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Veterans Honored
Galaxy Evolution Discovery Surprises Scientists
Biden lauds McGovern’s life
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – Vice President Joe Biden said George McGovern should be remembered as the “father of the modern Democratic Party,” adding that the former South Dakota senator helped open the party to women, young people and minorities.
Biden spoke during a prayer service Thursday night in Sioux Falls honoring the 1972 Democratic presidential candidate, who lost in a historic landslide to President Richard Nixon.
Biden said McGovern inspired generations of party leaders and activists, noting that it was McGovern who inspired him to run for Senate in 1972.
McGovern died Sunday surrounded by family. He was 90.
Astronauts dock at space station
ALMATY, Kazakhstan – A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying three astronauts and a consignment of fish successfully docked Thursday with the International Space Station after a two-day voyage.
The arrival of NASA astronaut Kevin Ford and Russians Oleg Novitsky and Yevgeny Tarelkin on Thursday brings the crew at the orbiting outpost to six.
Novitsky gently slotted the Soyuz craft into the Russian Poisk research module around 255 miles above southern Ukraine around six minutes ahead of the scheduled 8:35 a.m. arrival.
The trio blasted off Tuesday from a Russian-leased facility in the southern Kazakhstan town of Baikonur.
Incoming cargo includes 32 guppy-like fish that will be used to test how conditions in space impact on living organisms.
State cracking down on online lenders
State officials are cracking down on a group of questionable online lenders from the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation in South Dakota that have made thousands of loans to Washington residents.
Martin Webb, a tribal member, operated five unlicensed loan operations that have been fined $669,300 by Washington and prohibited from doing business in the state, according to the Washington Department of Financial Institutions.
Webb’s loan operations charged interest rates of 89 percent to 1,825 percent. The practices generated 22 complaints to state regulators.
Webb’s lending businesses include Western Sky Financial LLC; Payday Financial LLC, which also does business as Big Sky Cash and Lakota Cash; Great Sky Finance LLC, which does business as Great Sky Cash; Green Billow LLC, also called Four Seasons Cash; and Red Stone Financial LLC, also called Red Stone Cash.
Several other states and the Federal Trade Commission have taken legal action against Webb’s operations.
Syrian leaders agree to truce
Few expect holiday cease-fire to last long
Panetta: U.S. lacked early info on attack
Officials wary about risky Libya situation
Thousands of relics returned to Mexico
More than 4,000 items given back
Details of Stevens County veteran’s shooting released
Ills of Citizens United visible in Idaho election
Shawn Vestal
State eyes system to streamline health care
Demand for grass-fed beef soaring
Where do I click, again? A guide to Windows 8
from CBS News (& affiliates)
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from Columbia Basin HeraldVeterans Honored
Major League Baseball held a ceremony before Game 2 honoring World War II-era veterans who also played in the majors as part of its Welcome Back Veterans program.
Nicholas Kimmel, a corporal in the Marines, was scheduled to throw out the first pitch with Giants Hall of Famer Willie Mays, who missed most of 1952 and all of the 1953 season to serve in the Army in Korea. Kimmel was injured on his second tour of duty in Afghanistan on Dec. 1, 2011. He was building a patrol base for the Georgian Army when he stepped on an improvised explosive device, losing both legs and his left arm.
Kimmel, from Moses Lake, Wash., also was a guest of Game 1 winner Barry Zito during spring training. The Giants lefty annually hosts a group of soldiers from Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in San Diego for the weekend.
Hall of Fame manager Tommy Lasorda and Hall of Fame broadcasters Bob Wolff and Jerry Coleman also a former All-Star and former All-Star Lou Brissie also were among those honored.
Nicholas Kimmel, a corporal in the Marines, was scheduled to throw out the first pitch with Giants Hall of Famer Willie Mays, who missed most of 1952 and all of the 1953 season to serve in the Army in Korea. Kimmel was injured on his second tour of duty in Afghanistan on Dec. 1, 2011. He was building a patrol base for the Georgian Army when he stepped on an improvised explosive device, losing both legs and his left arm.
Kimmel, from Moses Lake, Wash., also was a guest of Game 1 winner Barry Zito during spring training. The Giants lefty annually hosts a group of soldiers from Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in San Diego for the weekend.
Hall of Fame manager Tommy Lasorda and Hall of Fame broadcasters Bob Wolff and Jerry Coleman also a former All-Star and former All-Star Lou Brissie also were among those honored.
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This spectacular image of the large spiral
galaxy NGC 1232 was obtained on Sept. 21, 1998, during a period of good observing conditions. |
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shared by KHQ.com from news.yahoo.com:
By SPACE.com Staff | SPACE.com – Tue, Oct 23, 2012
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from The Spokesman-Review
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In Brief: From Staff and Wire Reports
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – Vice President Joe Biden said George McGovern should be remembered as the “father of the modern Democratic Party,” adding that the former South Dakota senator helped open the party to women, young people and minorities.
Biden spoke during a prayer service Thursday night in Sioux Falls honoring the 1972 Democratic presidential candidate, who lost in a historic landslide to President Richard Nixon.
Biden said McGovern inspired generations of party leaders and activists, noting that it was McGovern who inspired him to run for Senate in 1972.
McGovern died Sunday surrounded by family. He was 90.
Astronauts dock at space station
ALMATY, Kazakhstan – A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying three astronauts and a consignment of fish successfully docked Thursday with the International Space Station after a two-day voyage.
The arrival of NASA astronaut Kevin Ford and Russians Oleg Novitsky and Yevgeny Tarelkin on Thursday brings the crew at the orbiting outpost to six.
Novitsky gently slotted the Soyuz craft into the Russian Poisk research module around 255 miles above southern Ukraine around six minutes ahead of the scheduled 8:35 a.m. arrival.
The trio blasted off Tuesday from a Russian-leased facility in the southern Kazakhstan town of Baikonur.
Incoming cargo includes 32 guppy-like fish that will be used to test how conditions in space impact on living organisms.
State cracking down on online lenders
State officials are cracking down on a group of questionable online lenders from the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation in South Dakota that have made thousands of loans to Washington residents.
Martin Webb, a tribal member, operated five unlicensed loan operations that have been fined $669,300 by Washington and prohibited from doing business in the state, according to the Washington Department of Financial Institutions.
Webb’s loan operations charged interest rates of 89 percent to 1,825 percent. The practices generated 22 complaints to state regulators.
Webb’s lending businesses include Western Sky Financial LLC; Payday Financial LLC, which also does business as Big Sky Cash and Lakota Cash; Great Sky Finance LLC, which does business as Great Sky Cash; Green Billow LLC, also called Four Seasons Cash; and Red Stone Financial LLC, also called Red Stone Cash.
Several other states and the Federal Trade Commission have taken legal action against Webb’s operations.
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Few expect holiday cease-fire to last long
Panetta: U.S. lacked early info on attack
Officials wary about risky Libya situation
Thousands of relics returned to Mexico
More than 4,000 items given back
Ills of Citizens United visible in Idaho election
Shawn Vestal
Demand for grass-fed beef soaring
Where do I click, again? A guide to Windows 8
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from The Wenatchee World
After the fires, crews race snow to complete erosion prevention work
After the fires, crews race snow to complete erosion prevention work
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