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Tribes celebrate opening of $50M fish hatchery

June 19, 2013 The Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation will celebrate the opening of a $50 million salmon hatchery Thursday on the Columbia River.
Law enforcement from fatal Lookout Pass shooting identified

June 19, 2013 The law enforcement officers involved in the fatal shooting near Lookout Pass last week have been identified as Shoshone County Deputy Adam Durflinger and Idaho State Trooper Todd McDevitt.
Walla Walla sweet onion harvest begins

June 19, 2013 WALLA WALLA — Some farmers in the Walla Walla area have already started harvesting their Walla Walla sweet onions. KVEW reports the harvest is starting about a week-and-a-half early. The … 8
Energy secretary to visit Hanford

June 19, 2013 RICHLAND — New Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz was set to make his first visit today to the nation’s most contaminated nuclear site since being confirmed by the Senate last month.
Valley man subdues intruder at gunpoint

June 19, 2013 on Page A1 The trespasser was bent over, rummaging through a barrel of scrap material at a Spokane Valley residence Tuesday, when he looked up into the barrel of a 12-gauge shotgun. The … 26
Choice to support sister by cutting hair stirs row

June 19, 2013 on Page A1 There was no doubt in Melanie Strandberg’s mind when her sister was diagnosed with stage III ovarian cancer. She had to shave her head. She’d already done it once. Marisa … 58
Accuracy watch

June 19, 2013 on Page A2 For 06-19-2013
Wrong-way crash injures two

June 19, 2013 on Page A5 A wrong-way driver caused a head-on collision Tuesday morning on U.S. Highway 195 that put two people in the hospital and diverted traffic for hours. One person was in each …
Revenue windfall could end stalemate

June 19, 2013 on Page A5 OLYMPIA – An improving economic outlook could allow the Legislature to do something in the next few days that it has been unable to do for nearly six months: negotiate … 5
Parents’ Facebook ruse halts kidnap of their daughter

June 19, 2013 on Page A5 A Spokane father who discovered his 15-year-old daughter was being wooed by a man twice her age took matters into his own hands. After hatching a Facebook ruse that drew … 19
Cuts to Guilds’ School stir criticism

June 19, 2013 on Page A5 Funding cuts to an organization serving vulnerable children have caused backlash for county health officials as they restructure how to distribute stagnant funding at a time when needs are growing. … 36
Jim Kershner’s this day in history

June 19, 2013 on Page A5 From our archives, 100 years ago Mrs. E.J. Hyde, owner of Hyde’s Jewelry Store, thought she could trust attorney Carl B. Campbell to convey $20,000 worth of diamonds to her …
Library branches’ hours extended

June 19, 2013 on Page A6 First came the money, then the hours. The Spokane Public Library board of trustees voted Tuesday to open three outlying branches eight hours a day, five days a week. The …
Boise man charged with terrorism gets new lawyer

June 19, 2013 on Page A6 BOISE – An Uzbek refugee accused of terrorism-related crimes in Idaho and Utah has a new lawyer whose resume includes successfully defending a man accused of murdering a federal agent …
In brief: North Side fires may both be arson

June 19, 2013 on Page A6 Investigators are looking for a connection between two Spokane fires that occurred on the same block within 24 hours, and they said at least one of them was intentionally set. …
Trial set for Spokane pair in prison contraband case

June 19, 2013 on Page A6 WALLA WALLA – Two Spokane residents are set for trial starting Aug. 27 on charges they intentionally left marijuana and chewing tobacco for distribution on the grounds of the Washington …
Board of Correction puts contract up for bid

June 19, 2013 on Page A9 BOISE – Idaho prison leaders are looking for a new company to run the state’s largest prison after Corrections Corporation of America admitted to understaffing and overbilling for its work … 1
Idaho records

June 19, 2013 on Page A9 For 06-19-2013
Two men sentenced in busted heroin ring

June 19, 2013 on Page A9 Two criminal associates of Charles R. Wallace, the outlaw who shot two Spokane County sheriff’s deputies, pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court one day shy of the one-year anniversary of …
Washington records

June 19, 2013 on Page A9 Marriage licenses Dereck P. Gade and Melissa R. Mielke, both of Spokane.
Burgan’s transformation begins

June 19, 2013 on Page A10 Five years after buying the Burgan’s Furniture buildings on North Division Street in Spokane, developer Jerry Dicker has launched a multimillion-dollar project that will add 46 apartments and three retail … 3
Army Corps: No broad study of coal trains planned

June 18, 2013 An official with the Army Corps of Engineers told a Congressional committee Tuesday it doesn’t plan a broad environmental study on exporting coal from the Western United States. 18
Inland NW thunderstorms could fire up again this afternoon

June 18, 2013 A new round of thunderstorms is possible across the region after 2 p.m. today as a large Pacific storm moves through the Inland Northwest.
New revenue forecast could break logjam in Olympia

June 18, 2013 OLYMPIA — Washington’s economic outlook is improving, in part because of better home sales, and the state could have an extra $231 million over the next two years for its … 6
Investigators seeking connections between two fires

June 18, 2013 Investigators are looking for a connection between two fires that occurred this week and said at least one of them was intentionally set.
Two injured in wrong-way collision on Highway 195

June 18, 2013 Two people were injured in a head-on collision this morning on state Highway 195 when a motorist reportedly was driving the wrong way. 10
Spokane Valley woman stabbed while walking dog

June 18, 2013 SPOKANE VALLEY — A woman walking her dog early Tuesday in Spokane Valley says she was stabbed in the arm by a man who came up behind her. 22
NASA selects Spokane native as astronaut trainee

June 18, 2013 on Page A1 In preschool, Anne McClain wrote and illustrated a book depicting a family of four going to a store, buying rockets and suits, and flying up into outer space. Fast forward … 4
Massive collection of Watergate clippings on display

June 18, 2013 on Page A1 Forty-one years ago this week, a story in the New York Times caught the eye of Drake University student J. Paul Blake: A break-in had occurred at the Democratic National … 2
Law student pleads guilty to hit and run that injured toddler

June 18, 2013 on Page A5 Dressed in a blue shirt with a big, white kitty on the front, 3-year-old Danika Packard sat on the courtroom bench eating cereal from a plastic baggy and smiling at … 8