January 13, 2012 in Sports The Mariners agreed to trade right-hander Michael Pineda to the New York Yankees for catcher Jesus Montero on Friday, a swap involving two stars younger than 23. 7

January 13, 2012 in Sports Washington State football coach Mike Leach announced his 11 assistant coaches on Friday. All have been previously connected to WSU through media reports, and some have been working out of …

January 13, 2012 in News Former Mayor Mary Verner says she will not receive the $140,000 in back pay she requested in her final days in office. Verner told KHQ that she received a “determination … 10

January 13, 2012 in Sports In her fifth season, June Daugherty’s WSU women’s basketball program has made plenty of strides and the next biggest step presents itself Saturday _ beating Washington. 1

January 13, 2012 in News, City An assistant U.S. attorney and appointee for a federal judgeship helped identify a suspect in a string of South Hill burglaries by tracking his wife’s stolen coffee shop card. 2

January 13, 2012 in Idaho About 1,300 students from the Coeur d’Alene and Post Falls school districts attended a Martin Luther King Day celebration Friday at North Idaho College. 17

January 13, 2012 SEATTLE (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department says no criminal charges will be filed against a former Seattle police officer who shot and killed a Native American woodcarver in 2010. … 34

January 13, 2012 in News, City Crews rescued a man from the Spokane River in Riverfront Park today. 16

January 13, 2012 in News A year-long closure of the Lucky Friday Mine could reduce income in the Silver Valley by more than $25 million, state officials said. 5

January 13, 2012 in Outdoors, Idaho Lookout Pass Ski & Recreation Area will host the sixth annual Pacific Northwest Wife Carrying Contest at 1 p.m. Sunday during its winter carnival.

January 13, 2012 in Nation/World A Peruvian court has sentenced Joran van der Sloot to 28 years in prison for murder of a young woman he met at a Lima casino. 1

January 13, 2012 in Region What’s news in the Northwest today:

WALLACE — The Shoshone County sheriff says two dogs were attacked by four wolves near Wallace. 15

January 13, 2012 in Region RICHLAND — The historic Hanford guard tower that stood above the Columbia River for a half-century has been pulled to the ground. 1

January 13, 2012 in Nation/World on Page A1 WASHINGTON – An international team of scientists says it’s figured out how to slow global warming in the short run and prevent millions of deaths from dirty air: Stop focusing … 71

January 13, 2012 in Idaho on Page A1 Conditions in the Lucky Friday Mine’s main shaft have parallels to problems at a Nevada gold mine where a 2010 shaft accident claimed the lives of two workers, a top … 1

January 13, 2012 in Nation/World on Page A2 MOSCOW – A Russian spacecraft designed to burnish the nation’s faded space glory in a mission to one of Mars’ moons has turned into one of the heaviest, most toxic …

January 13, 2012 in Nation/World on Page A3 WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign raised $68 million in the last three months of 2011, closing out a healthy year that dwarfed his Republican opponents. The figures include …

January 13, 2012 in Nation/World on Page A3 Washington – An Army officer recommended a general court-martial Thursday for a low-ranking intelligence analyst charged with causing the biggest leak of classified information in U.S. history. Lt. Col. Paul …

January 13, 2012 in Nation/World on Page A3 WASHINGTON – Pentagon leaders scrambled Thursday to contain damage from an Internet video purporting to show four Marines urinating on Taliban corpses – an act that appears to violate international … 7