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U.S. Exaggerates Islamic State Casualties
The war against the Islamic State has killed thousands of fighters and even some mid-level battlefield commanders, but the organization's senior leadership and nerve center remain largely untouched, according to U.S. military and intelligence officials.
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Michael Brown’s Mother says the UNBELIEVABLE About Cops Shot in Ferguson
Michael Brown’s Mother says the UNBELIEVABLE About Cops Shot in Ferguson
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Farmers say transmission line must go around
Umatilla County wants no part of a proposed transmission line stretching 305 miles from Boardman to near Boise, which residents say will interfere with farming and recreation without offering any benefit in return. Or, if there’s no other alternative, the project should at least follow Interstate 84 which is already a suitable route, according to draft comments by Umatilla County Commissioner George Murdock.
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HUFFPOLLSTER: Clinton Favorability Still Highest Among Candidates
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HUFFPOLLSTER: Clinton Favorability Still Highest Among Candidates
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These Retailers Top the List for Store Closures for 2015
What do Abercrombie & Fitch, RadioShack, Family Dollar and Staples all have in common? They are four of the top 10 retailers closing the most brick-and-mortar stores in 2015.
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U.S. Sanctions Target Russian Eurasian Ideologist
Although several rounds of economic sanctions have arguably had little effect on Russian involvement in eastern Ukraine, the U.S. Department of the Treasury has announced yet another round of sanctions. Among those Russians targeted in the latest round of sanctions is Aleksandr Dugin — the chief architect of Russia’s Eurasianist ideology — and the Eurasianist Youth Union which has allegedly played a significant role in recruiting Russian fighters in eastern Ukraine.
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More than a century after its discovery in a ninth century woman’s grave, an engraved ring has revealed evidence of close contacts between Viking Age Scandinavians and the Islamic world.
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Teen kidnapping suspect ordered held without bail
The 15-year-old boy accused in the attempted abduction of a toddler from Sprague’s town park this week was denied bail on Friday.
IEN vendors threaten lawsuits, file multimillion-dollar claims against Idaho
The two vendors for the now-defunct Idaho Education Network have both filed tort claims against the state of Idaho, seeking millions in back payments for high school broadband service they provided from September until last month, when a court issued a final order that the state’s $60 million IEN contract was issued illegally.
Idaho jobless rate drops to 4.1 percent
Low energy prices, strengthening consumer confidence, low interest rates and a warm winter contributed to Idaho’s 4.1 percent unemployment rate in January.
Pedestrian hit, killed in Spokane Valley
Spokane County sheriff’s deputies are investigating a fatal pedestrian-auto crash on Mission Avenue east of Progress Road in Spokane Valley. A male pedestrian was hit by an SUV around 5:30 a.m.
No arrests follow shooting; Ferguson leaders seek return to peace
With measured remarks and a conciliatory tone, police, political leaders and civil-rights activists on Thursday sought to tamp down tensions after two police officers were shot in front of the Ferguson Police Department during a protest.
Kootenai officials raise salaries for deputies
Alarmed by high turnover, Kootenai County officials gave 110 sheriff’s department employees a pay raise that took effect this week. Depending on years of service, they are making $1.50 to $2.50 an hour more. It’s a big step toward making the positions more competitive in the Spokane-Coeur d’Alene corridor, Sheriff Ben Wolfinger said this week.
Spokane deputies challenge contract arbitrator’s authority
Thomas Daly, 54, the auxiliary bishop in San Jose, California, has been named by Pope Francis as the seventh bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Spokane.
15 arrested in immigration sweep had status under Obama action
Federal agents in a sweep targeting the most dangerous criminal immigrants arrested 15 people who have been allowed to remain in the U.S. under President Barack Obama’s executive action intended to protect children who came to the U.S. years ago with their parents, the Associated Press has learned. ICE agents arrested 2,059 convicted immigrants, including more than 1,000 people who had multiple convictions.
Researchers confirm ocean on Jupiter moon Ganymede
Astronomers have found the most conclusive evidence yet that a large watery ocean lies beneath the surface of Jupiter’s moon Ganymede. Using the Hubble Telescope, a team of researchers has detected slight fluctuations in two bands of glowing aurorae in Ganymede’s atmosphere that they say could occur only if the moon contained a salty body of water.
Four NASA spacecraft to study magnetic fields
NASA launched four identical spacecraft Thursday on a billion-dollar mission to study the explosive give-and-take of the Earth and sun’s magnetic fields. The quartet of observatories is being placed into an oblong orbit stretching tens of thousands of miles into the magnetosphere – nearly halfway to the moon at one point. They will fly in pyramid formation, between 6 miles and 250 miles apart, to provide 3-D views of magnetic reconnection on the smallest of scales.
In brief: Helicopter wreckage located, recovery delayed by weather
Divers have found the wreckage of a military helicopter in just 25 feet of water after it crashed in dense fog during a Florida training mission, killing seven Marines and four soldiers. But more bad weather Thursday delayed the recovery of bodies and the flight recorder.
U.S. health worker flown to NIH for Ebola treatment
An American health worker who contracted Ebola while volunteering in Africa will be admitted to a hospital at the National Institutes of Health, the agency announced Thursday.
Killer in Pamela Smart case paroled after 25 years
The triggerman in the Pamela Smart murder trial was granted parole Thursday, nearly 25 years after he killed his school instructor’s husband and launched a global spectacle packed with lurid details of sex and manipulation.
