April 20, 2009

LOCAL & STATE

• Agency promises controlled burns
• Ahmadinejad steps into journalist fray
• Amtrak Seattle-Salt Lake route appears promising
• Area highway projects not expected to cause delays
• Byrne back in therapy on HBO
• Calendar
• Charges filed in crash that killed 5 children
• Check your home for safety hazards
• China to build panda breeding facility
• Don’t rule out adoption if only a purebred will do
• Eastern Oregon college president to retire – again
• Enjoy the sun while it lasts this week
• Exxon tops Wal-Mart on Fortune 500 list
• Florence-area park closing for the week
• For marijuana advocates, ‘holiday’ hints at a change
• For resolving your debt, the slick, easy answer often is a mirage
• Former Oregon doctor to stand trial in Australia
• Government to stand pat on bailout funds, for now
• 4-H training course teaches instructors how to turn kids into safe shooters
• Hackers sought - to assist the U.S. government
• Hispanic-owned businesses on the increase in Hermiston
• Iraq to take on heists, names new speaker
• Jackie Chan a little too free with comments?
• Jennifer Jason Leigh to light up ‘Weeds’
• Judge will hear Katrina liability case
• Mandela helps rally ruling party for vote
• Man’s hobby railroad hits bureaucratic nightmare
• Medford man, 76, hurt in I-5 motorcycle crash
• Meet Maggie
• Miss North Carolina crowned Miss USA
• Movie Times
• Murky, boulder-strewn rapids fail to yield missing swimmer
• New looks at the lesser-known WWII fields of death for Jews
• News of Record: Civil Suits
• North Korea might restart nuclear facility within months
• Obama says reaching out to adversaries bolsters U.S.
• Obama to address credit card abuses
• Oregon Civil Air Patrol prepares for disaster
• Oregon sees little from D.C. earmark trough
• Paisleys welcome their second child, a boy
• Panhandling, on the rise, has Bend seeking answers
• Reduce your pet’s carbon pawprint
• Regional biodefense center planned
• Reptiles, responsibly
• Researcher says tides growing on West Coast
• Sisters woman, dog place 8th in contest
• Spears suspect says she’s a filmmaker
• 2 students carry out massacre at Columbine High School in ’99
• Sunken tugboat refloated in Lake Washington
• 2 suspects waterboarded 266 times, memo says
• Trainer hopes fluency in ‘Doglish’ helps him break into the big time
• U.S. missiles kill 3, injure 5, Pakistan says
• U.S., 6 others boycott U.N. racism conference
• Veterinarians volunteer for emergency teams
• When even a volcano can be an Internet star
• 10 years since Columbine
• Your Pets
• You’ve beaten diabetes, but are you cured?

BUSINESS

• Federal studies find drugs tainting water near factories
• The Senate’s back, with health care in its sights

SPORTS

• Adversity does not slow down this tough Cougar
• Anybody can race any type of vehicle while at dragstrip
• Baseball
• Basketball
• Bears take win over Ducks thanks to three home runs
• Boxing
• COMA swimmers ride the team wave straight to a title
• Cycling
• Errant throw gives OSU victory in 10th
• Franchitti takes victory at Grand Prix of Long Beach
• Gay sets scoring mark in winning Heritage
• Golf Scoreboard
• Injuries to players in WBC piling up
• Locals triumph in Light of Hope 5K
• Lucas scores his first win at Summer Nationals
• Major League Baseball
• Nadal wins fifth title in Monte Carlo
• Nuggets beat Hornets
• On the Air
• Pets calendar
• Racing Scoreboard
• Running
• Scoreboard
• Skiing
• Tracks are heating up in Madras Speedway hosts a variety of cars on its dirt track
• Vettel wins wet Chinese GP race
• Zajac’s OT goal lifts Devils past Canes

OBITS

• ‘Empire of the Sun’ author J.G. Ballard
• Former Bank of England governor Eddie George
• Former Utah congressman Bill Orton dies
• Longtime Portland radio host Les Sarnoff
• Michael Cox, 60, wrote ‘The Meaning of Night’
• Philanthropist Ernest Lieblich believed ‘art heals’
• Simon Channing Williams produced quirky films

OPINION

• Community should get involved in Week of the Young Child
• Find funding for BAT
• Good menu bill
• Kulongoski could save OSU campus
• Menu bill matters
• Support La Pine parks