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Friday, December 19, 2008
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Police looking for 16-year-old runaway
December 19, 2008 in News, Idaho A 16-year-old girl escaped from her state Health and Welfare caseworker last month, and Post Falls police are asking for help finding her.
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Colleges react to proposed cuts
December 19, 2008 in News, City News that would have sent panic through community colleges a year ago is instead being met with a bit of relief.
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Online scam targets unemployed
December 19, 2008 in News, City The state of Washington is warning of an internet scam targeting one of the nation’s fastest-growing populations: the unemployed.
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More snow on the way
December 19, 2008 in City, Idaho Just as Spokane and Coeur d’Alene residents come to grips with this week’s record snowfall, the forecast calls for possibly three more storms that could add to the snow already …
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Spokane climber, 65, plans Everest attempt
December 19, 2008 in Outdoors, City Dawes Eddy, a 65-year-old cost-estimator, isn’t going to let approaching old age stop him from attempting to break a world record.
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New chain-up law working on Lookout Pass
December 19, 2008 in Idaho, Region A new law allowing Idaho to enforce mandatory chain-up requirements on commercial trucks on snowy North Idaho passes has made a big difference in the past week, officials say. The …
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Bus crashes, front wheels hang over I-5 in Seattle
December 19, 2008 in Region SEATTLE — Two buses crashed today on a Seattle street and one went through a barrier next to Interstate 5 in downtown Seattle, leaving it with its front wheels hanging …
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Post offices open
December 19, 2008 in City Nearly all Spokane post offices are operating normally, with the exception of the Main post office on Riverside Avenue.
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Flights taking off from airport
December 19, 2008 in City Fewer flights are being canceled out of Spokane International Airport today, but travelers still are wrestling with delays and schedule changes from the last two days.
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Bald eagles dispersing from Lake CdA
December 19, 2008 in Outdoors, Idaho The spike in bald eagles congregating at Lake Coeur d’Alene appears to be over for the season.
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Newspaper deliveries delayed
December 19, 2008 in City, Idaho Newspaper carriers are still out trying to deliver papers, and The Spokesman-Review’s circulation department asks for patience. “It’s slow going,” said Dan Johnson, director of circulation, who was driving a … 3
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$17.4B auto bailout approved
December 19, 2008 in Business, Nation/World WASHINGTON — Citing danger to the national economy, President Bush approved an emergency bailout of the U.S. auto industry today, offering $17.4 billion in rescue loans in exchange for tough … 1
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Another snowstorm heading this way
December 19, 2008 in City Even before most residents will have a chance to dig out from the record snowfall on Wednesday and Thursday, another system is heading this way that could dump another 4 …
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Officials urge commuters to stay home
December 19, 2008 in City While conditions have improved somewhat this morning, officials continue to urge Spokane area residents to stay home rather than chance the still-unplowed side streets.
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Private contractors help clear up residential areas
December 19, 2008 in City on Page A1 The largest snowstorm on record to hit Spokane came just as city and county officials finished scaling back their 2009 budgets. But if anything, they’re spending more to clear out … 1
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Record snowfall buries region, stalls services
December 19, 2008 in City on Page A1 Snowplow crews worked furiously Thursday against a wintry onslaught that dropped record amounts of snow over the Inland Northwest, repeating a pattern left from the brutal 2007-’08 winter. At nearly …
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Record snowfall shutters bureau; need remains great
December 19, 2008 in City on Page A1 For the first time in the six-decade history of the Christmas Bureau, organizers closed the charity Thursday because of record snowfall. The bureau will remain closed today, organizers said, and …
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Leader who coined ‘moral majority’ dies
December 19, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A2 Paul Weyrich, 66, the conservative thinker who coined the phrase “moral majority,” founded the Heritage Foundation and became an intellectual leader of the U.S. religious right, died early Thursday, a …
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Stimulus could cost $850 billion
December 19, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A3 WASHINGTON – President-elect Barack Obama and congressional Democrats have entered discussions over an economic stimulus package that could grow to include $850 billion in new spending and tax cuts over …
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Watergate tipster Mark Felt dies
December 19, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A3 SANTA ROSA, Calif. – W. Mark Felt, the former FBI second-in-command who revealed himself as “Deep Throat” 30 years after he tipped off reporters to the Watergate scandal that toppled …
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‘Orderly’ auto bankruptcy considered
December 19, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A3 WASHINGTON – The Bush administration is looking at “orderly” bankruptcy as a possible way to deal with the desperately ailing U.S. auto industry, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said Thursday as …
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Plan in works to shutter Guantanamo Bay prison
December 19, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A4 WASHINGTON – The Defense Department is drawing up plans to close the Guantanamo Bay military prison in anticipation that one of President-elect Barack Obama’s first acts will be ordering the …
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Shoe-throwing Iraqi said to want pardon
December 19, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A4 BAGHDAD – The Iraqi journalist who hurled his shoes at President George W. Bush is begging for a pardon for what he described as an “ugly act,” the prime minister’s …
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Guards fired on, according to Blackwater radio logs
December 19, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A4 WASHINGTON – Radio logs from a deadly 2007 shooting in Baghdad cast doubt on U.S. government claims that Blackwater Worldwide security guards were unprovoked when they killed 14 Iraqi civilians. …
