When Stephen Jordan pulls out of Cheney this month, he'll leave behind a very different Eastern Washington University than he found when he pulled in. Record enrollments have replaced a steady decline. The number of students who live on campus has more than doubled. A withering commuter school with "an institutional inferiority complex," as one retired professor put it, has been replaced with a growing residential university.

In the real world, crime scene investigation is anything but glamorous, two experts said Tuesday. Sometimes, it's as grubby as picking through the contents of a vacuum cleaner bag, bit by filthy bit. But when that pays off – as it did in a 1999 rape in Canada – it breaks cases that would have remained unsolved 20 years ago.

Investigators gave up the search in the woods near Wolf Lodge Bay on Friday for two children missing since three bloody homicides earlier this week. Now they're sifting through a mountain of information – tips, sightings, rumors and even psychic visions – in their efforts to find Dylan and Shasta Groene. The siblings haven't been seen in the week since their 13-year-old brother, mother and her boyfriend were found bound and beaten to death Monday in their home in the forested area near Lake Coeur d'Alene.

WORLEY, Idaho – For more than a century, everybody but the Coeur d'Alene Tribe got their piece of Lake Coeur d'Alene's shore. Now the Coeur d'Alenes have gotten a piece back – 36 acres and 700 feet where the land meets the water.

When Dean Lynch was serving on the Spokane City Council, he received an invitation to the Mayor's Prayer Breakfast. "To council member and spouse."

When David Ruiz enrolled at Washington State University, he had no idea how to pay for it. With so-so grades, he didn't see himself as a scholarship candidate. Family support was limited – he'd spent his teen years working the orchards with his father, traveling with the seasons.

At last, Heather Fitzgerald's mother will see her graduate. Fitzgerald missed her high school ceremony, lying broken from neck to ankle after a drunken driving accident. On Sunday – the 10-year anniversary of that wreck – Fitzgerald will finally make it to a commencement ceremony, when she collects her bachelor's degree from Gonzaga University.

Americans need a rejuvenated democracy that includes respect for the natural world and a wide range of dissent and difference, naturalist and writer Terry Tempest Williams told a crowd at Spokane Community College on Monday night. "I do not believe we can look for leadership beyond ourselves," Williams told a crowd of more than 200 in the SCC Lair-Student Center. "We are in need of a reflective activism, born of humility and not arrogance."

The bride wore white – white shorts, white running shoes and a white veil attached to her white visor. Then, minutes after her second wedding, 75-year-old Elisabeth Johnson walked her first Bloomsday. The groom, 78-year-old Hugh Lewis, stayed by her side in a tuxedo T-shirt and top hat. A wedding party of six joined them on the 12-kilometer route.

It started with hula dancers and ended with rock 'n' roll. In between came a course full of snappy punk, cowboy twang, bucket drummers and belly dancers.

CHENEY – The Jore Schoolhouse celebrated its 100th birthday Friday, thanks mostly to a rebirth sparked by Charles Miller. Miller, a retired history professor with a thing for schoolhouses, discovered the dilapidated building near Newport in 1999. He talked Eastern Washington University administrators into buying it, and now the school sits on campus, a smartly restored relic of another time.

MOSCOW, Idaho – Eleven years ago, nearly 1 million Rwandans died in a genocide, and the man who led the United Nations force there says the world is standing by and allowing a replay in the Sudan. "The term 'Genocide' has lost its ability to generate action," retired Lt. Gen. Romeo Dallaire of Canada told a crowd at the annual Borah Symposium here Monday night. "We could go in (to Sudan) right now."

ROSALIA, Wash. – Like all good horsemen, Gene Glasscock has a story about his hat. "I got this hat in Pierce, Colorado," the 70-year-old Glasscock says, referring to the slumping, weather-softened felt fastened to his head. "I had a straw hat when I started out, and about two days into it, the thing went sailing out into the gentle breeze of Colorado, over a barbed-wire fence …"