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Aging agency has free advisers to go over Medicare open enrollment

UPDATED: Wed., Oct. 23, 2024

A local agency offers free sessions for people who have questions about Medicare insurance choices or changes during the open enrollment period that runs through Dec. 7. Through Aging & Long Term Care of Eastern Washington, the Statewide Health Insurance Benefits Advisors (SHIBA) program includes both one-on-one counseling and group education sessions in upcoming weeks.

News > Local Government

Property taxes won’t be raised in Spokane Valley next year despite city’s budgetary challenges

UPDATED: Tue., Oct. 22, 2024

Autumn in Spokane Valley means leaves changing colors, pumpkins being carved and the annual vote by the city’s elected leaders against raising property taxes.

News > Spokane

Spokane County’s voter turnout so far double the statewide average, two weeks until Election Day

UPDATED: Tue., Oct. 22, 2024

Statewide, an average of 10% of Washington’s registered voters had cast their ballots as of Tuesday night, according to new data released by the Secretary of State’s office. Spokane County showed the third-highest voter turnout In the state according to the data, following Mason County’s 28% turnout and Thurston County who held a slim 0.10% lead over Spokane County’s turnout.

News > Crime/Public Safety

Man stabbed to death in East Central

UPDATED: Tue., Oct. 22, 2024

A man was stabbed and killed in the East Central neighborhood on Tuesday afternoon.

News > Crime/Public Safety

18-year-old man sentenced to 4 years in prison for 7-Eleven shooting, unprovoked attack of 83-year-old man

UPDATED: Tue., Oct. 22, 2024

An 18-year-old man was sentenced earlier this month to four years in prison for shooting a man outside a downtown Spokane gas station and randomly attacking an 83-year-old man less than three months later downtown.

News > Local Government

City of Spokane requests additional $150,000 to fight lawsuit brought by Robert Bradley’s family

UPDATED: Tue., Oct. 22, 2024

The city of Spokane’s legal team is requesting another $150,000 to fight the wrongful death lawsuit brought by the family of Robert Bradley, which would bring total legal defense costs with a Seattle-based law firm to $400,000.

News > Features

New National Geographic museum is set to open in 2026

UPDATED: Wed., Oct. 23, 2024

National Geographic plans to open a 100,000-square-foot museum in downtown D.C. by mid-2026, the organization announced Monday.

News > Crime/Public Safety

14-year-old boy arrested for threatening to shoot, bomb school in Ritzville, police say

UPDATED: Tue., Oct. 22, 2024

A 14-year-old Lind-Ritzville High School student is accused of using the social media app Snapchat to threaten to shoot and bomb his school, prompting officials to close schools Tuesday.

News > Crime/Public Safety

Woman killed in motorcycle crash ID’d as 32-year-old

UPDATED: Tue., Oct. 22, 2024

The Spokane County Medical Examiner’s Office has identified a woman who died in a motorcycle crash last week.

News > Pacific NW

Idaho AG Labrador pushes to impose limits on abortion medication in revived Texas lawsuit

UPDATED: Tue., Oct. 22, 2024

Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador and peers from two Midwestern states are attempting to revive a high-profile lawsuit over abortion medication and restrict its use around the country. The top attorneys in Idaho, Kansas and Missouri have tried this month to refile a lawsuit challenging loosened restrictions that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has placed in recent years on ...

News > Nation

Abercrombie ex-CEO Mike Jeffries arrested on sex trafficking charges

UPDATED: Tue., Oct. 22, 2024

Abercrombie & Fitch’s disgraced ex-CEO Mike Jeffries has been arrested on sex trafficking and interstate prostitution charges, federal prosecutors in Brooklyn announced Tuesday.

News > World

Xi, Modi hail Russia ties while meeting Putin at BRICS summit

UPDATED: Tue., Oct. 22, 2024

Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi both praised expanding relations with Russia at bilateral meetings with President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday.

News > National business

IRS raises standard deduction, adjusts tax brackets for 2025

UPDATED: Tue., Oct. 22, 2024

The IRS on Tuesday announced new inflation-adjusted tax brackets for the coming year, setting the standard deduction for a single filer at $15,000 and for a married couple at $30,000 for the first time.

News > Nation

Harvey Weinstein diagnosed with bone marrow cancer

UPDATED: Tue., Oct. 22, 2024

Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein is battling bone marrow cancer behind bars at Rikers Island in New York, according to reports.

News > Nation

First day of early voting in Florida sees long lines, website crashes

UPDATED: Tue., Oct. 22, 2024

The first day of early voting in Florida on Monday saw sizable lines outside Central Florida libraries, elections offices and other voting sites, with would-be voters waiting longer than 45 minutes at one location in Winter Park.

News > Sci/Tech

Billionaire Richard Branson invests in Space Perspective, to fly on its 1st human space balloon flight

UPDATED: Tue., Oct. 22, 2024

Richard Branson already saw the blackness of space traveling at nearly Mach 3 with his company Virgin Galactic. Now he’s going to take a slower approach.

News > National business

Chipotle’s new AI recruiter aims to cut hiring time by 75%

UPDATED: Tue., Oct. 22, 2024

Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. is rolling out an artificial intelligence assistant that the chain hopes will cut the time it takes to hire workers by as much as 75%.

News > Nation

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump’s strategy to win Pennsylvania has spanned 50 stops and $500 million in ads

UPDATED: Tue., Oct. 22, 2024

The 2024 presidential election moved into Pennsylvania and never left, an Inquirer analysis of the last year of campaigning shows. Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, and their allies, have dumped more than $538 million in advertising dollars to reach Pennsylvania voters.

News > Nation

Obama heads to Wisconsin in Trump-Harris battle for Black voters

UPDATED: Tue., Oct. 22, 2024

When early voting starts in the swing state of Wisconsin on Tuesday, former President Barack Obama will be there to urge Black residents to hit the polls and choose Kamala Harris. His job is getting tougher.

News > World

U.S. seeks to calm Mideast as Israel and Hezbollah trade more fire

UPDATED: Tue., Oct. 22, 2024

The U.S.’s top diplomat landed in Israel on Tuesday, with Joe Biden trying to bring cease-fires in Lebanon and Gaza closer before American elections in a fortnight.

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