December 24, 2009

LOCAL & STATE

• A pre-Christmas reindeer visit
• Air pollution advisory for Central Oregon
• Attorney general victim of car prowler
• Building inspectors share duties as revenues lag
• Business Calendar
• Cascade Bancorp halts its public offering
• Cell tower signs warn of hazard, but danger is likely minimal, officials say
• Christmas closures
• Correction
• Corrections
• Deschutes United Way gathers $1M
• Frosty, but still tasty
• High-speed Internet mapping to use $2.1M in stimulus funds
• La Pine man who tied up neighbor sentenced to prison
• Lost money returned to Klamath Falls eatery
• Minor injuries in Bend DUII crash
• Mom of slain toddler faces neglect charges
• Multi-state effort leads to big marijuana bust
• News of Record: Permits
• News of Record: Police Log, Bend fire runs, Pets
• Nike founder buys 400 acres in area
• Prineville volunteer police academy set
• ‘Rogue River’ horror film wraps up
• Stimulus upgrades at COCC benefit local economy
• Three hurt in crash near Prineville
• Time's almost out
• 'Tis the season to be stressed
• Wal-Mart to give it another try in Portland
• Washington governor wants carbon-neutral footprint by 2020

BUSINESS

• A wake-up call for nuclear power
• Banks bundled debt, bet against it and won; now it’s all under scrutiny
• BendBroadband could lose 15 channels
• Berkshire continues cutting Moody’s stake
• BlackBerry users suffer e-mail outage
• Building inspectors share duties as revenues lag
• Business Calendar
• Cascade Bancorp halts its public offering
• Christmas closures
• Citigroup, Wells Fargo repay TARP money
• For American workers in China, a culture clash
• Health insurance help extended for jobless
• Heart device maker to pay $22M in inquiry
• High-speed Internet mapping to use $2.1M in stimulus funds
• Keep a close eye on your credit score amid season of spending
• News of Record: Permits
• Nike founder buys 400 acres in area
• Panic but no deaths in Jamaica
• Stimulus upgrades at COCC benefit local economy
• Time's almost out
• Treasury eyes new TARP program for small banks

SPORTS

• Baseball
• Basketball
• Bayless leads Blazers to victory over Spurs
• Blues earn shootout win over Flames
• Boxing
• Central Oregon to host four OGA events in 2010
• Expect ‘fabulous’ conditions
• Fly-tying corner
• FOLKS JAM SLOPES at Mt. Bachelor
• Football
• Good success for steelhead reported on Deschutes
• Hunting & Fishing Events Calendar
• Making tracks in Deep Canyon
• Mt. Bachelor vouchers support charities
• NBA Scoreboard
• No. 6 West Virginia takes out No. 15 Mississippi
• OIympics
• On the Air
• Oregon State defeats Fresno State 73-65
• Performance drugs in baseball picked top sports story 2009 Sports Story of the Year Voting
• PPP logo contest runs through Monday
• Promising spring chinook season may hit Deschutes
• Slip slidin' away
• Wynn leads Utah over Cal in Poinsettia Bowl

OBITS

• Arnold Stang, comedic actor, voice of ‘Top Cat’
• Washington scientist won Nobel Prize in medicine

CENTRAL OREGON OBITS

• Death notices
• Franklin Andrew Cleland
• Jacqueline Suzie Henkel
• John Cantrell

NATION & WORLD

• A wake-up call for nuclear power
• Astronauts read Genesis from moon orbit during a Christmas Eve telecast in 1968
• Balloon boy’s parents sent to jail for hoax
• Banks bundled debt, bet against it and won; now it’s all under scrutiny
• Citigroup, Wells Fargo repay TARP money
• Concerns don’t keep Oregon’s senators from supporting health care bill
• Defying ban, Iranians try to mourn cleric
• Group advises doctors to reduce antibiotic use
• Heart device maker to pay $22M in inquiry
• Migration figures from census show a ‘roller coaster’
• Oregon senators’ amendments in the health care bill
• Panic but no deaths in Jamaica
• Post office standoff ends peacefully
• Senate set to pass reform bill
• Treasury eyes new TARP program for small banks
• Trial in China signals attack on dissidents
• Troops finding a new service - as teachers

FEATURES

• Astronauts read Genesis from moon orbit during a Christmas Eve telecast in 1968
• BMC to offer emergency room physicians access to patients’ electronic records
• Calendar
• Cell tower signs warn of hazard, but danger is likely minimal, officials say
• CHC sleep center doctors are highest paid in system
• Children’s doctors switching to part time
• Christmas closures
• Concerns don’t keep Oregon’s senators from supporting health care bill
• Do you know the life span of a virus?
• Eat up: Good fats really do exist
• Eustachian tube
• Folic acid may have link to cancer development
• From candy canes to eggnog, there are plenty of temptations
• Group advises doctors to reduce antibiotic use
• Health Datebook
• Heart device maker to pay $22M in inquiry
• How to use NEAT
• In pain? Look at photos of your loved ones
• Is stress making you less jolly? Follow these helpful exercises
• Naturally skinny people have challenges
• Oregon senators’ amendments in the health care bill
• People
• Quitting may work best with a combination of treatments
• Ready, set, sweat!
• Revenue growth at area hospitals
• Senate set to pass reform bill
• Snuba mixes snorkeling, scuba
• Sports injuries
• Take it easy when shoveling snow
• 'Tis the season to be stressed
• Used fitness gear is a hot sell in hard times
• What’s new? Plenty, but here’s a few

ENTERTAINMENT

• Arnold Stang, comedic actor, voice of ‘Top Cat’
• BendBroadband could lose 15 channels
• Calendar
• Christmas television: Keep it on, but keep it seasonal
• Community Datebook
• Court snubs ‘Star Trek’ fan’s memorabilia suit
• Cowell’s brother says Simon to quit ‘Idol’
• Documentary on Jackson’s doc in works
• For American workers in China, a culture clash
• Movie Times
• Pop group sibling Kevin Jonas weds
• Priest wins $100,000 for church in poker game
• Sarandon, Robbins split after 23 years
• Winehouse charged in alleged assault

OPINION

• Bad bills
• How to make money with light rail
• No matter what you hear, biofuels have a bright future
• No to tax measures
• Unfair to Muslims