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Republicans try to link IRS scandal, health reform
Nation & World Comments Updated: May 19, 2013 7:30amWASHINGTON, D.C. — Republicans attempted to connect the Internal Revenue Service scandal to the Obama administration’s controversial health-care-reform law in a Saturday response to the president’...
Obama responds to criticism with ‘fix it’ strategy
Nation & World Comments Updated: May 19, 2013 7:30amWASHINGTON, D.C. — At a news conference in a rainy Rose Garden on Thursday, President Barack Obama and the Turkish prime minister had weighty matters to discuss — the bloody civil war in Syria, a...
N. Korea fires short-range missiles off its east coast
Nation & World Comments Updated: May 19, 2013 7:30amBEIJING — North Korea fired three short-range missiles off its east coast Saturday, following through on months of threats to conduct a missile launch.
The South Korean Defense Ministry...
Are multiple concussions driving suicides in the military?
Nation & World Comments Updated: May 19, 2013 7:30amLOS ANGELES — The U.S. military has faced two epidemics over the last decade of war in Afghanistan and Iraq.
One is suicide. The annual rate of military personnel taking their own lives has...
Navy dolphins discover rare old torpedo off Calif. coast near Coronado
Nation & World Comments Updated: May 19, 2013 7:30amSAN DIEGO — In the ocean off Coronado, a Navy team has discovered a relic worthy of display in a military museum: a torpedo of the kind deployed in the late 19th century, considered a...
Mental illness in youth: a common struggle
Nation & World Comments Updated: May 19, 2013 7:30amWASHINGTON, D.C. — Go to a busy street in your community and count the next 25 adolescents who walk, bike, skateboard, stroll or saunter past. Odds are that two of those 25 kids (8.3 percent to be...
Matthew Pate — Oily prodigal son returns
Columnist Comments Updated: May 19, 2013 7:30amWhy do we believe the things we do? In criminology I spend a lot time refuting the popular belief that crime could be reduced if only we had tough enough sentences. Proponents of “getting tough”...
What happened?
Letters Comments Updated: May 19, 2013 7:30amDid I miss something? I just received my license tab renewal. Why is it more than $70? What happened to $30 for everyone? Now I’m supposed to buy new license plates. I just did that two years ago...
Elma students take top honors at FFA convention
Local Comments Updated: May 19, 2013 7:30amTwo Elma FFA students are heading to nationals after taking home top honors at the Washington State FFA Convention in Pullman May 8-12.
Logan Zepp was named Washington State Star FFA...
Standard lines, what’s really on your mind?
Letters Comments Updated: May 19, 2013 7:30amHow are you? Great! I’m so miserable you wouldn’t believe it.
How are you doing? Terrific. I’m busy, so go jump off a cliff.
How’s it going? Never better. Why did you call, I’m trying...
