May 9, 2007 in City on Page A1 OLYMPIA – Gov. Chris Gregoire on Tuesday delayed until 2013 a requirement that students pass the math and science portions of a high-stakes exam in order to graduate from high …

May 9, 2007 in City on Page A1 Spokane County commissioners gave their building and planning director a “letter of correction” Tuesday for authorizing a day-care center in an airport crash zone, granting a zone change by redrawing …

May 9, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A1 CHERRY HILL, N.J. – A group of would-be terrorists, allegedly undone after attempting to have jihad training videos copied onto a DVD, has been charged with conspiring to attack Fort …

May 9, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A2 SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – A wallaby is settling into a new home in the Black Hills after getting out of its kennel during a flight change in Salt Lake City. …

May 9, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A2 NASA billed Tuesday’s event with Queen Elizabeth II as “an opportunity to speak to the current crew of the International Space Station.” Britain’s monarch, however, mostly listened as live video …

May 9, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A2 WASHINGTON – In a whale-size project, the world’s scientists plan to compile everything they know about all of Earth’s 1.8 million known species and put it all on one Web …

May 9, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A3 A Senate committee approved a bill requiring new cars and trucks to average 35 miles per gallon by 2020 on Tuesday, with an expectation that the full Senate could vote …

May 9, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A3 WASHINGTON – You can grill it, broil it, bake it, poach it, barbecue it, smoke it, turn it into croquettes or serve it raw as sushi, with lemon and butter, …

May 9, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A3 WASHINGTON – The government’s methods for deciding compensation for emotionally disturbed veterans have little basis in science, are applied unevenly and may even create disincentives for veterans to get better, …

May 9, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A3 WASHINGTON – The tainted Chinese ingredients that got incorporated into U.S. pet foods and later made their way into chicken and pig feed were not wheat gluten and rice protein …

May 9, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A4 WASHINGTON – Iran detained prominent American academic Haleh Esfandiari, director of the Middle East Program at the Smithsonian Institution’s Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, on Tuesday, according to center …

May 9, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A4 China and Russia have supplied weapons and aircraft to Sudan that have been used in attacks against civilians in Darfur in violation of a U.N. arms embargo, Amnesty International charged …

May 9, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A5 WASHINGTON – A week after President Bush vetoed a Democratic war spending measure that set a timeline for withdrawing U.S. forces from Iraq, House Democrats said Tuesday they hope to …

May 9, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A5 WASHINGTON – The Pentagon announced Tuesday that 35,000 soldiers in 10 Army combat brigades will begin deploying to Iraq in August, making it possible to sustain the increase of U.S. …

May 9, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A6 WASHINGTON – President Bush’s choice to head the Consumer Product Safety Commission worked as a lobbyist to block state “fire-safe” cigarette laws. He could be charged with setting similar rules …

May 9, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A6 Led by California and New England, 31 states representing more than 70 percent of the U.S. population announced Tuesday that they will jointly track and measure greenhouse gas emissions by …

May 9, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A7 FRESNO, Calif. – Police arrested a college student Tuesday suspected of opening fire in an off-campus apartment during a dispute over a video game console, killing one man and wounding …

May 9, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A7 Wary of a number of federal anti-terror cases that proved to be overblown, two legal experts Tuesday cautioned about attaching too much significance to the arrest of six Muslims for …