August 31, 2011

LOCAL & STATE

• Bachelor ups price of a season pass
• Bend girl raises $1,082 to help injured eagle's recovery
• BMC helps kids with pay-to-play fees
• Books ignored, Oakridge falls into financial pit
• Crews gain ground on wildfires
• Defender, DA want rape case to be tried
• Fugitive since 1995 sentenced to 9 years
• Highway 26 closed again in Warm Springs
• 7 injured in Salem custody dispute
• Judge will decide who pays girl’s medical bills
• Leader hired for exercise, sport science program
• Man pleads guilty to sex charges
• Merkley urges Obama to act on foreclosures
• News of Record: Bankruptcies
• Police Log
• Report calls attention to Oregon’s struggling middle class
• State: Portland school officials broke the law
• Strays swamp Humane Society
• Summer still decked in dahlias
• System uncovers seismic faults on Hood, in Deschutes County
• Tax debtors may face collection fees, too
• Tribes say little on fatal crash
• Volunteer Search Sept. 4, 2011
• Warm Springs man pleads guilty
• West Nile found in state’s southeast
• Work begins on $10M plastic bottle recycling plant

BUSINESS

• At NLRB, a flurry of acts for unions as chief exits
• Bachelor ups price of a season pass
• Bend Electric Bikes relocates
• Boeing commits to a fuel-efficient engine for 737
• Burning Man where even the finances are odd
• Business Calendar
• CEO pay outstrips tax burden at many companies, study says
• Confidence plunges, but not spending
• Cyrus family company emerges from Chapter 11
• Exxon Mobil, Russia reach deal on arctic oil exploration
• 5 fall fashion ‘needs'
• Google catalog app features local stores
• Home prices likely to decline in fall
• Jobs plan to focus on private-sector hiring
• L.A. scaling back solar-panel rebate program
• Merkley urges Obama to act on foreclosures
• Nevada accuses BofA of breaching accord
• Out of the Columbian Exchange, fresh and direct from a garden an ocean away
• Report calls attention to Oregon’s struggling middle class
• Soaring crop prices may create record farm income
• Spice shop to open in Bend's Old Mill
• Tattoo removal: no cheap or easy answer
• Think inside the box
• Water concerns rise with shale-gas industry
• Wide gap in skills leaves many jobless
• Without soft skills, your job hunt will be difficult
• Working along the fringe: For some, a lasting recession
• Young tradespeople blaze — and craft — their own trails

SPORTS

• American League roundup
• Baseball
• Basketball
• Ducks’ QB Thomas looks to erase last season’s finish
• Elkington, McCarron prevail at Peter’s Party in Portland
• Football
• Golf Scoreboard
• Golfers travel from all over to play in Pac Am
• Lost Tracks Golf Club
• Major League Baseball
• Mastering the road
• Masters road nationals: Day by day
• Nadal has shaky start to title defense
• On the Air
• PGA TOUR
• Riders to watch
• Some Pac-12 teams to face big tests right away
• Spectators' Guide to the races
• Summit strives for its fourth straight state title
• Woods must stay in top 50 to play his own event
• Youngster from Grenada upsets Merritt at worlds

OBITS

• Anthony Hauser, father of child who fled cancer treatment
• Budd Hopkins, abstract artist and UFO author, dies at 80
• Death notices
• Edgar Cullman Sr., 93, broadened cigars’ appeal
• Eugene Gene Vincent Smith
• Gloria C. Polly
• Leonard Harris, 81, played senator in ‘Taxi Driver’
• Noreen (Noland/ Sheets) Sherwin
• Patrick Fischer, 75, early Unabomber target
• Ross Griffiths Thompson
• Susan Schaeffer, 71, inventive novelist
• Velma 'Betty' Elizabeth Kemph

CENTRAL OREGON OBITS

• Death notices
• Eugene Gene Vincent Smith
• Gloria C. Polly
• Noreen (Noland/ Sheets) Sherwin
• Ross Griffiths Thompson
• Velma 'Betty' Elizabeth Kemph

NATION & WORLD

• As patience runs short, Puget Sound cleanup accelerates
• At NLRB, a flurry of acts for unions as chief exits
• ATF head reassigned in aftermath of gun ploy
• Boeing commits to a fuel-efficient engine for 737
• Burning Man where even the finances are odd
• Confidence plunges, but not spending
• Edgar Cullman Sr., 93, broadened cigars’ appeal
• Exxon Mobil, Russia reach deal on arctic oil exploration
• Food, water rushed to cut-off parts of Vermont
• For endangered species in Texas, drought could force an evacuation
• Hints of rivalry in Libya
• Home prices likely to decline in fall
• Hurricane Carol results in nearly 70 deaths in Northeast in 1954
• Jobs plan to focus on private-sector hiring
• Merkley urges Obama to act on foreclosures
• Nevada accuses BofA of breaching accord
• Out of the Columbian Exchange, fresh and direct from a garden an ocean away
• Patrick Fischer, 75, early Unabomber target
• Pressure for federal austerity poses threat to disaster relief
• Ranchers sound off on Washington’s wolf plan
• Soaring crop prices may create record farm income
• Sudan says South is inciting violence
• Syrian forces kill at least 7 protesters
• Water concerns rise with shale-gas industry
• Wide gap in skills leaves many jobless
• Without soft skills, your job hunt will be difficult
• Work starts on the ‘greenest’ office building
• Working along the fringe: For some, a lasting recession
• Young tradespeople blaze — and craft — their own trails

FEATURES

• Burning Man where even the finances are odd
• Calendar
• 5 fall fashion ‘needs'
• Hurricane Carol results in nearly 70 deaths in Northeast in 1954
• Out of the Columbian Exchange, fresh and direct from a garden an ocean away
• Tattoo removal: no cheap or easy answer
• Think inside the box
• Young tradespeople blaze — and craft — their own trails

ENTERTAINMENT

• ABC reveals ‘Dancing’ roster for Season 12
• Burning Man where even the finances are odd
• Business Calendar
• Calendar
• Movie Times
• The man behind girl pop culture

OPINION

• Define the color code
• Don’t buy the economic policy the tea party is selling
• Living south of the Haimish Line
• Signs of failure on immigration policy

ROADS & TRAFFIC

• Tribes say little on fatal crash