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Thursday, May 3, 2012
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Mead boys win fifth straight track title
May 3, 2012 in Sports In his words, Wes Bailey said he was flat Thursday afternoon.
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Chiefs pick defenseman first in Bantam Draft
May 3, 2012 in Sports The Spokane Chiefs selected defenseman Evan Fiala with the 14th overall pick in the Western Hockey League Bantam Draft on Thursday.
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Eastern’s Monterola chases Olympic dream
May 3, 2012 in Sports For Keisa Monterola, the distance from Cheney to London is 3 centimeters, or barely an inch.
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Whitworth baseball enjoys successful ride
May 3, 2012 in Sports It’s not hard to understand what Dan Ramsay was feeling when his Whitworth team clinched its first NCAA tournament bid last weekend.
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Shock need to pick up ground in West
May 3, 2012 in Sports Spokane is doing its part to get back into the West Division race by winning two straight games, but division rivals aren’t cooperating.
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Nonini backs rival to 11-term fellow GOP lawmaker
May 3, 2012 in Idaho Rep. Bob Nonini, R-Coeur d’Alene, who’s running for the Idaho Senate, has made a last-minute $1,000 campaign donation through his PAC to the primary election challenger of the sitting chairman … 7
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Rays hand Seattle sixth straight setback
May 3, 2012 in Sports ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – The term that manager Eric Wedge kept using after Thursday’s 4-3 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays, the Mariners’ sixth straight defeat, was “getting over the …
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Woman dies of stab wounds
May 3, 2012 A woman walking her dog along the Spokane River this morning was fatally stabbed in what authorities say may have been a random attack. 36
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Cute baby owls even more rare than thought
May 3, 2012 in City The nine baby owlets that arrived at WSU Veterinary Teaching Hospital a couple weeks ago – originally thought to be great horned owls – are actually of the screech variety. 1
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Facebook sets $28 to $35 price range for IPO
May 3, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK — Facebook has set a price range of $28 to $35 for its initial public offering of stock. At the high end, this could raise as much as … 8
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Bunking with cats, inmates learn value of teamwork
May 3, 2012 in Region When Princess Natalie was still a kitten, before she was prison royalty, she was left in a cage with another cat for months. They were fed, given water and not … 1
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Majority leader Lisa Brown won’t seek re-election
May 3, 2012 in City, News OLYMPIA, Wash. — Sen. Majority Leader Lisa Brown announced Thursday that she won’t run for re-election and will leave her seat in the state Legislature after her term expires at … 74
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Two rescued from float plane crash in Hayden Lake
May 3, 2012 in Idaho Two men were plucked from Hayden Lake this morning after the small float plane they were aboard flipped while landing on the lake. 1
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North Spokane McDonald’s robbed at gunpoint
May 3, 2012 in City A man crawled through the drive-through window of a North Spokane McDonald’s and robbed the employees at gunpoint early this morning, police say. 22
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Kootenai County may sell popular waterfall
May 3, 2012 in Idaho, Outdoors COEUR D’ALENE — Kootenai County commissioners are considering selling a parcel of land that includes the Chilco waterfall, and that has some ice climbers and environmentalists upset. 12
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Montana court postpones Ryan Leaf’s arraignment
May 3, 2012 in Sports Ryan Leaf’s arraignment on charges that the former NFL quarterback broke into two homes in Montana and stole prescription drugs has been postponed.
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North Spokane fire confined to second-floor bedroom
May 3, 2012 in City The Red Cross is housing the four occupants of a North Spokane home damaged in a fire early this morning.
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Border patrol expands in area
May 3, 2012 in City on Page A1 Federal agents have increased their presence in the Spokane area in what some believe is an overreaching effort to combat illegal immigration at a local level. Officials with the U.S. … 18
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91 miners died 40 years ago at Sunshine Mine in Idaho
May 3, 2012 in City, Idaho on Page A1 BIG CREEK, Idaho – Forty years ago, Tammy Wasson was a 4-year-old who loved her daddy. She got up with him in the morning before he left for the early … 6
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Formal vote fires museum director
May 3, 2012 in City on Page A1 The board that oversees the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture on Wednesday upheld the firing of the museum’s executive director, a decision that revealed significant division between the board … 3
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U.S.-China meetings clouded by Chen case
May 3, 2012 in Nation/World on Page A1 BEIJING – Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told China today that it must protect human rights, in remarks that rejected Beijing’s criticism of the U.S. for getting involved in … 2
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Accuracy watch
May 3, 2012 in City on Page A2 For 05-03-2012
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Busted, locked up, then simply forgotten
May 3, 2012 in Nation/World on Page A2 SAN DIEGO – A college student picked up in a drug sweep in California was never arrested, never charged and should have been released. Instead he was forgotten in a … 2
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In brief: Medicare fraud raid nets 107 on charges
May 3, 2012 in Nation/World on Page A3 Miami – Federal authorities charged 107 doctors, nurses and social workers in seven cities with Medicare fraud Tuesday in a nationwide crackdown on unrelated scams that allegedly billed the taxpayer-funded … 2
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