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from EarthSky
Everything you need to know: Tornado safety
This post takes a look at tornado safety. Learn about the best places to seek shelter and how to protect yourself from the storm.
from Fox News
Watchdog report says DOJ official retaliated against ‘Furious’ whistle-blower, lied about it
By William La Jeunesse
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from iFIBER ONE News
Public asked to help track West Nile virus; vaccinate horses
State lab confirms Longview norovirus; other schools affected
By Ryan Lancaster
Quincy police under fire from citizens, chief answers questions
By Cameron Probert
By Cameron Probert
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ALERT: Don't Fall For Tornado Charity Scams; What You Need To Know
WATCH IT: Time-Lapsed Video Of Tornado's Path Of Destruction
WATCH: Amazing Raw Video Of Moore, Oklahoma Tornado
Includes update article and previous coverage
Storm 5-20-13
The birth of the May 20, 2013 tornado at Newcastle, OK. It Moved from there to Moore where it turned into an F4. (link to youtube)
'Oh, My God!': KFC Cook Records Dramatic Footage Of Monster Tornado
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from KREM 2 News
Moon meteorite explosion visible from Earth
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from KXLY 4 News
Weather service: Okla. Tornado was EF5
Deadly twister had winds of 200 mph or greater
By Michael Pearson, Pamela Brown, Holly Yan CNN
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from Mental Floss
38 Wonderful Foreign Words We Could Use in English
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from Natural Society
How to Clean Your Liver with 5 Natural Liver-Cleansing Tips
by Elizabeth Renter
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from NPR
Oklahoma's GOP Senators Find Themselves In Tornado Aid Bind
by Liz Halloran
'Tornado Emergency': A Rare, Dire Warning Born In Oklahoma
by EYDER PERALTA
Washington State Butcher Spikes Pig Feed With Weed
by Eliza Barclay
The Global Afterlife Of Your Donated Clothes
by Jackie Northam
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from PJ Media
PJM EXCLUSIVE: Ex-Diplomats Report New Benghazi Whistleblowers with Info Devastating to Clinton and Obama
by Roger L Simon
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from POLITICO
Key Republicans: No offsets for Oklahoma
By MANU RAJU
James Inhofe: No Sandy-style pork for Oklahoma
By KATIE GLUECK
Bill Bolling: GOP pick E.W. Jackson's remarks ‘indefensible’
By JONATHAN MARTIN
IRS’s Lois Lerner to take the Fifth
By LAUREN FRENCH and GINGER GIBSON
The White House’s shifting IRS account
By REID J. EPSTEIN
By REID J. EPSTEIN
Defending lower blood-alcohol levels
By KATHRYN A. WOLFE
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from The Spokesman-Review
At least 51 dead, 20 of them children, as 200 mph winds destroy Moore, Okla.
Tim Talley Associated Press
Later reports place the death toll at 24. The higher estimate was due in large part to double reporting. - C. S.
Crews dig through night after deadly Okla. twister
Associated Press
Teachers credited with saving students in Okla.
Associated Press
Crews dig through night after deadly Okla. twister
Associated Press
Teachers credited with saving students in Okla.
Associated Press
Many athletes, coaches have Oklahoma ties
Associated Press
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Associated Press
Obama aides told about IRS in April
President kept out of loop deliberately
Charles Babington Associated Press
Moniz sworn in as energy secretary
Associated Press
Alaska governor seeks to measure oil in refuge
Parnell would tap state funds to defray cost
Kim Murphy Los Angeles Times
Hearings planned on derailment
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Hezbollah growing in Syria
Conflict becoming more regional, sectarian
Zeina Karam Associated Press
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Copter trouble killed agents
Pair died in FBI training accident
Brock Vergakis Associated Press
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New Yorkers protest slaying of gay man
Officials denounce rise in hate crimes
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Bomb kills 13 in Afghanistan
Los Angeles Times
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Car bombs roil Iraq
Wave of attacks leaves at least 65 dead
Los Angeles Times
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Egypt beefs up soldiers in Sinai
Morsi cracks down after kidnappings
Mcclatchy-Tribune
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Myanmar leader visits; Obama vows support
Associated Press
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Inslee removes funds for Columbia bridge
Jim Camden The Spokesman-Review
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Bill on police-involved deaths now law
Jim Camden The Spokesman-Review
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In brief: From Staff and Wire Reports:
CdA police: Bottles in parking lot intended as explosive
Suspicious bottles found Tuesday morning in a Coeur d’Alene parking lot were intended to be an explosive, police say.
