January 11, 2011 in Sports As an Eastern Washington freshman, Tatjana Sparavalo had the usual issues adjusting to Division I basketball. From the sounds of it, life isn’t much easier for the 6-foot senior and …

January 11, 2011 in City, News, Region OLYMPIA – Amid the tension of a state budget some $4.6 billion out of whack and proposals to cut programs for some of the state’s poorest and most vulnerable, Gov. … 7

January 11, 2011 in City, Idaho National Weather Service forecasters today downsized predicted snowfall amounts for a storm surging inland tonight. 4

January 11, 2011 in City, News Led by the the United Farm Workers, fired dairy employees of a Pasco dairy air their grivances at the Northwest Farm Credit Services headquarters in Spokane. 16

January 11, 2011 Several lawmakers defiantly vowed Tuesday to arm themselves after the shooting rampage in Arizona despite the Senate’s top law enforcement officer’s admonition that more guns would not be the answer. 36

January 11, 2011 in News Gerald Hester, a former Spokane Public Schools superintendent, died this morning after a long battle with an illness. Hester, 82, was superintendent from 1980 to 1993, according to news archives. …

January 11, 2011 in Region Gov. Butch Otter’s plan to cut millions of dollars from the Department of Health and Welfare budget raises one key question: Which programs serving the poor and elderly will be … 6

January 11, 2011 in Nation/World on Page A1 ST. LOUIS – Electronic systems that track sales of the cold medicine used to make methamphetamine have failed to curb the drug trade and instead created a vast, highly lucrative … 10

January 11, 2011 in City on Page A1 OLYMPIA – Opening a session expected to be marked by fights over the state budget, legislators agreed Monday to make it easier to change the budget and possibly easier to … 6

January 11, 2011 in Idaho on Page A1 BOISE – Idaho Gov. Butch Otter worked some budget magic to trim the state’s shortfall for the coming year down to manageable size and avoid calling for any tax increases. …

January 11, 2011 in Nation/World on Page A2 WASHINGTON – The Hubble Space Telescope got its first peek at a mysterious giant green blob in outer space and found that it’s strangely alive. The bizarre glowing blob is …

January 11, 2011 in Nation/World on Page A2 SAN JOSE, Calif. – The place is inhospitable, with molten temperatures and possibly clouds of melted silicon. But a discovery across the galaxy is giving hope to searchers of intelligent …

January 11, 2011 in Nation/World on Page A3 BALTIMORE – Baltimore police say that fellow officers fired the gunshots that killed a plainclothes officer during a melee outside a nightclub. A 22-year-old civilian was also killed in the … 3

January 11, 2011 in Nation/World on Page A3 NEW YORK – Clare Vanderpool’s “Moon Over Manifest,” a young girl’s magical and mysterious adventures in a small town in 1936, won the John Newbery Medal for the “most distinguished …

January 11, 2011 in Nation/World on Page A3 NEW YORK – The long-term decline in the U.S. abortion rate stalled as the recession took hold, according to the latest comprehensive survey of America’s abortion providers. The Guttmacher Institute, … 4

January 11, 2011 in Nation/World on Page A3 FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – Incoming Navajo President Ben Shelly will be sworn into office today with criminal charges still hanging over his head, while a judge considers whether to dismiss them …

January 11, 2011 in Nation/World on Page A4 BEIJING – Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and his Chinese counterpart said Monday that they would look for ways to deepen military cooperation, but tensions over Taiwan arms sales and …

January 11, 2011 in Nation/World on Page A4 The Basque separatist group ETA declared a permanent cease-fire with Spain on Monday, saying it was committed to abandoning its armed struggle for an independent homeland in favor of “dialogue …