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• NW today: Acquittal in dead weasel assault

  December 7, 2011 in Region A jury acquitted a Hoquiam man who was accused of breaking into a home and throwing a dead mink at another man during a confrontation that made weasel headlines across …

• NW today: N. Idaho man to stand trial again for murder

  October 12, 2011 in Region A man accused of killing a North Idaho woman in 2001 is expected to get a new murder trial later this month.

• NW today: Killing suspect linked to white supremacists

  October 5, 2011 in Region The father of a woman suspected in a Washington state killing and the disappearances of two men says she’s been addicted to heroin and methamphetamines and involved with white supremacists.

• NW today: Another human foot washes ashore in B.C.

  August 31, 2011 in Region Police in Vancouver, B.C., say a human foot inside a running shoe has washed ashore, the latest in roughly a dozen such cases since 2007. 5

• NW today: Tiny town tops in medical marijuana

  August 3, 2011 in Region In Oregon, big city Portland has cafes where medical marijuana users smoke pot while singing karaoke. 1

• NW today: DOC faces $26,000 fine in officer’s death

  July 27, 2011 in Region State regulators have proposed a fine of $26,000 for the Department of Corrections because of safety violations in connection with the January death of an officer.

• NW today: Submarine exploring sunken ship

  June 22, 2011 in Region A private submarine is diving this week near Port Townsend to examine the wreck of a steamer that sank in 1921 in Puget Sound.

• NW today: Idaho woman pleads guilty in fatal crash

  June 15, 2011 in Region A De Smet woman has pleaded guilty in federal court for her role in a traffic crash that killed a pedestrian on the Coeur d’Alene Tribe’s reservation last year.

• NW today: Crowd protests arrest of mute man

  June 8, 2011 in Region About 100 people came to Tuesday’s Olympia City Council meeting to protest what they say is police brutality in the arrest of a mute man last week.

• NW today: Friends worried about detained journalist

  May 11, 2011 in Region The fiancé of a former Seattle journalist detained by Syria says he’s very concerned by a report she has been transferred to Iran.

• NW today: Man convicted after riding bicycle nude

  May 4, 2011 in Region A 65-year-old Oregon man has been convicted of public indecency for riding his bicycle through a Corvallis park while nude. 6

• NW today: Pasco couple claim $9.6 million Lotto prize

  April 13, 2011 in Region Before last week, retirement still seemed a ways off for Deborah Harden. Not so much now. On Tuesday, she and her husband James walked into the lottery’s regional office in …

• NW today: Owl reunites with nest and mom

  March 22, 2011 in Outdoors, Region A collaborative effort made by Washington State University and Avista Utilities helped put a baby owl back in its habitat Monday morning.

• NW today: Idaho tribe probing claim of waste in bison hunt

  March 2, 2011 in Region The chairman of the Nez Perce tribe in Idaho says an investigation is under way into allegations that tribal members wasted game during a recent bison hunt in Montana. 1

• NW today: More students take and pass AP exams

  February 9, 2011 in Region About 17 percent of Washington’s class of 2010 earned college credit by passing Advanced Placement exams. 2

• NW today: Wash. legislators might change GET program

  February 2, 2011 in Region The prospect of big tuition hikes at state universities has Washington lawmakers considering scaling back a popular program that lets parents buy tuition credits for their children years before they …

• NW today: Legal pot ballot effort underway

  January 26, 2011 in Region Marijuana activists are again trying to legalize the drug in Washington state through a ballot measure. 16

• NW today: Retiring judge gets nice jail mail

  January 5, 2011 in Region It wasn’t quite fan mail, but it definitely wasn’t hate mail. Ellensburg Judge Thomas Haven recently received a letter from an inmate in the Kittitas County jail.

• NW today: Bavarian babes video boosts tourism

  December 15, 2010 in Region Tourism promoters in Leavenworth say they have a hit with a sexy YouTube video showing dancing girls, a Nutcracker figure and scenes from the Bavarian-themed North Cascades town. 2

• NW today: Rex Rammell charged with poaching

  December 8, 2010 in Region Former Idaho gubernatorial candidate Rex Rammell has been charged with poaching an elk in eastern Idaho. 2

• NW today: 3 hunters recovering from CO poisoning

  November 3, 2010 in Region Three Montana hunters who suffered carbon monoxide poisoning while sleeping in a wall tent with a propane heater are recovering at a Salt Lake City hospital thanks to some young …

• NW today: Feds want to expand Columbia irrigation

  October 26, 2010 in Region The government has released proposals for expanding one of the nation’s largest federal irrigation projects. Congress authorized Eastern Washington’s Columbia Basin Project in 1943 to irrigate more than 1 million …

• NW today: Man Tasered for jousting at police

  October 21, 2010 in Region The FBI is investigating a report that a hunter with a high-powered rifle fired on a helicopter in north-central Idaho last week, hitting it twice. 7

• NW today: Anti-wolf activist arrested for poaching

  October 6, 2010 in Region An anti-wolf activist stands accused of illegally killing a trophy buck elk last year. Anthony Mayer was charged with felony poaching in Blaine County last month.