July 12, 2009

LOCAL & STATE

• A high turnover at BMC
• A year into Web usage cap, evaluating its effectiveness
• Apples and cherries
• Bend council set to hear feedback on transportation fee, burning ban
• Births
• Calendar
• Callers urged to start using 10-digit dialing
• Cone
• Finnigan — Clason
• Funding foreign aid, the State Department and other foreign programs
• Governor intends to veto $11M in cuts to higher ed
• News of Record: Deeds
• Nonprofit enables businesses to profit
• ‘Quilt cars’ star at Sisters display
• Reynolds — Walter
• Sapp — Jensen
• Sheriff’s Office saves $1M by not filling jobs
• State Supreme Court suspends lawyer
• Students dig helping others with community garden
• Suspect goes to court in girl’s 1998 killing
• West has ‘dodged a bullet’ so far this wildfire season
• What would be a hung jury outside Oregon may convict you
• Wheat harvest begins in northeast Oregon
• WWII vets from Oregon are honored by France
• 100 YEARS AGO

BUSINESS

• A year into Web usage cap, evaluating its effectiveness
• Event planners losing out with shrunken meetings
• How to keep your gadgets firmly in place
• Iconic Waikiki hotel closes in Hawaii
• Mortgage rates fall for second week
• News of Record: Deeds
• Nonprofit enables businesses to profit
• Pickens halts ambitious wind farm
• Port trade declines steeply worldwide
• Primer on the gauges
• Signs of bottoming in global ad spending
• UBS digs in heels on clients’ names
• What to do with the nation’s ‘ghost boxes’

SPORTS

• Auto racing
• Bad luck on the course is part of the game
• Baseball
• Blazers sign free agent Millsap to offer sheet
• Boxing
• Elks lose at home and on the road
• Ex-Duck says he was homesick
• Former OSU golfer leads Mid-Am
• Golf Scoreboard
• Justin Wilson psyched for IndyCar race in Toronto
• Kerr still on top at U.S. Women’s Open
• Major League Baseball
• Martin wins 4th race of season
• On the Air
• Rock and run
• Scoreboard
• Soccer
• Spaniard wins stage, status quo reigns in overall
• Swimming
• U.S. Paralympic swim coach dies in climbing accident
• U.S. stays alive in Davis Cup with win

OBITS

• Hemphill wrote of South, music
• John Orman was a teacher and a practitioner of politics
• Runner and beekeeper, 106, was named oldest U.S. worker
• Shor was researcher of plate tectonics
• U.S. Paralympic swim coach dies in climbing accident

CENTRAL OREGON OBITS

• Death notices

NATION & WORLD

• A call to jihad, answered in America
• After delay, shuttle launch set for today
• Bosnia buries hundreds more killed in 1995 massacre
• Carlos becomes hurricane off Baja’s Pacific coast
• Commander calls for faster expansion of Afghan forces
• Congress authorizes Medal of Honor in 1862
• For now, Obama rejects 2nd stimulus
• Hemphill wrote of South, music
• In Iran, key adviser urges tolerance
• In the spotlight - as never before
• Investigation into torture now possible, Holder says
• John Orman was a teacher and a practitioner of politics
• N. Korea may want U.S. to show regret over reporters, analysts say
• Relatives flock to cemetery in scandal
• Report: Cheney ordered CIA project secret
• Shor was researcher of plate tectonics
• Talks intensify over California budget
• Tribal region poses biggest test thus far for Pakistan
• Uighurs dispute China’s breakdown of riot dead
• U.S. officials: No grounds for war crimes trial over POWs
• 2 women, one mom — and many questions
• Wrapping up rehearsals, Sotomayor girds for fight

FEATURES

• A cardiologist is forced out after 29 years at BMC
• A high turnover at BMC
• Apples and cherries
• Do women like their men quite that cleanshaven?
• How to keep your gadgets firmly in place
• How to put on a frugal wedding
• Magic tricks: We pick the five best
• News of Record: Reunions, Military Notes, College Notes
• ‘Quilt cars’ star at Sisters display
• Schaaf — Schehen
• Sipping and saving in California’s wine country
• The Wal-Mart of cars
• 5 ways to age gracefully

ENTERTAINMENT

• A fun-loving sponge who keeps things clean
• ‘Abundance’ in California
• ‘Bataan Death March’ detailed and chilling
• Best-sellers
• ‘Cheap’ lacks cohesive argument
• ‘Dark Places’ is so chilling, you’ll turn off the AC
• Free hot dogs at Bend Elks game
• In death, Billy Mays remains a TV pitchman
• Kristina Riggle dreams up a dysfunction junction
• Mandela disowns London exhibition
• Minor character gets his own novel
• Monsters coming to the Tower
• Morrell outdoes himself with his latest action novel
• Movie Times
• 4 newspapers might boycott Spears concert
• Schaaf — Schehen
• Talk of the Town to discuss abuse
• The best kids’ books ever

OPINION

• Fuel reduction vs. climate protection?
• In search of dignity
• Initiative system is what we have, so let’s use it
• Nonprofit enables businesses to profit
• Oregon lawmakers should join Healthy Forests Caucus
• Palin the Pretender may not even know what she wants yet
• Plumage — but at a hefty price
• The best kids’ books ever
• The side effects of Obama’s health care plan
• Who was Michael Jackson really?

ROADS & TRAFFIC

• Bend council set to hear feedback on transportation fee, burning ban