Police received reports of suspicious objects around 8:15 a.m. at 4th Street and Indiana Avenue, according to Sgt. Christie Wood. Coeur d’Alene firefighters and Kootenai County hazardous materials workers responded, and a Spokane bomb squad was also called to assist.
The bomb squad “rendered the objects safe” and recovered two bottles filled with unidentified substances, Wood said in a news release. The bottles were sent to a state lab for testing.
Vermont legalizes assisted suicide
MONTPELIER, Vt. – After years of debate, Vermont became the fourth state in the country Monday to allow doctors to prescribe lethal doses of medicine to terminally ill patients seeking to end their lives.
Gov. Peter Shumlin signed the bill into law at a Statehouse ceremony even as opponents vowed to push for its repeal.
The End of Life Choices law was effective immediately, although it could be weeks before the state Health Department develops regulations in accordance with the new measure.
Vermont Health Commissioner Dr. Harry Chen said he expects doctors to write between 10 and 20 lethal prescriptions a year, with a smaller number of patients actually using the drugs.
He based his figures on the experience in Oregon, the first state to legalize assisted suicide in 1997. Washington state and Montana followed later, with Montana’s coming by way of a court order.
During emotionally charged discussion of the bill, opponents said the law could be abused and vulnerable people, especially the elderly, could be forced to end their lives.
Shumlin offered reassurances before signing the bill.
“This bill does not compel anyone to do anything that they don’t choose in sound mind to do,” he said.
Record-length python killed
MIAMI – Wildlife officials say a Burmese python nearly 19 feet long has been killed in South Florida.
It’s a new record for the longest Burmese python found in the wild in Florida. The previous record was a 17-foot-7-inch python caught in August in Everglades National Park.
According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, the 18-foot-8-inch snake was caught May 11 alongside a road in rural Miami-Dade County.
Wildlife officials said Monday that a Miami man spotted about 3 feet of the snake sticking out of the roadside brush. He grabbed it and started dragging it into the open. When the snake began to wrap itself around his leg, he called to his friends for help and then used a knife to kill it.
The python weighed 128 pounds.
Former Guatemalan dictator’s genocide conviction tossed
GUATEMALA CITY – Guatemala’s top court overturned the genocide conviction of former dictator Efrain Rios Montt and ordered on Monday that his trial restart, throwing into disarray proceedings that had been hailed as historic for delivering the first such guilty verdict for a Latin American leader.
Constitutional Court secretary Martin Guzman said the trial needs to go back to where it stood on April 19 to solve several appeal issues.
The ruling came 10 days after a three-judge panel convicted the 86-year-old Rios Montt of genocide and crimes against humanity for his role in massacres of Mayans during Guatemala’s civil war. It found he knew about the slaughter of at least 1,771 Ixil Mayans in the western highlands and didn’t stop it.
The tribunal sentenced him to 80 years in prison, drawing cheers from many Guatemalans. It was the first time a former Latin American leader was convicted of such crimes in his home country and the first official acknowledgment that genocide occurred during the bloody, 36-year civil war, something the current president, retired Gen. Otto Perez Molina, has denied.
Rios Montt’s lawyers immediately filed an appeal and he spent only one day in prison before he was moved to a military hospital, where he remains.
Prosecution expected to end case today
Prosecutors have not linked Clay Starbuck to the scene of his ex-wife’s killing in an ongoing murder trial, other than a partial DNA match that Starbuck’s defense has argued could have come from their sons’ clothes.
Spokane County Deputy Prosecutor Larry Steinmetz is expected to end his case today after calling lead detective Mike Ricketts. Forensic experts testified Monday that they lifted several fingerprints from the crime scene. None came from Clay Starbuck, 48, who is facing life without parole if he is convicted of killing 42-year-old Chanin Starbuck in her Deer Park home.
In previous court records, detectives said they found the victim’s death certificate on display in Clay Starbuck’s home. But under questioning, Detective Mike Drapeau conceded that it was in a locked closet and out of view from someone standing in the doorway when the closet was opened.
In fact, Drapeau said he didn’t know what the document was until it fell off a shelf as he searched for other items. He then placed it back on the shelf, photographed it and testified that he’s never found a death certificate “in anyone’s house in this manner.”
