May 21, 2013 in Idaho Candidates backed by a group of Republican activists were defeated Tuesday night in unusually lively races for the nonpartisan Coeur d’Alene School Board and Kootenai Hospital District board. 5

May 21, 2013 in City, Idaho Suspicious bottles found Tuesday morning in a Coeur d’Alene parking lot were intended to be an explosive, police say. 2

May 21, 2013 in City A Deer Park man charged with strangling his ex-wife and sexually violating her remains had wounds on his right hand and forehead, the lead detective in the case told jurors …

May 21, 2013 in City, Idaho A 19-year-old Oldtown woman died early Tuesday in a head-on collision on Highway 41 south of Priest River. 12

May 21, 2013 in Region A man has drowned in a boating accident Tuesday afternoon in Sprague Lake, the Lincoln County Sheriff’s office reported. 12

May 21, 2013 in City, Idaho The National Weather Service is warning about gusty winds out of the west and southwest to 40 mph through about 6 p.m. 1

May 21, 2013 in Nation/World JERSEY CITY, N.J. — A goat believed to have escaped en route to a slaughterhouse snarled the morning commute along one of the busiest roadways in northern New Jersey on … 3

May 21, 2013 in Idaho Priest Lake cabin owners who object to new Idaho appraisals that showed the state-owned land under their lake homes ballooning in value this year by an average 84 percent can … 8

May 21, 2013 in Region SEATTLE — The lawyer for the family of a missing Utah woman said Tuesday there’s an ongoing federal investigation into Susan Powell’s disappearance. Anne Bremner made the announcement at a …

May 21, 2013 in Business The unemployment rate in Spokane County was 7.7 percent in April, down from 9 percent the previous month, the state Employment Security Department reported today. 18

May 21, 2013 Idaho remains stuck at the bottom of public education funding, ranking second to last of all states in per-student spending for a third straight year, the U.S. Census Bureau said … 38

May 21, 2013 in Nation/World WASHINGTON — Physicist Ernest Moniz has been sworn in as the nation’s new energy secretary. The 68-year-old Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor took the oath of office Tuesday at the …

May 21, 2013 in Nation/World MOORE, Okla. — Search-and-rescue crews worked through the night after a monstrous tornado barreled through the Oklahoma City suburbs, demolishing an elementary school and reducing homes to piles of splintered … 1

May 21, 2013 in City on Page A1 Spokane will have a four-year medical program with or without the help of the University of Washington, said Elson Floyd, president of Washington State University. Floyd’s resolve comes on the … 28

May 21, 2013 in Nation/World on Page A1 WASHINGTON – White House chief of staff Denis McDonough and other senior advisers knew in late April that an impending report was likely to say the IRS had inappropriately targeted … 125

May 21, 2013 in Nation/World on Page A1 WASHINGTON – Apple Inc. employs a group of affiliate companies located outside the United States to avoid paying billions of dollars in U.S. income taxes, a Senate investigation has found. … 58

May 21, 2013 in Nation/World on Page A2 For decades, war has been waged over the holy grail of America’s Arctic frontier: the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The wide coastal plain on the edge of the Beaufort Sea … 1