July 13, 2009 in Outdoors, Idaho A female grizzly that bit an Eastern Idaho hunter last month has been identified through DNA testing of saliva on the hunter’s wound.

July 13, 2009 in Idaho BOISE – Officials and experts from the United States and Canada say a U.S. border policy driven by concerns about terrorism and problems at the Mexico border is disrupting operations …

July 13, 2009 in Nation/World Sonia Sotomayor, the first Hispanic Supreme Court nominee in history, vowed loyalty to “the impartiality of our justice system” Monday, confronting Republican skeptics at Senate hearings suffused with racial politics … 1

July 13, 2009 in Idaho A Pullman man died in a head-on collision on U.S. Highway 95 near Worley about 6:30 a.m. today. 1

July 13, 2009 in City A family moving from Canada to Florida lost most of their possessions Sunday when their moving truck was stolen from a Spokane Valley motel parking lot. 1

July 13, 2009 in City A broken electrical transmission tower was blamed for a loss of power this morning to 6,600 Avista Utilities customers in north central Spokane.

July 13, 2009 in City A Coeur d’Alene man was killed in a motorcycle accident along Interstate 90 near Liberty Lake that went undiscovered until an hour after daybreak today.

  July 13, 2009 in City Read the Spokane Police activity and service logs for July 10 to July 12, 2009.

  July 13, 2009 in Idaho Read the Bonner County law enforcement log for July 10 and July 12, 2009.

July 13, 2009 in City, Idaho Rain and thunderstorms continue to pound the Inland Northwest this morning with rain moving across Spokane and Coeur d’Alene at mid-morning.

July 13, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A1 WASHINGTON – Louis Gill doesn’t like to turn anyone away. The director of the Bakersfield Homeless Center in California has taken to laying out cots and mattresses between the shelter’s …

July 13, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A1 WASHINGTON – Legislation to overhaul the nation’s health systems is unlikely to make it through the House and Senate before the August target set by President Barack Obama and other … 1

July 13, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A3 TOKYO – Japanese broadcaster NHK reports that Prime Minister Taro Aso has decided to dissolve parliament and call general elections. NHK says parliament will be dissolved next week, with general …

July 13, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A3 KABUL – A bomb blast killed two U.S. Marines in Afghanistan’s dangerous south, where thousands of American troops have been deployed in a massive operation to oust Taliban fighters from …

July 13, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A4 WASHINGTON – Six months into Barack Obama’s presidency, his Democratic allies are pushing for twin investigations into Bush-era torture and anti-terrorism policies. Two senators, including the head of the intelligence … 2

July 13, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A4 WASHINGTON – The U.S. government said Sunday it is trying to settle its demand that Switzerland’s largest bank turn over information about thousands of Americans suspected of using secret Swiss … 1