Stories for May 20, 2007

• CIA finds Iraq resources fund al-Qaida in Pakistan

  In Nation/World on Page A1 WASHINGTON – A major CIA effort launched last year to hunt down Osama bin Laden has produced no significant leads on his whereabouts, but has helped track an alarming increase …

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  Lilac festival parade: Here’s to the Heroes

  In City on Page A1 The pride of Chewelah paraded through downtown Spokane in 1970s style Saturday evening. The brightly colored float for the small town featured an array of light green, pink, blue, yellow …

• CdA, LC capture state titles

  In Idaho on Page A1 North Idaho was the home of champions and near-champions Saturday. North Idaho College came up just shy of the NJCAA Division I national softball championship by losing to Chipola (Fla.) …

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  Fats Domino performs for first time since Katrina

  In Nation/World on Page A2 NEW ORLEANS – Fats Domino took the stage before a sold-out crowd of hundreds in a New Orleans nightclub Saturday, marking the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer’s first public …

• Senate taking up immigration bill

  In Nation/World on Page A3 WASHINGTON – The Democrat-controlled Senate this week will plunge into its first confrontation over immigration when it debates a comprehensive bill crafted by a bipartisan group of senators and endorsed …

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  Tornado can’t stop graduation

  In Nation/World on Page A3 GREENSBURG, Kan. – Amid the ruins of their tornado-devastated town, residents celebrated a high school commencement Saturday that mixed tearful memories with pride and promises to rebuild. Beneath two large …

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  China displeased before talks

  In Nation/World on Page A4 SHANGHAI, China – On the eve of high-level economic talks in Washington this week, Chinese leaders are increasingly bitter about what they see as bullying behavior by the United States …

• In Passing

  In Nation/World on Page A4 Santa Monica, Calif. Yolanda King, actress, advocate

• Tainted Chinese catfish exposes food-safety flaws

  In Nation/World on Page A4 WASHINGTON – As federal regulators scrambled last month to contain a pet food contamination outbreak, officials in some Southern states had a different concern: Noticing that catfish imports from China …

• Everest climb marked by bodies

  In Nation/World on Page A5 EVEREST BASE CAMP, Tibet – To reach the summit of Mount Everest, climbers must ascend through a field of corpses – the bodies of climbers who didn’t get off the …

• Teen youngest to climb 7 summits

  In Nation/World on Page A5 LOS ANGELES – An 18-year-old woman has reached the summit of Mount Everest, becoming what is believed to be the youngest person to scale the highest peaks on each of …

• Shoes of gator wrestlers prove difficult to fill

  In Nation/World on Page A6 FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – At Everglades Holiday Park, on the western edge of U.S. 27, Daniel Fontaine tends to his nine gators and waits for the tourists to arrive. Fontaine …

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  In brief: Michael Moore film debuts at festival

  In Nation/World on Page A9 “Sicko,” Michael Moore’s attack on the U.S. health care system, got a warm welcome at Cannes on Saturday that marked the director’s triumphant return to the film festival and a …

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  Hamas, Fatah truce taking hold

  In Nation/World on Page A9 GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – Gunmen armed with rifles, grenades and explosives climbed down from rooftop positions Saturday and residents began venturing out of bullet-scarred homes after their leaders agreed …

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  Missing soldiers’ fate remains uncertain

  In Nation/World on Page A10 BAGHDAD – Two of the three U.S. soldiers missing since a May 12 ambush south of Baghdad are believed to have been alive as recently as Friday morning, but the …

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  Carter calls Bush ‘worst in history’

  In Nation/World on Page A11 LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Former President Carter says President Bush’s administration is “the worst in history” in international relations, taking aim at the White House’s policy of pre-emptive war and …

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  McCain’s health looms large

  In Nation/World on Page A11 WASHINGTON – As he exited the stairs of his “Straight Talk Express” campaign bus on a chilly March day in Iowa, Sen. John McCain carefully took one step at a …

• Parade results

  In City on Page A12 Parade float winners Community sweepstakes: Chewelah

• Global warming may cost Kansas its sunflower

  In Nation/World on Page A13 KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Imagine the Sunflower State without sunflowers. That’s one of the dire predictions contained in a new report on global warming released by the National Wildlife Federation, …

• Progress being made on fires around U.S.

