December 30, 2012

LOCAL & STATE

• A new direction
• Anti-bullying club ensures students don’t feel alone
• Around the state
• Arson suspected at empty building
• Biomass-plant plans hit snag in Prineville
• Births
• Counties fear probation influx if sentencing is reformed
• Deeds
• Flu season: It’s early, and bad
• Former Bend resident earns Bronze Star in Afghanistan
• Geared up for growth
• Griffin
• Modern-Day Typhoid Marys
• One decal at a time
• Over the cliff, Oregonians lose
• Patrolling Crater Lake during the winter
• Vigilante group runs off thieves in 1912
• Washington dock resembles one found in Oregon
• Wilson

BUSINESS

• Biomass-plant plans hit snag in Prineville
• Deeds
• Geared up for growth
• Idled airports get a second life
• National mortgage settlement gets mixed reviews
• Oil pump unlikely to ‘fail without warning’
• Over the cliff, Oregonians lose
• Porsche Boxster: old flair, new look
• Some cry foul over the ‘sharing economy’ model
• Starter likely culprit for unreliable Blazer
• Wind farm developers in a race against the calendar

SPORTS

• American wins Tour de Ski race
• Arizona State rolls to win over Navy
• Batum sends Blazers past 76ers
• Beaver faithful cheer first bowl game since 2009
• For a Notre Dame family, grief, but no blame game
• For Ducks, Fiesta has a familiar feel
• Maneuvering gives TV a prime attraction for prime time
• Mountain View falls in championship game
• No. 15 Beavers let Alamo Bowl win slip away
• No. 2 UConn routs No. 1 Stanford
• On the Air
• Oregon State falls to Towson in overtime
• Prep Scoreboard
• Redmond wrestling earns win at Washington tourney
• Seattle efficiency at peak during late winning streak
• Some bests and worsts from a wacky NFL season
• Sports in Brief
• Summit finishes unbeaten at own tourney

OBITS

• Albert Meilink
• Barbara 'Rose' Brooks
• Death notices
• Deaths elsewhere
• Kim Marie (Scott) Sprague
• Mildred "Millie" L. Self
• Potter wrote biography of painter Pollock

CENTRAL OREGON OBITS

• Albert Meilink
• Barbara 'Rose' Brooks
• Death notices
• Kim Marie (Scott) Sprague
• Mildred "Millie" L. Self

NATION & WORLD

• A record restored: Death Valley, 134
• Biden is back for a 2nd run at firearm restrictions
• Blizzard of support for Newtown school
• Idled airports get a second life
• L.A. considering ban on elephant performances
• Late-night brokering, no deal
• Marking slavery’s end, 150 years later
• Nation & World
• Obama’s political, policy and Pentagon dilemma
• Roots of marijuana cultivation in national forests hard to trace
• Russia: Assad won't go
• Show pony’s death clouds image of an elite pursuit
• Taliban may be softening its stance
• Today

FEATURES

• Birds for love — and money
• Contact us with your ideas
• ‘Do Good Bus’ helps volunteers get rolling on good intentions
• Former Bend resident earns Bronze Star in Afghanistan
• In California’s Mammoth, snow has healing power
• Jefferson library collects for kids
• Scouts to recycle Christmas trees

ENTERTAINMENT

• A Brazilian centenarian reflects as death approaches
• A new direction
• Best-sellers
• Gay fathers in Israel, in real life and in sitcoms
• ‘Hallelujah’: A song grows from obscurity to ubiquity
• Likeable characters drive story
• ‘New adult’ genre goes beyond wizards and vampires
• Potential dangers don’t bother world traveler Pam Houston
• The A to Z of goofiness in Onion’s encyclopedia
• ‘The Twelve Tribes of Hattie’ an American family saga
• TV today

OPINION

• Before you donate, evaluate
• Brave men and women who dare in the face of danger
• Did Nancy Lanza live in FEAR? Why many mothers of the mentally ill do
• Don’t sell public lands
• Gun control not the answer
• How giving became cool
• Look within to change U.S. gun culture
• Marriage: America’s greatest weapon against child poverty
• Maupin is all shook up
• People hate losses and that affects budget fix
• Plan for future infrastructure
• State agencies not doing required audits
• Stop blaming ‘somebody else’ for growth of nation’s debt
• The year 2012: When dreams died
• Too soon? No, too late