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Groundwork for arming Syrian rebels began before Obama’s announcement
Nation & World Comments Updated: Jun 18, 2013 10:30amAMMAN, Jordan — The U.S. military began laying the groundwork to arm and support Syrian rebels more than a week ago, using a military exercise currently being held in Jordan as a cover for...
Budget impasse has state workers fretting
Northwest Comments Updated: Jun 18, 2013 10:30amPam Olekas, a records clerk at Olympic Corrections Center in Forks, remembers getting paychecks in the form of IOUs as a California prison system employee when that state went without a budget...
Supreme Court won’t hear Seattle’s appeal of $1 verdict
Northwest Comments Updated: Jun 18, 2013 10:30amEnding a long-running legal battle, the U.S. Supreme Court refused on Monday to hear a case in which the City of Seattle spent nearly $600,000 to challenge a lawsuit and $1 award to a man who was...
Daughter hit by stray bullet at Father’s Day barbecue near Ferndale
Northwest Comments Updated: Jun 18, 2013 10:30amFERNDALE — A 23-year-old woman at a barbecue for her dad on Father’s Day was hit in the chest by a stray bullet from people shooting more than a half mile away.
A resident called 911 in the...
Supreme Court rejects Arizona’s proof-of-citizenship voting law
Nation & World Comments Updated: Jun 18, 2013 10:30amWASHINGTON, D.C. — The Supreme Court on Monday struck down an Arizona law requiring that people registering to vote in federal elections provide proof of U.S. citizenship.
In the latest...
With student loan rates about to double, lawmakers squabble
Nation & World Comments Updated: Jun 15, 2013 10:30amWASHINGTON, D.C. — Student loan rates will double to 6.8 percent on July 1 if Congress doesn’t settle on a new plan soon, but disagreements flared Thursday, not only between the two parties, but...
Sarah Palin returns to Fox News Channel as a commentator
Entertainment Comments Updated: Jun 15, 2013 7:30amLOS ANGELES — Sarah Palin and Roger Ailes have evidently made up.
The former Alaska governor will return as an on-air commentator on Ailes’ Fox News Channel next week, the network announced...
School ghosts spook town
Nation & World Comments Updated: Jun 15, 2013 7:30amKINGMAN, Ariz. — Principal Steve Elwood enters the narrow passageway where nobody else at Lee Williams High School dares to go. He leans low to open a half-sized hallway door, leading the way into...
Can ‘Man of Steel’ soar to $100 million at the box office?
Entertainment Comments Updated: Jun 15, 2013 7:30amLOS ANGELES — “Man of Steel” will move faster than a speeding bullet at the box office this weekend, but how far can it travel?
The first Superman film to hit theaters in seven years is...
Hanson brothers brew help for Oklahoma
Nation & World Comments Updated: Jun 15, 2013 7:30amNEW YORK — Those Hanson boys — Isaac, Taylor and Zac — have gone from “Mmmbop” to Mmmhops. Hey, they are all legal now and celebrating the band’s 21st birthday. And what better way to have fun...
