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from The Daily Caller

Dem Suggests Kids Should Be Drug-Tested Before They Can Inherit From Their Parents

‘I’ve Made My Decision — I’m Out.’ Glenn Beck Leaves The Republican Party

New Report Finds ‘Palatability’ Problems, Higher Prices Led To School Lunch Decline
Federally-mandated changes to school lunches backed by first lady Michelle Obama helped cause an unprecedented drop in the number of students eating lunch, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO).

from iFIBER ONE News (WA)

Police seek man accused of strangling girlfriend and daughter
Moses Lake police are looking for Andrew W. Thompson, a 28-year-old Moses Lake man, who allegedly strangled his 25-year-old girlfriend and 2-year-old daughter Tuesday afternoon at a home in the 800 block of East Hill Avenue.

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from The Independent (UK)
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New genetic map of Britain shows successive waves of immigration going back 10,000 years
White indigenous English people share about 40 per cent of their DNA with the French

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from Patheos
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When Theology Is So Pro-Israel That It Becomes Anti-Christian

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from ScienceAlert

New Alzheimer’s treatment fully restores memory function
Of the mice that received the treatment, 75 percent got their memory function back.

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from The Spokesman-Review

Reckless driver captured after crash
A driver suspected of fleeing the scene of an accident in Spokane Valley was arrested near Post Falls Wednesday morning after crashing his car.

Man robs Post Falls check cashing business
A man armed with a gun robbed the Check ‘n Go at 740 N. Cecil Road in Post Falls Tuesday evening, escaping with an undisclosed amount of cash.

Racial minorities more likely to be stopped by Spokane police
Spokane police disproportionately stop black, Native American and Hispanic residents, but don’t display a pattern of racial bias when deciding who to search and arrest. That’s the conclusion of a report released Tuesday by Eastern Washington University professor Edward Byrnes, who collaborated with Spokane police Capt. Brad Arleth to examine four months of officer-initiated stops from 2014.

Alaska Airlines announces Boise to Spokane flights
Daily service begins Aug. 24, according to a news release from the company. A flight for Boise will leave Spokane at 3:20 p.m. local time and arrive at 5:28 p.m. Mountain Daylight Time; a flight from Boise to Spokane will leave at 7:25 p.m. Mountain Daylight Time and arrive at Spokane International Airport at 7:34 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time. Morning flights will leave both locations for the other at 6:20 a.m. local time.


The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) approved redefining marriage in the church constitution Tuesday to include a “commitment between two people,” becoming the largest Protestant group to formally recognize gay marriage as Christian and allow same-sex weddings in every congregation.

Hackers pierced the cybersecurity of Washington’s biggest health insurer last spring and got a peek at data for an estimated 11 million customers, but the company didn’t discover the breach until January.

In the summer of 2013, as Walt Worthy’s plans for a new downtown Spokane hotel were being finalized, Mayor David Condon met with Worthy and promised more than $3.3 million in city funds for the project. Last week, a bill came in from Worthy for $318,000 in soil remediation – far less than the $2 million Condon offered and less than the $500,000 contributed to the cleanup by the Spokane Public Facilities District.



California residents have to turn off their sprinklers, and restaurants won’t give customers water unless they ask under new drought regulations approved Tuesday.

A severe solar storm smacked Earth with a surprisingly big geomagnetic jolt Tuesday, potentially affecting power grids and GPS tracking while pushing the colorful northern lights farther south, federal forecasters said.

Starving sea lion pups and seabirds up and down the West Coast this year may be part of a large-scale shift of the Pacific Ocean to warmer and less productive conditions, according to a new federal fisheries report. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration presented the findings on the warming Pacific in an annual report on the state of the waters off California.

House Republicans released a 2016 spending blueprint Tuesday that seeks to fulfill the GOP goal of balancing the budget in 10 years, but does so by slashing Medicare and other safety net programs while dramatically boosting military spending.

