July 20, 2009

LOCAL & STATE

• Air quality regulators focusing on smaller businesses
• Before the moon, NASA came here
• Burn ban casts a pall over grass seed growers’ future
• Calendar
• Construction projects are in full swing across the region
• Governor’s veto threat aids tuition picture at OSU branch
• ‘Great start’ for light-rail line
• Historic Navy hydrofoil in need of a home
• Leave dogs at home for cycling race
• Meet Frogger
• News of Record: Civil Suits
• Oregon teen’s parents sue Washington clinic over deadly overdose
• Pets calendar
• Plenty of sunshine headed our way - and heat, too
• Scholarship hopefuls rise at COCC, as will difficult decisions
• Scout Lake drowning
• Small brush fire quickly contained
• Space: Does the final frontier remain all that it used to be?
• Washington man dies in Estacada crash
• Your Pets

BUSINESS

• Air quality regulators focusing on smaller businesses
• Countering riots, China detains hundreds
• For the furry ones, an airline of their own
• India rejects binding limits on emissions
• Iranian VP faces pressure to resign
• Subprime brokers resurface in loan modification companies
• U.S. soldier in Taliban captivity is identified

SPORTS

• Athletes start to break through the age barriers
• Baseball
• Bend riders place high at mountain bike nationals
• Boxing
• Brown pulls off win in NHRA final
• Cink benefits after Watson folds
• Contador takes yellow jersey with win
• Correction
• Cyclist hits Bend on hot streak
• Elks score late to beat Bells
• Golf Scoreboard
• High-priced help
• It’s rough sailing for some captains
• Japanese driver wins Pikes Peak climb
• Major League Baseball
• Making waves
• On the Air
• Racers finish off second day of festival
• Racing Scoreboard
• Scoreboard
• Soccer
• Soderling scores fourth ATP title
• Softball
• Swimming
• Waterdance at Sundance
• Watson close to story for the ages
• 81-year-old is oldest to compete in NASCAR event

OBITS

• Actor Dallas McKennon voiced many animated characters
• ‘Angela’s Ashes’ author dies
• Robert Cushman was photo curator for film academy

CENTRAL OREGON OBITS

• Wilson B. Carey

NATION & WORLD

• California budget talks postponed
• CIT Group seeking to avoid bankruptcy
• Countering riots, China detains hundreds
• Geithner’s tough task: marketing U.S. debt
• ‘Giant leap for mankind’ taken in 1969 as astronauts walk on moon for 1st time
• Governors balk over health bill cost
• ID chips trigger privacy fears
• India rejects binding limits on emissions
• Iranian VP faces pressure to resign
• Pentagon seeks prison overhaul in Afghanistan
• Prenatal pollution linked to lower IQs
• Sea lion from freeway is returned to ocean
• Slain woman, accused husband had split
• Some pet supplements skimp on meds, lab finds
• South Africa lags in providing circumcisions
• Trying to get a handle on carbon, scientists zoom into the local level
• U.S. soldier in Taliban captivity is identified

FEATURES

• Prenatal pollution linked to lower IQs
• Serious fun and games

ENTERTAINMENT

• 50 Cent lowers price on mansion to $10.9M
• Gallery resumes sale of Warhol’s Jackson
• Jackie Chan praises kung fu of Jaden Smith
• Lawsuit over DiCaprio basketball court ends
• Movie Times
• Paula Abdul’s return to ‘Idol’ in doubt
• Serious fun and games
• ‘Torchwood’ isn’t exactly good, but it’s more fun than alternatives

OPINION

• Another voice of the people has been silenced in Russia
• One whopper of a logging problem
• The ever-increasing list of medical disorders is making us crazy

ROADS & TRAFFIC

• Construction projects are in full swing across the region