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Well known building on Basin Street in Ephrata is being torn down
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Judge to retire after sending racist Obama email
Kootenai County public defender reinstated
NRA suggests training armed school staffersJudge to retire after sending racist Obama email
Kootenai County public defender reinstated
Report is gun-rights group’s answer to Newtown
Idaho wolf population decreased by 11 percent in 2012
By Rich Landers
Groups plan coal train suit
Spills into water claimed
Vestal: Hip block of West Main crying out for edgy moniker
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In brief: From Wire Reports:
Finance minister quits weeks after taking job
Nicosia, Cyprus – Finance minister Michalis Sarris resigned Tuesday after less than five weeks in the job, as the government begins an investigation into how the country’s economy nearly collapsed last month.
President Nicos Anastasiades accepted Sarris’ resignation, which came as Cyprus finalized the details of its bailout with international creditors. Harris Georgiades, the 41-year-old former labor minister, will become the new head of finance.
Sarris, 66, was appointed to the position after Anastasiades’ Conservatives won general elections in February, days before the island was overwhelmed by its financial crisis.
The minister, a former World Bank official who helped negotiate Cyprus’ euro membership in 2008, has come under strong criticism for his handling of the bailout negotiations. On top of that, he was last year the head of Laiki Bank, one of the troubled banks at the heart of the country’s financial problems.
Egypt increases pressure over critical comedian
Cairo – Egyptian authorities on Tuesday stepped up a campaign against a popular TV comedian accused of insulting the president, threatening to revoke the license of a private TV station that airs his weekly program.
The satirist, Bassem Youssef, was questioned by state prosecutors earlier this week over accusations that he insulted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi and Islam.
The questioning of Youssef, along with arrest warrants issued days earlier against five anti-government activists on charges of inciting unrest, have raised warnings by opponents of Morsi of a campaign to intimidate his critics.
A new case was opened Tuesday, with prosecutors looking into whether participants in a talk show on another private channel who criticized the Youssef case “endangered national security.”
Four newspaper offices in Iraq hit by gunmen
Baghdad – Gunmen suspected of being Shiite militiamen burst into the offices of four independent newspapers in Baghdad, smashing their equipment, stabbing and beating employees, and even hurling one reporter from a roof in the most brazen attack against journalists in Iraq this year, said staff and officials on Tuesday.
Two editors said they believed their assailants were members of a Shiite militia, saying the raids came after their newspapers published stories criticizing their hard-line cleric-leader. It underscored the dangers facing the media in Iraq, one of the most dangerous places in the world for reporters.
“The message of the assailants was to shut mouths,” said Bassam al-Sheikh, editor of one of the attacked newspapers, Al-Dustour.
“This is a dangerous precedent.”
A government spokesman condemned the attacks.
Some 50 assailants participated in Monday’s attacks, according to a notice left on one of the newspaper’s websites and according to al-Sheikh and Ali al-Daraji, the editor of another of the newspapers, Al-Mustaqila.
Coalition ready to unveil state budget
OLYMPIA – A Republican-dominated coalition in the Washington state Senate is set to unveil its budget proposal.
The Majority Coalition Caucus announced Tuesday night that it planned a news conference today to announce the details of the plan.
Gov. Jay Inslee unveiled his proposal last week, laying out plans to make some temporary taxes permanent and to end some tax exemptions to address both the state’s projected budget deficit and a court-ordered requirement to put more money into the state’s basic education system.
Lawmakers are in the midst of a 105-day legislative session. They are tasked with patching a projected deficit of more than $1.2 billion for the next two-year budget ending in mid-2015.
Gun buyers hit stores across Connecticut
NEWINGTON, Conn. – Customers are packing gun stores around Connecticut, concerned about a bipartisan gun-control agreement reached by state lawmakers that will ban the sale of large-capacity ammunition magazines and more than 100 new types of guns.
The parking lot at Hoffman’s Gun Center and Indoor Range in Newington was full Tuesday morning. Some drivers had to park on the lawn. Inside, customers waited in long lines to purchase what was left.
Nick Viccione, a gun owner from Wallingford, says people are loading up on ammunition and buying “anything semi-automatic.”
The General Assembly is to vote Wednesday on a wide-ranging bill that addresses the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre. In a state with a rich gun manufacturing history, companies say they feel they’re being made into scapegoats. One is considering offers to relocate.
Russian officials must close foreign accounts
MOSCOW – President Vladimir Putin has given Russian officials a three-month deadline to close their foreign bank accounts or face dismissal.
Putin’s decree released Tuesday by the Kremlin obliges officials to file their income declarations by July 1. Putin’s chief of staff, Sergei Ivanov, said they will have to close their bank accounts by that time. Those who have real estate abroad will be required to explain how they could make the purchase, and those who fail will face being ousted.
Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov emphasized there will be “no untouchables.”
Putin first announced the measure in his state-of-the nation address in December as part of efforts to fight corruption, but the corresponding bills got bogged down in the Kremlin-controlled lower house, so Putin ended up ordering the move by decree.
New Mexico protects space travel companies
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez has signed legislation aimed at saving the state’s quarter-billion-dollar spaceport and retaining Virgin Galactic as its anchor tenant.
Martinez says the new law protecting commercial space travel companies will prevent lawsuit abuse and make it easier for the industry to thrive in New Mexico.
Officials at Virgin Galactic and Spaceport America have been fighting for years to get the legislation enacted, saying commercial space companies have passed over New Mexico in favor of states with more lenient liability exemptions.
Virgin Galactic had hinted last year that it might abandon plans to launch its $200,000-per-person space flights from New Mexico if the bill failed again.
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South Korean workers barred from jointly run factory park
North Korea cites recent political circumstances
Arms trade treaty passes
U.N. accord aimed at illicit market
Obama outlines his proposal for brain-mapping initiative
$110 million sought for research in 2014
NASA sends drones to study volcanic plumes
Idaho governor signs bill tightening initiative rules
Board warns of tank danger
Hanford risks get renewed focus
Lawmakers agree on education budget
Merit pay, tech projects get minor changes
A week and much angst later, new Idaho school budget matches old one
SEC gives companies OK to use social media
Investors must get notice of sites
As Facebook grows, is it losing its edge?
It’s hard to be hip when everyone and his grandmother has joined
Back from the brink
Fannie Mae posts big profit as housing prices rebound
Employers doing more checks on background
Pre-screening helps cut costs after hiring
Sanford wins GOP runoff for shot at S.C. House seat
Editorial: Compromise will make civil service work for city
Trudy Rubin: Corruption was big winner
Hospice: 10 facts you may not know
Flavor up pork tenderloins
Rhubarb-orange sauce a perfect fit
Embrace the pressure
Risotto is fast, easy and delicious when cooked with steam
Trudy Rubin: Corruption was big winner
Hospice: 10 facts you may not know
Flavor up pork tenderloins
Rhubarb-orange sauce a perfect fit
Risotto is fast, easy and delicious when cooked with steam
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Is Your Facebook Account Sending Spam Messages?
One of the easiest ways to know if something is wrong with your Facebook account is when it starts posting spam messages automatically.
from The Wenatchee World
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from ThatsNonsense.com
Is Your Facebook Account Sending Spam Messages?
One of the easiest ways to know if something is wrong with your Facebook account is when it starts posting spam messages automatically.
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