July 25, 2009

LOCAL & STATE

• Be prepared for more heat next week
• Bend man arrested in DUII hit-and-run
• Bend’s CBS affiliate converting signals
• Community Events Calendar
• DUII arrest made after free cab ride home
• Education at its own pace
• Fire sparked by lightning burns near Newberry
• Former EOU administrator not liable in rape lawsuit
• Home improvement — the free kind
• News of Record: Police Log, Bend fire runs
• People on the Move
• Planners begin update to Deschutes County’s destination resort zone
• Reactions to alliance of area doctors, hospital hint at obstacles
• Reprieve near for delinquent Oregon taxpayers
• Traffic delays expected in southern Deschutes
• Tuesday Morning opens in south Bend
• Volunteers sought for Citizen Review Boards
• What’s Going Up

BUSINESS

• As scams hit IRAs, no one’s looking at the biggest loser
• 7 banks shut down
• Bend’s CBS affiliate converting signals
• California lawmakers pass budget plan
• CEOs’ confidence in economy rising
• Digital TV coupon deadline nears
• Financial overhaul hearing turns into turf war
• Focus from labels to essentials
• Home improvement — the free kind
• Liberal, conservative Democrats spar over health care reform bill
• Microsoft offers to make concessions in Europe
• People on the Move
• Planners begin update to Deschutes County’s destination resort zone
• State picks new handler for college savings plan
• Tuesday Morning opens in south Bend
• What’s Going Up

SPORTS

• A wave of riders on CCC’s Stage 4
• A’s trade Holliday to Cards
• Auto racing
• Baseball team headed to state
• Contador keeps overall lead; Cavendish earns fifth stage win
• Cycling
• Elks start key road trip with 13-inning victory
• Equestrian
• Evelyn Stevens continues her dominance over the field with a third stage victory in four days
• Funk leads by three at Senior British Open
• Golf Scoreboard
• Hawaiian team fits in just fine at national prep rodeo
• Kyle Busch pledges to be positive after recent outburts
• Major League Baseball
• New Heights
• Oden, Durant in different spots while playing at U.S. minicamp
• On the Air
• Phinney is out of men’s race after crash
• Questions, questions everywhere in preseason
• Soccer
• Sports
• Swimming
• Top seed loses in Indianapolis
• Trail Blazers sign free agent guard Andre Miller

CENTRAL OREGON OBITS

• Death notices
• Harmon Hemsing

NATION & WORLD

• A simple message to capture fire’s complexity: only Smokey
• Ambush plot targeted FBI during Hoffa trial
• An issue raised in the Gates arrest: What should police tolerate?
• As trees fall, tribes face greater peril
• Astronauts install fresh batteries in spacewalk
• California lawmakers pass budget plan
• CDC issues warning on worst-case scenario if swine flu vaccine fails
• China announces first panda from frozen sperm
• Convicted pastor says he’s a prophet
• Focus from labels to essentials
• In the U.S., ‘red state, blue state Shia’ tussle over future
• Iranian president’s deputy to step down
• Iraq looks at alleged U.S.-insurgent talks
• Kidney-selling scheme believed to be first in U.S.
• Liberal, conservative Democrats spar over health care reform bill
• Merkley seeks Medicare change
• Myanmar opposition leader’s trial goes on
• N. Korea reportedly kills Bible distributor
• Obama rushes to quell racial uproar he helped fire
• Openly gay man joins A.F. Academy board
• Rural care not a deal-breaker, Obama says
• Russian is first woman to walk in space in 1984
• Town’s ‘no church zone’ falls flat
• Zelaya briefly back in Honduras

FEATURES

• Adding smart phones to curriculum - slowly
• CDC issues warning on worst-case scenario if swine flu vaccine fails
• Community Events Calendar
• Convicted pastor says he’s a prophet
• Education at its own pace
• Horoscope
• Kidney-selling scheme believed to be first in U.S.
• Liberal, conservative Democrats spar over health care reform bill
• Merkley seeks Medicare change
• New Midwestern wine region is biggest in U.S.
• People on the Move
• Reactions to alliance of area doctors, hospital hint at obstacles
• Religion in Brief
• Rural care not a deal-breaker, Obama says
• The focus of kids’ glasses is now on style
• Town’s ‘no church zone’ falls flat
• Web site advocates hand-made crafts, giving to others

ENTERTAINMENT

• ‘Being Human’: Friendship often thicker than blood
• Billy Joel ill; Buffalo show postponed
• Burlesque show coming to Seven club in Bend
• ‘Dancing’ duo to turn up heat on Broadway
• High Desert Rendezvous to be held Aug. 22
• Horoscope
• Movie Times
• Portland ink
• Sunriver Quilt Show and Sale set for Aug. 1
• Teens invited to donate needed school supplies
• Web site advocates hand-made crafts, giving to others

OPINION

• Children’s book week
• Everyone likes it
• Fix health care
• ‘Green economy’ test for environmentalists
• Health costs
• Listen to Obama
• The more we talk electronically, the less we communicate

ROADS & TRAFFIC

• Traffic delays expected in southern Deschutes