June 13, 2011 in Sports SEATTLE – Of all the developments that might have gone sour for the Mariners on Monday night, home runs by Vernon Wells didn’t figure prominently in the possibilities. Yet it …

June 13, 2011 in City, News Spokane residents will soon get the ability to recycle more at the curb under a 10-year contract approved Monday by the Spokane City Council. The council voted 6-1 to approve … 13

June 13, 2011 in Idaho, News A Montana man died Monday morning when a car he was riding in crashed on Interstate 90 in Wallace.

June 13, 2011 in Idaho Idaho state schools chief Tom Luna opened the deliberations of a 39-member task force Monday that’ll help determine how to implement big new school technology investments, even as the Idaho … 7

June 13, 2011 in City, Idaho A rockslide near Bonners Ferry has blocked railroad tracks used by Amtrak and 30 freight trains a day.

June 13, 2011 in City FBI agents from Coeur d’Alene are in Montana to help search for a former militia leader who officials say fired on deputies and previously told police “he wasn’t going to … 9

June 13, 2011 in Nation/World A B-17 bomber dating to World War II apparently made an emergency landing today in a cornfield outside Chicago before it was consumed by fire while the seven people aboard … 3

June 13, 2011 in City Three dogs identified in killings of domestic livestock in southern Stevens County have been killed, the sheriff reported today. 7

June 13, 2011 in City Group Health Cooperative is closing its Coeur d’Alene Medical Center after failing to sustain adequate numbers of patients. 15

June 13, 2011 in City, Region “With the fullest heart and humblest head,” Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire announced today she is not running for re-election to a third term. 109

June 13, 2011 in Business, Nation/World Restaurant owner Perkins & Marie Callender’s Inc. today filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, brought down by tough competition, the weak economy and rising food costs. 34

  June 13, 2011 The largest mining company in Idaho’s Silver Valley will pay $263.4 million plus interest to settle one of the nation’s largest Superfund lawsuits — one of the top 10 such … 5

June 13, 2011 in City A 36-year-old man was flown to Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center after losing control of a homemade motorcycle on a highway east of Republic late Sunday, state troopers said. 2

June 13, 2011 in City Follow-up work by a Spokane police patrol officer led to the arrest early today of a man suspected in a weekend robbery of a convenience store in Hillyard. 4

June 13, 2011 in City, Idaho Clouds and showers return to the weather forecast today with light rain falling across parts of the Spokane region early this morning. 1

June 13, 2011 in City on Page A1 Spokane Summer Parkways returns to the streets later this month for the first of three celebrations of human-powered transportation. Last year’s two inaugural events drew nearly 2,500 people, and organizers … 1

June 13, 2011 in Nation/World on Page A1 WASHINGTON – Mitt Romney imposed a health care mandate before he opposed it. Tim Pawlenty touted a climate change plan that he now disowns. Ditto Jon Huntsman. Republican presidential contenders … 17

June 13, 2011 in Nation/World on Page A2 WASHINGTON – Forty years after the explosive leak of the Pentagon Papers, a secret government study chronicling deception and misadventure in U.S. conduct of the Vietnam War, the report is …

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June 13, 2011 in Nation/World on Page A3 JERUSALEM – Ceremoniously announced last month, reconciliation between the two rival Palestinian leaderships – the secular Fatah and the Islamist Hamas – hit a serious snag Sunday. In the latest …