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No endorsement from Medical Lake Mayor Terri Cooper after she suspends congressional campaign

Medical Lake Mayor Terri Cooper has suspended her campaign to represent Eastern Washington in Congress, she acknowledged in a news release after not filing to run before the Friday deadline.

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Two hurt in Spokane Valley apartment fire

Riverside Elementary School paraeducator jailed, accused of sex crimes against teens
Multiple people injured in reckless driving motorcycle collision on I-90
Riverside School District employee investigated for alleged child pornography possession

A new, longer pause on development may soon be coming to the Latah Valley

Boeing delivers fewest jets since pandemic on 737 Max slowdown

Powell reiterates Fed likely to keep rates higher for longer

House Speaker Mike Johnson visits Trump trial to criticize hush money prosecution

Updated 8:39 p.m.

Second Russian invasion is worse than the first, Kharkiv region evacuees say

Updated 9:05 p.m.

Seattle Times publisher and CEO Frank Blethen will step down in 2025

Secret recording shows how a right-wing Idaho lobbyist tried to keep a legislator in lockstep

One Bob to rule them all: Two of the three candidates for governor named Bob Ferguson drop out of Washington’s race

Traditional Republicans flood May ballot for control of Kootenai County GOP

Riverside Elementary School paraeducator jailed, accused of sex crimes against teens

What’s happening with the pro-Palestinian protests at the University of Washington

Gonzaga graduate spreads mental health message on college campus

Roadwork to watch for in Spokane County this week

Study finds CO2 rising 10 times faster than in the past 50,000 years

Updated 8:51 p.m.

30 sailors, Marines assigned to Norfolk-based ships injured in hovercraft training mishap, Navy says

A first for 2024: Inland Northwest to hit 80 degrees and higher this weekend

Faith and Values: Pecking order: A bantam hen’s lesson in patience

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50 years ago in Expo history: Weather and other hiccups challenged a German concert pianist, who revealed how a ‘true artist’ always prevails

Faith and Values: Pecking order: A bantam hen’s lesson in patience

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News > Crime/Public Safety

Pullman woman dies in head-on crash in Benewah County

UPDATED: Tue., May 14, 2024

A head-on crash killed a 45-year-old Pullman woman and seriously injured a 31-year-old Toledo, Ohio, man Tuesday in North Idaho.

News > Spokane

Marcus Riccelli now running unopposed for state Senate seat after last-minute opponent Ericka Lalka withdraws without explanation

UPDATED: Tue., May 14, 2024

State Rep. Marcus Riccelli, D-Spokane, will soon be a state senator, barring an insurgent write-in campaign, after his only opponent withdrew from the race Monday.

News > Local government

Spokane considers $250,000 settlement with family of man killed by police while he held toddler, knife

UPDATED: Tue., May 14, 2024

The family of a 23-year-old Marshallese man who was killed by police after allegedly holding a knife to a toddler in 2022 may soon receive a settlement of $250,000 from the city of Spokane, avoiding a lengthy and potentially costly civil trial.

News > Crime/Public Safety

Some Mead parents, students frustrated with school district’s response to alleged football player assaults

UPDATED: Tue., May 14, 2024

Outcry over alleged assaults committed by some Mead High School football players intensified Monday after the Mead School District held a meeting on the incident and students staged a walkout over what they say is a lack of transparency.

News > Crime/Public Safety

Riverside Elementary paraeducator accused of sex crimes against children faces additional federal charges

UPDATED: Tue., May 14, 2024

A Riverside Elementary School paraeducator and high school coach accused of recording himself engaging in sex acts with teenagers now faces a federal charge, according to court records.

News > Health

How do I tell my young son I have breast cancer?

UPDATED: Tue., May 14, 2024

“Why are you getting so many phone calls?” my 4-year-old son asked me. It was a bright, sunny December afternoon, and we were visiting my parents in Colorado. I was getting a lot of phone calls. And I was not ready to have this conversation.

News > Health

People’s pharmacy: How can people decide if a drug is worth the risks?

UPDATED: Tue., May 14, 2024

Every time we take a shower, we are reminded of what happens when you ignore instructions. Several years ago, we purchased a new shower door and hired a handyman to install it.

