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Hampton’s pizzazz

For 45 years, the University of Idaho in Moscow has been a swinging place. This year will be no different as the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival brings some of the brightest jazz stars to the region beginning Wednesday.
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Spotlight: SpIFFys are in, topped by Wang’s ‘In the Family’

The results are in. The recently concluded Spokane International Film Festival has announced its juried awards, the SpIFFys. In the feature film category, “In the Family,” from writer-director-star Patrick Wang and featuring Spokane Valley actor Trevor St. John, won this year’s Gold SpIFFy. The Silver SpIFFy went to “Sandman,” from director Peter Luisi.
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WV grad St. John SpIFFs up resumé

“In the Family” is a drama that has garnered positive reviews since it was released last year. For Spokane audiences, however, a familiar actor may prove reason enough to draw them to a screening of the film during the final weekend of the Spokane International Film Festival.
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Local authors to sign at Hastings

Two regional authors will be signing books at Hastings on Saturday. • Coeur d’Alene author Cora Cole will be at the Veradale Hastings, 15312 E. Sprague Ave., from 2 to 6 p.m. to sign copies of her book “The Adventures of Angel Skylet and Clarence Cloudy.”
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Spotlight: Symphony extends Preu, Nakahara’s contracts

It looks like Eckart Preu and Morihiko Nakahara are sticking around. The Spokane Symphony on Wednesday announced it had reached contract agreements with Preu, the music director, and Nakahara, the resident conductor. Preu’s contract will keep him with the symphony through the 2015-’16 season; Nakahara’s contract extension is good through 2013-’14.
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‘Catfish Moon’ promises hilarity among friends

Three old buddies pack up their fishing gear, head to their favorite lake haunt, and in the course of the weekend deal head-on with adult issues and the meaning of friendship. That’s the premise of “Catfish Moon” from playwright Laddy Sartin, opening Friday at Spokane Civic Theatre’s Firth J. Chew Studio Theatre.
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Inland Northwest ready to become comedy central

Here in the Inland Northwest, we are a hardy folk. Still, we could use a dose of laughter to help get us through the gray, freezing chill that is winter and early spring. It seems the people booking comedy tours in the area have taken notice. There’s an explosion of nationally known comedians coming to Spokane and the surrounding area.
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Spotlight: Lake City Playhouse hires Prep director

Lake City Playhouse in Coeur d’Alene has hired a new Playhouse Prep director. Dustin Sorrell, who studied theater at Ball State University in Indiana and is a former children’s theater specialist with the Iowa City Community Theater, will be heading up Lake City Playhouse’s education program. The playhouse offers summer theater camps for kids and workshops and guest speakers for adult actors.
News >  Spokane

Spokane couple witness ‘carnage’

Jenifer Passmore and her husband, Christopher, have visited the Reno Air Races eight times since 1994. They take vacations from their jobs – she works for The Spokesman-Review’s prepress department, he’s a civilian working at Fairchild Air Force Base – and thrill at watching vintage airplanes race across the sky. Those thrills turned to horror Friday, as the Passmores were 100 to 150 feet away from where a vintage P-51 Mustang aircraft crashed, killing the pilot and two spectators and injuring more than 50.
News >  Spokane

Pearl Harbor survivor dies

Ray Daves, the Navy radioman who survived the attack on Pearl Harbor and the sinking of the USS Yorktown during the Battle of Midway, died Friday at the Spokane Veterans Home. He was 91. Daves, a retired air traffic controller who lived in Deer Park, died two days after his birthday, said Carol Edgemon Hipperson, who recounted Daves’ life in “Radioman: An Eyewitness Account of Pearl Harbor and World War II in the Pacific.” His passing also comes three months after the air traffic control tower at Spokane International Airport was named in his honor.
News >  Spokane

