March 6, 2011 in Sports LAS VEGAS – Gonzaga’s Marquise Carter showed why he was voted WCC newcomer of the year and reserve wing Mike Hart showed why head coach Mark Few trusts him in … 2

March 6, 2011 in News A Washington State Patrol trooper was injured Sunday evening in a collision with a semi-truck south of Ritzville. 1

March 6, 2011 in Sports Top-ranked Whitworth is headed to Wooster, Ohio, next weekend to play Marietta in the section semifinals of the NCAA Division III men’s basketball tournament.

March 6, 2011 in News A man shot multiple times by a Steven County sheriff’s deputy early Saturday was threatening the deputy with a stolen gun, Stevens County Sheriff Kendle Allen said Sunday. 20

  March 6, 2011 in Sports It had all the elements of a typical Gonzaga women’s basketball rout of an overmatched opponent, and a couple others that were particularly satisfying for head coach Kelly Graves.

March 6, 2011 in Nation/World on Page A1 WASHINGTON – Sens. John McCain and Joseph Lieberman met in Egypt and Tunisia recently with the new, post-revolution prime ministers of both countries. Almost as soon as they’d returned to … 16

March 6, 2011 in Nation/World on Page A1 BROWNSVILLE, Texas – Federal agents are barely able to slow the river of American guns flowing into Mexico. In two years, a new effort to increase inspections of travelers crossing … 25

March 6, 2011 in Nation/World on Page A2 WYOMING, Pa. – An elderly woman in northeastern Pennsylvania has been accused of poisoning her son’s girlfriend with juice laced with antifreeze in an effort to keep her away from … 1

March 6, 2011 in Nation/World on Page A3 MADISON, Wis. – Liberal filmmaker Michael Moore urged Wisconsin residents Saturday to fight Republican efforts to strip most public workers of their collective bargaining rights, telling thousands of protesters that … 6

March 6, 2011 in Nation/World on Page A3 WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama said Saturday that he was prepared to make deeper spending cuts than his initial budget offer to Republicans as the White House seeks to avoid … 7

March 6, 2011 in Nation/World on Page A3 Cape Canaveral, Fla. – The Air Force launched an unmanned experimental space plane on an Atlas V rocket Saturday. Air Force officials weren’t saying much about the X-37B orbital test …

March 6, 2011 in Nation/World on Page A4 NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The man suspected of terrorizing women with sexual assaults from Virginia to Rhode Island over 12 years tried to hang himself in his cell Saturday, but … 1

March 6, 2011 in Nation/World on Page A4 LOS ANGELES – Two studies released last week by the journal Nature show that work remains before so-called induced pluripotent stem cells are ready for use in laboratory studies or …

March 6, 2011 in Nation/World on Page A5 Caracas, Venezuela – Sean Penn thanked Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Saturday for supporting the actor’s relief organization in Haiti, saying the aid has helped its humanitarian work in distributing …

March 6, 2011 in Nation/World on Page A7 WASHINGTON – Despite its eagerness to show support for protesters across the Middle East, the Obama administration has lined up squarely with the royal family of Bahrain as tens of … 1

March 6, 2011 in Nation/World on Page A7 TRIPOLI, Libya – Government forces in tanks rolled into the opposition-held city closest to Tripoli after blasting it with artillery and mortar fire, while rebels captured a key oil port …

March 6, 2011 in City on Page B1 As part of its plan to prevent another economic meltdown, the federal government is cracking down on library trustees. Spokane County Library District trustees recently joined library boards around the … 4