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John Blanchette: This team deserves celebration
March 7, 2011 in Sports The Gonzaga Bulldogs celebrated Monday night in a way they haven’t in at least a decade. They celebrated like it mattered, because it did. 1
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Gonzaga gains automatic bid to NCAA
March 7, 2011 in Sports The Gonzaga Bulldogs have seemingly faced elimination games for the last month so when they followed up their improbable run to a WCC regular-season title with a pair of gritty … 5
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Spokane jazz legend Arnie Carruthers dead at 81
March 7, 2011 in City, News Arnie Carruthers, one of the giants in the Spokane jazz scene, died Monday at Valley Hospital and Medical Center in Spokane Valley at age 81. 8
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Police say man shot victim after molestion allegation
March 7, 2011 in City A 26-year-old man who was shot in the head early Saturday has been identified as Shane Reilly. Reilly is at Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center. Court documents filed today say … 11
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Former Gov. Gary Locke to be tapped as China ambassador
March 7, 2011 in News A senior administration official says President Barack Obama plans to nominate Commerce Secretary Gary Locke to be the next U.S. ambassador to China. A formal announcement is expected Tuesday. 8
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Steele murder-for-hire trial moved to April in Boise
March 7, 2011 in Idaho Trial for a North Idaho attorney accused of hiring someone to kill his wife has been postponed until late next month and will take place in Boise.
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Stage set for stormy hearing on Idaho Medicaid cuts
March 7, 2011 in Idaho The stage is set for a stormy hearing Tuesday on deep cuts to Idaho’s Medicaid services to the disabled. 1
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Gonzaga women win WCC tournament title
March 7, 2011 in Sports LAS VEGAS – Gonzaga has demonstrated game after game that it can score points in a hurry and run the floor like a track team. 2
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CdA students cancel walkout due to levy concerns
March 7, 2011 in City, Idaho Coeur d’Alene High School students canceled a Monday morning walk-out to protest Idaho’s controversial school reform plan after the organizer said he didn’t want to jeopardize public support for Tuesday’s … 5
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Thompson, Casto All-Pac-10
March 7, 2011 in Sports Washington State wing Klay Thompson was named to the 10-man All-Pac-10 Conference first team Monday, the second consecutive year the junior earned the honor. 2
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Eastern fires Kirk Earlywine
March 7, 2011 in Sports Less than two days after Eastern Washington closed its men’s basketball season with a 79-70 loss to Weber State in the quarterfinals of the Big Sky Conference Tournament, Eagles head … 21
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Idaho spares prisons from cuts
March 7, 2011 in Idaho Idaho’s state prison system won’t take the same cuts other state agencies are facing next year - instead, under a budget approved by lawmakers this morning, it’d see a 5.3 … 8
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High court rules against government in open records case
March 7, 2011 The Supreme Court today rejected the government’s broad use of an exemption in the federal Freedom of Information Act to withhold documents from the public, ruling for a Washington state … 8
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Wallace woman dragged, injured in car theft
March 7, 2011 in City, Idaho An elderly woman was dragged a short distance by her car on Sunday as it was being stolen from her in Wallace, the Shoshone County Sheriff’s Office reported.
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NW today: Judge orders hysterectomy, patient appeals
March 7, 2011 in Region The Montana Supreme Court has stayed a District Court ruling ordering a cancer patient to undergo a hysterectomy to give the patient time to appeal the finding that she was …
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Vandersloot wins Naismith Award
March 7, 2011 in Sports Courtney Vandersloot, Gonzaga’s record-breaking senior point guard, was named the 2011 Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award winner.
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Storms lined up in Pacific, headed this way
March 7, 2011 in City, Idaho A series of Pacific storm series is lined up in the Pacific Ocean and heading toward the Inland Northwest this week.
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Man shot by deputy denies being armed
March 7, 2011 in City on Page A1 A suspected thief shot multiple times by a Stevens County sheriff’s deputy disputed law enforcement reports Sunday that he was armed with a pistol even though authorities say they recovered … 11
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Census shows growing Latino population in Eastern Washington
March 7, 2011 in City on Page A1 When Ana Zaragoza Mandziara moved to the Spokane area last summer, her first impression of her new home was, “Where are all the Mexicans?” Latino population in Washington does not … 20
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Tensions high on eve of Muslim hearings
March 7, 2011 in Nation/World on Page A1 STERLING, Va. – Muslim Americans are not part of the terrorism problem facing the U.S. – they are part of the solution, a top White House official said Sunday at … 28
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Getting There: Incident Response team helps keep I-90 open
March 7, 2011 in City on Page A1 The 60-mile stretch of Interstate 90 from Stateline to Four Lakes is a safer piece of highway thanks to two operators in Incident Response rigs run by the Washington State …
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After 13 years, spring brings cicadas’ noisy return
March 7, 2011 in Nation/World on Page A2 COLUMBIA, S.C. – The din begins this spring. A swarm of critters that emerges from underground every 13 years will fill the air over much of the Southeast with their …
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Gadhafi forces ambush rebels
March 7, 2011 in Nation/World on Page A3 RAS LANOUF, Libya – Rebels seeking to advance toward the hometown of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and open a new front threatening his capital were battered from the ground and …
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Japanese minister steps down
March 7, 2011 in Nation/World on Page A3 TOKYO – Japanese diplomacy won’t be affected by the resignation of the country’s foreign minister for accepting an illegal political donation from a foreigner, Japan’s embattled prime minister said today. …
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