June 15, 2009

LOCAL & STATE

• Area thunderstorms linger, but sun may shine by week’s end
• Calendar
• Christian school delays decision
• Engineers inspect Astoria bridge
• For Bend Democrat, first House session is a rough one
• Grant to aid local students
• Growing possibilities
• Hearing set for parents charged in child’s death
• Hit-and-run victim graduates high school
• Love (for potbellied pigs) in the time of swine flu
• Man pleads no contest to camp shooting
• Meet Bronson
• More service cuts for Portland’s mass transit
• Nestle eyes Cascade Locks for new $50M bottling plant
• New plant recycles asphalt shingle material
• News of Record: Civil Suits
• Oregon church to be recycled
• Road crews to install signs on Highway 97
• Sporting dogs
• Tires, manure may be used for clean energy
• What to do if your dog gets skunked
• Your Pets

BUSINESS

• For consumers, every card swipe’s a gamble
• Grant to aid local students
• Growing possibilities
• Southwest hearing complaints about pets in plane cabins
• Wireless welfare: U.S. subsidizing cell phones for the poor

SPORTS

• Basketball
• Boxing
• Crook County trying to save sports
• Cycling
• Elks drop finale of series to BlueJackets
• Golf
• Golf Scoreboard
• Kobe gets fourth title as Lakers finish off Magic
• Late home run leads Sun Devils to 5-2 victory over Tar Heels
• Major League Baseball
• Make your home safe for your new puppy
• Martin gets a little luck
• Men and women in consecutive U.S. Opens at Pinehurst
• Murray beats Blake to win Queen’s Club final
• Not the usual suspects in front at Dirty Half
• On the Air
• Pedregon beats Force Hood at SuperNationals
• Pets calendar
• Racing Scoreboard
• Rookie easily wins LPGA Championship
• So long, Sisters
• State makes it a series sweep
• Swimming
• Woods is just one of many story lines at U.S. Open

OBITS

• Albin was executive chef at classy Four Seasons
• Everett was Duke law professor
• Historian Curtin dies at 87

CENTRAL OREGON OBITS

• Matilda "Tillie" Lucy Molnar

NATION & WORLD

• Albin was executive chef at classy Four Seasons
• California officials ID suspect in 2003 blaze
• California to be first state with foreclosure moratorium law
• Celebrities petition for Suu Kyi’s release
• Everett was Duke law professor
• FBI: Shooting suspect expected to survive
• Historian Curtin dies at 87
• In reversal, Israel endorses Palestinian state
• Khamenei and Ahmadinejad tighten their grip on Iran
• Obama seems open to curbs on lawsuits
• Pakistan to expand attacks on Taliban
• S. Korea’s president to talk with Obama
• Swiss cows fight to be crowned queen
• Texas teen is on course to raise $1M for hospital
• U.S. invasion of Japan begins in 1944

FEATURES

• Think twice before posting that ‘I’m on vacation’ message

ENTERTAINMENT

• Hundreds attend David Carradine funeral
• Idol auditions attract thousands in Mass.
• Michael Phelps, dog featured in kids’ book
• Movie Times
• Sisters art fair draws ‘relaxed’ crowd of fans
• Will Palin flap give Letterman a boost?

OPINION

• Butts and fire
• Congress needs to stop spending and start fixing the debt
• Dog licenses a hard, but important, sell
• Look for metal
• Merkley’s breast-feeding bill should be passed by Congress
• More solar subsidies
• No apologies
• Use cash

ROADS & TRAFFIC

• Road crews to install signs on Highway 97