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Monte alum killed in logging accident
Local Comments Updated: May 23, 2013 10:39amA 28-year-old Montesano High grad was killed Monday in a tragic logging accident just west of Cougar.
Kyle Schlesser of Rochester was apparently killed instantly when he was struck by a tree...
Potential rescue drug for depression takes a step forward
Nation & World Comments Updated: May 23, 2013 10:39amFor years, physicians have been inching their way to a better understanding of how — and how well — the drug ketamine, a “twilight drug” used to sedate some patients before a painful procedure,...
Oklahoma begins long road to recovery
Nation & World Comments Updated: May 23, 2013 10:39amMOORE, Okla. — Residents on Wednesday attempted to return to lives wrecked two days ago by a major tornado, as search and rescue operations began slowly to turn into the first steps to a long...
City drops funding for Rain or Shine festival
Local Comments Updated: May 23, 2013 10:38amReacting to budget limitations and declining attendance, City Council voted Wednesday night not to fund the decades old Rain or Shine Jazz Festival in favor of adding money to the Independence Day...
Immigration cases make up 40 percent of federal prosecutions, study says
Nation & World Comments Updated: May 23, 2013 10:38amLOS ANGELES — Immigration-related offenses are now the leading type of federal prosecution, constituting more than 40 percent of cases compared with 22 percent for drug crimes, according to...
Spokane man indicted in ricin threat
Northwest Comments Updated: May 23, 2013 10:38amA 38-year-old janitor was indicted Wednesday by a federal grand jury in connection with mailing two ricin-laced letters in Spokane.
Matthew R. Buquet is accused on one count of mailing...
Hearts open for young victims of Oklahoma tornado
Nation & World Comments Updated: May 23, 2013 10:38amMOORE, Okla. — With this storm, it’s the kids who keep coming to mind.
Third-graders, fifth-graders, the young boys and girls who were trapped and even died in the twisted mountain of metal...
Abrupt climate shifts spurred Stone Age innovation in Africa
Nation & World Comments Updated: May 23, 2013 10:38amLOS ANGELES — A rapid shift in climate that brought wetter and warmer conditions in southern Africa during the Middle Stone Age helped propel innovation and cultural advances in early man, a study...
Deaths 5/23
Obituaries Comments Updated: May 23, 2013 10:38amFrank Hart
Frank Hart, a lifelong resident of Aberdeen, died at Grays Harbor Community Hospital, Tuesday, May 21, 2013. He was 90.
He was a 1940 graduate of...
World Gone By 5/23
Living Comments Updated: May 23, 2013 10:30am75 years ago, May 23, 1938
• Organization of the Order of Better Americans, a group pledged to combat fascism, communism, naziism and all other unamerican tendencies that may arise of Grays...
