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Idaho wants new prisons
June 16, 2005 in Idaho on Page A1 POCATELLO, Idaho – Idaho needs to build three new prisons at a cost of nearly $160 million, legislative budget writers were told Wednesday. If lawmakers next winter approve the proposal, …
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Damage to Schiavo’s brain was irreversible
June 16, 2005 in Nation/World on Page A1 LARGO, Fla. – The autopsy of Terri Schiavo backed her husband’s contention that she was in a persistent vegetative state, finding she was severely and irreversibly brain-damaged and blind as …
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Some depot critics convert
June 16, 2005 in Idaho on Page A1 The Kootenai County Commission chairman feels more confident that the BNSF Railway refueling depot near Hauser, Idaho, was safe to reopen after hearing specific details about repairs and detection systems …
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Cuts would derail Empire Builder
June 16, 2005 in City on Page A1 WASHINGTON – Amtrak would have to end all of its cross-country routes, including the Empire Builder route through Washington and Idaho, under big cuts approved Wednesday by a House subcommittee. …
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Summit aims to prioritize criminal justice spending
June 16, 2005 in City on Page A1 In the last four weeks, 103 people were arrested while awaiting prosecution on other charges. The alleged offenders had committed mostly minor crimes, and their cases had been pushed to …
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Spokane crime rate soaring
June 16, 2005 in City on Page A1 Spokane has the highest crime rate among the state’s 10 biggest cities for the first time in the 23 years that the data has been compiled. Last year, Spokane suffered …
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Troops free hostage in Iraq
June 16, 2005 in Nation/World on Page A1 BAGHDAD, Iraq – A militant strapped with more than 100 pounds of explosives and disguised in an army uniform blew himself up in a crowded mess hall Wednesday as brutal …
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Seattle banker wins $9.3 million jackpot
June 16, 2005 in City on Page A2 OLYMPIA – A Seattle investment banker who wants to keep working in spite of his good fortune has cashed in the winning $9.3 million Lotto jackpot ticket for Saturday night’s …
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Pacific Coast quake fails to make waves
June 16, 2005 in Nation/World on Page A2 CRESCENT CITY, Calif. – Coastal dwellers in far northern California and southern Oregon knew to take it seriously when tsunami sirens sounded after a 7.2-magnitude offshore earthquake, and thousands of …
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Bush opposes bill to overhaul U.N.
June 16, 2005 in Nation/World on Page A3 Washington The Bush administration told Congress on Wednesday it opposes a bill to overhaul the way the United Nations works, citing a requirement that the United States withhold dues if …
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House vote says ‘no’ to halting medical marijuana prosecutions
June 16, 2005 in Nation/World on Page A3 WASHINGTON – Yes, the government can make a federal case out of medical marijuana use, the House said Wednesday. Less than a week ago, the Supreme Court ruled that the …
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Panel urges action on Gitmo
June 16, 2005 in Nation/World on Page A3 WASHINGTON – The fallout over the Bush administration’s alleged mistreatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay prison camp worsened Wednesday as Republicans and Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee said Congress …
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House blocks Patriot Act’s intrusion on library records
June 16, 2005 in Nation/World on Page A3 WASHINGTON – In a slap at President Bush, lawmakers voted Wednesday to block the Justice Department and the FBI from using the Patriot Act to peek at library records and …
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Clarity on detainee rights urged
June 16, 2005 in Nation/World on Page A3 WASHINGTON – A senior Republican, Sen. Arlen Specter, urged Congress on Wednesday to clarify prisoners’ rights at Guantanamo Bay, decrying a “crazy quilt” of legal decisions about the military’s handling …
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70 hostages seized at Cambodia school
June 16, 2005 in Nation/World on Page A4 Phnom Penh, Cambodia Six masked men, some armed with shotguns, took 70 students and teachers hostage at an international school in northwestern Cambodia but released about 30 of the hostages, …
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Armed men take hostages at school
June 16, 2005 in Nation/World on Page A4 Phnom Penh, Cambodia Six masked men, some armed with shotguns, took 70 students and teachers hostage at an international school in northwestern Cambodia but released about 30 of the hostages, …
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Bin Laden, Omar alive and well, Taliban leader says in interview
June 16, 2005 in Nation/World on Page A4 ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – Osama bin Laden and fugitive Taliban chief Mullah Mohammed Omar are alive and well, a purported Taliban commander said in a TV interview broadcast Wednesday, adding that …
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Congress to hold forum on Downing Street memo
June 16, 2005 in Nation/World on Page A4 WASHINGTON – The secret British memo of 2002 that reported that President Bush was determined to go to war against Iraq months earlier than he publicly acknowledged will get its …
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Suspected terrorists arrested
June 16, 2005 in Nation/World on Page A4 MADRID, Spain – Spanish police arrested 11 men on Wednesday on charges of belonging to a Syrian-based network that recruited suicide bombers to attack U.S. troops in Iraq, officials said …
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EPA targets air in national parks
June 16, 2005 in Nation/World on Page A7 WASHINGTON – Hundreds of power plants, cement kilns, iron and steel mills, oil refineries and other facilities will have to cut pollution by a billion tons annually over the next …
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New interactive Web sites boost city, state
June 16, 2005 in Business on Page A10 Two new interactive Web sites – one run by the state of Washington, the other by the Spokane Regional Convention and Visitors Bureau – give visitors or businesses quick access …
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Housing market gets attention
June 16, 2005 in Business on Page A10 COEUR d’ALENE – Kootenai County has some of the fastest appreciating real estate values in the country. Home prices jumped nearly 24 percent between the first quarter of 2004 and …
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Unions form new coalition
June 16, 2005 in Business on Page A10 WASHINGTON — Unhappy with the shape of the labor movement under the existing AFL-CIO leadership, the heads of five of the federation’s largest affiliates said Wednesday they formed a separate …
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Students look around, come around to Spokane
June 16, 2005 in Business on Page A10 Three Lewis and Clark High School students who set out earlier this year to find out more about Spokane discovered there was more to like than they thought. Their experience …
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