January 29, 2008 in City on Page A1 Snowy weather will continue through the weekend. After 13.7 inches of snow fell at Spokane International Airport on Saturday and Sunday, a snow advisory from the National Weather Service for …

January 29, 2008 in City on Page A1 President Bush’s last State of the Union address was seen as a bold plan for his final year in office by some Northwest members of Congress and a sign that …

January 29, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A2 ISTANBUL, Turkey – Turkey’s ruling party agreed with an opposition party Monday to lift a decades-old ban on Islamic head scarves in universities of the mainly Muslim but secular nation. …

January 29, 2008 in City on Page A2 For the week of Jan. 20-26, there were 108 weather records either broken or tied. Seventy-eight cold extremes were established. There were only three high-temperature records, two of them in …

January 29, 2008 in City on Page A2 Monday’s Lotto: 6-9-33-35-42-43 No winner. Next jackpot: $2 million.

January 29, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A3 WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – The top Republican presidential contenders spent the day before today’s Florida primary flying from city to city around the Sunshine State – and letting fly …

January 29, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A3 ATLANTA – Cough and cold medicines send about 7,000 children to hospital emergency rooms each year, the U.S. government said Monday in its first national estimate of the problem. About …

January 29, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A3 BAGHDAD – Five U.S. soldiers died in a roadside bomb blast Monday as fighting raged in Mosul, a northern city identified by Iraqi and American officials as a key hub …

January 29, 2008 in Business on Page A6 The Eddie Bauer store at NorthTown Mall closed earlier this month after the Bellevue, Wash.-based clothing company decided not to renew its lease. The store “had a very good year …

January 29, 2008 in Business on Page A6 A Boston-area venture firm has taken a stake in Spokane-based biotech firm Signature Genomic Laboratories LLC, the two companies said recently. Ampersand Ventures, based in Wellesley, Mass., joins Sacred Heart …

January 29, 2008 in Business on Page A6 CHICAGO – Sears Holdings Corp. abruptly announced the departure of president and chief executive Aylwin B. Lewis on Monday, leaving a management void at the top of the department store …

January 29, 2008 in Business on Page A6 A proposal requiring Kootenai County property buyers to divulge sale prices is off the table following an agreement by the Coeur d’Alene Association of Realtors to share data with the …

January 29, 2008 in Business on Page A6 SEATTLE – Starbucks Corp. has given the chief executive officer it fired earlier this month a severance package that includes $1.25 million the coffee retailer will pay out over the …

January 29, 2008 in Business on Page A7 Sterling Financial Corp. Monday reported that a $13 million provision for loan losses dragged results for the year and fourth-quarter 2007 below the levels for 2006 on a per-share basis. …

January 29, 2008 in Business on Page A7 NEW YORK – A jittery Wall Street advanced Monday, reversing some of Friday’s sharp losses as investors took a dismal new home sales report as a sign the Federal Reserve …

January 29, 2008 in Business on Page A7 Qtrax, a distributor of Internet file-swapping software, abruptly postponed the launch of its free online music service until it can finalize music licensing deals – a detail the company omitted …

January 29, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A9 An abandoned power plant collapsed during a demolition project Monday, killing a worker and seriously injuring two others. One worker escaped with the help of co-workers and was taken to …