December 14, 2011 in Sports Resilience and a strategic change of pace could not compensate for height and ineffective offense as Eastern Washington played its first game against one of the nation’s perennial basketball powers. 1

December 14, 2011 in Sports Former Eastern Washington University men’s basketball standout Glen Dean, who transferred to Utah following his sophomore year last spring, underwent surgery at a Salt Lake City hospital Wednesday to repair …

December 14, 2011 in News, City A 4-year-old boy’s nightmares about “a dead lady” and his description of how she died led homicide detectives to arrest his father in the slaying of a Stevens County woman, … 3

December 14, 2011 in News The 102-year-old Jensen-Byrd building at the east end of downtown Spokane will be torn down by its new owner, a Texas company that plans to build student housing on the … 12

December 14, 2011 in Nation/World A partisan standoff in Congress over President Barack Obama’s payroll tax cut for 160 million working Americans threatens to shut down the federal government as soon as this weekend, leaving … 6

December 14, 2011 A Rathdrum man lost his home after it was engulfed in flames in a second-alarm fire this afternoon. The homeowner was transported to Kootenai Health with unknown injuries after the …

December 14, 2011 in Nation/World The fire in the San Francisco Bay Area city of Livermore destroyed the garage, collapsing its roof and reducing large garbage bins to plastic pancakes. Combing through the wreckage, firefighters … 1

December 14, 2011 in Special Dakota Meyer’s commander had good reason to nominate the former Marine Corps corporal for the Medal of Honor, the U.S. military’s highest decoration for valor.

December 14, 2011 in Nation/World With Dakota Meyer standing at attention in his dress uniform, sweat glistening on his forehead under the television lights, President Barack Obama extolled the former Marine corporal for the “extraordinary … 5

  December 14, 2011 in News, City, Region Washington politicians have launched a campaign to bring the Air Force’s next generation of aerial refueling tankers to Fairchild Air Force Base in Spokane. 9

December 14, 2011 OLYMPIA — The Senate passed a $480 million “downpayment” on the $2 billion needed to close the gap in the state’s General Fund budget. On a 42-6 vote, members of … 7

December 14, 2011 in Nation/World It’s a startling number: 1 in 4 women surveyed by the government say they were violently attacked by their husbands or boyfriends. Experts in domestic violence don’t find it too … 9

December 14, 2011 in Region were identified Wednesday as investigators look into the cause of the collision, 1

December 14, 2011 in Nation/World Thousands of migratory birds died on impact after apparently mistaking a Wal-Mart parking lot and other areas of southern Utah for bodies of water and plummeting to the ground in … 5

December 14, 2011 in Nation/World The Senate today voted against changing the Constitution to require a balanced budget as Congress hit yet another dead end in its search for a way out of its fiscal … 12

December 14, 2011 in News, City, Region Spokane County Commissioners this week said they are open to the possibility of combining city and county law enforcement agencies. 17

December 14, 2011 in Idaho BOISE - The Idaho Transportation Department had been working on legislation to propose in January to ban texting by commercial truck drivers, to comply with a recently enacted federal rule, … 4

  December 14, 2011 in City, Idaho The Spokane Preservation Advocates this week released a list of top historic structures in the Spokane area in an effort to call attention to their significance.

December 14, 2011 in City, Idaho Up to an inch of snow is possible tonight through early Thursday to add to the slick conditions encountered from a dusting on Tuesday evening. The snow could bring an …

December 14, 2011 in City on Page A1 He used to deliver the roast-beef sandwiches. Now he’s a Christmas Bureau volunteer. It takes both kinds of gifts – of time and of commodity – to make the charity …