An envelope addressed to the White House has tentatively tested positive for cyanide after two rounds of analysis, the Secret Service said Tuesday. Additional testing will be necessary to confirm the finding.
Missouri executes man for 1996 killing
Cecil Clayton, Missouri’s oldest death row inmate, was executed Tuesday for the 1996 shooting death of a sheriff’s deputy, after the U.S. Supreme Court and the governor declined to spare the 74-year-old whose attorneys said he had a diminished mental capacity because of a sawmill accident decades ago.
Two killed, five hurt in store shooting
Police in Stockton, California, say at least two people are dead and five people are wounded in a shooting at a grocery store.
New York City has longest workweek
Between commuting time and work hours, New York City residents have the longest workweeks among the country’s 30 biggest cities, city Comptroller Scott Stringer said in a report released Tuesday.

The new head of the Secret Service admitted to Congress Tuesday that he didn’t learn until days later that two senior agents were supposedly drunk when they drove into a barrier at the White House – and only then from an anonymous email.

Illinois Rep. Aaron Schock abruptly resigned Tuesday following a monthlong cascade of revelations about his business deals and lavish spending on everything from overseas travel to office decor in the style of “Downton Abbey.”

Study questions biopsy accuracy
Here’s another reason for getting a second medical opinion: Biopsy specialists frequently misdiagnose breast tissue, potentially leading to too-aggressive treatment for some women and under-treatment for others, a study suggests.

Royals arrive in U.S. for three-day visit
Britain’s Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, arrived in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday for a three-day visit, during which they plan to visit cultural and educational sites before heading to Kentucky. Prince Charles last visited the U.S. in 2011. As he did then, he’s scheduled to meet this week with President Barack Obama.
Prince Harry leaving armed forces
Royal officials said Tuesday that the 30-year-old prince will leave the armed forces in June. Kensington Palace said he will volunteer with a program that helps wounded service members “while actively considering other longer-term employment opportunities.”

An Air Force veteran and former mechanic for a major U.S. airline was indicted this week on charges that he traveled overseas and attempted to fight alongside Islamic State militants in the Middle East, federal investigators said Tuesday. Tairod Nathan Webster Pugh, 47, of Neptune, New Jersey, was arrested in January after Egyptian authorities deported him back to the United States, according to the U.S. attorney’s office in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Relief workers rushed to deliver desperately needed food and water today to survivors living on Vanuatu’s outer islands, after a monstrous cyclone wiped out entire villages and flattened vast swathes of the South Pacific nation’s landscape.

Syrian activists and the Western-backed opposition accused the government Tuesday of carrying out a chlorine gas attack against a rebel-held town that killed at least six people and left dozens, including children, choking and gasping for breath.
Syria says it shot down U.S. drone
Syrian state media said the country’s air defenses shot down a U.S. reconnaissance aircraft Tuesday in a northwestern province along the Mediterranean coast
Afghanistan says Islamic State is present
The Afghan government said Tuesday that forces belonging to the Islamic State militant organization have taken root in the country, the first official acknowledgment that the group based in Iraq and Syria had reached so far to the east.

Hillyard home to new police precinct
The new police precinct at the southeast corner of Market Street and Diamond Avenue had a grand opening celebration Tuesday afternoon.

Teresa Luna, director of the Idaho Department of Administration and a central figure in the scandal over Idaho’s failed statewide school broadband network, will resign at the end of this year’s Idaho legislative session, Gov. Butch Otter announced Tuesday. Luna has led the department since 2011, when she was named to succeed former Director Mike Gwartney, a close friend of Otter’s. Gwartney issued the $60 million Idaho Education Network contract in 2009 that a court last month declared illegal. Luna is the sister of former two-term Idaho schools Superintendent Tom Luna, who left office in December and also was a big booster of the Idaho Education Network, one of Otter’s key initiatives as governor.

Eight months after a Coeur d’Alene police officer shot and killed a dog in a parked van, sparking criticism across the nation, the city has agreed to pay the dog’s owner $80,000.

