July 30, 2011 in Sports In announcing the creation of Pac-12 Networks for launch next year, commissioner Larry Scott was asked if he thought enough programming could be generated to keep all his new channels …

July 30, 2011 in Sports John Albert homered to lead off the bottom of the 11th inning Saturday night to give Bellingham a 10-9 win over the Spokane Bandits in the title game of the …

July 30, 2011 in Sports Tarvaris Jackson can’t practice with the Seattle Seahawks yet, but doesn’t mean the former Minnesota Viking can’t move ahead Charlie Whitehurst on the depth chart. Jackson, who like other free …

July 30, 2011 in Sports Phil and Lauren Hopson’s only son was born in Argentina in 1986, and soon after the new parents had the same thought: Perhaps their boy would return one day to …

July 30, 2011 in Sports Sue Bird rebounded from a miserable night with her best one of the season. Bird scored a season-high 29 points and the Seattle Storm (10-8) handed the Tulsa Shock (1-17) …

July 30, 2011 in News Two hikers who went missing in northern Boundary County have been located and are safe and unharmed.

July 30, 2011 in Nation/World WASHINGTON — After weeks of intense partisanship, Republican congressional leaders and President Barack Obama made a last-minute stab at compromise Saturday to avoid a government default threatened for early next … 6

July 30, 2011 in News A four-car crash near Silverwood Theme Park landed several people in a hospital with non-life threatening injuries just before noon today.

July 30, 2011 in Sports While manager Eric Wedge continues to yearn for a veteran to make a consistently positive impact on the Seattle Mariners’ offense, the reality is that the young players are left … 2

July 30, 2011 in News WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican-led House on Saturday rejected a Senate Democratic bill to raise the nation’s debt limit just three days before the deadline to avert an unprecedented U.S. … 94

July 30, 2011 in Nation/World on Page A1 WASHINGTON – The House passed a Republican plan for raising the federal debt limit Friday, but attention quickly shifted to the Democrat-controlled Senate where the rough outlines of a compromise … 44

July 30, 2011 in Nation/World on Page A1 WASHINGTON – The U.S. economic recovery faltered dramatically in the first half of the year, and that means more trouble ahead. The latest Commerce Department figures show that the nation’s … 12

July 30, 2011 in Nation/World on Page A1 LONDON – When the English Defense League sprang to life two years ago, it had fewer than 50 members – a rough-and-tumble bunch of mostly white guys shouting from a … 3

July 30, 2011 in Nation/World on Page A2 SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas – In the end, Tropical Storm Don was little more than summer thunderstorms. Some scattered showers were expected to linger over parts of South Texas, but …

July 30, 2011 in Nation/World on Page A3 New York – New York Post staffers have been told to preserve any documents that may relate to phone hacking or payoffs to officials, as News Corp. prepares for a … 1

July 30, 2011 in Nation/World on Page A3 ASPEN, Colo. – The U.S. is “doubling down” on its strategy of covert targeted missile strikes in Pakistan in the wake of Osama bin Laden’s death, believing that al-Qaida is …

July 30, 2011 in Nation/World on Page A4 Mexico City – Mexico received more bad economic news Friday with a report that shows poverty is steadily on the rise. The number of Mexicans living in poverty grew to …