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DR. BEN CARSON’S FACEBOOK SUPPORTERS: MORE THAN CLINTON, BUSH, WALKER COMBINED
Armored Blackhawks Arrive at Texas Border
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Pope Francis - Toward a Perfect Storm for Revolution
Pope Francis - Toward a Perfect Storm for Revolution
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Mandatory Vaccinations Are Coming
Not to be so doom and gloom, but there is clearly a definite orchestrated push to ensure that vaccinations will be mandatory for everyone in America in our near future.
Mandatory Vaccinations Are Coming
Not to be so doom and gloom, but there is clearly a definite orchestrated push to ensure that vaccinations will be mandatory for everyone in America in our near future.
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Hillary Clinton Slams House for Passing Bill to Protect Babies From Late-Term Abortions
No sooner did the House of Representatives pass a bill to protect babies from late-term abortions and ban them after 20 weeks than Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton fired off a statement slamming them for doing so.
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Dolezal promises to address race issue Monday; online petition calls for her to resign
Rachel Dolezal, a local civil rights activist and president of the Spokane chapter of the NAACP, sent out a statement late Friday promising to address the controversy swirling around her on Monday. Dolezal has presented herself as a black woman for years, but her parents are both white and say she is too. On Friday on online petition calling for Dolezal to resign her position in the NAACP was posted on moveon.org by Kitara McClure, the former multicultural director at Spokane Community College and a member of the NAACP. McClure argues that the issue that Dolezal needs to address is not race, it’s integrity.
Dolezal keeps quiet as questions persist
Questions surrounding Spokane’s embattled NAACP president Rachel Dolezal continued to mount Friday as the black man she claims is her father seemed to imply otherwise. Albert Wilkerson Jr., who used to live in North Idaho and volunteered at the Human Rights Education Institute where Dolezal worked, said during a brief phone call Friday that he has “nothing negative to say about Rachel” but was reluctant to get involved in the controversy.
College activists divided on response
Disclosures that Rachel Dolezal, a prominent Spokane civil rights activist and president of the Spokane chapter of the NAACP, may have engaged in a ruse to present herself as a black woman despite having white parents has incited differing and often opposite reactions from leaders of local universities, black student unions and her former students.
Sniper kills suspect after attack on Dallas police headquarters
A man planted pipe bombs outside of Dallas’ police headquarters early Saturday before opening fire on the building and officers who tried to stop him, spraying the building and a squad car with bullets during a wild street battle but injuring no one. After cornering the fleeing suspect’s van in the parking lot of a fast food restaurant in the suburb of Hutchins, a police sniper shot and killed him.
Body found in Spokane Valley
A person reported finding a body in the 8100 block of East Harrington Avenue Friday evening. The man was found lying next to a vehicle that was being stored between two homes. It appeared that the man had been dead for several days, according to a Spokane County Sheriff’s Office press release. Detectives are investigating. The man’s identity will be released by the Spokane County Medical Examiner after an autopsy.
A federal appeals court cleared the way for a hotly contested Utah law banning price fixing for contact lenses Friday, a ruling that could have wide-ranging effects on the $4 billion industry. The decision handed down from the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver comes after three of the nation’s largest contact lens manufacturers sued to halt the measure. Alcon Laboratories, Johnson & Johnson and Bausch & Lomb contend the law is a brazen overreach written to give Utah-based retailer 1-800 Contacts and other discount sellers an illegal end run around minimum prices set by the companies. But the Utah attorney general said the companies are wrongly driving up prices, and the law is a legitimate antitrust measure designed to enhance competition and help customers. The decision allows the law to go into effect while a legal battle over the measure works its way through the courts. The appeals court did agree to fast-track the case and new briefs are due in the case in July.
Africanized bees menace Arizona
A particularly aggressive strain of honeybee has been menacing parts of Arizona in recent weeks, with some people getting stung so many times that they’ve been hospitalized. In the past week alone, an 84-year-old man from the Tucson area was stung more than 2,000 times in his backyard. Three dogs have been killed. And beekeepers report an increase in calls to remove hives and bee swarms.
