May 05, 2011

LOCAL & STATE

• Bend park playground closing for repairs
• Boys & Girls Club building is slated to get new roof
• Bradbury endorses Wu rival
• Business Calendar
• Cascade Bancorp posts quarterly profit
• COCC’s website hacked, officials say
• Commission goes high-tech
• Consultant contract leads to agency shake-up
• Deschutes extends funding for Environmental Center
• Deschutes hires outside attorneys
• Fallen marine honored in Washington
• 2 farm bills move ahead to Senate
• Former officer faces more criminal charges
• House OKs expansion of bottle deposit system
• House votes to end phone law exception
• Intel chips grow up
• Lack of candidates has school outlook in question
• Man charged with sex abuse arrested in S.C.
• More cougars sighted, this time in Deschutes River Woods
• Motorists stranded in snow rescued
• News of Record: Permits
• News of Record: Police Log
• Nurse practitioners fill state health care gap
• Portland train derailment causes fire, evacuation
• Prescribed burns continue near La Pine
• Seasonal jobs caulk some gaps in stable employment
• Senate panel links ‘kicker’ to capital gains
• Sharp cuts in Bend’s new budget
• Teachers back plan to eliminate school days, keep salary
• Wash. man sentenced to life in motel murder
• Wildfire season likely late, mild
• Woman charged in neighbor’s death

BUSINESS

• A behavioral toolbox for financial advisers
• BofA to boost its mortgage assistance
• Boys & Girls Club building is slated to get new roof
• Business Calendar
• Cascade Bancorp posts quarterly profit
• COCC’s website hacked, officials say
• Commission goes high-tech
• Glencore sets stage for a $10 billion IPO
• Increases in hiring miss expectations
• Intel chips grow up
• News of Record: Permits
• Plan for nursing care before it’s needed
• Seasonal jobs caulk some gaps in stable employment
• Seeking energy independence, Ukraine takes Texas approach
• Sharp cuts in Bend’s new budget
• UBS to pay $160.2M in municipal bid-rigging investigation
• Warner Music said to be near deal to be sold
• Washington split over specter of U.S. default
• Whistle-blower suit alleges fraud in U.S. bailout of AIG

SPORTS

• A hard row in Oregon City
• Air-powered action in the High Desert
• American League roundup
• Baseball
• Basketball
• Bend pitcher goes distance in IMC victory over Summit
• College athletics
• Cycling
• Dialed In is early Kentucky Derby favorite
• Dirk blasts Lakers again, sends Mavs to 2-0 lead
• Duerson case highlights limits of NFL disability plan
• Fly-tying corner
• Football
• Forgotten fish
• Golf
• Hunting and Fishing Events Calendar
• Lightning finish sweep of Capitals with 5-3 victory
• Local club to host Northwest regional championships
• Madras tosses no-hitter in softball
• Major League Baseball
• National League roundup
• On the Air
• Pac-10 commish announces official launch of network, television deal
• Pine Hollow stocked and ready for spring fishing
• Prep Scoreboard
• Shoal Creek is set for a major comeback with The Tradition
• ‘Sprinter’ has sprung, so head up high to find skiable snow
• Tennis

OBITS

• Death notices
• Jackie Cooper, a child star who endured, dies at 88
• Marian Mercer, actress with zany streak, dies at 75

CENTRAL OREGON OBITS

• Death notices

NATION & WORLD

• Carnegie Hall opens in Manhattan in 1891
• Deficit talks begin anew, but no breakthroughs expected
• Failing grades on civics test called a ‘crisis’
• Fatah, Hamas sign reconciliation pact
• Florida Republicans unite to pass immigration bill
• Homeless children find refuge at Florida school
• In cruel corner of Oklahoma, town endures dry adversity
• Increases in hiring miss expectations
• Low census counts will cost big cities
• Obama won’t release photos of bin Laden
• Pakistani army shaken by raid to kill bin Laden
• Pakistani military investigates compound
• President gets boost in polls after raid
• Prosecutor to seek warrants for Libyan officials
• Referendum puts strain on Britain’s government
• SEAL Team 6 a lethal force
• Seeking energy independence, Ukraine takes Texas approach
• Was killing instead of capturing the right call?
• Washington split over specter of U.S. default
• Week after storm, town still looking for missing
• Whistle-blower suit alleges fraud in U.S. bailout of AIG
• 52 years, $750M proves Einstein was right

FEATURES

• Bend does well in heart care
• Carnegie Hall opens in Manhattan in 1891
• Exercising more than the brain at colleges
• Feel the chill from this quiz
• Health Datebook
• How to have a talk with your trainer
• Machine keeps man’s heart ticking
• More hospitals are finding relief in palliative care
• New law recognizes faith-based co-ops that share medical bills
• Options improve for adult children needing insurance
• OTTER BENCH: Trails offer fresh outlook on juniper
• Pectorals
• People
• Plan for nursing care before it’s needed
• Second-guessing LASIK eye surgery
• Show me the money
• Sports bras support healthy endeavors
• Study: High-protein diet may help improve athletes' endurance
• Time for a private advocate?
• Veggies lose nutrients to time, but details vary

ENTERTAINMENT

• Community Datebook
• Dinner proceeds will help pre-med students serve poor in Ecuador
• Event's weekday traffic closure a first for Bend
• Learn about local farming with planned tours and talks
• Movie Times
• Seinfeld starts website of his stand-up routines

OPINION

• Biweekly recycling should be exempt
• Fewer veterans in Congress has not been for the better
• Granting driver’s licenses to illegal aliens absurd
• Oregon needs a state bank
• Secrecy change OK’d by Senate unnecessary
• Support Bend road bond
• What is a fair share?

ROADS & TRAFFIC

• Event's weekday traffic closure a first for Bend