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WEDNESDAY, JAN. 11, 2006

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Issue: Create an e-annoyance, go to jail: Annoying someone via the Internet is now a federal crime/Declan McCullagh, MSN Tech & GadgetsReporter Declan McCullagh: "It's no joke. Last Thursday, President Bush signed into law a prohibition on posting annoying Web messages or sending annoying e-mail…

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It's Miserable on the West Side, Too

Kaeli Emrich tests the waters of the aptly-named River Road as she walks back to the family farm with her parents Steve and Kendra Emrich on Tuesday as high water from the Chehalis River overflowed in Chehalis, Wash. Gov. Christine Gregoire got a birds-eye view…

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Top Cutlines -- 1/11/06

Britney Spears is seen on the set filming in Queens, New York. Now, she heads Mr. Blackwell's worst-dressed list. You write the cutline.Top Cutlines:1. You can take the girl out of the trailer park but you can't take the trailer park out of the girl;…

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SR Blog Page-Views

Spokesman-Review blog pageviews for 2005: All Cougs All the Time: 147,000 All We Never Knew: 17,000 Art Beat: 82,000 Ask the Editors: 149,000 Auto Racing 2005: 46,000 Campus Commons: 23,000 (started in August) Daily Briefing: 127,000 EWU sports: 52,000 Eye on Boise: 223,000 Eye on…

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Extra! Boise Community College By Fall?

Community college could open in Boise by fall/Associated PressDFO: 'Twill be interesting to see if such a community college was funded entirely by the state. Or if the Great State of Ada has to underwrite a new college with property taxes, as is done in…

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More About One-Eyed Kitten

"A photo of a one-eyed kitten named Cy drew more than a little skepticism when it turned up on various Web sites, but medical authorities have a name for the bizarre condition. “Holoprosencephaly” causes facial deformities, according to the National Institute for Neurological Disorders and…

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Quotable Quote

"Kootenai County is growing like a teenager on growth hormones."Gus Johnson, chairman of the Kootenai County Board of Commissioners to a crowd of government officials and business people meeting over a breakfast of scrambled eggs and sausage at the Coeur d'Alene Resort.

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Quick Fix 6 -- 1/11/06

1.APhoto Fix: Vladimir Arutyunian, accused of trying to kill U.S. President George W. Bush, seen in a defendants' cage during his trial in Tbilisi, Georgia, Wednesday. The trial of Arutyunian accused of trying to assassinate the U.S. and Georgian presidents approached its end on Wednesday,…

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Huckleberries Online

D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.