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• Trails get TLC from local helpers

  June 14, 2009 in Outdoors on Page C10 Laurie Fleming was wearing her new personalized hard hat with pride last Saturday on the Iller Creek Trail. “This is what you get on your fifth work party,” she said, …

• Work crew escapees captured in Montana

  June 3, 2009 in Idaho Three prisoners who walked away from a work crew near the Idaho/Montana border were arrested after a store clerk saw two in a parking lot minutes after a deputy dropped …

• Checks target boats on road

  May 20, 2009 in Idaho on Page A1 BOISE – Starting in about a month, anyone pulling a boat into Idaho will have to pull over at a port of entry for inspection and possible decontamination in an …

• Brown, Chopp weighing state income tax

  April 3, 2009 in City on Page A1 OLYMPIA – For years in Washington’s capital, state income tax proposals have been viewed much like those periodic bills to declare Eastern Washington a 51st state. They’re attention-getters aimed at … 21

• In brief: YWCA board executive resigns

  March 11, 2009 in City on Page A6 Monica Walters, executive director of the YWCA Spokane since 1996, has stepped down. Deborah Booth, president of the YWCA board, said Walters resigned citing medical reasons, and that the board …

• In brief: Pair paid IRS using fake checks

  February 15, 2009 in City on Page B8 Six months under house arrest and five years on probation are the penalties for two Ronan, Mont., residents who tried to pay taxes by using fake checks. David Paul and …

• How to get a flag flying over the state capitol today

  January 20, 2009 in City, Region In honor of the inauguration of President Obama, Washington state’s Secretary of State is selling U.S. flags that are being flown at the state capitol today.

• Call center company to add 400 jobs

  September 13, 2008 in Business on Page A1 A Spokane Valley call center company plans to add about 400 jobs in the next 18 months, Greater Spokane Inc. said Friday. Newtown, Pa.-based ICT Group Inc.’s expansion is expected …

• Fearlessly flacking for fashionable finalist

  September 11, 2008 in City on Page B1 I get requests all the time from people who want me to solve their problems or give them free ink about (fill in the blank). To which my normal response …

• Program helps foster independence

  January 9, 2008 in Idaho on Page B1 Barbara Bisaro made her daughter a promise: “When we buy a house,” she said, “you can paint your bedroom whatever color you want.” For five years, the single mom repeated …

• War on the Eastern Front

  December 16, 2007 in Features, City on Page A1 Running through the smoke of a battlefield with the German army behind him, Yevgeniy Sirokhin came face to face with every foot soldier’s nightmare: an enemy tank. The only hope …