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Thursday, May 31, 2007
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Spring all-league teams
May 31, 2007 in Sports Spring all-league teams
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Surgery better than therapy for back problem, study says
May 31, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A1 Surgery is twice as effective as physical therapy and drugs for relieving pain and improving mobility in one of the most common back problems, researchers report today. The study, published …
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Afghanistan crash kills 7
May 31, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A1 KABUL, Afghanistan – Five Americans and two other soldiers died when a Chinook helicopter was apparently shot down Wednesday evening in Afghanistan’s most volatile province, a U.S. military official said. …
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Met Mortgage auditor says exec misrepresented sale
May 31, 2007 in City on Page A1 SEATTLE – Metropolitan Mortgage & Securities Co.’s financial auditors counseled executives of the Spokane company again and again about special accounting rules designed to prevent financial fraud, one auditor testified …
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River plan draws fire
May 31, 2007 in City on Page A1 The federal government is being accused of conducting a magic trick in its efforts to make pollution disappear from the Spokane River. Companies and cities along the river are expected …
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Boy bags ‘Monster Pig’ on preserve
May 31, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A2 BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – State wildlife officials said Wednesday they want to know how the huge hog dubbed “Monster Pig” got into a fenced hunting preserve where it was chased down …
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No sightings, but whales likely back in ocean
May 31, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A2 SAN FRANCISCO – More than two weeks after they were first spotted far up the Sacramento River, two lost humpback whales appeared to have finally found their way home Wednesday. …
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Boeing unit sued over CIA renditions
May 31, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A3 The American Civil Liberties Union filed a suit Wednesday accusing a Boeing subsidiary of helping the CIA to facilitate “the forced disappearance, torture and inhumane treatment” of three men the …
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Actor/politician takes steps toward White House bid
May 31, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A3 WASHINGTON – Fred Thompson will offer himself as a down-home antidote to Washington politics in his bid for the Republican presidential nomination, running a campaign out of Nashville while promising …
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Guard F-15 fighter jet crashes in Indiana field
May 31, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A3 VINCENNES, Ind. – An F-15 fighter jet on a training mission crashed Wednesday in a farm field, authorities said. The pilot parachuted to safety, the military said, and no injuries …
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Detainee dies in apparent suicide
May 31, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A3 SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – A Saudi Arabian detainee died Wednesday at Guantanamo Bay prison, and the U.S. military said he apparently committed suicide. Critics of the detention center said …
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Bush invites Putin to family compound
May 31, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A4 WASHINGTON – President Bush on Wednesday launched a high-stakes effort to repair the dramatically deteriorating U.S. relationship with Russia by inviting President Vladimir Putin to visit the family compound in …
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Amputees can return to active duty
May 31, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A4 SAN ANTONIO – In the blur of smoke and blood after a bomb blew up under his Humvee in Iraq, Sgt. Tawan Williamson looked down at his shredded leg and …
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Search on for abducted Britons
May 31, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A4 BAGHDAD – Dozens of U.S. Humvees and Bradley fighting vehicles took up positions around Sadr City at nightfall Wednesday, as American forces pressed the search for five Britons kidnapped in …
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U.N. council OKs tribunal for Lebanon assassination
May 31, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A7 BEIRUT, Lebanon – The U.N. Security Council voted Wednesday to unilaterally establish an international tribunal to prosecute suspects in the killing of Lebanon’s former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, whose supporters …
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Justice Department widens hiring inquiry
May 31, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A7 WASHINGTON – The Justice Department is expanding its internal inquiry to look into new allegations that senior department officials improperly filled career jobs based on applicants’ Republican or conservative credentials. …
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Man with TB disputes officials’ story
May 31, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A7 A Georgia man infected with a potentially deadly form of drug-resistant tuberculosis told a newspaper that health authorities here never explicitly barred him from leaving on an overseas trip that …
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Prium seeks equity partners
May 31, 2007 in Business on Page A8 Prium Companies, a Tacoma-based real estate firm whose statewide commercial real estate holdings include Spokane’s Wells Fargo tower and Rock Pointe office complex, is casting about for joint equity partners, …
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Exxon Mobil: It’s too soon for emissions policies
May 31, 2007 in Business on Page A8 DALLAS — Exxon Mobil Corp. on Wednesday reiterated its position that creating far-reaching policies to reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions is important but premature, even as some shareholders lambasted the …
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Dedicated to living large
May 31, 2007 in Business on Page A8 BOSTON — At first glance, the catalog’s pitch for lawn chairs appears ordinary: A seated man and woman relax near a tree-lined lake shore, enjoying drinks. But look closer. “Supports …
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Bert Caldwell: Hillyard ready to ante up for the future
May 31, 2007 in Business on Page A8 From the clinic in the front to the penny-ante poker game in the back, the Northeast Community Center is every square foot a social services hub. But Executive Director Jean …
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Partners at giant firm accused of tax fraud
May 31, 2007 in Business on Page A8 NEW YORK — A former top Internal Revenue Service lawyer and three other Ernst & Young partners reduced taxes for Americans making $10 million or more with a fraud that …
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Markets soar on Fed minutes
May 31, 2007 in Business on Page A9 Wall Street shot higher Wednesday, sending the Standard & Poor’s 500 index to its first record close in more than seven years, as investors grew more confident the Federal Reserve …
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CHS to build oil terminals in western Montana
May 31, 2007 in Business on Page A9 HELENA, Mont. — CHS Inc., the nation’s largest cooperative oil refiner, announced plans Wednesday to open two new petroleum terminals in western Montana this fall to expand the availability of …
