February 21, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A1 LOS ANGELES – The noxious smoke plumes that wafted over the military base in Balad, Iraq, alarmed Lt. Col. Michelle Franco. The stench from a huge burn pit clung to … 5

February 21, 2010 in City on Page A1 The YMCA sits near a river channel. What’s less known is that a stream flows through the building. The creek, which is a foot deep or more and changes in … 4

February 21, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A1 VANCOUVER, B.C.– Trailing the South Koreans and a pair of Canadian brothers, Apolo Anton Ohno had to rally on the last lap to make history. With the gold and silver … 1

    February 21, 2010 in City on Page A1 Almost a half-century after David Rodgers turned a shovel of dirt to commemorate construction of a new downtown YMCA, he considers the decision to build the Y along the shore … 12

February 21, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A3 RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil – When wind and rough seas drove the Canadian sailing ship carrying dozens of teenage students to lean precariously to one side, the captain figured it …

February 21, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A4 WASHINGTON – Alexander M. Haig’s life threaded through some of the most tumultuous episodes of the second half of the 20th century. An Army officer in Vietnam, a presidential adviser … 1

February 21, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A4 Kathryn Grayson, MGM star Los Angeles – Kathryn Grayson, an MGM singing star in the 1940s and early ’50s in musicals such as “Anchors Aweigh,” “Show Boat” and “Kiss Me …

February 21, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A5 AUSTIN, Texas – When a man fueled by rage against the U.S. government and its tax code crashes his airplane into a building housing offices of the Internal Revenue Service, …

February 21, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A5 PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – There is not one orphan among the 33 children that a U.S. Baptist group tried to take from Haiti in a do-it-yourself rescue mission following a devastating …

February 21, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A7 NEW YORK – The NAACP elected a health care executive as its youngest board chairman Saturday, continuing a youth movement for the nation’s oldest civil rights organization. Roslyn M. Brock, …

February 21, 2010 in City on Page B1 There was little conversation Saturday inside Greyhound Park and Event Center in Post Falls, but there was still a lot of back and forth. For the second time since November, …

February 21, 2010 in City on Page B2 WASHINGTON, D.C. – The first thing to know about the tiny community of Crescent Lake is that it is not Crescent, the former mill town about 18 miles away on …