At the end of the day, Superior Court Judge Greg Sypolt reversed his previous ruling and will allow Steinmetz to play a brief 911 call that may have been placed by Chanin Starbuck on Dec. 1, 2011, the day investigators believe she died.
Economists optimistic on housing, consumers
WASHINGTON – Consumer spending is likely to pick up this year while government spending declines at a faster rate, according to a survey of business economists.
The economists predict that the U.S. economy will grow 2.4 percent this year and 3 percent next year. That’s unchanged from their forecast in February.
But they are more bullish on consumer spending and the housing market than they were three months ago. That partly reflects a more positive view on unemployment.
The survey was released Monday by the National Association for Business Economics.
High court to consider whistleblower appeal
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court will decide if government whistleblower protection applies to workers at a privately held contractor or the subcontractor of a publicly held company.
The justices agreed Monday to hear appeals from Jackie Hosang Lawson and Jonathan M. Zang. The two of them complained of retaliation for whistleblower activities from the privately held parent company and subsidiary companies that run the Fidelity family of mutual funds.
Lawson resigned after complaining of harassment and Zang was dismissed, and both sued. A lower court refused to throw out their complaints, but that decision was overturned. The federal appeals court said only people who work for public companies are protected by the Sarbanes Oxley Act.
President kept out of loop deliberately
Charles Babington Associated Press
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Moniz sworn in as energy secretary
Associated Press
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Alaska governor seeks to measure oil in refuge
Parnell would tap state funds to defray cost
Kim Murphy Los Angeles Times
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Hezbollah growing in Syria
Conflict becoming more regional, sectarian
Zeina Karam Associated Press
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Copter trouble killed agents
Pair died in FBI training accident
Brock Vergakis Associated Press
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New Yorkers protest slaying of gay man
Officials denounce rise in hate crimes
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Bomb kills 13 in Afghanistan
Los Angeles Times
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Car bombs roil Iraq
Wave of attacks leaves at least 65 dead
Los Angeles Times
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Egypt beefs up soldiers in Sinai
Morsi cracks down after kidnappings
Mcclatchy-Tribune
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Myanmar leader visits; Obama vows support
Associated Press
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Inslee removes funds for Columbia bridge
Jim Camden The Spokesman-Review
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Bill on police-involved deaths now law
Jim Camden The Spokesman-Review
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In brief: From Staff and Wire Reports:
CdA police: Bottles in parking lot intended as explosive
Suspicious bottles found Tuesday morning in a Coeur d’Alene parking lot were intended to be an explosive, police say.
Police received reports of suspicious objects around 8:15 a.m. at 4th Street and Indiana Avenue, according to Sgt. Christie Wood. Coeur d’Alene firefighters and Kootenai County hazardous materials workers responded, and a Spokane bomb squad was also called to assist.
The bomb squad “rendered the objects safe” and recovered two bottles filled with unidentified substances, Wood said in a news release. The bottles were sent to a state lab for testing.
Vermont legalizes assisted suicide
MONTPELIER, Vt. – After years of debate, Vermont became the fourth state in the country Monday to allow doctors to prescribe lethal doses of medicine to terminally ill patients seeking to end their lives.
Gov. Peter Shumlin signed the bill into law at a Statehouse ceremony even as opponents vowed to push for its repeal.
The End of Life Choices law was effective immediately, although it could be weeks before the state Health Department develops regulations in accordance with the new measure.
Vermont Health Commissioner Dr. Harry Chen said he expects doctors to write between 10 and 20 lethal prescriptions a year, with a smaller number of patients actually using the drugs.
He based his figures on the experience in Oregon, the first state to legalize assisted suicide in 1997. Washington state and Montana followed later, with Montana’s coming by way of a court order.
During emotionally charged discussion of the bill, opponents said the law could be abused and vulnerable people, especially the elderly, could be forced to end their lives.
Shumlin offered reassurances before signing the bill.
“This bill does not compel anyone to do anything that they don’t choose in sound mind to do,” he said.
Record-length python killed
MIAMI – Wildlife officials say a Burmese python nearly 19 feet long has been killed in South Florida.
It’s a new record for the longest Burmese python found in the wild in Florida. The previous record was a 17-foot-7-inch python caught in August in Everglades National Park.
