Spokane7
41°
« Dec. 27 
Dec. 29 »
Sunday, December 28, 2008
-
Morning commute could be tricky
December 28, 2008 in News, City Weather conditions could make for a challenging Monday morning commute.
-
Absolute Aviation takes off
December 28, 2008 For Absolute Aviation, airlines’ penny-pinching mentality is all good. That’s because airlines keep sending faulty strobe lights, power units and other items to the small, FAA-approved aviation repair station on …
-
Save your soles
December 28, 2008 in News, City The surge in frugalit y has brought back a variety of habits from days gone by. Layaway got attention as a holiday shopping option. A renewed emphasis on home cooking …
-
Abused baby declared brain dead
December 28, 2008 in City A 2-month-old baby who police say was abused by his mother’s boyfriend is brain dead. Izayah Arlen Wayne Denison is on artificial ventilation for possible organ donation, said a Sacred … 1
-
Church offices damaged in morning fire
December 28, 2008 in City A large fire engulfed most of a church’s regional headquarters today just west of Spokane, displacing the administrative offices for the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s Upper Columbia Conference and destroying a …
-
Whitman County roads reopened
December 28, 2008 in News, Region The Washington State Patrol has reopened two roads in Whitman County.
-
Joel Armstrong’s sister sent this email to his father
December 28, 2008 in City Something really amazing happened in Downtown Spokane this week and I had to share the story with you. Some of you may know that my brother, Joel Armstrong, is a …
-
Retirement is hardly the end of her work
December 28, 2008 in City on Page A1 A year ago, Arlene Patton retired from her job overseeing the Eastern Washington region of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. It didn’t last long. Within weeks, the …
-
Elderly, infirm face extra challenge
December 28, 2008 in City on Page A1 When Gene Yoakum needs to shop for food, it often means a trip of a mile or so in his electric wheelchair. Other times he takes the bus to get …
-
Struggling to dig out
December 28, 2008 in City on Page A1 With a record amount of snow on the ground and more on the way, the Spokane County Board of Commissioners has joined other local governments in declaring a state of …
-
Facebook taking heat over ban on breast-feeding photos
December 28, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A2 SAN JOSE, Calif. – Online, the virtual “nurse-in” to protest Facebook’s ban on breast-feeding photos took off, with hundreds joining a group that crept toward 70,000 members Saturday evening. The … 1
-
Israeli strikes on Gaza kill more than 200
December 28, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A3 JERUSALEM – Waves of Israeli airstrikes on security compounds in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip killed more than 200 people on Saturday, sending tremors through the Middle East and inflaming the …
-
Pakistanis mark year since Bhutto’s death
December 28, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A3 KARACHI, Pakistan – With tears, prayers and candlelight vigils, Pakistanis Saturday marked the first anniversary of Benazir Bhutto’s assassination, a killing that stunned the world and came to symbolize the …
-
Israeli strikes on Gaza kill at least 230
December 28, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A3 GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – Israeli warplanes rained more than 100 tons of bombs on security sites in Hamas-ruled Gaza on Saturday and early today, killing at least 230 people …
-
Robert Mulligan, film director
December 28, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A4 Robert Mulligan, the Academy Award-nominated director of “To Kill a Mockingbird” who later helped launch the career of Reese Witherspoon, has died at 83. Mulligan died Dec. 20 at his …
-
Blackout hits Oahu during Obama visit
December 28, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A4 HONOLULU – Almost all of Oahu had electrical power restored Saturday after a power failure blacked out the island’s population of about 900,000 and thousands of holiday visitors, including President-elect …
-
Midwest now faces floods, fog
December 28, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A4 CHICAGO – Rain and rapidly rising temperatures accompanied by thick fog threatened to cause flooding Saturday in the Midwest after days of Arctic cold, heavy snow and ice. Thick ice …
-
Risks posed by ash spill understated, group warns
December 28, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A4 NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Authorities need to more strongly warn residents that muck left from a major coal-ash spill in eastern Tennessee could pose health risks, a southern environmental group said …
-
Car bombs kill 25 in Iraq
December 28, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A7 BAGHDAD – A pair of car bombs killed more than two dozen people on Saturday, shattering a recent period of calm and serving as a grim reminder that recent gains …
-
Quick-witted hostage thwarts robbers
December 28, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A7 WASHINGTON – Speeding on the Capital Beltway, James Spruill knew he had to act fast. His wife and boys were packed into the family car, and a masked man was …
-
Judge sides with same-sex parents
December 28, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A7 A same-sex couple in California has won a federal court ruling that their adopted son’s Louisiana birth certificate must bear the names of both adoptive fathers. The facts are so …
-
Duck rescuer’s celebrity lives on
December 28, 2008 in City on Page B1 For Joel Armstrong, 2008 will always be the year of the ducks. An e-mail describing how the Spokane man helped a duck and her 10 ducklings from their nest outside …
-
Cost of gasoline has gone a long way
December 28, 2008 in City on Page B1 Call it the “Whopper Index.” During Whopper Wednesdays at the Burger King on Argonne Road, customers can get a burger for $1.69.
-
In brief: Infant hospitalized; mom’s boyfriend jailed
December 28, 2008 in City on Page B1 A 2-month-old baby was in critical condition Saturday, and the mother’s boyfriend faces a first-degree assault charge. Andrew W. Whitmire, 22, was booked into Spokane County Jail early Saturday after …
