April 13, 2012

LOCAL & STATE

• A recreational sale
• Bend rental prices are climbing
• Business Calendar
• City will seek bids to plan for parking development
• Correction
• Corrections
• Dispatches
• Election Calendar
• Eugene police wrap Occupy killing probe
• Facing stiff fine, Estacada woman clears transients from her property
• Fewer poor moms breast-feed
• Former 4-H volunteer faces sexual abuse trial in August
• Gold prospectors draw crowd to North Bend event
• Investment scammer gets 6-year prison term
• Is your child ready for a pet?
• Kids under thumb more likely to lie
• Labor’s getting longer, study says
• Lawmakers must testify, court rules
• $50M sought in Bend midwife suit
• Medical pot states mull driving laws
• News of Record: Police Log, Bend fire runs
• Oregon bank heists dropped in 2011
• OSU adds two teaching degree programs
• Portland mayor refuses to reinstate fired officer
• Restaurant guide
• Road crews start to fill in the gaps
• Shooting hoops in the fleeting sun
• Sisters council, manager reconcile
• Snowpack is above average in much of Oregon, report shows
• The self-esteem trap
• Work to close La Pine crossing

BUSINESS

• Answering the call on proper cellphone use
• Bend rental prices are climbing
• Business Calendar
• Dispatches
• Facebook offers more disclosure to users
• Family Calendar
• Fewer women earn degrees in high-tech fields
• Foreclosure activity dropped to near 5-year low in March
• Google revenue jumps 24 percent
• Grocery prices up in first quarter
• Retailers team up to find a perfect fit
• Trade deficit narrows
• U.S. Forest Service plans to purchase 1,640 acres in state

SPORTS

• Adventure Sports Calendar
• American League roundup
• Baseball
• Basketball
• Blazers’ Aldridge to have surgery on hip
• Bulls defeat Heat in overtime, 96-86
• Correction
• Cycling
• Football
• For better or worse, BCS postseason format is about to change
• Freshman leads Storm once again in four-team event
• Major League Baseball
• National League roundup
• On the Air
• Prep Scoreboard
• Rangers use big period to top Sens in Game 1
• Saints name interim coach
• Scoreboard
• Soccer
• Spring shredding
• Storm hold off Bend High and Redmond in victory
• Summit defeats Bend High 6-3 in Intermountain Conference baseball
• Three share PGA Tour lead at Hilton Head
• Wade backs off Olympic pay

OBITS

• Cuban exiles revered Bishop Roman
• Death notices
• Deaths Elsewhere

CENTRAL OREGON OBITS

• Death notices

NATION & WORLD

• A ‘game changer’ for stroke patients
• Accidentally flushed, $6,000 wedding ring found in sewer
• Answering the call on proper cellphone use
• Bo ouster may unify communists in China
• Campaigns plan maximum push to raise money
• Defiant North Korea fails in rocket test
• Facebook offers more disclosure to users
• Fewer women earn degrees in high-tech fields
• Foreclosure activity dropped to near 5-year low in March
• Google revenue jumps 24 percent
• Grocery prices up in first quarter
• Happenings
• Mali swears in interim president
• Obama defends Romney’s wife, says candidates’ families should be off-limits
• Pakistan demands end to drone strikes
• Retailers team up to find a perfect fit
• Shooter gets day in court, new lawyer
• States aim to curb patients’ burden for costly drugs
• Study weighs impact of war deployments on military families
• 2 Sudans edge closer to war
• Syria quieter as cease-fire takes hold
• Trade deficit narrows
• UCLA issues an apology for mistaken admissions
• Vaccinations begin in cholera-ravaged Haiti

FEATURES

• A ‘game changer’ for stroke patients
• A recreational sale
• Accidentally flushed, $6,000 wedding ring found in sewer
• Answering the call on proper cellphone use
• Grocery prices up in first quarter
• Retailers team up to find a perfect fit

ENTERTAINMENT

• Art exhibits
• Event calendar: April 13-19
• Family Calendar
• Going out
• Hello spring!
• Last Band Standing returns
• Movie times
• My Own Two Hands event starts today
• Norah Jones, Huey Lewis tickets on sale today
• Oasis of Indian cuisine
• Parents’ Guide to Movies
• ‘Passive resistance’
• Planning ahead
• Players Bar & Grill hosts Matt Hopper
• Retailers team up to find a perfect fit
• Series puts parental maxims to the test
• Story Times and Library Youth Events
• Take a peek down the ‘Rabbit Hole’
• The bard of the bar
• The River Pigs release new CD
• The White Buffalo returns to Bend
• Tonight's Roach Gigz show is canceled
• Tragic love
• Upcoming concerts
• Well shot! Reader photos
• ‘Wine Country Quilts’ exhibit at Pronghorn
• ‘Xenoblade’ is fresh, exciting

RESTAURANTS

• Oasis of Indian cuisine

OPINION

• Community colleges must address dropout rates to be viable
• Experience makes Volpert fit for seat on appeals court
• Obama partial to blacks
• Racial profiling must end
• Run more chair lifts
• State law regarding Bend district biased
• Trapping is animal abuse

ROADS & TRAFFIC

• A recreational sale
• City will seek bids to plan for parking development
• Road crews start to fill in the gaps
• Work to close La Pine crossing