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Cheney police chief resigns over declining health

UPDATED: Fri., Feb. 28, 2025

Cheney police Chief Richard Beghtol resigned from the department this week due to declining health, the department said in a social media post.

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IRS rejected request for addresses of people believed to be in U.S. illegally

UPDATED: Fri., Feb. 28, 2025

Internal Revenue Service leaders rejected a recent request from immigration enforcement officials to divulge the home addresses of 700,000 people suspected of being in the country illegally, rebuffing a Trump administration attempt to leverage the tax service to assist a sweeping immigration crackdown.

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13-year old pedestrian struck by car in Spokane Valley

UPDATED: Fri., Feb. 28, 2025

A 13-year-old pedestrian was struck by a car Thursday evening in Spokane Valley.

News > Military

Mann-Grandstaff loses more VA workers as part of Trump administration’s downsizing plans

UPDATED: Mon., March 3, 2025

Directives from Washington, D.C., are adding to an already confused employment situation for the federal workers at Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center in Spokane.

News > Nation/World

Luigi Mangione lawyer says Pennsylvania search, arrest were illegal

UPDATED: Fri., Feb. 28, 2025

Luigi Mangione’s lawyer claimed that police in Pennsylvania illegally arrested and searched him in December when he was wanted for the New York murder of UnitedHealth Group Inc. executive Brian Thompson.

News > Nation/World

Trump’s cuts come with risks, including from volcanoes

UPDATED: Fri., Feb. 28, 2025

When the fuming and rumbling at Mount Spurr, a giant volcano northwest of Anchorage, started picking up in October, Alaska's volcano monitoring agency raised its alert level to ensure that communities and airplanes would have warning of any eruption. The Trump administration has put this work in jeopardy.

News > Nation/World

Jury convicts landlord in fatal stabbing of Palestinian American boy

UPDATED: Sat., March 1, 2025

A jury in suburban Chicago convicted a man Friday on murder and hate crime charges in the fatal stabbing of a 6-year-old Palestinian American boy who lived at his property. The killing, which took place days after Hamas attacked Israel in 2023, was fueled by anti-Muslim hate, authorities said.

News > Nation/World

Prosecutors in Washington demoted in retribution push by Trump ally

UPDATED: Fri., Feb. 28, 2025

Several top prosecutors in the U.S. attorney's office in Washington, D.C., were demoted Friday to low-level positions handling minor crimes, another step in a campaign of retribution against Justice Department officials perceived as enemies by the Trump administration.

News > Nation/World

Pentagon relaxes rules on airstrikes, raids, officials say

UPDATED: Fri., Feb. 28, 2025

The Trump administration has reduced the levels at which many military airstrikes and raids must be approved, U.S. officials said Friday, paving the way for the U.S. military to respond more rapidly to perceived threats.

News > Washington

WA leads, joins 5 lawsuits against Trump: ‘This person doesn’t want to follow our laws’

UPDATED: Fri., Feb. 28, 2025

Washington state’s top lawyer has been busy.Ever since President Donald Trump’s second term began Jan. 20, the office of Attorney General Nick Brown has announced several multi-state lawsuits against the federal administration. Washington is leading two legal challenges and participating in three others.

News > Washington

More federal layoffs at Eastern WA nuclear contamination site. Here’s what may be next

UPDATED: Fri., Feb. 28, 2025

The Department of Energy staff at the Hanford nuclear site in Eastern Washington now has had almost 50 people in a staff of about 300 laid off and more cuts may be coming.

News > World

Pope Francis suffers a setback, inhaling vomit

UPDATED: Fri., Feb. 28, 2025

After days of a cautious optimism and two weeks in a hospital with pneumonia in both lungs, Pope Francis on Friday suffered another respiratory crisis, renewing concerns about the prognosis for the leader of the Roman Catholic Church.

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‘A light’: Owner of Inland Kava Bar in Coeur d’Alene identified as victim of Post Falls homicide

UPDATED: Fri., Feb. 28, 2025

The Post Falls man accused of killing his ex-girlfriend’s new partner was repeatedly harassing her leading up to the shooting, court records say.

News > Nation

A runner was hit by a car. His ambulance bill was $13,000.

UPDATED: Fri., Feb. 28, 2025

Jagdish Whitten was on a run in July 2023 when a car hit him as he crossed a busy San Francisco street. Whitten, then 25, described doing a “little flip” over the vehicle and landing in the street before getting himself to the curb.

News > World

Trump, Zelenskyy fail to sign minerals deal after argument

UPDATED: Fri., Feb. 28, 2025

Plans to sign a critical minerals deal between the United States and Ukraine were scrapped after Donald Trump’s meeting Friday with Volodymyr Zelenskyy quickly devolved into a fiery exchange over the Ukrainian leader’s doubts that the U.S. president’s efforts to broker a deal with Russia would yield lasting peace.

News > Nation

Republicans ready to take aim at gun regulations

UPDATED: Fri., Feb. 28, 2025

With control over Congress and the White House, Republicans are well positioned to spike Joe Biden-era gun regulations and exert their will over the agency tasked with regulating firearm dealers that has long been a target of conservative ire.

News > Nation

4 top military retirees, including leader of Osama bin Laden raid, join veterans’ fight over housing in LA

UPDATED: Sat., March 1, 2025

Four retirees from the top echelon of the U.S. military, including the admiral who led the raid on Osama bin Laden, have filed a brief that castigates the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' neglect of homeless veterans in Los Angeles as "a direct threat to national security."

News > National business

From boycotts to ‘good-buys,’ consumers are showing support for DEI

UPDATED: Fri., Feb. 28, 2025

The 500 parishioners marched into a Detroit-area Target, filling their baskets with lip gloss, mocktails and seasonings. Popcorn, too. Hair dye and dolls. Within 90 minutes, they had purchased about $25,000 in merchandise, all made by Black-owned businesses.

News > Washington

‘Truly horrific:’ Yakima woman charged with manslaughter in starvation death of infant daughter

UPDATED: Fri., Feb. 28, 2025

A Yakima woman has been charged with first-degree manslaughter in the death of her infant daughter.

News > Nation

Vaccination rates are declining. They might get worse as states relax rules

UPDATED: Sat., March 1, 2025

More states are loosening vaccine mandates, scaling back vaccine promotion efforts and taking other steps likely to lower vaccination rates — even as a major measles outbreak spreads in Texas. Meanwhile, public health experts worry that the confirmation of vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services could add fuel to such efforts, leading to the resurgence of long-tamed infectious diseases.

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