April 21, 2011 in News North Idaho was blanketed with snow tonight. Eyewitness accounts said by 9:30 p.m., about one to two inches had piled up quickly piled up as huge flakes fell to the …

April 21, 2011 in Sports The Peace Corps is still around, but among other things that came into being in 1961 Fred Shaffer’s discus record outlasted the Berlin Wall, “Mr. Ed” and Roger Maris’ asterisk. …

April 21, 2011 in Sports The Idaho football team was deep into its final practice before Saturday’s spring game when Robb Akey felt a tap on his shoulder. It was former Vandals star lineman Mike …

April 21, 2011 in News One person was killed and three others injured in a two-car head-on collision five miles south of Colville today.

April 21, 2011 in Sports Former Washington State University starting forward DeAngelo Casto is in the clear after Whitman County District Court Judge Doug Robinson today suppressed evidence necessary to prove possession of marijuana charges …

April 21, 2011 in Sports The Spokane Chiefs begin the WHL Western Conference championship series Friday night at Portland.

April 21, 2011 in Nation/World The state House on Thursday sent to Gov. Chris Gregoire a bill that would charge for access to Washington’s 119 state parks and millions of acres of public land to … 4

  April 21, 2011 in City A grand jury indicted Martin Luther King, Jr. march bomb suspect Kevin William Harpham on a federal hate crime charge today. 5

April 21, 2011 in City A 19-year-old woman accused of helping murder a Cheney man reportedly told a friend she arrived at the crime scene with the victim and watched as her brother and another … 8

April 21, 2011 in Idaho Rescue workers are considering drilling a second tunnel as part of their efforts to reach a silver miner who has been trapped in the Lucky Friday Mine since a tunnel …

April 21, 2011 in City Coeur d’Alene High School principal Randy Russell has been named the new Freeman School District superintendent after a months-long search. several months of recruitment and community input.

April 21, 2011 in Idaho Edgar Steele’s defense won’t be able to call two expert witnesses it lined up to question the authenticity of FBI tapes of Steele talking with Larry Fairfax about an alleged … 5

April 21, 2011 in News OLYMPIA — The Senate gave final passage this morning to a bill that attempts to regulate medical marijuana production and sales, setting up a possible showdown with the governor, who … 27

April 21, 2011 in City One of Spokane’s most notorious career criminals is headed to federal prison for 16 years. Eddie Ray Hall, who turns 47 next month, was sentenced Thursday in U.S. District Court … 7

April 21, 2011 in News Voting has begun in the nationwide Race to the Top commencement challenge for the presidential visit. 4

April 21, 2011 in City Eight people have applied to fill the Spokane Valley City Council seat vacated by the death of Councilman Bob McCaslin.

April 21, 2011 in City, Idaho Cold rain and wet snow have enveloped the Inland Northwest this morning, and it will lead to breezy conditions by later today.

April 21, 2011 in City, Idaho on Page A1 Day six of rescue efforts at the Lucky Friday Mine passed without any word on the fate of a miner trapped by a rockfall. Rescue workers were able to insert …

April 21, 2011 in City on Page A1 LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – A growing number of Americans are getting rid of their old landline telephones and using only cellphones, a trend led not by the high-tech elite but … 7

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