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A Head Scratcher: 9 Brains Found Next to Train Tracks
Nine brains were found along a street in a northern New York village, but authorities say there's nothing to fear. The brains are believed to have been part of a collection for educational or research purposes. No criminal activity is suspected. Residents discovered the brains on a street near railroad tracks in Governeur and notified police Wednesday. A local veterinarian determined one of the brains had been professionally removed and preserved in formaldehyde. The organs are believed to be either from dogs or sheep.
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Here’s the GOP Candidate Who Won the First Major Straw Poll of the Season
Retired neurosurgeon and 2016 White House hopeful Dr. Ben Carson won an early straw poll hosted by the Southern Republican Leadership Conference in Oklahoma City on Saturday.
Wild weather causes Midwest flooding, tornadoes
Record rainfall wreaked havoc across a swath of the U.S. Midwest on Sunday, causing flash floods in normally dry riverbeds, spawning tornadoes and forcing at least 2,000 people to flee.
Man dies in house fire near Eloika Lake
A man is dead after fire and explosions leveled a house and an outbuilding at 42327 N. Sundance Road near Eloika Lake Saturday night.
Auto dealer’s efforts to close section of Madison Street opposed
A proposal to permanently close two blocks of South Madison Street in downtown Spokane has led the Larry H. Miller auto dealership company into another struggle at City Hall, where City Council members temporarily halted the street closures after hearing stiff opposition to the plan last week.
Sewer lines of contention
Delayed Sacheen Lake project divides community, pits conservationists against homeowners
Ireland votes yes to gay marriage
Ireland’s citizens have voted in a landslide to legalize gay marriage, electoral officials announced Saturday – a stunningly lopsided result that illustrates what Catholic leaders and rights activists alike called a “social revolution.” Friday’s referendum saw 62.1 percent of Irish voters say “yes” to changing the nation’s constitution to define marriage as a union between two people regardless of their sex.
Study says pandas should be meat eaters
A giant panda may look like a vegetarian on the outside, but it definitely looks like a carnivore on the inside. A genetic analysis of 121 samples of panda poop finds that the community of microbes living inside these animals’ guts is optimized to digest meat. This is despite the fact that giant pandas have been eating bamboo for at least 7 million years and the plant has been the bears’ sole food source for at least 2 million years.
In brief: Russian law targets ‘undesirable’ foreign groups
President Vladimir Putin signed a bill into law Saturday giving prosecutors the power to declare foreign and international organizations “undesirable” in Russia and shut them down. Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have condemned the measure as part of an “ongoing draconian crackdown which is squeezing the life out of civil society.”
Islamic State claims deadly Saudi attack
The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing that killed 21 people at a Shiite mosque in Saudi Arabia, warning that more “black days” loom ahead in a direct challenge to the rulers of the Sunni kingdom.
Venezuelan activist begins hunger strike
Jailed opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez said he is beginning a hunger strike and called for a mass anti-government protest next week in a video leaked Saturday.
Political party leader killed in Burundi
The leader of a Burundi opposition party was killed Saturday by unknown assailants in the nation’s capital, Bujumbura, local media reported.
Syria accused of chlorine gas bombing
Two years after President Bashar Assad agreed to destroy his chemical arsenal and joined the Chemical Weapons Convention, activists say they have documented 18 cases of chlorine gas used in the country’s rebel-held north since March 6, when the United Nations issued a resolution determining that chlorine was used in Syria and warning of repercussions. They say the attacks have killed nine people and injured hundreds.
Officer acquitted in 2012 shooting
A white patrolman who fired down through the windshield of a suspect’s car at the end of a 137-shot barrage that left the two unarmed black occupants dead was acquitted Saturday of criminal charges by a judge who said he could not determine the Cleveland officer alone fired the fatal shots.
Short-term fixes abound in Congress
When senators left town early Saturday after approving a brief extension of the nation’s highway and transit aid, they were following a well-worn path. If a program is about to expire and the two sides are stymied over what to do, Congress often keeps the program alive temporarily and revisits the problem later. The two-month rescue of the highway trust fund is Congress’ 33nd short-term patch of that program since 2008, the Transportation Department says. Lawmakers have approved another 101 measures temporarily keeping federal agencies open since it last completed all its spending bills on time in 1997, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service.
