August 15, 2009

LOCAL & STATE

• Bend plans to vie for road stimulus
• Bend-La Pine Schools official honored with Eagle Award
• Bicycle police gather to train in Portland
• Community Events Calendar
• Fatigued hiker rescued at Smith Rock
• Finding next summer’s seeds
• Gas taxes could go to the ballot
• In saving two Powell Butte Elementary grades, help from all sides
• Local soldiers will get aid in readjusting at planned veteran center
• Locals push health reform to Walden staff
• Man sentenced in triple murder may get new trial
• Missing California man found safe in Bend
• News of Record: Police Log, Pets
• No leads on missing Bend man, but search continues
• People on the Move
• Sheriff seeks Citizens Academy applicants
• Taiwan’s leader says typhoon toll may hit 500
• Wild turkeys return to Philomath

BUSINESS

• A road to work ends in rural - but job-rich - North Dakota
• Air controller bantering on phone before midair crash
• Boeing finds new problem with 787
• Colonial among 5 bank closures
• Consumer prices remain steady
• ‘It’s Oregon beer’
• $98M bonus is exempt from federal review, Citigroup says
• People on the Move
• Seattle is front line in fight over grocery bag fees
• State’s ‘free fall’ may be over, but growth could be slow
• What’s Going Up
• Wind turbine maker is leaving Portland

SPORTS

• A leg up
• Armstrong favored in his second Leadville 100 race
• Assistant pro at Oakmont holding his own at PGA
• Baseball
• Bend High cheer tryouts coming up
• Bills’ no-huddle offense isn’t just for the final two minutes
• Coaches invited to submit fall sport tryout information
• Cougars to host football camp
• Elks have a good season on the field, at the gate
• Extortion suspect: Pitino paid aide to marry her
• Federer, Nadal both out of Rogers Cup
• Field for Tradition at Sunriver is set
• Football
• Golf Scoreboard
• Gymnastics
• Horse racing
• Juniper, then and now
• Major League Baseball
• On the Air
• Planning director cleared of ethics allegation
• Storm volleyball tryouts scheduled
• Summit girls soccer conditioning camp on deck
• Swimming
• Tiger distances himself from field
• Vickers puts Toyota on pole in Big 3’s backyard

CENTRAL OREGON OBITS

• Death notices
• Rickland Charles Root
• Shirley Ann Kumpf

NATION & WORLD

• A road to work ends in rural - but job-rich - North Dakota
• Air controller bantering on phone before midair crash
• Clinton ends Africa tour promising to stay involved
• Emergency declared over California fires
• Hamas forces storm mosque; 16 killed
• Health care plan falls short on sparking Iowa activism
• Iranian rivals increase threats
• Iraq’s date farmers are a symbol of hard times
• Karzai may face runoff despite a large lead
• Manson follower Fromme exits prison
• More than 20 dead in Caucasus violence
• N.C. city on edge as 9 women vanish
• Obama says some insurers undermine health efforts
• Polio virus mutates, surges in Nigeria
• Tough times, then a deadly showdown at a Harlem business
• Woodstock festival opened in New York in 1969
• Wrong-way driver’s husband interviewed

FEATURES

• Billionaire physicist buys rare objects, only to give them away
• Health care plan falls short on sparking Iowa activism
• Local soldiers will get aid in readjusting at planned veteran center
• Locals push health reform to Walden staff
• Lutheran leaders prepare for a decision on gay clergy
• Obama says some insurers undermine health efforts
• People on the Move
• Polio virus mutates, surges in Nigeria
• Religion In Brief
• Study: Catholic recruits more diverse, more tied to tradition

ENTERTAINMENT

• Airshow of the Cascades is Aug. 21-22 in Madras
• Cable news hosts continue attacks
• I’ll drink to that
• Movie Times
• Names, donors sought for Bend war memorial
• Photographer seeks community participants
• ‘Scrubs’ star Chalke expecting first child
• Seinfeld named as Jay Leno’s first guest
• Tour des Chutes raises $90K for cancer aid
• What’s Going Up
• Winning films named for 72 Hour Shoot Out
• Woodstock’s legacy still reverberates across festival circuit
• You’re Bob Dylan? Police want to see ID

OPINION

• Fix health care
• Flashback stimulus
• Free dinners don’t qualify as speech
• Free society
• Health plan blues
• How you can help create the Skyline Community Forest
• Worse than the war

ROADS & TRAFFIC

• Bend plans to vie for road stimulus
• Gas taxes could go to the ballot