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News >  Spokane

Club Has Glorious Past, Uncertain Future

What's in cards for Empire Club? Chuck Van Marter, left, and John H. "Sam" Leuthold, right, get together at the "round table" in the Empire Club, where members socialize during lunch. Photo by Dan McComb/The Spokesman-Review
News >  Spokane

Burger Challenge Devours Teens

Trying to win $50. Andy Pate, 17, left, and his friend Shawn Stuart, 18, each try to eat the Oldies Diner 10-pound hamburger in one hour. Photo by Colin Mulvany/The Spokesman-Review
News >  Spokane

Revved-Up Rembrandts Carve Out Art

Woodcarver Daniel Whited of Longbranch, Wash., uses a torch to darken his chain-saw sculpture of a beaver. Photo by Christopher Anderson/The Spokesman-Review
News >  Spokane

Brain Surgeon Sees Life On The Cutting Edge

With breathtaking precision, the gloved hands cut and peeled back four pie-shaped sections of the dura - the leathery white membrane just beneath the skull. For an instant the burly neurosurgeon's blue-gowned shoulder blocked my view. Then I saw it, pulsing with each heartbeat beneath the brilliance of overhead lights:
News >  Spokane

Foes Just Purr-Suing Feline Justice

What began as a tiny tab for a delinquent tabby is headed for a courtroom cat fight. Our curious cataclysm today features Julie Wells - a Spokane businesswoman who often finds herself in the middle of big-money renovations that breathe fresh life into historic buildings, hotels and apartment houses.
News >  Spokane

Dukes Conquer Hazards Of Life Through Sports

Crunch! Clonk! Craaash! That's a bit of the soundtrack from my recent workout with Spokane's perhaps least-known and best-traveled sports team rolled into one. They are the Dukes of St. Luke's Rehabilitation Institute, amazing wheelchair-bound athletes who rack up thousands of air miles competing in Florida, Texas, Colorado, California, Utah, Nevada, Oregon and Washington.
News >  Spokane

Survivor, Hero Of Plane Crash Recounts Ordeal

He awoke to a hostile world of pitch blackness, covered in rising ice water that was already swirling past his nose. Joe Stiley's clearing brain flashed over a few compressed moments before the lights went out: He was in a plane, on a business trip from Washington, D.C., to Tampa, Fla. There was a shaky takeoff followed by a sickening veer to the left.
News >  Spokane

Doctors Aren’t Horsing Around At New Hospital

Inside the white walls of Spokane's newest high-tech medical center, a freshly developed X-ray of a skull slides into place over a glowing light box. Dr. Mitch Hutchinson steps closer to examine the ghostly image on the film while his head-injured patient looks over his shoulder with an impassive stare.
News >  Spokane

Vietnam War heroes reunited

Sgt. Jerry Dellwo crouched in a night-blackened Vietnam jungle, soberly calculating his odds of survival at somewhere between slim and anorexic.
News >  Spokane

Sisters Want Angelina To Lose Some Habits

Holy terror. Four nuns brought their recalcitant puppy, Angie, to Diamonds in the Ruff obedience school when they gave up training her on their own. Photo by Dan McComb/The Spokesman-Review
News >  Spokane

Prized Artwork Now Available To The Masses

Now that I've become a recognized art collector, I don't expect any of you easily impressed members of the unwashed masses to treat me differently. As long as you refer to me as "Monsieur Clark," everything will be hunky, if not dory.
News >  Spokane

It May Be A Slimy Affair, But Snails Pick Up The Pace

The best thing about being a snail wrangler is that in the event of a stampede you've got lots and lots of time to jump out of the way. The worst thing, it seems to me, would be actually having to pop one of the ugly little suckers into your mouth and feel it slide the range past your tonsils.
News >  Spokane

Sinus Scientists Looking For Kids With Runny Noses

Who would deliberately get within spraying range of a herd of snot-nosed little kids with head colds? Michael Kraemer and associates, that's who - brave scientists on a mucus mission for mankind. "I've always been fascinated by noses that get out of whack," says Dr. Kraemer, 45, a respiratory specialist at Spokane Allergy & Asthma Clinic.
News >  Spokane

Festival Of Arts Gives Young Stars A Place To Shine

Nobody flunked a Breathalyzer test. No guns were confiscated. No one spray-painted graffiti on the walls. Unlike my own career as a high school trumpeter, nobody even got knifed. In other words, not much happened at Spokane School District 81's Festival of the Arts in the way teenagers typically make the news.