Widow’s attorney wants Pasco officers charged with murder
The attorney for the widow of a Mexican man shot to death by Pasco police wants the three officers to be charged immediately with murder. Attorney George Trejo of Yakima has sent a letter to Franklin County prosecutors calling for the cancellation of a planned coroner’s inquest and the filing of murder charges in the Feb. 10 shooting in Pasco that was captured on video. Trejo contends the officers executed Antonio Zambrano-Montes, 35, and should at minimum be charged with second-degree murder.

Human remains found in Bayview identified as Coeur d’Alene man
Human remains found by a hiker near Bayview in early February are those of Billy Vaughn Davis, a Coeur d’Alene man whose family reported him missing last fall. Davis, who was 44, was last seen by his family in July 2014. His sister in Texas reported him missing last November.

Ninth Circuit Court considers Duncan’s competency in death penalty appeal
Convicted murderer Joseph Duncan made it very clear he didn’t want to appeal his triple death sentence, U.S. Attorney for Idaho Wendy Olson told the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday. Olson noted that Duncan was ruled mentally competent to make that decision after an extensive hearing that the 9th Circuit ordered U.S. District Judge Edward Lodge to hold in 2013. Attorneys for Duncan are challenging the competency finding, and arguing that they should be able to proceed with an appeal they filed on his behalf.

In brief: Police seek Safeway credit union robber
Spokane police are looking for the man who robbed a north Spokane credit union around 9 a.m. Tuesday. The man entered the Safeway Federal Credit Union, 529 E. North Foothills Drive, dressed in dark clothing from head to toe, told a teller he had a gun and demanded cash, according to a police department news release. He also threatened a bank customer and stole his wallet.
Open valve spills sewage above lake
An estimated 900 to 2,700 gallons of raw sewage spilled last week from a sewage pump station being built above Hayden Lake.
Petition challenges Cabinet mine plan
Environmental groups have asked the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to reassess the proposed Rock Creek Mine’s potential impacts to threatened grizzly bears and bull trout in the Cabinet Mountains.
Women sentenced for insurance fraud
A Deer Park woman recently was sentenced for insurance fraud after she pleaded guilty to filing several false medical insurance claims. Hollyanne E. Davis, 32, was ordered to pay $2,815 in restitution, perform 16 hours of community service and serve two years probation, according to a news release from the Washington State Office of the Insurance Commissioner.

Suspect arrested in Phoenix-area shooting that killed 1
A gunman killed one person and wounded five others Wednesday in a rampage that included a motel shooting, a carjacking and a home invasion and ended with his arrest at a nearby apartment in suburban Phoenix.

Zombies show support in Olympia
Supporters of a state tax break for companies that film in Washington brought actors dressed as the undead from “Z-Nation” to Olympia on Tuesday, where they filmed a commercial on the Capitol campus, mugged for legislators and curious onlookers, and waved at children when the standard tour of the Legislative Building and Temple of Justice took youngsters past a makeshift set. Reaction from state officials was somewhat mixed to the bill the zombies are backing, which would phase in an increase for the film incentive program.

Drugmakers, U.K. launch Alzheimer’s venture fund
Major drugmakers, the British government and a top Alzheimer’s research charity are pooling more than $100 million to create a global fund to accelerate efforts to find a treatment or even a cure for the mind-robbing disease within a decade.

U.S. home construction plunges 17 percent in February
The Commerce Department said Tuesday that builders began construction at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 897,000 homes in February, a 17 percent plunge from January. Housing starts slid 56.5 percent in the Northeast and 37 percent in the Midwest. The brutal cold spell across the Northeast and Midwest likely caused construction activity to slow last month. Fewer would-be buyers are touring open houses, while consumers seem intent on using their savings at the gasoline pump to pay down debt instead of spending their gains on big-ticket items such as housing.
In brief: Silverwood Theme Park holding hiring fairs
Silverwood Theme Park will hold hiring fairs on Saturday and on March 28, looking to hire up to 1,400 people for seasonal jobs.
Kraft recalls mac and cheese
Kraft Foods is recalling about 6.5 million boxes of original-flavor Kraft Macaroni & Cheese because some of the boxes contain small pieces of metal. The boxes have “best when used by” dates ranging from Sept. 18, 2015, through Oct. 11, 2015, and are marked with the code “C2.” They were sold throughout the U.S., Puerto Rico, and in some countries in the Caribbean and South America. The recall covers 7.25 ounce boxes that were sold individually and in packs of three, four and five. It covers 242,000 cases of the product.
Jobless rate falls in 24 states
Unemployment rates fell in 24 states in January and rose in just eight, the latest evidence that hiring is strong across the country.
Facebook plans payment service
Facebook’s Messenger app will soon let you send your friends money, the latest in a crowded field of services aimed at an increasingly wireless and cashless generation.
Federal debt limit announced
After a year with no cap on government borrowing, the federal debt limit has come back into force.

