March 25, 2012

LOCAL & STATE

• Births
• Blood-alcohol results released
• Boater rescued from Yaquina Bay
• Exploring temperature extremes at the High Desert museum
• Goodwill outlets aim to rein in fights over goods to resell
• 2 high schools add AP diploma
• Honoring a fallen airman
• Idaho couple die hours apart after 76-year marriage
• In 1912, Hotel Bend clerk hikes 63 miles east to homestead claim
• Kooistra—Bement
• Man arrested in wife’s death
• Many variables will drive education plan’s results
• News of record: Deeds
• Pizza, groceries and family
• Police chief will free up officers’ time
• Portland State picks next provost
• Rail service back to normal after storms
• Rallies across Washington protest contraception rule
• RPA’s leader is out
• Seattle marks 50 years of monorail
• Semitrailer rolls, strikes ‘Fight Club’ author
• Snowmobile crash injures 2
• Sunriver’s dismissed police chief fires back over ouster
• Toddler critical after fall into washer
• 2 watches missing from Silverton museum
• Well shot!

BUSINESS

• Bend brewery goes up
• Cocoa crisis melts away
• Hoping to slake a thirst for ‘Mad Men’
• Hyundai Azera grows up
• ‘I’ve done my part’
• News of record: Deeds
• Pork industry ends crate use
• Run-flat tires can save the day
• Schools drop ‘pink slime' meat filler like a hot potato

SPORTS

• A destination year-round
• A look at the teams from Central Oregon competing in girls golf this spring: Bend, Summit seek to trophy at state
• Baseball
• Buffs sweep Bears
• Buzzer-beater leads Bulls to win
• Cycling
• Golf grows up
• La Pine ends tourney with win, but falls to Madras
• Major leagues bracing for an extra-wild season
• Motor sports
• 2012 National League team-by-team schedules
• Nine years later, Kansas still special to Williams
• Ohio State knocks off Syracuse for Final Four trip
• Penguins suffer loss to Senators
• Prep Scoreboard
• Soccer
• Tennessee rallies past No. 11 seed Kansas
• The golf boom is over. What's next?
• Two more try to make Elite Eight
• Woods holds one-shot lead with one round left

OBITS

• Congressional clerk announced declarations of war and peace
• Death notices
• Jacquelyn Lee Steinhauser
• Laurel M. Skelton
• Melvin "Mel" Lee Fuller
• Paul Richard Noble
• Ruby Longley
• Shareen Carlos
• Tom Houston
• Vadie Nail Jolliff

CENTRAL OREGON OBITS

• Death notices
• Jacquelyn Lee Steinhauser
• Laurel M. Skelton
• Melvin "Mel" Lee Fuller
• Paul Richard Noble
• Ruby Longley
• Shareen Carlos
• Tom Houston
• Vadie Nail Jolliff

NATION & WORLD

• Afghan shootings carried out in 2 operations, inquiry finds
• As Iraq’s displaced return home, new tensions arise
• Cheney recovering after heart transplant
• Congressional clerk announced declarations of war and peace
• In self-immolations, signs of new turmoil
• Lobby groups blanket Supreme Court
• Mangled horses, maimed jockeys: racing’s dangers
• Obama visits Korean DMZ
• Rallies continue for slain black teen
• Russian rocket chunk misses space station
• Santorum rebounds with Louisiana win
• Schools drop ‘pink slime' meat filler like a hot potato
• The arts feel the ax in era of austerity
• Today in history
• U.S. not planning charges in deadly Pakistan strike
• Washington Week
• What does growing wheat have to do with health care?

FEATURES

• A little planning time can help relationships
• ‘Angry birds' goes giant at the Space needle
• Palm Springs is just right for sun-starved families
• Pizza, groceries and family
• Police chief will free up officers’ time
• Romance of the rails: a cross-country trip by train
• Schools drop ‘pink slime' meat filler like a hot potato
• Use of matchmakers growing in popularity

ENTERTAINMENT

• ‘Angry birds' goes giant at the Space needle
• Award-winning novel filled with challenges, anecdote
• Bend brewery goes up
• Book tells of Teddy Roosevelt’s efforts to clean up New York City
• Comics are now selling laughs by the download
• Community Calendar
• Fighting words
• Latest ‘family thriller’ focuses on past
• Local Movie Times
• ‘Mad Men’ season opener among week’s top picks
• Pioneer group queen named
• Science Pub looks at the birds
• Subscriptions support school
• The right locks for the part

OPINION

• Build an indoor ice rink
• Dr. Frei is excellent
• Endorsements foster impression of conservative bias
• Governor should have stayed out of hospital vote
• Grads can still find fulfillment with parents
• Knopp the best choice
• Little choice in spending
• Pick hard science over green faith
• Supreme Court made right call on EPA rule
• The killer lurking inside us
• Why we didn't run comic strip