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from Salon
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The South still lies about the Civil War
In an ongoing revisionist history effort, Southern schools and churches still pretend the war wasn't about slavery
The South still lies about the Civil War
In an ongoing revisionist history effort, Southern schools and churches still pretend the war wasn't about slavery
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from The Spokesman-Review
Francis turns on charm in first meeting with press
Vatican condemns talk of pope and ‘dirty war’
Church blames ‘left-wing’ radicals for comments
North Dakota may ban abortions at six weeks
Critical caregivers
Nurses play vital role in keeping health care costs down
CIA sizing up extremists in Syria for drone strikes
Action unlikely unless area becomes threat, officials say
In reversal, GOP senator backs same-sex marriage
Son’s sexual orientation is catalyst for shift
Romney sorry about loss, but will help party
Obama seeks sustainability in transportation energy plan
President says spending would bolster economy
Maryland to end executions
Base’s bad water traced to 1948
Marines, families eligible for benefits likely to grow
Colorado Senate OKs universal gun checks
Former Washington Gov. Booth Gardner dies
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In brief: From Wire Reports:
Fireworks blast kills 11 at religious festival
Mexico City – A truck loaded with fireworks exploded during a religious procession in a rural village in central Mexico on Friday, killing at least 11 people and injuring dozens more, authorities said.
The blast was set off when a firework malfunctioned and landed on the truck, igniting the fireworks it carried, officials said. Seventy people were burned or had other injuries, and at least 45 were taken to hospitals, authorities in the neighboring states of Tlaxcala and Puebla said.
The victims were marching in an annual procession in honor of Jesus Christ, the patron saint of Jesus Tepactepec, a village of about 1,000 people.
American, Russians return from space
Moscow – A Soyuz space capsule carrying an American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts landed on the steppes of Kazakhstan today, returning the three men to Earth after a 144-day mission to the International Space Station.
NASA’s Kevin Ford and Russians Oleg Novitsky and Yevgeny Tarelkin had been scheduled to return on Friday, but the landing was postponed by a day because of bad weather.
Snowstorm strands thousands of cars
Budapest, Hungary – A snowstorm in Hungary brought drifts 10 feet high and violent gusts of wind, forcing thousands of people to spend the night in their cars or in emergency shelters after being stranded on a major highway.
Rescue officials said wind gusts up to 62 mph caused trucks to jackknife across the key M1 highway between Budapest and Vienna – the capitals of Hungary and Austria – leading to the traffic jams.
More than 100 people were injured in traffic and snow-related accidents, the Hungarian Disaster Management Agency said, adding that 5,700 cars were stranded on the roads and 18 trains were stuck between stations.
Colorado’s fire season starts early
Fort Collins, Colo. – A wildfire burning in gusty winds and warm weather in northern Colorado was threatening homes west of Fort Collins on Friday and has prompted more than 50 people to leave the area.
The fire began burning near the visitors center in Lory State Park near the scene of a large wildfire last summer that burned 259 homes and killed one person.
Angela Dietrich, whose home was not in the fire’s immediate path, said the smoke was so bad she couldn’t see her yard from inside the house. She said she was amazed the wildfire sprang up so early in the year.
“This is a really bad start,” she said.
Colorado’s wildfire season also started in March last year.
Brewer cites progress in Grupo Modelo fight
WASHINGTON – Beer maker Anheuser-Busch InBev says there has been substantial progress toward a resolution of the Justice Department’s legal challenge to the company’s $20.1 billion deal to buy Mexican brewer Grupo Modelo.
The companies and the government have asked a federal court to extend a halt to legal activity in the case from March 19 to April 9, giving the two sides more time to talk.
AB InBev wants to buy the remaining stake in Grupo Modelo it does not already own.
In January, the Justice Department sued to block the combination, saying having one company controlling nearly half of all U.S. beer sales would stifle competition.
Four machetes found at site of standoff
Police seized four machetes from an out-of-business Hillyard skateboard shop while executing a search warrant after the arrest of 39-year-old Glen M. Fisher, who was apprehended after a seven-hour standoff with authorities there Wednesday.
One of the machetes appeared to have drops of blood on the blade, court documents show.
Authorities believed Fisher to be extremely dangerous and possibly unstable, according to the documents.
Fisher called responding officers “demons,” police said.
When a SWAT team entered the shop, they found him lying on the floor, face down, documents said, with a shooting bow “around his neck,” the documents say.
Genocide Watch leader to speak at CdA banquet
A world expert on preventing genocide will be keynote speaker at the 16th annual human rights banquet in Coeur d’Alene next month.
Gregory Stanton, president of the international Genocide Watch, will discuss how local action can prevent atrocities. He will cite examples such as the fall of the Soviet Union, the defeat of dictators Slobodan Miloševic in Yugoslavia and Charles Taylor in Liberia, and the effort locally to shut down the Aryan Nations operation in Kootenai County.
Stanton is the Research Professor in Genocide Studies and Prevention at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University in Arlington, Va. In 1999 he founded Genocide Watch, which works to build an international movement to prevent and stop genocide and other forms of mass murder.
The April 22 banquet is presented by the Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations and the Human Rights Education Institute. It will be held at the Best Western Coeur d’Alene Inn.
Banquet tickets are $40 each. Information: (208) 765-3932 or (208) 292-2359.
House hears bill that would remove anti-gay sex statute
HELENA – A House panel heard a measure Friday that would remove an obsolete Montana law that criminalizes gay sex by labeling it a deviate sexual behavior on par with bestiality.
Senate Bill 107 seeks to remove that language from the existing statutes, reflecting a 1997 Montana Supreme Court ruling that said the law prohibiting gay sex is unconstitutional.
The measure to strike the law has already passed the state Senate in a 39-11 vote, but now is before the House Judiciary Committee – the same panel that killed a similar bill in 2011.
Opponents argued the measure goes against Montana’s values, and say the Montana Supreme Court disregarded those values in its ruling in the 1997 case, Gryczen v. Montana.
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Japan welcomes talk on trade agreement
Long-sheltered economy would open up to foreign investment
Boeing defends 787s
Executives say new fix will stop battery fires
Stocks’ frothy run takes a pause
County’s first online auction of foreclosed properties mixed
On plus side, top bids paid higher percentage of assessed value than at last live auction
Editorial: Idaho public schools take fresh hits in Legislature
Shawn Vestal: The only good laws are popular laws
Froma Harrop: Birth rate won’t wreck U.S.
Charles Krauthammer: Filibuster put drone warfare in spotlight
Guest opinion: Tanning by adolescents needs state regulation
Dr. Robert Mcfarland
Donald Clegg: My gospel, according to Paul, or, a come-to-Jesus moment
Ask Dr. K: Vitamin level a source of controversy
Millwood corrects old alley oversight
Ed Mertens a driving force behind incorporation
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