California expands water restrictions to those with oldest irrigation rights
For the first time in nearly 40 years, California regulators are telling more than 100 growers and irrigation districts with some of the oldest water rights in California that they have to stop drawing supplies from drought-starved rivers and streams in the Central Valley.
Federal officials find another records breach
A second major intrusion into U.S. government employee records, this one designed to root out names of those who might be willing to spy for a foreign government, was uncovered during the investigation into the first such breach announced this month, two officials said Friday.
Obama loses trade battle with Congress
President Barack Obama’s stunning loss Friday on Capitol Hill could spell more trouble for his ambitious plans to create the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the centerpiece of his economic agenda and a plan that he has spent his entire presidency pursuing. When Democrats in the House of Representatives blocked the president’s request for trade-promotion authority, they wanted to make it tougher for Obama to get any future trade pact through Congress. Without trade-promotion authority, or fast-track authority as it’s sometimes called, members of Congress will be free to filibuster or offer amendments to the Trans-Pacific Partnership, making it much easier to kill.
Yemeni capital blast kills six
At least one blast struck the famed ancient quarter of Yemen’s capital before dawn Friday, destroying centuries-old structures that had been considered jewels of traditional Islamic architecture. The intricately crafted tower-houses of Sanaa’s Old City, adorned with fanciful geometric patterns, are a UNESCO world heritage site. The cultural agency expressed deep dismay over the destruction of at least five of them. At least six people were killed, with women and children among the injured.
Pakistan closes offices of Save the Children
The Pakistani government shut down the offices of the international aid group Save the Children in the capital, Islamabad, accusing it of violating its own charter. Authorities placed a lock on the gate of the group’s offices Thursday night and asked employees to leave. They also told Pakistani employees that the government wanted all foreign nationals working with the charity to leave the country within 15 days. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.
In brief: Mall shooting leaves female dead
A shooting near the food court of a popular Iowa mall left one female dead and stunned shoppers Friday night, police said. Witnesses reported hearing gunshots inside the Coral Ridge Mall in Coralville sometime after 7 p.m. They said that a male gunman shot at least one female victim, then fled. Troopers with the Iowa State Patrol and Scott County Sheriff’s deputies arrested the shooting suspect during a traffic stop on Interstate 80 about 50 miles east of the mall in Davenport.
Worker accused of aiding escapees
A worker at an upstate New York maximum-security prison was behind bars Saturday following her arrest on charges she helped two convicted killers escape last weekend. Prison tailor shop instructor Joyce Mitchell, 51, was arraigned late Friday night on the felony charge of promoting prison contraband and a misdemeanor count of criminal facilitation.
Race did not factor in ruling, judge says
A judge who found a white policeman not guilty in the deaths of two black people in a 137-shot barrage of police gunfire says race wasn’t a factor in the case or his deliberations before the verdict. In an interview with Politico published Friday and comments to WKYC-TV the same day, Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge John P. O’Donnell acknowledged that race is part of broader social discussions about Patrolman Michael Brelo’s case, but he said it wasn’t something he considered in Brelo’s bench trial.
Prosecutors want evidence secret
Federal prosecutors said Friday they want to keep some evidence in the case against former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert secret, even after the proceedings have ended.
Experts won’t say MERS outbreak over
Experts from the World Health Organization and South Korea today downplayed concerns about the MERS virus spreading further within the country, which recorded its 14th death and 12 new infections, but said that it was premature to declare the outbreak over.
EWU holding last outdoor commencement ceremony
Today marks the end of an era at Eastern Washington University. The Class of 2015 will be the last to receive its diplomas at Roos Field, where June temperatures can turn the football stadium into a sweltering hot plate of pomp and circumstance. And then there are the periodic cloudbursts, like the one last June that drenched the Class of 2014 along with the thousands of friends and family members who had filled the stands to help celebrate. Although the forecast shows near-ideal conditions in the mid-70s for the university’s final outdoor commencement today, beginning next year it won’t matter. Eastern is moving its annual ceremonies to the climate-controlled Spokane Arena in spring 2016.
