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Woman trying to ‘live on light’ instead of food ends experiment

Updated: Jun 18, 2013 10:30am

After dropping about 20 percent of her body weight, Naveena Shine, the 65-year-old Eastside woman who got worldwide publicity for trying to just live on light and no food, is calling it quits with...

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Groundwork for arming Syrian rebels began before Obama’s announcement

Updated: Jun 18, 2013 10:30am

AMMAN, 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

Updated: Jun 18, 2013 10:30am

Pam 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

Updated: Jun 18, 2013 10:30am

Ending 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

Updated: Jun 18, 2013 10:30am

FERNDALE — 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

Updated: Jun 18, 2013 10:30am

WASHINGTON, 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.

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With student loan rates about to double, lawmakers squabble

Updated: Jun 15, 2013 10:30am

WASHINGTON, 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

Updated: Jun 15, 2013 7:30am

LOS 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...

<p>John Glionna | Los Angeles Times</p><p>Lee Williams High School in Kingman, Ariz., has taken the idea of school spirit to a new level. Many believe the place is haunted, and Principal Steve Elwood has heard all the stories.</p>

School ghosts spook town

Updated: Jun 15, 2013 7:30am

KINGMAN, 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?

Updated: Jun 15, 2013 7:30am

LOS 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

Updated: Jun 15, 2013 7:30am

NEW 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...

Obituaries
<p>July 17, 1923 - June 11, 2013</p>

Margaret Ann Gebhardt

Updated: Jun 18, 2013 1:30pm

Former Montesano resident Margaret Ann Gebhardt, 89, passed away on Tuesday, June 11, 2013, at...

Doris Beverly Rhoten

Updated: Jun 18, 2013 1:30pm

Michael Vincent DelCampo

Updated: Jun 18, 2013 1:30pm

Jack Edward Atkins

Updated: Jun 18, 2013 1:30pm

Deaths 6/15

Updated: Jun 17, 2013 12:17pm
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