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Saturday Marks 8 Years Since I-35W Bridge Collapse
Saturday marks eight years since the Interstate 35W Bridge collapsed in Minneapolis, killing 13 people and injuring 145.
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from The Christian Science Monitor
from The Daily Beast
The Unbearable Nuttiness of Mike Huckabee
Oh go home, you old fundamentalist fool, before you embarrass the Republicans any more.
“Playing the Hitler card” is an infallible sign that a politician has run out of intelligent, substantive and plausible ways to criticize an opponent. This would be amusing (Mel Brooks made Hitler amusing), except “playing the Hitler card” is also an infallible sign that a politician has run out of amusing ways to criticize an opponent.
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from Gopthedailydose.com
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Michelle Obama Challenged Mrs. Trump – Got a BRUTALLY Honest Response
When comparing Melania with Michelle Obama, it quickly becomes clear that she outclasses our first lady in every way.
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from KHQ Local News (NBC Spokane)
Fire burning near Cocolalla Lake in Idaho in mop-up stage
Smoke from Wolverine Fire causing widespread haze as fire grows
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from The Spokesman-Review
Fire near Sprague knocked down
A fire was reported near the town of Sprague in Lincoln County this afternoon and quickly grew to 1,600 acres, but was just as quickly put out. The fire started just after 4 p.m. next to the eastbound I-90 on-ramp at Sprague.
Robbery at Shadle Payless Shoes
Spokane Police are investigating an armed robbery at the Shadle Payless Shoes on Wellesley Avenue around 4 p.m. today.
Long Lake fire kept in check by firefighters
The fire north of Long Lake Road was kept in check by firefighters Saturday after it grew rapidly Friday evening and put up a huge plume of smoke. The fire has been mapped at 430 acres. Firefighters have a trail around the entire fire and it was considered 50 percent contained as of early Saturday evening. The Spokane River and several irrigated fields helped stop the fast moving fire on Friday.
Crews head to growing Long Lake fire
Firefighters swarmed into northwestern Spokane County Friday evening to fight a blaze that grew quickly, sent a large plume of smoke into the air and sent embers into yards across Long Lake. Triple-digit temperatures and low humidity helped the fire, which started near the 28000 block of West Long Lake Road around 5 p.m. Friday, grow to 400 acres by 8:30 p.m. Early estimates that the fire, just south of Long Lake, reached 600-700 acres may have been skewed by the heavy smoke.
A Cusick man died in a single car accident this morning on State Route 20 about 22 miles east of Colville. Andrew J. Rose, 32, was driving his 2001 Chevy Blazer east on State Route 20 just before 8 a.m. The Blazer left to the road to the right for an unknown reason and rolled. Rose was ejected and died at the scene.
Mother, daughter accused in plot to hide gun used in north Spokane killing
Police have arrested two more people they say are connected to the killing of 17-year-old Ceasar Medina at Northwest Accessories on Monroe Street in May. Cassandra L. Larson, 31, is accused of disposing of one of the guns used in the crime and her mother, 57-year-old Ruth E. Ferguson, is accused of helping her.
Biden still considering White House bid
Vice President Joe Biden’s associates have resumed discussions about a 2016 presidential run after largely shelving such deliberations during his son’s illness and following his death earlier this year. But Biden has yet to tell his staff whether he will run or personally ask them to do any planning for a potential campaign, according to several people close to the vice president.
Park revamp part of stormwater plan
The small, makeshift park at the corner of Fourth Avenue and Monroe Street, which is owned by the state transportation department and technically not really a park, is seen by many but visited by few. The city will begin excavating the property next week, the beginning of a $5.5 million project that will remake Lincoln and Monroe streets from Eighth Avenue to Main Avenue. “We need some place to put stormwater,” utilities spokeswoman Marlene Feist said about the park, which city officials have taken to calling Jefferson Camp. “Further up on Lincoln, there was room to put stormwater features along the road. As you get to more urban sections of the couplet, there isn’t as much room.” Instead of storm gardens – which are basically wide, landscaped gutters that collect road runoff – the park will act as one big catch basin.
Kalispels bid for Spokane Country Club
The Kalispel Tribe has bid $3 million to buy the members-only Spokane Country Club and would fold the golf course and amenities into its Northern Quest Resort and Casino operations. The tribe is among four businesses that offered bids as the club members seek to settle bankruptcy and preserve a semblance of its 117-year history as an exclusive social club.
Clinic brings free medical care
The Spokane County Fair and Expo Center will be transformed early next week into a working field hospital that will provide free dental and medical care on a first-come, first-served basis. The event, Your Best Pathway to Health, will serve patients Monday and Tuesday. Boxes of medical equipment, office supplies and drugs began arriving Friday afternoon for the event. The clinic is a service of Adventist-Laymen’s Services & Industries, in partnership with the Seventh-day Adventist Church, and it’s supported by numerous local medical companies, sponsors and volunteers.
