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Saturday, October 17, 2009
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Hayden grocery store robbed at gunpoint
October 17, 2009 in Idaho, News The Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office is looking for a man who robbed a Hayden grocery store at gunpoint early Saturday morning.
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Man hit by train identified
October 17, 2009 in Idaho, News The man who stepped in front a moving freight train Friday morning in Post Falls was identified Saturday as a 21-year-old Coeur d’Alene resident.
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Arson fire burns Spokane home
October 17, 2009 in City, News Fire officials believe arson is to blame for a blaze fire that damaged a vacant northeast Spokane home Friday.
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Feisty Chiefs down Ice
October 17, 2009 in News, Sports The Spokane Chiefs haven’t tried doing things the easy way very often this year. This time, however, it didn’t cost them. Spokane gave up the game’s first goal for the …
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Vandals whip Hawaii
October 17, 2009 in News, Sports MOSCOW, Idaho – A Texas-sized grin plastered on his face, safety Shiloh Keo galloped off the field Saturday repeating the same four words. “We’ve got a shot,” he hollered, referring …
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Eastern falls short in Missoula
October 17, 2009 in News, Sports MISSOULA — Beau Baldwin was hoping the flattering comments he made about the University of Montana football program earlier in the week would not prove prophetic on Saturday. That wasn’t … 1
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Arson fire damages vacant home
October 17, 2009 in News Fire officials believe arson is to blame for a fire that damaged a vacant northeast Spokane home Friday. 1
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Flu tied to viral pneumonia
October 17, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A1 WASHINGTON – The World Health Organization urged doctors Friday to treat suspected swine flu cases as quickly as possible with antiviral drugs, warning that the virus can cause potentially life-threatening … 1
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Fifth-graders support Canadian team at Spokane hockey exhibition
October 17, 2009 in City on Page A1 Nobody was more excited about Friday’s ice hockey match between Canada and the United States than the students from Redfish Elementary School in Nelson, B.C. The school purchased tickets to …
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Candidates differ over police
October 17, 2009 in City on Page A1 Like most people running for elected office, both candidates seeking a City Council seat representing northwest Spokane say public safety is No. 1. But incumbent Nancy McLaughlin said that priority … 4
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$1.4 trillion deficit clouds Obama plans
October 17, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A1 WASHINGTON – The federal budget deficit soared to a record $1.4 trillion in the fiscal year that ended in September, a chasm of red ink unequaled in the postwar era … 3
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House leaders near health deal
October 17, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A3 WASHINGTON – Preliminary estimates from the Congressional Budget Office show that House leaders are within striking distance of drafting a health overhaul that fits within President Obama’s $900 billion limit, …
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Study refutes warnings about sodium intake
October 17, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A3 SACRAMENTO, Calif. – University of California-Davis nutrition researchers are challenging the decades-old conventional wisdom that we should watch our salt. The controversial article, published this week in the Clinical Journal …
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Obama, Bush Sr. team up to celebrate volunteerism
October 17, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A3 COLLEGE STATION, Texas – For eight months, President Barack Obama has been methodically moving to overturn his predecessor’s policies, turn back his eight-year imprint on government and undo his legacy. …
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EPA plans to revoke mining permit
October 17, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A3 CHARLESTON, W.Va. – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Friday it planned to use its authority for the first time to revoke a previously issued permit for a West Virginia …
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In brief: Hurricane Rick hits Category 2
October 17, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A4 Acapulco, Mexico – Hurricane Rick swiftly strengthened Friday off Mexico’s Pacific coast with winds near 100 mph, and forecasters warned it could soon become a major hurricane. Rick, a Category …
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U.N. council threatens Israel, Hamas with inquiry
October 17, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A4 JERUSALEM – In a vote likely to complicate U.S. efforts to revive Middle East peace talks, the United Nations Human Rights Council on Friday endorsed a report calling on Israel …
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It’ll be middle road on Sudan
October 17, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A4 WASHINGTON – After lengthy debate, the Obama administration has settled on a policy toward Sudan that offers a dramatically softer approach than the president had advocated on the campaign trail …
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Putin proposes Eurasian showcase
October 17, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A4 MOSCOW – From the Cold War to a Battle of the Bands. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, by some accounts a big fan of ABBA, has suggested organizing an international song …
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In brief: Body dismissed as decoration
October 17, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A5 Los Angeles – Residents of a Southern California apartment complex said they saw a lifeless body slumped on a neighbor’s patio, but didn’t call police because they thought it was …
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Balloon boy’s family to be reinterviewed
October 17, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A5 DENVER – The Colorado sheriff whose deputies chased a homemade, mushroom-shaped balloon across three counties before the boy it purportedly was carrying turned up safe at home said Friday that …
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College crafts ‘sexile’ rules for roommates
October 17, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A5 WASHINGTON – In an era of coed dorms and slackening rules about “overnight guests,” a new constituency has emerged on college campuses: the roommate inconvenienced by sex. Shielding a cohabitant …
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Anti-U.S. cleric gets followers to polls
October 17, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A7 BAGHDAD – The Shiite movement loyal to anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr may seem an unlikely standard bearer for democracy in the new Iraq. It owes fealty to a leader whose …
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Bombers kill 11 in north Pakistan
October 17, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A7 ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – In what has become a grim routine over the past two weeks, a militant attack on a police station in the northwestern city of Peshawar killed at …
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