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Friday, December 4, 2009
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Chiefs double up Seattle
December 4, 2009 in Sports Sometimes it’s better to be lucky than good. And it took a big dose of luck for the Spokane Chiefs to make 5,936 fans happy with a 4-2 win over …
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Vandals leave racist message
December 4, 2009 in News, Idaho A Coeur d’Alene man of Middle Eastern descent left his pickup parked downtown Thursday night and returned to find it spray-painted with swastikas and a racial slur and a front …
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Five Mile auction cancelled after bankruptcy filing
December 4, 2009 in Business A planned auction of 33 lots in the Five Mile area of North Spokane was cancelled Friday when the developer, MT 5 LLC, filed for bankruptcy protection.
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U.S. student Knox sentenced to 26 years in Italy
December 4, 2009 in Nation/World, Region A jury in Italy convicted American college student Amanda Knox of murdering her British roommate and sentenced her to 26 years in prison shortly after midnight Saturday. 3
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Nonprofit seeking public donations for first time
December 4, 2009 in City A social service nonprofit has helped make Spokane a more humane place since 1988 by diagnosing and treating young victims of abuse and neglect. 2
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Spokane-developed electric car catches Leno’s eye
December 4, 2009 in Business Spokane car designer Rick Woodbury recently spent time with car aficionado Jay Leno at the entertainer’s garage in Burbank, Calif. 2
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Arctic air building in Alaska, heading this way
December 4, 2009 in City, Idaho A deep arctic air mass is forming in Alaska and Canada today, and is forecasted to move southward into the Inland Northwest starting about midday Sunday.
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Clemmons repeatedly slipped through the cracks
December 4, 2009 in Region Last April, a Department of Corrections officer was watching a television news story about a series of armed robberies around Puget Sound when he saw a Pierce County Crime Stoppers … 3
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Bonner County police logs, Dec. 1-3
December 4, 2009 in Idaho Read the Bonner County law enforcement log for Dec. 1-3, 2009.
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Gov. Gregoire eliminates 17 boards and commissions
December 4, 2009 in City Gov. Chris Gregoire has eliminated 17 boards and commissions by executive order and she is asking lawmakers to get rid of 78 other boards. 1
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Obama: Jobs plan will ‘jump-start’ hiring
December 4, 2009 in Business, Nation/World Even as he trumpeted a slowdown in the nation’s job losses Friday, President Barack Obama put finishing touches on a proposal he’ll unveil next week to “jump-start” business hiring across … 2
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Firefighters respond to Mayfair Ave. fire
December 4, 2009 in City Spokane firefighters this morning were trying to extinguish a blaze that broke out this morning in a house at North Mayfair Street in the vicinity of East Cleveland Avenue.
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Vehicle occupant trapped in Post Falls accident
December 4, 2009 in City Post Falls police and fire crews have responded to Mullan Avenue and Idaho Street where a rollover injury accident apparently has trapped a vehicle occupant.
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Unexpected drop in jobless rate sparks optimism
December 4, 2009 in Business A surprising drop in the unemployment rate and far fewer job losses last month cheered investors Friday and raised hopes for a sustained economic recovery. 7
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Gas storage worries some in Whitman County
December 4, 2009 in Idaho on Page A1 Ten years ago, Tom and Holly Bieker moved into a 70-year-old farmhouse in Belmont, a tiny community with a handful of families and grain elevators in Washington’s Palouse country. In … 1
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Cities’ 10-square-mile West Plains gain is county’s loss
December 4, 2009 in City on Page A1 Spokane and Airway Heights will grow wings. Leaders from Spokane, Airway Heights and Spokane County put aside years of bickering Thursday and unanimously approved the largest annexation in Spokane since … 6
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In-kind donations help, too
December 4, 2009 in City on Page A1 When Clint Branz and his wife, Cheryl Custer-Branz, began volunteering for the Christmas Bureau seven or so years ago, the couple couldn’t help but notice the sub-par equipment organizers used …
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Democrats may tap bailout funds for jobs
December 4, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A1 WASHINGTON – Democrats are looking to tap as much as $70 billion in unused funds from the Wall Street bailout to pay for new spending on roads and bridges and … 1
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Group seeks ban on weight loss pill
December 4, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A2 WASHINGTON – A consumer advocacy group is petitioning the government to ban the weight loss pill Meridia because a recent study suggests it increases risk of heart attack, stroke and …
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Accuracy watch
December 4, 2009 in City on Page A2 For 12-04-2009
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Drug may suppress Hepatitis C
December 4, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A2 An experimental antiviral drug that works by a different mechanism than existing drugs has been shown to suppress hepatitis C in chimpanzees and is beginning clinical trials in humans, researchers …
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Gates says U.S. has no deadlines on drawdown
December 4, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A3 WASHINGTON – The withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan, scheduled to begin in July 2011, will “probably” take two or three years, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday, although he … 1
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Karzai praises Obama’s timeline for withdrawal
December 4, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A3 KABUL – President Hamid Karzai put a brave face Thursday on President Barack Obama’s decision to start pulling out troops in mid-2011, telling the Associated Press that it will push …
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GOP loses on health care vote
December 4, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A3 WASHINGTON – Senate Republicans lost their first major challenge to a Democratic plan to overhaul the health care system, as the Senate voted Thursday to reject a GOP proposal to …
