April 21, 2009

LOCAL & STATE

• Bend dog parks popular – but not open yet
• Body found on beach in Tillamook County
• Business Calendar
• Calendar
• Convicted killer wants to back out of plea deal, 8 years later
• Cycling gets electrified
• Deschutes may opt out of felon supervision
• Driver cell phone ban advances
• Higher taxes, new fees may be on the way
• House OKs Dungeness crab as state crustacean
• Inside
• Joblessness up, but 'there are jobs out there’
• Judge tosses suit against Lancair
• Kulongoski talks up bill to expand health care
• Lane County neuter program leaves cats free
• Major Oregon quake believed more likely
• Man swept away trying to save child
• Meth suspects arrested in Madras
• More tests for former mine
• News of Record: Deeds
• News of Record: Police Log, Bend fire runs, Pets
• Police seek monkey that bit girl in Salem
• Portland hosts Green Cities Conference
• Protest heats up in south Korea
• Search continues, but scaling back
• SPINACH
• Street construction in downtown Bend
• Subdivision’s association recalls board
• Sun shines on Sisters
• Teen averts tragedy, firefighters say

BUSINESS

• Credit card practices are under scrutiny
• Cycling gets electrified
• Deals and desperation: Down times create a garage-sale dichotomy
• Glaxo buys Stiefel
• GM ax keeps falling
• In a grim economy, it’s a golden age for the cheap
• Inside
• Leading economic indicators decline
• More tests for former mine
• Nagging fears trump upbeat profit reports
• News of Record: Deeds
• Oracle’s thirst for Java helps fuel Sun buyout
• PepsiCo bids $6B to buy bottlers

SPORTS

• Baseball
• Basketball
• Bend alpine skier fourth in Northwest Cup Series
• Bicycle repair day Saturday in Madras
• Brooks at home in series against Blazers
• Community Scoreboard
• Community Sports Calendar
• Ducks lose on the road to UC Irvine
• Equestrians land district medals, qualify for state
• Ethiopian, Kenyan win Boston Marathon
• Flames beat Blackhawks 4-2
• Football
• For the love of the game
• Hawks earn first league win, beat Junction City
• Major League Baseball
• Mystery in Florida as 21 polo ponies drop dead
• On the Air
• Parker’s 27 points leads Spurs to win over Mavericks
• Prep Scoreboard
• Scoreboard
• Series of bike races set to begin in Bend
• Summit takes Lava Bear Invite
• Triathlete set to give presentation in Bend

OBITS

• 1945 Heisman Trophy winner

CENTRAL OREGON OBITS

• Death notices

NATION & WORLD

• A longer life: That’s what friends are for
• Army more selective as recruiting improves
• Author Mark Twain dies at age 74 in 1910
• Citizen sleuths follow trail of elusive hijacker D.B. Cooper
• Columbine massacre recalled 10 years later
• Dog-fighting videos at heart of case before Supreme Court
• Investigator sees danger in bank rescue program
• Iran to review jailed U.S. journalist’s case
• Iran’s leader blasts Israel, prompting walkout
• Jamaican police capture hijacker
• Mexico approves new ambassador to U.S.
• 2nd paternity claim hits Paraguay’s leader
• New York Times this year’s big winner with 5 Pulitzers
• ‘Nintendinitis’ spreads with Wii’s popularity
• Obama calls for $100M in Cabinet budget cuts
• Obama seeks to reassure CIA employees
• Pirates attack 2 cargo ships, release food aid freighter
• There’s more to his job than checking the mail
• Thousands flee fighting in Sri Lanka
• Three Iraqi police die in suicide bombing
• ‘Very ill’ Hawking rushed to hospital
• When you’re flush but acting flat broke
• Woman says she tried to save her three sons

FEATURES

• At Home With … Duncan and Linda McGeary
• Broth and stock: Interchangeable?
• Cheap gardening — it’s all about seeds, swaps and soil
• Coffee that's easy on waistline and wallet
• Compost vs. mulch: One over the other
• Couscous salad where veggies are superstars
• Dinners of a lifetime
• Keep those bulbs in bloom
• Preserve your own salsa
• Recipe Finder
• SPINACH
• Top 10 earth-friendly garden tips
• Yolks are bad? Not necessarily

ENTERTAINMENT

• Astronomy night in Sisters on Friday
• Big events likely to remain in Bend parks, officials say
• Cooking up a third culinary win?
• DioGuardi: It’s not easy being on ‘Idol’
• Expand your garden for local food banks
• Experience a variety of dance at Playhouse
• ‘Grey’s’ Pompeo pregnant with first
• Local woman vies for Miss Indian World title
• Movie Times
• NBC to send Curry into 2 war zones
• New Dan Brown novel coming in September
• Reel world challenge

RESTAURANTS

• Cooking up a third culinary win?

OPINION

• Bad egg hunt
• Begging in Bend
• Energy failure
• Government should check its enormous appetite for taxes
• Kill contribution limits bill
• Weak talk