  In Nation/World on Page A13 PAYSON, Ariz. – A wildfire that had threatened homes and other structures in two northern Arizona forests was 80 percent contained Saturday and evacuees were being told they could return …

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  Los Angeles anxious about high fire risk

  In Nation/World on Page A13 LOS ANGELES – The hills surrounding the famed Hollywood sign are shades of tan, chocolate and gray. Not too far away, other parts of Griffith Park are a wasteland, charred …

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  Teenager drowns in Hayden Lake

  In Idaho on Page B1 A Rathdrum teenager drowned Saturday at Hayden Lake during a canoe outing. Divers pulled the body of 17-year-old Branden T. Castleton from the murky water of Mokins Bay on the …

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  Sporting goods for good sports

  In Idaho on Page B1 Three generations of the Walchly family came to Coeur d’Alene on Saturday to catch the grand opening of Sportsman’s Warehouse. There was Ralph Walchly, of Kellogg, his 10-year-old son, Skyler, …

• Summit to tackle housing divide

  In Idaho on Page B1 More than 150 people are expected to gather in Sandpoint on Thursday for North Idaho’s first summit on affordable housing, confronting one of the most pressing issues in resort towns …

• In brief: Spokane soldier injured by explosion in Iraq

  In City on Page B1 A soldier from Spokane – a 2002 Rogers High School graduate – was seriously injured Wednesday in Tal Afar, Iraq. Army Staff Sgt. Christopher R. Carver, 23, suffered a severe …

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  Students put lessons to the test

  In City on Page B1 The facts came as a shock to the students: The Spokane River is in danger, they learned at school. It’s full of sewage, PCB contamination, lead, arsenic and other material …

• Districts count on levies

  In Idaho on Page B1 BOISE – Dozens of Idaho school districts are holding elections on supplemental property tax measures this spring, and many of these operations and maintenance levies have passed. School district leaders …

• Doug Clark: An introduction to law enforcement linguistics

  In City on Page B1 Hello, language lovers. I want to thank you members of the Spokane media for attending today’s joint Police Department and Sheriff’s Office press conference. I’m Deputy Doubletalk. I’ll be taking …

• You can’t go wrong with kids and nuns

  In City on Page B2 “The Sound of Music” is one of the proven crowd-pleasers of musical theater – cute little kids, singing nuns, a wedding – and this Spokane Civic Theatre production delivers the …

• Idaho calendar

  In Idaho on Page B2 For 05-20-2007

• Building permits

  In Idaho on Page B2 Coeur d’Alene Tammy Homes Axber, 1001 and 999 W. Willow Lake Loop, re-roof for two residences, valued at $18,000.

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  Graving yard meets its end

  In City on Page B3 PORT ANGELES, Wash. – The harbor front bluffs will echo with the clanging of pile drivers this summer as they extract the walls of the former Hood Canal Bridge graving …

• Pilot killed in crash had wedding plans

  In Idaho on Page B3 GREAT FALLS – The Canadian Forces pilot killed in a Snowbirds jet crash during rehearsal for weekend performances at Malmstrom Air Force Base was to be married next month in …

• Sergeant suspected of driving drunk

  In City on Page B6 YAKIMA – A Yakima County sheriff’s sergeant was arrested for investigation of drunken driving while off-duty last month. Sgt. Rob Engquist was scheduled to be arraigned in Yakima Municipal Court …

• Water-saving and pollution-prevention tips from students at Summit School

  In City on Page B6 Shorten showers and save 150 gallons a month. Use a nozzle when washing your car and save 100 gallons.

