’re in a jam
• Stimulus funds bring optimism, but also confusion
• 4 teens accused in school shooting plot
• UO’s Frohnmayer to be honored Tuesday
• What’s Going Up

BUSINESS

• Boston Globe threatened with closure
• Cascade Bancorp asks shareholder to invest $25M
• Empty tables threaten some restaurant chains
• Good news for travelers to Denver, San Francisco
• Google’s claim on orphan books alarms academia
• More big bonuses draw scrutiny
• Old Mill Martini Bar’s liquor license to expire
• People On The Move
• Redmond Airport boardings fall
• Redmond firm gets state help for show
• Ritz Camera closing after liquidation sale
• Stimulus funds bring optimism, but also confusion
• Travel industry woos those with time: the jobless
• Unemployment rate continues to rise
• What’s Going Up

SPORTS

• Auto racing
• Beavers take CBI title
• BMX invasion
• Boot camps aim to get participants PPP fit
• Breaking down the men’s Final Four
• College basketball
• Djokovic defeats frustrated Federer in Florida tourney
• Ducks open series with Stanford with 2-1 victory
• Golf Scoreboard
• Her mission: Pacific Crest Trail
• NBA Scoreboard
• NFL football
• On the Air
• One waterfall, one kayak and 127 feet to the bottom
• Panthers battle wind to win 22-team tourney in Redmond
• Rahal hopes history will repeat itself in IndyCar series opener
• Redmond girls tennis earns pair of victories at Bend High Invitational
• Sports
• Teams fret in uncertain season
• This year’s Final Four is loaded with upperclassmen
• Trail Blazers stay hot in playoff push, rout Thunder
• Wind wreaks havoc on LPGA leaderboard

OBITS

• Emory Elliott, 66, was leading scholar of American literature
• Martin Klein, physics historian and editor of Einstein collection
• Tom Braden, ‘Crossfire’ co-host, ‘Eight Is Enough’ author, dies

CENTRAL OREGON OBITS

• Bill "Spike" Wright
• Death notices

NATION & WORLD

• Boom-years borrowing tactics are catching up to churches
• Congress likes goals but fears overreaching
• Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968
• Emory Elliott, 66, was leading scholar of American literature
• Fargo seeks protection in the wake of floods
• Gates plans overhaul of Pentagon budget
• Gunman’s rampage kills 13 at N.Y. immigration center
• In Europe, Obama’s Afghan appeal meets tepid response
• Intel chief wants new satellite program
• Iowa Supreme Court legalizes gay marriage
• Martin Klein, physics historian and editor of Einstein collection
• North Korea: Satellite launch coming ‘soon’
• Obama cuts to farming subsidies meet stiff resistance
• Pistachio salmonella found in ’07, Kraft says
• Tom Braden, ‘Crossfire’ co-host, ‘Eight Is Enough’ author, dies
• Video of Taliban flogging girl stirs volatile Pakistani area
• Youth ATVs, dirt bikes lead law is in flux

FEATURES

• Does being smart make it harder to date?
• Good news for travelers to Denver, San Francisco
• In Brief
• People On The Move
• Travel industry woos those with time: the jobless

ENTERTAINMENT

• Calendar
• Empty tables threaten some restaurant chains
• ‘ER’: The series ends, but life goes on
• High Desert Museum will host live wolves
• KPOV taking donated bottles and cans today
• Malawi court says no to Madonna adoption
• Man accused of stalking Jamie Foxx
• Movie Times
• Old Mill Martini Bar’s liquor license to expire
• Santana wishes Obama would legalize pot
• Series takes a good man to bad places
• The legacy of the Barrymores
• Wal-Mart holding food drive today

OPINION

• Dog parks needed
• Making two jobs grow
• Off my lawn
• Political hatred
• Prepare for a tax on kayaks, canoes
• Secular nation
• Walkers have no right to ‘de-stress’ on other people’s property