June 26, 2011 in Sports It isn’t easy to repeat as champions in Hoopfest. It will be a lesson Welcome Home Spokane will have to learn next year, after winning its first men’s 6-foot-and-under elite …

June 26, 2011 in Sports Craig Alexander promised maximum effort in Sunday’s Ironman Coeur d’Alene, but the two-time world champion wasn’t sure what that would be. Turns out it was the best there’s ever been …

June 26, 2011 in Sports EUGENE, Ore. – Jeshua Anderson hardly could have cut it closer Sunday afternoon. Still wearing his Washington State uniform after concluding his collegiate career two weeks ago, Anderson took the …

June 26, 2011 in Nation/World on Page A1 AMSTERDAM – When a 43-foot gray whale was spotted off the Israeli town of Herzliya last year, scientists came to a startling conclusion: It must have wandered across the normally … 63

June 26, 2011 in Nation/World on Page A1 HIDALGO, Texas – Perched 20 feet above a South Texas cabbage field in a telephone booth-size capsule, a National Guardsman passes a moonlit Sunday night with a gun strapped to … 44

June 26, 2011 in Nation/World on Page A2 Saturday’s Washington Daily Game: 8-1-5 Saturday’s Washington Lotto: 3-20-29-30-31-37

June 26, 2011 in Nation/World on Page A2 WARSAW, Poland – An Israeli couple have confessed to stealing objects from the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp memorial and have settled for a suspended prison term and a fine, officials … 2

June 26, 2011 in Nation/World on Page A3 LONDON – The number of adults worldwide with diabetes has more than doubled in three decades, jumping to an estimated 347 million, a new study says. Much of that increase …

June 26, 2011 in Nation/World on Page A3 MINOT, N.D. – Chased from their homes by rising floodwaters and bunking with friends, clergymen Mike Johnson and Mike Pancoast did what seems to come naturally to folks around here: …

June 26, 2011 in Nation/World on Page A3 DETROIT – An Indiana doctor killed in a plane crash in northern Michigan had a passion for flying that drew him back into the cockpit after a crash that killed …

June 26, 2011 in Nation/World on Page A4 NEW YORK – As the news flashed around the globe that New York state had legalized gay marriage, New York fashion designer Malcolm Harris didn’t waste any time. He dashed … 2

June 26, 2011 in Nation/World on Page A5 LOS ANGELES – It was a new, foodie-type twist to the old inner-city gun buyback program. Hunger Action L.A., an advocacy group that helps to feed the poor and promotes …

June 26, 2011 in Nation/World on Page A7 NEW YORK – A publicity- seeking hacker group that has left a trail of sabotaged websites over the past two months, including attacks on law enforcement and releases of private …

June 26, 2011 in Nation/World on Page A8 INDIANAPOLIS – Planned Parenthood clinics in Indiana started seeing Medicaid patients again Saturday, the day after a federal judge ruled the state couldn’t cut off the organization’s public funding for …

June 26, 2011 in Nation/World on Page A9 KABUL, Afghanistan – A suicide car bomber blasted a small clinic Saturday in eastern Afghanistan, causing the building to collapse as mostly women and children lined up for vaccinations, maternity …

June 26, 2011 in Nation/World on Page A9 LIMA, Peru – David Tay heaves aside a metal door that leads into an earthquake-proof room chilled to 42 degrees. There, under the glow of blue-tinged lights, are thousands of …

June 26, 2011 in City on Page B1 From our archives, 100 years ago A rancher from Lapwai, Idaho, was trying to solve a frightening mystery: The case of the disappearing wife and daughter.

June 26, 2011 in City on Page B1 LEWISTON – A plan by Idaho officials to kill up to 60 wolves in north-central Idaho to protect elk herds has had little success so far after first aerial gunners … 5

June 26, 2011 in City on Page B1 It’s now 8.3 percent easier to become a millionaire. That good news comes from a World Wealth Report I read about on the Internet right after reading another fascinating story, … 16

  June 26, 2011 in City on Page B1 Spokane city and county officials soon will be jumping into the most interesting political numbers game of 2011, the redrawing of boundaries based on the latest population figures. Although data … 6

June 26, 2011 in City, Idaho on Page B2 In response to criticism about the small protest against the public art statue of Hindu god Ganesha in downtown Coeur d’Alene June 10, Kootenai County Constitution Party Chairman Daniel Brennan … 3