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Saturday, June 19, 2010
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Dust Devils beat Indians again
June 19, 2010 in Sports Joseph Scott’s first hit as a professional player was a home run last year in Missoula. His second pro homer came Saturday night at Avista Stadium and started the Tri-City …
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One killed, three injured in I-90 crash
June 19, 2010 in City A 37-year-old Silverdale, Wa., man died Saturday in a single-car rollover accident that closed eastbound Interstate 90 east of Moses Lake for several hours. Robert H. Goodwin was a passenger … 2
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Hernandez pitches M’s past Reds
June 19, 2010 in Sports Felix Hernandez threw a five-hitter and Michael Saunders backed the right-hander with a hit a three-run homer to give the Seattle Mariners a 5-1 win over the Cincinnati Reds on …
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Long road trip ends in new world record
June 19, 2010 in Idaho Three men traversed the contiguous 48 states in 97 hours and 7 minutes to break the Guinness World Record.
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Every game day is father’s day
June 19, 2010 in Sports Ed Ta’amu had a lot of reasons to return to play for the Spokane Shock, not the least of which was to be able to play in front of his …
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Enjoy true rewards of youth basketball
June 19, 2010 in Sports Whitworth head men’s basketball coach Jim Hayford shares some perspective about the true rewards of playing youth basketball. 1
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Steele’s quiet years get suddenly noisy
June 19, 2010 in Idaho He calls himself “the attorney for the damned,” has gained national attention for his work with high-profile clients and was a coveted speaker in the national racist movement for years. …
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Former NBA player Manute Bol dies
June 19, 2010 in Sports KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — An associate of former NBA player Manute Bol says Bol has died at a Virginia hospital, where he was being treated for severe kidney trouble …
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Keillor went astray in ‘Bloomsday’ reference
June 19, 2010 in City on Page A1 It’s been a riot of a week in Spokane, our hometown, with “A Prairie Home Companion” at the Spokane Arena last Saturday and Bloomsday celebrated in Irish bars on Wednesday. … 1
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BP creates some confusion over who’s in charge of spill response
June 19, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A1 NEW ORLEANS – BP’s chairman said Friday that CEO Tony Hayward is on his way out as the company’s point man on the Gulf oil spill crisis, a day after … 3
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A prime mover
June 19, 2010 in City on Page A1 Jerry and Bev Numbers are convinced that Spokane’s Sonora Smart Dodd, who founded Father’s Day 100 years ago today, was an extraordinary woman. A Renaissance woman. They ought to know. … 4
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Accident kills ex-Grizzly
June 19, 2010 in Idaho on Page A1 A former All-American football player at the University of Montana died Friday of internal injuries from a rock fall in a morning accident at Galena Mine near Silverton, Idaho. Timothy …
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College to let media attend Palin event
June 19, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A2 SACRAMENTO, Calif. – After months of requests from reporters, a California university on Friday agreed to allow members of the media to attend a fundraiser next week featuring Sarah Palin. …
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Final set of Kagan e-mails released
June 19, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A3 WASHINGTON – As a Clinton White House aide, Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan called herself one of the Clinton administration’s biggest fans of a law to protect religious freedom but …
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Federal agencies told not to pay dead people
June 19, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A3 WASHINGTON – Here’s an idea, Uncle Sam: Stop writing checks to dead people. The government sent benefit checks to 20,000 departed Americans over three years, totaling more than $180 million … 2
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Growth in peril, Obama warns
June 19, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A3 WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama made apparent Friday that he disapproved of Europe’s pullback in spending and China’s refusal to let its currency rise in value – two contentious issues … 2
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Firing squad killing reignites debate
June 19, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A3 DENVER – Ronnie Lee Gardner, the convicted double-murderer executed by a firing squad in Utah in the predawn hours Friday morning, died in a manner that even the state that … 1
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In brief: Windows blown from high-rise
June 19, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A3 CHICAGO – A swift-moving storm carrying high winds and pelting rain knocked out windows at Chicago’s 110-story Willis Tower. Police on Friday roped off areas around the imposing black building …
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Son kills father who worked for U.S.
June 19, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A4 BAGHDAD – An al-Qaida-linked insurgent shot and killed his own father as he slept in his bed Friday for refusing to quit his job as an Iraqi interpreter for the …
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In brief: Attack, bomb kill three Americans
June 19, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A4 KABUL, Afghanistan – Five NATO troops including three Americans died in fighting Friday in Afghanistan, raising to 34 the number of U.S. troops killed in the war so far this …
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Sausage, wine fest triumphs despite ban
June 19, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A4 PARIS – Several hundred people have attended a party serving sausage and wine on a Paris street after the event was banned from a different location. Organizers had planned on …
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Mexican police find twelve bodies
June 19, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A6 CANCUN, Mexico – Police in Cancun found 12 decomposing bodies in four caverns and were searching for more cadavers in violence blamed on drug gangs in the popular resort city, …
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Uzbek refugees too afraid to return to their homes
June 19, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A6 VLKSM, Kyrgyzstan – Ethnic Uzbeks sheltering in squalid tent camps say they don’t have enough food or clean water but are terrified of going back to live alongside those they …
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Alaska, Horizon increase checked-bag fee
June 19, 2010 in Business on Page A8 Now that the airline business has begun to pick up again, U.S. carriers have started increasing fees and adding to a menu of charges for services they once provided free. … 2