Gloria Steinem visits North Korea
Iconic women’s rights activist Gloria Steinem may be in North Korea, but she is as outspoken as ever. In an interview with the Associated Press, the 81-year-old feminism pioneer said she decided to join a group of women in a rare and in some quarters highly controversial walk across the Demilitarized Zone dividing North and South Korea because she thinks efforts to force change by isolating the North have failed. But, she said, she has no intention of letting the North’s leadership off the hook for its human rights record.
Salvadorans rejoice as Romero beatified
Archbishop Oscar Romero was beatified by Roman Catholic officials Saturday in an emotional ceremony elevating the once-controversial cleric to the ranks of the blessed 35 years after his assassination.
Myanmar leader signs population control law
Myanmar’s president has signed off on a law requiring some mothers to space their children three years apart despite objections by a visiting senior U.S. diplomat and rights activists, who worry it could be used not only to repress women, but also religious and ethnic minorities.
Fuel shortage stalls traffic in oil-rich Nigeria
Nigerian airlines grounded flights Saturday and radio stations were silenced as a monthslong fuel shortage aggravated by striking oil tanker drivers worsened in Africa’s biggest oil producer. The crisis started weeks before the March 29 elections, with oil suppliers hit by tightened credit lines amid halved international oil prices, a slump in the naira currency, and unpaid government debts the suppliers claim amount to nearly $1 billion.
Pipeline in California spill lacked auto shut-off
The pipeline that leaked thousands of gallons of oil on the California coast was the only pipe of its kind in the county not required to have an automatic shut-off valve because of a court fight nearly three decades ago. The original owner of the pipeline skirted the Santa Barbara County requirement by successfully arguing in court in the late 1980s that it should be subject to federal oversight because the pipeline is part of an interstate network. Auto shut-off valves are not required by federal regulators.
Rescuers ready to aid Mount Rainier climbers
As the climbing season gets underway on Mount Rainier, a specialized rescue team has been training to be ready when things go wrong on the 14,411-foot peak.
Man arrested after vehicle injures festivalgoers at Gorge campground
Four people attending the Sasquatch Music Festival were injured Saturday morning when a 19-year-old man from California ran over several tents and hit parked cars at the Gorge Amphitheatre campground. The man, identified as Tanner A. Drayton-Williams, of Woodland Hills, drove through several campsites around 9:30 a.m. Three of the injured had been released from the Quincy Valley Medical Center by early Saturday afternoon. Drayton-Williams was among those treated and released. The remaining victim was transferred to Confluence Health-Central Washington Hospital in Wenatchee for treatment of multiple broken bones and internal injuries
In brief: Olive Garden closes downtown Spokane location
A sign placed Saturday outside the Olive Garden in downtown Spokane announced that the business was closing permanently at the end of the day. The restaurant’s 80 employees were notified of the closure Saturday morning.
Rock group earns Bloomsday honor
The rock group Nixon Rodeo won a $500 cash prize as Best Bloomsday Entertainer after their performance at the base of Doomsday Hill during the annual road race earlier this month, Bloomsday announced in a news release last week.
Man charged with stabbing friend to death in Lewiston
A Lewiston man charged with stabbing his drinking partner to death will be held in jail without bond. The Lewiston Tribune reported Patrick James Nuxoll was arraigned Friday, the day after he told police his friend had committed suicide. Nuxoll, 53, is charged with first-degree murder of David W. Cramer.
Zip lines take riders through treetops near Lake Coeur d’Alene
For $95, almost anyone can zip through the trees in the steep hills overlooking Lake Coeur d’Alene’s Beauty Bay. Timberline Adventures, of Coeur d’Alene, is finishing up a “tree canopy” style zip line course there where customers can travel from platforms built high in towering ponderosa pine trees, Douglas fir and tamarack. Tours will be available Mondays through Saturdays during the season.
Spokane School Board candidates weigh in on walkout
Voters who have strong opinions about the Spokane teacher walkout this week likely will find a school board candidate on their August primary ballot who shares their stance.
Eye on Boise: Jerky quip earns an Oberto sampler
Oberto Brands in Seattle, manufacturer of beef jerky, is planning to send Idaho Rep. Heather Scott a case of beef jerky. The company noticed a post on Eye on Boise about how Scott, a Blanchard Republican, said during the special session of the Legislature on Monday, “Hey, I brought beef jerky, I’ll go for days.”
