August 31, 2010 in Sports If the Northwest Conference football coaches preseason poll is correct, the Whitworth Pirates will do something this fall that hasn’t happened in the last six seasons: Finish below third place. …

August 31, 2010 in Sports The Washington State football team faces an 11-game stretch without a bye this season.

August 31, 2010 in Sports With first-year coach Don Nachbaur promising to give everybody a chance who deserved one, the Spokane Chiefs only cut half of the players invited to last weekend’s training camp.

August 31, 2010 in Sports Brigham Young University has confirmed that it will join the West Coast Conference as a member in basketball and other sports beginning with the 2011-2012 athletic season. 3

August 31, 2010 in City Around 3:50 p.m. Tuesday, a robber stormed through the Fifth and Browne Pharmacy with a knife, demanding OxyContin, police said. 1

August 31, 2010 in Sports The Spokane Chiefs backed up their words with action – or lack thereof. With first-year coach Don Nachbaur promising to give everybody a chance who deserved one, the Western Hockey …

August 31, 2010 in Idaho Idaho Gov. Butch Otter’s transportation funding task force unanimously agreed Tuesday to accept a new state study showing heavy trucks underpay in Idaho compared to their wear and tear on …

August 31, 2010 in City Spokane County’s Holmberg swimming pool would close indefinitely under a plan presented to commissioners today.

  August 31, 2010 in City, Region Scores from spring tests in Washington schools were mixed when compared to results a year earlier, State Superintendent Randy Dorn said today. 5

August 31, 2010 in City Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation are searching several locations in Spokane County today in two cases. Frank Harrill, agent in charge for the FBI’s Spokane office, declined to … 5

August 31, 2010 in Business Americans’ confidence in the economy improved slightly in August from July, but they’re still roughly as gloomy as a year ago. The downbeat sentiment underscores the challenges ahead for the …

August 31, 2010 in Outdoors, Idaho A helicopter chartered by the Idaho Fish and Game Department agency plunged into a travel trailer and crashed today on a downtown street in the small town of Kamiah, killing … 1

August 31, 2010 in Region Montana has long had a reputation as a place where you could crack open a beer while driving down the interstate just about as fast as you liked. 15

August 31, 2010 in Business, Idaho The death of a Clearwater Paper employee is described as an industrial accident in a report by the Nez Perce County Sheriff’s Office obtained through a records request by the …

August 31, 2010 in Region A 31-year-old Three Forks man faces criminal charges after his sister reported he showed up drunk to her wedding reception and hit her in the mouth with a large wrench. 5

August 31, 2010 in City A McDonald’s at South Regal Avenue and Palouse Highway in Spokane was robbed late Monday by a man wearing a green Halloween mask. 1

August 31, 2010 in Idaho Idaho and six other states that are suing to toss out President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul law are also lining up to claim a share of its subsidies for … 2

August 31, 2010 in City, Idaho Increasing clouds and a chance of rain is being forecast for today as an autumn-like storm moves over the Pacific Northwest from the cooler water of the North Pacific Ocean. 1

August 31, 2010 in City on Page A1 RALEIGH, N.C. – By his own reckoning, a Navy electrician spent just eight hours in Vietnam, during a layover on his flight back to the U.S. in 1966. He bought …

August 31, 2010 in City on Page A1 The Catholic Diocese of Spokane is broaching a consequence of its bankruptcy once thought unthinkable – the sale of churches to pay victims of clergy sex abuse. New claims of … 10

August 31, 2010 in City on Page A1 WASHINGTON – Federal health officials released some interesting data Monday aimed at trying to figure out why so many U.S. women are undergoing cesarean sections to deliver their babies. The … 1