According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, the 18-foot-8-inch snake was caught May 11 alongside a road in rural Miami-Dade County.
Wildlife officials said Monday that a Miami man spotted about 3 feet of the snake sticking out of the roadside brush. He grabbed it and started dragging it into the open. When the snake began to wrap itself around his leg, he called to his friends for help and then used a knife to kill it.
The python weighed 128 pounds.
North Korea releases Chinese fishing boat, crew
BEIJING – A Chinese boat and 16 fishermen seized for ransom by armed North Koreans two weeks ago were released today, easing the latest irritant in relations between the neighboring allies.
Owner Yu Xuejun, who wasn’t aboard the boat when it was seized May 5, wrote on his verified microblog that his captain called him at 3:50 a.m. to say the crew and boat were set free and that they were on their way home. He told the state-run Global Times newspaper all of the crew members were OK.
Yu, who had reported the seizure to Chinese authorities earlier, began publicizing the incident over the weekend as a deadline for a $100,000 ransom drew near. Chinese state media then began reporting on the incident, saying China was demanding that North Korea release the men.
Yu said on his microblog today that he had been unable to pay any ransom, and he thanked China’s Foreign Ministry for negotiating on behalf of his boat and crew.
BEIJING – A Chinese boat and 16 fishermen seized for ransom by armed North Koreans two weeks ago were released today, easing the latest irritant in relations between the neighboring allies.
Owner Yu Xuejun, who wasn’t aboard the boat when it was seized May 5, wrote on his verified microblog that his captain called him at 3:50 a.m. to say the crew and boat were set free and that they were on their way home. He told the state-run Global Times newspaper all of the crew members were OK.
Yu, who had reported the seizure to Chinese authorities earlier, began publicizing the incident over the weekend as a deadline for a $100,000 ransom drew near. Chinese state media then began reporting on the incident, saying China was demanding that North Korea release the men.
Yu said on his microblog today that he had been unable to pay any ransom, and he thanked China’s Foreign Ministry for negotiating on behalf of his boat and crew.
Former Guatemalan dictator’s genocide conviction tossed
GUATEMALA CITY – Guatemala’s top court overturned the genocide conviction of former dictator Efrain Rios Montt and ordered on Monday that his trial restart, throwing into disarray proceedings that had been hailed as historic for delivering the first such guilty verdict for a Latin American leader.
Constitutional Court secretary Martin Guzman said the trial needs to go back to where it stood on April 19 to solve several appeal issues.
The ruling came 10 days after a three-judge panel convicted the 86-year-old Rios Montt of genocide and crimes against humanity for his role in massacres of Mayans during Guatemala’s civil war. It found he knew about the slaughter of at least 1,771 Ixil Mayans in the western highlands and didn’t stop it.
The tribunal sentenced him to 80 years in prison, drawing cheers from many Guatemalans. It was the first time a former Latin American leader was convicted of such crimes in his home country and the first official acknowledgment that genocide occurred during the bloody, 36-year civil war, something the current president, retired Gen. Otto Perez Molina, has denied.
Rios Montt’s lawyers immediately filed an appeal and he spent only one day in prison before he was moved to a military hospital, where he remains.
Prosecution expected to end case today
Prosecutors have not linked Clay Starbuck to the scene of his ex-wife’s killing in an ongoing murder trial, other than a partial DNA match that Starbuck’s defense has argued could have come from their sons’ clothes.
Spokane County Deputy Prosecutor Larry Steinmetz is expected to end his case today after calling lead detective Mike Ricketts. Forensic experts testified Monday that they lifted several fingerprints from the crime scene. None came from Clay Starbuck, 48, who is facing life without parole if he is convicted of killing 42-year-old Chanin Starbuck in her Deer Park home.
In previous court records, detectives said they found the victim’s death certificate on display in Clay Starbuck’s home. But under questioning, Detective Mike Drapeau conceded that it was in a locked closet and out of view from someone standing in the doorway when the closet was opened.
In fact, Drapeau said he didn’t know what the document was until it fell off a shelf as he searched for other items. He then placed it back on the shelf, photographed it and testified that he’s never found a death certificate “in anyone’s house in this manner.”
At the end of the day, Superior Court Judge Greg Sypolt reversed his previous ruling and will allow Steinmetz to play a brief 911 call that may have been placed by Chanin Starbuck on Dec. 1, 2011, the day investigators believe she died.
