May 07, 2011

LOCAL & STATE

• A new place for Produce Patch
• Bend has paid firm to investigate employees
• Bend room tax dollars stay up
• Bend’s Community Center director wins award
• Bill would keep kids out of adult jails
• Chase Bank branch in Redmond robbed
• COCC student data may have been compromised
• Correction
• Court sets high bar for search without warrant
• Free debris disposal dampens fire risk
• Jeld-Wen sells $675M stake to Canada firm
• Kitzhaber meets with Portland black community
• News of Record: Police Log, Bend fire runs
• Oregon Caves aims to prevent bat disease
• Overheated bearings caused derailment
• People on the Move
• Pilliod says Flaherty dissuaded him from cooperating in probe
• Plastic plight
• Prineville nurses OK labor contract
• 3 protesters arrested at Eugene power plant
• Publishers, governments resist Kroger’s public records revision
• Redmond burglary suspect arrested
• Religion in Brief
• Rural airports want shot at urban renewal dollars
• State sets hearing on Central Oregon land
• USFS gets grant for visitor center design
• Vehicle pursuit in Sisters ends in arrest

BUSINESS

• A hedge fund titan steps out from shadows
• A new place for Produce Patch
• Bend has paid firm to investigate employees
• Bend room tax dollars stay up
• Chase Bank branch in Redmond robbed
• COCC student data may have been compromised
• Community Events Calendar
• Japan orders nuclear plant to suspend operations
• Jeld-Wen sells $675M stake to Canada firm
• Job growth increases, but doubts persist on economy
• Oprah network ousts CEO
• People on the Move
• The online battle over Mother’s Day flowers
• USFS gets grant for visitor center design
• Warner Music sold, ending long auction

SPORTS

• Adventure
• American League roundup
• Auto racing
• Baseball
• Basketball
• Bears split with Storm, post first league win
• Bend rallies to beat Summit
• Bruins forget last year’s collapse, sweep Flyers with 5-1 victory
• Chainbreaker race slated for Sunday
• Clearing the Bar
• College football
• Ducks strand 10 in 7-1 loss to Bruins
• Golf
• Hockey
• Kahne sets Darlington record
• Major League Baseball
• Mavs put Lakers on the ropes
• National League roundup
• On the Air
• Perez soars into lead at Quail Hollow
• Players back on the field on their own
• Prep Scoreboard
• Sisters clinches first league baseball title in 11 years
• Soccer
• Sticking with it
• Tennis
• Uncle Mo scratched from today’s derby
• Want to enter the NBA draft early? That’s a risky proposition this year

OBITS

• Adolph "Nicky" Matthew Nick
• Arthur Laurents, writer of scripts for stage and screen, dies at 93
• Death notices
• Ervalyn Wallace Hill

CENTRAL OREGON OBITS

• Adolph "Nicky" Matthew Nick
• Death notices
• Ervalyn Wallace Hill

NATION & WORLD

• Adm. McRaven: the terrorist hunter who pursued bin Laden for years
• Al-Qaida threatens retaliation against U.S.
• Analysts say oil, gas prices will stay high
• Britain’s Liberal Democrats lose ground in votes
• Changes to landscape turned state into a torch
• Did Pakistani agents have ties to bin Laden?
• Exultation over bin Laden’s death spurs theological debate
• Floodwaters take homes, farms
• Fungus linked to amphibians’ demise
• Gadhafi forces scatter land mines
• Germany sinks Lusitania, killing 1,200, in 1915
• Japan orders nuclear plant to suspend operations
• Job growth increases, but doubts persist on economy
• Judge gives immigrant in same-sex marriage a reprieve
• Obama meets with SEAL team
• Phone call pointed U.S. to bin Laden
• Syrians defy crackdown, stage widespread protests
• U.S. drone strike was aimed at al-Awlaki
• Verdict issued in London terror investigation

FEATURES

• A new place for Produce Patch
• Bend’s Community Center director wins award
• Exultation over bin Laden’s death spurs theological debate
• Germany sinks Lusitania, killing 1,200, in 1915
• Prineville nurses OK labor contract
• Religion in Brief
• Sit back and enjoy the shopping
• TV design guru Candice Olson tells more

ENTERTAINMENT

• Bend seeks applicants for arts commission
• Community Events Calendar
• Movie Times
• Oprah network ousts CEO
• Paul McCartney engaged to girlfriend Nancy Shevell
• Shania Twain, in search of her voice
• Sit back and enjoy the shopping
• Stevie Nicks shares sources of inspiration for new solo album
• Volunteers sought to read names of slain soldiers
• Warner Music sold, ending long auction

OPINION

• Another reason for bond
• Good idea killed
• Japanese spirit
• Perry for Redmond schools
• State should adopt a stronger health insurance exchange
• Support Bend bond
• Talking to kids about terrorism
• The elected are not the law
• Timing is off on kicker, tax change

ROADS & TRAFFIC

• Analysts say oil, gas prices will stay high