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‘My real family’: Vietnamese woman who long suspected American parentage finds relatives through Spokane Amerasian group

UPDATED: Fri., March 15, 2024

Hoa Tran, 57, was abandoned as a baby and raised in Vietnam. After searching most of her adult life for her parents, she got a DNA match a year ago, leading her to Spokane.

News > Spokane

50 years ago in Expo history: The fair’s celebrity guest list was beginning to take shape as the grand opening festivities were also revealed

Fri., March 15, 2024

Grand plans were announced for Expo ’74’s grand opening on May 4.

News > Spokane

Shawn Vestal: So long, and thanks for reading

Fri., March 15, 2024

I wrote my first newspaper column when I was 14 years old.

News > K-12 education

Students take the new digital version of the SAT as debate over equity in the test wages

Fri., March 15, 2024

For just less than a century, college-bound students have shared the rite of passage, armed with a No. 2 pencil poised to complete the bubbles of a scantron of the SAT.

News > Idaho

This Meridian lawyer was disbarred for sexting clients. Now he’s accused of rape

UPDATED: Fri., March 15, 2024

A Meridian child-custody lawyer was disbarred for texting clients unsolicited and explicit photos of himself and making sexually suggestive and inappropriate comments, according to a notice published in The Advocate, an official publication of the Idaho State Bar. The same lawyer is also charged with rape in a separate criminal case filed in Southeast Idaho. The victim was an unconscious ...

News > Nation/World

Montana rancher illegally created giant hybrid sheep to sell for thousands

UPDATED: Thu., March 14, 2024

A Montana rancher created giant hybrid sheep and sold them for hunting, creating the lambs by using illegally imported genetic material from the world’s largest sheep species, federal prosecutors say.

News > Nation/World

Father of gunman who fatally shot four classmates found guilty of manslaughter

UPDATED: Thu., March 14, 2024

A jury found James Crumbley guilty of involuntary manslaughter on Thursday after about 11 hours of deliberation, holding him partially responsible for failing to prevent his son from carrying out Michigan's deadliest school shooting.

News > Crime/Public Safety

Stabbing suspect in East Central neighborhood arrested, released

UPDATED: Thu., March 14, 2024

A man was jailed on suspicion of stabbing a woman on Monday and then released, according to a statement from the Spokane Police Department.

News > Crime/Public Safety

Spokane Valley sex offender re-arrested in Idaho after run-in with victim’s mother in Montana

UPDATED: Thu., March 14, 2024

When Pamela Nearing walked into the restaurant at Quinn’s Hot Springs Sunday afternoon, the last thing she expected to see was the man who had molested her son sitting at the bar with a teenager.

News > Crime/Public Safety

Fugitive wanted on several felony charges arrested in Newport

UPDATED: Thu., March 14, 2024

Law enforcement agencies on Thursday arrested an “armed and dangerous” fugitive wanted for multiple crimes in Spokane and Stevens counties after receiving hundreds of tips from the public.

News > Crime/Public Safety

Local teacher killed by suspected drunken driver fought for safe schools, children with disabilities

UPDATED: Thu., March 14, 2024

Mindy Wilson was known to her friends and family as “an advocate for those without a voice,” someone who spoke up to make things better for her students, her neighborhood and her children.

News > K-12 education

Multiple bills seeking to mandate school curriculum failed. Here’s what they proposed

UPDATED: Thu., March 14, 2024

The legislature passed some 350 bills during the 2024 session but let five bills mandating school curriculum in different subject areas lapse. Here's a look at the proposed curriculum requirements that didn't become state law.

News > Crime/Public Safety

Original medical examiner’s ruling called into question in death of Idaho trooper’s wife

UPDATED: Sat., March 16, 2024

There is no reason for the former Spokane Medical Examiner to believe Athol resident Kendy Howard died from anything but a gunshot wound to her mouth, he testified Thursday. But he admitted he didn’t see the follow-up reports, the conflicting conclusions made by other medical experts or the two-year investigation into her death conducted by Kootenai County.

News > Nation/World

Student pilot charged after trying to access Alaska Airlines cockpit

UPDATED: Thu., March 14, 2024

A 19-year-old student pilot from Northern Virginia who tried repeatedly to enter the cockpit of an Alaska Airlines flight from California to Virginia earlier this month is facing a federal charge of interfering with a flight crew, according to court documents.

News > Nation/World

Haiti’s National Penitentiary, already the target of mass prison break by gangs, is on fire

UPDATED: Thu., March 14, 2024

First, armed groups attacked Haiti’s largest prison and orchestrated a jailbreak of nearly 4,000 inmates, many of them murderers, kidnappers and gang leaders. Now the country’s National Penitentiary is on fire.

News > Nation/World

Schumer calls for ‘new election’ in Israel in scathing speech on Netanyahu

UPDATED: Thu., March 14, 2024

Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) called for the Israeli government to hold a new election in a speech warning that Israel risks becoming an international “pariah” under the leadership of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his right-wing cabinet.

News > K-12 education

West Bonner school board prepares to rerun levy

UPDATED: Thu., March 14, 2024

After a tumultuous year with a budget shortfall from a failed levy and recalls of two trustees, the West Bonner School Board is preparing to run another levy, this time with a few tweaks.

News > Business

Former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is assembling an investor group to buy TikTok

UPDATED: Thu., March 14, 2024

As Congress weighs a bill that would lead to a nationwide ban of the popular video app TikTok, former Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin said Thursday he is assembling an investor group that will try to purchase the China-based company.

News > Business

Cities face cutbacks as commercial real estate prices tumble

UPDATED: Thu., March 14, 2024

Steep discounts have become normal for office space across the United States as the pandemic trends of hybrid and remote work have persisted, hollowing out urban centers that were once bustling with workers. But the losses are hitting more than just commercial real estate investors.

News > Nation/World

Pope Francis, in first autobiography, says he will not choose to retire

UPDATED: Thu., March 14, 2024

He confesses to being “dazzled by a girl” in his youth who made it difficult for him “to pray.” He takes a swipe at the European Union and denounces the U.S. decision to drop atomic bombs as “immoral.” He says he’s no “communist” and chides those who sought to pit him against his predecessor. He has bad news for his critics: He will not voluntarily retire.

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