April 20, 2011 in Idaho BOISE - When a federal court prepared to select a jury in Coeur d’Alene last month to try former Aryan Nations lawyer Edgar Steele on charges including murder for hire, … 5

April 20, 2011 in Sports Many loose ends still need to be tied in Olympia, but as the Washington Legislature tries to wrap up, it’s at least clear that cougar hunting with hounds has been … 5

April 20, 2011 in Sports For the third time this season, the Spokane Shock found themselves a play or two away from winning an Arena Football League game. The latest example was at Utah last … 1

April 20, 2011 in City, Idaho The FBI has arrested a Whitman County man on a federal gun charge. Jeremiah Daniel “J.D.” Hop, who describes himself as an anti-race mixing activist on the racist website Vanguard … 10

  April 20, 2011 in Nation/World A text message helped save a prostitute who was chained and tortured for hours — including by electrical shock — in a room with 8-inch-thick walls, chains, ropes and paddles, … 4

April 20, 2011 in Idaho Hecla Mining Co. said rescue crews have started drilling a third bore hole into an open area behind tons of collapsed rock and debris in the Lucky Friday Mine. They …

April 20, 2011 in Sports Rick Porcello held the Seattle Mariners to one run and four hits while pitching into the seventh inning, and the Detroit Tigers held on for a 3-2 victory Wednesday.

April 20, 2011 in News Sidewalk line drawn for panhandlers in Olympia

April 20, 2011 in Idaho Idaho Gov. Butch Otter has vetoed HB 298, the final version of a much-debated legislative effort to “nullify” the federal health care reform law. 2

April 20, 2011 in Region A new study ranks Idaho as the nation’s fifth highest state in the number of households relying only on cellular telephones.

April 20, 2011 in City, Region A 22-year-old Washington State University student who was injured in a one-vehicle rollover Tuesday is suspected of causing damage to the WSU campus and golf course prior to the rollover.

April 20, 2011 in City, Idaho The Inland Northwest is getting a break today from this spring’s onslaught of cool showery weather, but it will only last until tonight.

  April 20, 2011 in Idaho on Page A1 Rescue workers completed two bore holes into the rubble of Lucky Friday Mine on Tuesday in their effort to rescue a miner trapped since Friday. A camera fed through a …

April 20, 2011 in City on Page A1 Gonzaga University was among the most recent stops on Greg Mortenson’s perpetual book tour, but it was certainly not the only Northwest institution to pay thousands of dollars to hear … 13

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April 20, 2011 in Nation/World on Page A2 BOSTON – A federal agency approved a construction and operations plan for the Cape Wind project off the Massachusetts coast, clearing the way for work to begin on America’s first … 2

April 20, 2011 in Nation/World on Page A3 Washington – The Army private suspected of giving classified data to WikiLeaks is being moved to a state-of-the-art facility at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas, where Pentagon officials said more extensive …

April 20, 2011 in Nation/World on Page A3 WASHINGTON – The Obama administration on Tuesday unveiled a plan to fight prescription drug abuse, warning that accidental fatal overdoses now exceed the combined deadly overdoses from the crack epidemic … 8