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from The Spokesman-Review
Officials: Bomb suspect silent after read rights
Associated Press
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Survey: Americans felt more secure in jobs in 2012
Associated Press
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Spokane police officer to admit lie in Zehm testimony
Jonathan Brunt The Spokesman-Review
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Washington budgets remain in limbo
Jim Camden The Spokesman-Review
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Flight delays could ease with FAA funding fix
David Espo, Jim Kuhnhenn Associated Press
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Abortion provider’s defense rests case
Doctor won’t testify in capital murder trial
Maryclaire Dale Associated Press
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In brief: From Staff and Wire Reports:
Washington – The Senate voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to approve President Barack Obama’s nominee for top White House budget expert, bringing a woman into a top post in an administration that critics say has been dominated by men.
Sylvia Mathews Burwell was confirmed as director of the Office of Management and Budget by a vote of 96-0, a bipartisan vote of support by a Senate that has objected to other White House nominations.
Burwell worked as deputy director of the budget office from 1998 to 2001. She then worked for a decade at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, including as chief operating officer. She most recently headed the Walmart Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
Seven arrested for smuggling fish bladders
San Diego – Seven people have been charged with smuggling bladders from an endangered fish in what authorities said Wednesday may be a growing international practice in which the bladders are sold for up to $20,000 each to be used in a highly desired soup.
U.S. border inspectors in Calexico have seized 529 bladders from totoaba fish since February that they believe were destined for China.
Just as shark fins are coveted for use in a different soup, the totoaba is desired for its dried bladders. The organs are said to improve skin, blood circulation and fertility.
Study: Binge drinking may cause heart damage
Step away from the beer pong table! College binge drinking may leave you with more than just embarrassing memories and excruciating hangovers.
In a study published Tuesday in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, researchers found that four years of heavy drinking between the ages of 18 and 25 may be enough to permanently increase a person’s risk of heart attack, stroke and atherosclerosis.
Researchers at the University of Illinois recruited 38 nonsmoking young adults and split them into two groups: alcohol abstainers and binge drinkers. To be considered a binge drinker, participants had to have consumed five or more servings of alcohol in two hours, at least six times a month, for about four years.
Study authors then used ultrasound imaging to examine the blood vessels in the participants’ arms when they were given nitroglycerin – a blood vessel dilator – and after blood flow was restricted and then allowed to run free.
What they found was that abstainers’ blood vessels were more elastic and had a greater ability to dilate than did the vessels of the binge drinkers. This diminished vascular function could be an early indicator of blood vessel damage and atherosclerosis.
Letta appointed premier-designate
Rome – Italy’s president appointed Enrico Letta as premier-designate Wednesday, asking him to form a coalition government representing Italy’s main parties to end two months of political paralysis and put the country back on the path of reform and growth.
Letta, a 46-year-old center-left lawmaker and No. 2 Democratic Party leader, said he accepted the job knowing it’s an enormous responsibility and that Italy’s political class “has lost all credibility.”
President Giorgio Napolitano charged Letta with putting together a coalition government of the Democratic Party and the center-right party of Premier Silvio Berlusconi, the two biggest blocks in Parliament.
Letta also represents something of a new generation in Italian politics, after the traditional guard has been discredited by scandals, infighting and inertia. In a perhaps scripted but nevertheless significant gesture, Letta drove himself to the presidential palace to accept the job as premier in his own Fiat. Normally politicians are driven around town with an accompanying motorcade.
These “auto blu,” as the chauffeured cars are known, have become the despised emblems of the privileges of Italy’s political elite.
Violent clashes in China kill 21 people
Beijing – Violent clashes in China’s far-west province of Xinjiang, home to the Turkic-speaking Uighur minority, reportedly left 21 people dead in what official media described Wednesday as fighting between “suspected terrorists and authorities.”
The state Xinhua news wire said that among the dead were 15 field staff and police officers, in addition to six “suspects.”
That story and an account carried by a government-run website in Xinjiang said the confrontation was sparked Tuesday after three official “community workers” reported the presence of knives and suspicious people in a house in Bachu County, which is about 750 miles southwest of the provincial capital of Urumqi.
A Uighur exile activist group gave a different version.
Dilxat Raxit, a spokesman for the German-based World Uyghur Congress, which uses an alternate spelling for the minority group, wrote in an email that the conflict Tuesday was fueled by the police shooting and killing a young Uighur man.
