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• Christmas Bureau serves almost 5,000 on first day

  Dec. 12, 2013 on Page A1 After 20 years, Donna Bielecki returned to the Christmas Bureau on its opening day Wednesday. The last time she used the charity serving the region’s neediest families, she was pregnant …

• Spokane pursues scofflaw parkers

  Dec. 12, 2013 on Page A1 Five Spokane drivers have ignored the city’s parking laws with abandon, each collecting more than 200 tickets. The sum of all those violations exceeds $30,000 in fines. 3

• Doug Clark: EWU grants mascot status for band fan

  Dec. 12, 2013 on Page A5 Eastern Washington University’s Academic Senate passed a recommendation this week that I become the “official mascot” of the EWU marching band. I couldn’t be more stunned.

• In brief: Stronger murder charge filed in stabbing

  Dec. 12, 2013 on Page A5 Prosecutors have filed a stronger charge against a man accused of stabbing his ex-girlfriend last year and then recruiting a family friend to help bury her body in an unmarked …

• Spokane a city of lists

  Dec. 12, 2013 on Page A5 Spokane is on a lot of lists. Hard to believe that one of them is No. 1 most mispronounced city. It’s SpoKAN, not SpoKANE, people. Nevertheless, the Lilac City is …

• Jim Kershner’s this day in history

  Dec. 12, 2013 on Page A5 From our archives, 100 years ago A fight was being waged in Spokane over the future of the telephone lines – and the future of the legions of young, female …

• Spokane police course focuses on mental health crisis

  Dec. 12, 2013 on Page A6 A man with a history of mental illness is allegedly breaking into his neighbor’s apartment at all hours of the day, stealing items and causing a headache for the landlord. …

• Boeing resumes 777X talks with Machinists union in Washington

  Dec. 12, 2013 on Page A7 SEATTLE – Following an initial meeting with top Boeing Co. leaders Tuesday, the Machinists union began serious negotiations Wednesday and presented management with a preliminary proposal for a contract that …

• Washington records

  Dec. 12, 2013 on Page A7 Spokane County Marriage licenses

• Idaho records

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• Hanford 300 Area cleanup plan released

  Dec. 12, 2013 on Page A8 The U.S. Department of Energy on Wednesday issued its final cleanup plan for the 300 Area of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, which for decades made plutonium for nuclear weapons and …

• In brief: Possible replacements for Rep. Larry Crouse narrowed to three

  Dec. 12, 2013 on Page A8 Spokane County commissioners will choose from a list of three Republicans to take the state legislative seat of retiring Rep. Larry Crouse, R-Spokane Valley. The list – submitted by GOP …

• At least 42 grizzlies roam Cabinet, Yaak in Montana

  Dec. 12, 2013 on Page A8 MISSOULA – A “hair of the bear” study has accounted for at least 42 grizzly bears in the Cabinet Mountains and Yaak River drainage regions of northwestern Montana. Research leader …

• Shooting victim found by authorities in Moses Lake

  Dec. 11, 2013 The Grant County Sheriff’s Office said it airlifted a man found on a road in rural Moses Lake on Wednesday morning. The man is in critical condition. 1

• Suspect arrested in alleged downtown shooting attempt

  Dec. 11, 2013 Spokane Police said they arrested a 29-year-old man who fired a shotgun at two passengers in a car behind the Red Lion Tavern in downtown Spokane on Monday. The man … 26

• Inch or two of snow due Thursday night

  Dec. 11, 2013 The past 10 days of frigid arctic air are going to yield to a period of mainly snow, but also a risk of sleet and freezing rain in some locations … 7

• Flood causes computer problems at Washington State University

  Dec. 11, 2013 Computing services are down at Washington State University in Pullman due to a flood, according to the school’s Office of Emergency Management. 4

• Christmas Bureau opens today at 10 a.m.

  Dec. 11, 2013 on Page A1 For many needy families in our area, today is the first shopping day of the season. The Christmas Bureau opens at 10 a.m. at the Spokane County Fair and Expo … 16

• Shawn Vestal: George Nethercutt promotes Citizenship Tournament for students

  Dec. 11, 2013 on Page A1 It’s been more than 50 years since George Nethercutt was a student at North Central High School. But there he was Tuesday, suit-and-tied, cafeteria lunch in hand, asking to sit … 118

• Accuracy watch

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• Spokane County may allow indoor marijuana growing

  Dec. 11, 2013 on Page A5 Spokane County commissioners are fine-tuning regulations for legal marijuana production to allow indoor growing operations in light industrial zones in unincorporated parts of the county. Commissioners last month approved an … 39

• Team uses video camera to explore Evolution Mine shaft

  Dec. 11, 2013 on Page A5 Mine closure experts, working in 5-degree weather, lowered a video camera into an open, abandoned mine shaft in North Idaho over the weekend, but the results were inconclusive and its … 10

• Photo: Admiring the wares

  Dec. 11, 2013 on Page A5 Careful inspection: “Waiting for the kiln to cool is like Christmas,” said North Idaho College ceramics student Janine Wood-Bokman as she checked out the items in the students’ pottery sale … 1

• Jim Kershner’s this day in history

  Dec. 11, 2013 on Page A5 From our archives, 100 years ago A Spokane man discovered the hard way that motion picture projectors could be hazardous to the health. 1

• TSA takes sock monkey’s gun

  Dec. 11, 2013 on Page A6 SEATTLE – A cowboy sock monkey’s tiny toy pistol was no laughing matter for the Transportation Security Administration. A Redmond, Wash., woman said a TSA agent seized the replica weapon … 3

• In-flight drills test trainees

  Dec. 11, 2013 on Page A6 TACOMA – The Joint Base Lewis-McChord flight nurses in the air over the Northwest on Sunday had unbelievably bad luck during their training scenario inside a C-17 Globemaster III jet. … 3

• Man gets 3-year term for beating cab driver

  Dec. 11, 2013 on Page A6 SEATTLE – A man who attacked a turban-wearing Sikh cab driver was sentenced Tuesday in Seattle to more than three years in prison for a federal hate crime. Prosecutors had … 1

• In brief: Judge stays ruling on mentally ill

  Dec. 11, 2013 on Page A6 TACOMA – A judge in Tacoma has decided to allow mentally ill patients to be held without treatment in hospital emergency rooms for another six months while her earlier ruling … 1

• Train-SUV collision kills two people near Klamath Falls

  Dec. 11, 2013 on Page A6 KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. – Oregon State Police said a southern Oregon man and his sister-in-law were killed and his brother was seriously injured when their Jeep Cherokee was hit by … 1

• Washington state recycled 50.1 percent of material in 2012

  Dec. 11, 2013 on Page A7 Washington residents recycled more than 4.4 million tons of material last year, an amount equal to each person recycling 3.5 pounds of material daily. The state’s recycling rate was 50.1 … 2

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