April 5, 2011 in Sports ARLINGTON, Texas – Michael Pineda made an impressive debut for the Seattle Mariners, only to be outdone by another pitcher also making his first major league start. The 22-year-old Pineda …

April 5, 2011 in Sports As a first-year transfer from the University of Washington, Demitrius Bronson is still in the process of familiarizing himself with the way Eastern Washington University’s football program does things. 1

April 5, 2011 in Sports PULLMAN – Before Washington State began spring football, coach Paul Wulff took pains to emphasize that no one, not quarterback Jeff Tuel, not anyone, had their name etched in stone … 1

April 5, 2011 in Idaho A man who shot two men in downtown Coeur d’Alene in what a grand jury ruled was self defense returned to jail on a heroin charge after a SWAT team …

April 5, 2011 in Sports Baseball is a game of second chances. Just ask Mead’s Skyler Lookabill. A day after getting caught trying to steal third base for the final out in a wild 19-18 …

April 5, 2011 in City Emergency rescue crews have been unable to locate a woman who witnesses said fell into the Spokane River Monday night while walking her dog. 4

April 5, 2011 in Nation/World Southwest Airlines Co. said today it finished inspecting 79 older planes and found that five of them have cracks in the aluminum skin. 1

April 5, 2011 in City, News Convicted serial killer Joseph Duncan received two more life sentences today for the 1997 murder of Anthony Martinez in southern California. 7

April 5, 2011 in City Appellate judges today upheld the vehicular homicide convictions against Frederick Russell, who was convicted in 2007 of killing three Washington State University students and seriously injuring three others in a … 5

April 5, 2011 Washington State Patrol troopers have found two people dead in a car that fled from a trooper in a high speed chase that ended on Interstate 5 at Tumwater.

April 5, 2011 in Idaho Legislation to require Idahoans, for the first time, to register by political party and allow parties to close their primaries to all but party members ran into trouble in a … 5

April 5, 2011 in City, Idaho Scattered showers and cool temperatures are being forecast for the Spokane and Coeur d’Alene in the wake of a very wet storm that doused the region Monday evening. 2

April 5, 2011 in Nation/World on Page A1 DALLAS – The Federal Aviation Administration today will order operators of older Boeing 737 airplanes to inspect them for cracks similar to the one that opened up a hole on … 7

April 5, 2011 in Nation/World on Page A1 WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court’s conservative majority opened the door for new state support for religious schools, ruling that special tax credits that pay for children to go to church … 15

April 5, 2011 in City on Page A1 OLYMPIA – Lean House budget proposals, which nevertheless would spend tens of billions of dollars in state money over the next two years, brought a chorus of protests from teachers, … 42

April 5, 2011 in Nation/World on Page A2 TOKYO – Workers were pumping more than 3 million gallons of contaminated water from Japan’s tsunami-ravaged nuclear power complex into the Pacific Ocean today, freeing storage space for even more … 2

April 5, 2011 in Nation/World on Page A2 KABUL, Afghanistan – An Afghan policeman shot and killed two U.S. soldiers on Monday in northern Afghanistan, the province’s deputy governor said, and protests flared for a fourth straight day …

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