August 07, 2011

LOCAL & STATE

• ATM skimmer found at Portland market
• Bend, Redmond spurn state’s fire proposals
• Births
• Coil—Bruce
• Common ground sought on medical marijuana
• Crash causes natural gas leak, closes roads
• Crews gaining ground on largest wildfire
• DeRose—Nerseth
• Driver flips car onto trucks at dealership
• Family's legacy earns farm its Century mark
• Mannix sets his sights on inheritance tax repeal
• McHenry—Trimble
• Missing Astorian needs her medication
• Morrell—Ragsdale
• Northup—Zollinger
• Oregon wildfires
• Oregon’s E-Cycles program gaining speed
• Volunteer Search
• Wise—Puddy
• 25 YEARS AGO

BUSINESS

• As ticket costs climax, fewer attend movies
• Family's legacy earns farm its Century mark
• Fast food federation
• Mannix sets his sights on inheritance tax repeal
• Stubborn warning light is no conspiracy
• Summer camp may qualify parents for tax credit
• Tourism heats up
• Video store, reinvented by necessity

SPORTS

• American League roundup
• Baseball
• Bend Gold wins semifinal but falls in final
• Bend South bounces back
• Cascade Lakes Relay provides competition — and matchmaking
• Elks move back into second place in division with win
• Float, swim or paddle for the river (dog optional)
• Football
• Horse racing
• Less long ball? Home runs down at regionals
• Local ladies are pair of aces
• Logano wins pole at Pocono; Edwards starts fourth
• Loud proud
• Major League Baseball
• Mixed martial arts
• National League roundup
• On the Air
• Portland draws with San Jose
• Premier Cup finals today
• Sanders, Sharpe, Faulk and Dent join Hall of Fame
• Scoreboard
• Scott back in front after 66 at Bridgestone Invitational
• Swimming
• Tennis

OBITS

• Death notices
• Douglas John Mac McIver
• Gregory Arthur Lawler
• James B. Miller
• James Laidlaw Decker
• Jean A. Wood
• Joseph Brady, 89, prepped simians for space travel
• Lord Harewood, renowned opera authority, dies at 88
• Thelma Marie Cody Maybury

CENTRAL OREGON OBITS

• Death notices
• Douglas John Mac McIver
• Gregory Arthur Lawler
• James B. Miller
• James Laidlaw Decker
• Jean A. Wood
• Thelma Marie Cody Maybury

NATION & WORLD

• After downgrade, China condemns U.S. ‘addiction to debts’
• August will shake up the field of GOP presidential hopefuls
• Civilians die in allied raid, complicating pullout talks
• In London, protest over fatal shooting turns into a riot
• In 1998, U.S. embassies in Kenya, Tanzania bombed
• Israelis staging huge protests over economic conditions
• Joseph Brady, 89, prepped simians for space travel
• Lord Harewood, renowned opera authority, dies at 88
• Obama team now focused on tough re-election battle
• Perry asks God’s help for a nation ‘in crisis’
• REBELS CEDE CONTROL OF THE CAPITAL TO SOMALI GOVERNMENT
• Shadow of nuclear crisis looms as Hiroshima bombing is remembered
• Some mentally ill people say they forge own coping skills
• Syrian forces extend siege on Hama
• Too ‘Fast and Furious'?
• U.S. chopper shot down in Afghanistan, killing 30
• U.S. expands its role in Mexico’s drug war
• Washington Week

FEATURES

• Co-authors want to put widely believed health myths to rest
• Common ground sought on medical marijuana
• 2011 Dodge Charger: fast enough?
• Eco lodges inspire an appreciation of nature, conservation
• Electronic calendar? Welcome to 2011
• Spotlight on Ashland
• Success at marriage — for the long haul

ENTERTAINMENT

• As ticket costs climax, fewer attend movies
• Best-sellers
• Calendar
• Float, swim or paddle for the river (dog optional)
• Growing up the hard way
• Intertwining mysteries, under the African sky
• Juan Williams makes a pitch for civility in political debate
• Keeping your kids on the learning path
• Movie Times
• Mule days of summer are coming
• Ratner to co-produce ’12 Oscars
• The woman who penned Lucy’s wit
• These classic cars are ... Ready for a close-up
• Tom Waits opens up in book of interviews
• Tour Bend's backyard farms
• Tourism heats up
• Troubled Redmond O’Neal needs rehab, attorney says

OPINION

• Are economic sanctions helping build Iran’s bomb?
• County pharmacy is not a cure-all
• Debt deal changed student loans
• Good programs die without passion
• President Obama diminished in debt fight
• Spare us the sermons, Mr. President
• The new Hama Rules
• What we’ll lose if we lose our post offices