November 16, 2009

LOCAL & STATE

• A lawmaker is testing the waters for new limit on well use
• A place to call home
• Austin was strangled, autopsy results show
• City Council to consider water system upgrade
• Community Calendar
• Electrical system cited in La Pine house fire
• Eugene library gets $1.1 million bequest
• Feeding animals, helping humans
• Fewer pollution fines lately, but why?
• For hearing impaired, dogs help with more than sound
• Gloomy skies are expected to bring rain, snow to region
• Jefferson County leads the state in pot plants seized, report reveals
• 2 killed, 4 injured in crash near Dallas
• Lane closures, delays likely in Crook County
• Meet Irwin
• News of Record: Civil Suits
• ROTC is back at Southern Oregon University
• Search under way for Wilsonville man
• Suspect arrested in shooting, kidnapping
• SUV crashes into entryway of Spokane County jail
• Two arrested in La Pine bar fight
• Your Pets

BUSINESS

• A blurred line between blog post, press release
• A place to call home
• City Council to consider water system upgrade
• Dobbs says split from CNN was ‘amicable’
• In Beaverton, a high school farm grows into a business
• Is there a method behind the cell phone plan madness?

SPORTS

• Auto racing Scoreboard
• Beavers enter top 25, and are smelling roses
• Brooks, Rockets, handle Lakers
• Carolina gets first win since Oct. 9
• Colts, Manning, stun Pats, Brady with rally
• Djokovic triumphs in Paris
• Ducks try to avoid Blount sideshow in the hunt for a Pac-10 title
• Football
• Johnson wins to cruise into Sprint Cup’s finale
• NBA Scoreboard
• New heights
• On the Air
• Oregon wins again, starts season 3-0
• Pacquiao shows greatness can come in a small package
• Pets calendar
• Riesch edges Vonn to win women’s slalom on Saturday
• Schumacher wins 7th Top Fuel title
• Soccer
• Summaries
• TCU stuck in BCS standings after big win against Utah
• Texas Tech holds off OSU
• Tiger wins for first time in Australia
• Wie finally gets first title as a pro
• World Cup Skiing

OBITS

• ‘Gidget’ director Paul Wendkos dies at age 84
• James Lilley was U.S. ambassador to China in Tiananmen Square era
• Serbia’s Patriarch Pavle spoke for peace in Balkans

NATION & WORLD

• Australia apologizes to kids shipped there
• Good dog or smart dog? Research stirring debate
• Health bill foes solicit funds for economic study
• Illinois Democrats endorse plan to take detainees
• In Asia, Obama and Medvedev stand shoulder to shoulder on Iran
• James Lilley was U.S. ambassador to China in Tiananmen Square era
• Jobless find comfort and support from social networks
• No. 2 fugitive mob boss nabbed in Sicily
• Options for a legal defense in a deadly rampage
• Palestinians to appeal to U.N.
• Portrait of 9/11 ‘jackal’ emerges, awaiting stage
• Serbia’s Patriarch Pavle spoke for peace in Balkans
• ‘Sound of Music’ first staged, in 1959

ENTERTAINMENT

• Crawford extortion case heads overseas
• ‘Gidget’ director Paul Wendkos dies at age 84
• ‘Hello, Ohio!' The Boss goofs at Michigan show
• Movie Times
• Zsa Zsa Gabor has $118,000 tax bill

OPINION

• Driver courtesy
• No surprises in ballot campaign finances
• Public option should go
• Thanks, Legislature: We’re No. 1 in taxes
• The next face of the GOP is from small-town South Dakota

ROADS & TRAFFIC

• Lane closures, delays likely in Crook County