January 20, 2012

LOCAL & STATE

• A good night's sleepover
• Asbestos treatment pares back budget
• Ashland sets up reward fund in bike path slaying
• County attorney sues Flaherty
• Facebook wants tax assurance
• Family Calendar
• Flooding claims mother, toddler; state of emergency is declared in 4 counties
• Former leader of nonprofit guilty
• Gingrich blasts media at debate
• Groups warn of suit to reduce logging
• 4-H leader pleads not guilty to sex abuse charges
• I suspect my teen is using
• LAPD investigates human remains
• Man injured by plow
• More docs give development test
• News of record: Police log, Bend fire runs
• OLCC director makes case for state-run liquor
• Prineville company lands sign recycling contract
• Reading focus of workshop
• Restaurant Guide
• Seaweed in the tank? Company turns to aquaculture for ethanol
• Seniors to testify on reverse mortgages
• Snowmobilers rescued
• Special interests, national parties lend funds to race
• Story Times and Library Youth Events
• Trash pickup delayed
• Wallowa County libraries link with regional system
• Well shot! Reader photos
• Whisnant attending town hall meetings
• Wild weather
• Zydeco in Sisters

BUSINESS

• Bank of America makes $2B profit
• Bank to recover Lehman loans
• Business calendar
• 7 charged in Megaupload piracy case
• Facebook wants tax assurance
• General Motors reclaims title of world’s largest automaker
• Google named best workplace
• IBM’s performance steady in 4th quarter
• Intel feels impact of Thai flooding
• Ironman bid hits snag: Other triathlon already set
• Kodak hoping to recapture some of its former glory
• More corporate headquarters are on the move
• Murdoch’s empire settles suits filed by hacking victims
• New cracks in Airbus planes
• New regulations on fuel economy gain wide support
• Rewriting the textbook
• Unemployment claims fall to lowest point in almost 4 years
• Weak holiday PC sales hurt Microsoft

SPORTS

• Adventure sports calendar
• Ailing James leads Heat past Lakers
• Baseball
• Basketball
• Blues blank Oilers
• Cycling
• Federer and Nadal reach fourth round Down Under
• Football
• Freestyle skier Sarah Burke dies at age 29
• From mat to cage
• Ironman bid hits snag: Other triathlon already set
• Lava Bears top Storm in Intermountain dual
• Local second at Youth Olympics
• Madras boys win league opener
• Madras wins battle between 4A’s top teams
• Motor sports
• NBA scoreboard
• No. 4 Duke wins 45th in a row at home
• On the air
• Oregon State defeats UCLA for first time since 2005
• Oregon tops USC for third straight conference victory
• Prep scoreboard
• Toms and Villegas top leaderboard at PGA Tour event
• Winter sports

OBITS

• Death notices
• Deaths elsewhere
• Derwinski revamped VA, raised care level
• Freestyle skier Sarah Burke dies at age 29

CENTRAL OREGON OBITS

• Death notices

NATION & WORLD

• A game-changing day redefines the Republican race
• Derwinski revamped VA, raised care level
• Happenings
• Insurgents kill dozens in southern Afghanistan
• Italy will seek a buffer to avert future wrecks
• Reno wildfire destroys more than 20 homes
• Study: New autism definition would exclude many
• Suicides among active-duty troops at record high, Army says

FEATURES

• Light boxes may help melt those winter blues
• Test for China’s 1-child generation: where to celebrate the New Year

ENTERTAINMENT

• A salute to the ocean's bounty
• An emotional tale
• Animal Eyes
• Art and literature reception at NOW
• Art Exhibits
• Danny Barnes visits McMenamins
• Event calendar: Jan. 20-26
• Going out
• Johnny A. comes to The Sound Garden
• Kittredge to judge Obsidian Prize
• Movie times * For the week of Jan. 20
• Out of town
• Parents’ Guide to Movies
• Peter Yarrow plays the Tower Theatre
• Reality vs. fiction
• Rosie’s new set a head-scratcher
• Soul survivors
• Surviving on the streets
• Upcoming Concerts
• Zydeco in Sisters

RESTAURANTS

• A salute to the ocean's bounty

OPINION

• Elected mayor a distraction from Bend’s problems
• Federal debt is a red herring to our unemployment rate
• More action needed to stop infant deaths

ROADS & TRAFFIC

• Prineville company lands sign recycling contract
• Record snow buries Bachelor