February 29, 2012

LOCAL & STATE

• A perfect evening for fire and ice
• Bend car arsonist cuts deal, heading to rehab
• Bend school on track for IB curriculum, staff says
• Big-ticket items in legislative limbo
• Eastern Oregon University to request tuition increase
• Girl jumps from truck to escape abductor
• Higher education board pursues new option for campus gun ban
• Logging plan surprises some in McKenzie Bridge
• Motorcycle rally coming to Bend
• Murder suspect bails on Baker City trial
• News of Record: Bankruptcies
• News of Record: Police Log, Bend fire runs
• Not guilty plea in bicyclist’s death
• Occupy protesters to target Whisnant
• Puppy alerts owner to intruders in Keizer
• Redmond charter director indicted
• Runners seek Dry Canyon accord
• Rural legislators oppose cuts to state police ranks
• School Notes
• Sunriver council picks interim police chief
• Tack sale set in Madras
• Washington budget plan spares education funding

BUSINESS

• Airlines pushing fares higher
• Business Calendar
• Central Oregon's growing wine appetite
• Dow closes above 13,000
• Europe proposes ratings regulation
• Home prices drop in largest cities
• More plan to save their tax refunds
• New thrift store seeks donations
• Photos on Apple devices also up for grabs
• Procrastinating? Maybe you’re overwhelmed
• Rock 'n' roll 'n' relax
• State jobless rate drops to 8.8%
• Sweater vest makes a comeback
• Tack sale set in Madras
• Time well spent?

SPORTS

• Baseball
• Boxing
• Class 5A playoff bracket finalized
• Corrections
• Finals slated for Bachelor
• First game set for a Wednesday
• Forget clouds at Daytona, look for silver lining
• Golf Scoreboard
• Input sought on Waldo motors
• Lopez scores 38 as Nets edge Mavericks 93-92
• Lost Tracks Golf Club
• Motor sports
• Nationwide Tour
• No. 4 Duke tops Wake Forest for seventh straight win
• On the Air
• Ottawa shuts out Boston
• PGA Tour
• Ready or not
• Redmond falls in state playoffs
• Trail Blazers hope to address inconsistency
• Woods scrutiny shifts from swing to putting

OBITS

• Berenstain co-wrote popular children’s books with husband
• Death notices
• Elsewhere
• Nina Mary Harper

CENTRAL OREGON OBITS

• Death notices
• Nina Mary Harper

NATION & WORLD

• A grinding test for Romney, but one he survives
• Airlines pushing fares higher
• An ancient statue reveals antiquity limbo
• Dow closes above 13,000
• Europe proposes ratings regulation
• FDA warns of side effects of cholesterol medication
• GOP Maine senator won’t seek 4th term
• Gunmen kill 18 in Pakistan bus attack
• Home prices drop in largest cities
• 2 hostages die as ship fires on pirates
• Iran calls nuclear arms ‘a great sin’
• New space telescope will peer further back in time
• Occupy London camp dismantled
• Photos on Apple devices also up for grabs
• Prosecutor: School shooting suspect is ‘not well’
• Romney takes 2 states
• 13 Syrian rebels die getting injured journalist to safety
• Today In History
• 9/11 victim remains taken to landfill, report says

FEATURES

• Central Oregon's growing wine appetite
• Procrastinating? Maybe you’re overwhelmed
• Rock 'n' roll 'n' relax
• School Notes
• Sweater vest makes a comeback
• Today In History

ENTERTAINMENT

• An ancient statue reveals antiquity limbo
• Business Calendar
• Central Oregon's growing wine appetite
• Community Calendar
• Local Movie Times
• Not ‘adorkable’, but worthy of love
• SMART: 20 years is just the beginning
• Well shot! Reader photos

OPINION

• Affordable care plan subsidies are excessive
• Bend’s new food cart rules are reasonable
• Federal mandates wrong
• Loosen up codes
• ‘No glove, no love’
• Wasteful roads spending
• Weak GOP leaders let extremists hijack nomination process

ROADS & TRAFFIC

• Highway 26 now reopened
• Highway 97 reopens
• Motorcycle rally coming to Bend