Rivals, conservationists target Keurig coffeemakers
The controversy heated up when the company introduced its Keurig 2.0 last Christmas. Consumers complained about having to use only Keurig-affiliated brands, and environmentalists fumed about the steady stream of plastic pods to U.S. landfills.

Shawn Vestal: Gun rights advocates take risk by objecting to bill

Editorial: Alliance may protect Washington from military cuts

Trudy Rubin: GOP’s Iran letter carries with it some real risks

Small city, big food
Spokane was named one of six great small cities for food lovers by the Wall Street Journal last week. The Friday story spotlighted six local restaurants in six different categories: meat-centric gastropub Durkin’s Liquor Bar; chef-driven regional Italian restaurant Italia Trattoria; hipster Asian mash-up the Wandering Table; modern Southern, Casper Fry; old-school bistro Santé; and next-generation farm-to-table Mizuna.

Classic poule au pot helps you eat like a king
Classic French poule au pot – chicken in a pot – is made with a whole chicken, stuffed with seasoned bread and braised alongside vegetables in a Dutch oven.
Pared-Down French-Style Chicken in a Pot
Sausage Stuffing
Herb Sauce

The Seasonal Kitchen: Seeds of wisdom
Dating back to 3000 BC, caraway is one of the oldest cultivated spices. Caraway is native to Northern Africa, Western Asia and Europe. Today, it is commercially grown in Turkey, India, Egypt, Canada and several European countries, including Holland and Finland, which grows almost 30 percent of the world’s supply.
Aquavit Trout Lox & Kale Salad with Pickled Caraway Seeds, Lemon Shaved Ice “Vinaigrette” and Honey Whipped Mascarpone
Trout Grav Lox
Lemon Shaved Ice “Vinaigrette”
Pickled Mustard and Caraway Seeds
Honey Whipped Mascarpone
Rye Caraway Scones with Smoked Cheddar and Onions
Roasted Cauliflower with Caraway and Coriander
Harissa Paste
Easy Beet and Cabbage Kraut with Caraway

Quick, easy hallmarks of ‘One-Pot Dinners’
Easy Chicken with Tomatoes and Spinach
Country Chicken and Pasta Bake
Slow-Cooker Old-World Corned Beef and Vegetables

Obituary: Burnett, William D.
1 Feb 1943 - 11 Mar 2015     Republic

Obituary: Robinson, Agnes M. (McCormick)
19 Oct 1920 - 14 Mar 2015     Oakesdale, Garfield, Endicott, Palouse

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from Tea Party
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from The Telegraph (UK)

Britons still live in Anglo-Saxon tribal kingdoms, Oxford University finds
A new genetic map of Britain shows that there has been little movement between areas of Britain which were former tribal kingoms in Anglo-Saxon England

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from The Western Center for Journalism
(Western Journalism)

Border Patrol Officer Tells Of Manipulation Of Border-Crossing Data By Obama Administration
A U.S. Border Patrol agent from the Rio Grande Valley Sector in Texas told lawmakers that his fellow agents are punished for reporting illegal alien groups of more than 20. “Agents who repeatedly report groups larger than 20 face retribution.

Here’s The Message A Famous Astronaut Is Sending To The Cosmos With This Epic Stonehenge Pic

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