• District wants ‘92 levy lawsuit dismissed

  In Idaho on Page B6 MOSCOW, Idaho – The Moscow School District has asked that a lawsuit challenging an indefinite levy approved by voters in 1992 be dismissed because the election was too long ago …

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  Reservation banks on trout

  In City on Page B6 DUCK VALLEY INDIAN RESERVATION, Idaho – Shoshone and Northern Paiute Indians whose ancestors were exiled to this 450-square-mile reservation amid 19th-century hostilities with the U.S. Cavalry have raised Angus and …

• Service will honor couple killed in crash

  In City on Page B6 GREAT FALLS – A memorial service is scheduled next month for a Great Falls couple killed in a skydiving plane crash near Marion a week ago. The Great Falls Symphony …

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  An aging industry looks down the line

  In City on Page B7 BILLINGS – Steve Miller is 52 and beginning to think about the end of the line. A career railroader, the Montana Rail Link engineer has put in enough years to …

• Proxies tie the knot in Montana

  In Nation/World on Page B7 KALISPELL, Mont. – By her own count, Sarah Knapton has been “married” more than 250 times. So last Thursday when she took her vows before Municipal Judge Heidi Ulbricht, it …

• Senators push for more Reagan flights

  In Nation/World on Page B9 WASHINGTON – Two West Coast senators are leading an effort to increase the number of cross-country flights out of Reagan National Airport, a move that could lead to more noise …

• Our View: Time to rebuild

  In Opinion on Page B10 Ever watch “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition”? It’s a TV show where the house of a down-and-out family is knocked down and a beautiful, more functional one is erected in its …

• Through tourist’s eyes, gratitude

  In Opinion on Page B10 I’m carrying around fresh mental snapshots of China these days. I’m storing these images: Billboards of high-fashion European models, hovering above Beijing pedicab drivers, carry cases of Heineken beer in …

• Allies share trials across pond

  In Opinion on Page B10 The two wounded warriors stood side-by-side in the sunshine of the White House Rose Garden. Tony Blair and George Bush, partners in a trans-Atlantic alliance that has come a cropper …

• Our View: A win-win project

  In Opinion on Page B10 There was a pinch-yourself quality to Thursday’s groundbreaking ritual for the Kendall Yards development. Those 78 acres along the north bank of the Spokane River have been sitting undisturbed for …

• Fast Break

  In Sports on Page C1 For 05-20-2007

• Shock, Burn ignite things

  In Sports on Page C1 BOISE – Boise Burn coach Lee Leslie was hoping Saturday night’s arenafootball2 game against the Spokane Shock at Qwest Arena would be a good start to a longstanding rivalry between …

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  Story lines to be continued at state

  In Sports on Page C1 To be continued. That’s probably the best thing about the 4A/3A Eastern Regional Track and Field Championships that concluded at Spokane Falls Community College Saturday afternoon.

• Lake City tops rival Lewiston for first State 5A baseball title

  In Sports on Page C1 BOISE – Sometimes a team makes its breaks. Sometimes a team receives some breaks. And other times the better team just wins. The latter, in a nutshell, describes the Lake …

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  Hargrove, M’s turn things around

  In Sports on Page C1 SEATTLE – It took a lineup turned upside-down by manager Mike Hargrove, but the Seattle Mariners flipped themselves rightside-up Saturday night in the most unlikely way. They owned a future …

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  CdA – going away

  In Sports on Page C1 The Coeur d’Alene High softball team wasted no time securing the State 5A tournament title and veteran coach Larry Bieber showed equal quickness avoiding a postgame victory shower. Dominating senior …

• NIC 2nd at nationals

  In Sports on Page C1 PLANT CITY, Fla. – Top-seeded Chipola (Fla.) scored three runs in the top of the eighth inning and beat eighth-seeded North Idaho 6-3 in the NJCAA softball national championship game …

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  Curlin shows heart

  In Sports on Page C1 BALTIMORE – The horse stumbled from the starting gate, had trouble negotiating the notoriously tight turns at Pimlico Race Course, and at the top of the stretch saw Kentucky Derby …

• John Blanchette: Kramer, MSU end soap opera

  In Sports on Page C1 On their way out the door for the weekend Friday, the athletic director and president of Montana State University fired their football coach, Mike Kramer, in the wake of another …

• On the Air

  In Sports on Page C2 For 05-20-2007

• Locally: Area bowlers take first place at state bowling tournament

  In Sports on Page C2 Area bowlers picked up four first-place trophies and had 17 other top-five finishes in the Washington State U.S. Bowling Congress Youth Championship Tournament that wound up a five-week run last …

• WNBA : Storm rally to win from 22 points back

  In Sports on Page C2 Iziane Castro Marques scored 25 points, and Betty Lennox had 13 second-half points that keyed the Seattle Storm’s rally from down 22 points for an 82-69 win over the Houston …