In brief: Coast Guard calls off search for missing 14-year-olds
FLORIDA – After hundreds of rescue workers fanned out across a massive swath of the Atlantic for a full week, the Coast Guard’s search for two teenage fishermen was to end Friday, a heart-rending decision for families so convinced the boys could be alive they’re pressing on with their own hunt. Even as officials announced at noon that the formal search-and-rescue effort would end at sundown, private planes and boats were preparing to keep scouring the water hoping for clues on what happened to the 14-year-old neighbors, Perry Cohen and Austin Stephanos.
Woman shot, run over with lawn mower
CLEVELAND – A man who became agitated about his next-door neighbor mowing her lawn at night shot her and then ran a push mower over her body, authorities said Friday. Linda Ciotto, 62, was shot in the face from close distance, Huron County Coroner Jeffrey Harwood said. Ciotto also had a severe wound to her left arm and hand that appeared to have been caused by a mower blade, Harwood said.
Charleston shooting suspect pleads not guilty to federal charges
The white man accused of gunning down nine parishioners at a black church in Charleston wants to plead guilty to 33 federal charges, but his lawyer said in court Friday that he couldn’t advise his client to do so until prosecutors say whether they’ll seek the death penalty. During a brief arraignment in federal court, defense attorney David Bruck said he couldn’t counsel his client, Dylann Roof, to enter a guilty plea without knowing the government’s intentions. U.S. Magistrate Judge Bristow Marchant then entered a not guilty plea for Roof, 21, who faces federal charges including hate crimes, weapons charges and obstructing the practice of religion.
Ebola vaccine trials show promising results
An experimental vaccine tested in more than 7,500 people in Guinea was highly protective against Ebola in a preliminary analysis. Organizations who sponsored the work, including the World Health Organization and Medecins Sans Frontiers, lauded the outcome of the work as a hopeful step in the fight against the devastating virus, which has killed more than 11,000 people in West Africa during the current outbreak and sickened more than 15,000 others.
Fiery attack on home kills Palestinian child
Suspected Jewish assailants set fire to a West Bank home on Friday and burned a sleeping Palestinian toddler to death in an attack that drew Palestinian rage and widespread Israeli condemnation. The attack, which threatens to set off another violent escalation, shines a light on the growing lawlessness of extremist Jewish settlers that Israel is either unable or unwilling to contain.
In brief: Germany halts investigation of Minnesota ex-carpenter accused of war crimes
German prosecutors have shelved their Nazi war crimes investigation of a retired Minnesota carpenter whom the Associated Press exposed as a former commander in an SS-led unit, saying Friday that the 96-year-old is not fit for trial. Michael Karkoc commanded a unit in the SS-led Ukrainian Self Defense Legion accused of burning villages filled with women and children, according to wartime documents, testimony from other members of the unit and Karkoc’s own Ukrainian-language memoir.
Britain grants visa to Chinese artist
Britain performed an about-face Friday and granted a six-month visa to dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, apologizing for rejecting his application over an alleged criminal conviction. On Thursday Ai disclosed that the British Embassy in Beijing had turned down his request for a business visa, saying he had failed to disclose a criminal conviction. Instead it gave him a visa covering 20 days in September, when a major exhibition of Ai’s work is opening at London’s Royal Academy.
U.S.-led assault hasn’t weakened Islamic State
After billions of dollars spent and more than 10,000 extremist fighters killed, the Islamic State group is fundamentally no weaker than it was when the U.S.-led bombing campaign began a year ago, American intelligence agencies have concluded. The Islamic State remains a well-funded extremist army able to replenish its ranks with foreign jihadis as quickly as the U.S. can eliminate them. Meanwhile, the group has expanded to other countries, including Libya, Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula and Afghanistan.
Zimbabwe seeks to extradite lion’s killer
Zimbabwe will seek the extradition of an American dentist who killed a lion that was lured out of a national park and caused international outrage, a Cabinet minister said Friday. In the Zimbabwean government’s first official comment on the killing of Cecil the lion, the environment, water and climate minister lashed out at Walter James Palmer, accusing him even of trying to hurt Zimbabwe’s image.
Hillary Clinton discloses details on health, tax returns
Hillary Rodham Clinton and her husband paid close to $44 million in federal taxes since 2007 and she is in “excellent physical condition” – two facts that emerged Friday in a flood of disclosures about the Democratic presidential candidate pushed out by her campaign on a busy summer day.
Latest batch of Hillary Clinton’s email released to public
Dozens of emails that traversed Hillary Clinton’s private, unsecure home server contain national security information now deemed too sensitive to make public, according to the latest batch of records released Friday. In 2,206 pages of emails, the government censored passages to protect national security at least 64 times in 37 messages, including instances when the same information was blacked-out multiple times. Clinton has said she never sent classified information from her private email server, which the Associated Press was first to identify as operating in her home in New York.
Artists flock to Coeur d’Alene weekend art, food festivals
Artists and vendors have flocked to the Lake City from across the country to put their work on display at three festivals that started Friday and run through Sunday. They include the 47th annual Art on the Green, under the tall pines of North Idaho College; Taste of Coeur d’Alene, on the grassy knolls of City Park; and the city’s downtown Street Fair, on a stretch of Sherman Avenue as far east as Seventh Street.