‘Myst,’ ‘Riven’ video games will be basis for TV series
A Burbank, California, company will produce a 10-episode season based on the popular “Myst” and “Riven” video games developed by Spokane game company Cyan Worlds Inc. The not-yet-scheduled series will showcase on the Hulu platform, the company said.
In brief: Idaho boy, 3, dies of heat exposure while trapped in car
A 3-year-old boy died Thursday of apparent heat exposure in Spirit Lake, Idaho, while trapped inside a car with two dogs. The boy was playing with his dogs while his mother and her boyfriend slept inside. The child got into the vehicle, closing the door behind him. The boy was found by his mother, who attempted lifesaving efforts. Both dogs also died in the hot car.
Symphony, Fox director to step down
Brenda Nienhouse, executive director of the Spokane Symphony and Fox Theater, announced she will step down from the position she has held for a decade. Nienhouse will become executive director of the Newport Performing Arts Center in Rhode Island.
Man arrested on child rape, porn charges
Spokane police have arrested a man for first-degree child rape, producing child pornography and possession of child pornography. Randall M. Peterson, 37, is believed to be the perpetrator in several graphic videos and pictures showing him raping and molesting a toddler. Three videos, along with 34 pictures, were on an SD card that was turned over to detectives Monday, according to court documents.
Aguirre friend, family speak out
The family of murder suspect Richard Aguirre is questioning whether the Spokane County Prosecutor’s Office is trying to sway public opinion against the former Pasco police officer.
In brief: Inmate found dead in Spokane County Jail cell
An inmate died Friday evening in the Spokane County Jail, prompting an investigation by the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office. Corrections officers discovered the dead man during a cell check at about 6:45 p.m., according to a news release. The inmate, who was not identified, had been feeling ill and was alone in the cell, the release said.
Card dealer accused of L&I benefit fraud
State investigators accuse a Spokane card dealer of illegally taking $27,000 in workers’ compensation benefits. Victor O. Arrendondo, 58, filed claims he injured his lower back in May 2013 as a card dealer. As he collected wage-replacement checks and used vocational rehabilitation services provided by the state, he secretly went back to work as a card dealer for at least eight months at two casinos in Spokane, according to the state Department of Labor & Industries.
Water restrictions instituted in Othello
The city of Othello, Washington, has put mandatory water restrictions in place while emergency repairs are made to one of the main city wells.
Man’s body found near Barker Canyon
The body of a Mansfield man was recovered Thursday in the water near Barker Canyon in Grant County. A passer-by discovered the body of Michael R. Nachtigal, 63, about 3:30 p.m., and the body was recovered about two hours later, Sheriff Tom Jones said in a news release. Investigators found no obvious signs of foul play.
Two sentenced to 22 years in death of Yakima rapper
One of the two men convicted of killing aspiring Yakima rapper Da’Marius Morgan outside The Seasons Performance Hall last year maintained his innocence Friday as both were sentenced in Yakima County Superior Court in front of the victim’s outraged supporters. “I’m not the guy that everybody makes me seem to be,” Luis Rodriguez-Perez said. When he described his conviction as a “big loss,” a Morgan supporter responded with an obscenity. A dozen Yakima County corrections officers came in to ensure order as Rodriguez-Perez, 21, and William Martinez, 19, were sentenced to 22 years in prison.
Eight receiving rabies shots after student brings bat to school
Eight people in Montana are receiving rabies shots as a precaution after a middle school student found a bat at home and brought it to science class in a bag, health officials said. The seventh-grade boy released it in a field before officials could test it for rabies. But the boy’s family of seven and a classmate who touched the bat Tuesday at North Middle School in Great Falls started the series of shots, officials said. Rabies is transmitted through saliva, most often through bites and scratches, and it can be fatal if it is not treated soon after exposure. The school district is notifying as many as 150 families of students who could have been exposed to the bat while they were on the bus or in the classroom.
Oregon expands birth control refills to one year
It’s like a ritual for women across the nation: frequent treks to the pharmacist to refill birth control prescriptions. It’s a hassle for busy students, a headache for rural women with long drives and a cause for panic for travelers on the road when their packs run out. Soon, however, women in Oregon will be able to avoid such problems. The state has enacted a first-of-its-kind insurance law that will allow them to obtain a year’s worth of birth control at a time, instead of the 30- or 90-day supply available now.
