January 03, 2011

LOCAL & STATE

• Automating photo enhancement
• Bend shelter set to sign 2-year lease with county
• Bend takes stock for a likely tough ’11
• Between a rock and a river
• Calendar
• iPods fire up kids for reading
• Land dispute drags on a decade
• Man dies after being shot at club
• More snow may follow sunny start to the week
• News of Record: Civil Suits
• One killed in crash in Klamath County
• Six firms file liens against theater business
• State trooper hit by car on icy road
• Will work for tossed trees

BUSINESS

• Area retailers weigh in on possible ban on plastic bags
• Automating photo enhancement
• Illicit diamonds enrich Mugabe with another vote on horizon
• Is your friend really a friend on Facebook?
• Six firms file liens against theater business
• The hidden hand of diplomats in global jet deals
• The Loft moves on after law on liquor loosened

SPORTS

• Auto racing
• Baseball
• Blazers continue home win streak
• Cowboys hope struggles stay in past after solid start to season
• Cycling Central briefs
• Cycling insider | Rider profile
• End of the line? After 20 seasons Favre says it is
• Events Calendar
• Falcons, Steelers, Colts, Seahawks clinch playoff berths
• Football
• On the Air
• Oregon arrives for BCS game
• OSU edges Arizona to go to 2-0 in conference
• Save the date
• Seahawks beat Rams to take NFC West crown
• Stanford has a little Luck in facing Virginia Tech
• Strong goalkeeping helps Canucks beat Avs
• Tennis
• Winter sports

OBITS

• Denis Dutton, founder of Arts & Letters Daily website
• Experimental poet Janine Pommy Vega dies at 68
• Paul Calle, 82, designer of postage stamps, dies
• Ruth Park, Australian novelist, dies at 93
• Szeto Wah, 79, political activist in Hong Kong

NATION & WORLD

• Agent: Exhaustion is reason Berry left show
• Alaska becomes the 49th state in 1959
• Citizen scientists carving out new roles via the Web
• Denis Dutton, founder of Arts & Letters Daily website
• Egyptian church bombing inquiry focuses on Alexandria-based group
• Experimental poet Janine Pommy Vega dies at 68
• GOP agenda’s impact may be on 2012 election
• Hungary investigates explicit Ice-T songs, and he applauds
• Immigrants worry as Japan discourages foreign workers
• In a remote French village, a fallen hero retreats at last
• Iran’s Ahmadinejad fires 14 senior advisers
• Israeli PM proposes nonstop peace talks
• No new coal plants begun in U.S. in ’10
• Party leaves Pakistan coalition, threatening government
• Paul Calle, 82, designer of postage stamps, dies
• Rare birds in Japan found to have avian flu
• S. Korea takes tough stance but leaves door open to talks
• Smart phones in prison - outlawed but thriving
• Szeto Wah, 79, political activist in Hong Kong
• U.N. peacekeepers come under increasing threat in Ivory Coast
• 2 years in D.C.: What Walden, Wyden and Merkley did

FEATURES

• Rise of the iKids: Schools test iPads in classrooms

ENTERTAINMENT

• Aiming, again, to revive Babylon’s ruins
• Movie Times
• The Loft moves on after law on liquor loosened
• Two new shows for old ‘Friends’
• ‘V’ invasion continues on a new night