May 10, 2011

LOCAL & STATE

• Accused rapist pleads not guilty
• Ballot return low for May 17 election
• Bend surgeon promoting invention
• Bend will pay $6.1M to settle case with developer
• Business Calendar
• COCC consultants working on website
• Correction
• Deschutes immigration policies protested
• Designated dudes will drive your car
• Disaster preparedness event set in Redmond
• Disaster Preparedness Expo in Bend June 11
• FireFree weekend tops last year’s
• Governor, legislators agree on budget
• Judge hears arguments in Columbia Basin dam plan
• News of Record: Deeds
• News of Record: Police Log, Bend fire runs
• Not quite cleared for flight
• Notices of default up sharply in April
• Police arrest five in Bend meth bust
• Police chief candidates to meet with public
• Public urged to attend forum on Bend budget
• Redmond boardings dip slightly in April
• Restaurant donating funds to officer’s kin
• Savoring the ins and outs of salt
• Senate backs mandate to report child porn
• Senate targets ‘suicide kits' sold online
• Small schools wait as bill on exchange students stalls
• Special Olympics
• Stranded woman’s condition improving

BUSINESS

• AOL strives to become a digital media leader
• Bend surgeon promoting invention
• Business Calendar
• COCC consultants working on website
• Community Calendar
• Curry to replace Vieira on ‘Today’
• Generic drug market’s growth is a prescription for savings
• Google to unveil music service
• Head of FDIC to step down
• Microsoft in talks to buy Skype for $8.5B
• News of Record: Deeds
• Notices of default up sharply in April
• Redmond boardings dip slightly in April
• Regulators trying to take mystery out of true cost of air travel
• Senior center hosts Sunday dance hour
• Teen group to host Flapjack Frenzy
• The class that created apps - and wealth and success
• Younger kids’ privacy protected online, but what about teens?
• YouTube adds 3,000 titles to rental service

SPORTS

• After a tornado, solace on the ball field
• American League roundup
• Basketball
• Belgian cyclist dies during Giro d’Italia
• Bend golfer up one at boys tourney; Summit on top of team standings
• Canucks beat Predators, advance to West finals
• Community Scoreboard
• Earl Weaver auctioning off keepsakes, including WS ring
• Football
• Giving it the old college ’tri’
• Golf
• Hockey
• Major League Baseball
• Mariners cut Bradley, Langerhans
• Multisport
• On the Air
• Prep Scoreboard
• Relay to benefit local cancer patients
• Rugby
• Soccer
• Summit on track for another title
• Thunder need triple OT to tie series with Grizzlies
• Track and field

OBITS

• Death notices
• Grace A. West
• Gunter Sachs, ex-husband of Bardot, dies at 78
• Nobel laureate Boyle revolutionized imaging
• ‘Penny Lane’ trumpet soloist dies, 85
• Sada Thompson, 1970s TV mom, dies at 81
• Scholar of newspaper comics dies at 84

CENTRAL OREGON OBITS

• Death notices
• Grace A. West

NATION & WORLD

• Airstrikes help rebels gain ground in Libya
• Flap over closure of nuclear plant shows erosion of consensus in Japan
• Gingrich set to run for president, with his wife in a central role
• Head of FDIC to step down
• Hunting bin Laden was a job that became personal for many in D.C.
• 4 killed as protesters are fired on in Yemen
• Memphis braces for river to crest
• Public appearance a milestone for face transplant recipient
• Regulators trying to take mystery out of true cost of air travel
• Syrian official hopes protests are near end
• Thailand’s premier sets elections for July
• U.S. unit was ready for a fight with Pakistanis
• Younger kids’ privacy protected online, but what about teens?

FEATURES

• A homeowner finds it’s hip to be (nearly) round
• Bend surgeon promoting invention
• Deer, oh deer: ways to keep 'em away
• French feast? Everyday fare for these ladies
• Generic drug market’s growth is a prescription for savings
• Knock, knock! Who's there? Door knocker! Door knocker who? Door knocker yer socks off!
• SEALs become sex symbols
• Suitable substitute for a seafood sauce
• Teen group to host Flapjack Frenzy
• The season’s herbal temptations
• Try creatively using grass as a container companion
• Varied vegetarian vittles — in a flash
• What to do with all those leftover eggs
• With spring comes asparagus

ENTERTAINMENT

• ‘Becoming Chaz’ shines spotlight on transgender challenges — even if you aren’t Cher’s offspring
• Charges to be dropped in Bieber mall frenzy
• Community Calendar
• Cosby tells Ala. grads to help tornado victims
• Curry to replace Vieira on ‘Today’
• Cystic fibrosis walk in Redmond
• Google to unveil music service
• Kid’s Day to benefit development center
• Lauryn Hill’s New Orlean’s show gets mixed reactions
• Movie Times
• New play about an old profession
• Power outage limits library services
• Relay to benefit local cancer patients
• SEALs become sex symbols
• Senior center hosts Sunday dance hour
• Teen group to host Flapjack Frenzy
• Well, shoot! Field Trip
• YouTube adds 3,000 titles to rental service

OPINION

• Another school mandate
• Appreciation of geese
• Bicyclists should pay
• Dog lovers are charitable
• ‘Greenies’ show true colors
• Lack of concern for the future is imperiling our children
• Saving money on the death penalty

ROADS & TRAFFIC

• Designated dudes will drive your car
• Oil’s drop should spell some relief at the pump, but not yet