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Sunday, August 24, 2008
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Cities facing tighter budgets
August 24, 2008 in City on Page A1 Spokane leaders will start in a deep hole as they begin deciding how many police officers, firefighters and other employees will be on the payroll next year. Chief Financial Officer …
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Area colleges getting greener
August 24, 2008 in City on Page A1 A garden that lives on rainwater. A no-till wheat field on campus. Campaigns against plastic bottles and paper cups. From cafeterias to research labs, the region’s colleges are making environmental …
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Biden has substance, style
August 24, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A1 WASHINGTON – Joe Biden is an archetypical veteran Washington politician: fiercely partisan, combative and glib, but also a senator who’s carefully built a reputation as a consensus-builder on tough issues. …
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Typo fixers run afoul of the letter of the law
August 24, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A2 PHOENIX – When it comes to marking up historic signs, good grammar is a bad defense. Two self-styled vigilantes against typos who defaced a more than 60-year-old, hand-painted sign at …
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Lottery numbers
August 24, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A2 Saturday’s Washington Daily Game: 2-8-9 Saturday’s Washington Lotto: 7-11-14-30-31-41
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Civilian deaths alleged in attack
August 24, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A3 ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – U.S. military officials said Saturday that they are investigating allegations by Afghan officials that a U.S.-led bombing raid killed at least 70 civilians in western Afghanistan in …
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Nebraska’s ‘safe-haven’ law lets parents abandon kids up to 19
August 24, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A3 OMAHA, Neb. – Nebraska’s new “safe-haven” law allowing parents to abandon unwanted children at hospitals with no questions asked is unique: It goes beyond babies and potentially permits the abandonment …
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Fay weakens, stays dangerous
August 24, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A3 APALACHICOLA, Fla. – Tropical Storm Fay was downgraded to a tropical depression Saturday night, but Gulf Coast cities were still bracing for possible flooding. As a tropical storm, Fay set …
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Maudie Hopkins, Confederate widow
August 24, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A4 Maudie White Hopkins, who grew up during the Depression in the hardscrabble Ozarks and married a Confederate army veteran 67 years her senior, has died. She was 93. Hopkins, the …
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‘Nightline’ producer who chronicled cancer dies
August 24, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A4 Leroy Sievers, 53, a former executive producer for ABC’s “Nightline” news program, was most remembered in recent years for chronicling his struggle with brain cancer in a popular online diary …
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Utah plane crash kills 10
August 24, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A5 MOAB, Utah – A small plane crashed and burned shortly after takeoff, killing everyone on board, including the pilot and nine people who had spent the day working at a …
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Russian troops patrol port city
August 24, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A6 POTI, Georgia – Thousands of Georgians demanded that Russian troops leave the outskirts of this strategic Black Sea port on Saturday and took to the streets in protest, while a …
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Amid tales of violence, death toll still unclear
August 24, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A6 TKVIAVI, Georgia – Vladimir Otiashvili spent a day watching his son bleed to death. He couldn’t rush Ioseb to the hospital because the same South Ossetian fighters who’d shot him …
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States head effort to rebuild Mexico’s justice system
August 24, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A7 CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico – This border city, with record levels of drug violence and a long history of impunity, is at the center of a U.S.-supported effort to rebuild Mexico’s …
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Bhutto’s widower to run for president
August 24, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A7 ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – The widower of assassinated leader Benazir Bhutto said Saturday that he will run for the presidency, reviving questions about his cloudy political past and the future of …
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Biden may offset Obama’s weak spots
August 24, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A8 DENVER – When it came down to it, Barack Obama chose safe rather than bold, experience rather than change. With his long record, Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., will help assure …
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Peace Corps battling expected budget shortfall
August 24, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A9 WASHINGTON – The Peace Corps, the popular service program that President Bush once promised to double in size, is preparing to cut back on new volunteers and consolidate recruiting offices …
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Magpies recognize themselves in mirror
August 24, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A9 Babies love mirrors. But not until the age of 2 years do toddlers make the connection between the baby in the mirror and themselves. Recognizing ourselves in a mirror is …
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Powwow pulls tribes together
August 24, 2008 in City on Page B1 The first thing you hear is drums. Deep, rumbling and rhythmic, the steady beat travels through the trees at the park. Then you hear the jingle of silver bells, almost …
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In-the-buff defecators? Case solved
August 24, 2008 in City on Page B1 Spokane police officers don’t make enough money. I know. That’s not the sort of sentiment you’re used to hearing out of my mouth.
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Duncan may face other trials
August 24, 2008 in City on Page B1 BOISE – As a federal jury decides whether Joseph Duncan lives or dies for his murder and torture of a 9-year-old boy, the killer’s legal saga may have only just …
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Brown challenges ‘supermajority’ rule for taxes
August 24, 2008 in City on Page B1 OLYMPIA – Senate Majority Leader Lisa Brown is doing something that would make many a politician squirm: going to court to make it easier to raise taxes. A 15-year-old law …
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Pachyderm family grows at Oregon Zoo
August 24, 2008 in City on Page B2 PORTLAND – Rose-Tu has given birth to her first baby, the 28th elephant born in the history of the Oregon Zoo. The Asian elephant delivered the calf Saturday afternoon and …
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Idaho county can’t locate sheriff
August 24, 2008 in City on Page B2 LEWISTON – Nez Perce County commissioners will vote Monday on whether to declare the sheriff’s post vacant; they apparently haven’t been able to reach Sheriff Jim Dorion for weeks. Dorion …
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