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Playbook 5/24
Local Comments Updated: May 24, 2013 10:30amTODAY
Track & Field
9 a.m., State 2A Meet at Tacoma (Mount Tahoma High School)
10 a.m., State 1A-2B-1B Meet at Cheney (Eastern Washington University).
Baseball
10...
Anne Heche gets back into TV on NBC’s ‘Save Me’
Nation & World Comments Updated: May 24, 2013 10:30amFRESNO, Calif. — Anne Heche is a firm believer in second chances. That’s why she connects so well with the role she’s playing in the new NBC series “Save Me.”
Heche plays Beth Harper, a...
IRS suspends head of unit caught up in targeting controversy
Nation & World Comments Updated: May 24, 2013 10:30amWASHINGTON, D.C.—The IRS has replaced the head of the office now under fire for improperly targeting conservative groups, a day after she invoked the Fifth Amendment and refused to answer...
George Will — The NLRB’s school-door stand
Columnist Comments Updated: May 24, 2013 10:30amEarly in an opinion issued recently by a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Judge A. Raymond Randolph says: “Although the parties have...
Bridge collapse will cause holiday travel headaches
Northwest Comments Updated: May 24, 2013 10:30amIt had to happen heading into a holiday weekend.
The collapse of the Interstate 5 bridge across the Skagit River is certain to clog traffic, upset travel plans and disrupt commerce this...
Inside the First Amendment — Freedom to report news needs freedom to gather it
Columnist Comments Updated: May 24, 2013 10:30amFreedom to report the news requires the freedom to gather it.
In the months ahead, that basic concept – so central to the First Amendment’s protection of a free press – will also be at the...
Drug czar highlights link between marijuana, crime
Nation & World Comments Updated: May 24, 2013 10:30amWASHINGTON, D.C. — Marijuana is the drug most often linked to crime in the United States, the U.S. drug czar said Thursday, dismissing calls for legalization as a “bumper-sticker approach” that...
38 years later, closure for a Marine
Nation & World Comments Updated: May 24, 2013 10:30amSEATTLE — The two had known each other less than three weeks when they found themselves inside helicopters about to land off a Cambodian island, and were easy targets for a firestorm of Khmer...
I-5 bridge collapse
Northwest Comments Updated: May 24, 2013 10:30amA chunk of Interstate 5 collapsed into the Skagit River near Mount Vernon on Thursday evening, dumping two vehicles into the icy waters and creating a gaping hole in Washington state’s major north...
Span wasn’t built to take critical hit
Northwest Comments Updated: May 24, 2013 10:30amThe Skagit River Bridge wasn’t particularly worrisome to state engineers. Structural inspections showed its condition to be average. But bridges of its generation, circa 1955, often were designed...