Federal researchers report shots fired near Nevada camp
The federal Bureau of Land Management is taking safety precautions and Las Vegas police are investigating after gunshots were fired near a group of contract employees on public land in southern Nevada where rancher and states’ rights advocate Cliven Bundy’s cattle continue to roam.
Search on for climber missing on Rainier
Mount Rainier park rangers are searching for a climber missing on Liberty Ridge above 14,000 feet, but his two companions have made it safely to Camp Schurman. Kyle Bufis, 23, went missing as his group of three was descending the mountain in high winds and low visibility.
Judge says auditor Troy Kelley’s lawyer has no conflict in case
Federal prosecutors said Friday they are satisfied that an attorney for indicted Washington state Auditor Troy Kelley does not have a conflict of interest that might warrant his removal from the case.
Rescue robots demonstrate future of disaster relief at DARPA challenge
Twenty-four teams from around the U.S. and the globe have sent their best and brightest bots to compete in a grueling obstacle course – a robot Olympics, if you will.
Net neutrality rules take effect
New rules that treat the Internet like a public utility and prohibit blocking, slowing and creating paid fast lanes for online traffic took effect Friday. Cable and telecom industry groups have sued to have the rules thrown out, arguing they are too onerous. But on Thursday, a federal appeals court declined to block the rules from taking effect as the industry litigation against them proceeds. A court could still eventually overturn the rules. There will be no immediate effect on how consumers and companies use the Internet. Broadband providers today typically treat content from different websites and services equally.
Hops growers add acreage to meet rising demand from craft breweries
Hops are in short supply because of the dramatic increase in the popularity of craft breweries. That has growers in the Yakima Valley, which produces 75 percent of the nation’s hops, rushing to expand their production.
Business briefs: Takata air bag linked to seventh fatality
U.S. regulators have confirmed that an air bag made by Takata Corp. was involved in the April death of a woman in Louisiana, connecting the defective air bags to a seventh fatality.
Food, gas hikes lead wholesale prices jump
Prices at the wholesale level rose at the fastest pace in nearly 3 years in May, pushed higher by a sharp jump in the cost of gasoline and a record increase in the price of eggs related to an outbreak of avian influenza. But outside of increases in volatile food and energy costs, core inflation remained moderate.
France orders Google to expand URL removals
France’s data privacy agency ordered Google to remove search results worldwide upon request, giving the company two weeks to apply the “right to be forgotten” globally.
YouTube launches new gaming site, app
Ahead of the video game industry’s big E3 convention next week, YouTube is launching a new gaming app and website to provide a better experience to an online community that has flocked to alternatives. YouTube’s new app will combine videos, games and live streaming. YouTube Gaming will be available to the public in the U.S. and U.K. this summer.
Greece to offer new plan
Greece said Friday it will present its creditors with new proposals over the weekend in an attempt to breathe life into stalled bailout discussions that have stoked fears of the country’s bankruptcy.
Froma Harrop: Federal land benefits, belongs to the public
Editorial: Eliminate purveyors of student debt relief
Charles Krauthammer: Standouts shine in packed GOP field
David Abramowitz: Torture produces inaccurate, sometimes fatal information
Matt Harris: Port’s labor negotiation process needs reform
Steve Massey: Faith and Values: Man can’t improve on God’s design for humanity
Climb more bearable as fifth wheel
By Nicholas Deshais
Home movie discovery reveals jaunty, playful Amelia Earhart
It was a clear spring day in 1937 when Amelia Earhart, ready to make history by flying around the world, brought her personal photographer to a small Southern California airport to document the journey’s beginning. Al Bresnik took dozens of still photos, including a few that have likely been seen by millions. His brother John, who tagged along, made a very dark, grainy 3.5-minute home movie almost nobody saw – until now.
Obituary: Womach, Virginia
3 Aug 1926 - 2 Jun 2015 Spokane
Wife of Merrill P. Womach (d.)
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Perhaps the single most important fact about American politics is this: the people who participate are more ideological and more partisan, as well as angrier and more fearful, than those who don't.
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