May 15, 2009

LOCAL & STATE

• A cockpit and a prayer
• Ballots due Tuesday
• Bank robber sentenced as career criminal
• Best Bets for family fun Details, Page E3
• Bring your potty training questions to free COPA seminar
• Cannon Beach art dealer accused of Ponzi scheme
• Car broken into in southwest Bend
• Chrysler cuts 2 local dealers loose, with a 3rd set to benefit
• Dispatches
• Energy stimulus bill won’t fix school budgets
• Family Calendar
• Firefighter training at Crooked River Ranch
• Flagger struck by van near Terrebonne
• Gardening workshop today aimed at kids
• GO! Magazine
• Lakeview prepares for possible prison closure
• Leaner budget ready for final OK
• Man charged in neglect of ill wife
• Man faces charges over dead puppies
• Millions of kids live with addicted parent
• News of Record: Police Log, Bend fire runs, Pets
• Oregon killer in jail after prison release
• 3 plead guilty in racial assault at Eugene school
• Proposed cell towers draw opposition
• Reads sure to rekindle outdoor fun
• Restaurant Guide
• Roseburg man arrested on sex abuse charges
• Say, ‘Please," and 9 other basic manners
• State’s transportation plan has $32M in local projects
• Story times, library youth events for May 15-21
• Students charter new Gay-Straight Alliance
• Students share ideas to improve waterways
• Teens arrested in Bend burglary
• Top Democrats eye $1.5 billion in cuts
• Tough to top COCC in nurse test success
• What’s in store for former BLM land?

BUSINESS

• A cockpit and a prayer
• Blockbuster stock dives as profit, revenue sag
• Business Calendar
• Chrysler cuts 2 local dealers loose, with a 3rd set to benefit
• Direct flights to smaller cities help Allegiant’s fortunes soar
• Dispatches
• Economic improvement is fitful, reports show
• Energy stimulus bill won’t fix school budgets
• Extended warranty: Is it worth the cost?
• Food-makers try, but can’t guarantee product safety
• Former pension official under investigation
• FTC sues to stop warranty ‘robo-calls’
• In Ecuador, resentment against oil giant oozes long after its departure
• Independent repair shops get higher marks than dealerships
• Insurers appear set to get Treasury funds
• Katrina flooding trial against Corps ends
• Nike to cut about 1,750 jobs worldwide
• No dealers brings car crisis home to whole new crowd
• Nordstrom profit slides but beats expectations
• Pfizer to give away drugs to jobless
• Proposal would require all to have health coverage
• Proposed cell towers draw opposition
• Recalls
• Safety concerns raised over N.Y. plane crash
• Scientists’ race car fueled by chocolate
• Search expands in boat sinking
• Sony posts annual loss, its first in 14 years
• Trustee may go after Madoff family assets
• Tweeting from space a first, but finding the time is tough
• United, US Airways to up baggage fees
• Wal-Mart profit flat
• What’s in store for former BLM land?
• White House expands mortgage aid program

SPORTS

• Adventure Sports Events Calendar
• Auto Racing
• Baseball
• Basketball
• ‘Canes advance in OT
• Central Oregon track athletes in Pac-10 meet
• Culver has sights set on 2A state title
• Football
• Getting ready!
• Golf Scoreboard
• Goydos, Leonard shoot 63s to lead in Texas
• Horse racing
• Leipheimer looming just behind Giro leaders
• Madras earns a spot in state playoffs
• Major League Baseball
• Murray, Nadal, Federer all win at Madrid Open
• On the Air
• Outlaw boys lead Sky-Em track after Day One
• Petersen Rock Garden & Museum
• Phelps ready for return to pool
• Pole Pedal Paddle sets a record for number of entrants
• Preakness abounds with many interesting storylines
• Prep Scoreboard
• RACE TO THE FINISH
• Rockets push Lakers to Game 7
• Scoreboard
• Skiing
• Stand-up paddling
• The day the Tigers tipped pitches for Mickey Mantle

OBITS

• Actor Frank Aletter, 83, dies
• Theologian William Kerr counseled serial killer Ted Bundy

CENTRAL OREGON OBITS

• Death notices

NATION & WORLD

• Actor Frank Aletter, 83, dies
• Afghan villagers detail a devastating airstrike
• Banned group helps Pakistani refugees
• Chemo nausea may be mitigated
• Ex-Communist Party chief was against Tiananmen
• First U.S. airline stewardess, nurse Ellen Church, goes on duty in 1930
• Former pension official under investigation
• House passes war funds without 51 Democrats
• Katrina flooding trial against Corps ends
• Myanmar democracy advocate faces charges
• Netanyahu urges pope to speak out on Iran
• Obama to revive Bush-era tribunals
• Pelosi says CIA misled lawmakers
• Researchers reduce forecast of sea level rise
• Safety concerns raised over N.Y. plane crash
• Search expands in boat sinking
• Theologian William Kerr counseled serial killer Ted Bundy
• White House expands mortgage aid program
• WHO meets on vaccine decision for swine flu

FEATURES

• Chemo nausea may be mitigated
• Pfizer to give away drugs to jobless
• Proposal would require all to have health coverage
• Tough to top COCC in nurse test success

ENTERTAINMENT

• An unbelievable thrill ride
• And then there were two …
• Art camp counselor applications available
• ART EXHIBITS
• Ballet company holds auditions
• Breaking par at Awbrey Glen
• Call to vendors for music festival
• Claymation domination
• Family-friendly films this summer
• Faraway Lands
• Follow the beat
• Get 7 for $7 at Old Stone Church
• Keep The Lonely H company at Players
• Movie Times
• Music Releases
• New DVD Releases
• On Local Screens
• Out of Town
• Parents’ Guide to Movies
• Planning Ahead
• ‘Prison Break’ finale is criminal
• RACE TO THE FINISH
• Reggae alert: Perfect plays The Summit
• Several familiar faces return to Bend
• Sisters students show off their songwriting talents
• The spice of life
• This Week
• Upcoming Concerts

RESTAURANTS

• Breaking par at Awbrey Glen

OPINION

• Cancer drugs
• Congress, go home
• GOP dying
• Party-protection law may be on the outs
• Short Wednesdays are an inexpensive investment in our kids
• State budget sense from Sen. Chris Telfer
• Tactics worth it
• Two for Crook schools

ROADS & TRAFFIC

• Leaner budget ready for final OK
• State’s transportation plan has $32M in local projects