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from Business Insider
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]Homeland Security Is Throwing Hundreds Of Millions Away On A Drone Program That Doesn't Even Work
The Department of Homeland Security' Border Patrol has spent $240 million on a drone program that is — according to an internal audit — remarkably ineffectual.
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from History
8 Historic Handshakes
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from The Spokesman-Review
Senate bill brings changes to farm policyGOP fought for repeal of limits on toxins
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From our archives, 100 years ago
Gonzaga College reached a milestone: It became Gonzaga University.
Father Louis Taelman, Gonzaga’s president, read the official proclamation during commencement ceremonies at the Auditorium Theater. The “enlargement,” as Taelman called it, was because of several new schools planned at Gonzaga, including an engineering school and a law school.
By the way, if you ever wondered about the origins of the word “varsity,” as in varsity sports, it came from the common British slang abbreviation for “university.” Thus, the Spokane Daily Chronicle’s headline read: “Tonight Gonzaga Will Be ‘Varsity.’ ”
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Biplane crashes into power lines, pilot safe
OKANOGAN, Wash. – An Ephrata man is in satisfactory condition today after crashing a plane into power lines Wednesday while spraying a canola field east of Okanogan.
Ward M. Bischoff, 41, was spraying a chemical that helps hold the canola pods together at about 8:30 a.m. when his single-engine biplane hit two of three high-voltage lines and crashed to the ground, Okanogan County Sheriff Frank Rogers said.
Rogers said Bischoff was conscious after the plane crash. “He was talking to everybody the whole time,” Rogers said.
Rogers said the force of the plane pulled one of the large high-voltage poles forward, and it snapped across another pole. He said it’s amazing that Bischoff lived. “That plane is just flat,” he said. “All in all, he was a very lucky man.”
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Anthony L. Komaroff Universal Uclick
Stefanie Pettit The Spokesman-Review
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BALBOA/SOUTH INDIAN TRAIL – The Sons of Norway, 6710 N. Country Homes Blvd., will hold an Honor Flight benefit pancake feed from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday.
Local residents can enjoy a hot breakfast of pancakes, sausage, biscuits, gravy, fruit, coffee and juice for a suggested minimum donation of $5 per person. Proceeds from the community event will help send veterans to Washington, D.C., to visit the war memorials as part of the Inland Northwest Honor Flight Program.
For more information, call (509) 326-9211.
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Pat Munts
Rebecca Nappi The Spokesman-Review
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NICHOLAS DESHAIS
How abusers manage to torment their lovers, even as police and courts try to protect them
JORDY BYRD
JORDY BYRD
The Friends of Manito guide visitors through thickets of Manito trees
JORDY BYRD
How local shoppers save big and help others
KIRSTEN HARRINGTON
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