March 09, 2010

LOCAL & STATE

• A high-tech route to smarter kids?
• AG hires domestic violence prosecutor
• Arguments heard ahead of 4th death penalty trial
• Avoid the alluring pitfalls when buying that new car
• Bob Thomas: No word from GM
• Budget may force Sisters schools into merger, cuts
• Business Calendar
• Calendar
• Crews search for hiker near Bonneville Dam
• Democrat meeting scheduled in Jefferson
• Deputy slightly hurt in traffic accident
• Dispose of documents, prescription drugs
• Ex-deputy DA to challenge Dugan in May
• Ex-Warm Springs detective sentenced
• Faith healers sentenced to 16 months for son’s death
• Keeping it local
• Massive predator likely smarter than we’ve imagined
• Military funeral protest to go before high court
• New owner says it plans to be involved in community
• New ReStore opens in La Pine
• News of Record: Deeds
• News of Record: Police Log, Bend fire runs, Pets
• Not much sugar, plenty of spice
• Phone scam targets Bend bank customers
• Phony officer stopped car, Aurora police say
• Rock slide closes Colorado interstate
• School officials going to China for teacher exchange deal
• Sea lions being euthanized for eating too many salmon
• Toyota defends its electronics
• Well shot! Installment 13: Architecture
• Woodburn police: man cut at wedding party

BUSINESS

• A high-tech route to smarter kids?
• Advances on checks to jobless touch off criticism
• After boom and bust, solar power finds a place in Spain
• AIG sells unit in effort to pay down its debt
• As ID theft increases, you are your own best protector
• Business Calendar
• EU may create IMF-style lender
• Keeping it local
• New owner says it plans to be involved in community
• New ReStore opens in La Pine
• News of Record: Deeds
• Oil, gas prices creeping upward
• Phone scam targets Bend bank customers
• Rail line reopens after derailment
• Tanker contract battle may be over
• Using massive computing power, Google improves translation tool
• With bank credit frozen, small U.S. businesses turn to microlenders

SPORTS

• Baseball
• Basketball
• Bend swimmers shine at 10-under meet
• BSC takes second at state championships
• Cavs push past Spurs
• Championship road racing for the rest of us
• Community Sports Calendar
• Cycling
• Football
• Goalie leads Stars to win over Capitals
• Golf
• Golf tournament to benefit youth baseball
• Lava City hosts derby bout this Saturday
• Lineup set for state basketball tournament teams
• Local skiers gain top honors in Sweden
• NBA Scoreboard
• On the Air
• Oregon Select Baseball takes title
• Orienteering event set for Mount Bachelor
• OSU’s Seth Tarver among Pac-10 award recipients
• Ready, aim — dodgeball
• Roughriders roll to nonleague rugby win
• Summit hosts Hike for Haiti this Saturday
• Tae kwon do students do well at tourney
• Wreck paints NASCAR into corner
• Youth baseball camp offered Saturday

OBITS

• Architect behind nation’s tallest building
• Memorial services set for Westlund

CENTRAL OREGON OBITS

• Death notices
• Evelyn (Evie) Courlette Allen
• Lois P. Bloom

NATION & WORLD

• After boom and bust, solar power finds a place in Spain
• Al-Qaida suspect isn’t group’s spokesman
• Biden visits Mideast to push peace talks
• EU may create IMF-style lender
• Gates, Karzai plan Kandahar offensive
• Iraqi parties both claim to be ahead in election
• Letters capture nation’s grief after Kennedy assassination
• Myanmar junta is selling state assets
• Not more quakes, just more people living in quake zones
• Rock slide closes Colorado interstate
• Senate panel to investigate long-term care deaths
• Tanker contract battle may be over
• The Barbie doll debuts in 1959
• Toll of ethnic violence in Nigeria climbs to 500
• White House launches health push with Obama on offense

FEATURES

• A pound cake that’s rich yet frosting-free
• A splash of style
• Ask a cook: frozen melons
• Baskets: My favorite solution for storing things
• Catalogs offer germinating devices and more
• Celebrity horticulturist Jamie Durie glams up gardening
• Cuckoo for cabbage
• Don’t try this at home
• Four favorite mac 'n' cheeses, from classic to creative
• Letters capture nation’s grief after Kennedy assassination
• Listen up!
• Men savoring the - non-foamy - brew
• Not much sugar, plenty of spice
• OSU Extension seeks master food preservers
• Purple Knight and Brazilian Red Hot sizzle
• Senate panel to investigate long-term care deaths
• The Barbie doll debuts in 1959
• Traveling Asia via its cuisine
• White House launches health push with Obama on offense

ENTERTAINMENT

• Alleged stalker of Dr. Pinsky is arrested
• Beyonc named an official Brooklynite
• Family, pizzeria to host medical fundraiser
• Film about peace, music to benefit KPOV
• Lil Wayne begins yearlong jail term
• Listen up!
• Movie Times
• State calendar seeks children’s illustrations
• Stewart pitches new show: ‘Help Me, Martha’
• Using massive computing power, Google improves translation tool
• Was it Dogen’s final act on ‘Lost’?

OPINION

• Bad analogy
• Be honest with voters about Bend tax choice
• ODOT bullies
• Teacher perks
• Union demands
• Westlund was an Oregon original
• Would-be Christmas bomber tests our civil liberties

ROADS & TRAFFIC

• Avoid the alluring pitfalls when buying that new car
• Bob Thomas: No word from GM
• Rock slide closes Colorado interstate
• Toyota defends its electronics