July 17, 2010

LOCAL & STATE

• A reason to smile
• Bend may decide on single contractor for water system overhaul
• Bend’s Kilns College adds degree program
• Feds to consult biologists about river project risks
• Head-on crash closes Highway 20
• 56 hours in the life of a real estate agent
• Kitzhaber says he’s less partisan this time around
• Lithia Motors may set up shop in Bend
• Madras hospital gets mammogram cushion
• Many mouths to feed
• Marines will help beautify downtown Bend by weeding
• Missing boy’s stepmother agrees to move out of house
• Modified mosquito may block malaria
• News of Record: Police Log, Bend fire runs, Pets
• People On the Move
• Prineville creating utility aid program
• Rabid bat prompts public health warning
• Religion in Brief
• State Police office in Bend reopening

BUSINESS

• A reason to smile
• AIG to pay $725M in settlement
• Apple’s solution for iPhone 4 flaw: free bumper cases
• Appropriate office dress often means conservative
• Bend may decide on single contractor for water system overhaul
• Consumer prices fall in June for 3rd month
• Early well tests encouraging
• Gannett’s quarterly earnings disappoint
• GE breaks string of profit declines
• 56 hours in the life of a real estate agent
• Interpol arrests more than 5,000 in soccer gambling crackdown
• Is Goldman case the beginning or end of bank punishment?
• Local arts organizations awarded grant money
• Most blame Bush for debt, joblessness, war
• People On the Move
• Prineville creating utility aid program
• Short list emerges for consumer guardian
• State tweaks its energy tax credits

SPORTS

• All-night tribute at Yankee Stadium: silence, then cheering
• Armstrong could have quit, but he’s still on his bike
• At age 50, Calcavecchia goes low
• Auto racing
• Bareback riders keep tradition alive in C.O.
• Baseball
• Basketball
• Bend boxer finishes fourth at nationals
• Bend loses one at home
• Contador puts dent in Schleck’s lead during Tour’s 12th stage
• Deschutes Dash festival hits Bend this weekend
• Fierce wind makes for brutal day
• Football
• Garrigus, Bettencourt share Reno-Tahoe lead
• Gritty in pink: Boxer takes fight against breast cancer into ring
• Inaugural soccer tourney in Bend draws 90 teams
• Major League Baseball
• NFL high school football clinics address character
• On the Air
• Participants sought for children’s bike race
• Scoreboard
• Speed thrills at the track, but it also can kill
• Swimmer injured after striking boulder
• Tennis
• ‘The Club’: The boys of summer, a polished look behind the scenes
• Tour de France at a Glance
• Track and field
• Watersports contest on Lake Billy Chinook this weekend
• Watson says goodbye to Old Course, but not to British Open

OBITS

• Cochran, 74, country music songwriter
• Death notices

CENTRAL OREGON OBITS

• Death notices

NATION & WORLD

• AIG to pay $725M in settlement
• Analyst spying for Cuba gets life in prison
• Apple’s solution for iPhone 4 flaw: free bumper cases
• ‘Barefoot Bandit’ agrees to return to Washington
• 94 charged with health care fraud
• Consumer prices fall in June for 3rd month
• Crash dummies’ parts, costumes join museum exhibit about auto safety
• Death toll rises from twin suicide bombings at Iranian mosque
• Early well tests encouraging
• Fire at Iraqi hotel kills at least 28
• Former general counsel to succeed Byrd
• GLASS CANOPY FALLS ONTO N.J. GARAGE
• In poster, North Korea boasts of a ship sinking
• Interpol arrests more than 5,000 in soccer gambling crackdown
• Iran, putting down reformers, now aims at conservatives
• Is Goldman case the beginning or end of bank punishment?
• Medical marijuana patients face shortages in New Mexico
• Minor earthquake shakes D.C.
• Most blame Bush for debt, joblessness, war
• N.Y. governor signs bill limiting street-stop data
• Obama, family vacation in coastal Maine
• Pact lets Zimbabwe export limited number of diamonds
• Russia on course to expand security powers
• Short list emerges for consumer guardian
• Variety publishes ‘Sticks Nix Hick Pix’ in 1935
• Voodoo purification

FEATURES

• A reason to smile
• Appropriate office dress often means conservative
• Bend’s Kilns College adds degree program
• If medium is message, what do human bones say?
• Madras hospital gets mammogram cushion
• Medical marijuana patients face shortages in New Mexico
• Pioneering female bishop resigns amid abuse criticism
• Religion in Brief
• Seminary hopes to unite faiths in training
• Variety publishes ‘Sticks Nix Hick Pix’ in 1935
• Voodoo purification

ENTERTAINMENT

• Appropriate office dress often means conservative
• Cochran, 74, country music songwriter
• Community Events Calendar
• Enter Sisters Folk Fest songwriting contest
• If medium is message, what do human bones say?
• Local arts organizations awarded grant money
• Movie Times
• Participants sought for children’s bike race
• See ‘Lamppost,’ support a charitable cause
• ‘The Club’: The boys of summer, a polished look behind the scenes
• The Sooners, the better
• Where there’s hope, there’s healing

OPINION

• Backers of free-range, local meat should praise geese reduction
• Control borders
• Don’t lease Park & Rec HQ
• Drug-sniffing dogs good for schools
• Execution as protection
• Golden Throat
• Goose kill was brutal
• In the round file
• O’Neill-onomics?
• Silver lining
• Spoiled brat

ROADS & TRAFFIC

• Crash dummies’ parts, costumes join museum exhibit about auto safety
• Head-on crash closes Highway 20
• Lithia Motors may set up shop in Bend