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Friday, February 19, 2010
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Wash. state workers’ health care fund strapped
February 19, 2010 in City OLYMPIA – The fund that covers state workers’ health care is strapped for cash because the state cut its premium payments by hundreds of millions of dollars, using that money … 13
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3 dogs dead in suspected meatball poisonings
February 19, 2010 in City Poisoned meatballs may have killed three dogs in the Moran Prairie neighborhood on Spokane’s South Hill today, and more suspicious meatballs were found in two other locations. 3
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House GOP votes to stop 1 percent pension hike
February 19, 2010 in Idaho The Republican-dominated House voted 48-19 to block Idaho government retirees from getting a 1 percent pension raise, saying it was necessary to protect the $10 billion fund. 3
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Idaho cuts budget, spares schools
February 19, 2010 in Idaho Idaho schools will be spared from any further budget cuts this year, the Legislature’s joint budget committee decided unanimously this morning - but likely will face big cuts next year.
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Bonner County police logs, Feb. 16-18
February 19, 2010 in Idaho Read the Bonner County law enforcement log for Feb. 16 to Feb. 18, 2010.
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AmericanWest trims losses
February 19, 2010 in Business Embattled Spokane-based AmericanWest Bancorp. announced a smaller loss for the fourth quarter and the full year, but its non-performing assets grew and the company said it hadn’t yet met two …
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Tiger Woods: Sorry for behavior, unsure of return
February 19, 2010 in Sports Tiger Woods publicly apologized Friday without revealing any more details about his infidelity, and told a global audience he’s not sure when he’ll play golf again. 7
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Sunny skies to last through weekend
February 19, 2010 in City, Idaho Sunshine continues today across the Inland Northwest, and forecasters said the weather system that is bringing the fair weather should continue into Tuesday.
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Spokane man, son face drug charges
February 19, 2010 in City Police arrested a 20-year-old Spokane man and his father Thursday on suspicion of selling marijuana to high school students in northwest Spokane.
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Panel agrees to block cost-of-living boost
February 19, 2010 in Idaho Idaho lawmakers reversed course Thursday and voted to pass the same legislation blocking a cost-of-living increase for state retirees that they’d just killed a day earlier.
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Pilot unhurt after crop duster crash
February 19, 2010 in City For the second time in a month, authorities in Whitman County reported a crop duster crash.
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Court’s Web site among the best
February 19, 2010 in City Spokane County District Court’s Web site is one of the 10 best judicial sites in the world, according to the Justice Served organization.
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Artistry proves good as gold
February 19, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A1 VANCOUVER, B.C. – In four and a half minutes, Evan Lysacek ended an 18-year Russian dynasty. He also ended figure skating’s perpetual debate about artistry versus athleticism. At least for …
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WSU offers job to Moos
February 19, 2010 in City on Page A1 PULLMAN – Washington State University President Elson S. Floyd offered the school’s vacant athletic director position to Bill Moos on Thursday afternoon. “He did extend the offer,” Moos said when … 1
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Former agent wins judgment against BIA
February 19, 2010 in City on Page A1 A former federal law enforcement agent, who was fired after he investigated police corruption on the Spokane Indian Reservation, has won a $400,000 lawsuit against the Bureau of Indian Affairs … 13
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Clinic sale details released
February 19, 2010 in City on Page A1 Community Health Systems Inc. paid about $50 million to buy Spokane’s Rockwood Clinic from its 77 physician owners. Company executives disclosed the sales price for the first time Thursday during …
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Accuracy watch
February 19, 2010 in City on Page A2 For 02-19-2010
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Suit claims school used webcams to spy on kids
February 19, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A3 PHILADELPHIA – A suburban Philadelphia school district used the webcams in school-issued laptops to spy on students at home, potentially catching them and their families in compromising situations, a family …
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In brief: NYPD’s Kerik gets four-year sentence
February 19, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A3 WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. – Former New York City police Commissioner Bernard Kerik, who was hailed as a hero after the Sept. 11 terror attacks and nearly became chief of Homeland …
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Plane hits IRS building
February 19, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A3 AUSTIN, Texas – A software engineer furious with the Internal Revenue Service launched a suicide attack on the agency Thursday by crashing a small plane into an office building containing … 2
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Obama, Dalai Lama meet
February 19, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A3 WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama and the Dalai Lama held a relaxed, unhurried conversation Thursday, reiterating long-standing commitments to seek greater rights for people living in the Tibetan regions of …
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Soldiers oust Niger president
February 19, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A4 NIAMEY, Niger – Renegade soldiers in armored vehicles stormed Niger’s presidential palace with a hail of gunfire in broad daylight, kidnapping the country’s strongman president and then appearing on state …
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Afghan Taliban chiefs arrested
February 19, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A4 KABUL – Pakistani authorities, aided by U.S. intelligence, have apprehended more Afghan Taliban chiefs following the capture of the movement’s No. 2 figure – arrests that together represent the biggest …
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In brief: Muslim kidnap suspect arrested
February 19, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A4 MANILA, Philippines – Philippine troops arrested a suspected Muslim militant accused in the high-profile kidnappings of three Americans and dozens of Filipinos nine years ago, the military reported Friday. It …
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