August 17, 2009

LOCAL & STATE

• Car traveling 153 mph crashes on Highway 20
• County weighs central office
• Family kidnapped from Salem mall safe
• Fire spotter keeps a watchful eye on north-central Wash.
• GO! Magazine
• High-phosphate detergent ban works in Spokane
• Jumping in, having fun
• Make sure your kitty has a collar and tag
• Meet Bonzi
• Newborn found in hotel Dumpster
• News of Record: Civil Suits
• Officers train at safety academy
• Protect furniture from frisky dogs
• Saying goodbye to farm friends at the fair
• Schools gear up for swine flu shots
• Sleepy cats aren’t lazy, it’s just what they do
• Various projects along U.S. 97 will restrict traffic
• Warming trend continues with sunny skies
• We want to see your pets!
• Why the green shift?
• With an eye to drawing jobs, Deschutes seeks study
• Woman killed, 4 hurt in 3-vehicle crash
• Your Pets

BUSINESS

• Beware the so-called job-search silver bullet
• County weighs central office
• Hacker used Twitter to control infected PCs
• John Quincy Adams tweets, thanks to a historical group
• Web site lets you track online censorship reports
• With an eye to drawing jobs, Deschutes seeks study

SPORTS

• As Quizz goes, so goes Oregon State
• Auto racing Scoreboard
• Autocross events scheduled for this weekend at Hoodoo
• Baseball
• Bolt blows away world record in 100
• Champion of Champions
• Chip Kelly era set to start at Oregon
• Counts up for steelhead passing Bonneville dam
• Football
• Getting ready
• Golf Scoreboard
• Interactive: Yang beats Tiger in PGA championship shocker
• Jankovic beats No. 1 Safina for Cincy title
• Major League Baseball
• Mariners’ foundation built on draft of Griffey Jr.
• On the Air
• Pedregon takes Funny Car division
• Pets calendar
• QB Sanchez to start Jets’ next game
• Saddle up
• Scoreboard
• Vickers outlasts field in Michigan fuel duel
• Yang takes down Tiger
• Yes indeed, Tiger is human after all

OBITS

• Broadway actress Ruth Ford starred in ‘Requiem for a Nun’
• Drummer for Lit, Allen Shellenberger
• ‘Good hands with Allstate’ voice Ed Reimers
• Jim Dickinson influenced classic Memphis sound

NATION & WORLD

• American tested after Myanmar jailing
• Crippling Bay Area rail strike averted
• Egyptian president to begin U.S. meetings
• Fighting and fitting in alongside male troops
• Florida Panhandle under storm watch
• Genes tied to success in treating hepatitis C
• Hurricane Camille hits Mississippi coast in 1969, killing 256
• Karzai moves to bolster his re-election bid
• Kuwait wedding fire killed 41 in 3 minutes
• Men charged in fatal line-cutting dispute
• North Korea agrees to resume joint projects with South Korea
• Opposition leaders blamed in Iran’s trials
• Parents largely unaware of how their teens use social media, survey says
• Some Calif. residents return; fires still burn
• U.S. denies role in Honduras coup flight
• White House signals it may drop ‘public option’

FEATURES

• Jumping in, having fun
• Why the green shift?

ENTERTAINMENT

• Brad Pitt for mayor? He doesn’t think so
• Calendar
• Fox News on pace for best year ever
• India angered that U.S. held Bollywood star
• Jim Dickinson influenced classic Memphis sound
• Movie Times
• Pro wrestler Angle faces HGH charge

OPINION

• Local gas taxes gain momentum
• Testing the mettle of ObamaCare
• Your very own handy health care reform cheat sheet

ROADS & TRAFFIC

• Car traveling 153 mph crashes on Highway 20
• Various projects along U.S. 97 will restrict traffic