July 18, 2009

LOCAL & STATE

• Arrest made in sex abuse investigation
• Bear activity closes Lake Billy Chinook campground
• COIC to receive more than $1M for rural transit improvements
• Community Events Calendar
• Correction
• Deschutes Dash road closures
• Fresh leafy greens
• Interior bill includes money for monument
• News of Record: Police Log, Pets
• Opponents of state tax hike ready to mount campaign
• OSU College of Education could be Bend-bound
• People on the Move
• Prineville home destroyed by fire
• Sisters council ‘kind of rushing’ to decide on gas tax proposal
• What’s Going Up
• Working toward new wheels

BUSINESS

• Budget deficit talks restarted in California
• Is now the time to convert your IRA into a Roth?
• June housing construction rises
• Kindle users reading about Big Brother get Orwellian lesson
• Large profits hide trouble lurking at 2 big banks
• Most Eddie Bauer stores to stay open
• Oregon jobless rate third-highest in U.S.
• People on the Move
• Regulators shut 4 more banks
• Shifting Bend’s vendors a balm to downtown?
• The curbside mailbox may be the latest threatened species
• What’s Going Up

SPORTS

• A new pony for girl whose horse was shot
• All riders under one roof
• Armstrong 3rd as rain, shooting mar stage
• Basketball
• Cow horse show continues in Powell Butte this weekend
• Elks fall in opener of key series
• Football
• Former Summit golfer to play for Vikings
• Hinault: Contador will win again, not Armstrong
• Laps to go
• Locals headed to prep rodeo nationals
• Look at them leap
• LPGA players hopeful about the future with a new leader at the helm
• Major League Baseball
• NHRA getting in tune with rough economy
• On the Air
• Soderling into Swedish Open semis
• Tiger’s game is not so great at Turnberry
• Track & field
• Trout Unlimited group to meet, greet and eat
• Watson leads at British Open, while Woods leaves Turnberry
• Will the Mariners buy or sell at trade deadline?

OBITS

• Fleming, 73, a fan favorite and a ruffian on the ice
• For TV news, a voice unlikely to be equaled
• Sam Church, former leader of the United Mine Workers

CENTRAL OREGON OBITS

• Death notices

NATION & WORLD

• Budget deficit talks restarted in California
• CIA’s secret program to be investigated
• For TV news, a voice unlikely to be equaled
• House approves wild horse protection
• Iranians protest; cleric assails leaders
• Iraq faces allegations that prisoners were abused
• Jakarta bomb inquiry focuses on militants
• Pope leaves hospital with wrist cast, smile
• Sam Church, former leader of the United Mine Workers
• 3 Senate Republicans say they’ll support Sotomayor
• Slain activist faced pressure in Chechnya
• ‘The Dark Knight’ premiered last year
• Wyden’s back with his health plan, now seeking wider appeal

FEATURES

• No verdict in faith-healing trial
• Nuns, under review, voice some worries
• People on the Move
• Pope leaves hospital with wrist cast, smile
• Religion in Brief
• Rockin’ the landscape
• When do children need to wear a fig leaf?
• Wyden’s back with his health plan, now seeking wider appeal

ENTERTAINMENT

• Aldrin helps mark own milestone
• ‘Angela’s Ashes’ author gravely ill, brother says
• BMC seeks DVDs for its patients
• Free family movies continue at Old Mill
• ‘Harry Potter’ actor admits growing pot
• Local art nonprofit receives big grants
• MJ’s ex sues woman over TV interview
• Movie Times
• Rockin’ the landscape
• Salzburg Festival music director to step down
• Shifting Bend’s vendors a balm to downtown?
• Trout Unlimited group to meet, greet and eat
• Winehouse, husband granted a divorce

OPINION

• Free trade
• From the Archives
• Patients first
• Poor-quality bills on bottled water
• Pricey tags
• Self-indulgent Americans are blind to the dangers abroad
• Worthwhile programs

ROADS & TRAFFIC

• COIC to receive more than $1M for rural transit improvements
• Sisters council ‘kind of rushing’ to decide on gas tax proposal