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Thursday, March 14, 2013
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Blanchette: One last season to jump through WAC hoops
March 14, 2013 in Sports Only Idaho, NMSU and Seattle will be returning when the Western Athletic Conference basketball tournament reconvenes, joined by the ZipCode All-Stars: Cal State Bakersfield, Chicago State, Grand Canyon, Missouri-Kansas City, …
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Pirates’ Larkin has nose for the game
March 14, 2013 in Sports Mack Larkin plays tough defense, the kind that doesn’t show on the stat sheet but has helped Whitworth make another deep run in the NCAA Division III tournament. The Pirates … 1
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Vandals bumped out of WAC tournament
March 14, 2013 in Sports The Idaho Vandals’ season ended Thursday against the athletic, pressing, trapping New Mexico State Aggies, who forced 16 Idaho turnovers and shot 60 percent from the field in a 65-49 …
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Spokane’s Johnson makes NHL debut
March 14, 2013 in Sports Tyler Johnson couldn’t believe that so many people in Spokane cared what he was doing three time zones away. 1
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Asian buyers shop Inland Northwest wood products
March 14, 2013 Asia is growing hungrier for American wood products, and producers in the Northwest are delving deeper into exports even as domestic lumber demand rebounds from an epic building slump. 5
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Survey: Alcohol, tobacco use down among Washington teens
March 14, 2013 in City, Health One in six Washington youth ages 12 to 17 has seriously considered suicide, and 8 percent of students in eighth and 10th grades have attempted suicide in the past year, … 42
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Man pleads guilty to McDonald’s robbery
March 14, 2013 in City One of four suspects tied to two brazen robberies, including a South Hill McDonald’s restaurant, pleaded guilty today in a plea deal that could net him three years in prison. 13
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Parents filing grievance against CdA School Board
March 14, 2013 in Idaho The Coeur d’Alene School Board is accused of religious discrimination, fiscal irresponsibility and violations of ethics and Idaho’s open meetings law in a grievance filed Thursday by a group of … 14
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Scope of drug case causes court problems
March 14, 2013 in City A courtroom packed with attorneys and 21 of the 62 defendants tied to a massive Oxycontin distribution ring between Spokane and Los Angeles appeared in court today as a federal … 8
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Huppin’s to close downtown Spokane store
March 14, 2013 in Business, City Huppin’s, TV Audio Cameras and More, one of downtown Spokane’s best-recognized retail businesses, will close its store at 401 W. Main, consolidating its retail operations at its north Spokane store. … 87
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Idaho lawmakers call for crackdown on TV indecency
March 14, 2013 in Idaho BOISE - Idaho legislators want the Federal Communications Commission to crack down on TV portrayals of premarital sex, including people joking about sex, lying in bed together or undressing. 40
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Tyler Johnson called up to NHL club
March 14, 2013 in Sports The Tampa Bay Lightning have promoted former Spokane Chiefs star Tyler Johnson from the Syracuse Crunch of the American Hockey League. He made his NHL debut Thursday night in a … 4
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Washington Supreme Court rejects Yates petition
March 14, 2013 in City SPOKANE — Spokane serial killer Robert Yates is not entitled to a new hearing or a review of his case, the state Supreme Court said today. 4
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Bullets hit South Hill home in gang-related shooting
March 14, 2013 in City At least two bullets struck a house on the lower South Hill early this morning. 36
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Reckless driver causes damage to police vehicle
March 14, 2013 in City A driver fleeing from police in a stolen vehicle caused damage to a parked car and a police squad car early this morning.
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New World pontiff
March 14, 2013 in Nation/World on Page A1 VATICAN CITY – Argentina’s Jorge Mario Bergoglio became the first pope from the Americas and the first from outside Europe in more than a millennium in an election that recognized …
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Budget battlers offer contrasting visions for U.S.
March 14, 2013 in Nation/World on Page A1 WASHINGTON – The two budget proposals now in Congress present Americans with a choice even starker than the one between the presidential candidates last year. Under the 10-year budget plan … 18
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New pope inspires local Catholics
March 14, 2013 in City on Page A1 A Jesuit pope gives Inland Northwest Catholics a reason to celebrate, especially with the region’s connection to the Society of Jesus through Gonzaga University. The conclave’s results surprised the Rev. … 10
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Goal of lower costs remains big uncertainty
March 14, 2013 in City on Page A1 Where can Americans find help with health insurance coverage? And P.S. – what’s it going to cost? 24
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Chavez embalming unlikely, Maduro says
March 14, 2013 in Nation/World on Page A2 CARACAS, Venezuela – Venezuela’s acting president said Wednesday that it is highly unlikely Hugo Chavez will be embalmed for permanent viewing because the decision to do so was made too … 1
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Khmer Rouge leader who faced war crimes dies
March 14, 2013 in Nation/World on Page A2 PHNOM PENH, Cambodia – Ieng Sary, who co-founded Cambodia’s brutal Khmer Rouge movement in 1970s, was its public face abroad and decades later became one of its few leaders to … 1
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In brief: Police surround man suspected in rampage
March 14, 2013 in Nation/World on Page A3 Herkimer, N.Y. – A man neighbors called a loner coolly walked into an upstate barbershop, asked the owner if he remembered him and then abruptly opened fire with a shotgun, …
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Obama disputes jobs on Keystone XL line
March 14, 2013 in Nation/World on Page A3 WASHINGTON – Jobs numbers and other benefits touted by supporters of the Keystone XL oil pipeline are probably exaggerated, President Barack Obama told House Republicans on Wednesday, according to lawmakers … 11
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Military sex abuse protocol ‘broken,’ victim tells panel
March 14, 2013 in Nation/World on Page A3 WASHINGTON – In a stinging rebuke of the military’s efforts to curb sexual assault, members of a Senate panel hammered Defense Department officials on Wednesday for making too little progress … 13
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