January 4, 2011 in Sports Tia Presley scored half of her game-high 22 points in the fourth quarter as Greater Spokane League-leading Gonzaga Prep held off University 60-49 in a physical game at U-Hi.

January 4, 2011 in City, News A Spokane County Sheriff’s detective who has been the subject of a number of use-of-force complaints appeared in court Tuesday as a civil trial began by a man who claimed … 13

January 4, 2011 in Sports NEW ORLEANS — Ohio State might want to send a thank-you note to the NCAA for helping to end its bowl misery against the SEC. Terrelle Pryor threw two touchdown …

January 4, 2011 in City, News, Region Barb Thompson, a Spokane woman who has spent years trying to prove her daughter’s death was not a suicide, has won a major victory. Monday, Lewis County’s newly elected coroner, …

January 4, 2011 in Sports Pat Devlin didn’t just drop out of the sky and land under center as the University of Delaware’s starting quarterback. Having grown up in Downingtown, Pa., just 40 miles from …

  January 4, 2011 in City A man was found dead inside a walk-in cooler at a Spokane Taco Bell on Monday, police said today. 19

January 4, 2011 in City, News The Spokane Regional Solid Waste System has agreed to pay a $5,000 fine for violating mercury pollution standards. The fine results from annual testing in June during which the Waste-to-Energy … 1

January 4, 2011 in Sports Conference play starts this week with Gonzaga expecting to take everyone’s best punch and Idaho and Eastern Washington hoping to deliver a few.

January 4, 2011 in Nation/World, News Looks like we can thank the District of Columbia for this one. The Internal Revenue Service today announced the deadline to file and pay federal 2010 taxes has been pushed … 1

January 4, 2011 in City A murder suspect who is a person of interest in three other slayings is expected to arrive in Spokane soon. 2

January 4, 2011 in City A young mother killed in a mobile home fire in Elk last weekend has been identified as 23-year-old Terrianne Marie Gilley. 1

January 4, 2011 in Idaho Idaho Highway 3 near Rose Lake has re-opened to traffic one week after a culvert running under the roadway collapsed, the Idaho Transportation Department announced.

January 4, 2011 in City, Idaho A small fire in a clothes dryer forced evacuation this morning of Post Falls High School as well as cancellation of classes for today, officials said. 1

January 4, 2011 in Region A 7-year-old Billings boy is recovering from surgery in Butte after a New Year’s Eve sledding accident northeast of Whitehall. 1

January 4, 2011 in City, Idaho The forecast for the next several days should bring a sampling of winter weather typical of the Inland Northwest: stagnant air, snow, sleet, rain, slush and then more cold. 9

January 4, 2011 in City on Page A1 For the first time in more than a decade, air-quality authorities issued a stage-2 burning ban Monday, meaning all indoor wood-burning and outdoor burning is prohibited except in homes where … 10

January 4, 2011 in Nation/World on Page A1 BEEBE, Ark. – New Year’s revelers in a small Arkansas town were enjoying midnight fireworks when they noticed something other than sparks falling from the sky: thousands of dead blackbirds. … 2

January 4, 2011 in Nation/World on Page A1 WASHINGTON – Get ready for some slam-bang action from the new Republican-led House of Representatives after the 112th Congress convenes Wednesday: It’s going to read the entire Constitution aloud, try … 11