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Archives | Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2018
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- Area Sports Menu for Thursday, February 22
- On the air
- Sounders playing in Santa Tecla, El Salvador – a town once devastated by a landslide that killed 585 but is now brightened by soccer
- Dear Annie: Mom’s house of horrors
- Whitworth men’s basketball opens Northwest Conference Tournament with high-scoring Puget Sound
- Whitworth’s Kyle Roach named Northwest Conference’s Most Valuable Player
- More names for wall of honor: It’s a nice problem to wrestle with at Freeman High
- Betty and Brian O’Donnell saved a lot of boys at Shamrock Acres in Newman Lake
- European space probe prepares to sniff Martian atmosphere
- Grip on Sports: At the Olympics, a 10th of a second can change the next four years – and a lifetime
- Carolyn Hax: Sister strives to keep her adoption secret
- Miss Manners: Something fishy about lazy, selfish ‘houseguest’
Business
- City of Coeur d’Alene moving ahead with purchase of old Atlas Mill site
- Avista customers expected to reap savings on rates from federal tax reform
- Ford ousts top exec over ‘inappropriate behavior’
- Amid a flood of plastic, big companies try to clean up image
- Google’s digital assistant branches out to Nest camera, , raises privacy concerns
- Spike in bond yields upends U.S. stock market rally
- Priceline changing its name to Booking Holdings
- To get a ride, Uber says take a walk for new service
- Sales of U.S. homes fall year over year by most in 3
Nation
- Again the question: Could armed teachers stop shootings?
- Republican congresswoman: ‘Many’ mass murderers are Democrats
- Court: Kansas can’t cut Medicaid funds to Planned Parenthood
- Murphy reverses Christie, approves $7.5M for women’s health
- House panel seeks info on EPA chief’s first-class flights
- Crews used boats to help residents amid Midwest flooding
- Ohio seventh-grader who shot himself in school bathroom dies
- It’s OK to use nasal spray flu vaccine again, U.S. panel says
- Report: KKK chapters drop steeply despite ‘hate group’ surge
- Construction begins to replace border wall in California
- California school shooting plot foiled, assault rifles found
- Mueller files new charges in Manafort case
- Mississippi town rejects gay pride parade; lawsuit possible
- Iowa congressman failed to disclose new company
- Trump hears emotional students, parents; expresses interest in concealed carry for teachers
- Melania Trump’s parents are legal permanent residents, raising questions on ‘chain migration’
- U.S. Jewish group sparks anger in Poland with Holocaust video
- Supreme Court: Dodd-Frank whistleblower protection is narrow
- Florida school shooting survivors are not ‘crisis actors’
- NTSB: Truck hit by GOP train was on tracks after warning
- Angry teens swarm into Florida Capitol; demand new gun laws
- Trump again attacks Obama over Russia
- Billy Graham, minister to presidents and millions worldwide, dies at 99
Outdoors
- Jeep in hot water over ad showing SUV romping through river
- Teen charged in Eagle Creek fire apologizes in court
- Alan Liere’s fishing-hunting report for Feb. 22
- Weekend weather: Winter conditions to continue over region
- Reader photo: Snow ghost
- Idaho students asked to submit waterfowl art
- National Elk refuge considers halting feeding program during a mild winter
Pacific NW
- Montana boy accused of making school threats faces charges
- Judge orders government review of Keystone pipeline documents
- Montana seeks marketing injunction against OxyContin maker
- Yellowstone fee proposal advances in Wyoming Legislature
- Roads icy, schools closed after Pacific Northwest snowstorm
- Yellowstone begins capturing bison to reduce population
Spokane
- Former S-R reporters honored for environmental reporting at Winter Waters event
- After border visit, Gonzaga students talk immigration with McMorris Rodgers
- Sen. Maria Cantwell calls for heavier penalties on drugmakers who fail to keep opioids off the street
- Billy Graham drew more people to his 1982 Spokane crusade than the population of the city
- Steve Christilaw: Freeman Scotties wrestlers typify ‘special’ school
- Education notebook: Freeman FBLA team earns honors at regional competition
- Pollard retiring: Spokane neighborhood council pioneer passing the gavel after 20 years
- Freeman FBLA members earn 42 trophies at northeast regional conference
- New LGBTQ group fills a need for Spokane area seniors
- Somebody Needs You
- Gardening: Covered garden beds will add grow time and protection from cold weather
- Centennial Middle School posts second-quarter honor roll for 2017-18 school year
- Post Falls Christian school raffles AR-15 rifle amid national controversy
- Spokane-area schools prepare for student walkouts demanding stricter gun control
- Dog food recall worries residents, but so far no harm to pets in Spokane
- Larger kitchen enables Second Harvest to teach cooking classes and expand services
- 100 years ago today in Spokane: 70-year-old woman goes back to school to learn Spanish
- McKinstry executive appointed to EWU’s board of trustees
Washington
- House investigation allegations against lawmaker
- Seattle faces damage claim over ex-mayor abuse allegations
- Jury convicts Washington state man of 44 criminal charges
- Reward climbs to $1.5 million for tips on murder of Seattle federal prosecutor
- Bikini barista suit put on hold as city appeals injunction
World
- Montenegro: Man threw grenade at US Embassy then killed self
- Magnitude-4.8 quake strikes off Greek island of Zakynthos
- Trump Jr: ‘Nonsense’ that family’s profiting from presidency
- Hospitals overwhelmed by bombing blitz of Damascus suburbs
- Fifty girls missing from Nigerian town after Boko Haram attack
- Venezuela’s Maduro calls for early Congress vote as well
- State witness turning point in Netanyahu corruption case
- At least 44 dead as bus veers off cliff in Peru
- French government unveils tough measures for asylum-seekers
- President says Egypt ‘scored a goal’ with Israel gas deal
- Goggia gets gold; Bjoergen sets Winter Games medals mark
- Vatican sex abuse investigator hospitalized in Chile
Blogs
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