December 07, 2009

LOCAL & STATE

• a cold one at portland’s ale festival
• Ashland school removes holiday tree
• Bend Fire Department collecting food today
• Calendar
• Consider vaccination for your pet to prevent canine flu
• Crews keep busy with two projects on U.S. Highway 97
• Frazzled feline? Stressed schnauzer? Massage or aromatherapy could help
• Going camping? Pack a cot for the pooch
• Helping kids learn by helping families live
• Jesuits across Northwest facing more than 500 sex abuse claims
• KENNEDY CENTER HONORS 5 WITH AWARDS
• Meet Ciara
• Memorial service to draw thousands
• Motocross bike becomes rolling tribute to Marines
• News of Record: Civil Suits
• Pets calendar
• Restraining orders in spotlight amid outbreak of domestic violence
• Snow, cold likely to linger
• Some violent prisoners being released early under new law
• Twist of fate, scene of carnage
• Warming hut is welcome at Wanoga
• What do cats do home alone? Cat cams provide some clues
• Woman killed after fight at Portland pub
• Women’s shelter renamed for activist
• Your Pets
• Zen and the art of mounted archery

BUSINESS

• AOL, free from Time Warner, heads into new decade
• At ABC News, a quiet turnover is planned
• Former safety-net program becomes vast entitlement
• Text-a-tip programs allow tipsters to help police, covertly
• The U.N., counting pledges, says it’s time to step up
• U.S. forecasts smaller-than-planned loss from bank rescue, maybe helping deficit
• Will the app store turn Apple into Microsoft?

SPORTS

• AMERICAN CONFERENCE
• Answering the riddles of the BCS
• Baseball
• BCS puts ‘Bama, Texas in game for national title
• Beavs are headed to Vegas to take on BYU
• Bend’s Ford competes at U.S. World Cup event
• Cougs reload
• Football
• Furyk rallies for first win in two years
• Hendrick gets emotional during NASCAR ceremony
• Lakers continue win streak, cruise past division foe Suns
• Masoli, James land top team honors for Oregon
• NBA Scoreboard
• Oden tells Blazer teammates to keep fighting without him
• On the Air
• Oregon and Ohio State are officially slated for Rose Bowl
• Oregon State take easy win over Cal State Bakersfield
• Saints survive ’Skins in overtime, stay perfect
• Senators end streak, beat Ducks in shootout
• Soccer
• Swiss skier dominates at World Cup
• Three Central Oregon cowboys earn checks in fourth go-round
• Winter Sports

OBITS

• Aaron Schroeder wrote hit songs for Elvis Presley
• Artist Alfred Hrdlicka a figure of controversy
• William Wilson, first ambassador from U.S. to the Vatican

NATION & WORLD

• Iraq passes election law
• Japanese attack Pearl Harbor in 1941
• Pearl Harbor survivor back for 1st time since war
• Push intensifies for deal on public plan
• Selling the car phone, despite evidence of risk
• The U.N., counting pledges, says it’s time to step up
• U.S. stresses it will remain in Afghanistan
• William Wilson, first ambassador from U.S. to the Vatican

FEATURES

• Helping kids learn by helping families live
• Twist of fate, scene of carnage
• Warming hut is welcome at Wanoga

ENTERTAINMENT

• Cage wins U.N. award for humanitarian work
• Movie Times
• Schwimmer back in the director’s chair
• Weezer frontman injured in icy bus crash

OPINION

• Education failure
• Embrace the complexity of the Obama administration
• Listen to Wyden
• Low taxes
• Teen columns
• Who pays for green project in Gresham

ROADS & TRAFFIC

• Crews keep busy with two projects on U.S. Highway 97