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  In brief: Landis takes stand at arbitration

  In Sports on Page C2 Floyd Landis took the stand in his arbitration hearing Saturday in Malibu, Calif., repeatedly denying he’d taken testosterone, saying it “wouldn’t serve any purpose for me to cheat and win …

• Lee fires 65 to take two-shot edge on Ochoa

  In Sports on Page C3 Sarah Lee went shot for shot with defending champion Lorena Ochoa and got the best of the No. 1 player in women’s golf. She will have to do it one …

• NBA : Jazz, Spurs respect rival as series opens

  In Sports on Page C3 SAN ANTONIO – After the drama both on and off the court that the Utah Jazz and San Antonio Spurs faced during the Western Conference semifinals, the teams are looking …

• Unser, Andretti earn spots in Indy field

  In Sports on Page C3 An Unser and another Andretti are in the field for the 91st Indianapolis 500 – naturally. Except this isn’t the heyday of open-wheel racing, when those two families were the …

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  Harvick pockets big paycheck

  In Sports on Page C3 CONCORD, N.C. – Kevin Harvick earned another $1 million payday Saturday night, winning the Nextel All-Star Challenge after Matt Kenseth got caught speeding and brothers Kurt and Kyle Busch took …

• Saturday’s N.L. result

  In Sports on Page C4 Diamondbacks 9, Pirates 8: At Pittsburgh, Carlos Quentin’s two-run single in the eighth inning finished off Arizona’s franchise record-tying comeback, as the Diamondbacks rallied from six runs down for the …

• By the numbers

  In Sports on Page C4 25 League-leading number of stolen bases for New York Mets shortstop Jose Reyes, after swiping two bags in a victory over the Yankees.

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  Notebook: Yanks’ woes resume

  In Sports on Page C4 Darrell Rasner left his outing against the Mets in New York Saturday with a broken index finger that could sideline him three months, becoming the latest New York Yankees starter …

• Saturday’s interleague results

  In Sports on Page C4 Red Sox 13-0, Braves 3-14: At Boston, Daisuke Matsuzaka won his fifth straight decision, Mike Lowell hit a grand slam and Boston routed Atlanta in the opener of a day-night …

• Mariners considering alcohol ban

  In Sports on Page C5 SEATTLE – The Mariners are the only Seattle professional sports team to allow alcohol at work. But that may soon change. The baseball team recently eliminated drinking on some team …

• Hamilton treated for stomach problem

  In Sports on Page C5 CLEVELAND — Cincinnati rookie Josh Hamilton was treated at a hospital for a stomach problem Saturday and later released. The outfielder was transported by ambulance to Lutheran Hospital early Saturday …

• Area Colleges: Cougs upend UCLA

  In Sports on Page C5 PULLMAN – Donnie Marbut can’t help but wonder what might have happened if this Washington State baseball team had found itself a few weeks sooner. After sputtering to a 1-9 …

• Mariners schedule

  In Sports on Page C5 SUNMONTUEWEDTHUFRISATMAY20SD1:05 KSKN21CLE4:05 FSN22TB4:10 FSN23TB4:10 KSKN24TB12:10 25KC5:10 FSN26KC4:10 KSKN27KC11:10 FSN28LAA6:05 FSN29LAA7:05 FSN30LAA7:05 FSN31TEX7:05 FSNJune 1TEX7:05 FSN2TEX7:05 FSN3TEX1:05 FSN4BAL7:05 FSN5BAL7:05 FSN6BAL1:3578SD7:05 FSN9SD7:05 FSN10SD1:05 KSKN11CLETBA12CHC5:05 KSKN13CHC5:05 FSN14CHC11:2015HOU5:05 FSN16HOU4:05 KSKN Home games in gray. …

• Kramer firing shocks some

  In Sports on Page C6 Current and former Montana State football players say they’re shocked by Friday’s firing of head coach Mike Kramer. Kramer, who compiled a 40-43 record in seven seasons at the Bozeman …

• Sasquatch finish 7th

  In Sports on Page C6 Community Colleges of Spokane won its first game Saturday at the NWAACC tournament in Portland, but the Sasquatch were ousted after falling to Wenatchee Valley. Ranzy York’s two-run homer in …

