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Screams and blank stares of shock: Horror at a Russian concert

UPDATED: Sun., March 24, 2024

Once they heard the shots ring out Friday night at Crocus City Hall, Efim Fidrya and his wife ran down to the building’s basement and hid with three others in a bathroom.

News > Nation

‘Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire’ collects a cool $45.2 million at weekend box office

UPDATED: Sun., March 24, 2024

"Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire" easily froze out the competition at the box office this weekend, topping the charts with a solid if unspectacular $45.2 million debut, according to estimates from measurement firm Comscore.

News > Nation/World

With Catherine’s cancer diagnosis, the royals must do more with less

UPDATED: Sun., March 24, 2024

Catherine, Princess of Wales, is one of the most popular members of the British royal family. In fact, according to one poll taken earlier this month, even as conspiracy theories about her health were swirling, she is the most popular member.

News > Nation/World

Upcoming lunar eclipse warms up moon for April’s solar eclipse

UPDATED: Sun., March 24, 2024

As the moon prepares to blot out the surface of our sun in two weeks, it's warming up with a penumbral lunar eclipse Sunday night or Monday morning, depending on your time zone.

News > K-12 education

Students save life of Lewis and Clark track coach with CPR: ‘I did what I knew to do’

Sun., March 24, 2024

At the start of track practice Monday, volunteer distance coach Mike Hadway taught his team at Lewis and Clark High School how to monitor their own pulse while running. He instructed them to press their pointer and middle fingers against their windpipe until they could feel the blood pumping.

News > Spokane

50 years ago in Expo history: Downtown Spokane’s street signs were gone, but plans were in the works for an upgrade

Sun., March 24, 2024

A reader from Twisp wrote into The Spokesman-Review and asked, “What happened to the street signs in downtown Spokane?”

News > Nation/World

Easter candy price increases just start as cocoa soars

UPDATED: Sun., March 24, 2024

As the Easter holidays approach, higher cocoa prices mean shoppers are paying far more for their chocolate eggs and bunnies. Higher prices in stores now reflect increases in cocoa in 2023. Since then, the rally has gone into overdrive, and cocoa has more than doubled in price already this year.

News > ID Government

Boundary County sheriff candidates debate at packed high school gym

Sun., March 24, 2024

BONNERS FERRY – The retirement of Boundary County Sheriff Dave Kramer at the end of this term has left the field open for three candidates running for the position in a competitive Republican primary.

News > Nation

Former Defense Secretary Mattis: Democracy is hard for a reason

Sun., March 24, 2024

Former U.S. Secretary of Defense and four-star Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis will be the inaugural recipient of the Thomas S. Foley Award for Distinguished Public Service. Mattis will be honored by Washington State University’s Thomas S. Foley Institute for Public Policy and Public Service on April 9 during a ceremony at the John Hemmingson Center at Gonzaga University.

News > Crime/Public Safety

New lower passing rate for Washington’s bar exam opens possibilities, but also leads to questions

Sun., March 24, 2024

Mariah Welch made it through a stressful few months of finishing law school and taking the bar exam.

News > Washington

Crop season is approaching in Washington. What should you plant now, what needs to wait?

Sun., March 24, 2024

Mar. 22—Spring is officially here, and if you're interested in gardening, now's the perfect time to start. Temperatures will continue to warm as the days go on, but the Evergreen State won't experience warm weather like it did this past weekend for quite a while. Spring showers are expected throughout western Washington for at least the next week, and temperatures will remain under 60 degrees. ...

News > WA Government

Spin Control: Some takeaways and warning signs from final primary results

Sun., March 24, 2024

Although the winners for the Washington presidential primary were known minutes after the 8 p.m. deadline – if there was any doubt before then – that doesn’t mean there is nothing to learn from the final results, which are just finalized on Friday.

News > Business

The Dirt: 5M Apartments planned for Five Mile Prairie

UPDATED: Fri., March 29, 2024

Developers are planning to construct the 5M Apartments, which will bring four, 12-unit apartment buildings to the Five Mile Prairie neighborhood.

News > Nation/World

China’s plan to spur growth: A new slogan with familiar ideas

UPDATED: Sun., March 24, 2024

From the top of the government, China is heavily promoting a plan to fix the country's stagnant economy and offset the harm from a decadeslong housing bubble. The program has a fresh slogan, presented foremost by Xi Jinping, the country's top leader, as "new, quality productive forces."

News > Nation/World

Virginia-based sailor dies while deployed to Red Sea, officials say

UPDATED: Sat., March 23, 2024

A Norfolk-based sailor serving aboard a destroyer died after he was “lost overboard” while deployed to the Red Sea, officials announced Saturday.

News > Higher education

‘We were the Vandogs’: University of Idaho band garners national attention for supporting Yale in upset victory at NCAA Tournament

UPDATED: Sat., March 23, 2024

Yale marched to the beat of the University of Idaho’s drum in its upset victory over the Auburn Tigers on Friday at the Arena.

News > ID Government

Idaho Democrats condemn legislative inaction on addressing issues related to state’s abortion ban

Sat., March 23, 2024

Idaho Democrats called on Republican legislators on Friday to introduce legislation that would stop the departure of OB-GYNs, create health exceptions for pregnant women in the state’s abortion ban, and protect access to in vitro fertilization services, all of which have not been addressed during this legislative session.

News > Nation/World

Biden signs bill to fund government, ending shutdown fears

UPDATED: Sat., March 23, 2024

President Joe Biden signed a $1.2 trillion spending package Saturday, putting an end to the prospect of a government shutdown after the legislation passed a rushed series of congressional votes with bipartisan support and landed on his desk just after 2 a.m.

News > Nation/World

Modi’s party doesn’t control all of India, but he’s working on it

UPDATED: Sat., March 23, 2024

It is the final frontier for India's most powerful leader in decades. Narendra Modi, over his 10 years as prime minister, has made it his mission to turn a complex and diverse country of 1.4 billion people into something approaching a monolith dominated by his sweeping Hindu nationalist vision.

News > Nation/World

Tailor to presidents and stars, Martin Greenfield dies at 95

UPDATED: Sat., March 23, 2024

Martin Greenfield, who died Wednesday at 95 at a hospital in Manhasset, New York, largely kept to himself his Holocaust survival story as he rose from floor boy at GGG Clothes to owner of Martin Greenfield Clothiers, which he built into one of the most venerable clothiers in the United States.

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