‘Radioman,’ tower namesake, dies at age 91

Ray Daves, the Navy radioman who survived the attack on Pearl Harbor and the sinking of the USS Yorktown during the Battle of Midway, died Friday at the Spokane Veterans Home. He was 91. Daves, a retired air traffic controller who lived in Deer Park, died two days after his birthday, said Carol Edgemon Hipperson, who recounted Daves’ life in “Radioman: An Eyewitness Account of Pearl Harbor and World War II in the Pacific.” His passing also comes three months after the air traffic control tower at Spokane International Airport was named in his honor.
News >  Spokane

Flood warning in effect for much of Inland Northwest

Hope you soaked up as much vitamin D as you could on Saturday. It’s going to have to last you a few days. Today begins the first in a series of rainy days in the forecast, according to the National Weather Service. Rain should begin falling by 11 a.m., and will get quite heavy tonight. On Monday, showers are likely, but things should begin to dry out. Tuesday’s forecast sports a 20 percent chance of rain and mostly cloudy skies, with more of the same on Wednesday. The sun should return on Thursday.
News >  Spokane

Longtime radio man, Kennel voice Harv Clark dies at 69

A longtime Spokane radio announcer who spent nearly two decades as the public address announcer for Gonzaga University men’s and women’s basketball games has died. Harv Clark died Friday after a long struggle with heart disease, said his wife, Peggy. He was 69.
News >  Idaho

Fake bomb found near Kootenai County sheriff’s office

A bomb scare closed part of Government Way in Coeur d’Alene for several hours Saturday, before the Spokane bomb squad was able to determine the device was a fake. The device – a cell phone strapped to a road flare with a battery stuffed inside – was found in a drain pipe on the southwest corner of the Kootenai County Sheriff’s Department campus, 5500 N. Government Way, near the boundary with the county fairgrounds.
News >  Idaho

SCRAPS seizes 123 animals from Idaho Road home

Animal control officers on Saturday raided the home of a convicted animal hoarder and seized an estimated 123 animals. The Spokane County Regional Animal Protection Service executed a search warrant at 6204 N. Idaho Road, near the state line. Among the animals seized were 27 goats, 15 cats, nine guinea pigs, six rabbits, and dozens of ducks and chickens, said Nancy Hill, SCRAPS director. A sheep was euthanized at the scene, and there were 76 dead animals on the property.
News >  Spokane

SCRAPS seizes 123 animals from Idaho Road home

The Spokane County Regional Animal Protection Service today executed a search warrant near the state line and seized 123 animals. Among the animals taken from the home at 6204 N. Idaho Road were 27 goats, 14 cats, nine guinea pigs, six rabbits, and dozens of ducks and chickens, said Nancy Hill, SCRAPS director.
News >  Spokane

KHQ inks deal with DirecTV

KHQ-TV and DirecTV reached an agreement today that will keep Spokane’s NBC affiliate on the satellite provider’s channel lineup.
News >  Spokane

Assault suspect chase locks down school

The search for a man wanted on assault and weapons charges briefly locked down Liberty Lake Elementary School on Wednesday. Liberty Lake police were looking for Jason B. Brioso, 26, in the 200 block of North Kelsea Court, where Briosolives with his wife and mother. Briosotried to leave the house in a Honda Civic; when he saw police, he jumped out of the car and took off, said Sgt. Clint Gibson of the Liberty Lake Police Department.
News >  Idaho

Suspicious briefcase in CdA contained explosive

A suspicious briefcase found near the Kootenai County Fairgrounds this evening contained some kind of explosive device. The briefcase was reported at 5:50 p.m. by passersby who spotted it while they were heading to the North Idaho Fair a couple blocks away, said Coeur d’Alene Police Sgt. Christie Wood.
News >  Spokane

8-year-old missing girl last seen at campground

Stevens County officials scoured the area around Flodelle Creek Campground on Saturday searching for a girl missing since Friday afternoon. Paige Wilson, 8, was last seen at the campground, where she’d been staying with her family, at 4 or 4:30 p.m. Friday. She was reported missing at 7:33 p.m.