April 26, 2010 in City Halloween gunfire that killed a man trying to break up a fight in downtown Spokane will send the triggerman to prison for at least 24 years in a plea deal … 1

April 26, 2010 in Business The friendships developed by Gerry Copeland, a longtime Spokane architect who died Sunday, were just as important as the work he did for the clients, one of his business partners … 1

  April 26, 2010 in Idaho Idaho has much at stake in Washington’s big U.S. Supreme Court case over whether referendum petition signatures should be public or not. “Our initiative and referendum statute is very similar … 3

April 26, 2010 in Idaho A Haitian judge said Monday he has dismissed kidnapping and criminal association charges against 10 American missionaries detained for trying to take a busload of children out of the country … 1

April 26, 2010 in Idaho More than 2,700 members of the Army National Guard in Idaho, Montana and Oregon are being sent to Iraq in a year-long deployment this fall. 3

April 26, 2010 in Nation/World The Supreme Court will decide whether free speech rights are more important than helping parents keep violent material away from children. 12

April 26, 2010 in City Spokane Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick is one of 11 finalists to lead Seattle’s police force. 14

April 26, 2010 in City, Idaho A Deer Park couple and their three grandchildren who went missing Sunday returned to the children’s Coeur d’Alene home this morning after freeing their vehicle that had been stuck in … 4

April 26, 2010 in City Spokane Valley police officers were justified when they shot a man reported to be suicidal in December, the Spokane County Prosecutors Office has ruled. 8

  April 26, 2010 in Idaho Read the Bonner County law enforcement log for April 20 to April 25, 2010.

April 26, 2010 in Idaho Sidney Smith, former U.S. attorney for the state of Idaho, has died at the age of 95. Smith was a longtime resident of Coeur d’Alene, and died Friday.

April 26, 2010 in City, Idaho Today should be the nicest day of the work week with mostly sunny skies and highs in the upper 60s.

April 26, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A1 WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Wednesday in a Washington state case in which religious conservatives fear retaliation from gay rights groups if the names of the … 5

April 26, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A2 DASHT-E-KAVIR, Iran – Hundreds of Iranians on Sunday marked the 30th anniversary of a failed U.S. military operation to rescue American hostages in Tehran, with prayers and words of defiance …

April 26, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A3 NEW ORLEANS – It could take hours or it could take months to stop a 42,000-gallon-a-day oil leak polluting the Gulf of Mexico at the site of a wrecked drilling …

April 26, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A3 PHOENIX – An Arizona congressman urged the Obama administration on Sunday not to cooperate when illegal immigrants are picked up by local police if a tough new state immigration law …

April 26, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A3 WASHINGTON – With no bipartisan deal on how to rein in Wall Street, Democrats stepped up their efforts Sunday to splinter unified Republican opposition to their sweeping regulatory overhaul. In …