May 4, 2010 in Idaho The same day that an Idaho State Bar survey of lawyers across the state rated incumbent Idaho Supreme Court Justice Roger Burdick much more highly than 2nd District Judge John …

May 4, 2010 in City When Douglas Klages last talked to his parents, he was planning for the future. The 46-year-old Spokane native struggled with alcoholism but wanted to clean up. He told his parents … 5

May 4, 2010 in Sports Spokane Chiefs coach Hardy Sauter will not return for a third season as head coach in the Western Hockey League.

May 4, 2010 in City Post office employees are fighting a proposal to allow people to “opt out” from receiving bulk mail. 15

May 4, 2010 in Nation/World Ingredients used by Johnson & Johnson in some of the 40 varieties of children’s cold medicines recalled last week were contaminated with bacteria, according to a report by the Food …

May 4, 2010 in City A $15.7 million federal grant is expected to bolster medical services for diabetics living in Eastern Washington. Spokane-based Inland Northwest Health Services is receiving the federal stimulus funds and intends … 6

May 4, 2010 in Nation/World A Pakistani-born U.S. citizen was charged today with terrorism and attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction in the botched Times Square bombing. The government said he confessed to … 13

May 4, 2010 in Idaho Arizona’s law targeting undocumented immigrants is casting a shadow on an Idaho U.S. House race, with Republican candidate Raul Labrador saying today the federal government should send the military to … 20

May 4, 2010 in City Gov. Chris Gregoire has signed the Legislature’s new operating budget, which bridges an estimated $2.8 billion deficit in the state’s general fund.

May 4, 2010 in City Washington’s state-supported preschool program for low-income 3- and 4-year-olds meets most of the quality standards set by a national early learning group. 1

May 4, 2010 in Business, Nation/World The Pentagon is delaying the award of a huge contract for its new tanker jet by almost three months, pushing it past the November elections. 4

May 4, 2010 in City, Idaho Cold air flowing into the region after Monday’s wind storm created a winter-like feel this morning with a wind chill of 18 degrees at Spokane International Airport at 7 a.m. 2

May 4, 2010 in City, Idaho Electric utilities in the region continued to mop up damage from Monday’s windstorm as hundreds of power customers waited for their lights to come back on.

May 4, 2010 in City A 47-year-old man was cut on the throat Monday evening in a drunken dispute at a Spokane Valley transient camp. 2

May 4, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A1 CHICAGO – What’s the magic in Oregon that keeps kids lean? It’s a mystery health officials would like to solve as they admit all states are failing – by a … 3

May 4, 2010 in City on Page A1 A man accused of raping a Coeur d’Alene woman early Saturday was convicted in 1990 of raping a child in Washington, but a plea bargain led to his removal from … 1

May 4, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A1 WASHINGTON – The United States has 5,113 nuclear warheads in its stockpile and “several thousand” more retired warheads awaiting the junkpile, the Pentagon said Monday in an unprecedented accounting of … 2

May 4, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A2 LOS ANGELES – Injections of human growth hormone can improve sprint capacity enough to turn the last-place finisher in the Olympic 100-meter-dash into the gold-medal winner, according to a study …

May 4, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A3 VENICE, La. – The giant British oil company BP LLC, whose deep-water well is gushing thousands of gallons of oil daily into the Gulf of Mexico, said Monday that it … 1

May 4, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A3 NEW YORK – A Pakistani man believed to be the driver of an SUV used as a car bomb in a failed terror attack on Times Square was taken into …