February 17, 2013

LOCAL & STATE

• Amy’s Kitchen expands its plant in the Rogue Valley
• Around the state
• Arrested Singaporean reveals soccer match-fixing secrets
• 1913 Bend again in peril as mules run off with dynamite
• Big year for science at Redmond COCC
• Births
• Cage fighting's popularity has media giants in a slugfest
• Deeds
• Fertility finding could lead to the extension of childbearing years
• Gandhi grandson shares childhood lessons
• How beef is becoming more like chicken
• Man gets 45 years in cousin’s gang-related slaying
• Man whose murder conviction was thrown out returns to courtroom
• Much-investigated ref denies fixing soccer matches
• No average bar fight
• Poachers targeting area deer
• Quotes about match-fixing in soccer
• Residents track local meteor
• Schwalk—Whitney
• Soccer match-fixing probe keeps Italian prosecutor busy
• The player: A Croatian regrets getting entangled in soccer match-fixing
• Turkish trial shows soccer corruption at the top
• Will drones revive aviation industry?

BUSINESS

• A box of Thin Mints, a source of pride
• Accord coupe: the snap of a Tasmanian Devil
• At higher driving speeds, steering can feel stiff in modern vehicles
• Banjo maker finds its grove
• Big year for science at Redmond COCC
• Deeds
• Pacific fisheries see recovery
• Whatever your age, retirement is harder
• When your email turns from delight to deluge
• Will drones revive aviation industry?

SPORTS

• A use of hormone admission by Singh puts PGA Tour on edge
• District title goes to Culver
• Ducks get shootout win over Predators
• Ducks rally to beat Cougars
• Haas takes over lead at Riviera
• Huskies pull away late to beat Beavers
• Madras boys bring home 4A/3A/2A/1A swim title
• Mariners’ roster has more veterans
• Most popular sport also the dirtiest?
• No. 2 Duke suffers road loss to Maryland
• Prep Scoreboard
• Ross top dunker; Lillard shows skills
• Sports in Brief
• Summit sweeps state
• U.S. teen Shiffrin rushes to gold

OBITS

• Alice Viola (Blake) Chastain Rodgers
• Barnaby Conrad was novelist, painter, pianist and bullfighter
• Death notices
• Deaths elsewhere
• Gilbert Donald Best
• James Lucien Arthurs
• Marvin Glenn McKinney
• Sheelagh Rose Skinazi

CENTRAL OREGON OBITS

• Alice Viola (Blake) Chastain Rodgers
• Death notices
• Gilbert Donald Best
• James Lucien Arthurs
• Marvin Glenn McKinney
• Sheelagh Rose Skinazi

NATION & WORLD

• After meteor falls, a City of broken glass
• Barnaby Conrad was novelist, painter, pianist and bullfighter
• From immigration to defense, debates snag on gay rights
• Manager warns safety issues ignored at Washington nuke site
• Most popular sport also the dirtiest?
• Nation & world
• New push for peace starts in Afghanistan
• Today
• U.S.-wide survey breaks new ground for gays
• Washington Week
• Who’s at the helm?

FEATURES

• Child’s genetics not destiny when it comes to behavior
• COCC fundraisers coming in March
• Film fest asks for local submissions
• Gandhi grandson shares childhood lessons
• Grenada: ocean view with a spice scent
• I love your Republican eyes
• Is an American pope so unlikely?
• Led from Europe, flock grows elsewhere
• More women are taking their husbands’ last names
• See where presidents took their last breaths
• Travel apps move chronicling the trip from paper to pixels
• Trivia Bee tickets available
• Winter wonderland

ENTERTAINMENT

• A stalking victim’s tale — blind spots and all
• Alpert’s ‘Extinction’ is a chilling thriller
• Anti-hero Keller is back in Lawrence Block’s ‘Hit Me’
• ‘Autopsy’ takes grim look at Detroit
• Best-sellers
• ‘Downton Abbey’ wraps up season
• Fiction isn’t contained in Karen Russell’s tales
• Ghostly doings with Harry Hole
• ‘House of Earth’ has no plot but it taps into a new world
• Latest tale in romance series is not perfect
• Novel set in ad world offers laughs, lessons
• TV today

OPINION

• Arming teachers is not an effective countermeasure
• Goal should be effective teacher in every classroom
• Horse meat and the economics of disgust
• I yam what I yam — but is it really art?
• Increased fine could help deter driver cellphone use
• India’s new technology
• Media must maintain standards
• Snoozing animals’ lessons
• Support no-kill policy
• The electric-car mistake
• Use signals when driving
• Why choose the cat story?
• Why do societies just give up?