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Miserable May continues
May 23, 2010 in Sports SEATTLE – Things have become so dire for the Seattle Mariners that even a start by Felix Hernandez no longer provides a ray of hope. Seattle’s ace pitcher suffered yet … 2
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Cougs sweep USC
May 23, 2010 in Sports PULLMAN – Never before has the USC Trojan baseball team just been a speed bump. Especially against Washington State. Especially in Pullman. But that was the case this weekend, with … 2
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Clash over war memorial worsens in Kellogg
May 23, 2010 in Idaho An empty flagpole standing in the middle of Kellogg’s Memorial Park symbolizes a months-long dispute between veterans and city leaders that has escalated into recall petitions being filed for the … 2
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Valley struggles with ‘change’
May 23, 2010 in City on Page A1 Six months after a new majority swept into the Spokane Valley City Council promising “positive change,” there has been change – a good deal of it reversing decisions made by … 13
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Spenser Williams, 21
May 23, 2010 in Business on Page A1 Spenser Williams graduated this spring from Gonzaga University with a degree in math and economics. This past year he had a paid internship with Avista Utilities, working on power analysis. … 2
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Bryan Fazzari, 23
May 23, 2010 in Business on Page A1 Bryan Fazzari, who grew up in Walla Walla and liked taking apart radios and engines, earned an electrical engineering degree this spring from the University of Idaho. That degree helped … 1
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Danika Heatherly, 21
May 23, 2010 in Business on Page A1 Twenty-one-year old Danika Heatherly, a Whitworth University grad with majors in journalism and marketing, says she’ll take any good job. The day that happens, “I’ll throw my bed in my …
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Facing the future
May 23, 2010 in City on Page A1 College career counselors this year have better news for graduates trying to land a job: Things are not as bleak as they were a year ago. There are jobs to …
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Unofficial meetings generate contention
May 23, 2010 in City on Page A1 The Spokane Valley City Council’s new majority started off its term in office by possibly violating the Open Public Meetings Act, meeting for coffee every day at a local grocery … 4
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Church reburies, blesses Copernicus
May 23, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A2 FROMBORK, Poland – Nicolaus Copernicus, the 16th-century astronomer whose findings were condemned by the Roman Catholic Church as heretical, was reburied by Polish priests as a hero on Saturday, nearly … 1
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Detainees express pride in bomb link
May 23, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A3 ISLAMABAD – Two men detained in Pakistan admitted with pride that they helped the suspect in the attempted Times Square bombing, and one of the men angrily accused his interrogators … 1
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In brief: Cause unknown for India crash
May 23, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A3 New Delhi – Searchers combed a steep, wooded hillside in southern India on Saturday for the remains of 158 passengers and crew of an Air India Express flight and clues …
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Militants storm NATO base
May 23, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A3 KABUL, Afghanistan – The Taliban claimed responsibility today for a nighttime assault on NATO’s biggest base in southern Afghanistan. Insurgents firing rockets, mortars and automatic weapons tried to storm Kandahar …
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Research links military misbehavior, boredom
May 23, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A3 SAN DIEGO – It’s long been assumed – correctly – that a Marine who experiences the psychological trauma of combat in Iraq or Afghanistan has an increased chance of getting …
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Organic wheat isn’t for the birds
May 23, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A4 LOS ANGELES – Increasingly each year, humans foraging in American supermarkets select organically grown food. Not so with wild songbirds searching for sustenance in the gardens of England. Given a …
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Prodigy’s performance gets rave reviews in Iraq
May 23, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A4 BAGHDAD – A 13-year-old piano prodigy from Los Angeles brought an Iraqi audience to their feet Saturday when he made a rare guest appearance with the Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra …
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In brief: Cuomo running for governor
May 23, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A5 New York – New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo declared his candidacy for governor Saturday, delivering a full-throated call for political reform and pledging to make the notoriously dysfunctional state …
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3 AIG execs won’t face criminal charges
May 23, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A5 WASHINGTON – Federal prosecutors have found insufficient evidence to bring criminal charges against three current and former executives of a unit of the American International Group whose huge bets on … 4
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Wildlife recovered quickly after big Gulf spill in 1979
May 23, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A6 MEXICO CITY – The Ixtoc 1 oil spill in Mexico’s shallow Campeche Sound three decades ago serves as a distant mirror to today’s BP deepwater blowout, and marine scientists are … 2
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Use of hair booms discouraged
May 23, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A6 BILOXI, Miss. – So much for that hair idea. The Unified Area Command – state, local and federal authorities and BP – has deemed hair booms insufficiently effective at soaking …
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Sealing process blamed for well blast
May 23, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A6 LOS ANGELES – Flaws in a cement encasement intended to seal BP’s well are most likely the root of last month’s deadly explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig that …
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GOP hails House win in Hawaii
May 23, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A7 HONOLULU – Republicans scored a midterm election victory Saturday when Honolulu City Councilman Charles Djou won a Democratic-held House seat in Hawaii in the district where President Barack Obama grew …
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In Passing
May 23, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A7 Shepherd-Barron, ATM inventor London – John Shepherd-Barron, the Scotsman credited with inventing the world’s first automatic cash machine, has died after a short illness. He was 84.
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Obama outlines security policy
May 23, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A9 WASHINGTON – Returning to the place where he unveiled his war strategy, President Barack Obama on Saturday presented a broad view of national security policy grounded in international cooperation, marking … 6
