July 29, 2009

LOCAL & STATE

• Americans remain gloomy on economy
• Beating the heat in Oregon
• Bend seeks historical committee applicants
• Bend’s Blue, Rescue relocate on west side
• Business Calendar
• Driver in fatal crash on Highway 20 arrested
• Drowning at Farewell Bend: body recovered, but what happened?
• Free sports physicals available for students
• Getting everything just right
• Index adds to upbeat news on housing
• Kids jump right in for chance to be on stage
• Kohl’s aiming to break ground here in August, contractor says
• Lane closure planned on Greenwood in Bend
• Making stimulus jobs count
• Man accused of bringing daughter, 9, to store holdup
• Microsoft-Yahoo alliance imminent
• News of Record: Bankruptcies
• News of Record: Police Log
• PacificSource wraps up Advantage deal
• Parents, kids raise funds for school sports
• Portland officer fired for fib settles with city
• Public meeting on OLCC canceled
• Redmond receives federal police funding
• Sisters officials urged to reconsider gas tax
• Summer theater production puts local students to work
• Tax on mileage, not gas: A way to pay for roads?
• Terrebonne water meeting at Grange Hall
• Veterans memorial clears planning hurdle
• Warm weather raises air pollution risk
• Wastewater reveals drugs abused in area
• Wyden blasts helicopter tour plan for Crater Lake

BUSINESS

• Americans remain gloomy on economy
• Bank of America may cut branches
• Bend’s Blue, Rescue relocate on west side
• Bipartisan group eyes Medicare savings
• Bug off!
• Business Calendar
• Coffee shops, pool decks become offices
• IBM scoops up software-maker SPSS
• Index adds to upbeat news on housing
• Kohl’s aiming to break ground here in August, contractor says
• Making stimulus jobs count
• Microsoft-Yahoo alliance imminent
• PacificSource wraps up Advantage deal
• Speculators in energy should be reined in, official says
• Sprint focuses on prepaid phone market
• Steroids may be lurking in supplements, FDA warns
• Wyden blasts helicopter tour plan for Crater Lake

SPORTS

• Baseball
• Basketball
• Bend team places at CrossFit Games
• Elks suffer 6-0 shutout to BlueJackets on the road
• Football
• GM ends sponsorship of Buick Open
• Golf Scoreboard
• Golfers still taking a ride over walking
• Horse Racing
• Major League Baseball
• On the Air
• PGA TOUR
• Phelps tries to move on after stunning loss
• Redmond golfer makes cut at junior tourney
• Scoreboard
• Stearns returns to Mountain View cross country
• USA Cycling Nationals
• Weber wins flight in Utah Amateur
• Young guns in the saddle

OBITS

• Jazz composer George Russell

CENTRAL OREGON OBITS

• Death notices
• Hazel B. Locke Wells
• Kimberly Ann Turney-Hall
• Susan Shatzel

NATION & WORLD

• As Gates visits, Iraq raids camp of Iranian exiles
• Balkan feud now centers on 2,300-year-old hero
• BLM hoping to work with Sheriff’s Office in drug fight
• Haitian boat with 200 sinks
• Man to stand trial in abortion doctor’s death
• Prince Charles, Lady Diana Spencer marry in 1981 at London cathedral
• Tapping into local sources: California utility reverts to the long-ago and not-so-far-away
• Tax on mileage, not gas: A way to pay for roads?
• Vote sends Sotomayor closer to high court

FEATURES

• Calendar
• New vaccine ignores swine flu - for now
• Shopping with a resale expert
• Turn your clutter into cash with a yard sale

ENTERTAINMENT

• Cable’s healthy summer crop
• Calendar
• Hulk Hogan, wife settle terms of divorce
• Jazz composer George Russell
• Mischa Barton ‘out of the hospital’
• Movie Times
• Sony Music Nashville splits with Wilson

OPINION

• Banking program is a way to save money
• Legalizing marijuana makes sense
• Military, mullahs and moderates fight it out in Iran
• Redmond backs school innovation

ROADS & TRAFFIC

• Sisters officials urged to reconsider gas tax
• Tax on mileage, not gas: A way to pay for roads?