December 29, 2012

LOCAL & STATE

• A reversal of snowpack
• Agencies reach agreement on service sharing
• Around the State
• Bank robber's pattern unusual
• Bethlehem Inn receives grant
• Book drive aimed at prison inmates
• Closures
• New grants fund biomass energy
• News of Record: Police Log, Bend fire runs,
• Proposed uranium mine: Buried treasure or hidden threat?
• Rare frog found in Old Mill pond
• Replacing Willamette bridge means moving it just a bit
• U of O diversity office changes spark controversy among minority groups
• Wyden seeks to regulate limits on data

BUSINESS

• A reversal of snowpack
• Better e-reading in the dark
• Guessing at your tax rates? Here’s how to cope
• Lost & Found
• Natural gas far from overtaking diesel fuel
• New grants fund biomass energy
• People on the Move
• Small business owners seek corporate tax reform
• Wyden seeks to regulate limits on data

SPORTS

• Bend boys rout Ashland in Summit tourney
• Bend suffers loss to Corvallis at Hoopfest
• Cougars still perfect after tourney victory
• Glaze Meadow renovation heads year in C.O. golf
• Golf Scoreboard
• Lakers rout Blazers, 104-87
• Norwegian earns Internet stardom and an NFL tryout
• On the Air
• Prep Scoreboard
• Saints, Payton agree to deal
• Sports in Brief
• Strong GS runs lead Austrian to victory
• Texans suddenly in tough spot
• Today’s bowls at a glance
• Virginia Tech rallies to beat Rutgers
• Vote for your favorite PPP logo

OBITS

• Death notices
• Deaths Elsewhere
• Glover was editor of Ebony magazine

CENTRAL OREGON OBITS

• Death notices

NATION & WORLD

• Catholic schools aid storm-tossed students
• Clues on a sex symbol"s friends, not her death
• Falconry: Ancient and modern merge in a Dubai tradition
• Few bank failures as industry strengthens
• For Assad, fear and isolation in Damascus
• For ‘threat assessments,’ there’s no simple formula
• Guessing at your tax rates? Here’s how to cope
• 5 health care changes in 2013
• New grants fund biomass energy
• Old fossils get new life
• Proposal would shift shipping lanes to protect endangered whale species
• Study: Is this the century when coral reefs die out?
• Surveillance bill renewed
• Today in History
• Training, not just guns, say experts
• World Briefing

FEATURES

• A Charm for Sandy Hook
• Closures
• Clues on a sex symbol"s friends, not her death
• Guiding gay evangelicals out of the campus closet
• Local Services
• Snowman sightings
• Today in History
• Volunteer Search

ENTERTAINMENT

• A Charm for Sandy Hook
• Falconry: Ancient and modern merge in a Dubai tradition
• In hurry-up world, these movies take their sweet time
• ‘Les Miz,’ ‘Hobbit’ battle for top spot at box office
• Seacrest carries on New Year’s show
• Snowman sightings
• Vote for your favorite PPP logo

OPINION

• Currency of kids
• Honest discussion needed in wake of Newtown
• Judge Sullivan leaves enduring legacy
• Russia makes pawns of innocent, needy children
• Thanks for menorah photo as celebration of faith
• The law should not be hidden
• Volunteering and civic life make a better community
• Who needs a magazine larger than five rounds?
• Wind power is too unreliable for federal tax credit