July 22, 2011

LOCAL & STATE

• Bend grad helped peers feel included
• Business Calendar
• Death row inmate withdraws request for new judge
• Dispatches
• High Desert ESD dropping GED testing
• Housing tax breaks on chopping block
• News of Record: Police Log
• Norovirus, not E. coli, to blame for illness
• Report: Project for new span overshot toll figures
• Reports of credit card fraud abate
• Restaurant Guide
• Saxon’s heist is linked to national ring
• Slain woman wanted out of marriage, brother says
• Suspect in Bend stabbing arrested
• Teen drowns while wading in creek
• Telfer, constituents to visit in Sisters
• USDA OKs help for apple, cherry farms
• Wheat haul comes in late but heavy

BUSINESS

• Borders begins process of liquidating 399 stores
• Business Calendar
• Dems fume as Obama, Boehner near debt deal
• Dish to keep 1,500 Blockbuster stores open
• Dispatches
• Drug benefit managers plan $29.1B merger
• Equestrian Economics
• Ex-editor, a key figure for police, found in Florida
• Family Calendar
• Fare hikes help airlines earn profits
• Farm felons pick off almonds, grapes, even bees
• FDA issues alert on heart drug Multaq
• Fervid fans turn Comic-Con into testing ground for toymakers
• Former executives dispute Murdoch son’s testimony
• Gain in leading index signals expansion
• Housing tax breaks on chopping block
• Jobless claims up
• Microsoft profit up
• Morgan Stanley may be on path to recovery
• Much remains uncertain in Greek debt plan
• Nokia, Ericsson push ahead with cost-cutting efforts
• Norovirus, not E. coli, to blame for illness
• On agency’s first day, House votes to overhaul it
• Several lawmakers set sights on overhaul of the Postal Service

SPORTS

• A snowy ascent
• Adventure Sports Events Calendar
• American League roundup
• Andy Schleck wins stage, chops Voeckler’s lead
• Auto racing
• Baseball
• Basketball
• Bend South plays at home for state Little League tournament
• Correction
• Elks fall to Gems 1-0 at home
• Former Tour de France rider Francisco Mancebo wins the time trial stage, takes the overall lead
• Journeyman shoots 67, leads at Canadian Open
• Major League Baseball
• National League roundup
• New Pac-12 team Colorado faces one of toughest schedules in country
• NFL owners OK deal; players don’t vote yet
• Off to the races
• On the Air
• Sisters hires former Mountain View football coach Powell
• Six-time Olympic medalist Clara Hughes leads the women after winning the Skyliners Time Trial
• Soccer
• Tiger throws the wrong guy overboard
• Today: Stage 3 of the CCC
• Tour de France at a glance
• Tumalo Creek trail
• Woman rescued after fall from horse

OBITS

• Ace WWII Navy pilot Noel Gayler dies at 96
• Death notices
• Ernesto Betancourt, used radio to oppose Fidel Castro
• Jack Wayne Grissom
• Lucian Freud dies at 88; was adept at portraiture
• Nagorski, 98, established leadership center

CENTRAL OREGON OBITS

• Death notices
• Jack Wayne Grissom

NATION & WORLD

• Ace WWII Navy pilot Noel Gayler dies at 96
• Amputee tortoise moving well with new appendage
• Atlantis’ safe return marks the end of an era
• Automakers blitz lawmakers to fight fuel economy rule
• Bones of Hitler deputy exhumed, burned
• Borders begins process of liquidating 399 stores
• CIA hunt for bin Laden DNA may harm vaccination drive
• Dems fume as Obama, Boehner near debt deal
• Dish to keep 1,500 Blockbuster stores open
• Drug benefit managers plan $29.1B merger
• Edwards told to repay Treasury $2.3M
• Ernesto Betancourt, used radio to oppose Fidel Castro
• Ex-editor, a key figure for police, found in Florida
• Fare hikes help airlines earn profits
• Farm felons pick off almonds, grapes, even bees
• FDA issues alert on heart drug Multaq
• Fervid fans turn Comic-Con into testing ground for toymakers
• Former executives dispute Murdoch son’s testimony
• Gain in leading index signals expansion
• Heat bubble inspires ways to cope
• In 1934, bank robber John Dillinger killed
• Ingenious entrepreneurs shoot for the moon
• Jobless claims up
• Mayor hopeful holds post — on TV
• Microsoft profit up
• Morgan Stanley may be on path to recovery
• Much remains uncertain in Greek debt plan
• Nagorski, 98, established leadership center
• Nokia, Ericsson push ahead with cost-cutting efforts
• On agency’s first day, House votes to overhaul it
• Prison officials say hunger strike is over
• Race is on to find solution to electric cars’ weak spot
• Several lawmakers set sights on overhaul of the Postal Service
• Study: Volcanic ash and soot slowed recent global warming
• Treasury exits Chrysler bailout with $1.3B loss
• Union soldier’s last letter endures
• Yosemite deaths a reminder of river danger across West

FEATURES

• Bend grad helped peers feel included
• Drug benefit managers plan $29.1B merger
• FDA issues alert on heart drug Multaq
• In 1934, bank robber John Dillinger killed
• Norovirus, not E. coli, to blame for illness
• Union soldier’s last letter endures

ENTERTAINMENT

• Art exhibits
• ‘Arts in Hospice’ has its inaugural exhibit
• At the top of its game
• Autonomics kick off Show Us Your Spokes
• Dish to keep 1,500 Blockbuster stores open
• Equestrian Economics
• Family Calendar
• Going coastal
• Kids invited to join obstacle challenge
• Local artist featured on ‘Oregon Art Beat’
• Maya Thomas sings the blues
• Mayor hopeful holds post — on TV
• Music releases
• Necktie Killer plays Silver Moon Brewing
• Off to the races
• Out of town
• Parents’ Guide to Movies
• Picture books that are good enough to eat
• Pink Martini returns to Bend
• Planning ahead
• Rising from the ashes
• Roots royalty
• ‘90s heroes Everclear come to Bend tonight
• Scanlon’s welcomes Carinne Carpenter
• Spotlight Duo will perform at benefit
• Story times, library youth events for July 22-28
• Taking to the skies
• This week: Things to do
• Tornado Rider storms into The Horned Hand
• Upcoming concerts
• Warren Rand Quartet, JazzBros! jazz it up
• Words & characters
• Young readers bloom in summer

RESTAURANTS

• Rising from the ashes

OPINION

• America is doing little to help Iraqis who aided our troops
• School with no students
• Truck beds dangerous for dogs
• We have too much of a green thing

ROADS & TRAFFIC

• Automakers blitz lawmakers to fight fuel economy rule
• Race is on to find solution to electric cars’ weak spot
• Treasury exits Chrysler bailout with $1.3B loss