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• Appeal denied in grisly killing

  February 8, 2012 in City on Page A5 A decision Tuesday by appellate judges most likely ended all legal recourse for a man convicted of killing his 19-year-old employee in a brutal slaying that will forever haunt a …

• Inchelium man’s body recovered

  August 15, 2011 in City, Region The body of a 67-year-old Inchelium, Wash., man was recovered over the weekend near the Columbia River after he had been missing since early August.

• Couple prevail in push for courthouse chairlift

  May 29, 2011 in City on Page B1 The Ferry County courthouse is accessible to people with disabilities thanks to the tenacity of a St. Maries couple. Les and Mary Burton’s complaint last August to the Washington State …

• Bill lets 4 counties drop growth act

  March 8, 2011 in City on Page A1 OLYMPIA – The state’s environmental community is fighting a plan to allow four lightly populated Eastern Washington counties to opt out of the Growth Management Act. But in trying to … 13

• WSU nursing students, instructors studying breast cancer in Ferry, Okanogan counties

  March 5, 2011 in City on Page A6 Rural, sparsely populated Ferry County has no mammography facilities – but it does have Eastern Washington’s highest mortality rate from breast cancer, according to recent state data. Now, backed by …

• Man who sought sex with girl gets 12 years

  November 20, 2010 in City on Page B2 A Michigan man has been sentenced to 12 years in prison after pleading guilty in March to grooming a 13-year-old Ferry County girl and then traveling across the country to …

• Federal grant bringing Wi-Fi to rural areas

  September 14, 2010 in Business A $20.4 million grant announced by the federal government will make available fast wireless broadband to more than 68,000 residents in rural Stevens, Spokane and Ferry counties – areas underserved …

• Fires blaze across Inland Northwest

  August 27, 2010 in City on Page A1 Bone-dry conditions throughout the Inland Northwest, combined with “erratic, gusty winds,” fueled fires across the region Thursday, charring thousands of acres and destroying at least two homes. By 9:30 p.m., …

• Colville tribal officer injured in crash

  August 17, 2010 in City on Page A5 A Colville tribal police officer was hospitalized Monday after crashing his cruiser in Ferry County while responding to an emergency call. Paul Leroy Hill, 38, suffered non-life-threatening injuries in the …

• Court contends with faulty wheelchair lift

  August 10, 2010 in City on Page A5 Les Burton doesn’t want anyone else to face what he did to get justice in Ferry County’s handicap-inaccessible courthouse. Burton has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig’s disease. He had … 5

• Border agents find pot, arrest driver

  July 7, 2010 in City on Page A5 A Canadian truck driver was arrested at an Avista Utilities power plant in Ferry County with 300 pounds of marijuana on Friday.

• Gas guzzler, guitar and guidelessness

  June 10, 2010 in City on Page A5 (Today’s column is the first of a two-part* road trip adventure.) (*Presuming I survive the adventure, that is.)

• Group hopes to change forest rules

  April 13, 2010 in Idaho on Page A5 Northeast Washington’s arid forests aren’t suited to large clear-cuts or aerial spraying of herbicides, says a citizens group that wants to change the state’s forest practices rules. The group, which … 4

• Fatal Curlew fire leaves only questions

  January 3, 2010 in City on Page A1 CURLEW, Wash. – The rubble still smoldered more than week after a devastating fire destroyed an apartment building here, killing a grandmother and two toddlers and leaving the children’s mother … 13

• Bones found at Curlew apartment fire site

  December 24, 2009 in City on Page A5 Ferry County fire investigators found bones in the rubble of a devastating apartment fire in Curlew in which two children and their grandmother are presumed dead. Officials declined to comment … 12

• Three missing in Curlew apartment fire

  December 22, 2009 in City Three persons were missing today in an early-morning apartment fire in the historic Curlew School building, authorities said this afternoon. The blaze in the converted building displaced more than 30 … 19

• Ferry County votes on trail

  October 18, 2009 in Outdoors on Page C13 Ferry County residents will make a critical decision on Nov. 3 regarding use of a prized abandoned railway the county acquired this year: Will motorized vehicles be allowed on the …

• Crash on Highway 21 kills Malo man

  October 3, 2009 in City A man died on Highway 21 in Ferry County Friday night after another driver crossed the center line and struck his car.

• ORV use limited in Ferry County

  November 27, 2008 in Idaho on Page B3 Off-road vehicles have lost their free ride on Ferry County’s roadways. Two ordinances that allowed off-road vehicle traffic on many of the northeastern Washington county’s rural roads were overturned by …

• ORV use repealed in Ferry County

  November 27, 2008 in Idaho on Page B3 Off-road vehicles have lost their free ride on Ferry County’s roadways. Two ordinances that allowed off-road vehicle traffic on many of the northeastern Washington county’s rural roads were overturned by …