July 04, 2009

LOCAL & STATE

• Abortion doctor killing suspect calls such actions justifiable
• Alaska’s Palin resigns, leaves plans a secret
• Events Calendar
• Ex-UO student sentenced for robberies
• Female pilots honored for WWII service
• Group wants third national monument in the Siskiyous
• Handful of lightning fires start Friday
• High hopes for new business
• Holiday closures
• News of Record: Police Log, Pets
• People on the Move
• Sheriff’s deputy involved in crash
• Small plane makes emergency landing
• State to get funds for affordable housing
• The 4th in Georgia, then it’s on to Iraq
• Traffic issues on council, commission agendas
• Two fake transcripts are caught at COCC
• Woman jailed again for rabbits

BUSINESS

• A day to tackle money tasks for fiscal health
• A longtime American tradition: debt
• Australian winemakers find that more is less
• Bullet train may not reach San Francisco
• For one Bend restaurant, it’s all about helping out
• High hopes for new business
• In Web advertising, old enemies have become new friends
• Malt-O-Meal recalls instant oatmeal
• Oil prices down, could fall further
• People on the Move
• Small plane makes emergency landing
• State to get funds for affordable housing
• Traffic issues on council, commission agendas
• What’s Going Up

SPORTS

• Auto racing
• Baseball
• Basketball
• Bend is in the playoff hunt again this year
• BMX riders, young & old
• Cycling
• Earnhardt eyes Daytona as part of turnaround
• Elks can’t stop Knights’ streak
• Golf Scoreboard
• Local softball team earns trip to state
• Major League Baseball
• New league will consider Vick
• On the Air
• Ramirez apologizes to fans, teammates
• Roddick, Federer in final
• Scoreboard
• Source: Turkoglu cuts off talks with Blazers
• Tiger leads at own event
• Two COCC athletes earn victories at regional meet
• Venus and Serena vie for a title again
• Who’s No. 1? Armstrong’s team won’t know for a while

OBITS

• Kenneth Reusser was a veteran combat pilot
• Mehta, noted Indian painter
• Pina Bausch, an influential dance figure, dies at 68

CENTRAL OREGON OBITS

• Charlotte Georgia Boss (Zetzman)
• Death notices
• John A. Berray

NATION & WORLD

• A powerful sedative is discovered in Michael Jackson’s home, police say
• Accused Nazi a step closer to trial
• Ancient Iraqi sect struggles to chart a path toward survival in the U.S.
• Biden says Iraqis must resolve differences
• Bullet train may not reach San Francisco
• Continental Congress declares U.S. independence in 1776
• Courtney rules out a bid for governor
• Honduras rejects OAS appeal to restore ousted president
• In meeting with Myanmar’s junta, U.N. chief seeks reforms
• Insurgents step up Afghan attacks
• Iranian leaders say reformists admit plot
• North Korea fires 2 more missiles, South says
• Pakistani army helicopter crash kills 26; cause debated
• 6 people die in London high-rise blaze
• Revolutionary War grave, maybe the U.S.’s largest, is in danger
• Russia to open airspace to U.S.
• Seeking World Heritage status? A link to George Washington is no help
• Serial killer terrifies South Carolina
• Syria reaches out to U.S. with Iran in turmoil
• Thailand offers elephants for adoption
• 82-year-old twins die in sweltering home

FEATURES

• Ancient Iraqi sect struggles to chart a path toward survival in the U.S.
• Female pilots honored for WWII service
• People on the Move
• Religion In Brief
• The politics of penance
• When lives end, his job begins

ENTERTAINMENT

• Bend library’s summer sale today
• Crime wave, history collide in Mann flick
• Des Chutes Historical Museum reopens for anniversary today
• For one Bend restaurant, it’s all about helping out
• Gary Coleman’s wife is arrested in Utah
• Holmes thinks she ‘Can Dance’ for nonprofit
• Lone ranger station lives on
• Meet the cast of the next ‘Big Brother’
• Movie Times
• Quincy Jones calls Jackson’s death surreal
• Submit your favorite fair memory
• What’s Going Up

OPINION

• End the medical civil war that’s embarrassing Bend
• The Declaration of Independence

ROADS & TRAFFIC

• Sheriff’s deputy involved in crash