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• NE winds kicking up through Saturday

  Feb. 27, 2015 A low pressure area that passed south along the Washington coast line today is creating an air pressure difference that will lead to moderate and gusty winds through Saturday.

• Avista chairman earned nearly $5.5 million last year

  Feb. 27, 2015 Compensation for Avista Corp.’s top executive nearly doubled last year, as a result of bonuses and increases in pension values. Scott Morris, chairman and chief executive officer of the Spokane-based … 25

• Speed limit boost for I-90 stretch gains traction

  Feb. 27, 2015 on Page A1 OLYMPIA – Washington’s speed limit could rise to 75 mph under proposals being considered by the Legislature. One bill to raise highway speed limits was fast-tracked through a House committee … 90

• Official account in Pasco shooting disputed

  Feb. 27, 2015 on Page A1 An independent autopsy of an unarmed Mexican man killed by police in Pasco shows he was shot as many as seven times – including twice from behind – contradicting earlier …

• Future looking up for downtown relics

  Feb. 27, 2015 on Page A1 Megan Duvall looks up in downtown Spokane to look back in time. “I grew up in Spokane, and I never looked up,” said Duvall, who moved back to town in … 30

• Shawn Vestal: Christianity already well-protected in Idaho

  Feb. 27, 2015 on Page A5 Hooray for the Kootenai County Republicans, who this week rejected a resolution to “formally and specifically” declare Idaho a Christian state. The resolution declared that Christianity is under assault across … 81

• Idaho Supreme Court rules against Hayden sewer fee

  Feb. 27, 2015 on Page A5 North Idaho contractors say they feel vindicated by a state Supreme Court decision Thursday that found the city of Hayden failed to establish legal grounds for a steep fee increase …

• Detectives still work to solve death of woman found last year in Spokane River

  Feb. 27, 2015 on Page A5 A trip to San Diego rewarded Spokane County detectives with new leads in the death of a woman found last January in the Spokane River. But much about Maria Vega …

• Daybreak Youth Services shifts to provide inpatient drug treatment for girls only

  Feb. 27, 2015 on Page A5 Girls ages 12 to 17 are more likely than boys to become addicted to prescription drugs. Nearly half of the 2.1 million admissions to drug and alcohol treatment facilities in … 14

• Jim Kershner’s this day in history

  Feb. 27, 2015 on Page A5 From our archives, 100 years ago In a remote area north of Sandpoint, O.C. Henry entered the cabin of W.B. Mabie and was acting rowdy.

• In brief: Spokane VA hospital still understaffed

  Feb. 27, 2015 on Page A6 The emergency room at the Spokane’s Veterans Affairs hospital will not go back to 24-hour-a-day staffing by April as originally planned. Hours for the emergency room were cut from 24 … 2

• Bill calls for inspector general office to be created in Idaho

  Feb. 27, 2015 on Page A6 BOISE – With tens of millions in legal fees, contract bailouts, settlements and more adding up for the state, it’s time for Idaho to create an office of inspector general …

• Washington records

  Feb. 27, 2015 on Page A6 Spokane County Marriage licenses

• Three bills in Washington would create new license plate designs

  Feb. 27, 2015 on Page A6 OLYMPIA – Washington drivers can choose from 47 specially designed license plates that support causes including breast cancer research, orca preservation, square dancing and lighthouse restoration. And drivers may soon … 2

• Business briefs: Ambassadors Group to lay off 60 workers

  Feb. 27, 2015 on Page A7 SPOKANE – Ambassadors Group, the educational travel company that operates the People to People program, will lay off 60 people. The company notified the employees under Washington’s Worker Adjustment and …

• Microsoft employee donations reach record $117 million

  Feb. 27, 2015 on Page A7 SEATTLE – Microsoft’s employee philanthropy program dished out a record $117 million to nonprofits and schools last year, the company said on Thursday, topping the 2013 total of $113 million. … 1

• Amazon hires ex-Obama aide Carney

  Feb. 27, 2015 on Page A7 SEATTLE – Amazon hired former White House press secretary Jay Carney to run global corporate affairs, company spokesman Craig Berman confirmed Thursday. The news was first reported by the website …

• Port dispute hurts citrus, almonds

  Feb. 27, 2015 on Page A7 LOS ANGELES – An end to labor strife at West Coast ports should speed up cargo operations, but it may be too late to help California’s drought-weary nut and citrus … 5

• Ambassadors Group to lay off 60

  Feb. 26, 2015 Ambassadors Group, the educational travel company that operates the People to People program, will lay off 60 people. 24

• Family mourns victim of Pasco police shooting

  Feb. 26, 2015 on Page A1 PASCO – A weeping Agapita Montes-Rivera, mother of the man shot dead by Pasco police officers about two weeks ago, led a funeral procession almost 100 strong out of the … 88

• Kettle Falls Five reduced to three

  Feb. 26, 2015 on Page A1 The Kettle Falls Five marijuana collective has been reduced to three this week after one of the defendants in the federal criminal case cut an eleventh-hour plea deal with prosecutors. … 57

• Drone a disturbance during Lake Coeur d’Alene rescue

  Feb. 26, 2015 on Page A1 Police were trying to persuade a suicidal man to come out of the frigid lake near the Coeur d’Alene Resort earlier this month when overhead a small drone darted about, … 48

• Hauser corn maze fined in teen worker’s death

  Feb. 26, 2015 on Page A1 The Incredible Corn Maze in Hauser has been fined $14,000 by the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration for the death last October of a Spokane Valley teenage worker who … 16

• Spokane pair suspected of forcing girl into prostitution

  Feb. 26, 2015 on Page A5 A Spokane pair is suspected of forcing a 16-year-old girl into prostitution. An investigation into human trafficking has been underway for weeks, said Spokane County Sheriff’s Office Detective Damon Simmons. 25

• Doug Clark: Couple in troubled water over disputed bridge toll

  Feb. 26, 2015 on Page A5 I cracked this caper five minutes after saying howdy to Dennis and Shirley Wendlandt in the front yard of their pink cinderblock home in Spokane’s West Central neighborhood. And I’m … 10

• Plane that crashed in Spokane may have used wrong fuel, report says

  Feb. 26, 2015 on Page A5 Inspectors who responded to the scene of a single-engine plane crash Sunday were concerned the plane may have been flying with the wrong type of fuel, according to a report … 11

• Post Falls to vote on school levy, bond

  Feb. 26, 2015 on Page A5 Population growth in Post Falls was putting pressure on its schools a decade ago, but officials held off asking voters for help when the economy soured and was slow to … 3

• Jim Kershner’s This Day in History

  Feb. 26, 2015 on Page A5 From our archives, 100 years ago Hundreds of attendees at the Northwest Miner’s Congress in Spokane were treated to an evening of robust “pioneer entertainment” at the “miner’s smoker” at …

• Spokane Valley apartment fire leaves one man with minor burns

  Feb. 26, 2015 on Page A6 A two-alarm apartment fire in Spokane Valley sent one man to the hospital with minor burns Wednesday afternoon. The Spokane Valley Fire Department was alerted to the fire at 12623 …

• In brief: Mail carrier assaulted outside Spokane apartment

  Feb. 26, 2015 on Page A6 Witnesses told police that a mail carrier was brutally assaulted as he was delivering the mail to an apartment complex just south of downtown Spokane on Tuesday. The mail carrier … 5

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