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Sunday, May 20, 2007
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CIA finds Iraq resources fund al-Qaida in Pakistan
May 20, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A1 WASHINGTON – A major CIA effort launched last year to hunt down Osama bin Laden has produced no significant leads on his whereabouts, but has helped track an alarming increase …
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Lilac festival parade: Here’s to the Heroes
May 20, 2007 in City on Page A1 The pride of Chewelah paraded through downtown Spokane in 1970s style Saturday evening. The brightly colored float for the small town featured an array of light green, pink, blue, yellow …
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CdA, LC capture state titles
May 20, 2007 in Idaho on Page A1 North Idaho was the home of champions and near-champions Saturday. North Idaho College came up just shy of the NJCAA Division I national softball championship by losing to Chipola (Fla.) …
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Fats Domino performs for first time since Katrina
May 20, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A2 NEW ORLEANS – Fats Domino took the stage before a sold-out crowd of hundreds in a New Orleans nightclub Saturday, marking the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer’s first public …
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Senate taking up immigration bill
May 20, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A3 WASHINGTON – The Democrat-controlled Senate this week will plunge into its first confrontation over immigration when it debates a comprehensive bill crafted by a bipartisan group of senators and endorsed …
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Tornado can’t stop graduation
May 20, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A3 GREENSBURG, Kan. – Amid the ruins of their tornado-devastated town, residents celebrated a high school commencement Saturday that mixed tearful memories with pride and promises to rebuild. Beneath two large …
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China displeased before talks
May 20, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A4 SHANGHAI, China – On the eve of high-level economic talks in Washington this week, Chinese leaders are increasingly bitter about what they see as bullying behavior by the United States …
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In Passing
May 20, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A4 Santa Monica, Calif. Yolanda King, actress, advocate
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Tainted Chinese catfish exposes food-safety flaws
May 20, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A4 WASHINGTON – As federal regulators scrambled last month to contain a pet food contamination outbreak, officials in some Southern states had a different concern: Noticing that catfish imports from China …
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Everest climb marked by bodies
May 20, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A5 EVEREST BASE CAMP, Tibet – To reach the summit of Mount Everest, climbers must ascend through a field of corpses – the bodies of climbers who didn’t get off the …
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Teen youngest to climb 7 summits
May 20, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A5 LOS ANGELES – An 18-year-old woman has reached the summit of Mount Everest, becoming what is believed to be the youngest person to scale the highest peaks on each of …
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Shoes of gator wrestlers prove difficult to fill
May 20, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A6 FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – At Everglades Holiday Park, on the western edge of U.S. 27, Daniel Fontaine tends to his nine gators and waits for the tourists to arrive. Fontaine …
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In brief: Michael Moore film debuts at festival
May 20, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A9 “Sicko,” Michael Moore’s attack on the U.S. health care system, got a warm welcome at Cannes on Saturday that marked the director’s triumphant return to the film festival and a …
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Hamas, Fatah truce taking hold
May 20, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A9 GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – Gunmen armed with rifles, grenades and explosives climbed down from rooftop positions Saturday and residents began venturing out of bullet-scarred homes after their leaders agreed …
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Missing soldiers’ fate remains uncertain
May 20, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A10 BAGHDAD – Two of the three U.S. soldiers missing since a May 12 ambush south of Baghdad are believed to have been alive as recently as Friday morning, but the …
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Carter calls Bush ‘worst in history’
May 20, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A11 LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Former President Carter says President Bush’s administration is “the worst in history” in international relations, taking aim at the White House’s policy of pre-emptive war and …
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McCain’s health looms large
May 20, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A11 WASHINGTON – As he exited the stairs of his “Straight Talk Express” campaign bus on a chilly March day in Iowa, Sen. John McCain carefully took one step at a …
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Parade results
May 20, 2007 in City on Page A12 Parade float winners Community sweepstakes: Chewelah
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Global warming may cost Kansas its sunflower
May 20, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A13 KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Imagine the Sunflower State without sunflowers. That’s one of the dire predictions contained in a new report on global warming released by the National Wildlife Federation, …
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Progress being made on fires around U.S.
May 20, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A13 PAYSON, Ariz. – A wildfire that had threatened homes and other structures in two northern Arizona forests was 80 percent contained Saturday and evacuees were being told they could return …
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Los Angeles anxious about high fire risk
May 20, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A13 LOS ANGELES – The hills surrounding the famed Hollywood sign are shades of tan, chocolate and gray. Not too far away, other parts of Griffith Park are a wasteland, charred …
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Teenager drowns in Hayden Lake
May 20, 2007 in Idaho on Page B1 A Rathdrum teenager drowned Saturday at Hayden Lake during a canoe outing. Divers pulled the body of 17-year-old Branden T. Castleton from the murky water of Mokins Bay on the …
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Sporting goods for good sports
May 20, 2007 in Idaho on Page B1 Three generations of the Walchly family came to Coeur d’Alene on Saturday to catch the grand opening of Sportsman’s Warehouse. There was Ralph Walchly, of Kellogg, his 10-year-old son, Skyler, …
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Summit to tackle housing divide
May 20, 2007 in Idaho on Page B1 More than 150 people are expected to gather in Sandpoint on Thursday for North Idaho’s first summit on affordable housing, confronting one of the most pressing issues in resort towns …
