December 2, 2011 in City Spokane City Councilman Richard Rush, who trails former Councilman Mike Allen by 88 votes, submitted a check Friday to the Spokane County Elections Office for $6,240 to pay for a … 40

December 2, 2011 in Sports It was the kind of game that would have made the late Dan Fitzgerald proud.

  December 2, 2011 in Business, City, Idaho Federal mine safety regulators have handed out four citations to Coeur d’Alene-based Hecla Mining Co. after a miner died in the company’s Lucky Friday Mine in April. Hecla acknowledged fines …

December 2, 2011 in Business, Nation/World Honda Motor Co. is recalling 304,000 vehicles globally for air bags that may inflate with too much pressure in a crash, send metal and plastic pieces flying and cause injuries … 2

December 2, 2011 in Nation/World Alan Sues, the actor best known as a flamboyantly campy regular on “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In” in the late 1960s and early ’70s, has died. He was 85.

December 2, 2011 in Business Technology bloggers are asking if our cellphones are spying on us after a security researcher said a piece of software hidden on millions of phones was recording virtually everything people … 1

December 2, 2011 in Sports Washington State begins a week of facing two of its closest basketball neighbors today by hosting Eastern Washington, a school it’s played 64 times in its history.

December 2, 2011 in Idaho With Washington gearing up to privatize its liquor sales by June, Idaho state officials are worried about losing sales at their state-run liquor stores along the Washington-Idaho border; already, they’ve … 9

December 2, 2011 in News After a rash of burglaries, the Coeur d’Alene Police Department is using the Facebook to reconnect victims with their belongings.

December 2, 2011 in Sports Bobby Cowan was the newbie in 2008, an 18-year-old freshman who shadowed T.J. Conley during the most successful season for a punter in University of Idaho history.

December 2, 2011 in Features Among Taylor Swift’s achievements that led to her Billboard honor as “Woman of the Year” was the best-selling performance of her third album “Speak Now,” which has sold more than …

December 2, 2011 in Nation/World Real estate mogul Donald Trump will moderate a Republican presidential debate in Iowa a week before the state holds the first in the nation caucuses. 5

December 2, 2011 in Nation/World Evangelist Billy Graham remains in a North Carolina hospital with pneumonia, but doctors say he’s been able to get up and walk around. 1

December 2, 2011 in Business The Dow Jones industrial average fell less than a point to close at 12,019. The S&P 500 index also fell less than a point to 1,244. The Nasdaq rose under …

December 2, 2011 in Nation/World A Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project found that on any given day, 53 percent of 18 to 29 year-olds go online just to have fun or pass … 1

December 2, 2011 in Business Cable companies Comcast Corp., Time Warner Cable Inc. and Bright House Networks are giving up on their dreams of creating their own wireless network, opting instead to resell Verizon Wireless …

December 2, 2011 in News, Nation/World His campaign all but over, Herman Cain said Friday he would make an announcement Saturday in Atlanta about the future of his White House bid. 9

  December 2, 2011 in News, City, Idaho Four people were arrested after police pumped tear gas and released a K-9 into a north side apartment this morning during a six-hour SWAT team standoff. 3

December 2, 2011 in Business, Nation/World The country added 120,000 jobs last month, the Labor Department said Friday. 25

December 2, 2011 in City, Idaho A dip toward winter temperatures started this morning across the Inland Northwest and should continue well into next week, National Weather Service forecasters said. 1