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Spokane, Washington  Est. May 19, 1883

TUESDAY, MAY 20, 2008

Spokane Police ID Body Found In KootCo SUV

Spokane Police have identified the body found Monday on Spokane's South Hill as 40-year-old Michael Giannotti. An autopsy showed no signs of traumatic injuries that would explain his death. Detectives are now waiting for toxicology reports to help decide the cause of death. Police do…

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Parting Shot -- 5/20/08

Kathy Plonka/Spokesman-ReviewScott Lasley, member of the Board of Directors of the Wallace Business Community Association walked on top of the huge snow mound that still exists in Wallace today. He is taking bets on how long it will take for the mound to melt. The…

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HBO's Best of the Local Blogs -- 5/20/08

A crowd of 475,000 people went to the Obama rally in Portland this weekend. In that crowd were hundreds of people with terminal cancer, crippling illnesses, birth defects, etc. They were all healed. While Obama was there, the Columbia and Willamette rivers ran golden with…

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Souza Urges No Vote On School Levy

Note: A Berry Picker received the following e-mail from Mary SouzaJust a quick reminder to you all: Please vote tomorrow, Tuesday, May 20th, in the $31.1 million dollar School Levy election. You can vote at any public school, the hospital or the Mica Grange. Please…

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Huckleberries Hears ...

... That at least one little old lady was confused re: where to vote today, after receiving a direct mailing about the School District Zone 4 elections from "Mary Souzie." Anyone else out there receive a copy of the mailing? Huckleberries'd sure like to see…

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Huckleberries Best of the INorthwest -- 5/20/08

Steve Hanks/Lewiston Tribune, APConstruction workers join aluminum panels together to make the new screen at the Sunset Auto-Vu drive-in in Grangeville, Idaho on Monday. The 52-year old screen was blown down by 80 mph winds in November. Story here 1. Idaho's U.S. senators both said…

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Kennedy Diagnosed w/Brain Tumor

Doug Mills/AP PhotoIn this June 11, 2002, file photo, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass. gestures during a Capitol Hill news conference. A cancerous brain tumor caused the seizure Sen. Edward M. Kennedy suffered over the weekend, doctors said Tuesday in a grim diagnosis for one of…

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Isolated In Cataldo

Young Kwak/AP PhotoIlene Huber, left, and her husband Don bring Shannon Carney to her mother Allison Carney, not pictured, via a boat, the only method of transportation possible as a result of floodwaters caused by a rise of the Coeur d'Alene River covered roads in…

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IdaBlue: Truly Independent Idaho Voters?

My point is that this match up reveals the truth behind a canard I hear every election. Someone will be noting how reflexively Republican Idaho voters are, and the reply is "If Democrats would put up good candidates they 'd get more people elected." Well,…

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Sandpoint 'Extreme Home' Owner Must Sell

Item: Extreme Home for sale: Hebert can’t afford upkeep nor time for maintenance/Marlisa Keyes, Bonner County BeeMore Info: Upkeep on the 3,678-square-foot challenge also is difficult. Hebert, who is single, works full-time and spends most evenings taking the kids to baseball and soccer practice. He…

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AM Headlines -- 5/20/08

Jerome A. Pollos/Coeur d'Alene Press, APBecky Orchard, a midwife in training and a certified doula, does a check-up on 3-week-old Cody Drake as his mother, Kelly Routt, watches Wednesday at Dayspring Midwifery Services in Hayden. Story here*Idaho Records/Sherry Adkins, SR*Rain could make flooding worse/Thomas Clouse,…

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A Mother Grieves For Lost Son

RE: Accident victim touched livesI can hardly breath these days because Shane is my son. I cannot tell you how much finding the site means to me. Thank you for the picture-I love seeing Shane grinning even after a tough work out like shoveling a…

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