March 25, 2011

LOCAL & STATE

• 50-50
• Bend blaze causes $1,000 in damage
• Business Calendar
• CenturyLink-Qwest deal gets Oregon nod
• Closing gun club may cost Ashland $1M
• Conger, Telfer to hold town hall meeting
• DA calls off grand jury investigation
• ‘Defensible spaces’ rule could help halt spread of wildfires
• Dispatches
• Event addresses finding work at 50+
• Head-on crash kills wrong-way driver
• HUD awards funds to Central Oregon housing authorities
• In Costa Mesa, nearly half of city staffers get pink slips
• Kitzhaber signs benefits bills
• Law would target cigarette butts
• Man wounded in police standoff
• Meyer's purse, blood found under home
• Middlekauff offers account of jail meeting
• Missing La Pine man is found dead
• News of Record: Police Log, Bend fire runs, Pets
• Officials say 3 meningococcal cases in region probably linked
• Ombudsman office seeks area volunteers
• Owners plan to thin bison herd
• Police scan phone records for clues on Meyer
• Region’s jobless rates drop
• Restaurant Guide
• Road warriors
• Senate OKs all-day kindergarten
• Starving llamas, horses seized near Stayton
• State posting daily radiation readings online
• Teeth aren’t a dangerous weapon, court rules
• Traffic detail results in 47 citations
• Tribal police make case for jurisdiction to extend beyond reservations

BUSINESS

• Air traffic controller suspended in unguided landings in D.C.
• Business Calendar
• CenturyLink-Qwest deal gets Oregon nod
• China building nuclear reactors with a radically different design
• Court blocks BP-Rosneft Arctic deal
• Dispatches
• Event addresses finding work at 50+
• Genetically altered crops get a leg up on organics
• HUD awards funds to Central Oregon housing authorities
• In Costa Mesa, nearly half of city staffers get pink slips
• Postal Service to cut 7,500 jobs this year
• Region’s jobless rates drop
• Starz will delay the release of its new shows on Netflix
• Tourism reports upbeat
• U.S. nuclear waste problem gains new scrutiny

SPORTS

• Adventure Sports Calendar
• Arizona stuns Duke, 93-77
• Baseball
• Basketball
• Bruins erupt to blow out rival Canadiens, 7-0
• Cycling
• Fighting surge
• Football
• Gymnastics
• Hornets roll past Jazz in overtime
• Levin fires 66 to best wind, field at Bay Hill
• NBA Scoreboard
• Sizing up the second half of the Sweet 16
• Still a lot to be decided in final two weeks of NHL regular season
• Tennis
• UNC seeks different Final Four
• Wedge is ready to rebuild in Seattle
• Winter Sports

OBITS

• Death notices
• Leonard Weinglass known as crusading defense lawyer
• Playwright Lanford Wilson awarded a Pulitzer Prize for ‘Talley’s Folly’ in 1980
• Robert Ross, a master of global deals, dies at 92

CENTRAL OREGON OBITS

• Death notices

NATION & WORLD

• A new form of political science?
• Air traffic controller suspended in unguided landings in D.C.
• Allies split over goal of Libyan mission
• China building nuclear reactors with a radically different design
• Court blocks BP-Rosneft Arctic deal
• Disruptions spreading in global auto production
• Divorce changing the face of rural American families
• Gaza missiles strike Israel
• Genetically altered crops get a leg up on organics
• In new setback, reactor vessel is damaged
• Leonard Weinglass known as crusading defense lawyer
• Marine life likely unhurt by radiation
• More blacks moving south, census shows
• Muslim Brotherhood assumes major role in reshaping Egypt
• Overweight underestimate how heavy they really are
• Postal Service to cut 7,500 jobs this year
• Syrian leader offers concessions as thousands protest deaths
• Taylor buried in small ceremony in L.A.
• Tea party group plans rally for budget cuts
• Triangle Shirtwaist fire kills 146 in 1911
• U.S. nuclear waste problem gains new scrutiny
• Why do we fear nuclear power?
• 20-year-old sentenced in taped beating death
• Yemen’s leader in talks on exit but still defiant

FEATURES

• 50-50
• Chores give kids a dose of reality
• Officials say 3 meningococcal cases in region probably linked
• Ombudsman office seeks area volunteers
• Overweight underestimate how heavy they really are
• Triangle Shirtwaist fire kills 146 in 1911
• Why do we fear nuclear power?

ENTERTAINMENT

• Actually, it is rocket science
• Art exhiibits
• Arturo Sandoval visits the Tower Theatre
• Bend's own Greek taverna
• Bookstore to host family book fair event
• Celebrating independents
• Epic retreats from reality
• Family Calendar
• Folkie Danny Schmidt plays two local shows
• Glorious ‘Life’ documentary best seen in Blu-ray
• Good times
• It’s nearly pitch-perfect
• Mindscape, Rob Wynia are at Silver Moon
• Movie times
• Nonfiction titles that won’t bore your little readers
• Parents’ Guide to Movies
• Planning ahead
• Print subscriptions return to Atelier
• Road warriors
• Rossum finds ‘Shameless’ cast is like family
• Sheer dedication
• Starz will delay the release of its new shows on Netflix
• Story times, library youth events for March 25-31
• Talks, classes, museums & libraries
• Teen acting classes set to begin in April
• The Ascetic Junkies return to Bend
• The end of an age?
• Tom Grant Band plays Oxford jazz series
• Tourism reports upbeat
• Tuck and Roll headlines punk show
• Upcoming concerts
• ‘Wimpy Kid’ loses humor in sequel film

RESTAURANTS

• Bend's own Greek taverna

OPINION

• Averting a humanitarian disaster
• Driver education bill should die
• Keep credit for farmworker housing
• Rule-making moratorium would help Oregon businesses

ROADS & TRAFFIC

• Disruptions spreading in global auto production