Economists optimistic on housing, consumers
WASHINGTON – Consumer spending is likely to pick up this year while government spending declines at a faster rate, according to a survey of business economists.
The economists predict that the U.S. economy will grow 2.4 percent this year and 3 percent next year. That’s unchanged from their forecast in February.
But they are more bullish on consumer spending and the housing market than they were three months ago. That partly reflects a more positive view on unemployment.
The survey was released Monday by the National Association for Business Economics.
High court to consider whistleblower appeal
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court will decide if government whistleblower protection applies to workers at a privately held contractor or the subcontractor of a publicly held company.
The justices agreed Monday to hear appeals from Jackie Hosang Lawson and Jonathan M. Zang. The two of them complained of retaliation for whistleblower activities from the privately held parent company and subsidiary companies that run the Fidelity family of mutual funds.
Lawson resigned after complaining of harassment and Zang was dismissed, and both sued. A lower court refused to throw out their complaints, but that decision was overturned. The federal appeals court said only people who work for public companies are protected by the Sarbanes Oxley Act.
Wal-Mart must give bribery documents
WILMINGTON, Del. – A judge in Delaware ordered attorneys for Wal-Mart Stores Inc. to turn over more information to shareholders seeking records on how the company responded to allegations of bribery involving its operations in Mexico.
The judge suggested Monday that Wal-Mart attorneys had taken a “persnickety and narrow” approach to turning over documents requested by attorneys for large pension funds trying to find out what, and when, company directors knew of the payments.
The shareholders have alleged that Wal-Mart officials breached their fiduciary duties by allowing and covering up the alleged payments, which spurred federal investigations in both the U.S. and Mexico.
Defendant had wounds, Starbuck detective says
By Thomas Clouse The Spokesman-Review
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Man dies in Sprague Lake boating accident
Boat capsized at 3 p.m. Tuesday
Staff reports
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Priest Lake cabin owners can get new appraisals
Betsy Z. Russell The Spokesman-Review
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Powell case closed
Paul Foy Associated Press
Lawyer: Feds investigate Susan Powell case
Associated Press
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50th Super Bowl goes to San Francisco Bay Area
Associated Press
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Idaho education spending still at the bottom
Scott Maben The Spokesman-Review
Scott Maben The Spokesman-Review
Yet Idaho students score much higher in math than Washington students, even though Washington spends much more per student. - C. S.
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WSU head criticizes UW recruiting for med school
Jody Lawrence-Turner The Spokesman-Review
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GOP candidates lose key races in Coeur d’Alene
By Scott Maben The Spokesman-Review
I suspect that these "GOP" candidates are not representative of most Republicans. - C. S.
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Doors keyboardist Manzarek, 74, dies
Chris Talbott Associated Press
By Scott Maben The Spokesman-Review
I suspect that these "GOP" candidates are not representative of most Republicans. - C. S.
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Doors keyboardist Manzarek, 74, dies
Chris Talbott Associated Press
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Guard unit joins Canada training
1041st part of multinational ‘coalition experience’
David Wasson The Spokesman-Review
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Spokane City Council wants initiatives sent to voters
Jonathan Brunt The Spokesman-Review
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Spokane police officers named in shooting
Two of three involved in fatal confrontation interviewed by investigators
Jennifer Pignolet The Spokesman-Review
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FBI offers few details about ricin probe, raid
Nicholas K. Geranios Associated Press
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Couple suing Twitter for ‘SunValley’ handle
John Miller Associated Press
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Camp, partners purchase Overbluff Cellars
Lynnelle Caudill is an executive with the Davenport Hotel Collection
Tom Sowa The Spokesman-Review
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United putting 787s back into service
Plane was grounded for months over battery overheating problem
Joshua Freed Associated Press
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Tesoro acquiring Chevron pipelines
Network includes Northwest terminals
Associated Press
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Yahoo buys Tumblr
Internet pioneer pays $1.1 billion for hip site
Michael Liedtke Associated Press
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opinion:
Diplomats work for U.S.
Mona Charen
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health:
Adrian Rogers The Spokesman-Review
Anthony L. Komaroff Universal Uclick
Karen Kaplan Los Angeles Times
Joe Graedon M.S. PeoplesPharmacy.com
HPV-related throat cancers show increase
Q-and-A
Andrea K. Walker McClatchy-Tribune
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