October 28, 2010

LOCAL & STATE

• A fresh blanket
• Bad concrete used in failing Salem building sets back vital repairs
• Budget cuts force hatchery closure
• Celebration for new park near Pilot Butte
• Conger still leads in campaign funding
• Duress spurs half of Bend home sales
• Environmentalists wary of geothermal project
• Frugality spurs ODOT to buy The Brand
• Funds sought for arsenic-free well
• Gresham teacher gets $25K Milken award
• Health care may become more accessible
• Joint trial on hold until Nov. 8
• Kagan’s first vote is against an execution
• Lake County solar project secures permit
• Man convicted in random assault on Bend woman may be released
• Medford found in contempt over health insurance
• ‘Moss Man’ calls arrest Halloween mix-up
• Mushroom picker found dead near Springfield
• Natural gas rates fall
• News of Record: permits
• News of Record: Police Log, Bend fire runs
• 4 nonprofits receive $300,000 in grants
• Prineville meth bust turns up stolen mail
• Teachers union flier found in student’s folder upsets GOP
• Tough math, English standards considered

BUSINESS

• Downturn proves wisdom of balancing investments
• Duress spurs half of Bend home sales
• Environmentalists wary of geothermal project
• FTC ends inquiry into Google data collection
• Homeowners speak out
• How to eat at a bar
• In Spain, foreclosure does not end mortgage debt
• Jumbled bookkeeping obscures how U.S. spent rebuilding funds before ’07
• Lake County solar project secures permit
• Natural gas rates fall
• New-home sales up in September
• News of Record: permits
• Patchin’ things up
• This year, Black Friday is arriving ahead of Halloween
• Unions seek a share of airlines’ new profits
• When a child's risky venture becomes a parent's liability
• Where Wyden, Huffman stand

SPORTS

• After last year, Cal still wary of OSU’s offense
• Baseball
• Basketball
• Big 3 victorious for first time as Heat defeat 76ers, 97-87
• Chicago’s Turco shines in win over L.A.
• Flows are at 75 cfs on Crooked River
• Fly-tying corner
• Football
• Hunting and Fishing Events Calendar
• In the high country, opportunity knocks
• Last chance
• LeBron-less Cavs debut with win against Celtics
• Luck-Locker battle has NFL scouts at edge of their seats
• Madras pro has rough day at Q-School in Texas
• MLB playoffs Scoreboard
• NCAA
• No easy road for Oregon to reach title game
• Old rods, new fly-fishermen
• Oregon Dressage Society wins grant for judge training
• Prep Scoreboard
• Redmond runner wins CVC; girls advance to state
• Rifle elk season is under way in Ochocos
• Sisters boys soccer claims Sky-Em title
• Sisters wins 9-0, finishes regular season unbeaten
• Snow Expo offers information, vendors
• Tennis
• Tough running games bring SEC teams consistent success
• Trail Blazers 2-0 with win over Clippers
• Winter trail lovers, change is in the air

OBITS

• Death notices
• Ex-Argentine leader Kirchner dies
• Imo Smith
• Jeannette Lenora Desmet

CENTRAL OREGON OBITS

• Death notices
• Imo Smith
• Jeannette Lenora Desmet

NATION & WORLD

• Agents arrest suspect in alleged plot to bomb 4 D.C. subway stations
• Bin Laden threatens France in new tape
• Colleges struggling to recruit more men
• Convoy threads its way through strange drug war
• Ex-Argentine leader Kirchner dies
• FTC ends inquiry into Google data collection
• Harvard College established in 1636
• Homeowners speak out
• In Spain, foreclosure does not end mortgage debt
• Indonesia left reeling from dual disasters
• Jumbled bookkeeping obscures how U.S. spent rebuilding funds before ’07
• Karzai delays order to ban private security companies
• Key races nationwide in next week's election
• New-home sales up in September
• Police, protesters clash in Arab-Israeli town
• Probe seeks source of cholera outbreak
• 15 slain at workplace of recovering addicts
• Storm pummels south, midwest with wind, rain and snow
• U.S. will ask Iran to sharply curtail nuclear production
• Want some hands-on experience in forensic science?

FEATURES

• A noninvasive way to check glucose levels
• Classes
• Don’t go all Gaga over a meat dress this Halloween
• Exercise may lower risk of hip fractures
• Findings offer hope for earlier detection of pancreatic cancer
• Flu shots
• Harvard College established in 1636
• Health care may become more accessible
• How to eat at a bar
• Iron
• ‘Little purple pill’ under microscope
• Men sweat sooner, more easily than women
• 4 nonprofits receive $300,000 in grants
• People
• Probe seeks source of cholera outbreak
• Sneezing kills brain cells.
• Squash your doubts with this pumpkin nutrition quiz
• The ripple effect
• Threat of lawsuits prompts extra tests, costing billions
• Want to rebuild muscle after a workout? Try chocolate milk

ENTERTAINMENT

• Challenge grants available to nonprofits
• Community Calendar
• Community Datebook
• For Obama, politics is no laughing matter
• How to eat at a bar
• Movie Times
• Patchin’ things up
• Pop stars Bieber, Perry, Ke$ha take on American Music Awards
• Snow Expo offers information, vendors
• Springer: 20 years of fights, bleeps and sleaze

OPINION

• How much math do today’s students really need to learn?
• Let public in
• Re-elect Wyden
• Return Wyden
• Vote for Stiegler
• Walden’s contributions
• What greater government control of health care means for you

ROADS & TRAFFIC

• Frugality spurs ODOT to buy The Brand