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Sunday, February 22, 2009
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‘Slumdog’ is top dog at Oscars
February 22, 2009 in News LOS ANGELES — Heath Ledger won the supporting-actor Academy Award on Sunday for his demented reinvention of Batman villain the Joker in “The Dark Knight,” becoming only the second actor …
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Rain continues all week
February 22, 2009 in City, Idaho Rain returned to the Inland Northwest today, and forecaster said it is likely to remain in the forecast throughout the week.
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Family, friends recall R.A. Hanson
February 22, 2009 in News, City Raymond A. Hanson, a successful inventor and industrialist who died at his Spokane Valley home last Thursday at age 85, was remembered on Sunday as a man who tackled some …
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Apartment fire forces 40 to evacuate
February 22, 2009 in News, City Spokane fire investigators are trying to determine the cause of a blaze that broke out at a three-story apartment that forced almost 40 residents to evacuate. 3
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It’s tax time: Tips can help you through it
February 22, 2009 in News It’s not yet the last minute, but tax season has more than arrived. While every year brings changes in the tax code, there’s even more to keep up with for …
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Spin Control: Parking woes
February 22, 2009 in News, Opinion, City The city of Spokane has created a new type of parking sign in downtown, and a new parking district. And, shockingly enough, it has people confused. 1
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Survivor joins fight for safer crossing
February 22, 2009 in News, City Thomas Grieb doesn’t remember much about the warm August day in 2006 when his life was changed forever.
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Interest in police careers surges
February 22, 2009 in News, City A career that involves putting your life on the line has apparently become more appealing, as long as it offers decent pay and job stability.
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Council turns attention to sign code
February 22, 2009 in News, City Everything from the height of golden arches along the freeway to the size of a cardboard placard advertising a garage sale would be subject to new regulations under an expansive …
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Envision Spokane on right path
February 22, 2009 in Letters Thank you to all the people who support the group Envision Spokane (“Group aims to alter charter,” Feb. 15).
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Power to the neighborhoods
February 22, 2009 in Letters In “Group’s vision for city assumes dark forces at work” (Feb. 17) the editorial board writes that Envision Spokane thinks some “people have untoward influence over the government.”
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‘I was 17 and he was 50’
February 22, 2009 in News on Page A1 When she was just 17, Mary Mackert was forced to marry a man who was 50.
She’d been taught there was nothing else she could do. 5
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Police say arrest near in Chandra Levy case
February 22, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A1 WASHINGTON – Police believe they have finally solved the slaying of government intern Chandra Levy, eight years after her disappearance transfixed Washington and much of the nation and ended the …
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Budget aims for leaner deficit
February 22, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A1 WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama is putting the finishing touches on an ambitious first budget that seeks to cut the federal deficit in half over the next four years, primarily …
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Budget to seek leaner deficit
February 22, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A1 WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama is putting the finishing touches on an ambitious first budget that seeks to cut the federal deficit in half over the next four years, primarily …
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Bush visits hardware store
February 22, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A2 DALLAS – Former President George W. Bush has visited a Dallas hardware store that earlier this month made him a lighthearted offer to work as a greeter. Andrea Bond, a …
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Lazy Pikes Peak hikers could be fined
February 22, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A3 COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Hikers who climb to Pikes Peak’s summit but don’t feel up to walking the 12 miles back down could soon have to pay for their ride. …
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Federal officials interview Burris
February 22, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A3 Sen. Roland Burris of Illinois was interviewed by federal authorities for several hours Saturday as part of the ongoing corruption investigation into charges that former Gov. Rod Blagojevich tried to …
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Boy, 11, arrested in death of dad’s pregnant friend
February 22, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A3 WAMPUM, Pa. – An 11-year-old boy shot his father’s pregnant girlfriend in the back of the head while she was lying in bed in their western Pennsylvania farmhouse, then got …
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Stimulus funds have governors’ attention
February 22, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A3 WASHINGTON – The nation’s governors, battered by plunging tax revenues and growing budget deficits in their states, converged on Washington Saturday and outlined their plans to spend billions of federal …
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Banking chief held line, wins day
February 22, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A4 BEIRUT, Lebanon – Throughout history, humans have braved great odds to perform great feats. Riad Toufic Salame, the governor of Lebanon’s central bank, is not one of those people. Instead, …
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Priest who helped lepers to be sainted
February 22, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A4 VATICAN CITY – A 19th-century Belgian priest who ministered to leprosy patients in Hawaii, and died of the disease, will be declared a saint this year at a Vatican ceremony …
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China, Taiwan talk of free-trade pact
February 22, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A5 BEIJING – Taiwan and China are negotiating a wide-ranging free-trade agreement that represents an important step toward the possibility of unification of the longtime adversaries. The Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement …
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U.S. admits strike killed 13 civilians
February 22, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A7 An operation the American military at first described as a “precision strike” instead killed 13 Afghan civilians and only three militants, the U.S. said Saturday, three days after sending a …
