September 26, 2009

LOCAL & STATE

• A reason to celebrate
• A 73-year love story
• Blumenauer regrets vote on anti-gay marriage law
• Calendar
• Cougar-killing study inconclusive, biologists say
• La Pine sex abuse fugitive extradited from Costa Rica
• Local SAT numbers hint at ACT shift
• Man dies in motorcycle crash east of Bend
• News of Record: Police Log, Bend fire runs, Pets
• Nurse shortages hamper schools’ swine flu efforts
• Old Mill children’s museum to close
• People on the Move
• Tax foes say they’ve got more than enough signatures
• What’s Going Up
• When's it gonna be OK to play?
• Wickiup Reservoir health advisory lifted
• 100 years of history, but nowhere to keep it

BUSINESS

• Big airlines add $10 busy-day surcharge
• Game consoles facing challenge from cell phones
• Georgian Bank is 95th to fail
• Health concerns have risen over popular contraceptives
• Houseless but not homeless
• Lawmakers may move Fed toward a new transparency
• Old Mill children’s museum to close
• People on the Move
• Simmons plans to file for Chapter 11
• Smaller banks may get fresh bailouts
• To many, flexible spending accounts worth fighting for
• Unilever buys some Sara Lee businesses
• What’s Going Up
• When's it gonna be OK to play?

SPORTS

• Auto racing
• Baseball
• Basketball
• Beavs, Ducks ready to play ball in Bend
• Bend boys soccer rallies for victory at Corvallis
• Correction
• Cougars charge to win in IMC opener
• Ducks will try to tackle Bears’ RB Best
• Ex-Lava Bear shines for Seattle Pacific soccer
• Football
• Hermiston edges Bend late
• Horse racing
• Injuries are the NFL’s great equalizer early in the season
• Major League Baseball
• On the Air
• Poll: Fans predict Series, but how many will watch?
• Prep Scoreboard
• QB situations are in flux for OSU, Arizona
• Soccer
• Summit loses IMC opener, remains winless
• Woods takes lead at Tour Championship

OBITS

• Charles Manson follower Atkins dies incarcerated

CENTRAL OREGON OBITS

• Death notices
• Grace Eldred
• Rose May Wilson
• William Robertson

NATION & WORLD

• Alcohol-sniffing anklet saves money, stirs fears
• Army to allow Iraq war objector to resign
• Baucus bill may end up being a rough draft
• California parks to stay open for now
• 2 charged in unrelated Ill., Texas bomb plots
• Charles Manson follower Atkins dies incarcerated
• China indicts 21 in July violence
• Detroit’s mayor pulls no punches
• Environmentalists seek to wipe out plush TP
• General seeks more troops in Afghanistan
• Guantanamo may not close by January, White House says
• Honduran leader won’t meet Zelaya
• In 1960, Kennedy, Nixon face off in first debate between presidential candidates
• Iraq begins inquiry into prison break
• Israel’s Olmert starts his corruption trial
• North Koreans risk their lives to reveal a country
• Suicide attack strikes Pakistani police station
• Terror suspect is held without bail, transferred to New York
• U.S. and its allies warn Iran about secret nuclear facility
• Woman with wrong embryo gives birth

FEATURES

• A reason to celebrate
• A 73-year love story
• Former bank robber found ministry through life of crime
• New church set to open in La Pine
• People on the Move
• Religion in Brief
• The religiously unaffiliated trend male, younger, study says

ENTERTAINMENT

• AirLink launches online membership application
• Attend meeting to register for parade
• Boy Scouts launch annual popcorn sale
• David Duchovny back with Season 3 of ‘Californication’
• Get your strange matter fix
• ‘Harry Potter’ author has joined Twitter
• Jessica Biel joins celeb climb on Kilimanjaro
• Lowe teases romance in ‘Brothers & Sisters’
• New church set to open in La Pine
• Quaid freed on bail after arrest in Texas
• Scarecrow contest headed for downtown
• Triathlon racer seeks pledges for charity

OPINION

• A change for justice
• Behind the fear on health reform
• Bend should require infrastructure to keep pace with growth
• Good pair of rules
• Merkley represents all of Oregon
• Plans to kill Bend’s park geese
• Tell Obama