September 22, 2009

LOCAL & STATE

• Ashland fire slows; new fire threatens Medford homes
• BendBroadband ups its download speeds
• Brand education
• Business Calendar
• Business owners get probation in immigration case
• COCC head to discuss development plans
• Correction
• Deschutes examines proposed health bill
• Drugged bear drowns in Medford creek
• Ex-Coos Bay official sues city over firing
• Health advisory lifted at Paulina Lake
• In surprise plea deal, killer reveals location of body
• Lofty linen
• Metolius hearing to change nothing
• New branding effort aims to reflect local mentality
• News of Record: Deeds
• News of Record: Police Log, Bend fire runs, Pets
• Ochoco fire was human-caused
• Officials probe wilderness school death
• OSU-Cascades board to meet today
• Portland must pay man shot with taser
• Records, alert staff traced theft at museum
• School districts see drop in rolls
• Still scraping by, still holding out hope
• Swine flu: likely in local schools, but not as bad as feared
• Toxins stall mussel, clam harvest
• Vinegar fly discovered in Willamette Valley

BUSINESS

• AIG has stabilized but future’s uncertain, GAO says
• BofA seeks to pay back federal aid
• Brand education
• Business Calendar
• Climate chief says China is poised to take lead
• COCC head to discuss development plans
• Dell to spend $3.9B to buy Perot Systems
• EU publishes details of Intel’s sales tactics
• Facebook to end Beacon tracking tool
• IRS extends amnesty program for evaders
• Jobless rates rise throughout region
• Lennar loss widens
• Metolius hearing to change nothing
• Netflix crowns champ in $1M contest
• News of Record: Deeds
• Once slaves to luxury goods, Japanese catch the thrift bug
• Prices at the grocery store sink as competition heats up
• Rates on 6-month T-bills hit record low
• Still scraping by, still holding out hope
• Tesla founders end bitter legal fight

SPORTS

• Auto Racing
• Baseball
• Basketball
• Bend cyclist rolls away from pro peloton
• community Scoreboard
• Community Sports Calendar
• Despite protection, Chicago taxpayers face risks of overruns
• Football
• Golf
• Guardian Angel On the Pacific Crest Trail
• Major League Baseball
• Manning leads Colts to win over Dolphins
• Olympics
• On the Air Sports in Brief
• Portland to get NCAA tournament games in 2012
• Pro fires course record at Fall Tour
• Registration for Bend Boxing club open
• Touchdown Celebration
• Well, shoot! Installment 2: Sports
• What's on Pilot Butte?

OBITS

• Art Ferrante, 88, pianist known for movie songs

CENTRAL OREGON OBITS

• Death notices

NATION & WORLD

• A defiant Zelaya returns to Honduras
• Afghan panel to use sampling in recounts
• Afghanistan report forces Obama to face questions
• Arapaho man giving up fight in eagle killing
• Baucus reworks parts of his health reform bill
• Census data offer a snapshot tinted by the recession
• China says military comparable to West
• 6 dead as storm floods the South
• Facebook to end Beacon tracking tool
• FCC would become Net neutrality police under proposal
• How the U.S. took half a ton of uranium out of Kazakhstan
• ‘I see a soldier’
• IRS extends amnesty program for evaders
• ‘Junior’ Gotti painted as a maniacal killer
• Obama, Paterson meet in Albany
• Old and unsold: CRT TVs languish on countertops
• One shot of swine flu vaccine good for most kids
• Pakistani militant under house arrest
• Sara Jane Moore tries to shoot President Gerald Ford in 1975
• Terror suspect held without bail

FEATURES

• A simple and sweet baked apple
• A soil test is needed before fertilizing
• Baucus reworks parts of his health reform bill
• Bend groups planning services for Yom Kippur
• Bring out the love at home
• Calendar
• Correction
• Craft event to benefit Volunteers in Medicine
• Deschutes examines proposed health bill
• Dreaded childhood veggie now a garden favorite
• Feast, celebrate and help fund BendFilm
• Fresh take on eggplant Parmesan, sans sauce
• $2 gets you a versatile wrap
• Health advisory lifted at Paulina Lake
• It’s time to start on your weed whacking
• Lofty linen
• Mail-order brownies like no other
• Mushrooms in a fall salad
• Officials probe wilderness school death
• One shot of swine flu vaccine good for most kids
• Peaches love the freezer
• Recipe Finder
• So many beans; why not experiment?
• Still scraping by, still holding out hope
• Swine flu: likely in local schools, but not as bad as feared
• Taking the bite, but not the zing, from cranberries
• The new way to buy in bulk
• Tips for the perfect fudge
• Welcome your plants to the great indoors
• What to do with all of those vases?

ENTERTAINMENT

• Art Ferrante, 88, pianist known for movie songs
• Cesar Millan dog-based empire adds magazine
• Craft event to benefit Volunteers in Medicine
• Feast, celebrate and help fund BendFilm
• ‘Informant!:' Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction
• Movie Times
• 3 new crime dramas tonight
• Obama goes on Letterman for potato
• Oprah Winfrey picks short story collection
• Univision actor faces child porn charges

OPINION

• ‘Cadillac’ plan tax encounters reality
• State’s tribal casinos targeted for tolerance
• Time running out to bring Legislature’s taxes to a vote
• We’re wimps on energy policy