March 11, 2012 in Sports Got a bone to pick with the bracket architects. It’s simply indefensible that the NIT has been stacked in such a way that there’s no chance for an all-Pac-12 final … 1

March 11, 2012 in Sports MOSCOW, Idaho – It’s not the tournament they were gunning for five days ago, but the Idaho Vandals are back in the postseason for the third time in four seasons. …

March 11, 2012 in Sports PULLMAN – The season isn’t over yet for the Washington State men’s basketball team. The Cougars were selected Sunday to make their first appearance in the College Basketball Invitational, and …

March 11, 2012 in City, News A rain-soaked Sunday morning slowed what had been a busy opening weekend for some of the Spokane region’s golf courses. 1

March 11, 2012 in City, Idaho, News A Clark Fork, Idaho man is dead after a Sunday morning pickup truck collision along River Road in North Idaho. 3

March 11, 2012 in News, Sports Washington, the regular-season champions of the Pac-12, was left out of the 68-team field for the NCAA tournament, making the Huskies a rare footnote and trivia fact in the annals … 3

March 11, 2012 in City, News The Coast Guard has suspended its search for four people missing from a fishing trawler off the Washington coast.

March 11, 2012 in City, News The 7-year-old daughter of a Marysville police officer died at a Seattle hospital Sunday after being shot by her young sibling, who found a loaded gun in the family’s van, … 16

March 11, 2012 in City BALANDI, Afghanistan (AP) — A US official says the suspect in the killing of 16 Afghans was from Fort Lewis, Wash. The American soldier opened fire on villagers near his … 35

March 11, 2012 in Nation/World on Page A1 WASHINGTON – Taking a page from its past, the NAACP will go before a United Nations panel in Switzerland this week to argue that new voting laws approved by some … 65

March 11, 2012 in Nation/World on Page A2 CHICAGO – It was an unusual backdrop for a fistfight: Maestro Riccardo Muti was nearly through the second movement of Brahms Symphony No. 2 at the normally staid Chicago Symphony … 3

March 11, 2012 in Nation/World on Page A3 KABUL, Afghanistan – A U.S. service member walked out of his base in southern Afghanistan today and started shooting Afghan civilians, the provincial governor said. People were both killed and … 1

March 11, 2012 in Nation/World on Page A3 KABUL, Afghanistan – Five top Taliban leaders held by the U.S. in the Guantanamo Bay military prison told a visiting Afghan delegation they agree to a proposed transfer to the … 6

March 11, 2012 in Nation/World on Page A3 MOSCOW – More than 20,000 protesters flocked to a central Moscow avenue Saturday to demand Vladimir Putin’s resignation and protest electoral fraud, but the crowd’s relatively small size compared to …

March 11, 2012 in Nation/World on Page A4 GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – Israel pounded Gaza for the second day in a row Saturday, trading airstrikes and rocket fire with Palestinian militants and killing 15 of them as …

March 11, 2012 in Nation/World on Page A7 Garden Grove, Calif. – Robert Schuller and his wife, Arvella, announced “with great sadness” Saturday that they resigned from the board of directors of the Crystal Cathedral, the televangelist ministry … 1