July 08, 2011

LOCAL & STATE

• Bend taps new chief of police
• Brush fire caused by damaged power line
• Crook County may appeal $1M ruling to highest court
• Deck fire causes $20,000 in damage
• Deschutes looks for feedback on roads
• Downtown Bend occupancy rate dips
• Ex-manager of bank branch imprisoned for embezzlement
• Giving it her all
• Into the wild
• Mental patient flees from Portland clinic
• News of Record: Police Log, Bend fire runs
• Panel: Elected mayor not best for Bend
• Pit bull kills small dog in Salem backyard
• Portland’s open water supply an easy target
• Restaurant Guide
• Sex offender caught posing as woman
• Small brush fire sparked by tractor
• State mortgage relief program taking longer than anticipated
• Team will assume duties of founder
• Tech fest to display consumer products
• Warm Springs blaze surpasses 2,000 acres

BUSINESS

• A main course of music with dinner on the side
• Boehner endorses call for debt plan
• Corn ethanol subsidies no longer untouchable
• Downtown Bend occupancy rate dips
• Egg producers, Humane Society to urge standard on hen cages
• Family Calendar
• For some jobless, a break on mortgages
• Hacking scandal shifts media, political landscape
• Private sector adds 157,000 jobs in June, far exceeding forecast
• Retail sales increase
• State mortgage relief program taking longer than anticipated
• Team will assume duties of founder
• Tech fest to display consumer products
• Tougher power plant emission rules issued
• Want a tiny belly? Here’s a tip: Web ads may be a big, fat scam

SPORTS

• Adventure Sports Events Calendar
• American League roundup
• Americans: Quarterfinals or final, bring on Brazil
• Baseball
• Basketball
• Even in summer, snow can endanger
• Favorites take no risks at rain-lashed Tour
• Football
• Hardcourt bike polo expands thanks to loyal legion of players
• Kayak camps available for kids
• Kerr, amateur lead when storms stop U.S. Open play
• Kiwa Butte
• Little League umpire at just 12 years old?
• Local women honored by UO
• Major League Baseball
• National League roundup
• On the Air
• Scoreboard
• Tennis
• The umpire strikes back, and back, and back again
• Tour de France at a glance

OBITS

• Bill Goben
• Death notices
• Elsie M. Yates Spletter
• Jacob Luke May
• Lawrence Newman, 86, ardent advocate for deaf
• Patricia Kay Thiel

CENTRAL OREGON OBITS

• Bill Goben
• Death notices
• Elsie M. Yates Spletter
• Jacob Luke May
• Patricia Kay Thiel

NATION & WORLD

• Anthony gets 4-year term, will be freed Wednesday
• Automakers balk at EPA’s plans to allow higher-ethanol fuel
• Boehner endorses call for debt plan
• Corn ethanol subsidies no longer untouchable
• Egg producers, Humane Society to urge standard on hen cages
• For some jobless, a break on mortgages
• Future of U.S. manned spaceflight looks bleak
• Grizzly in mauling was only protecting cubs
• Hacking scandal shifts media, political landscape
• Hunger strike spreads among Calif. prisoners
• In 1889, Wall Street Journal first published
• Justices decline to stop execution of Mexican
• Mubarak allies charged in attack at Tahrir Square
• Private sector adds 157,000 jobs in June, far exceeding forecast
• Retail sales increase
• Royal newlyweds set to arrive in California
• South Sudan set to secede amid tensions
• The incredible shrinking town
• Tougher power plant emission rules issued
• Toyota, Ford hybrids get top marks from Union of Concerned Scientists
• Want a tiny belly? Here’s a tip: Web ads may be a big, fat scam
• Weather likely to postpone start of last shuttle mission
• 2 years after nearly collapsing, auto industry on hiring spree

FEATURES

• A main course of music with dinner on the side
• Adult obesity in Oregon worsens, but most of U.S. is even fatter
• Giving it her all
• In 1889, Wall Street Journal first published
• Into the wild
• Toyota, Ford hybrids get top marks from Union of Concerned Scientists
• Tune up for summer: Easy, affordable ways to help kids embrace music around them
• Want a tiny belly? Here’s a tip: Web ads may be a big, fat scam

ENTERTAINMENT

• A main course of music with dinner on the side
• Accordion Babes come to McMenamins
• Art exhibits
• Bellingham’s Polecat plays twice in town
• Dining in style
• Enthusiasm for the 8th season of ‘Curb’
• Family Calendar
• Home again
• Illmaculate headlines Madhappy Lounge
• Last Band Standing
• Local libraries host henna programs
• Lots of music at the Bend Summer Festival
• Maxine Scates at Second Sunday
• Music releases
• Not much will scare you
• Out of town
• Parents’ Guide to Movies
• Planning ahead
• Quilting energy
• See five local metal bands in one night
• Story times, library youth events for July 8-14
• Students produce ‘Necessary Targets’
• Summer magic
• Support the High & Dry Bluegrass Festival
• This week: Things to do
• Tune up for summer: Easy, affordable ways to help kids embrace music around them
• Upcoming concerts
• Warming up

RESTAURANTS

• Dining in style

OPINION

• Bend shows interest in art
• Don’t cut money to WIC
• Herbicides can be part of the solution
• In an earthbound era for America, heaven has to wait
• Protect families
• Support Walden’s bill
• Union talk snares practical changes

ROADS & TRAFFIC

• Automakers balk at EPA’s plans to allow higher-ethanol fuel
• Deschutes looks for feedback on roads
• Toyota, Ford hybrids get top marks from Union of Concerned Scientists
• 2 years after nearly collapsing, auto industry on hiring spree