Spokane HUD office will close, cutting 5 jobs
The federal government is closing its Housing and Urban Development office in Spokane and eliminating five jobs.
HUD is in the midst of a reorganization to provide services more efficiently. Spokane’s field office at the Thomas S. Foley Courthouse downtown is one of 16 being closed, the agency reported Wednesday.
Spokane’s HUD office serves Eastern Washington and North Idaho. It reviews and monitors loan insurance programs for single-family and multifamily housing projects. And it has one program manager reviewing insurance for health care facility loans.
HUD will still have a Seattle regional office, HUD spokesman Lee Jones said.
Spokane’s five staff workers will be offered buyouts or the option to move to another location, Jones said.
Over the next three years, HUD said the restructuring could save $45 million to $50 million.
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Ceremony puts Bush back in public eye
$250 million presidential center will be dedicated today in Dallas
Anna M. Tinsley McClatchy-Tribune
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Anti-seizure drug linked to autism
Melissa Healy Los Angeles Times
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Seoul demands talks on closed factory park
South warns of ‘grave measure’ if North Korea doesn’t respond
Hyung-Jin Kim Associated Press
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Syrian landmark destroyed in clash
Famed mosque was Aleppo centerpiece
Ryan Lucas Associated Press
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Building collapse kills at least 149 in Bangladesh
Cracking structure held factories
Julhas Alam Associated Press
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Sexual orientation would be protected under CdA law
Scott Maben The Spokesman-Review
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Guilds’ School penny drive moving full-speed ahead
Jennifer Pignolet The Spokesman-Review
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South Hill Target proposal moves forward
Tom Sowa The Spokesman-Review
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Spokane Convention Center work goes to Garco, ALSC
Mike Prager The Spokesman-Review
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Eyman, Fagans want public vote on tax hikes
Group wants to force vote on constitutional amendment
Jim Camden The Spokesman-Review
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Health exchange could be coming for some state workers
Mike Baker Associated Press
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Deliveries of Boeing 787s set to resume in early May
Joshua Freed Associated Press
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Students lag in financial literacy
Philip Elliott Associated Press
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Crowdfunding boom may be more of a bust
SEC still writing regulations for last year’s JOBS Act
Joyce M. Rosenberg Associated Press
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Twitter hoax highlights danger of algorithmic trading
Bernard Condon Associated Press
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opinion:
Dana Milbank
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Kings decision still wait-and-see
Bob Condotta Seattle Times
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Doctor K: Pap test still needed, just not as often
Anthony L. Komaroff Universal Uclick
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MAC displays newsletters, items from Rotary club’s 100 years
Cindy Hval The Spokesman-Review
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Hill Brothers Building has housed saddlery, men’s shop, ad agency
Stefanie Pettit The Spokesman-Review
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Think before you plant: It could go low, snow
Pat Munts
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WSU students offer plans for Peaceful Valley project
Pia Hallenberg The Spokesman-Review
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Keeping lid on toilet etiquette
Cindy Hval The Spokesman-Review
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Project to help feed shunned Zambians
Pia Hallenberg The Spokesman-Review
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from The Wenatchee World
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| APPLE BLOSSOM FESTIVAL PARADE, 1921 This photo was taken during the 1921 Apple Blossom Festival Grand Parade. More than 125 entries formed the procession. This view looks northwest from the east side of Wenatchee Avenue. |
By Linda Barta Librarian and News Assistant
The largest cache ever of stone spearheads from the earliest known prehistoric Americans was uncovered Monday by a team of Washington State University archaeologists in an apple orchard east of East Wenatchee. Identified as artifacts from the Clovis culture 11,000 to 11,500 years ago, the points also are the largest in size of their kind ever found, according to scientists who arrived here this week from the Smithsonian Institution and around the nation.
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Hanging ‘em high
Crews thread cable for Douglas PUD’s new high-voltage line
By Christine Pratt World staff writer
Crews thread cable for Douglas PUD’s new high-voltage line
By Christine Pratt World staff writer
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opinion:
By Tracy Warner Editorial Page Editor
By George F. Will Washington Post Writers Group
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Wilf Woods: Soap Lake gets its own history book
By Wilfred Woods Chairman of the Board
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