May 06, 2009

LOCAL & STATE

• ‘Battle of the books’
• Bend police to take over park patrol
• Bend student earns merit scholarship
• ‘Books’ competition tests retention skills
• Business Calendar
• Cinco de Mayo ‘If you like piña piñata ...’
• Drug charges included in 2006 shooting case
• Ethics panel investigates Crook County planner
• Forest Work:
• Kids in the hall
• News of Record: Bankruptcies
• News of Record: Police Log, Pets
• Prineville students present their poetry
• Redmond Airport’s boardings down 12%
• Room taxes continue to plunge in region
• Stimulus news isn’t all good for our region
• Students to compete in auto skills event
• Swine flu: Is it here?
• Tops in journalism education

BUSINESS

• Bernanke offers some optimism
• Bottoming out?
• Bright spot in downturn: New hiring seems robust
• Business Calendar
• Consumers to spend less on Mom this year
• Debate over ethanol heats up as Obama takes on emissions
• Ethics panel investigates Crook County planner
• For runners, comfort is king when choosing a water system
• Forest Work:
• GM says it may offer reverse stock split
• Managers of money fund face charges of fraud
• Microsoft begins round 2 of layoffs
• Oregon college fund examined
• Recalls
• Redmond Airport’s boardings down 12%
• Room taxes continue to plunge in region
• Short-selling rules a priority, SEC says
• Stimulus news isn’t all good for our region
• Summer job search will probably take a little extra effort for teens
• Sunscreen’s main muscles: zinc, titanium and helioplex
• Swine flu: Is it here?
• Weyerhaeuser posts $264M quarterly loss
• When jobless rate slows, recovery usually follows

SPORTS

• Armstrong says he’ll ride as support for Leipheimer
• Baseball
• Basketball
• Bend golfer ties for second at OGA event
• Cocco eighth at mini-tour tournament
• Correction
• Ducks survive Wings’ onslaught, take 2-1 series lead
• Eagle Crest hosting program for women
• Football
• Golf Scoreboard
• High school help
• Horse racing
• Major League Baseball
• Mountain View edges Bend in boys, girls meets
• Nuggets beat Mavs
• On the Air
• PGA TOUR
• Redmond loses in CVC meets
• Scoreboard
• Sisters girls golf earns tournament victory
• Summit wins IMC tourney
• Swimming

OBITS

• Comedy favorite Dom DeLuise

CENTRAL OREGON OBITS

• Death notices
• Helen Marie (OKeefe) Rastovich
• Jane Elizabeth Ashley-Fennell
• John Brown Torsey
• Lauren F. Warner
• Richard Dean Powers

NATION & WORLD

• Desert clash in the West: solar potential vs. water
• Educator picked to lead product safety agency
• First death of American from swine flu in Texas
• Georgia man’s 2 new hands are a U.S. first
• Georgia says it foiled brief military mutiny
• ‘Here I am,’ patient says
• In big transition, NASA lacks a leader
• Indications of a growing opposition to gun control
• Legislature in Maine OKs gay marriage
• Managers of money fund face charges of fraud
• NBA legend wins race to be mayor of Detroit
• Pakistani army poised for new push vs. Taliban
• Reports: No criminal case likely over secret memos
• Safer on a plane? Flu exposure may be less likely, studies show
• Sen. Sessions will lead court nomination fight
• Stimulus news isn’t all good for our region
• The airship Hindenburg burns, crashes in 1937
• Tom Ridge weighs bid to challenge Specter
• U.N. demands Israeli restitution for Gaza strikes

FEATURES

• Community Events Calendar
• Correction
• First death of American from swine flu in Texas
• Georgia man’s 2 new hands are a U.S. first
• ‘Here I am,’ patient says
• Safer on a plane? Flu exposure may be less likely, studies show
• Swine flu: Is it here?

ENTERTAINMENT

• Comedy favorite Dom DeLuise
• Community Events Calendar
• Correction
• Meg White to wed
• Movie Times
• Paisley says wife dreamed son’s name
• Theater company cuts back
• Top entertainment sellers
• Woody Allen seeks to block ex’s testimony

OPINION

• About the tea parties
• Asla for Bend parks board
• BAT ‘rat hole’
• Bewley for pool board
• Election endorsements
• Gun bill still bad
• Metolius protection
• Not so glib
• What KIDS Center is doing to prevent child abuse