December 25, 2011

LOCAL & STATE

• A struggle for citizenship
• 2 arrested in burglary of nonprofit restaurant
• Bend’s ‘stone age’ booming in 1911
• Cat likely to survive inflicted burns
• Christmas bounty
• Coquille school augments class time with internships
• Democrats spend big to ensure seat
• Expansion raising region’s profile in higher education
• Facebook knew of tax flap since July
• Fake doctor gets 3 years in prison
• Fishing for Christmas
• Grauer
• Gray wolves rebound, but face uncertain future
• Hasart — Johnson
• Last U.S. Troops to leave Iraq arrive Home for Christmas
• Mother pleads guilty to neglect
• News of Record: Deeds
• Police report aggressive action as Occupy Eugene camp breaks up
• Realtors get real
• Remains of I-5 Strangler victim returning home
• Santa’s sleigh substitute
• Stoeckel — Kroll

BUSINESS

• Balance the goal with Verano
• Burned-out headlights could be caused by voltage or Corolla itself
• Electric vehicles alien to drivers, mechanics, too
• Facebook knew of tax flap since July
• Georgia farmers go nuts over pecan theft
• Isolated tree farms nurture echoes of simpler days
• News of Record: Deeds
• Realtors get real
• Underwater homeowners forced to become landlords

SPORTS

• Akers sets field goal record as 49ers knock off Seahawks
• Basketball
• Defending champs rise from worst to first
• Lions get wild-card berth; Patriots earn playoff bye
• NBA season finally set to tip off
• New buses shuttle skiers up Bachelor
• On the Air
• Rams’ Jackson hits milestone
• Southeast Division
• Southern Miss tops Nevada in Hawaii Bowl
• Tragedy to triumph

OBITS

• Death notices
• Deaths Elsewhere
• Debra Ann Holmes
• Don Sharp was a master of horror films
• Leonard Franklin Crabtree
• William Bill Wright Martin

CENTRAL OREGON OBITS

• Death notices
• Debra Ann Holmes
• Leonard Franklin Crabtree
• William Bill Wright Martin

NATION & WORLD

• After bizarre year, climate research at a crossroads
• Boehner faces fallout from tea party faction
• Celebrating Christmas the world over
• Don Sharp was a master of horror films
• For a chosen class, both pride and pain
• Georgia farmers go nuts over pecan theft
• Gingrich, Perry lack enough signatures for Virginia ballot
• Happenings
• Islamist parties lead Egypt’s 2nd round of voting
• Justice opinion gives boost to Web gambling
• Pentagon finds no fault in ties to TV analysts
• Protesters flood Moscow
• Soldiers kill 9 Yemeni protesters
• Today
• U.S. pleased with low-key plan as crisis erupts in Iraq
• Washington Week

FEATURES

• A struggle for citizenship
• Brussels, World Capital of Chocolate
• Disney cruise undeniably ‘magical!’
• Keeping holiday parties disaster-free
• Long-forlorn East London is getting into competition shape
• Shortage a big blow to kisses this Christmas
• This New Year’s, try some new makeup
• What I really want for Christmas ...

ENTERTAINMENT

• ‘A Christmas Homecoming’ offers a holiday mystery
• A peek at L.A.’s ‘Unreal Estate’ market
• Art campaign reaches goal
• Best-sellers
• Composer’s influence widely known
• Local Movie Times
• ‘Nanjing Requiem’: U.S. missionary’s report on massacre
• Ski event will help United Way
• Time to welcome in the new year
• Top 10 books of 2011
• Wretched narrators make for a tough read in ‘Cemetery’

OPINION

• A new Kim — a new chance?
• Does the Christmas story speak to all Americans?
• For a chosen class, both pride and pain
• Group represses religion in Prineville
• Secular White House Christmas cards
• 2 September days to remember
• War in Iraq is at an end — for now
• Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus