January 08, 2012

LOCAL & STATE

• Bilyeu
• Boy, 12, collapses at hoops practice
• Central Oregon now an official wine-growing region
• Clermont—Brant
• Climbing for a cure
• Cooley
• Descendants forfeit right to school land
• Ekberg—Gerlitz
• Family's pursuit of truth spurred case on
• Free solar power coming to 16 facilities
• Grounded cargo ship breaks apart on reef
• Group liberates dogs from chains
• 2 hurt in crash near Prineville
• In 1912, railway warehouse hosts a ‘monster dance’
• Independent drug stores closing fast
• Investigator: Drop charges in deadly helicopter crash
• Judge blocks release of man who killed 2
• Man charged with DUII still coaching
• One dead, 2 hurt in Hwy. 26 crash
• Reeder—Janku
• Suspect, 19, held in 3 Bend car fires
• University of Oregon sets tight timeline to hire a new president
• Web ad for landscape work nets $500 fine
• What’s on local leaders’ wish lists?

BUSINESS

• Bourbon's all-American spirit
• Central Oregon now an official wine-growing region
• Dog days are over?
• FDA knew of contaminated baby wipes
• Fly parasite could turn honeybees into ‘zombies'
• Free solar power coming to 16 facilities
• Little snow, little worries
• Priorities, staffing impede oversight
• Web ad for landscape work nets $500 fine

SPORTS

• Baseball
• Bowl attendance down this season
• Buffs take boys title at Jay Rowan meet in Redmond
• Canucks score four power-play goals, beat Bruins
• Colorado continues perfect start in Pac-12
• Football
• For both LSU and Alabama, quarterbacks are secondary
• In today’s pro game, there’s not really an offseason anymore
• James dominates in return, Heat beat Nets 101-90
• Motor sports
• Mountain View takes top spot at Bend High wrestling invitational
• No. 1 Syracuse beats No. 20 Marquette to stay undefeated
• Oregon State falls to Stanford in four overtimes
• Panthers fall at home
• Penn State coach is facing fragile situation as Paterno successor
• Prep Scoreboard
• Saints open playoffs with romp over Lions
• Steelers’ defense still dominates in offensive era
• Stricker shoots 63 to build big lead in Hawaii
• Tennis
• Winter sports

OBITS

• April Steigman
• Betty Jean Johnson
• Death Elsewhere
• Death notices
• Frederica Maas was screenwriter of silent films, Hollywood critic
• Gary E. Mahnkey
• Jerry A. Krohn
• Jimmie Lyle Saleen Jr.
• Joan L. Smith
• Lawrence (Larry) L. Riser
• Marjorie Lorene (Schoneboom) Kahlert
• Melinda Mindy Kay Hughes
• Phillip Rickey Brose
• Vivian McKethen- Nosler

CENTRAL OREGON OBITS

• April Steigman
• Betty Jean Johnson
• Death notices
• Gary E. Mahnkey
• Jerry A. Krohn
• Jimmie Lyle Saleen Jr.
• Joan L. Smith
• Lawrence (Larry) L. Riser
• Marjorie Lorene (Schoneboom) Kahlert
• Melinda Mindy Kay Hughes
• Phillip Rickey Brose
• Vivian McKethen- Nosler

NATION & WORLD

• A remarkable recovery, but Giffords has a long way to go
• Agents’ union delays training on deportation
• At Republican debate, Romney eludes attacks
• Bourbon's all-American spirit
• Dog days are over?
• FDA knew of contaminated baby wipes
• Fiji lifts martial law, adds new rules
• Frederica Maas was screenwriter of silent films, Hollywood critic
• Happenings
• High-mileage Ford, why the reluctance?
• In Britain phone hacking scandal, arrest suggests focus on cover-up
• Indonesian Market stall owners fight evictions
• Iranians tell of 6 weeks of fear with Somali pirates
• Lull in U.S. drone strikes aids Pakistani militants
• Middleweight contender packs a punch — and it’s worth a look
• Obama’s recess appointments ignore Senate role, experts say
• Priorities, staffing impede oversight
• Ready or not, Huntsman faces his moment in N.H.
• States pay to train workers, to companies’ benefit
• Study challenges Roberts court’s image as defender of free speech
• That squealing noise? Your brakes are trying to warn you
• With Pentagon confronting cuts, one potential casualty could be invention

FEATURES

• A wax museum war takes shape in Hollywood
• Births
• Bourbon's all-American spirit
• Dog days are over?
• Make up your own Hollywood tour
• Middleweight contender packs a punch — and it’s worth a look
• Researchers rethink the calendar
• Social media births a new generation of parents-to-be
• The next hot thing in home heating
• ‘The whole world has changed around them’

ENTERTAINMENT

• Backcountry film fest to premiere
• Best-sellers
• Celebrating, chiding the English language
• Community Calendar
• Dog days are over?
• Emotional health seminar planned
• Furor after N.J. hometown relocates Landon plaque
• ‘House of Lies’ con men embody the worst in us
• ‘Karaoke Culture’ a unique societal critique
• Local Movie Times
• Series puts sci-fi spin on classic stories
• ‘The whole world has changed around them’
• ‘X Factor’ winner still dreams of nursing

OPINION

• Coexistence possible in Middle East
• It’s time to start paying college athletes
• Medical device tax will cost jobs, patients
• Panel suggests consolidation, privatization
• School success story threatened
• Seeing a new social agenda
• Summit High principal a fair leader
• Too many holes in TSA policy, security
• ‘Uncle Newty’ ideal GOP candidate for president
• Wellness program has many benefits

ROADS & TRAFFIC

• High-mileage Ford, why the reluctance?
• Middleweight contender packs a punch — and it’s worth a look
• That squealing noise? Your brakes are trying to warn you