February 24, 2012

LOCAL & STATE

• A little help from a furry friend
• Afternoon lockdown for schools
• An explosive discovery
• Bend home prices dip in 4th quarter
• Chickenpox strikes prison inmates
• DA won’t press charges in mishandled-evidence case
• Dispatches
• Downtown ‘Dog park’
• Eagle Watch 2012 is this weekend
• House OKs health care reform
• Inmate’s condition upgraded to fair
• Investor accuses Blacksmith founder of fraud
• Islamic charity’s founder faces prison
• Kitzhaber steps up pressure on Republican lawmakers
• La Grande mayor apologizes for posts on same-sex unions
• Living on a fixed income
• Man gets 67 years in child porn case
• Mom’s love good for the brain
• Museum bobcat dies
• 2nd chamber approves Redmond rezoning bill
• News of Record: Police Log, Bend fire runs
• Parental anger focus of class
• Power line causes garage fire
• Restaurant guide
• RPA director back in jail
• School district union agrees to salary freeze
• To avoid N.Y. tax, tribes make, and sell, cigarettes
• Wyden plans meetings in area

BUSINESS

• Airline taps social networks to make the skies friendlier
• Bank of America breaks with Fannie Mae
• Bend home prices dip in 4th quarter
• Business Calendar
• Copter crash kills 7 Marines
• Dispatches
• In nod to surging gas prices, Obama talks about energy
• Investor accuses Blacksmith founder of fraud
• Many baby products have toxic chemicals
• 2nd chamber approves Redmond rezoning bill
• New Web privacy guidelines viewed as win by Google
• Oregon analyst freed on $5M bail
• Post office will move its sorting facility to Portland
• School district union agrees to salary freeze
• Sears to sell some stores

SPORTS

• Adventure Scoreboard
• Adventure Sports Calendar
• Baseball
• Basketball
• Bend man to embark on trek
• Braun’s name cleared, but questions linger
• Canucks end Wings’ home win streak
• Colorado beat at home by Stanford
• Fish restoration plan is approved
• Follow the wind
• Football
• Motor sports
• M’s offensive catcher hopes to catch up on defense
• Nordic state meets on tap
• Prep bowlers to roll for state titles in Bend
• Scoreboard
• Thunder tie for best record in NBA after victory over Lakers
• Watney eliminates Woods from tourney

OBITS

• Deaths Elsewhere
• Patricia Ann Stevens
• Rosset pushed boundaries in world of publishing

CENTRAL OREGON OBITS

• Patricia Ann Stevens

NATION & WORLD

• Airline taps social networks to make the skies friendlier
• Bank of America breaks with Fannie Mae
• Billions of stars captured planets from outer space
• Charging ahead
• Copter crash kills 7 Marines
• Home births on the rise
• How to help when young friendships end
• In nod to surging gas prices, Obama talks about energy
• L.A. community college students must beat the odds for a degree
• Many baby products have toxic chemicals
• Maryland Senate OKs same-sex marriage bill
• New Web privacy guidelines viewed as win by Google
• Santorum’s record is used against him
• Sears to sell some stores
• Shooting victim’s father, doctor warn of long recovery
• Syria is accused of crimes against humanity
• U.S. bachelor degree rate passes milestone
• U.S., N. Korea hold nuclear talks in Beijing
• Virginia lawmakers backtrack on Conception Bill

FEATURES

• How to help when young friendships end
• Living on a fixed income
• Many baby products have toxic chemicals
• Poetry as therapy

ENTERTAINMENT

• A roundup of where locals are playing
• Art exhibits
• Business Calendar
• Busy with the blues
• Chapel of suds
• G. Love returns to the Domino Room
• Going out
• Greensky Bluegrass returns to Bend
• Investor accuses Blacksmith founder of fraud
• Movie times
• Music releases
• Open Studio at Caldera Arts
• Oscar quiz and ballot
• Parents’ Guide to Movies
• Planning ahead
• Poetry as therapy
• ‘Reckoning’ comes up short
• Social Distortion to play Bend in May
• Story Times and Library Youth Events
• Third Seven is home!
• This is a bad case of ‘Wanderlust’
• Upcoming concerts
• Welcome the Bard
• Well shot! Reader photos
• What’s cooler than being cool?
• With ‘Smash,’ Borle has arrived

RESTAURANTS

• Chapel of suds

OPINION

• Compromise sought on canola planting
• In a hurry, but not for jobs
• Making readers, one book and one child at a time
• More solo-oriented society lets people maximize their talents

ROADS & TRAFFIC

• Charging ahead
• Downtown ‘Dog park’
• Untangling the complicated hybrid taxonomy