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A few weeks ago, I shared a true story with you about my failed asphalt shingle roof. If you remember, it had a 30-year warranty, and after just 12 years it began to experience catastrophic failure. Looking back now, I shared the wrong photograph with you. I showed you a picture of my daughter’s new roof with copper strips on it. I should have shown you the photo of the Tilton, New Hampshire, post office roof. That photo accompanies this column.

Mexico was one of only 10 foreign countries to commit to an Expo ’74 pavilion, but now the Mexico Pavilion seemed to be in jeopardy – to say the least.

When former Kootenai County detective Jerry Northrop arrived to Daniel and Kendy Howard’s Athol home to process the scene where she died on Feb. 2, 2021, something seemingly ordinary caught his eye.

The Spokane County Sheriff’s Office is asking for the public’s help in identifying a man who may have information about a snowboard stolen last month outside the Mount Spokane Ski lodge.

The Senate voted Friday to prevent a partial government shutdown that was set to begin in mere hours by approving legislation to fund roughly 30 percent of the federal government for the next six months, sending it to President Biden to sign into law.

After nearly three years and two trials, a judge delivered the high-end sentence to a 30-year-old woman who killed her 39-year-old passenger in a drunken driving crash.

An Eastern State Hospital patient who fled from MultiCare Valley Hospital Wednesday was arrested Friday in Nevada along with his alleged accomplice.

An outside Boeing lobbyist on Capitol Hill sent an email to Republican members of Congress late Wednesday bluntly attempting to discredit the Senate testimony of National Transportation Safety Board chair Jennifer Homendy.

Texas can continue to enforce a new law requiring more stringent age-verification systems for pornography websites, a federal appeals court ruled.

President Biden began his State of the Union speech Thursday night by invoking another president’s address to Congress 83 years ago. In what became known as the “Four Freedoms” speech, Franklin D. Roosevelt sought to rally Americans to support European democracies facing annihilation from Nazi Germany.

Most people want to end the twice-yearly switch, but recent legislation to permanently stay on either standard or daylight saving time hasn't been able to become federal or state law.  

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken pressed Haiti’s prime minister, Ariel Henry, to announce his resignation and a political transition in a series of phone calls that took place Thursday and were described as “tense” by senior State Department officials.

Former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández, a one-time American ally, was convicted in a New York court Friday of helping drug traffickers send tons of cocaine to the United States in exchange for hefty bribes that fueled his political career.

The Republican National Committee on Friday selected new leaders who were hand-picked by former President Donald Trump, a move expected to tighten the expected nominee's hold on the party's machinery before the general election.

Apple Inc., facing mounting pressure from regulators in the European Union, has reversed a decision to ban Fortnite maker Epic Games Inc. from offering its own iPhone app marketplace in the region.