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Despite sequester, high-level federal executives slated to get bonuses
Nation & World Comments Updated: May 18, 2013 7:30amWASHINGTON, 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....
Saturday Happenings
Community Comments Updated: May 18, 2013 7:30amAberdeen
Monday Study Club meeting for next week has been canceled.
PEO Sisterhood, Chapter DP will meet at 11:30 a.m., Monday in the home of Barb Caskey. Kathlene Werner, Steven’s...
Time to prune spring flowers, shrubs
Lifestyle Columnist Comments Updated: May 18, 2013 7:30amThe fourth week of May means it is time for some pruning if you have spring flowering shrubs such as rhododendrons, forsythia, quince or viburnums that have already bloomed.
You can shear...
Dark, massive asteroid to fly by Earth on May 31
Nation & World Comments Updated: May 18, 2013 7:30amLOS 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...
SWAT team arrests two
Northwest Comments Updated: May 18, 2013 7:30amA 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
Northwest Comments Updated: May 18, 2013 7:30amYAKIMA — 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,...
Russell sentenced to life for killing five at Baghdad clinic
Northwest Comments Updated: May 18, 2013 7:30amTACOMA — An Army judge on Thursday handed down the toughest sentence he could give to a soldier who murdered five fellow service members at a Baghdad combat stress clinic.
Sgt. John Russell...
E.J. Dionne — The false god of “narrative”
Columnist Comments Updated: May 18, 2013 7:30am‘What if the government starts enforcing the espionage statute whenever there’s a leak?” Steve Roberts, a former New York Times journalist who teaches at George Washington University, observed to...
Tri-Cities tea-party group says it was IRS target
Northwest Comments Updated: May 18, 2013 7:30amTRI-CITIES — An Eastern Washington tea-party group says it was among those targeted by the Internal Revenue Service for extra scrutiny when it applied for nonprofit status.
Organizers with...
Third addition to veteran’s wall arrives Monday
Local Comments Updated: May 18, 2013 7:30amMONTESANO — For those wishing to re-visit the Veterans Memorial walls at Fleet Park, the latest addition, the third wall, will arrive between 10 a.m. and 11 a.m., Monday, May 20.
The wall...
