July 29, 2011 in Sports Earlier in the week, Spokane head coach Rob Keefe predicted his team would have to play nearly perfect football to upset top-ranked Arizona. Spokane was well south of perfect and …

July 29, 2011 in Sports This time there would be no comeback. The Spokane Indians, just 24 hours after staging a dramatic late-inning rally to stun visiting Eugene on Thursday, came up with nothing in …

July 29, 2011 in City A river rescue crew pulled a body from the Spokane River near High Bridge Park this evening. 6

July 29, 2011 in City A 29-year-old woman was found dead today in her Spokane Valley home. Her 1-year-old son and 5-year-old daughter also were in the house and are safe, police said.

July 29, 2011 in Sports Chris Williams continued his torrid summer by winning the 45th Pacific Coast Amateur on Friday with a second consecutive course-record 66 at Martis Camp Club in Truckee, Calif.

July 29, 2011 in Sports Seimone Augustus and Candice Wiggins scored 16 points each as the Minnesota Lynx cruised to a 92-67 victory over the Seattle Storm on Friday night in Indianapolis.

July 29, 2011 in Sports Joel Dahmen feels “a little bit behind the eight ball” these days as he attempts to scratch out a living on the Canadian Professional Golf Tour.

July 29, 2011 in Sports The toughest part of John Schneider’s week wasn’t the lack of sleep or the endless phone calls, emails and text messages. It probably came when his young son punched him …

July 29, 2011 in Nation/World Democrats ratcheted up the pressure on airlines Friday to give back the windfall they’ve reaped by raising fares during the tax holiday created by the partial shutdown of the Federal … 9

July 29, 2011 in Sports Nonconference men’s basketball games against Michigan State, Butler and Arizona highlight the partial schedule announced Friday by Gonzaga University. 1

July 29, 2011 The Senate has killed the latest effort by the House to raise the government’s borrowing cap. 69

July 29, 2011 in Region Jay Inslee will no longer be able to augment his Democratic campaign for governor with unlimited transfers from his $1 million federal campaign account, Washington’s election watchdog said Friday. 2

July 29, 2011 in Nation/World House Republicans rode the tea party tiger to power last fall. Now it’s turning on them, forcing party leaders to endure embarrassing delays and unwanted revisions to crucial debt-ceiling legislation. 6

July 29, 2011 in Idaho The state Board of Education signed off on Idaho’s plan to reject the latest requirements for determining student progress under the federal No Child Left Behind law, though some trustees … 2

July 29, 2011 The Texas attorney general severely limited the state’s Forensic Science Commission’s ability to investigate past cases Friday, including an arson case that critics say might have ended in the execution … 2

July 29, 2011 in Nation/World The recent suspension of Alaska wildlife biologist Charles Monnett is unrelated both to an article that he wrote about presumably drowned Arctic polar bears and to his scientific work, a …

July 29, 2011 in Idaho The Idaho Fish and Game Commission adopted a 10-month-long wolf hunting season in the upper Clearwater River basin Thursday and also increased the trapping season beyond what was recommended by … 2

July 29, 2011 in News Investigators are looking into the cause of a second fire in three weeks at the Lucky Friday Mine. The underground silver mine near Mullan, Idaho, was evacuated at 7 p.m. …

July 29, 2011 in Idaho, Region The Idaho Transportation Department issued two new permits Thursday for transporting Imperial Oil/ExxonMobil refinery equipment up U.S. Highway 95 and Interstate 90. 2

July 29, 2011 in Region Washington state Treasurer Jim McIntire says he has six to eight weeks of cash available to keep paying state-government bills if Congress fails to lift the debt ceiling in time … 1

July 29, 2011 in City, Idaho A bridge repair project on Interstate 90 in East Spokane is more than a week ahead of schedule and should be completed by Sunday, officials said today. 1

July 29, 2011 in City, Idaho Alaska Airlines/Horizon Air announced today it is going to fill the void left by Southwest Airlines in the decision by Southwest earlier this week to terminate direct service between Spokane … 2

July 29, 2011 in City, Idaho Coeur d’Alene police officers spotted a vehicle traveling north from a bank robbery and arrested a man in connection with the holdup on Thursday. 1