July 15, 2011 in Sports Jose Campos pitched two-hit shutout ball for six innings Friday and Everett unleashed its offense for a second consecutive night during an 8-2 win over the Spokane Indians at Everett …

July 15, 2011 in Sports Colby Lewis missed pitching a four-hitter by an out and the visiting Texas Rangers got a trio of sacrifice flies plus an RBI single from Michael Young in winning its …

July 15, 2011 in Sports Conventional wisdom suggests that any golfer hoping to contend for a title in the Rosauers Open Invitational will have to slide outside of his or her comfort zone at some … 1

July 15, 2011 in Idaho Idaho Congressman Raul Labrador is pushing legislation in Congress to ease restrictions on geothermal exploration on federal lands, a move experts say could lead to more development of a “green” …

July 15, 2011 in Sports After a big win with playoff implications last week in the first outdoor game in Arena Football League history, Spokane goes back inside tonight searching for another big win with …

July 15, 2011 in Region Boaters were warned to stay off an oil-fouled stretch of Montana’s popular Yellowstone River on Friday, as lawmakers on Capitol Hill pressed regulators to bolster the country’s pipeline safety rules …

July 15, 2011 in News, Region A federal judge Thursday blocked Washington state from enforcing campaign contribution limits with respect to an effort to recall the Pierce County assessor, a decision critics of the law hailed … 3

July 15, 2011 in Sports By his own admission, Doug Kearsley gets a little obsessive at times. So when the 60-year-old retired construction consultant took up golf several years ago, he dove quickly into the … 1

July 15, 2011 in Region More than 400 people lined the streets of Coeur d’Alene on Friday afternoon to pay their respects to Spc. Nicholas W. Newby, one of two Coeur d’Alene soldiers killed recently … 1

July 15, 2011 in Sports Darren Clarke marched along bumpy fairways on a wild ride at Royal St. George’s that was filled with blunders and brilliance, and one final birdie that brought the kind of …

July 15, 2011 in Nation/World The world’s first models of the redesigned Volkswagen sedan began rolling off production lines at the company’s plant in central Mexico on Friday, with a bigger trunk but also a … 4

July 15, 2011 in Nation/World, News A move by the Obama administration to temporarily reinstate the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” stance on gays is prolonging efforts to eliminate the policy that all sides have agreed …

July 15, 2011 in City, News Fired Spokane police Detective Jeff Harvey and his attorney filed a $10 million claim against the city today, arguing that police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick terminated him because he spoke out … 19

July 15, 2011 Rupert Murdoch accepted the resignation of the Wall Street Journal’s publisher and the chief of his British operations on Friday as the once-defiant media mogul struggled to control an escalating … 3

July 15, 2011 in City A member of the Hells Angels motorcycle gang pleaded guilty today to charges that he conspired to distribute more than 500 grams of cocaine and grow more than 100 marijuana … 1

July 15, 2011 in City SEATTLE (AP) — The state Department of Licensing says fewer out-of-state people who can’t provide a Social Security number have sought to obtain a driver’s license in Washington. 8

July 15, 2011 in City Staci Vesneske, Spokane Public Schools’ assistant superintendent of human resources, is leaving to take a job in a Las Vegas school district. 2

July 15, 2011 in City, Idaho A Hamilton, Mont. man died today when his car went over an embankment into the Clearwater River in Idaho. 1

July 15, 2011 in Nation/World Anchorage police say a city van used to pick up drunken people was taken on a joyride by a man suspected of drunken driving. 2

July 15, 2011 in City National Weather Service forecasters are calling for pleasant weather today, but warning of possible rain and thunderstorms on Saturday.

July 15, 2011 in Nation/World on Page A1 Congress has until Aug. 2 to raise the federal borrowing limit or the government will run out of money. • Thursday’s developments: The first, fragile signs emerge of a possible … 49