May 30, 2009

LOCAL & STATE

• Bend City Council will vote on changes to development code
• Cuba criticizes ‘harsh’ blocking of Messenger
• Expect some brown patches as Bend dials down flow of landscaping funds
• Floatin’ weather’s here
• Handful of small fires burning across area
• Heroin seizures are higher than ever locally
• It’s finally time to unleash, legally
• Missing student's body found in river
• News of Record: Police Log, Bend fire runs, Pets
• Officials seek homes for 371 dogs
• People on the Move
• Sheriff’s deputy under investigation
• Stranded and injured in winter, rehabilitated pelicans released
• Traffic stop leads to crack cocaine arrest
• Transportation package clears Oregon Senate
• Visit Bend releases new visitor guide
• Volunteers prep monthlong food drive
• Washington’s roads may see more litter after budget cuts
• What’s Going Up
• Woman on trial for feeding bears

BUSINESS

• Bend City Council will vote on changes to development code
• Oil, gas prices keep defying the recession
• People on the Move
• Temple Sloan resigns from bank’s board
• THE NEED TO GROW - AND STAY SMALL
• The new GM (and its cars) almost surely to be smaller
• Troubled bank loans are at a record high
• U.S. economy sinks at a 5.7 percent pace
• Visit Bend releases new visitor guide
• What’s Going Up

SPORTS

• Armstrong’s Astana team still in doubt for Tour de France
• Auto racing
• Baseball
• Basketball
• Being safe or being silly?
• Bend falls at Corvallis in state quarterfinals
• Bill in Salem seeks to ensure we can still get to local trails
• Correction
• Cyclist collapses, dies at Phil’s Trail complex
• Eaton makes 400 final at regional
• Football
• Former prep star from Ashland shines for Beavers in regionals
• Golf Scoreboard
• Juniper set to open pool on Saturday
• L.A. dominates in Denver to reach finals
• LeBron and Cavs look to force Game 7 against Magic
• Major League Baseball
• Making a splash
• Next challenge for Castroneves is IndyCar title
• On the Air
• Pac-10’s Hansen prepares for retirement
• Pens, Wings set for Stanley Cup rematch
• Prep Scoreboard
• Rachel Alexandra won’t run in Belmont Stakes
• Restoration plan to address fish, flooding worries
• Russian all but wraps up Giro title
• Scoreboard
• Stricker tames Colonial again, leads
• Swimming
• Venus bows out of French Open

OBITS

• Frederick Karch, 91, led troops in Vietnam
• Shenin, 71, helped try to overthrow Gorbachev
• Snowboarding champion Ruby dies in climbing fall
• Thomas Franck, 77, promoted justice in developing countries

CENTRAL OREGON OBITS

• Death notices
• Denise Deenie Elaine Roberts
• Eldon Jay Rebhan Smith
• Lorraine Elizabeth Corkett

NATION & WORLD

• Aid slowly reaches Sri Lanka’s refugees
• Bush-Clinton policy talk strikes a congenial tone
• Chavez tightens grip on military
• Death penalty cases among early issues
• Drug gangs’ kin, guilty or not, are ensnared in crackdown
• Druggist arrested in killing of holdup man
• 500 evacuated as Italian ferry burns
• Frederick Karch, 91, led troops in Vietnam
• Gay-marriage advocates trumpet work of Mormons against it
• Guantanamo detainees? Send ’em here, Montana town says
• In remote Idaho, a mail route like no other in the lower 48
• Iran blames U.S. for recent violence
• Joan of Arc is burned at the stake in 1431
• Judge awards $1B in suit against Cuba
• LED bulbs could be poised to come out of the shadows
• $1M bail set in case of abduction hoax
• Myanmar leader said to need medical care
• N. Korea fires 6th missile in week
• Newspaper ad calls for Obama death
• NYPD investigates officer shooting
• Obama to name cybersecurity czar
• President is sure Sotomayor would restate ’01 remark
• President urges hurricane readiness
• Prince Harry tours WTC site in U.S. visit
• Romney has hope for governor races
• Shenin, 71, helped try to overthrow Gorbachev
• Snowboarding champion Ruby dies in climbing fall
• Spector sentenced to at least 19 years
• Spurned Iraqi men call on IED skills
• 1st black female rabbi spent years searching
• Taliban arrested from among refugees
• Terrorist flees to Lebanon, FBI says
• The square footage of new homes has contracted with the economy
• These bovines may be short, but on the farm, hopes are high
• Thomas Franck, 77, promoted justice in developing countries
• Two Democrats are split on health bill
• What if an ad campaign could draw folks to church?

FEATURES

• DIY nation
• In Brief
• People on the Move
• 1st black female rabbi spent years searching

ENTERTAINMENT

• Ali honors hometown students for fundraiser
• Arts Central makes another deal with Bend
• Calendar
• Corrections
• Crooked River Dinner Train opens season
• Gleeson captures essence of Churchill
• Hyde Pierce says he married partner
• Jolie is back to her film after knock on the head
• Leno’s parting ‘Tonight Show’ is sweet sorrow
• Madras High clubs host fundraising event
• Movie Times
• Redmond High School Booster Club holds luau
• Stream Stewardship Day set for June 6
• Tone Loc recovering after concert collapse

OPINION

• Government health care
• Health care change
• Not much danger
• Obama’s no socialist
• Personal responsibility
• The truth about Obama
• Untouchable health benefits?