February 25, 2012

LOCAL & STATE

• Burglary spurs school lockdowns
• Correction
• Cuts to senior care likely avoided, legislators say
• In court via video, RPA chief is silent during arraignment
• Lithia reports higher income
• Local Services
• Man pleads not guilty in flight ruckus
• McLane’s role reversal: from ‘nerdy budget guy’ to main policy player
• News of Record: Police Log, Bend fire runs
• Owner of injured dog calls for trapping-law reform
• People on the Move
• Redmond not concerned about lead found in park
• Senior program training available
• Taming budgets proves arduous
• Verdict is in: Court needs a face-lift
• Vice principal is picked to lead La Pine High
• Winemaker ages some bottles where only GPS can find them

BUSINESS

• BPA completes power transmission line early
• Confidence rises in February
• Energy tax breaks available
• Lithia reports higher income
• Long-held idea about job creation challenged by statistics
• McLane’s role reversal: from ‘nerdy budget guy’ to main policy player
• More judges question federal settlement practice
• NeighborImpact gets grant
• Paperless payments spur banking battle
• People on the Move
• Religious strings attached as Catholic hospitals grow
• Taming budgets proves arduous
• Verdict is in: Court needs a face-lift

SPORTS

• All-Star media session goes on without Kobe
• Baseball
• Basketball
• Braun: ’The truth is on my side’
• College athletics
• Cougar boys, girls lead OISRA championships
• Cowboys, Bulldogs battle for titles
• Football
• For 41 years, OIT cheers Danny’s Boys
• Goalie helps lead Canucks over Devils
• Hockey
• Hot-shooting Mountain View advances to state
• Lava Bears get past play-in
• Miller, Pitino, Fitch among 12 finalists for Hall of Fame
• Motor sports
• NASCAR hopes to open door for ’Green’ sponsors
• Oregon releases draft of review
• Prep Scoreboard
• Scoreboard
• Westwood moves into quarters
• Winter sports

OBITS

• Death notices
• Ken Price, sculptor who helped elevate ceramics, dies at 77

CENTRAL OREGON OBITS

• Death notices

NATION & WORLD

• 10 Afghans are killed as rage spreads over burning of Qurans
• Australia’s ex-premier will challenge successor
• Bill would require Utah’s alcohol panel to include drinkers
• Conditions at Guantnamo deteriorating, lawyers say
• Confidence rises in February
• Despite Iran nuke report, U.S. sees no bomb threat
• Houston church spreads its message with tattoos
• IAEA reports Iran making nuclear fuel at secret site
• Israelis flock to sages’ tombs seeking miracles
• Late start to flu season, which appears mild
• Lithia reports higher income
• Long-held idea about job creation challenged by statistics
• March on Washington picture embodies hope
• Military accused of manipulating mental diagnoses
• More judges question federal settlement practice
• Nations demand Syria halt attacks to admit aid
• Polish folk art society defends its ‘Oskar’ award
• Religious strings attached as Catholic hospitals grow
• Romney and Santorum offer opposing pitches
• Rutgers dorm spying trial begins
• Secret U.S. cable warned of enemy havens in Pakistan
• Voters less diverse than moviegoing public
• Yemen gets new leader as struggle ends calmly

FEATURES

• Houston church spreads its message with tattoos
• Israelis flock to sages’ tombs seeking miracles
• Local Services
• March on Washington picture embodies hope
• McLane’s role reversal: from ‘nerdy budget guy’ to main policy player
• Religious strings attached as Catholic hospitals grow
• The poetry of home
• Voters less diverse than moviegoing public

ENTERTAINMENT

• Desert museum’s bobcat dies
• Local Movie Times
• Museum offers free admission
• NBC’s new ‘Awake’ weaves a dual reality
• NeighborImpact gets grant
• Polish folk art society defends its ‘Oskar’ award
• The poetry of home
• Voters less diverse than moviegoing public
• Youth choir seeks singers

OPINION

• Don’t let your city go
• From The Archives
• Get government out of marriage
• ‘Left’ and ‘right’ labels more about power than policy
• Pass Columbia River water bill
• Separate church, state
• What was the Forest Service thinking?