March 31, 2010 in Sports Eastern Washington opens spring football practice with six candidates vying for the starting quarterback job.

March 31, 2010 in Business A former Hanford manager and his wife are facing criminal charges for allegedly using a company credit card to spend $487,000 on personal items.

March 31, 2010 in City The downtown farmers market is moving off the pavement to an open field a few blocks away. 3

March 31, 2010 in Nation/World The deadline for bids on a $35 billion contract for refueling jets will be extended by 60 days so the European maker of Airbus can compete, the Pentagon said Wednesday. 1

March 31, 2010 in City, Idaho The Idaho County Sheriff’s Department has identified two snowmobilers from eastern Washington state who were killed in an avalanche near the Brundage Mountain ski area.

March 31, 2010 in City, Idaho The National Weather Service this afternoon issued a winter storm watch for Friday through Saturday for elevations above 3,000 feet in Washington and Idaho.

March 31, 2010 in Idaho Today, Idaho closes the first regulated wolf-hunting season in the lower 48 states, and state Fish & Game officials are calling it a success. “I’d be severely disappointed if we … 7

March 31, 2010 in Business, City Avista Chairman and CEO Scott Morris earned $3 million in total compensation last year, the utility reported today. 143

March 31, 2010 in Business, City, Idaho The son of a former Bonner County man accused of orchestrating a $2 million Ponzi scheme has agreed to repay $313,000 he received from his father.A

March 31, 2010 in City, Idaho Sarah Parks’ family badly wants to know how she died. With that in mind, they are supporting a plea agreement that will send her husband Silas Parks to prison for …

March 31, 2010 in Region No need to remove those studded tires just yet. In view of recent heavy snowfall in Washington’s Cascade Mountains, and forecasts for more severe mountain weather, the Washington Transportation Department … 10

March 31, 2010 in City Power has been restored to most of the 1,700 customers in the Indian Trail area of Spokane early today after a vehicle crashed down an embankment and struck a power …

March 31, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A1 VATICAN CITY – Dragged deeper and deeper into the clerical sex abuse scandal, the Vatican is launching a legal defense that it hopes will shield the pope from a lawsuit … 10

March 31, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A1 WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama signed into law the last piece of his mammoth plan to overhaul health care Tuesday and, with the same pen strokes, achieved a dramatic and … 9

March 31, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A2 LOS ANGELES – There’s a new element officially in town and its name is copernicium, after the 16th-century Polish scientist Nicolaus Copernicus. It is element 112 and its symbol is …

March 31, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A3 WASHINGTON, D.C. – A drive-by shooting killed three people and wounded six others in the nation’s capital Tuesday night, and three people were in custody, officials said. The shootings of … 1

March 31, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A3 WASHINGTON – With the president of France at his side, President Barack Obama declared Tuesday he hopes to have international sanctions against Iran in place “within weeks,” not months, because …

March 31, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A3 WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama will announce new plans to drill for oil and natural gas off America’s coasts today but will rule out drilling off California, Oregon and Washington … 1

March 31, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A4 GENEVA – The world’s largest atom smasher threw together minuscule particles racing at unheard of speeds in conditions simulating those just after the Big Bang – a success that kick-started …