August 12, 2009

LOCAL & STATE

• A push for ‘clean’ coal
• A stellar opportunity to see falling stars
• Area housing prices mixed, but sales up
• Audit details which nonwork Web sites county staffers visit
• BACK-TO-SCHOOL BASICS
• Bend conference lands CNBC analyst
• Bend-La Pine improves yearly progress
• Business Calendar
• Fire closure lifted in Green Mountain area
• First Street in Bend to close Thursday
• Food fun with fancy fruit
• 2 injured in crash on state Highway 126
• Kids learn to be creative with cooking
• KSJJ takes top spot in local radio ratings
• Local districts get CLASS Project grants
• Madras’ gas tax is area’s first
• News of Record: Bankruptcies
• News of Record: Police Log, Bend fire runs, Pets
• ODOT prefers new median to make Tumalo stretch of Highway 20 safer
• Permits ensure feedlot waste control
• Playoff time: Another record crowd — but no win — for the Elks
• Productivity rises
• Redmond considers plan to expand trails
• Redmond High sets registration times
• Redmond to begin Fifth Street work
• School supply drive begins in Madras
• Senators to make case for overhaul of health care
• Truck theft suspect drives to police station
• Who said diamonds are a girl’s best friend?
• $1 will go pretty far at Elite Repeat sale
• Winter canal shutdown has some ranchers worried

BUSINESS

• A Madoff aide, guilty, reveals scheme details
• A push for ‘clean’ coal
• Area housing prices mixed, but sales up
• Audit details which nonwork Web sites county staffers visit
• BACK-TO-SCHOOL BASICS
• Bend conference lands CNBC analyst
• China’s trash incinerators loom as a global hazard
• Citigroup approves $6B in lending initiatives
• Energy prices slump
• FDA delays ruling on sales of new Prevnar
• GM: Volt will get 230 miles a gallon
• Lawmakers face angry crowds on health care
• Microsoft to put Office on phones from Nokia
• Permits ensure feedlot waste control
• Productivity rises
• Recall
• Redmond considers plan to expand trails
• Salary hikes hit new low as bonuses hit new high
• Study: Women underrate bosses’ opinions of them
• Urge to splurge getting harder to resist
• Who said diamonds are a girl’s best friend?
• $1 will go pretty far at Elite Repeat sale
• Winter canal shutdown has some ranchers worried

SPORTS

• Basketball
• Beem right at home at Hazeltine
• Bend’s Horner leads at Tour de l’Ain
• Bolt vs. Gay headlines track worlds
• Central Oregon EWGA chapter to hold membership social
• Crooked River Ranch pro plays well at Senior Oregon Open Invitational
• Discounts offered to Tradition ticket holders at establishments
• Elks start playoffs with loss to Knights
• Football
• Golf Scoreboard
• Golfers miss out on assistant tourney
• Major League Baseball
• On the Air
• PGA OF AMERICA
• Scoreboard
• Seahawks look to competition to improve issues in secondary
• Seattle’s Tatupu out of practice
• Trying to get back on track

OBITS

• Tabloid book publisher Michael Viner, 65, dies
• Transformative, on her own terms

CENTRAL OREGON OBITS

• Arnie Swarens
• Barbara Ann Moorman
• Death notices
• Doris Marie McCaffery Nolan
• Gary Patrick Fearrien
• Ruth E. Harlan Corder
• Stephen Peter Mockaitis
• Viola Marie Van Tassel

NATION & WORLD

• Arctic ice could see record low
• Aspirin may help fight one cancer
• Forest pacts as lawsuit deterrents?
• IBM introduces its first personal computer in ’81
• Insurers’ survey finds high fees too common
• Lessons from Seattle on medical records’ electronic transition
• More house arrest for Myanmar’s Suu Kyi
• Musharraf faces arrest on return to Pakistan
• Online scams target the jobless
• Papers show Rove as deeply involved in attorney firings
• 2 powerful quakes strike 2 areas of globe
• Swine flu strikes Costa Rican leader
• Thais reject U.S. plea to give up arms dealer

FEATURES

• Calendar
• Instrument rental a good option for parents
• Senators to make case for overhaul of health care
• That must-have item might be uniquely yours

ENTERTAINMENT

• Calendar
• Elton John on board for tribute record
• Jennifer Hudson gives birth to a son
• Judge questions verdict in rapper’s trial
• ‘Mad’ world evokes the past, connects with the present
• Movie Times
• Pharmacy searched in Jackson investigation
• Tabloid book publisher Michael Viner, 65, dies
• Top entertainment sellers

OPINION

• Clarify deadline for local gas tax
• ‘Greedy geezers’ should be grateful
• Shriver was champion of intellectually disabled
• Transformative, on her own terms
• U.S. health care consumers aren’t getting their money’s worth

ROADS & TRAFFIC

• First Street in Bend to close Thursday
• 2 injured in crash on state Highway 126
• Madras’ gas tax is area’s first
• ODOT prefers new median to make Tumalo stretch of Highway 20 safer