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Thursday, August 7, 2008
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Scientist had method and motive, FBI contends
August 7, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A1 WASHINGTON – Government officials asserted Wednesday that a troubled bioweapons scientist acted alone to perpetrate a terrorism scheme that killed five people, a case that centered on a near-perfect match …
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Pentagon reopens tanker bids
August 7, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A1 WASHINGTON – The Pentagon requested new bids Wednesday on a $35 billion contract for aerial-refueling tankers, and Boeing supporters on Capitol Hill said the highly technical document apparently favored a …
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Old age sobers up drinkers, study says
August 7, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A1 WASHINGTON – As the last two generations of Americans grew older, they drank less alcohol. And the younger generation of adults drank less heavily than the one before it, according …
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With lifeguards fired, pool closes
August 7, 2008 in City on Page A1 A teen drinking incident is making August a bit more uncomfortable for some people near Holmberg Park. The park’s pool closed two weeks early Monday after Spokane County sheriff’s deputies …
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Nader gets on ballot in California, vows more
August 7, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A2 WASHINGTON – Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader is quietly making headway in his third bid for president. He clinched a major victory last Saturday by getting on the California ballot …
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Jury convicts bin Laden’s ex-driver
August 7, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A3 GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba – A military jury on Wednesday found a former driver for Osama bin Laden guilty of supporting terrorism but not of conspiring in terrorist attacks, handing the …
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Rodeo star, 14 horses die in crash
August 7, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A3 RYCROFT, Alberta – A veteran rodeo star and 14 of his horses were killed in a head-on collision in western Canada, police said Wednesday. Royal Canadian Mounted Police said a …
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Army commanders oust leader, seize control in Mauritania
August 7, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A3 NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania – Army commanders ousted Mauritania’s first freely elected president in two decades Wednesday after an increasingly bitter political fight over his ties to allies of a reviled former …
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Eight biker gang members arrested
August 7, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A4 Authorities arrested on Wednesday eight members of a Christian biker gang known as Set Free Soldiers on charges of attempted murder in connection with a bar fight last week between …
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Rocket carrying Doohan’s remains fails
August 7, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A4 LOS ANGELES – A privately held rocket company on Wednesday blamed a design error for its latest failure to reach orbit, which caused the loss of three government satellites and …
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Nine presumed dead in fire copter crash
August 7, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A4 SAN FRANCISCO – Eight firefighters and a pilot are presumed dead in the crash of a helicopter that had just picked up workers battling a blaze in a Northern California …
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L.A. hospitals used homeless in Medicare fraud, authorities allege
August 7, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A5 LOS ANGELES – A hospital CEO was arrested Wednesday in what authorities said was a scheme to recruit homeless people as phony patients and bill government programs for millions of …
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China uses restraint with foreign activists
August 7, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A6 BEIJING – Americans unfurled a religious banner in the heart of communist China and other foreign activists protested Wednesday on a range of issues, but authorities handled them with uncharacteristic …
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Bush chides China for dissidents’ treatment
August 7, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A7 BANGKOK, Thailand – With all eyes on Beijing, President Bush bluntly told China today that America is strongly opposed to the way the communist government represses its people, a rebuke …
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Airline says credit cards misused
August 7, 2008 in Business on Page A8 About 1,500 people who bought tickets from Alaska or Horizon airlines have been notified their credit cards were misused. Alaska Air says a call center employee diverted some payments to …
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Slowdown in China
August 7, 2008 in Business on Page A8 BEIJING – Changshu Zhongjiang Import-Export Co., a clothing exporter in Suzhou, west of Shanghai, is accustomed to double-digit annual revenue growth. This year, with its key U.S. export market limping, …
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THE ECONOMY
August 7, 2008 in Business on Page A8 Hosting the Olympics is not the soundest of investment strategies. All but one of the past 11 host nations had an economic hangover of sorts after the Summer Games ended, …
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More money available for region’s jobless
August 7, 2008 in Business on Page A8 Washington and Idaho have notified about 120,000 residents they might be eligible to collect unemployment checks as part of a federal extension for workers who lost their jobs and who …
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Potlatch workers support strike
August 7, 2008 in Business on Page A8 Employees of Spokane-based Potlatch Corp.’s sawmill and No. 4 power boiler in Lewiston voted to strike Tuesday, but they won’t form picket lines until a last-ditch effort at negotiations takes …
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Chavez’s decrees spark protests
August 7, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A12 CARACAS, Venezuela – Riot police used tear gas Wednesday as they blocked hundreds of Venezuelans protesting what they call new moves by President Hugo Chavez to concentrate his power. The …
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Iraqi lawmakers fail to agree on elections
August 7, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A12 BAGHDAD – The Iraqi parliament broke for summer vacation Wednesday without passing a law that would have allowed provincial elections to be held this year, dealing a blow to hopes …
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Online impostor uses Verner’s name
August 7, 2008 in City on Page B1 Spokane Mayor Mary Verner is looking for the perpetrator behind a bogus Mary Verner account on the popular Web service Twitter. Someone created an account in her name this week …
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Lawyers stuck with Duncan
August 7, 2008 in Idaho on Page B1 BOISE – Joseph Duncan’s standby attorneys told a federal judge Wednesday that the confessed killer is so irrational they can’t ethically follow his wishes, and they asked to withdraw from …
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The way they treated me should be a crime
August 7, 2008 in City on Page B1 Tuesday night was National Night Out, an exciting annual event where neighbors and law enforcers stuff their faces with barbecue chicken and other tasty grub and, oh yeah, talk about …
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