Geddes to succeed Luna, who resigned
Former Idaho Senate President Pro-Tem Bob Geddes, a geologist who also is a former Idaho state tax commissioner, was named the new director of the state Department of Administration last week by Gov. Butch Otter. Geddes replaces interim director Keith Reynolds, the department’s chief financial officer. Reynolds has been serving in the post since former director Teresa Luna resigned last month amid controversy surrounding a broadband contract with the Idaho Education Network.
Ybarra: Job done, tech chief leaving
The key staffer who oversaw the successful and quick transition of Idaho schools from the defunct Idaho Education Network to individually negotiated broadband contracts is resigning June 30. Will Goodman, chief technology officer for the state Department of Education, said he wanted to return to his prior job as technology director for the Mountain Home School District and spend more time with his family.
Spin Control: Budget plans have lawmakers boxed in
There is much talk in the capital these days about needing to agree on “the box,” which may be confusing to the general public. Legislative budgeteers are jammed up trying to agree on the size of this box, which isn’t really a box at all, but a sum of money which makes up the amount the state will spend on a wide array of programs for two years starting on July 1.
Kate McCaslin leaving
Former Spokane County Commissioner Kate McCaslin, who was a force in local politics even before she spent two terms on the county board, is leaving for points east. McCaslin is trading her spot at the top of the Inland Pacific Chapter of Associated Builders and Contractors for a similar post at the helm of the Keystone Chapter of the ABC in south central Pennsylvania. It’s a bigger chapter, in a much more populous region, and while McCaslin said leaving Spokane, where she’s lived since 1966, will be bittersweet, she felt it was time to “seize the moment.”
Twelve years after Iraq invasion, doubt still divides both parties
Mark Z. Barabak: Los Angeles Times
Mothers, children mark year in lockup
Immigrant detainees await rulings; policy under scrutiny
Franco Ordonez: Tribune News Service
Huckleberries: Kroc Center success puts naysaying in its place
Smart Bombs: Soft on white-collar crime
Editorial: Labor talks bill would allow public to weigh in
Kathleen Parker: GOP race truly a popularity contest
Guest opinion: No crop insurance would mean no food
Guest opinion: State Senate plan cuts health exchange
By Marcus Riccelli
High-end organic foods don’t match their marked-up price stickers
The market research firm Mintel released a study last week showing that younger consumers – the fickle Gen X and millennial crowds – are decidedly cynical about the high prices charged for organic goods. Only about 40 percent of Gen Xers believe organic is organic, Mintel found. And about half of all consumers think labeling something organic is just an excuse to charge more.
Include health coverage in kids’ college plans
A key question remains for many students who’ve finally settled on a college destination: How will they or their parents handle health care coverage?
BBB Tip of the Week
Reports have surfaced of hackers stealing hundreds of dollars from consumer bank accounts and credit cards through the Starbucks mobile payment app and rewards program. Hackers have been able to turn on and use the auto-refill payment option within hacked Starbucks accounts to steal money by adding it to gift cards they control. As they steal more, the Starbucks account refills from the consumer’s connected bank or credit card account.
Union backs development of marijuana safety manual
With just about six weeks left to the one-year anniversary of recreational cannabis in Washington, a new sign of the normalization of that industry has appeared. Under the leadership of the labor union United Food and Commercial Workers Local 367, a group of industry experts are developing the first “Cannabis Industry Workplace Safety and Health” manual for the state Department of Labor and Industries.
Susan Mulvihill: Regal climber
Beautiful blooms help clematis earn ‘queen of vines’ title
For Richland woman, a wish fulfilled – again
Some kids wish for a trip to Disneyland. Or for a meeting with a favorite actor or singer. Not Rachael Clayton. Back when the Richland woman was 6 years old – she was Rachael Blake then – she asked for a playhouse in the style of a gingerbread house. She’d seen one at the Columbia Center mall and was captivated. She told officials from the Wishing Star Foundation about her dream playhouse, and they jumped into action with help from the Tri-City community. The “gingerbread house” was delivered in April 1996, after Clayton’s seventh birthday. Last week, it got an epilogue. The playhouse made the journey from Clayton’s parents’ backyard in West Richland – where it was the site of countless tea parties and sleepovers as Clayton grew up – to its new home in the yard of Clayton’s soon-to-be-finished south Richland abode. Now 26, Clayton, who manages her immune deficiency through medication and is thriving, hopes it will serve a similar role for her kids.
