December 13, 2010

LOCAL & STATE

• Bear Creek restoration project now waiting on Mother Nature
• BLM buys land inside national monument
• Calendar
• Child care options in the spotlight
• Courthouse Square drags down budget
• Crook County eyes wildlife rule changes and land use repercussions
• Emergency radio network behind schedule, over budget
• It'll take time to tell if body is Blaylock's, officials say
• New Amazon species ID’d every 3 days for a decade
• News of Record: Civil Suits
• Obama administration’s victory in Sudan
• Obama has engineered another stimulus and made fools of GOP
• Police: Theft suspect ran over woman
• Security firm owner jailed in burglary
• State offers few hospital beds for mentally ill adolescents
• ‘Storm after storm’ could be in store for Central Oregon
• Twitter unfollowing service develops prime following
• Water system, aerial drones among issues before council

BUSINESS

• ‘Angry Birds’ flocking to cell phones everywhere
• Child care options in the spotlight
• Crook County eyes wildlife rule changes and land use repercussions
• For risky borrowers, credit’s back ... at a price
• Free speech and policing Facebook's underbelly
• From food waste to farm vegetables
• Peak of popularity a wistful memory for the Wii
• Twitter unfollowing service develops prime following
• Water system, aerial drones among issues before council
• WikiLeaks defenders swarmed wrong target
• Wilderness push: 15,000 rugged acres

SPORTS

• A festive final day
• An unofficial race for the bigger guys, gals
• Around town
• Baseball
• Canucks win third straight on the road
• Carving for a cause
• Changes coming in winter sports playoffs
• Compton claims seventh straight title
• Cycling Central Calendar
• Cycling Insider | safety tip
• Football
• Golf
• NBA Scoreboard
• On the Air
• Oregon State gets back to .500
• QB change leads 49ers to a rout of Seahawks A dome no more
• Rising star recovering a year after halfpipe crash
• Roof collapse moves Giants-Vikings game to Detroit
• Soccer
• Spurs beat Trail Blazers to take win streak to five
• Winter sports

OBITS

• Beth Straus helped guide revamp of botanical garden
• John Fenn, Nobel Prize winner in chemistry
• Peter Marzio led facility to major-museum status

NATION & WORLD

• Afghan blast kills 6 U.S. troops
• Beth Straus helped guide revamp of botanical garden
• ‘I’m not a witch’ ties for 2010’s top quotation
• John Fenn, Nobel Prize winner in chemistry
• L.A. seeks to shed image as a haven for homeless
• Peter Marzio led facility to major-museum status
• Russian protests erupt over soccer fan’s killing
• Saddam Hussein captured by U.S. forces in 2003
• Saturn’s rings: debris from a cosmic murder
• South Korean vessel sinks in Antarctic; 42 in jeopardy
• Storm socks Midwest, cancels flights, closes roads
• Sweden focuses on bombing suspect
• Tax benefits to middle class could pay off for Obama
• Venezuelan drivers choose ’70s rides, just ’cause they can

FEATURES

• Child care options in the spotlight

ENTERTAINMENT

• From food waste to farm vegetables
• Movie Times
• Radio City Music Hall’s Rockettes get a leg up during Christmas tour

OPINION

• Value of simple tax code
• Water diversion plan is off course