December 18, 2009

LOCAL & STATE

• A tantalizing hint of dark matter
• Albany officials defend ‘Talking Water Gardens’
• Bend park district starts free online registration
• Business Calendar
• Camp Fire USA offers after-school programs
• Correction
• Deschutes leaders back tax levy for bigger jail
• Dispatches
• Economists weigh in on bailout
• Finding the purr-fect gift
• GO Magazine
• Higher education task force looks at future of region
• If Bend joins fire district, a new tax but stable funding
• Inmate gets 5 years in jail phone scam
• News of Record: Police Log, Bend fire runs, Pets
• Reaching out to teens who would be first in their families to go to college
• Regulators approve LNG terminal
• Restaurant Guide
• Shopping by phone
• State Capitol repairs under way
• Survey: Teen values shifted over 20 years
• SUV arsonist released from prison
• The holiday survival guide
• With OLCC, area businesses wait and see

BUSINESS

• At BofA, Moynihan is stepping in where others fear to tread
• British Airways strike plans halted
• Business Calendar
• CEO’s extensive shake-up of GM raises eyebrows
• Dispatches
• Economic reports signal slow recovery
• Economists weigh in on bailout
• Ernst & Young to pay $8.5 million fine
• FedEx sees obstacles on road to recovery
• Government balks at Citigroup stock sale
• Merchants cut off from Visa for scams
• Nike profit dips but beats expectations
• Port of Seattle chooses new airport cab company
• Privacy advocates ask FTC to investigate Facebook
• Recalls
• Scientific Santa Claus tries to make a Christmas tree that doesn’t shed
• Seasonal sales boost Walmart.com’s market share as it closes in on Amazon
• Senate panel clears Bernanke nomination
• Shopping by phone
• Soccer club’s goal: a new park
• Some places roll back to gravel roads
• U.S. drug crackdown is missing the money

SPORTS

• Adventure Sports Calendar
• Baseball
• Bayless scores 29, leads Trail Blazers past Suns
• Clarification
• Colts stay unbeaten with win over Jaguars
• Cycling
• Edison Sno-park
• Figure skating
• Finchem says PGA fine without Woods
• Football
• For Madden, at 73, the game’s still on
• Golf
• Hawks win in opening game at Seaside tourney
• Local boarders fare well in Olympic qualifying races
• Long Rider tradition
• Marleau scores twice in Sharks’ victory against Ducks
• NBA Scoreboard
• On the Air
• Pac-10 is hurting as conference play nears
• Panther boys post two wins in first CVC duals of season
• Pronghorn settles landscape dispute
• Ski racing
• Soccer
• Something special about Big Ten and Rose Bowl
• Tennis
• Vancouver sprint
• Virginia Meissner Sno-park

OBITS

• Academy Award-winning actress Jennifer Jones, 90
• Roy Disney, nephew of Walt Disney
• Russia’s free-market architect dies at 53

CENTRAL OREGON OBITS

• Beverly Jean Rucker
• Death notices
• Elizabeth Smith Fredrickson

NATION & WORLD

• Democrats race to win one more vote for health bill
• Economic reports signal slow recovery
• Ernst & Young to pay $8.5 million fine
• Estate tax is expiring, but its death isn’t likely to last
• Eyes on Obama at climate talks
• Florida man exonerated after 35 years behind bars
• For first time, scientists see a deep-sea volcano erupt
• Government balks at Citigroup stock sale
• Hired by U.S. Customs, working for the cartels
• Irish bishop resigns in wake of abuse report
• Long Rider tradition
• Merchants cut off from Visa for scams
• Mexican kingpin’s death could spark more bloodshed
• One word, ‘navigable,’ muddies water bill
• Saturn moon’s 2-tone mystery has been solved
• Senate panel clears Bernanke nomination
• Sultry world found circling a distant star
• Tchaikovsky’s ballet ‘The Nutcracker’ premieres in 1892
• Turns out, sunshine states really are the happiest
• U.S. drug crackdown is missing the money
• U.S. missile barrage kills 17 in Pakistan
• White House stung by a liberal revolt
• Yemen claims 34 killed in raid on hideouts

FEATURES

• Ask yourself, who really needs help in your family?
• Camp Fire USA offers after-school programs
• Democrats race to win one more vote for health bill
• Irish bishop resigns in wake of abuse report
• Meeting the parents? Here's some pointers
• Tchaikovsky’s ballet ‘The Nutcracker’ premieres in 1892
• The holiday survival guide
• Turns out, sunshine states really are the happiest
• White House stung by a liberal revolt

ENTERTAINMENT

• Academy Award-winning actress Jennifer Jones, 90
• An epic breakthrough
• Art exhibits
• Boom town
• Buddy cop genre lives again
• CTC and ballet school hosting open house
• Family Events Calendar
• Getting into the holiday spirit
• Gobble up this pencil holder craft
• Grin and bear it
• Meet Samson
• Music releases
• New DVD releases
• On local screens
• On the local scene ...
• Out of town
• Parents’ Guide to Movies
• Planning ahead
• ‘Precious' is a well-crafted, emotional tale
• ‘Road’ filled with despair
• Story times, library youth events for Dec. 18-24
• Talks, classes, museums & libraries
• The best local releases
• This week
• What others thought

RESTAURANTS

• Grin and bear it

OPINION

• Climate hoax
• County helps out La Pine
• Facing the big God question
• Medical costs
• Moderate Muslims need to fight threat of ‘Virtual Afghanistan’
• OLCC needs to look in mirror
• Walden’s vote