Veteran’s long-unmarked grave given a headstone
When Chuck Elmore heard that a black Army veteran had been buried in the 1970s in an unmarked grave at Spokane-Cheney Memorial Gardens, he thought resolving the issue might take a few weeks. Six years later, Elmore has finally seen Sgt. Malbert M. Cooper receive the headstone he deserved.
Just another birthday for Detroit-area woman – her 116th
A Detroit-area woman turned 116 Saturday, but she offers no secret for a long life. “There’s nothing I can do about it,” Jeralean Talley of Inkster said ahead of her birthday weekend. The Gerontology Research Group considers her to be the oldest person in the world, based on available records, followed by Susannah Jones of Brooklyn, New York, who turns 116 in July.
B.B. King service recalls happy memories
A standing ovation for B.B. King and more cheers than tears marked a family-and-friends memorial of the late blues great’s life and legacy Saturday in Las Vegas.
Man who inspired “A Beautiful Mind” dies in taxi crash with his wife
John Forbes Nash Jr., a mathematical genius whose struggle with schizophrenia was chronicled in the 2001 movie “A Beautiful Mind,” has died along with his wife in a car crash on the New Jersey Turnpike. He was 86.
6 Jan 1929 - 16 May 2015 Kettle Falls
Obituary: Cole, Everett J.
7 Jan 1937 - 16 May 2015 Davenport
Here’s the GOP Candidate Who Won the First Major Straw Poll of the Season
Retired neurosurgeon and 2016 White House hopeful Dr. Ben Carson won an early straw poll hosted by the Southern Republican Leadership Conference in Oklahoma City on Saturday.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Wild weather causes Midwest flooding, tornadoes
Record rainfall wreaked havoc across a swath of the U.S. Midwest on Sunday, causing flash floods in normally dry riverbeds, spawning tornadoes and forcing at least 2,000 people to flee.
Man dies in house fire near Eloika Lake
A man is dead after fire and explosions leveled a house and an outbuilding at 42327 N. Sundance Road near Eloika Lake Saturday night.
Auto dealer’s efforts to close section of Madison Street opposed
A proposal to permanently close two blocks of South Madison Street in downtown Spokane has led the Larry H. Miller auto dealership company into another struggle at City Hall, where City Council members temporarily halted the street closures after hearing stiff opposition to the plan last week.
Sewer lines of contention
Delayed Sacheen Lake project divides community, pits conservationists against homeowners
Ireland votes yes to gay marriage
Ireland’s citizens have voted in a landslide to legalize gay marriage, electoral officials announced Saturday – a stunningly lopsided result that illustrates what Catholic leaders and rights activists alike called a “social revolution.” Friday’s referendum saw 62.1 percent of Irish voters say “yes” to changing the nation’s constitution to define marriage as a union between two people regardless of their sex.
A giant panda may look like a vegetarian on the outside, but it definitely looks like a carnivore on the inside. A genetic analysis of 121 samples of panda poop finds that the community of microbes living inside these animals’ guts is optimized to digest meat. This is despite the fact that giant pandas have been eating bamboo for at least 7 million years and the plant has been the bears’ sole food source for at least 2 million years.
In brief: Russian law targets ‘undesirable’ foreign groups
President Vladimir Putin signed a bill into law Saturday giving prosecutors the power to declare foreign and international organizations “undesirable” in Russia and shut them down. Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have condemned the measure as part of an “ongoing draconian crackdown which is squeezing the life out of civil society.”
Islamic State claims deadly Saudi attack
The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing that killed 21 people at a Shiite mosque in Saudi Arabia, warning that more “black days” loom ahead in a direct challenge to the rulers of the Sunni kingdom.
Venezuelan activist begins hunger strike
Jailed opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez said he is beginning a hunger strike and called for a mass anti-government protest next week in a video leaked Saturday.
Political party leader killed in Burundi
The leader of a Burundi opposition party was killed Saturday by unknown assailants in the nation’s capital, Bujumbura, local media reported.
