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Hoe, hoe, hoe! Christmas trees are back, in new farm bill

Updated: May 19, 2013 7:30am

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Christmas tree-promotion program that pumped up conservative mockery and panicked the Obama administration is back for a second go-around, under a new farm bill.

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<p>Charles Fox | Philadelphia Inquirer</p><p>Along the low-lying Delaware Bay shore in New Jersey, erosion and storm damage problems are striking. Three towns in Downe Township are, in effect, disappearing: Fortescue, Gandy’s Beach and Money Island. Pictures are homes in Fortescue, N.J., that were destroyed by Superstorm Sandy.</p>

Along N.J. bay, rising sea draws ever closer

Updated: May 19, 2013 7:30am

The night Meghan Wren got stranded by floodwaters and had to sleep in her car, she knew it was time for a reckoning.

She had been driving to her waterfront home along the Delaware Bay in...

‘Star Trek’ is expected to ‘boldly go’ to top of weekend box office

Updated: May 18, 2013 7:30am

LOS ANGELES — The “Star Trek” movie series has lived long at the box office. But is it time for Capt. Kirk and Spock to really prosper?

“Star Trek Into Darkness,” the second J.J. Abrams-...

Dark, massive asteroid to fly by Earth on May 31

Updated: May 18, 2013 7:30am

LOS ANGELES — It’s 1.7 miles long. Its surface is covered in a sticky black substance similar to the gunk at the bottom of a barbecue. If it impacted Earth it would probably result in global...

Obama budget would cut deficits, report says

Updated: May 18, 2013 7:30am

WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Barack Obama’s proposed mix of tax increases and spending cuts would reduce future budget deficits more quickly than under current laws, according to a report issued...

Despite sequester, high-level federal executives slated to get bonuses

Updated: May 18, 2013 7:30am

WASHINGTON, D.C. — An elite group of federal employees is set to receive cash bonuses despite this year’s automatic budget cuts, according to a report that a Senate subcommittee issued Friday....

SWAT team arrests two

Updated: May 18, 2013 7:30am

A rape investigation by the Vancouver Police Department led to the arrest Thursday of two men by members of the Southwest Washington Regional SWAT Team.

Officers arrested Sergio J. Leon, 21...

Former Grandview legislator Margaret Rayburn dies

Updated: May 18, 2013 7:30am

YAKIMA — Margaret Rayburn, a longtime Grandview resident, schoolteacher and former state legislator, died Tuesday in Sunnyside. She was 86.

Rayburn served five terms in the Legislature,...

Terrorism suspect pleads not guilty

Updated: May 18, 2013 7:30am

BOISE — Fazliddin Kurbanov, the Uzbeki man facing federal terrorism charges in Idaho, entered not-guilty pleas to all charges this morning, speaking through a Russian interpreter.

The 30-...

Hospital’s tiniest baby heading home

Updated: May 18, 2013 7:30am

VANCOUVER, Wash. — The evidence of Harley Gulliksen’s achievements line the doorway into her room.

“Central line in for 47 days and remained infection free!” “24 days on the ventilator and...

Friday’s lottery numbers

Updated: May 18, 2013 7:30am

Friday

Daily game

4-7-9

Match 4

06 07 22 23

Mega Millions

11 15 35 43 49 41

Megaplier 04

Keno

14-20-21-22-28-31-35-38-39-41-43-47-52-56-59-60-...

Obituaries

Harold “Mr. Pat” Patterson dies at 92

Updated: May 20, 2013 10:18am

BROOKLYN — Harold Leroy Patterson, a well-known educator and preacher in the Indian Shaker Church,...

Betty Elaine Buckman

Updated: May 19, 2013 1:30pm

Matthew DeLaine Blecha

Updated: May 19, 2013 1:30pm

Vernon Jack Goodin

Updated: May 19, 2013 1:30pm

LeRoy Ludwig Nelson

Updated: May 18, 2013 1:30pm
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