• Issaquah spoils Fowler’s return

  In Sports on Page C7 YAKIMA – Nic Fowler waited much of his life for the day he’d pitch at Parker Field. Perhaps his next return to the ballpark will yield more favorable results. Issaquah …

• Prep Roundup: Lakeside posts State 1A baseball win

  In Sports on Page C7 Rylin Dukes went 3 for 3 and scored two runs, leading Lakeside to a 5-2 win over Chewelah Saturday in the second round of the State 1A tournament at Moses …

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  Tigers take title

  In Sports on Page C7 BOISE – It’s almost as if the Timberlake High boys track team had everything measured out beforehand Saturday. At least junior hurdler Levi Powers did.

• Selah tops Clarkston in quarterfinals

  In Sports on Page C7 YAKIMA – Clarkston can sympathize with an unfortunate archer who has used up all of his arrows. With staff ace Trent Line unavailable, Clarkston baseball coach Bill Cridlebaugh emptied his …

• Timberlake loses title game to Kimberly

  In Sports on Page C7 POCATELLO, Idaho – Kimberly scored three times in the top of the third inning and held on to beat Timberlake 3-1 Saturday in the State 3A softball championship game at …

• Moscow run ends at state

  In Sports on Page C7 One run ended and another continued Saturday at the 4A state softball tournament at Ramsey Fields in Coeur d’Alene. The Moscow Bears’ unlikely trip deep into the tourney finally came …

• Two North Idaho tennis players finish third

  In Sports on Page C7 Lake City’s Byron Grey beat Mountain View’s Eric Schuler 6-3, 6-3 and claimed third place at the State 5A tennis tournament Saturday in Boise. Grey advanced past Coeur d’Alene’s Matt …

• North Star fares well at state

  In Sports on Page C7 BOISE – For the last five years, the Kootenai High girls track team has been the consistent representative at the State 1A meet for the North Star League. Saturday, several …

• Titans’ mixed bag starts with big rally

  In Sports on Page C7 RICHLAND – University’s baseball season may have ended in a 15-5 loss to Richland late Saturday afternoon, but say this about the Titans – there was no quit in them. …

• Indians win first regional

  In Sports on Page C7 RICHLAND – North Central’s bats were silent, so they made do with the strong arm of pitcher Kelcie Vallies to get them into Saturday’s 3A regional softball title game. There, …

• scoreboard

  In Sports on Page C8 Ann Arbor Regional At Alumni Field, Ann Arbor, Mich.

• Today’s menu

  In Sports on Page C8 For 05-20-2007

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  NO HEADLINE

  In Sports on Page C8 Baseball Interleague

• Shadle wins two, captures state berth

  In Sports on Page C9 RICHLAND – This year, stingy Shadle Park took the easy way to state. On Saturday, at Columbia Playfields, the Highlanders completed their three-game sweep of the 4A regional softball tournament …

• Colville gets State 2A berth

  In Sports on Page C9 Emilee Lepp’s three-run double sparked a seven-run fourth inning Saturday as Colville routed Clarkston 12-0 in five innings at the District 7 2A championship game at Medical Lake. Jordan Emmil …

• GSL players earn top seeds into state tournament

  In Sports on Page C9 Ferris’ Whitman Hough defeated Davis’ Abe Chang 6-1, 4-6, 6-2 in the 4A regional boys singles championship match Saturday at Kissel Park in Yakima and will advance to the state …

• Sandpoint finishes with win

  In Sports on Page C9 BOISE – It wasn’t in the game they wanted, but the Sandpoint Bulldogs closed out the season with a win for the second year in a row. Cory Hawkins hit …

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  Papermakers write end to EV’s season

  In Sports on Page C9 It took just a dozen minutes for the East Valley dream to turn nightmarish. The Knights, in the State 3A boys soccer quarterfinals for the first time since 1995, played …

• Badgers take fourth after win over Filer

  In Sports on Page C9 ONTARIO, Ore. – The Bonners Ferry baseball team’s state championship hopes were squashed after their 4-0 loss to Kimberly on Thursday, so the Badgers assured themselves of the next best …

• Jim Kershner : Without remote, many of us would flip

  In Features on Page D1 A new on-screen cable TV guide will show six screens simultaneously, which will make channel surfing unnecessary. To which I can only respond: Never!