Secret Service taking heat
The White House maintained Thursday that it had confidence in the new Secret Service director following allegations of two top agents driving into a security barrier on White House grounds after a night out drinking, the latest scandal to befall the storied protection service.
Speculation is swirling in Russia about the state of Vladimir Putin’s health, as an unusual spell outside the public eye fuels the rumor mill. On Thursday, the Russian president’s spokesman sought to quash such talk, saying in an interview that Putin’s health is “really perfect.” The 62-year old Russian leader was last seen in public on March 5, when he hosted Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi before falling out of sight for a week – a highly unusual absence.
More than 80 percent of the lights in Syria have been extinguished in the last four years, according to humanitarian agencies who warn that the country’s devastating civil war is pushing its people into the dark ages – literally and figuratively.
Islamic State militants have accepted a pledge of allegiance by the Nigerian-grown Boko Haram extremist group, a spokesman for the Islamic State movement said Thursday.
Iraqi government forces and allied militiamen pressed an all-out assault in the city of Tikrit on Thursday, one day after troops fought their way into the militant stronghold.
This normally sleepy town – thrust into the national spotlight this week by sensational footage of a child abduction – on Thursday honored the local heroes of the incident. Sprague High School students Isaac Yow and Andrew Crain chased the person who ran off with a 22-month-old from the town’s park on Sunday. The abductor dropped the child after Yow and Crain joined the toddler’s siblings in the chase.
Inslee won’t block WSU med school
Gov. Jay Inslee implied Thursday that he will sign a bill giving Washington State University permission to start its own medical school in Spokane. But he made clear that funding decisions still remain.
House panel discusses Inslee’s carbon cap-and-trade proposal
Gov. Jay Inslee’s plan to charge some of the state’s largest businesses for carbon pollution their operations generate drew praise and criticism Thursday in its debut before the House Appropriations Committee.
High school kids tell survey pot easy to get
Washington high school students who participated in a statewide survey say marijuana is easy to get and they do not perceive any risk from smoking pot once or twice.
Schools’ savings mount after ending IEN deal
The tally of savings from dumping the troubled Idaho Education Network continues to climb, as lawmakers received final figures Thursday showing school broadband costs dropped 37 percent and the cost per megabit declined by a whopping 61 percent.
In brief: Area snowfall far below normal
Virtually no measureable snow accumulated in the mountains of Washington and Idaho last month, except for a light dusting in a few areas above 4,000 feet.
Public help sought in school fire
The Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office is asking for information on a fire set in a bathroom at Harrison Junior High School last month.
Civil commitment bill dies
A bill in the Washington Legislature that would have made it easier to detain mentally ill people who are in crisis apparently won’t pass this session.
Beware of fake IRS agents
Fake IRS agents have targeted more than 366,000 people with harassing phone calls demanding payments and threatening jail in the largest scam of its kind in the history of the agency, a federal investigator said Thursday.
Ruby Suites, new retail space about to open
Jerry Dicker, owner of Hotel Ruby, and Mauer Construction have transformed the venerable Burgan’s Furniture building at Boone Avenue and the warehouse to the south into an extended-stay luxury hotel on the second and third floors, with retail and restaurants on the ground floor.
Google program alerts users to unwanted software’
Get ready to see more red warning signs online as Google adds ammunition to its technological artillery for targeting devious schemes lurking on websites. The latest weapon is aimed at websites riddled with “unwanted software” – a term that Google uses to describe secretly installed programs that can change a browser’s settings without a user’s permission. Those revisions can unleash a siege of aggravating ads or redirect a browser’s users to search engines or other sites that they didn’t intend to visit.
Business briefs: GM reduces Chevy, GMC powertrain warranty
General Motors is rolling back the 100,000-mile powertrain warranty it has offered since 2007 on Chevrolet and GMC vehicles because it wasn’t boosting sales as much as expected.
Ford cites data on cost advantages of F-150
Fighting back against critics of the switch to the use of aluminum for the bodies of the 2015 F-150 pickup, Ford executives released third-party data Thursday showing residual values have improved and cost of ownership is lower than its main rivals.
Average 30-year rate rises to 3.86 percent
Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates rose this week yet remained near historic lows reached in May 2013.
Household wealth grew 1.9 percent last quarter
Fueled by higher stock and home values, Americans’ net worth reached a record high in the final three months of 2014.
With new mining division comes jobs for Spokane
Federal officials are looking to fill as many as 15 positions at Spokane’s mine research laboratory, with the creation of a Western district office to provide worker-safety programs for the region’s mining industry.
Shawn Vestal: Murray, Ryan budget deal style worth imitating
Amy Goodman: Selma commemoration bridges civil rights past, present
Editorial: Waste-to-energy plant at least as green as tiny N-reactors
Noted postmodern architect Graves, 80, dies
Celebrated architect Michael Graves, who created whimsical postmodern structures and later became well known to the masses for designing products for people with disabilities and household goods such as whistling Alessi teakettles and stainless steel colanders for sale at Target and other stores, died Thursday. He was 80. Graves designed buildings all over the world. But his most famous may be The Portland Building, the city administrative building in Portland, and The Humana Building, a 26-story skyscraper in Louisville, Kentucky.
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Islamic State accepts Boko Haram allegiance pledge
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Brilliant: Somebody Just Posted This Sign Near Hillary’s House
‘ICE’ Nationwide Criminal Sweep Nets Aliens In Country Thanks To Obama Deferral Plan
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Brilliant: Somebody Just Posted This Sign Near Hillary’s House
‘ICE’ Nationwide Criminal Sweep Nets Aliens In Country Thanks To Obama Deferral Plan
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