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What’s next for WA ‘Sunshine Committee’ with exits, legislative apathy

UPDATED: Fri., March 15, 2024

Mar. 15—OLYMPIA — Toby Nixon, a longtime government transparency advocate and former state legislator, has been tapped to lead a committee that has been toiling in relative futility to scrutinize the hundreds of exemptions to the state's public disclosure laws. Since Washington voters approved the state's public disclosure laws by ballot measure in 1972, legislators have passed hundreds of ...

News > Business

Powerful realtor group settles lawsuits over sales commissions

UPDATED: Fri., March 15, 2024

American homeowners could see a significant drop in the cost of selling their homes after a real estate trade group agreed to a landmark deal related to the bedrock of the industry, the 6% sales commission.

News > Nation/World

Israeli officials slam Schumer’s call for new election as ‘counterproductive’

UPDATED: Sat., March 16, 2024

Israeli officials hit back at a scathing speech by Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) that criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and called for new elections - as news outlets and commentators there questioned what it could mean for Israel’s relationship with Washington, its strongest ally.

News > Nation/World

Missile misses ship in Red Sea as Houthis vow more attacks

UPDATED: Sat., March 16, 2024

A commercial ship was targeted by a missile in the southern Red Sea, according to the U.K. Navy, in another suspected attack by Houthi militants based in Yemen.

News > Nation/World

Fox News sued by family of Ukrainian producer who died covering Russian invasion

UPDATED: Fri., March 15, 2024

The family of a producer who was killed while covering the Russian invasion of Ukraine has filed a lawsuit against Fox News, saying the network's negligence resulted in her death.

News > Nation/World

Schumer’s sharp Israel criticism highlights shift in Democratic Party

UPDATED: Fri., March 15, 2024

When the war began following Hamas’ deadly Oct. 7 attacks on Israel, just a few far-left Democrats in Congress denounced Israel’s military response. But amid vocal pressure from within the party, top elected Democrats have adopted an increasingly hostile tone toward the Israeli government.

News > Nation/World

Milei’s decree suffers major setback after repeal in Senate

UPDATED: Fri., March 15, 2024

President Javier Milei’s initial dose of shock therapy is teetering on the edge of collapse after Argentina’s senate defeated his sweeping executive decree in a 42-25 vote Thursday.

News > Nation/World

Wade resigns from Trump case after judge’s conflict of interest ruling

UPDATED: Sat., March 16, 2024

A judge ruled Friday that Fulton County Dist. Atty. Fani Willis can continue to lead the Georgia election interference case against former President Donald Trump as her romantic relationship with her lead prosecutor did not amount to a direct conflict of interest.

News > Family

‘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.

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