 01/29/10 SPOKANE, Wash. - State Corrections Secretary Eldon Vail says the state will delay plans to close the Pine Lodge Correction Center for Women to see whether it can be shared with inmates from Spokane County and the city of Spokane.
 01/29/10 The Washington state Senate approved a bill Friday to limit the sale of products made with the chemical BPA.
01/29/10 DETROIT. - Toyota Motor Corp. says it will begin telling millions of customers how it will repair their sticky gas pedal systems next week, and repairs will be finished in less than a month. Company spokesman Brian Lyons says he can't state specifically when repairs will begin, but he says the automaker is moving quickly to correct the problem that affects about 4.2 million vehicles in the U.S ...
01/29/10 SPOKANE, Wash. - Spokane Police said a man who crashed his motorcycle into an STA bus Thursday night was allegedly driving drunk. The crash happened shortly after 8 p.m. at the intersection of Altamont and 5th on Spokane's south side. Passengers on the bus told KHQ that the man crashed his motorcycle into the side of the bus.
01/28/10 (The item "Senate Vote Tally For Bernanke's Reconfirmation," published at 5:30 p.m. EST, incorrectly reported the votes of senators Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Jon Kyl, R-Ariz. A corrected version follows...
 01/28/10 The final Senate vote tally on Ben Bernanke's confirmation for a second term as Federal Reserve chairman. (END) Dow Jones Newswires 01-28-101730ET Copyright (c) 2010 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.
 01/21/10 James Kiser has been named as the new Chief Executive of St. Joseph Medical Center in Polson, and will be taking his position immediately.
 01/21/10 A candlelight vigil in support of missing 11-year-old Lindsey Baum is scheduled for Saturday in Olympia as the search for the McCleary girl nears the seven-month mark.
 01/21/10 Indie trio The Cave Singers [ tickets ] will head out on the road next month to launch a headlining run in support of the group's latest Matador release, "Welcome Joy." The folksy Seattle outfit--which features former Pretty Girls Make Graves member Derek Fudesco on guitar, along with vocalist/guitarist Pete Quirk (Hint Hint) and drummer Marty Lund (Cobra High)--kicks off the trek Feb. 23 in ...
 01/16/10 The U.S. Supreme Court will decide if the state can legally release the names of voters who sign petitions.
01/16/10 Chris Culver scored 29 points as Irondequoit edged Webster Schroeder 60-54 Friday in Monroe County basketball.
01/16/10 Eighth-grader Cierra Dillard scored 25 points and grabbed 12 rebounds to lead Gates Chili to a 79-57 win over Greece Olympia in girls basketball.
 01/14/10 This is a triple dose of bad news for real estate in Everett. These three separate bits of informati...
 01/09/10 Rochester outscored Rainier 10-2 in the second overtime to pull out a wild 65-57 double-overtime victory Friday night in a Southwest Washington Evergreen League boys basketball game.
01/09/10 The Evergreen State College was recently awarded a gift of original Andy Warhol photographs from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts (more information at www.warholfoundation.org ).
 01/09/10 Well, another tirade by Pete Scobby (Letters, Dec. 31) complaining of the voting record of one of the Republican congresswomen. Never considering the negative voting records of Patty Murray or Maria Cantwell, who normally always vote according to party. Just look in the newspaper at how they voted. Murray and Cantwell nearly always vote with current administration. Murray is often seen close ...
01/09/10 LACEY - About 250 Venture Financial Group employees who were invested in retirement plans that held company stock lost an average of nearly $50,000 each during a key period before Venture Financial's primary asset, Venture Bank, closed.
01/09/10 Additional disclosures have come to light adding to the series of botched incidents that allowed Maurice Clemmons to murder four Lakewood police officers on the morning of Nov. 29. Possible presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, a television commentator and former governor, never should have let Clemmons out of an Arkansas prison in 2000. That was the first in a series of government mistakes the ...
 01/01/10 George McAlpine, 83, a longtime Ephrata resident, passed away suddenly on December 26, 2009, at Central Washington Hospital in Wenatchee, WA. George was born on November 23, 1926, to George and Irene (Schroeder) McAlpine in Chicago, IL.
 12/31/09 If you want to catch some fresh Puget Sound Dungeness crab, you only have a few more days to do so.
 12/31/09 With the New Year upon us and another winter crab season almost in the books, crabbers are reminded that it is now mandatory to submit their catch record report cards. | 
