August 27, 2012

LOCAL & STATE

• 'Absolutely amazing'
• An iPad and browser friendly RNC sneak preview
• Community Calendar
• Cooler days likely this week
• Effort supports marijuana to treat PTSD
• Geothermal heats up around state
• Ingenuity aids in dredging tsunami silt
• New diploma program begins
• News of Record: Civil Suits
• Octopi movement marches on Eugene
• Skies even smokier as farmers burn fields
• Smoke causes brief spell of 'unhealthy' air in Bend
• Smoke creating poor air quality again in Bend
• State to begin trial of risk assessment program for felons
• Teacher incentive fund needs growth standards
• Well shot! Reader photos

BUSINESS

• CO2 emissions in U.S. at 20-year low
• Geothermal heats up around state
• Retailers regroup as consumers postpone yearly ritual
• Skies even smokier as farmers burn fields

SPORTS

• A bike ride with 10,000 other people?
• American League roundup
• Appreciating the gift of Andy Roddick
• Australia's Briscoe stops winless streak at Sonoma
• Back to the drawing board
• Baseball
• Bumping, banging is back at Bristol
• Cycling
• Cycling Central Calendar
• Cycling Scoreboard
• Football
• Former OSU quarterback Katz returns to face Washington
• Major League Baseball
• National League roundup
• Number of hunters, anglers increase during past 5 years
• On the Air
• Vande Velde takes USA Pro Challenge; Bend's Horner 13th
• Watney takes title at playoffs opener
• 15-year-old wins LPGA Tour event

OBITS

• Deaths elsewhere
• Terry 'Tubesteak' Tracy personified surfer lifestyle characterized in 'Gidget'

NATION & WORLD

• As Republican convention opens, storms loom both inside and out
• Gas odor noted before Venezuela refinery explosion
• Gulf Coast braces for storm
• 36 killed in bus crash in China
• Like NASA rover, family switches over to Mars time
• Mass burials held amid Syrian army crackdown
• 2 musicians said to have fled Russia
• Once a rising star in Washington, now afraid to return to the U.S.
• Storm rewrites script for convention
• Terry 'Tubesteak' Tracy personified surfer lifestyle characterized in 'Gidget'
• Volunteers monitor protests in Chile

FEATURES

• 'Absolutely amazing'
• Civilians also struggle with PTSD
• Crabbers go digital to report their catch
• PCT trek ends in success
• Sudden cardiac death less likely after exercise, researchers find

ENTERTAINMENT

• Fall brings large group of new TV talk hosts
• Local Movie Times
• Making their mark
• PCT trek ends in success

OPINION

• Balyeat ‘steeped’ in law
• Budget choices affect grading of writing tests
• Disgust with politics
• Don’t condone standing at amphitheater
• ‘Following from behind’
• Obama a better choice than Romney on many issues
• PCT trek ends in success
• Teacher incentive fund needs growth standards