January 18, 2008 in City on Page A1 OLYMPIA – Friends and relatives of inmates at two Eastern Washington prisons have been overcharged tens of thousands of dollars for collect phone calls, state regulators said Thursday. In a …

January 18, 2008 in City on Page A2 Thursday’s Washington Daily Game: 2-8-5 Thursday’s Washington Keno: 3-4-7-9- 13-14-21-26-30-33-35-36-41-42- 46-52-54-56-64-67

January 18, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A3 Cuba is not interested in improving relations with the United States while President Bush is in office and will wait for a change in U.S. leadership before extending anew an …

January 18, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A3 ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – The violence that’s engulfing Pakistan lurched in a sectarian direction Thursday as an apparent suicide bomber targeted a gathering of Shiite Muslims in the northwestern city of …

January 18, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A3 WASHINGTON – As many as 20 percent of U.S. combat troops who fought in Iraq or Afghanistan leave with signs they may have had a concussion, and some do not …

January 18, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A3 Scientists at a California company reported Thursday they had created the first mature cloned human embryos from single skin cells taken from adults, a significant advance toward the goal of …

January 18, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A4 Republican Mike Huckabee said the government should stay out of disputes over the Confederate flag in South Carolina. “You don’t like people from outside the state coming in and telling …

January 18, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A4 COLUMBIA, S.C. – They slide into mailboxes, slither under windshield wipers, lurk in the stack of free circulars outside the supermarket and invade voters’ homes with rancorous robotic phone calls. …

January 18, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A7 After a trying year of more than 200 murders, at least police once again have a permanent place to call home. The New Orleans Police Department, which has operated out …

January 18, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A7 WASHINGTON – Senior U.S. military officials projected Thursday that the Iraqi army and police will grow to an estimated 580,000 members by the end of the year but that shortages …

January 18, 2008 in Business on Page A8 Countrywide Financial Corp., stuck with tens of billions of dollars in alternative mortgages it cannot sell, is pushing customers to refinance into traditional loans that can be easily unloaded by …

January 18, 2008 in Business on Page A8 Washington Mutual Inc., the country’s biggest savings and loan, reported Thursday a $1.87 billion loss in the fourth quarter, hurt by the sinking value of its mortgage portfolio. The quarterly …

January 18, 2008 in Business on Page A9 A surge in stock trading last fall helped online brokerage TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. generate a 65 percent increase in its quarterly net income. The Omaha-based company said Thursday that …