March 06, 2012

LOCAL & STATE

• Allegedly drunk woman drives into house
• Awaiting the impact
• Bend man jailed in Nebraska bust
• Bend mom gets probation in online sex abuse case
• Business Calendar
• Calm, good boy
• China braces for slower growth
• Columbia bar pilot rescued after fall
• Concerns raised over downtown student housing
• Correction
• Destructive sands threaten coastal homes
• Friends for life
• High price of gold
• La Pine senior housing getting a boost
• La Pine teen charged in Facebook threat case
• Lots more work required to fix health care in the U.S.
• New index will track billionaires
• News of Record: Deeds
• News of Record: Police Log
• None hurt in fire at retirement home
• OR-7 returns to California
• Pets Calendar
• Prineville power upgrade to be hastened
• Program helps kids at risk of becoming sex offenders
• Push made to scrap traps
• Room tax collections fall
• Session wraps in a flurry of votes
• Solutions to enjoying a pet when you can’t live with one
• Taxpayers face small changes in 2011 filings
• Two hurt in Mt. Hood area crashes
• VentureBox adds partner
• 225 workers laid off at Coburg RV plant

BUSINESS

• China braces for slower growth
• College debt report raises alarms
• La Pine senior housing getting a boost
• Meanwhile, back at the Coyote Ranch ...
• New index will track billionaires
• New iPad is stirring talk of the end of PCs
• News of Record: Deeds
• Prineville power upgrade to be hastened
• Room tax collections fall
• Taxpayers face small changes in 2011 filings
• VentureBox adds partner

SPORTS

• Baseball
• Basketball
• Blazers back to .500 with win over Hornets
• Community Sports Scoreboard
• Football
• On the Air
• Penguins continue win streak, hold off Coyotes
• Rugby
• Soccer
• Softball
• Special weekend
• Swimming
• The Lava Bears prepare to take on Hermison in the Class 5A state quarters
• The White Buffaloes take their 17-game win streak to Corvallis to battle Philomath
• UO, OSU players get Pac-12 honors
• Winter sports

OBITS

• Deaths Elsewhere
• McQuarrie conceptualized Darth Vader, C-3PO
• Michael James Ward
• Mildred M. Berry

CENTRAL OREGON OBITS

• Michael James Ward
• Mildred M. Berry

NATION & WORLD

• Alarm sounded over tsunami alert cuts
• At tribe’s door, a hub of beer, heartache and now a lawsuit
• Court OKs forced meds for Giffords shooting suspect
• Holder talks targeted killings of U.S. citizens
• Iran court orders retrial of accused spy
• 25 Iraqi police die in a shooting spree
• Islamist lawmaker in Egypt resigns after lying about nose job
• McQuarrie conceptualized Darth Vader, C-3PO
• Obama, Netanyahu talk unity, underline differences
• Observers detail fraud in Russian vote
• Overhead bins get bigger
• Romney, Santorum woo blue-collar votes
• Scientists study climate change’s impact on Puget Sound marine life
• 3 Tibetans die from self-immolation
• Today in history

FEATURES

• Almond lovers will go nuts for this cake
• Digging in to earn the title of Master Gardener
• Fry, fry again: fish dinners for Lent
• High price of gold
• ‘Kitchen on Fire’ stresses technique, not recipes
• Making potatoes with all the right stuff(ing)
• Pancakes get a tasty infusion of oatmeal
• Planting the seeds of attraction
• Pots de creme: custards that put pudding to shame
• The lighter side of snacks
• Vintage meets industrial

ENTERTAINMENT

• ‘Breaking’ back in, with some changes
• Community Calendar
• Geocache event helps food bank
• Local Movie Times
• Meanwhile, back at the Coyote Ranch ...
• 2 months of work to get a laugh that lasts just seconds

OPINION

• Administrator candidates are unimpressive
• Change trap regulations
• Changes in Redmond grading a smart step
• Costly colonoscopies
• Keep Society president
• Let colleges decide

ROADS & TRAFFIC

• Two hurt in Mt. Hood area crashes