April 17, 2007 in City on Page A1 Detective Dave Beck nearly stepped on 10-day-old twins strapped into car seats and hidden among clothing, human feces and filth littering the floor of a middle-class Post Falls home as …

April 17, 2007 in City on Page A1 Two fly-fishing buddies who hope to open a distillery in Spokane say it would be the state’s first grain-alcohol producer since the days of Prohibition. But the new business won’t …

April 17, 2007 in City on Page A1 Today on spokesmanreview.com

April 17, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A2 NEW YORK – Two masters of the arts world finally won Pulitzers on Monday, with 73-year-old novelist Cormac McCarthy receiving the fiction prize for “The Road” and 77-year-old saxophonist Ornette …

April 17, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A3 BAGHDAD – Over the past six months, American troops have died in Iraq at the highest rate since the war began, an indication that the conflict is becoming increasingly dangerous …

April 17, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A3 BAGHDAD – Cabinet ministers loyal to radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr quit the government Monday, severing the powerful Shiite religious leader from the U.S.-backed prime minister and raising fears al-Sadr’s Mahdi …

April 17, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A4 Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Monday he was open to a “reasonable exchange” of Palestinian prisoners in return for a captured soldier but the Palestinians’ current demands are too …

April 17, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A4 WASHINGTON – Senators postponed testimony by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales in the aftermath of Monday’s deadly Virginia Tech shootings, delaying his chance to defend contradictions about fired federal prosecutors that …

April 17, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A4 UNITED NATIONS – Sudan agreed on Monday to allow more than 3,000 heavily armed U.N. and African peacekeepers in Darfur to reinforce a beleaguered African Union force of 7,000 that …

April 17, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A5 WASHINGTON – Climate change will exact a major cost on North America’s timber industry and could drive as much as 40 percent of its plant and animal species extinct in …

April 17, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A5 The White House should be able to recover an undetermined number of e-mails – perhaps millions of messages – that accidentally disappeared from its servers during a program conversion, an …

April 17, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A5 CROTON-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. – A menacing spring storm pounded the Northeast for a second straight day Monday, dumping more than 8 inches of rain on Central Park and sending refrigerators and …

April 17, 2007 in City on Page A6 OLYMPIA – The mass shootings in Virginia are unlikely to revive Olympia’s only major attempt at gun control legislation this year, lawmakers said Monday. This winter, 30 lawmakers backed a …

April 17, 2007 in City on Page A7 LONDON – The Virginia Tech shootings received extensive news coverage around the world Monday, leading many to question how such violence could keep happening in the United States. In Britain, …

April 17, 2007 in City on Page A8 The following events and activities are scheduled during the communitywide “Our Kids: Our Business” campaign, which runs through April. For more info, see www.spokesman review.com/ ourkids/ Spokane County

April 17, 2007 in Business on Page A10 Spokane Valley-based General Dynamics Itronix has landed a joint Army contract that will significantly increase sales of its rugged mobile computers, the company announced on Monday. In a news release, …

April 17, 2007 in Business on Page A10 WASHINGTON — A group of investors announced plans Monday to buy Sallie Mae, taking the nation’s largest student lender private in a $25 billion deal that comes as some regulators …

April 17, 2007 in Business on Page A10 Not so much as a week seems to go by without another report on the dire implications of global warming. Monday, two new reports focused on the stress that will …