August 18, 2012 in Business on Page A6 Idaho’s unemployment rate fell to 7.5 percent in July, a three-year low. That’s down from 7.7 percent in June, the Idaho Department of Labor reported Friday. In Kootenai County, the …

August 18, 2012 in Business on Page A7 Soft white Cash bid Change Aug 8.51-8.81 up .06-.11 Sept 8.51-8.81 up .01-.11 Hard red winter (ordinary percent protein) Cash bid Change Aug 8.96-9.26 up .13 Sept Hard red winter …

August 18, 2012 on Page B1 BOISE – Idaho’s Supreme Court will begin live video-streaming of all oral arguments from its main Boise courtroom next week, in a joint project of the court and Idaho Public …

August 18, 2012 in City on Page B1 From our archives, 100 years ago A Japanese aviator gave a spectacular performance at Liberty Lake in an exhibition.

August 18, 2012 in City on Page B1 Second of two parts. Is Allen Larned fit to return to work as a Washington State Patrol trooper? 1

August 18, 2012 in City, Health on Page B1 Spokane’s Veterans Affairs Medical Center dedicated its new 18,000-square-foot behavioral health center on Friday. The new facility on four floors will provide better quarters for helping veterans with mental health, …

August 18, 2012 in City on Page B2 Radioactive material has been found between the inner and outer walls of an underground double-shell tank at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. Hanford has 28 double-shell tanks that are being used … 2

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August 18, 2012 in City, Outdoors on Page B3 Washington Fish and Wildlife officials say they plan to kill more wolves in northern Stevens County to curb attacks on cattle. After confirming that wolves killed one calf this week … 2

August 18, 2012 in City on Page B3 Spokane County Marriage licenses

August 18, 2012 in City on Page B3 CLE ELUM, Wash. – Many of the residents who had to flee from a central Washington wildfire were allowed back into the evacuation area Friday, not knowing what they’d find. …

August 18, 2012 in City on Page B3 GREAT FALLS – A San Francisco-based wind energy company building a 126-tower wind farm on private land in north-central Montana has agreed to move 25 of the towers farther away …

August 18, 2012 in Opinion on Page B4 It took a poor girl from the Ozarks to look upon the candy store of sex and money that was postwar urban America and rearrange the shelves. Helen Gurley Brown … 1

August 18, 2012 in Opinion on Page B4 Vice-presidential picks are always judged by their effect on the coming election. They rarely have any. This time could be different. The Democrats’ Mediscare barrage is already in full swing. … 7

August 18, 2012 in Opinion on Page B4 It’s been sad to watch Republicans cede the rational course on immigration reform to the likes of Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer and other political opportunists. Presidents Ronald Reagan and George … 5

August 18, 2012 in Letters, Opinion on Page B5 U.S. fiscal gap now $222 trillion – even though our current debt is only $15 trillion. 8

August 18, 2012 in Letters, Opinion on Page B5 To rephrase Tom Webb’s first sentence (“Need reasonable gun control” – Aug. 3): As usual in the aftermath of another deranged person killing with a gun, the anti-gunners come out … 37

August 18, 2012 in Letters, Opinion on Page B5 The date is set, the venue booked and the wedding party on board. We’ve spent seven years of our lives growing together, supporting each other and making one another better … 17

August 18, 2012 in Letters, Opinion on Page B5 Cathy McMorris Rodgers’ campaign commercial begins, “Our children will inherit more debt than any generation in American history.” We all share that worry. 17

August 18, 2012 in Letters, Opinion on Page B5 It’s almost time for The Spokesman-Review to recommend we re-elect Cathy as our representative for the 5th Congressional District. Perhaps this time the editors could tell us specifically what she … 9