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Saturday, October 27, 2007
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Cheney students vie to lose weight, get fit
October 27, 2007 in City on Page A1 Students at Cheney High School don’t have to sit on the couch to watch the next episode of “The Biggest Loser.” The teens in the fitness center classes are starring …
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‘La Niña’ will help Northwest
October 27, 2007 in City on Page A1 BOISE – After eight years of nearly constant drought, weather experts in Idaho are betting on a little girl to turn things around. “La Niña” is the Spanish name for …
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Lakebed will be ready just in time for spawning
October 27, 2007 in Idaho on Page A1 BAYVIEW, Idaho – Just in the nick of time, Lake Pend Oreille’s kokanee salmon should again have a clean bed of gravel for fall egg-laying. The gravel beds and tens …
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Airport shoots trespassing deer
October 27, 2007 in City on Page A1 Federal biologists killed 18 deer at Deer Park Airport last month in an effort to keep the animals off the runways – an increasing public-safety issue at the alfalfa-laden airfield. …
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National water crisis looms
October 27, 2007 in City on Page A1 WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – An epic drought in Georgia threatens the water supply for millions. Florida doesn’t have nearly enough water for its expected population boom. The Great Lakes …
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Giuliani and CdA got boost from visit
October 27, 2007 in City on Page A1 Rudy Giuliani’s brief stop in Coeur d’Alene in August was worth about $100,000 to his campaign – and may have put the city on the map as far as a …
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Court frees Georgia man jailed for sex
October 27, 2007 in City on Page A2 FORSYTH, Ga. – A former high school football star given 10 years in prison for having consensual oral sex with another teenager was freed Friday by Georgia’s highest court, which …
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Lottery numbers
October 27, 2007 in City on Page A2 Friday’s Washington Daily Game: 1-7-9. Friday’s Washington Keno: 7-11-14-20-23-24-25-26-27- 29-46-48-51-53-54-56-66-71-72-74.
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Fire evacuees face hardships on return
October 27, 2007 in City on Page A3 RAMONA, Calif. – With some of the worst wildfires dying down, many Southern Californians lucky enough to find their homes still standing could nevertheless face hardships for weeks to come, …
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Suit seeks to halt moment of silence
October 27, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A3 A 14-year-old suburban girl and her father, atheist activist Rob Sherman, filed a lawsuit Friday in U.S. District Court that challenges the constitutionality of a law requiring Illinois public schools …
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FEMA official apologizes for staged news briefing
October 27, 2007 in City on Page A3 WASHINGTON – The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s No. 2 official apologized Friday for leading a staged news conference Tuesday in which FEMA employees posed as reporters while real reporters listened …
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Six-hour spacewalk successful
October 27, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A6 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Astronauts Scott Parazynski and Doug Wheelock stepped out into space for more than six hours Friday, moved around a lot of hardware and won plaudits for …
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Army to examine Iraq war contracts for fraud
October 27, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A6 WASHINGTON – A team of investigators will hunker down in an Army office north of Detroit on Monday to begin poring over hundreds of Iraq war contracts in search for …
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Pregnant woman’s killer deserves death, jury says
October 27, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A6 KANSAS CITY, Mo. – A federal jury decided Friday that a woman convicted of killing an expectant mother and cutting the baby from her womb should receive the death penalty. …
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Warrantless wiretapping acceptable for terror suspects, AG nominee says
October 27, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A6 WASHINGTON – President Bush’s choice for attorney general told senators Friday the Constitution does not prevent the president from wiretapping suspected terrorists without a court order. Michael Mukasey said the …
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Neanderthals were redheads, DNA from skulls suggests
October 27, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A7 PHILADELPHIA – In an unprecedented feat of forensic anthropology, European researchers extracted enough DNA from two Neanderthal skulls to suggest their owners sported red hair and white skin back when …
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U.S. won’t counter Kurds, leader says
October 27, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A7 WASHINGTON – The U.S. military commander in northern Iraq said Friday he plans to do “absolutely nothing” to counter Kurdish rebels who are staging deadly cross-border attacks into neighboring Turkey. …
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Orphan rescue called illegal
October 27, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A7 PARIS – The warning was dire: “The children will be dead in a few months,” the French charity said of orphans in Darfur. It asked people to help by paying …
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Cities won’t fight Time Warner
October 27, 2007 in Business on Page A8 In an attempt to avoid a costly legal battle, Pullman and Moscow city officials say they won’t challenge a recent attempt by Time Warner NY Cable LLC to eradicate the …
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Business in brief: Grant will fund hydrogen research
October 27, 2007 in Business on Page A8 A Spokane company plans to use a $750,000 federal grant to continue its research into technology for purification and generation of hydrogen. Genesis FuelTech Inc. will use the U.S. Department …
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Shell flies in staff to Spokane
October 27, 2007 in Business on Page A8 Global energy giant Shell collected a quick dividend from its July purchase of Avista’s power and gas trading subsidiary. With one-fourth of its San Diego work force evacuated from their …
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Housing slump likely to continue
October 27, 2007 in Business on Page A8 WASHINGTON — The current housing slump, which began in late 2005, probably has another year to go before things turn around. Before it is over, home prices — which had …
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Beer prices likely to jump with hops in short supply
October 27, 2007 in Business on Page A8 SUNNYSIDE, Wash. – Fans of Snipes Mountain Brewery’s cloudy Hefeweizen relish the subtle wheat flavor of the bright, summery brew, and like beer drinkers everywhere, they know when their favorite …
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Lawsuits filed against Atlas
October 27, 2007 in Business on Page A8 Two law firms have filed class action lawsuits against Atlas Mining Co., after the company’s stock price dropped by more than 50 percent following news that Atlas was correcting three …
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