• The Slice : Camp Slice won’t waste time with fun

  In Features on Page D1 Dear Parents, I write to you today to share the exciting news about a breakthrough growth and personal enrichment opportunity for your children – Camp Slice.

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  The clock … … is ticking

  In Features on Page D1 Larry Pearson sees history in the gears and dials of well-made timepieces. “You can just look at our history as a country and it just dovetails right along,” says Pearson, …

• Horoscope

  In Features on Page D2 For 05-20-2007

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  Hammond impresses his SNL friends, fans

  In Features on Page D2 During a record 12 years on “Saturday Night Live,” Darrell Hammond has provided pitch-perfect impressions of Donald Trump, Al Gore, Arnold Schwarzenegger, even Jesse Jackson. Onstage at the Comedy Cellar …

• Carolyn Hax: Set your own standards - live by them

  In Features on Page D2 Carolyn: Thirty-year-old male. I’m scared of a lifelong commitment to someone. I guess I’m scared of falling short of the amazing job my parents did of raising me and my …

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  Homer’s odyssey

  In Features on Page D3 For an overweight, doughnut-scarfing, beer-swilling, lazy idiot, Homer Simpson sure knows how to run a marathon. His sitcom, “The Simpsons,” presents its 400th episode tonight, capping 18 seasons with no …

• Spotlight : ‘Culdesac’ waits for midseason

  In Features on Page D3 The Luke Barats-Joe Bereta pilot, “This is Culdesac,” was not on the list of NBC’s new shows for the fall season, announced on Monday. The Spokane duo, in a posting …

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  Lovett, Lang top Sandpoint lineup

  In Features on Page D3 The Festival at Sandpoint this year will have a distinctive L theme, as in Lyle Lovett, Los Lonely Boys, Leroy Bell and Jonny Lang. Plenty of other parts of the …

• Best-selling books

  In Features on Page D4 Fiction 1. “Simple Genius”

• ‘White Cascade’ recalls deadly avalanche

  In Features on Page D4 “The White Cascade: The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America’s Deadliest Avalanche” by Gary Krist (Henry Holt and Co., 336 pages, $26)

• New books in print for two regional writers

  In Features on Page D4 A couple of regional writers have new books out. First up is Spokane children’s poet Kenn Nesbitt. His book is titled “Revenge of the Lunch Ladies: The Hilarious Book of …

• American life in poetry

  In Features on Page D4 One big test of the endurance of any relationship is taking on a joint improvement project. Here Sue Ellen Thompson offers an account of one such trial by fire.

• Curves, YMCA collect books for literacy

  In Features on Page D5 Local Curves Fitness Centers and the YMCA of the Inland Northwest have paired up for Fit to Read!, a book drive to benefit Page Ahead, a local children’s literacy program. …

• Engagements

  In Features on Page D6 Salgado-Knox Courtney Knox and Gordon Salgado, both of Spokane, plan to marry June 9.

• Continental conspiracy

  In Features on Page D8 WASHINGTON – Forget the conspiracy theories about JFK’s assassination, the black helicopters, Sept. 11 or any others. This is the big one – as big, in fact, as the entire …

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  BIG SPLASH

  In Business on Page E1 With regional water parks pouring millions of dollars into expansions, it’s clear the Inland Northwest is riding a national wave to offer sophisticated forms of water play. Driving the trend …

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  Harvesting a living

  In Business on Page E1 WINCHESTER, N.H. — Jenny Wooster is tending to a tray of cabbage seedlings, careful to make sure they have enough room to spread. Crowding means competition for light and moisture, …

• Bert Caldwell: Some price-gouging is downright unhealthy

  In Business on Page E1 Gasoline prices have doubled since May 2000. Consumers feel they are being gouged and want something done to curb the greedy oil companies and their record profits. The industry defends …

• Week in review

  In Business on Page E1 TUESDAY Cable TV subscribers in Spokane will have access next month to a new on-screen guide offering previews of multiple channels. Comcast Corp.’s guide will go online June 5 and …

