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Thursday, September 23, 2004
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Dredging up worries
September 23, 2004 in Idaho on Page A1 Local businessman Duane Hagadone wants to dredge the channel west of Blackwell Island, making it wider and deeper, as part of a planned expansion for the Marina Yacht Club. Marina …
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Rockford man’s bread fuels fair tradition
September 23, 2004 in City on Page A1 Melvin LaShaw carefully scrapes excess sugar off the top of the measuring cup with a spoon handle. To LaShaw, baking zucchini bread is similar to farming wheat or raising Black …
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Death toll in Haiti tops 1,070
September 23, 2004 in Nation/World on Page A1 GONAIVES, Haiti – Workers used dump trucks to empty more than 100 bodies into a 14-foot-deep hole on Wednesday – the first mass grave for the more than 1,070 flood …
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Celebrating a life of love
September 23, 2004 in City on Page A1 MOSCOW, Idaho – More than 400 people packed into a University of Idaho theater Wednesday night to mourn the loss of UI football player Eric McMillan, who died after being …
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STA says transit tax proceeds for buses
September 23, 2004 in City on Page A1 Members of the Spokane Transit Authority Board of Directors said Wednesday that money raised from a sales tax increase approved in May will not be used to build a light …
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Bull trout habitat plan gets rollback
September 23, 2004 in Idaho on Page A1 The federal government unveiled a dramatically downsized critical habitat designation plan for bull trout Wednesday, saying the threatened fish receive enough protection in many areas of the Inland Northwest through …
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British hostage pleads for life, appeals to Blair
September 23, 2004 in Nation/World on Page A1 BAGHDAD, Iraq – A British hostage appeared on a video posted on an Islamic Web site Wednesday weeping and pleading for his life as Iraq’s leader and U.S. officials crushed …
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Lottery numbers
September 23, 2004 on Page A2 Wednesday’s Washington Daily Game: 8-3-0. Wednesday’s Washington Lotto: 10-12-30-34-45-49. No winner. Next jackpot $1.3 million.
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Goss easily confirmed to lead troubled CIA
September 23, 2004 in Nation/World on Page A2 WASHINGTON — The Senate brushed aside concerns over partisanship and independence Wednesday to easily confirm Rep. Porter Goss to head a CIA that’s been battered by three years of intelligence …
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CBS fined $550,000 for Janet Jackson flash dance
September 23, 2004 in Nation/World on Page A2 WASHINGTON – CBS got the bill Wednesday for Janet Jackson’s eye-catching flash dance during the Super Bowl halftime show: a record $550,000. The Federal Communications Commission voted unanimously to fine …
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Alleged combatant headed home soon
September 23, 2004 in Nation/World on Page A3 WASHINGTON – Yaser Esam Hamdi is expected to board a U.S. plane within the next several days for Saudi Arabia, ending a nearly three-year confinement for the Louisiana-born college student …
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Another U.S. soldier dies in Afghanistan
September 23, 2004 in Nation/World on Page A3 KABUL, Afghanistan – An attack on a patrol killed an American soldier, the third U.S. fatality this week in Afghanistan, the military said Wednesday, amid a flurry of attacks that …
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U.S. alleges Cat Stevens has ties to terrorists
September 23, 2004 in Nation/World on Page A3 WASHINGTON – The former Cat Stevens was slated to be deported to England on Wednesday because of U.S. government concerns that the soft-rock singer turned Muslim activist has ties to …
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Espionage charges against GI dropped
September 23, 2004 in Nation/World on Page A3 WASHINGTON – The government dropped espionage charges Wednesday against a Syrian-born interpreter at the Guantanamo Bay military prison, the third time in recent months that investigators have withdrawn security-related charges …
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Police still searching for motive in fatal shooting of football player
September 23, 2004 in City on Page A4 MOSCOW, Idaho – Police have a number of witnesses who saw men matching descriptions of suspects James and Matthew Wells fleeing the scene of the shooting that killed UI student …
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Bill extending tax cuts said likely to pass
September 23, 2004 in Nation/World on Page A7 WASHINGTON – House-Senate negotiators late Wednesday approved extending three popular middle-class tax cuts and Republicans, anxious to get the bill to President Bush, predicted swift passage in both chambers of …
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Job losses split Europe
September 23, 2004 in Business on Page A8 PARIS — Stephane Zervos first suspected his job was threatened when his bosses removed most of the heavy equipment from the car wheel factory where he’d worked for 24 years. …
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Out-of-pocket health care costs soar
September 23, 2004 in Business on Page A8 NEW YORK — Privately insured, low-income workers with chronic medical conditions such as diabetes and asthma are being financially squeezed as employers shift the burden of higher health care costs …
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Fannie Mae faces SEC inquiry
September 23, 2004 in Business on Page A8 WASHINGTON — Regulators have discovered serious accounting problems at mortgage giant Fannie Mae, prompting an inquiry by the Securities and Exchange Commission and calling into question its financial soundness, the …
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Plans a shield against tuition time bomb
September 23, 2004 in Business on Page A8 Maybe it’s the stock market. Maybe it’s the Legislature’s eroding support for higher education. Whatever it is, the Washington Guaranteed Education Tuition Program has become the fastest-growing pre-paid tuition program …
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Skating event adds 4 sponsors
September 23, 2004 in Business on Page A8 With more than 800 days left before skaters hit the ice, Spokane organizers on Wednesday announced four new corporate sponsors for the 2007 U.S. Figure Skating Championships. The competition, to …
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Critics fear biotechnology ‘gene flow’
September 23, 2004 in Business on Page A8 SAN FRANCISCO — California rice farmers are worried Japanese customers will boycott their products if genetically engineered rice is allowed into the state. And in Hawaii, organic papaya farmers are …
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Computer Associates to pay $225 million
September 23, 2004 in Business on Page A9 NEW YORK — Former Computer Associates International Inc. chairman and chief executive Sanjay Kumar has been charged with securities fraud, conspiracy and obstruction of justice in connection with a multibillion-dollar …
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Bill aimed at helping repair shops
September 23, 2004 in Business on Page A9 WASHINGTON — The chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee told automakers Wednesday that they must do a better job of providing information to independent auto repair shops if …
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