Senate rejects action on Patriot Act; NSA spying powers likely to lapse
The National Security Agency’s power to collect domestic phone records is likely to expire with the Senate paralyzed over what to do about the Patriot Act. With the provision used to justify the mass collection of phone records expiring at the end of the month, and the House also on vacation, there appears little chance to prevent at least a temporary lapse in the NSA’s spying authority.
The National Security Agency’s power to collect domestic phone records is likely to expire with the Senate paralyzed over what to do about the Patriot Act. With the provision used to justify the mass collection of phone records expiring at the end of the month, and the House also on vacation, there appears little chance to prevent at least a temporary lapse in the NSA’s spying authority.
Two years after President Bashar Assad agreed to destroy his chemical arsenal and joined the Chemical Weapons Convention, activists say they have documented 18 cases of chlorine gas used in the country’s rebel-held north since March 6, when the United Nations issued a resolution determining that chlorine was used in Syria and warning of repercussions. They say the attacks have killed nine people and injured hundreds.
Officer acquitted in 2012 shooting
A white patrolman who fired down through the windshield of a suspect’s car at the end of a 137-shot barrage that left the two unarmed black occupants dead was acquitted Saturday of criminal charges by a judge who said he could not determine the Cleveland officer alone fired the fatal shots.
When senators left town early Saturday after approving a brief extension of the nation’s highway and transit aid, they were following a well-worn path. If a program is about to expire and the two sides are stymied over what to do, Congress often keeps the program alive temporarily and revisits the problem later. The two-month rescue of the highway trust fund is Congress’ 33nd short-term patch of that program since 2008, the Transportation Department says. Lawmakers have approved another 101 measures temporarily keeping federal agencies open since it last completed all its spending bills on time in 1997, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service.
Gloria Steinem visits North Korea
Iconic women’s rights activist Gloria Steinem may be in North Korea, but she is as outspoken as ever. In an interview with the Associated Press, the 81-year-old feminism pioneer said she decided to join a group of women in a rare and in some quarters highly controversial walk across the Demilitarized Zone dividing North and South Korea because she thinks efforts to force change by isolating the North have failed. But, she said, she has no intention of letting the North’s leadership off the hook for its human rights record.
Salvadorans rejoice as Romero beatified
Archbishop Oscar Romero was beatified by Roman Catholic officials Saturday in an emotional ceremony elevating the once-controversial cleric to the ranks of the blessed 35 years after his assassination.
Should chimpanzees – complex creatures with thoughts, feelings and the ability to learn sign language – have the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?
Myanmar’s president has signed off on a law requiring some mothers to space their children three years apart despite objections by a visiting senior U.S. diplomat and rights activists, who worry it could be used not only to repress women, but also religious and ethnic minorities.
Fuel shortage stalls traffic in oil-rich Nigeria
Nigerian airlines grounded flights Saturday and radio stations were silenced as a monthslong fuel shortage aggravated by striking oil tanker drivers worsened in Africa’s biggest oil producer. The crisis started weeks before the March 29 elections, with oil suppliers hit by tightened credit lines amid halved international oil prices, a slump in the naira currency, and unpaid government debts the suppliers claim amount to nearly $1 billion.
Pipeline in California spill lacked auto shut-off
The pipeline that leaked thousands of gallons of oil on the California coast was the only pipe of its kind in the county not required to have an automatic shut-off valve because of a court fight nearly three decades ago. The original owner of the pipeline skirted the Santa Barbara County requirement by successfully arguing in court in the late 1980s that it should be subject to federal oversight because the pipeline is part of an interstate network. Auto shut-off valves are not required by federal regulators.
As the climbing season gets underway on Mount Rainier, a specialized rescue team has been training to be ready when things go wrong on the 14,411-foot peak.
Popular Yellowstone, Grand Teton trails closed for now
Two of the most heavily used day-hiking routes in Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks in northwest Wyoming are closed because of weather damage and maintenance.
Two of the most heavily used day-hiking routes in Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks in northwest Wyoming are closed because of weather damage and maintenance.
One day after hundreds gathered in downtown Olympia to protest the police shooting of two shoplifting suspects, the streets were quiet. A plan to march to the officer’s house Friday evening was proposed by a self-described anarchist group on Facebook, but was canceled after other groups objected.
