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Sacred Heart nurses, health care workers head to polls for strike votes
After nearly a year of contract negotiations and little movement, nurses and health care workers at Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center began voting Thursday on whether to authorize a strike. The vote will conclude today.
Spokane County prosecutor fired after quarreling with judge
Kyle Treece, who worked in the prosecutor’s office for 13 years, was fired on Oct. 18. Earlier this month, Superior Court Judge Tony Hazel found Treece in contempt and fined him $500 for “disrespect, rude interruption, insolence towards the tribunal and a refusal to follow (the) court’s lawful instructions.”
100 years ago in Spokane: Rival to Methodists’ Deaconess Hospital proposed by Lutherans
The Spokane Daily Chronicle ran an architectural drawing of a splendid new building planned for Spokane: the Evangelical Lutheran Deaconess Hospital.
‘Miss Saigon’ stars candid with LC students
The North American tour of “Miss Saigon” took a refreshing detour Thursday morning, to a place where the actors could be their best and also be themselves.
Mattis offers optimism, avoids talking Trump during speech in Spokane
The former defense secretary avoided his reportedly tumultuous tenure in President Donald Trump’s White House. Instead, he offered an optimistic view of America that he said would be well-served by preparing young people to make sacrifices for its preservation.
AP source: DOJ review of Russia probe now a criminal inquiry
The Justice Department has shifted its review of the Russia investigation to a formal criminal inquiry.
Tally of children split at border tops 5,400 in new count
The American Civil Liberties Union says US immigration authorities separated more than 1,500 children from their parents at the Mexico border early in the Trump administration, bringing the total number separated since July 2017 to more than 5,400
Chile protesters: Government concessions not enough
Demonstrators still out in Chile’s streets, dissatisfied with economic concessions announced by a government struggling to curb a week of deadly violence
Spokane Valley funds 13 nonprofits with $180,000
The Spokane Valley City Council approved more than $180,000 in funds to help more than a dozen nonprofits serve their community or boost business in the city.
Ryan Lee pleads guilty to harassment for LC threats but maintains innocence
Ryan B. Lee, 19, originally faced seven felony counts for a string of messages that began in May 2018 and forced school officials to beef up security and made some parents too afraid to send their children to school.
Deer Park awarded $4.7 million federal grant to improve infrastructure around industrial park
The U.S. Department of Commerce awarded Deer Park a grant to spur economic development at the Deer Park Business and Industrial Park.
Medical pot on campus: Colleges say no and face lawsuits
Colleges are becoming a battleground in the conflict between federal and state marijuana laws
Syria says Turkish-led forces attacked its troops
Syria’s state news agency says Turkish forces and their allies have attacked Syrian government troops in the northeast of the country
Opening new chapter, Spain exhumes Gen. Franco’s remains
Spain has exhumed the remains of Spanish dictator Gen. Francisco Franco from his grandiose mausoleum outside Madrid
Pence takes swipe at NBA, Nike in critical speech on China
Updates with context on Trump doing business in countries with poor human rights records. AP Video. With AP Photos. Vice President Mike Pence has taken a swipe at Nike and the NBA in a speech criticizing China’s record on trade and human rights
Fossil trove shows life’s fast recovery after big extinction
Fossils from Colorado shows details of how life rebounded after the meteorite crash that killed off the dinosaurs
Probe expands in truck deaths, all 39 victims are from China
All 39 people found dead in a container truck near an English port were Chinese citizens, British police confirmed Thursday as they pressed to investigate one of the country’s deadliest cases of human smuggling.
Hundreds flee Northern California wildfire amid blackouts
A wildfire has exploded in size in Northern California amid dangerously windy weather that has caused Pacific Gas & Electric Co. to cut power to thousands to prevent fires.
Trump confronts the limits of impeachment defense strategy
President Donald Trump is confronting the limits of his central defense to the House Democrats’ month-long impeachment inquiry.
Ex-deputy who killed wife to return to Spokane for hearing on release process
Former Spokane County Sheriff’s Deputy Tom DiBartolo, who was convicted of killing his wife in 1996 in Lincoln Park, was moved to the Yakima County Jail earlier this week from his work release facility ahead of his community custody hearing in Spokane next month. The hearing’s subject will be the plan for the next steps in DiBartolo’s release process.