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Idaho wrestling coach hit a 14-year-old. He struck this deal to avoid criminal charges

UPDATED: Wed., April 24, 2024

Former Rocky Mountain High assistant coach Russell Brunson will not face criminal charges after striking a 14-year-old wrestler from another school multiple times in January. The Nampa Police Department recommended battery and injury-to-child misdemeanor charges for Brunson after he ran onto the mat at his son’s match and hit a freshman from Nyssa, Oregon, at least three times, video shared ...

News > Crime/Public Safety

Man sentenced to 10 years in prison for stabbing, killing 53-year-old at Spokane Valley homeless camp

UPDATED: Wed., April 24, 2024

A 44-year-old man was sentenced to 10 years in prison last week for stabbing and killing a man at a Spokane Valley encampment in 2020.

News > Nation/World

Escaped army horses careen through London, crashing into vehicles

UPDATED: Wed., April 24, 2024

Five horses from the king’s mounted bodyguard were startled at a construction site and galloped riderless through central London during morning rush hour before being recovered Wednesday.

News > WA Government

Spokane Valley Councilman Al Merkel enters the race for soon-to-be vacant seat in Washington Senate

Wed., April 24, 2024

Spokane Valley City Councilman Al Merkel has announced his candidacy for a state Senate seat being vacated by fellow Republican Sen. Mike Padden.

News > Nation/World

USDA to limit added sugars in school meals nationwide for first time ever

UPDATED: Wed., April 24, 2024

U.S. students will soon see reduced added sugars in school meals nationwide as part of an overhaul of the nation’s nutrition standards announced Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

News > Nation/World

FCC to reinstate net neutrality, but it’s not as easy as it once was

UPDATED: Wed., April 24, 2024

The Federal Communications Commission will vote to put the internet back under “net neutrality” regulation on Thursday, reprising Obama-era rules that prohibit internet service providers from discriminating against certain websites by throttling or blocking them. But the FCC has run into a hitch: how to define the “internet” in the year 2024.

News > Business

Airlines must now pay automatic refunds for canceled flights

UPDATED: Wed., April 24, 2024

Airlines will now have to provide automatic refunds to travelers if flights are canceled or significantly altered under new U.S. Department of Transportation rules, a significant change for consumers that could drive up costs across the industry.

News > Business

Amazon’s Prime Video and Netflix are crashing TV’s ad-selling party

UPDATED: Wed., April 24, 2024

Over the last decade, streaming video platforms have gradually siphoned away viewers from traditional TV networks. But next month, they will be confronting the legacy outlets on their own turf — by going directly for their advertising dollars.

News > Business

Why Disney is doubling down on theme parks with a $60 billion plan

UPDATED: Wed., April 24, 2024

Over the decades since Walt Disney opened his first theme park in 1955, the company's tourism business has ballooned to an enterprise worth tens of billions in yearly sales, with sprawling locations in Anaheim, Orlando, Paris, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Tokyo.

News > Nation/World

Biden signs foreign aid bill, says weapons to be sent to allies within hours

UPDATED: Wed., April 24, 2024

President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed a $95.3 billion emergency spending bill that will send military aid to Ukraine, Israel and Pacific partners, capping a dramatic week that culminated with a rare bipartisan outcome.

News > Business

FTC chief says tech advancements risk health care price fixing

UPDATED: Wed., April 24, 2024

New technologies are making it easier for companies to fix prices and discriminate against individual consumers, the Biden administration’s top consumer watchdog said Tuesday. Algorithms make it possible for companies to fix prices without explicitly coordinating with one another, posing a new test for regulators policing the market, said Lina Khan, chair of the Federal Trade Commission, ...

News > Crime/Public Safety

Spokane County Medical Examiner asks for public’s help identifying man found dead in downtown Spokane

UPDATED: Wed., April 24, 2024

The Spokane County Medical Examiner’s Office asked for the public’s help Wednesday to identify a man found dead in downtown Spokane in February.

News > Nation/World

Nearly 2 in 5 Americans breathe unhealthy air. Why it’s getting worse

UPDATED: Wed., April 24, 2024

A rising number of Americans - nearly 2 in 5 - has been living with unhealthy levels of air pollution, while the United States experienced a record number of days between 2020 and 2022 with very unhealthy or hazardous air, according to a new report.

News > Crime/Public Safety

Missing Silver Valley Pastor found dead

UPDATED: Wed., April 24, 2024

A Silver Valley pastor who was reported missing Tuesday and found dead later that day died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to the Pinehurst Police Department.

News > Business

Boeing reports $355 million loss amid door blowout crisis

UPDATED: Wed., April 24, 2024

Boeing lost $355 million in the first quarter as it struggled with the fallout from a January door blowout on a 737 Max 9.

News > Business

U.S. 30-year mortgage rate rises to five-month high of 7.24%

UPDATED: Wed., April 24, 2024

US mortgage rates increased to the highest level in five months, pushing down home-purchase applications for the fifth time in the last six weeks.

News > Nation/World

States move to label deepfake political ads

UPDATED: Wed., April 24, 2024

After 20,000 or more New Hampshire voters received a call with the artificial-intelligence-doctored voice of President Joe Biden asking them to skip the state’s primary in January, state officials were in a quandary.

News > Nation/World

North Korea stokes arms concerns by sending a rare delegation to Iran

UPDATED: Wed., April 24, 2024

North Korea sent its highest-level delegation to Iran in about five years as the U.S. raised concerns that arms sales from Pyongyang and Tehran have helped fuel conflicts in the Middle East and Russia’s war in Ukraine. In a rare public report of the trip, the official Korean Central News Agency said in a one-sentence dispatch the North Korean delegation led by External Economic Relations ...

News > Nation/World

Decades of dallying led to current delay on menthol ban

UPDATED: Wed., April 24, 2024

The Biden administration’s delay in finalizing a ban on menthol cigarettes is the result of decades of resistance, delays and industry lobbying, according to former officials and public health advocates.

News > Nation/World

Blinken lands in China for tense talks as U.S. sanctions loom

UPDATED: Wed., April 24, 2024

Secretary of State Antony Blinken has arrived in China on a mission to press Beijing on issues including its support for Russia and industrial overcapacity, with the threat of new U.S. sanctions looming over the visit.

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