Two people have chained themselves to a support ship that is part of Royal Dutch Shell’s exploratory oil drilling plans and currently moored in Washington.
Four people attending the Sasquatch Music Festival were injured Saturday morning when a 19-year-old man from California ran over several tents and hit parked cars at the Gorge Amphitheatre campground. The man, identified as Tanner A. Drayton-Williams, of Woodland Hills, drove through several campsites around 9:30 a.m. Three of the injured had been released from the Quincy Valley Medical Center by early Saturday afternoon. Drayton-Williams was among those treated and released. The remaining victim was transferred to Confluence Health-Central Washington Hospital in Wenatchee for treatment of multiple broken bones and internal injuries
In brief: Olive Garden closes downtown Spokane location
A sign placed Saturday outside the Olive Garden in downtown Spokane announced that the business was closing permanently at the end of the day. The restaurant’s 80 employees were notified of the closure Saturday morning.
Rock group earns Bloomsday honor
The rock group Nixon Rodeo won a $500 cash prize as Best Bloomsday Entertainer after their performance at the base of Doomsday Hill during the annual road race earlier this month, Bloomsday announced in a news release last week.
Man charged with stabbing friend to death in Lewiston
A Lewiston man charged with stabbing his drinking partner to death will be held in jail without bond. The Lewiston Tribune reported Patrick James Nuxoll was arraigned Friday, the day after he told police his friend had committed suicide. Nuxoll, 53, is charged with first-degree murder of David W. Cramer.
Zip lines take riders through treetops near Lake Coeur d’Alene
For $95, almost anyone can zip through the trees in the steep hills overlooking Lake Coeur d’Alene’s Beauty Bay. Timberline Adventures, of Coeur d’Alene, is finishing up a “tree canopy” style zip line course there where customers can travel from platforms built high in towering ponderosa pine trees, Douglas fir and tamarack. Tours will be available Mondays through Saturdays during the season.
Spokane School Board candidates weigh in on walkout
Voters who have strong opinions about the Spokane teacher walkout this week likely will find a school board candidate on their August primary ballot who shares their stance.
Eye on Boise: Jerky quip earns an Oberto sampler
Oberto Brands in Seattle, manufacturer of beef jerky, is planning to send Idaho Rep. Heather Scott a case of beef jerky. The company noticed a post on Eye on Boise about how Scott, a Blanchard Republican, said during the special session of the Legislature on Monday, “Hey, I brought beef jerky, I’ll go for days.”
Geddes to succeed Luna, who resigned
Former Idaho Senate President Pro-Tem Bob Geddes, a geologist who also is a former Idaho state tax commissioner, was named the new director of the state Department of Administration last week by Gov. Butch Otter. Geddes replaces interim director Keith Reynolds, the department’s chief financial officer. Reynolds has been serving in the post since former director Teresa Luna resigned last month amid controversy surrounding a broadband contract with the Idaho Education Network.
Ybarra: Job done, tech chief leaving
The key staffer who oversaw the successful and quick transition of Idaho schools from the defunct Idaho Education Network to individually negotiated broadband contracts is resigning June 30. Will Goodman, chief technology officer for the state Department of Education, said he wanted to return to his prior job as technology director for the Mountain Home School District and spend more time with his family.
Spin Control: Budget plans have lawmakers boxed in
There is much talk in the capital these days about needing to agree on “the box,” which may be confusing to the general public. Legislative budgeteers are jammed up trying to agree on the size of this box, which isn’t really a box at all, but a sum of money which makes up the amount the state will spend on a wide array of programs for two years starting on July 1.
Kate McCaslin leaving
Former Spokane County Commissioner Kate McCaslin, who was a force in local politics even before she spent two terms on the county board, is leaving for points east. McCaslin is trading her spot at the top of the Inland Pacific Chapter of Associated Builders and Contractors for a similar post at the helm of the Keystone Chapter of the ABC in south central Pennsylvania. It’s a bigger chapter, in a much more populous region, and while McCaslin said leaving Spokane, where she’s lived since 1966, will be bittersweet, she felt it was time to “seize the moment.”
