September 27, 2009 in City, News A three-year effort to erect a bronze statue honoring Boy Scouts comes to a close 2

September 27, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A1 WASHINGTON – Using a powerful microscope, Karel Svoboda, a brain scientist at the Janelia Farm Research Campus in Ashburn, Va., peers through a plastic window in the top of a …

September 27, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A3 BEIJING – Medical tests have shown at least 121 children living near a battery plant in eastern China are suffering from lead poisoning, the latest in a recent string of …

September 27, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A3 At talks scheduled for Thursday in Geneva with Iran, the United States and five other major powers will demand immediate and unfettered access to the newly exposed nuclear facility in …

September 27, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A3 ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – Two suicide car bomb attacks Saturday killed at least 20 people and injured more than 150 others in northwest Pakistan, sending an ominous signal that the death …

September 27, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A4 MIAMI – Even as the White House left doubt on whether it would meet its own prison camps closure deadline, the Obama administration said Saturday it had freed three detainees …

September 27, 2009 in City on Page A7 Michael Vacciano’s year of looking for work in Spokane finally ended. With a job in Alabama.

September 27, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A8 PORLAMAR, Venezuela – Moammar Gadhafi and Hugo Chavez urged nearly 30 leaders from throughout Africa and South America on Saturday to form a strong intercontinental alliance to press for their …

September 27, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A9 EL DORADO HILLS, Calif. – In a ceremony filled with tears and song, those who loved Annie Le best said goodbye to her Saturday. The private Mass, held in the …

September 27, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A9 LOS ANGELES – Susan Atkins, a member of the Charles Manson “family” who admitted ruthlessly stabbing pregnant actress Sharon Tate to death in the cult’s 1969 murder spree, has died …

September 27, 2009 in City on Page B1 FORT LEWIS, Wash. – The Department of Defense has identified three Fort Lewis soldiers killed Thursday by an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan. Spc. Joseph V. White, 21, of Bellevue; …

September 27, 2009 in City on Page B1 What? Not another Spokane Police Department scandal. It’s deja blue all over again. 2

September 27, 2009 in Idaho on Page B1 Thirteen months after Joseph Duncan was handed three death sentences for his abduction and murder of a North Idaho child, his appeal languishes in its earliest stages at the 9th … 1

September 27, 2009 in City on Page B2 YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK – Officials in Yellowstone National Park have closed a key road in the south part of the park due to a 2.5-square-mile fire burning near Yellowstone Lake. …

September 27, 2009 in City on Page B2 It’s hard to imagine a better start to the Spokane Civic Theatre season than “The Pirates of Penzance,” by Gilbert and Sullivan. Here’s a show that reaches back to the …

September 27, 2009 in Nation/World on Page B3 ROME – A computer expert testified Saturday in the murder trial of an American student and her former Italian boyfriend that someone had used the young man’s computer, which the …

September 27, 2009 in City on Page B3 What’s in a word? When the word is “lunge,” it could be quite a bit. That’s lunge the verb, as in the Spokane Police Department’s repeated insistence that Otto Zehm … 2

September 27, 2009 in Opinion on Page B8 On a one-day visit to Spokane Thursday, the dean of the University of Washington Medical School brought a message that’s worth repeating. And repeating.