January 05, 2013

LOCAL & STATE

• Around the State
• Bend educational toy store to close
• Bend event fetes Robert Burns
• Burning to close Whychus preserve
• Center provides activist resources
• Environmentalists try to halt roadwork on public lands in Eastern Oregon
• Eugene group targets beer pong promotion
• Food preservation class coming up
• Gift of car lets woman help others
• Health care is topic in Redmond
• Home values shift, and tax bills climb
• Local Services
• Moccasin man
• New name, same mission
• News of Record: Police Log
• Park project fundraisers eye leasing
• Passing the reins
• Property info access may change
• Restoring Thomas Jefferson's tombstone
• Roseburg pair restoring 65-year-old Stinson plane
• Suspects sought in stabbing
• Tetherow water contract stands, Bend says
• Volunteer Search

BUSINESS

• A food safety overhaul
• Actor buys Tully’s Coffee chain
• Apple’s next trick? Wearable computers
• Bend educational toy store to close
• Center provides activist resources
• Construction jobs rebound, offering hope
• Food preservation class coming up
• For visitors to the Vatican, it’s cash only
• Helium shortage in the air
• Home values shift, and tax bills climb
• New restaurants to open downtown
• Park project fundraisers eye leasing
• People on the Move
• Property info access may change
• Solar power for the people
• Tetherow water contract stands, Bend says

SPORTS

• Cowboys defeat Hawks
• Cowgirls knock off Hawks 67-58
• Fiesta Bowl could be Kelly’s last with the Ducks
• Golf Scoreboard
• High Desert a golf tournament hot spot
• Late defense leads Blazers to victory over Grizzlies
• NBA Scoreboard
• On the Air
• Prep Scoreboard
• Report: Armstrong may admit to doping
• Runner Johanna Olson succumbs to brain tumor
• Sports in Brief
• Texans, Bengals meet in wild-card game again
• Vikings, Packers set for ’Groundhog Day’

OBITS

• Death notices
• Deaths Elsewhere
• Sheardown sheltered American escapees from embassy in Iran

CENTRAL OREGON OBITS

• Death notices

NATION & WORLD

• A food safety overhaul
• Briefing
• Construction jobs rebound, offering hope
• In Syria, the undecideds may finally tip the scales
• Predicting violence is an inexact science
• Sheardown sheltered American escapees from embassy in Iran
• Solar power for the people
• Today
• Venezuelans in the dark about their president

FEATURES

• Bend event fetes Robert Burns
• Center provides activist resources
• Contact Us
• DeWolf returns with new book
• Food preservation class coming up
• For visitors to the Vatican, it’s cash only
• Gift of car lets woman help others
• Health care is topic in Redmond
• Helping the homeless by example
• Local Services
• Moccasin man
• New name, same mission
• Today
• Trend: Building churches around secular shrines
• Volunteer Search

ENTERTAINMENT

• DeWolf returns with new book
• ‘Hobbit’ should rule box office — again
• New restaurants to open downtown

OPINION

• Assault rifles are not the same as assault weapons
• Don’t shred Oregon’s public meetings law
• Gun rights not absolute
• Letter on guns misses point
• Need to withstand pressure from extremists
• Park district needs solid fundraising agreements
• Praise for Wyden on data
• Torturing the truth in ‘Zero Dark Thirty’?

ROADS & TRAFFIC

• Gift of car lets woman help others