March 2, 2008 in City on Page A1 With just four months until strict limits on phosphates in dishwasher detergents take effect in three Washington counties, legislation is on the move in Olympia that some fear could delay …

March 2, 2008 in City on Page A1 The Metropolitan Mortgage & Securities Co. investors’ trust has reached a settlement agreement of about $30 million with an accounting firm accused of making mistakes that led to the company’s …

March 2, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A2 Saturday’s Washington Daily Game: 9-7-3. Saturday’s Washington Lotto: 2-7-14-17-39-40.

March 2, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A2 LAS VEGAS – The motel patron hospitalized after the potent poison ricin was found in his room was was “holding his own” in the hospital, his cousin said Saturday. Thomas …

March 2, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A3 A mother and two children were killed in a predawn attack at their remote East Texas ranch, which burned to the ground, and three high school students who knew the …

March 2, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A3 NEW YORK – Two grade-school friends from New York City who reconnected online are recovering after one gave the other a kidney. Recipient Ricardo Manier called donor Karl Celestin’s gift …

March 2, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A3 JERUSALEM – The Israeli military launched a major operation against Hamas fighters in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, killing about 60 people – half of them civilians – and sending …

March 2, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A4 SAN ANTONIO – Hillary Rodham Clinton, once seen as a lock for the Democratic nomination, battled Saturday in possibly the last weekend of her presidential campaign, struggling to reverse a …

March 2, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A5 LOS ANGELES – The Navy must abide by limits on its sonar training off the Southern California coast because the exercises could harm dozens of species of whales and dolphins, …

March 2, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A5 RESEDA, Calif. – When federal immigration officers visited over three days last October looking for an illegal Salvadoran immigrant, a neighborhood watch kicked into action. Dozens of immigrants, legal and …

March 2, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A6 WASHINGTON – The divorce rate in the armed forces held steady last year at 3.3 percent, a surprising finding given the stress that marriages are under during persistent wars in …

March 2, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A6 Barbara Seaman, a writer and activist who challenged the safety of hormone replacement therapy and early oral contraceptives and became a central figure in the women’s health movement, died Wednesday …

March 2, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A7 WASHINGTON – New Cuban leader Raul Castro would consider exchanging dissidents held in Cuban jails for five Cuban intelligence agents imprisoned in the United States as spies, a top Vatican …

March 2, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A7 KIGALI, Rwanda – When President Bush came here last month on his five-nation Africa tour, he paid a solemn visit to the site where 250,000 victims of the 1994 genocide …

March 2, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A8 WASHINGTON – A videotape of crippled “downer” cows being mistreated at a California plant prompted outrage from animal welfare groups, a rebuke from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the plant’s …

March 2, 2008 in City on Page A8 Helen Sandifur, the ex-wife of Metropolitan Mortgage & Securities Co.’s chief executive, will pay $325,000 into a special trust to refund investors in the bankrupted company under a settlement disclosed …

March 2, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A9 AMURSK, Russia – Behind a scrim of billionaires and petrodollars, Russian cities like this one are dying a slow, quiet death deep in the frigid, remote Far East. Many Russians …

March 2, 2008 in City on Page B1 Spokane County sheriff’s Deputy Mark Gregory learned about a new scam firsthand Saturday when he received a text message, purportedly from Horizon Credit Union, that his credit card had expired …

March 2, 2008 in City on Page B1 Outdoors lovers seem to be just itching to get outside and fish. But this weekend they headed indoors. The first Great Western Sportfishing Show is drawing crowds to the convention …

March 2, 2008 in City on Page B2 BAKER CITY, Ore. – The recovery of an emaciated golden eagle not expected to fly again after suffering lead poisoning has become both a success story and a warning about …

March 2, 2008 in City on Page B3 PASCO, Wash. – What happened to faking a cough? Sheriff’s detectives in Franklin County say a man had his friend shoot him in the shoulder so he wouldn’t have to …

March 2, 2008 in City on Page B3 What happened to faking a cough? Sheriff’s detectives in Franklin County say a man had his friend shoot him in the shoulder so he wouldn’t have to go to work.

March 2, 2008 in Idaho on Page B3 BOISE – Most North Idaho residents would not have to participate in a controversial water rights adjudication after all under legislation now moving toward final approval. But backers say they’ll …