News > Washington

Harrington hairdresser continues her father’s legacy through annual car show at the Studebaker Garage

UPDATED: Tue., May 14, 2024

HARRINGTON, Wash. – Allen Barth bought a dilapidated building on Harrington’s main drag about 13 years ago, a former Ford dealership from the early 1900s. He needed a home for his lifelong hobby – a place to store and showcase his collection of Studebakers and memorabilia.

News > World

Orcas again sink yacht near Strait of Gibraltar as high-risk season looms

UPDATED: Tue., May 14, 2024

Around 9 a.m. Sunday near the Strait of Gibraltar, two people on board the roughly 50-foot Alboran Cognac reported blows to the vessel’s hull and saw damage to the rudder as water flowed into the ship, Spain’s maritime rescue agency said.

News > Military

Air Force opens prosecution of Discord leaker Jack Teixeira

UPDATED: Tue., May 14, 2024

The Air Force on Tuesday opened preliminary criminal proceedings against a member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard who was convicted in federal court earlier this year of leaking classified government secrets online, alleging that he also violated military laws.

News > Nation/World

Alice Munro, Nobel Prize-winning short-story ‘master,’ dies at 92

UPDATED: Tue., May 14, 2024

Alice Munro, a towering woman of letters for the past half-century whose works of short fiction illuminated the emotional terrain of seemingly ordinary lives, and who was honored at the end of her career with the Nobel Prize in literature, died May 13 at her home in Port Hope, Ontario. She was 92.

News > Nation/World

House Speaker Mike Johnson visits Trump trial to criticize hush money prosecution

UPDATED: Tue., May 14, 2024

Speaker Mike Johnson joined a cavalcade of top Republicans defending former President Donald Trump on Tuesday amid his New York criminal trial focused on hush money payments over an alleged affair in the leadup to the 2016 election.

News > Business

Alphabet’s Waymo probed by US after autonomous car incidents

UPDATED: Tue., May 14, 2024

The top US auto-safety regulator opened an investigation into Waymo, the autonomous-vehicle subsidiary of subsidiary of Alphabet Inc., after 22 incidents in which the company’s cars were involved in collisions or may have violated traffic laws.

News > Business

Boeing delivers fewest jets since pandemic on 737 Max slowdown

UPDATED: Tue., May 14, 2024

Boeing Co. delivered 24 commercial jets in April, its lowest monthly tally since February 2022, as the planemaker slowed production of its workhorse 737 Max and 787 Dreamliner widebody to focus on improving quality.

News > Business

Powell reiterates Fed likely to keep rates higher for longer

UPDATED: Tue., May 14, 2024

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said the US central bank needs to be patient as it awaits more evidence that high interest rates are curbing inflation, doubling-down on the need to keep borrowing costs elevated.

News > Business

GameStop, AMC shares soar as traders pile back in to meme stocks

UPDATED: Tue., May 14, 2024

Meme-stock traders again piled into shares of GameStop Corp. and AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc., a day after both soared in a revival of the retail frenzy.

News > Nation/World

Zelenskyy asks Blinken for Patriot air defenses for Kharkiv

UPDATED: Tue., May 14, 2024

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appealed to allies to provide Ukraine with air-defense batteries to shield its second-biggest city as Russia launched a large-scale offensive in the northeastern Kharkiv region.

News > Washington

Washington road deaths jump 10%, reaching 33-year high. What are we doing wrong?

UPDATED: Tue., May 14, 2024

Washington recorded another grim milestone this week, with numbers from the Washington Traffic Safety Commission showing yet another year of increasing fatalities on the state's roads.

News > Nation/World

Second Russian invasion is worse than the first, Kharkiv region evacuees say

UPDATED: Tue., May 14, 2024

A new Russian offensive into Ukraine’s Kharkiv region has forced more than 6,000 people to evacuate this small city since Friday, fearing for their lives and racing to escape a second occupation more than two years after Moscow’s troops first crossed the border with columns of tanks.

News > Nation/World

Radiation compensation bill’s backers plan Hill blitz

UPDATED: Tue., May 14, 2024

WASHINGTON — Victims of radiation exposure are aiming to ramp up the pressure on the House to take up a Senate-passed bill that would extend and expand the compensation fund for those harmed by radiation from America’s development of nuclear weapons. The bill sponsored by Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., has fairly broad support in both parties, but it has been sitting on the clerk’s desk in the House ...

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