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The Spokane City Council voted unanimously Monday to purchase body cameras for police officers, joining other cities in adopting technology that has so far proven to lessen complaints against officer conduct as well as use of force by police.

NEW YORK (AP) — The federal government on Monday told a judge it will reverse course and take steps to comply with his order to allow girls of any age to buy emergency contraception without prescriptions.

A Kansas farmer has sued seed giant Monsanto over last week’s discovery of genetically engineered experimental wheat in an 80-acre field in Oregon, claiming the company’s gross negligence hurt U.S. growers by driving down wheat prices and causing some international markets to suspend certain imports.

Spokane police have issued an attempted murder arrest warrant for Joshua B. Graham. The 30-year-old Graham is suspected of shooting his 19-year-old girlfriend in the face Monday afternoon near Whitman Elementary in north Spokane.

The Idaho Supreme Court heard arguments today in a challenge to the outcome of a Coeur d’Alene City Council election from November 2009.

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Viewers on the DISH Network lost KXLY and KVEW programs for much of Saturday .

Activists behind a new push to legalize marijuana for recreational use in Washington state say the measure is carefully calibrated to what voters will support. Leaders of the group New Approach Washington held a news conference today to announce they filed an initiative to legalize possession of up to an ounce of pot.

A man who once served as the Justice Department’s top official in Western Washington is sponsoring an initiative to legalize marijuana in the state. John McKay tells the Associated Press that he’s joining Seattle City Attorney Pete Holmes and the American Civil Liberties Union of Washington state in pushing an initiative to the Legislature that would regulate the recreational use of marijuana in a way similar to how the state regulates alcohol.

Stevens County deputies discovered a 105-year-old woman begging for food after being asked by an animal cruelty suspect to retrieve his medicine from the squalid Kettle Falls home before taking him to jail. The woman, Frances Swan, was rescued and now is recuperating at a Colville nursing home, while her self-described caretaker, 78-year-old John H. Friedlund, was charged with felony criminal mistreatment in connection with the May 26 discovery.

A tip from hunters led police to a marijuana growing operation stretching across about a mile of a remote ravine on public land in the northeast corner of Oregon, leading to a raid that netted six arrests and more than 91,000 marijuana plants.

Medical marijuana patients can be fired from their jobs in Washington state even if they only use the drug outside the workplace, the Washington Supreme Court ruled today. Justices said in their 8-1 decision that state law does not provide any employment protections for medical marijuana users and does not require companies to accommodate those patients. The ruling stems from a 2007 lawsuit by a woman who was fired from TeleTech Customer Care Management in 2006 after her pre-employment drug screen came back positive.

One man was in custody and a woman at large following a melee on the lower South Hill Monday that left two men with minor injuries.