November 18, 2012

LOCAL & STATE

• Bend's home-building uptick
• Births
• Correction
• Corrections
• Donate your coats, blankets
• Geotouring in Seattle: urban adventure with a GPS
• Grain handlers announce last offer to longshoremen
• Historic boxcar brings back memories for Oregon vet
• Hoffman
• 3 hospitalized after U.S. 97 crash
• Idaho team recovers victim from Lake Billy Chinook
• Johnson—Graham
• Man pleads guilty to murder, arson
• Market crash drives problems with Oregon public pensions
• Meadows
• Mortgage mediation plan fizzles
• Neighbor accused of shooting dog
• News of Record: Deeds
• Rent the party: from soup spoons to nut dishes
• Salem man turns toyland into profit
• Springfield man accused of child abuse
• Teen shelter awaits help
• Top Big Brothers Big Sisters pairs
• Weaver—Strokes
• Wind advisory beginning at 8 p.m.
• Women settle claims in sexual abuse case

BUSINESS

• Bend's home-building uptick
• Biofuel’s promise may be near fruition
• Coast Guard ends search for rig workers
• Disaster prep is good business
• Extended warranties: What’s their worth?
• Handmade gifts galore
• Holiday shopping essential: Black Friday apps
• Mobile app developer: tough way to make a living
• Mortgage mediation plan fizzles
• News of Record: Deeds
• Suicide points to wave of insider trading in health-care industry
• Teen shelter awaits help
• Twinkies become a hot commodity online

SPORTS

• Ailing James, Heat defeat Suns, 97-88
• Choi takes lead at Titleholders
• Cougars' rally falls just short against unbeaten Bulldogs
• Ducks' title hopes likely over with loss to Stanford
• Mannion leads Oregon State past California
• NBA Scoreboard
• No. 4 Ohio State holds off Rhode Island, 69-58
• No. 14 Stanford hands No. 1 UO first loss of season
• Pac-12
• Penske material: Keselowski has Captain near title
• Player safety not just a current issue
• Prep Scoreboard
• Redmond set for semifinal on Friday
• Sports in Brief
• The Storm reign again
• UCLA tops USC to clinch title in South division

OBITS

• Barry L. Rosenow
• Death notices
• Deaths Elsewhere
• John W. Moe
• Thackeray, 86, right-wing Indian party leader

CENTRAL OREGON OBITS

• Barry L. Rosenow
• Death notices
• John W. Moe

NATION & WORLD

• Coast Guard ends search for rig workers
• Coyote-hunting contest sparks protests
• Egyptian bus crash kills 51 children
• ‘Fiscal cliff’ looms, but what consequences could it have?
• Furor over Benghazi sweeps up Rice
• Irish protesters push for legal abortion
• Israel pounds Gaza from air
• Israelis have eyes on the sky as rockets penetrate deeper
• Medicare experiments with ‘bundled’ payments
• Mideast troubles test Obama tactic
• Military cuts put burden on Guard’s citizen soldiers
• Mobile app developer: tough way to make a living
• Moonshiners set up in Georgia city hall
• New York commuters still feel pain from Sandy
• Obama heads to Asia in foreign policy ‘pivot’
• Pakistan developing armed drones
• Probe: Float crossed tracks after signal
• Some Palestinians weary of fight
• 4-star lifestyle under scrutiny
• Taliban prisoners released in push for peace talks
• Thackeray, 86, right-wing Indian party leader
• Twinkies become a hot commodity online
• Washington Week

FEATURES

• A new model for car museums
• Sites help reduce travel planning to surf and click

ENTERTAINMENT

• A photographer’s restless lifetime of paying attention
• A trend that’s getting around
• Best-sellers
• 2 books offer views of Thomas Jefferson
• Community Calendar
• ‘Dust Bowl’ is latest offering by Ken Burns
• Gas leak at Pine Tavern a close call
• Handmade gifts galore
• ‘Hell or High Water’ about rebuilding a city and a life in New Orleans
• Local Movie Times
• Novel about racial injustice wins National Book Award
• ‘30 Rock’ heroine Liz Lemon will give up the single life
• Rod Stewart: Snap! Goes the spandex
• ‘Sleepwalk With Me’ playing at the Tower Theatre
• ‘The Generals’ is a sharp analysis of performance
• WinterFest needs poster art entries

RESTAURANTS

• Gas leak at Pine Tavern a close call

OPINION

• After election, news trickles out
• Alternative to gas tax is a bad idea
• Biofuel’s promise may be near fruition
• Flat tax on purchases best way to overhaul tax code
• Lessons from the Romneys – George and Mitt
• Memorial wasn’t mentioned
• More changes coming
• Obama's nightmare
• Petraeus was an indispensable man
• Time to cooperate
• Urge bipartisan leadership
• Walden’s rise serves Oregonians well
• Water rate plan an improvement

ROADS & TRAFFIC

• American answer to the CR-V
• 3 hospitalized after U.S. 97 crash