State’s clean water rules update postponed for reassessment
A major rewrite of the state’s clean water rules was put on hold Friday as Gov. Jay Inslee ordered the Department of Ecology to “reassess” the plan he proposed last year because some elements failed to pass the Legislature.
Idaho Senator Mike Crapo raises record re-election funds
Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo is flush with campaign cash as he seeks a fourth six-year term, with more than $4.2 million in the bank and a record fundraising haul in the past quarter that eclipsed any reporting period since he was first elected to the Senate in 1998.
Restrained arrestee choked on vomit, died in Spokane jail booking area
The Spokane County Medical Examiner’s Office has determined the death of a man in May in the Spokane County Jail was a homicide. Lorenzo Hayes, 37, died when he choked on vomit while restrained in a prone position as a result of methamphetamine toxicity, the medical examiner’s office announced in a news release.
As icebreaker heads north, Shell prepares for Arctic Ocean exploratory drilling
Hours after a repaired Shell icebreaker eased past protesters in Oregon to join an Arctic drilling operation, the oil giant used other vessels in its flotilla to begin excavating off the coast of Alaska in hopes of confirming the presence of billions of barrels of crude below the ocean floor. Royal Dutch Shell PLC now only needs the 380-foot Fennica, repaired at a Portland shipyard, to be on hand at the drill site to ask federal regulators for permission to dig into oil-bearing rock already included on its Arctic offshore leases.
Fire forces evacuations near Lake Chelan
Some 350 residents and mine-reclamation workers at Holden Village will begin evacuating today as the Wolverine fire moves toward the only road leading to the remote Lutheran retreat in the hills above Lake Chelan. Ignited by lightning on Wednesday, the blaze tripled in size to 1,526 acres and is expected to continue to grow with this weekend’s hot, dry weather.
Feds reject pot industry’s bank bid
A Colorado credit union is hoping a federal judge will intervene to let the booming marijuana industry move its finances from cash-stuffed suitcases to the regulated banking system. A pair of lawsuits filed in Denver this week challenge recent decisions by the U.S. Federal Reserve and the National Credit Union Administration to deny applications from Fourth Corner Credit Union.
Report: Uber reaches $50 billion valuation with new funding
Uber has raised another monster round of funding to value the car-booking company at a whopping $50 billion, making it the highest-valued venture-backed company in the world, according to a report Friday. Uber, the gorilla of ride-booking apps, has raised close to $1 billion from investors, according a report from the Wall Street Journal. With the fresh round of financing, Uber surpasses Xiaomi to lay claim to the highest valuation among private companies with VC funding. China’s Xiaomi, an electronics company and one of the world’s largest smartphone distributors, is valued at $46 billion.
Greece announces reopening of Athens Stock Exchange
Greece’s government announced that the Athens Stock Exchange will reopen Monday, a big step toward normalcy as talks with international creditors shifted into high gear. The exchange has been closed since June 29, when the government imposed capital controls to prevent a banking collapse.
Verizon strike possible as contract deadline looms
Verizon workers in nine states could walk off the job as soon as early Sunday if union negotiators don’t reach an agreement over benefits with the wireless carrier.
WTO rules against China for duties on U.S. steel imports
The World Trade Organization says China broke global trade rules by failing to comply with an earlier WTO ruling and continuing to impose duties on specialty steel imports.
CBS to run Super Bowl ads online as well as on TV
LOS ANGELES – Next year, you won’t have to worry about missing the Super Bowl commercials if you can’t get to a TV.In the past, not all advertisers bought online time along with a pricey 30-second spot during the most-watched TV event of the year. Broadcasters sometimes ran substitute ads online instead. This time, CBS says it’s making all advertisers buy an online spot with their on-air time, so ads seen during the Feb. 7 online simulcast will be the same as the ones on TV.
Higher wages a surprising success at Seattle restaurant
Menu prices are up 21 percent and you don’t have to tip at Ivar’s Salmon House on Seattle’s Lake Union after the restaurant decided to institute the city’s $15-an-hour minimum wage two years ahead of schedule. It is staff, not diners, who feel the real difference, with wages as much as 60 percent higher than before.
U.S. pay, benefits grow at record-slow pace
U.S. wages and benefits grew in the spring at the slowest pace in 33 years, stark evidence that stronger hiring isn’t lifting paychecks much for most Americans. The slowdown also likely reflects a sharp drop-off in bonus and incentive pay for some workers.
Editorial: Automatic Response Units a casualty of city’s politics
Jim Hightower: Severely underfunded national parks are selling integrity to highest bidder
Charles Krauthammer: Philanthropist rescuing Syrian Christians is paying it forward
Dick Meyer: End-of-life counseling makes sense for Medicare
Ask Dr. K: Hydrocephalus, or water on the brain
‘Rose Garden’ singer Lynn Anderson dies at 67
Lynn Anderson, whose strong, husky voice carried her to the top of the charts with “(I Never Promised You a) Rose Garden,” has died.
Obituary: Lokken, Frieda Christine (Schillinger)
13 Apr 1920 - 26 Jul 2015 Davenport, Spokane
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