March 26, 2011

LOCAL & STATE

• Empathy for injury
• For GE, tax day adds more profit
• Multi-vehicle crash closes road for hours
• News of Record: Police Log, Pets
• NorthStar Center in Bend set to close
• Officials: Deal on federal budget seems unlikely
• Panel proposes rewarding doctors for healthy patients
• People on the move
• Police: Meyer evidence points to murder-suicide
• Program acquires fourplex to aid area’s homeless vets
• Religion in Brief
• State high court backs tribal officers
• Veterinarian helps city’s homeless care for pets
• Whisnant’s development bill gets him chided at home
• Woman accused of neglecting llamas, horses

BUSINESS

• Average Oregonian made $37K in 2010
• Community Calendar
• Disaster dampens an appetite for luxury
• Dollar, usually a safe haven, declining despite global turmoil
• Dress bank giving away formal attire
• For GE, tax day adds more profit
• Fourth-quarter GDP revised to 3.1 percent
• Fred Meyer collects funds for Japan, Camp Fire USA
• In Malawi, a single cow unleashes power of prosperity
• Legislation designates John Day acres as wilderness
• Meals, iPads, haircuts ... Silicon Valley startups offer Peculiar perks
• Merlot rebounds from ‘Sideways' gibe
• NorthStar Center in Bend set to close
• Officials: Deal on federal budget seems unlikely
• People on the move
• Program acquires fourplex to aid area’s homeless vets
• Report details U.S. nuclear safety deficiencies
• Sunriver launches adventure planner
• Whisnant’s development bill gets him chided at home
• Zipping through the Old Mill

SPORTS

• American wins gold at track worlds
• Baseball
• Basketball
• Blazers stun Spurs with Batum’s buzzer-beater
• Butler’s Stevens continues emergence as an elite coach
• Culver softball stays perfect
• Cycling
• Football
• Goalies dominate as Penguins blank Devils in Pittsburgh
• Horses, horses everywhere at local equestrian event
• Laird takes lead at Bay Hill; Woods rebounds
• Lava Bears sweep
• Montoya earns pole for California race
• No. 11 seed VCU survives overtime against Florida State
• Pitcher’s scoreless streak ends, but OSU still wins
• Prep Scoreboard
• Stanford looks to advance from a familiar site in the Pacific Northwest
• Tennis

OBITS

• Death notices
• Helen Stenborg, actress from theatrical family, dies at 86
• Joe Wizan, former 20th Century Fox exec, independent producer, dies at 76

CENTRAL OREGON OBITS

• Death notices

NATION & WORLD

• Bodies of Heaven’s Gate cultists found in ’97
• Disaster dampens an appetite for luxury
• Dollar, usually a safe haven, declining despite global turmoil
• FDA OKs drug to combat advanced melanoma
• Fourth-quarter GDP revised to 3.1 percent
• Illinois governor’s change of heart on death penalty is rooted in Christianity
• In Malawi, a single cow unleashes power of prosperity
• Japan urges more to evacuate as fears of reactor leak grow
• Japan’s newly homeless establish order amid chaos
• Parties work out details of NATO’s lead role in Libya
• Pfizer drug slows pancreatic tumors
• Report details U.S. nuclear safety deficiencies
• Teacher who taught creationism will not be fired
• Thousands hit streets as Syria kills protesters
• Yemeni leader would yield power only to ‘safe hands’

FEATURES

• Acts of God prompt questions of faith
• Bodies of Heaven’s Gate cultists found in ’97
• Dress bank giving away formal attire
• Empathy for injury
• FDA OKs drug to combat advanced melanoma
• Illinois governor’s change of heart on death penalty is rooted in Christianity
• Merlot rebounds from ‘Sideways' gibe
• NorthStar Center in Bend set to close
• Pfizer drug slows pancreatic tumors
• Religion in Brief
• Teacher who taught creationism will not be fired

ENTERTAINMENT

• Amateur entrants sought for Sunriver talent fair
• Burns: New film fits into civility discourse
• CBS brass seems fine with Couric leaving anchor role for daytime
• Community Calendar
• Dress bank giving away formal attire
• Fred Meyer collects funds for Japan, Camp Fire USA
• History changing hands
• ‘Mildred Pierce’ begins Sunday on HBO
• Movie Times
• Zipping through the Old Mill

OPINION

• Budget truths
• Don’t cut more wages
• Flaherty eats our tax dollars
• Flaherty lost control
• From the Archives
• State lawmakers plan new taxes
• Steller’s jays behave like big fat jerks

ROADS & TRAFFIC

• Multi-vehicle crash closes road for hours