September 9, 2011 in Sports Whitworth begins its longest string of home football games – four straight with a bye mixed in – since 1999 when Pomona-Pitzer visits the Pine Bowl Saturday.

September 9, 2011 in Idaho The next Coeur d’Alene City Council election is shaping up to be a referendum on the multimillion-dollar plan to remake McEuen Field, downtown’s popular, but aging, waterfront park. Friday was …

September 9, 2011 in Sports It wasn’t just a dreadful performance against Bowling Green that Idaho coaches used the past few days to get the Vandals in the proper frame of mind for lower-division North …

September 9, 2011 in Sports Beau Baldwin expects the University of South Dakota to be up front about everything Saturday afternoon when the Coyotes square off against his No. 1-ranked and defending NCAA Division I …

September 9, 2011 in News Latah District Court Judge John Stegner today set Oct. 3 for oral arguments concerning the personnel records of former University of Idaho employee Ernesto Bustamante.

September 9, 2011 in News A child enticing report was filed Thursday with the Coeur d’Alene Police Department. 3

September 9, 2011 NEW YORK (AP) — She sat on a bench outside St. Paul’s Chapel across from the World Trade Center, where cranes towered over the site, her Bible open on her …

September 9, 2011 in Idaho The Idaho Supreme Court has issued an unexpected order this afternoon on redistricting, tossing out both the GOP redistricting commissioners’ lawsuit and Secretary of State Ben Ysursa’s legal challenge after …

September 9, 2011 A blackout that swept across parts of the Southwest and Mexico apparently began with a single utility worker and a minor repair job. How it then rippled from that worker … 3

September 9, 2011 in Nation/World A federal judge has approved a pair of sweeping settlements that could lead to endangered species protections for hundreds of animal and plant species by 2016.

September 9, 2011 in News, City A jury today failed to come to consensus on manslaughter charges against two men implicated in the explosion of a homemade device that killed a Chattaroy man last fall.

September 9, 2011 in Region A magnitude-6.4 earthquake struck Friday off the coast of British Colombia, the U.S. Geological Survey said. 1

September 9, 2011 in Idaho The Idaho State Police says its top accident reconstruction expert did not lie on the witness stand in a fatal road rage case that sent a Hayden man to prison … 9

September 9, 2011 in Region Army prosecutors are moving forward with plans to try a Joint Base Lewis-McChord soldier accused in the killing of an Afghan civilian despite two reports from an Army investigator that …

September 9, 2011 A man Seattle police described as “like Spider Man” stood on his head, did handstands and ran back and forth for nearly six hours on a narrow ledge beneath an …

September 9, 2011 in Idaho, Region A northwestern Montana couple with a previous animal cruelty conviction in North Idaho has been found guilty of aggravated cruelty to animals after 116 cats were found living in filthy, … 4

September 9, 2011 in Region Warm, dry weather is forecast to continue at least through the weekend in Washington, where firefighters are trying to contain a wildfire that has burned nine homes and 10 outbuildings …

September 9, 2011 in Business, Nation/World The problems that weighed down stocks all summer show no sign of letting up. 2

September 9, 2011 in City, Idaho Temperatures at or near record levels will continue again today as high air pressue keeps the Inland Northwest sizzling. 1

September 9, 2011 in Nation/World on Page A1 WASHINGTON – With the nation verging on renewed recession, President Barack Obama urged a divided Congress on Thursday night to back his new $447 billion jobs package, which he promised … 67