May 9, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A1 SALT LAKE CITY – Republican Sen. Bob Bennett was defeated in his bid for re-election Saturday by delegates at the Utah GOP convention in a stunning defeat for a once-popular … 4

  May 9, 2010 in Business on Page A1 KENNEWICK – Mondays, at 1:30 a.m., Ty Cheromiah leaves his home east of Sandpoint and drives 3 1/2 hours to his job here at Lampson International LLC. The Local 14 … 3

May 9, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A3 NEW YORK – A Staten Island ferry with a history of accidents malfunctioned as it approached its terminal Saturday and smashed into a pier with a jolt that tossed passengers …

May 9, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A3 ON THE GULF OF MEXICO – A novel but risky attempt to use a 100-ton steel-and-concrete box to cover a deepwater oil well gushing toxic crude into the Gulf of … 2

May 9, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A4 JERUSALEM – The PLO executive committee gave the green light Saturday to indirect Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. U.S. Middle East envoy George J. Mitchell will shuttle between Israeli and Palestinian negotiators …

May 9, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A4 LONDON – Britain went for a second day Saturday without a new government as the main parties haggled over possible power-sharing arrangements in a divided Parliament. All eyes were on …

May 9, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A5 CHANDLER, Ariz. – Christine Vollmecke has one thing to say to people calling Arizona racist for passing the toughest law against illegal immigration in the nation: You don’t know what … 3

May 9, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A5 ABILENE, Kan. – Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said Saturday that he wanted to sharply cut the military bureaucracy and rein in expenditures on armed forces health care and departmental …

May 9, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A8 MANASSAS PARK, Va. – There are mothers who will spend today missing sons and daughters fighting overseas. There are women who have lost children in those wars, for whom Mother’s …

May 9, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A9 ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Former Alaska Gov. Walter J. Hickel, who served as Interior secretary under President Richard Nixon until he was dismissed for objecting to the treatment of Vietnam War …

May 9, 2010 in City on Page B1 Remember those quirky kids who were trying to collect enough aluminum cans to pay for their medieval-style July wedding at a North Idaho castle? Andrea Parrish and Peter Geyer.

May 9, 2010 in City on Page B1 In January, Angela Simpson was planning a Mother’s Day surrounded by eight children. Instead, the Spokane mom wakes up this morning to nine: Emarc, 18, Ezekial, 15, Mackenzie, 14, Elvanie, …

  May 9, 2010 in City on Page B1 The sun lit up the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist just as the celebration of Allison Stacey Cowles’ life began Saturday – a symbol of the light she’d shone … 5

May 9, 2010 in City on Page B2 BOISE – U.S. Rep. Mike Simpson aimed to help rescue the U.S. financial system from catastrophe when he voted in 2008 for the Bush administration’s $700 billion plan to buy … 2

May 9, 2010 in City on Page B2 Earlier this winter, Gen. Peter Chiarelli, on a visit to Walter Reed Army Medical Center, learned a hotel for injured soldiers had a faulty hot-water system. The four-star general told …