Headlines @ Closin’ Time — 7/2/08

Christopher Anderson/SR
Spokane firefighters and AMR ambulance personnel help a burn victim at the scene of an apartment fire today. The two alarm fire at Sprague and Pittsburg filled the building with smoke and drove residents out into the street in the late afternoon. Story here .

* Avista warns of spike in gas rates /SR
* Woman accused of cutting baby from womb gave no signs /Tri-City Herald
* Kidnapping charges reduced against Mississippi couple /St. Maries Gazette-Record
* Bennett, Riley Creek announce merger /Lewiston Tribune
* Washington county drops charges against Alabaman found with Boise teen /IStatesman
* Steelers cut Fiesta Bowl star QB Zabransky /IStatesman
* Teen asks Spokane for $6M in firehouse sex case /KXLY