June 7, 2012 in City The Spokane County Sheriff’s Office is investigating whether a sex crime was committed when a student teacher reportedly had a relationship with a 17-year-old high school girl. The Eastern Washington … 7

June 7, 2012 in Region A federal appeals court raised sharp questions Thursday about why Idaho’s not complying with its 2002 decision that the First Amendment requires witnesses to be able to view lethal injection … 6

June 7, 2012 in City WASHINGTON - West Coast oil refiners cut gasoline production after a fire earlier this year at a Washington state refinery, creating a supply shortage that’s left West Coast motorists now … 20

June 7, 2012 in Nation/World BEIRUT (AP) — U.N. observers came under fire Thursday as they tried to reach the site of the latest reported mass killing in Syria — about 80 people, including women … 4

June 7, 2012 in Idaho Police say a 22-year-old eastern Idaho driver was looking at a text message on his phone when he hit a sheriff deputy’s parked patrol car. 8

June 7, 2012 in City SEATTLE (AP) — A new state audit of Washington’s public schools says the state’s school districts could do a better job getting dollars into the classroom where they’ll make the … 10

June 7, 2012 SEATTLE — A Washington state lawmaker says he’ll introduce legislation to require stores selling liquor to post the full price, including taxes, on the display shelves. 25

June 7, 2012 in City, Idaho Records for rainfall and cool temperatures were broken in several locations across the Inland Northwest on Wednesday in the second day of a two-day June storm, , the National Weather … 10

June 7, 2012 in Nation/World KABUL, Afghanistan — The Afghan president said today that 18 people killed in a NATO airstrike in eastern Afghanistan a day earlier were all civilians. The deadly incident has further … 7

June 7, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK — Stocks opened sharply higher on Wall Street after China cut its benchmark lending rate in another bid to boost its slowing economy. 1

June 7, 2012 in Region EPHRATA, Wash. — The Grant County sheriff’s office says a 2-year-old boy who was found severely malnourished last month at a Moses Lake home remains on life support at a … 9

June 7, 2012 in Nation/World on Page A1 WASHINGTON – For months, optimists in the Democratic camp have argued that the wave of anxious – sometimes angry – voters that swept Republicans to victory in 2010 had begun … 45

June 7, 2012 in City on Page A1 The two Washington State Patrol troopers whose botched child pornography investigation cost taxpayers $2.4 million have been transferred off a sex crimes unit but have not faced any discipline for … 22

June 7, 2012 in Nation/World on Page A2 Near the north pole of Mars, a piece of Ray Bradbury lives on, waiting to be discovered by someone in the future. A digital copy of Bradbury’s “The Martian Chronicles” … 1

June 7, 2012 in Nation/World on Page A2 WASHINGTON – A Pulitzer Prize winner is the nation’s first poet laureate to hail from the South since the initial one – Robert Penn Warren – was named by the …

June 7, 2012 in Nation/World on Page A3 Cairo – Hosni Mubarak’s health sharply deteriorated Wednesday, days after he was sentenced to life in prison, and specialists were evaluating whether to transfer him to a better-equipped hospital outside … 1

June 7, 2012 in Nation/World on Page A3 The gap in life expectancy between black and white Americans is smaller than it has ever been, thanks largely to a decline in the number of deaths resulting from heart …