January 25, 2010

LOCAL & STATE

• A backdrop of mountains near downtown Reno, Nev.
• Alternative medicine
• American Band College ends contract with Southern Oregon University
• Bald eagle recovers after injury
• Building on a passion for BBQ
• COCC math instructor teaches from experience
• Compulsive behavior in dogs linked to a gene
• Cottage Grove company sending stoves to Haiti
• For schools in our area, competitive grants are a balancing act
• Have you voted?
• Inmates donate funds for girl’s gravestone
• Meet George
• New products to make life easier for you and your pet
• News of Record: Civil Suits
• Oregon scholar tries to solve the puzzle of Shakespeare
• Partnership explored to restore seafood school
• Pets calendar
• Ruling may alter federal elections in Oregon
• Semi slides off U.S. Highway 97
• Snowboarder and snowshoers rescued
• Step right up, if you'd like to volunteer
• Storm track to pass over region this week
• University presidents take salary reductions
• Your Pets

BUSINESS

• ‘Avatar’ tops box office for sixth straight week
• Paperless medical convention may be first in the U.S.
• Wal-Mart cuts about 11,200 Sam’s Club employees

SPORTS

• American Vonn finishes GS, then criticizes course
• Archie’s boy waits on Saints
• Avalanche make it six in a row with win over Stars
• Back in the hunt
• Chris Klug expects to make return to Olympics
• Cycling
• Football
• Hamlin tears ACL playing hoops
• Hendrick makes Junior a priority
• Indianapolis favored to beat New Orleans
• Looking ahead with great optimism
• Manning, Colts rally past Jets
• NASCAR set to relax in effort to energize sport
• NBA Scoreboard
• New Jersey woman becomes first to win title in PBA
• On the Air
• Raptors beat Lakers 106-105
• Seton Hall upsets No. 9 Pitt 64-61
• Toro Rosso sticks with Alguersuari for 2010
• Venus Williams headed to quarterfinals
• Watson beats Couples in season-opening tourney
• Win over Vikings sends Saints to first Super Bowl
• Winter Sports

OBITS

• Bessie Mae Berger, subject of news article on homeless
• Jack Litman was lawyer for ‘Preppy Killer’
• James Mitchell a regular on ‘All My Children’
• Mosbacher headed commerce under George H.W. Bush

NATION & WORLD

• A re-energized GOP widens its midterm effort
• A ride of passage falls in digital era
• American gangster Al Capone dies in 1947
• Bessie Mae Berger, subject of news article on homeless
• Bin Laden hails attempt on U.S. plane
• Ethiopian plane reportedly crashes after takeoff from Beirut, 90 on board
• Mosbacher headed commerce under George H.W. Bush
• New front in health fight
• Priority shifts from rescue to shelter, with few tents

FEATURES

• Building on a passion for BBQ
• ODOT’s tips for driving in rainy or icy conditions
• Step right up, if you'd like to volunteer
• Which Europeans were the first to reach Hawaii?

ENTERTAINMENT

• ‘Damages’: Martin Short swaps silly for sinister
• On ‘Jersey Shore,’ a word likely to prompt either a fist pump or a scowl

OPINION

• Business death spiral
• Measures 66 and 67 will help keep our communities safe
• Perfect time for Facebook coup
• Reform anger is all about substance
• Taxes and jobs
• Zap tax breaks

ROADS & TRAFFIC

• Semi slides off U.S. Highway 97