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Perennial Tom Leonard almost missed out on a Bloomsday when a 200-pound water valve fell and smashed his foot a week before the race one year.

Robed in two sweaters and a rain coat, Blain Blaire clutched two crumpled cigarettes for sale next to Shalom Ministries on Friday afternoon.

From 1975: A Spokane woman was driving on the city’s west side when she saw a horrifying sight: a boy, 6, hanging from a tangle of rope in a garage.

If you remember the turmoil of the global financial crisis, hearing that foreclosure activity is up might make your knees weak and palms sweaty. I know I can’t help it.

Me: Iceland has knitting tours! I think we need to do this.

TONASKET, Okanogan County – Ever since Eve bit the forbidden fruit, apples have held a certain mystique.

When Jenny Slagle and her husband Andrew opened Indigenous Eats in 2022, she wanted to showcase contemporary Native culture, which includes, and sometimes starts with, food.

ATLANTA — A Georgia judge issued a blistering takedown of a rural county GOP committee that tried to impose a “mysterious Star Chamber-like” process to block candidates from qualifying to run as Republicans based on ideological tests. The 33-page ruling Friday dismantles the Catoosa County GOP’s attempt to bar four Republicans from seeking local office — and it hints at the legal perils ...

ISABELA, Philippines – The Philippines evacuated more than 100,000 residents across its eastern and northern regions as Fung-wong intensified on Sunday into a super typhoon ahead of its expected arrival later in the day, threatening to unleash torrential rains, destructive winds, and storm surges.

Rodrigo Paz was sworn in as president of Bolivia, ending two decades of almost uninterrupted socialist rule and setting the stage for a renewal in relations with the U.S. Deputy U.S. Secretary of State Christopher Landau, who headed an American delegation to the inauguration on Saturday, said Paz agreed to approve a license for Starlink, Elon Musk’s internet satellite network, along with ...

CHICAGO — The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said someone fired at federal agents Saturday morning in the Little Village neighborhood, touching off a chaotic series of confrontations between agents and residents armed with whistles and bent on disrupting their operation. Both Chicago police and federal officials were seen making several arrests in the morning as agents, including Cmdr. ...

CAIRO — Three people were killed and 11 others injured on Saturday in Israeli airstrikes in different parts of Lebanon, Lebanese authorities said The strikes come amid a rise in attacks that Israel says are targeting the Iran-allied Lebanese Hezbollah group. In one attack, an Israeli drone struck a vehicle on a road in southeastern Lebanon, killing two people, the Lebanese Ministry of Health ...

WASHINGTON – Bipartisan talks in the U.S. Senate to end the federal shutdown have taken a positive turn, Senate Majority Leader John Thune said on Saturday, with lawmakers working on deals to temporarily reopen the government and introduce three longer-term funding bills for some agencies.

Sea lions don’t go to driving school. If they did, drivers in Cosmopolis probably wouldn’t have had to slow down in the rain to avoid a sea lion parked in the middle of the road. The blubbery obstacle was reported to the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife around 2 p.m. Thursday near Blue Slough Road outside Cosmopolis, a small town in Grays Harbor County hugging the Chehalis River near ...

A tornado accompanied by strong winds and heavy rain struck the southern Brazilian state of Parana, killing six people, the state government said on Saturday.

WASHINGTON – U.S. airlines canceled 1,460 flights on Day 2 of government-mandated flight cuts across the country and thousands of flights were delayed, causing mounting travel woes as air-traffic-controller absences spiked amid the federal government shutdown.  

KYIV – Russia launched a barrage of drones and missiles in overnight attacks on Ukraine, targeting substations that supply two nuclear power plants and killing seven people, Ukrainian officials said on Saturday.