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Saturday, July 26, 2008
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Owners hopeful they can rebuild
July 26, 2008 in City on Page A1 Firefighters will baby-sit the Joel building in downtown Spokane all weekend in preparation for investigators to start digging into the cause of the three-alarm fire that broke out Thursday, destroying …
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Verner offers new tax proposals
July 26, 2008 in City on Page A1 City leaders are preparing to ask voters for more taxes. Mayor Mary Verner this week recommended that the Spokane City Council seek between $11 million and $41 million for projects …
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Washington dental commission stops short of requiring death investigations
July 26, 2008 in City on Page A1 The commission that oversees Washington’s 5,800 dentists says it wants every dental death investigated, but it has stopped short of approving a formal process that would immediately identify the involved …
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Businesses had troubles before fire, from unpaid taxes to toxic gas
July 26, 2008 in Business on Page A1 There was trouble at the Joel building before flames and water damaged or destroyed much of the structure Thursday. Churchill’s Steakhouse and its owners had received a $27,558 Washington Department …
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Inspirational professor Randy Pausch dies at 47
July 26, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A2 Randy Pausch, a terminally ill professor whose earnest farewell lecture at Carnegie Mellon University became an Internet phenomenon and best-selling book that turned him into a symbol for living and …
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Bush congressional critics get unimpeachable forum
July 26, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A3 WASHINGTON – Call it the un-impeachment hearing. The House Judiciary Committee held a hearing Friday it insisted was not about removing President Bush from office. But critics of Bush’s policies …
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California bans trans fats in restaurants
July 26, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A3 SACRAMENTO, Calif. – California on Friday became the first state to ban trans fats from restaurant food, following several cities and major fast-food chains in erasing the notorious artery-clogger from …
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Qantas jet loses piece of fuselage
July 26, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A3 MANILA, Philippines – A hole the size of a small car in the underside of a Qantas jumbo jet carrying 346 passengers forced the pilot to make an emergency landing …
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Satellite radio merger allowed
July 26, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A3 WASHINGTON – Federal regulators formally approved the merger of the nation’s only two satellite radio operators Friday, ending a 16-month-long drama closely watched by Washington and Wall Street. Sirius Satellite …
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U.S.-grown jalapenos cleared
July 26, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A3 WASHINGTON – Only jalapeno peppers grown in Mexico are implicated in the nationwide salmonella outbreak, the government announced Friday in clearing the U.S. crop. The Food and Drug Administration urged …
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Iraq war costs near Vietnam War
July 26, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A4 The total cost of the Iraq war is approaching the Vietnam War’s expense, a congressional report estimates, while spending for military operations after 9/11 has exceeded it. The new report …
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Sarkozy exuberant with praise for Obama
July 26, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A4 PARIS – French President Nicolas Sarkozy rolled out the red carpet and more for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Friday, offering an effusive embrace that bordered on an endorsement, …
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McCain calls Obama’s Iraq strategy ‘audacity of hopelessness’
July 26, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A4 DENVER – Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., launched a blistering attack on Sen. Barack Obama’s foreign policy Friday, saying that his Democratic presidential rival’s “audacity of hopelessness” in opposing the troop …
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Inspector says old mines risk public’s health, safety
July 26, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A4 WASHINGTON – The federal government is “putting the public’s health and safety at risk” by not cleaning up safety and contamination hazards at abandoned mines on public land in the …
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UI team pursues E. coli detection
July 26, 2008 in City on Page A6 A team of University of Idaho scientists in Post Falls is working on groundbreaking nanotechnology to quickly detect E. coli in hamburger, research that is gaining national attention and the …
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Accuracy watch
July 26, 2008 in City on Page A6 For 07-26-2008
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Murder suspect says he ‘snapped’
July 26, 2008 in City on Page A6 A man accused of killing his ex-girlfriend told detectives he “snapped” while the two were arguing near a hayfield last week and attacked her, according to court papers filed Friday …
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Chance to dance and enjoy life
July 26, 2008 in City on Page A6 As Cliff SiJohn tells the story, a few teenage girls and a few young boys were asked to move almost 1,000 head of horses from around Post Falls, over Mica …
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Defense wants open court for video
July 26, 2008 in Idaho on Page A6 BOISE – Attorneys for Joseph Duncan argued Friday that the courtroom should remain open when prosecutors play graphic videotape evidence during his sentencing hearing, but that it should be closed …
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Washington Records
July 26, 2008 in City on Page A7 Spokane County Marriage licenses
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Five hurt, one killed in boating accident
July 26, 2008 in City on Page A7 A boating accident at Banks Lake south of Grand Coulee on Friday killed a Federal Way man and seriously injured his wife. Victor and Olga Prokhor were operating a personal …
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Idaho scientist fled oppression in homeland
July 26, 2008 in City on Page A7 University of Idaho scientist Wusi Maki wasn’t always free to use her mind like she is today as she develops a new way to test for E. coli and other …
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Telect cuts jobs ahead of slowdown
July 26, 2008 in Business on Page A8 Telect Inc. has eliminated 47 positions at its North American plants and will sell its operations in Poland, company President Wayne Williams said Friday. Of those affected, 26 work at …
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SHOPPING LIFE
July 26, 2008 in Business on Page A8 Consumer spending is down, and gas prices are up. That’s bad math for the scores of destination retailers across the country that want customers to fill up the tank for …
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