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Archives | Thursday, Feb. 1, 2018
Other
- NHL capsules: David Perron’s OT goal vs. Jets gives Golden Knights 34th win
- Top 25 capsules: Kia Nurse, Katie Lou Samuelson lead No. 1 UConn
- Area Sports Menu for Friday, Feb. 2
- On the air
- Pelicans acquire Nikola Mirotic from Bulls for 3 players and pick
- Galaxies that move together have cosmologists stumped about dark matter
- Grip on Sports: From domination to defense to transfers, there is a lot going on today
- Dear Annie: Aw you should have
- Ask the doctors: Patients are their best advocates when diagnosing an illness
Business
- Key Tronic reports quarterly loss of $200,000
- Pullman tech company announces merger with Munich partner
- Average auto prices rise 4 percent – an early sign of inflation
- United joins Delta in tightening rules for comfort animals
- U.S. factories grew again in January but at a slower rate
- Lowe’s to hand out bonuses, sweeten benefits amid tax cuts
- Starbucks launches credit card, hoping to jolt sales
- UPS posts $1.1 billion profit for 4Q on high online shopping
- Builders up spending by 0.7 pct; signs of pressure emerge
Gonzaga basketball
- John Blanchette: Nail-biting victories become the new normal for Gonzaga
- Analysis: Gonzaga finishes strong, puts away San Diego 69-59
- Gonzaga notches 21st straight 20-win season with victory over San Diego
- TV Take: Gonzaga wins bruising battle with one final push
- Gonzaga-San Diego: 3 keys to the Bulldogs’ 69-59 victory
- Balanced scoring, stout defense helps No. 14 Gonzaga fend off San Diego 69-59
High school sports
- Boys basketball: Freeman finishes regular season undefeated with win over Chewelah
- Girls basketball: Makayla Geiger and Jayda Noble help Medical Lake finish undefeated
- GSL girls: Central Valley completes third consecutive undefeated regular season
- GSL boys: Anton Watson helps Gonzaga Prep to undefeated season and third straight league title
Nation
- Dallas man executed for killing daughters while mom listened
- Black Lives Matter flag begins flying over Vermont school
- Arizona House votes to kick out lawmaker over sex misconduct
- Georgia Senate blasts NFL denial of ‘Please Stand’ ad
- Drought deepens dramatically in Southern California
- Nassar victim who reported assault in 2004 gets apology from cops
- ‘Cocaine cowboy’ who hid for 26 years pleads guilty
- U.S. says Syria making new chemical weapons despite 2013 deal
- L.A. school shooting was accidental, 12-year-old in custody
- Owner receives letter granting dog unemployment benefits
- Dallas man to die for killing daughters while mom listened
- Five things: What Yellen’s Fed tenure will be remembered for
- Pence touts tax cuts, slams Manchin in West Virginia
- Trump will clear way for publication of classified memo
- State Department loses top career diplomat as crises abound
Spokane
- Accidental shooting kills soldier at Camp Rilea
- WSU’s Bread Lab, where scientists tweak Chipotle tortillas, establishes $1.5 million research endowment
- Education notebook: Spokane Public Schools teachers achieve national standards certification
- Expansion of tiny, cottage homes gets Spokane City Council’s OK
- 15 years after Columbia space shuttle disaster, remembering Spokane’s own Michael Phillip Anderson
- 100 years ago in Spokane: City’s heaviest cop down in pounds; paper cites wartime austerity
- Spokane Valley City Council OKs change in Waste Management contract to add road-funding fee
- At Blessings Under the Bridge, friends offer prayers for couple struck in north Spokane auto-pedestrian incident
WA Government
- Proposed bill would raise age for tobacco, vaping sales to 21 in Washington
- Washington House committee passes bill to change Appleway Trail to Sen. Bob McCaslin Trail
- At GOP retreat, McMorris Rodgers says she backs public release of memo
- House panel votes for aid to homeless college students
- Democrats push Reproductive Parity Act through state Senate
Washington
- Washington State University newspaper’s future is in the students’ hands
- Nassar victim who complained in 2004 gets apology from cops
- Sumas farm not at fault in farmworker’s death, state agency says
- Seattle extends streak as nation’s hottest housing market to 15 months
- Report: Rattlesnake Ridge landslide could last years
- Yakima County launches legal fight to shut down pot businesses
- More than 170 cows seized from farm north of Seattle
- Coast Guard rescues 5 fishermen from flooding fishing vessel
- Seattle school bus drivers go on strike
- Richland Rite Aid manager accused of robbing her own store — then marrying her accomplice
- Health agency concerned about Hanford contamination spread
World
- Cuba state media: Fidel Castro’s son has killed himself
- Puerto Rico reports 78 killings in one of deadliest months
- Italy: As election nears, film imagines Mussolini’s comeback
- Twenty-eight Russians have Olympic doping bans lifted
- Kenya’s High Court orders government’s TV shutdown to end
- Man who drove van into Muslims in London convicted of murder
- Turkey-backed forces push into Syrian Kurdish enclave
Blogs
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