Twelve years after Iraq invasion, doubt still divides both parties
Mark Z. Barabak: Los Angeles Times
Mothers, children mark year in lockup
Immigrant detainees await rulings; policy under scrutiny
Franco Ordonez: Tribune News Service
Huckleberries: Kroc Center success puts naysaying in its place
Smart Bombs: Soft on white-collar crime
Editorial: Labor talks bill would allow public to weigh in
Kathleen Parker: GOP race truly a popularity contest
Guest opinion: No crop insurance would mean no food
Guest opinion: State Senate plan cuts health exchange
By Marcus Riccelli
High-end organic foods don’t match their marked-up price stickers
The market research firm Mintel released a study last week showing that younger consumers – the fickle Gen X and millennial crowds – are decidedly cynical about the high prices charged for organic goods. Only about 40 percent of Gen Xers believe organic is organic, Mintel found. And about half of all consumers think labeling something organic is just an excuse to charge more.
Include health coverage in kids’ college plans
A key question remains for many students who’ve finally settled on a college destination: How will they or their parents handle health care coverage?
BBB Tip of the Week
Reports have surfaced of hackers stealing hundreds of dollars from consumer bank accounts and credit cards through the Starbucks mobile payment app and rewards program. Hackers have been able to turn on and use the auto-refill payment option within hacked Starbucks accounts to steal money by adding it to gift cards they control. As they steal more, the Starbucks account refills from the consumer’s connected bank or credit card account.
Union backs development of marijuana safety manual
With just about six weeks left to the one-year anniversary of recreational cannabis in Washington, a new sign of the normalization of that industry has appeared. Under the leadership of the labor union United Food and Commercial Workers Local 367, a group of industry experts are developing the first “Cannabis Industry Workplace Safety and Health” manual for the state Department of Labor and Industries.
Susan Mulvihill: Regal climber
Beautiful blooms help clematis earn ‘queen of vines’ title
For Richland woman, a wish fulfilled – again
Some kids wish for a trip to Disneyland. Or for a meeting with a favorite actor or singer. Not Rachael Clayton. Back when the Richland woman was 6 years old – she was Rachael Blake then – she asked for a playhouse in the style of a gingerbread house. She’d seen one at the Columbia Center mall and was captivated. She told officials from the Wishing Star Foundation about her dream playhouse, and they jumped into action with help from the Tri-City community. The “gingerbread house” was delivered in April 1996, after Clayton’s seventh birthday. Last week, it got an epilogue. The playhouse made the journey from Clayton’s parents’ backyard in West Richland – where it was the site of countless tea parties and sleepovers as Clayton grew up – to its new home in the yard of Clayton’s soon-to-be-finished south Richland abode. Now 26, Clayton, who manages her immune deficiency through medication and is thriving, hopes it will serve a similar role for her kids.
When Chuck Elmore heard that a black Army veteran had been buried in the 1970s in an unmarked grave at Spokane-Cheney Memorial Gardens, he thought resolving the issue might take a few weeks. Six years later, Elmore has finally seen Sgt. Malbert M. Cooper receive the headstone he deserved.
Just another birthday for Detroit-area woman – her 116th
A Detroit-area woman turned 116 Saturday, but she offers no secret for a long life. “There’s nothing I can do about it,” Jeralean Talley of Inkster said ahead of her birthday weekend. The Gerontology Research Group considers her to be the oldest person in the world, based on available records, followed by Susannah Jones of Brooklyn, New York, who turns 116 in July.
B.B. King service recalls happy memories
A standing ovation for B.B. King and more cheers than tears marked a family-and-friends memorial of the late blues great’s life and legacy Saturday in Las Vegas.
Man who inspired “A Beautiful Mind” dies in taxi crash with his wife
John Forbes Nash Jr., a mathematical genius whose struggle with schizophrenia was chronicled in the 2001 movie “A Beautiful Mind,” has died along with his wife in a car crash on the New Jersey Turnpike. He was 86.
Obituary: Cole, Everett J.
7 Jan 1937 - 16 May 2015 Davenport
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[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
ARE OBAMA AND THE HARD LEFT OF THE DEVIL?
Exclusive: Lord Monckton confronts 'wicked falsehoods' that promote 'fatal abominations'
ARE OBAMA AND THE HARD LEFT OF THE DEVIL?
Exclusive: Lord Monckton confronts 'wicked falsehoods' that promote 'fatal abominations'
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