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Sunday, April 5, 2009
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Work beginning on Sprague corridor
April 5, 2009 in News As road construction gets going for the 2009 season, officials in Spokane Valley want motorists to know that one of the largest street projects in the area is occurring along …
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Recession gardening takes bloom
April 5, 2009 Although the snow has barely – maybe – stopped flying, people are getting ready to garden. Spokane Valley resident Sherry Primm is hoping to improve on the last several years …
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Separation sparked murder spree
April 5, 2009 in News, Region GRAHAM, Wash. (AP) — Neighbors left cards and bouquets of flowers Sunday morning at the mobile home where five children were gunned down, apparently by their father, who also took … 3
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Mayors’ stories: Sandi Bloem, Coeur d’Alene
April 5, 2009 in News Sandi Bloem, 66, is mayor of Coeur d’Alene and a small-business owner.
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Mayors’ stories: Mary Verner, Spokane
April 5, 2009 in News Mary Verner, 52, is mayor of Spokane.
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Mayors’ stories: Dan Mork, Millwood
April 5, 2009 in News Dan Mork, 52, is mayor of Millwood and manager of the pollen production department for Hollister-Stier Laboratories in Spokane.
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Mentoring forms a ritual of caring
April 5, 2009 in City on Page A1 Stripped of work and school routines, Sunday afternoons can stretch long and lonely. In the kitchen at Sherry Barrett’s house, however, Sundays are filled with the future. It’s a bright …
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Five kids, dad found dead on West side
April 5, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A1 GRAHAM, Wash. – A father apparently shot to death five of his children, ages 7 to 16, at their mobile home and then killed himself near a casino miles away, …
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NATO summit protest turns violent
April 5, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A2 STRASBOURG, France – Hundreds of protesters attacked police and set a hotel and customs station ablaze Saturday in this historic Alsatian city on the German border chosen by NATO summit …
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Pillow fight planned, but police say give it a rest
April 5, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A3 DETROIT – Police in Detroit have ruffled some feathers after they cracked down on an organized pillow fight at a downtown park. The Detroit News reports that police at Campus …
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Obama lauds NATO move to add help in Afghanistan
April 5, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A3 STRASBOURG, France – NATO announced Saturday that it will send about 5,000 additional troops and trainers to Afghanistan, a boost that President Barack Obama hailed, but one that failed to …
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Obama to offer plan for reducing nukes
April 5, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A3 WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama will outline in a major speech today a blueprint for ridding the world of nuclear weapons that calls for the United States to reduce its …
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‘Cash for clunkers’ considered
April 5, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A4 WASHINGTON – The road to recovery for U.S. automakers could be jammed with hundreds of thousands of gas-guzzling used cars, which President Barack Obama hopes will be traded in for …
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N. Korea spurns pressure, triggers rocket
April 5, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A5 SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea defiantly carried out a provocative rocket launch today that the U.S., Japan and other nations suspect was a cover for a test of its …
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Cuba policy shift will lift bans
April 5, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A5 The Obama administration intends to allow Americans to visit relatives in Cuba and send money back to their families on the communist island nation, senior U.S. officials said Saturday. President …
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Bailout cost estimate rises sharply
April 5, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A7 WASHINGTON – Bailing out the financial sector will cost taxpayers $167 billion more than originally anticipated, according to a Congressional Budget Office estimate. The original figure in January was $189 …
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Buffett pushed bank bailouts, and benefited
April 5, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A7 Billionaire investor Warren Buffett has been lauded for his plainspoken denunciation of the greed and foolishness behind the economic crisis. He’s pushed the massive federal bailout of imploding banks as … 3
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Deaths of 2 Iraqi gays follow cleric’s decrial
April 5, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A9 BAGHDAD – The bodies of two gay men have been found in Baghdad’s Shiite slum of Sadr City after a leading cleric repeatedly condemned homosexuality, an Iraqi police official said …
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Pakistan valley offers glimpse of Islamic law
April 5, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A9 MINGORA, Pakistan – A hundred miles northwest of Islamabad, Pakistan’s capital, the Swat valley offers a chilling vision of what much of the country could become. Where tourists once frolicked, …
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Kidnapped American freed in Pakistan
April 5, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A9 ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – An American U.N. worker abducted more than two months ago turned up unharmed Saturday, lying alongside a road in western Pakistan with his hands and feet bound …
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Reaching across class lines doesn’t have to be a barrier for potential mentors
April 5, 2009 in City on Page A10 Donna Beegle grew up in a migrant worker family. She married at 15, had two children and at 25 was divorced, lacking both education and job skills. But with the …
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Online resources match mentors, opportunities
April 5, 2009 in City on Page A10 Naaman Cordova- Muenzberg, 24, credits the youth director at his church in Florence, Colo., for opening his teen eyes to the value of public service. His commitment to service continued …
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Mentoring by the numbers
April 5, 2009 in City on Page A10 3 million Adults who have formal, one-on-one mentoring relationships with young people.
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Three Pittsburgh officers killed
April 5, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A11 PITTSBURGH – A gunman wearing a bulletproof vest and “lying in wait” opened fire on officers responding to a domestic disturbance call Saturday, killing three of them and turning a …