• Week ahead

  In Business on Page E2 MONDAY Income Tax Issues – Community Colleges of Spokane’s Small Business Development Center is presenting this class on income tax issues that impact your business, today and Wednesday from 6-9 …

• Business Beat

  In Business on Page E2 NEW FACES Katherine Rowden has been hired as a staff engineer at CH2M Hill. She holds a degree in civil engineering from Gonzaga University and previously worked as a transportation …

• The Motley Fool: Listening to scuttlebutt can really pay off

  In Business on Page E6 A lot can be learned about a company or industry by sniffing around and asking questions. In his 1958 masterpiece “Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits” (Wiley, $20), Philip Fisher advocated …

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  Texas, a hotbed of skiing?

  In Business on Page E6 FORT WORTH, Texas — When summer hits the parched, flat prairie here, temperatures can spike to 100 degrees and firefighters get busy responding to the grass fires that routinely flare. …

• Jan Quintrall: For some, the cell phone is like a siren’s song

  In Business on Page E6 The young woman at the airport was obviously quite moved by a sentiment in the card she received. “Oh, I don’t know what to say! I didn’t read it right …

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  Out & About

  In Outdoors on Page T1 OUTCAST Montana’s local wisdom

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  Rich Landers: Second thoughts haunt bass angler

  In Outdoors on Page T1 Allen Krant has been getting a good ribbing about the big one that got away. Actually, a possible shot at the Washington state record tiger musky didn’t get away. He …

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  Group hikes planned

  In Outdoors on Page T1 It’s never been easier to find hiking companions in the Inland Northwest. Three conservation-oriented groups are leading group hiking trips from May through September to choice backcountry areas in Eastern …

• Local club teaches canoe, kayak skills

  In Outdoors on Page T1 Spokane Canoe and Kayak Club is the local do-it-yourself paddler’s constant connection to the region’s lakes and rivers. In addition to a year-round group trip schedule, the club also offers …

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  Something to sea

  In Outdoors on Page T1 More than a decade ago, Terry Prichard and Nancy Mertz found a whale of a sea-kayaking destination in the saltwaters of British Columbia. Terry had already been guiding paddlers to …

• THE GEAR JUNKIE: Raising the bar on taste

  In Outdoors on Page T2 Matisse & Jacks is a small San Francisco company that makes boxed mixes for bake-at-home energy bars, competing against the likes of Clif and PowerBar in a market saturated with …

• Field Reports: Fish and Game names Lewiston supervisor

  In Outdoors on Page T2 David Cadwallader, 52, of Lewiston, has been named as regional supervisor for the Idaho Department of Fish and Game’s Clearwater Region. Cadwallader replaces Cal Groen, the former Clearwater supervisor who …

• Trout-stocking program to get California review

  In Outdoors on Page T2 The California Department of Fish and Game must review whether its annual practice of adding millions of hatchery-raised trout to the state’s rivers and lakes has contributed to declines in …

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  Christianne Sharman: Victoria trip could be a real kick

  In Travel on Page T3 My husband – who has many wonderful qualities, including excellent vacuuming skills and a seemingly boundless willingness to wash my car – will watch absolutely any sport the television industry …

• Top 10: The top beachers

  In Travel on Page T3 1 Myrtle Beach

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  They’ll leave the light on

  In Travel on Page T3 WEST VANCOUVER, B.C. – The elderly lady climbed briskly up the path, walking stick in hand. “Lost, are you,” she said with a Scottish rasp – and a faint sneer …

• Paying to cover travel-generated pollution

  In Travel on Page T4 Every day you stay at a hotel, you might burn enough fossil fuels to release more than 33 pounds of carbon dioxide, the bad boy of global warming, into the …

• NBA needs to lighten up

  In Sports And the NBA wonders why public interest in its “game” continues to drop? Phoenix got royally hosed and it cost the Suns a game they’d have won with Amare Stoudemire.

• A dance over baseball?

  In Sports Did I read Mike Vlahovich’s article (“Sometimes you have to sit out a dance,” May 17) correctly? Four Ferris varsity baseball players opted to attend their senior prom instead of …

• Blanchette got it right

  In Sports Thank you, John Blanchette, for the excellent column (May 13) about UW athletic director and failure to release Katelan Redmon from her letter of intent.