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Stories for Sunday, September 07, 2008.
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It's an 87-year-old unsolved robbery and murder – one laced with mystery, gold, racism and, apparently, the power of a badge and judicial robe. Two Chinese brothers – immigrants who mined for gold in the tiny community of Daisy, Wash., on what was then the free-flowing Columbia
Doug Bacon missed the funeral of a fellow Spokane firefighter because the 59-year-old was in treatment for throat cancer – the same illness that had just killed his friend and co-worker.
WASHINGTON – The widening housing crisis took center stage on the presidential campaign trail Saturday after the Treasury Department confirmed to the candidates it was preparing a historic seizure of mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
FRESNO, Calif. – A burglar who broke into a home just east of Fresno rubbed spices over the body of one of two men as they slept in their rooms and then used an 8-inch sausage to whack the other man in the face and head before he ran out of the house, Fresno County sheriff's deputies said Saturday.
Saturday's Washington Daily Game: 1-9-5.Saturday's Washington Lotto: 8-23-25-29-39-46.
MOSCOW – In the aftermath of last month's war between Russia and U.S.-backed Georgia, Kremlin-watchers in Moscow are worried that Russia and America are closer to direct confrontation than at any point since the end of the Cold War.
KEY WEST, Fla. – Hurricane Ike grew to fierce Category 4 strength Saturday as it roared on an uncertain path that forced millions from the Caribbean to Florida, Louisiana to Mexico, to nervously wonder where it would strike.
MOSCOW – President Dmitry Medvedev declared Saturday that "Russia is a nation to be reckoned with" following its war with Georgia, again putting the West on notice that Moscow is prepared to use its military and economic might.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. – Barack Obama on Saturday ridiculed John McCain's renewed emphasis on his reputation as a government reformer, mocking the Republican presidential nominee in unusually sharp language while campaigning in this traditional GOP stronghold.
WASHINGTON – Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama said Saturday they will put aside partisan politics for a joint appearance at ground zero to mark the seventh anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.
Robert Giroux, a distinguished giant of 20th-century publishing who guided and supported dozens of great writers from T.S. Eliot and Jack Kerouac to Bernard Malamud and Susan Sontag, died in his sleep Friday in Tinton Falls, N.J. He was 94.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of slain Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto once plagued by corruption charges, was elected president of Pakistan on Saturday and now must lead his troubled country out of the deepest crisis it has faced in years.
VIENNA, Austria – The U.S. gained key international backing Saturday for a bitterly contested plan to sell peaceful nuclear technology to India – a South Asia powerhouse that has tested atomic weapons but has refused to sign global nonproliferation accords.
BEIJING – Wang Fei's infidelity deeply upset his wife. She wrote of her distress in a diary and then jumped from their 24th-floor balcony.
MBABANE, Swaziland – The Swazi king, bare-chested and wearing a traditional leopard skin loin cloth, celebrated his 40th birthday and his nation's 40th independence day in lavish style Saturday – hosting an extravaganza that contrasted sharply with the biting poverty of his subjects.
Two days after he would have turned 24, Carlo E. Alfonso was buried Saturday in Spokane as a fallen hero.
Helen Hodsdon was getting dinner that evening 50 years ago when her husband, Ed, yelled to come outside of their house in Airway Heights.
I blew off work Friday afternoon to watch the Spokane Indians play the Salem-Keizer Volcanoes at Avista Stadium.
A Puyallup, Wash., man was killed Friday night when his motorcycle struck a deer in Lincoln County.
BOISE – Lonnie Holloway was checking out a possible construction job a few weeks ago when a large dog at the Boise home lunged and planted its teeth in his stomach.
8:30 a.m. – Gates open10 a.m. – Exhibit buildings open10:30 a.m. – NWLA Texas Longhorn show
A recent report on mental health care systems shows Idaho is one of the lowest-ranking states for mental health care nationwide.
BOISE – A state and federal report concludes that last summer's lightning- and cheatgrass-stoked Murphy Complex fire that torched 1,000 square miles of Idaho and Nevada backcountry would have overwhelmed efforts by ranchers to cut fire danger before the blaze by using their cattle to eat down grass on the range.
Fires and foreclosures have been forcing more than people out of their California homes – dogs also have been suffering, with many being abandoned as their owners leave the area or move into apartments that won't accept pets.
TACOMA – Raising geoducks may endanger inland marine life and tidelands, Pierce County planners say, a finding that could likely complicate the county's permit process for farming the ugly but lucrative giant clams.
IDAHO FALLS – Scientists at the Idaho National Laboratory are analyzing whether hybrid vehicles that are converted to be plugged into an electrical outlet for recharging are as efficient in the real world as they are in the laboratory.
PORTLAND – A 62-year-old retired teacher who said she was inspired by the courage of the victims of serial rapist Richard Gillmore has told Jesuit officials that she was raped three decades ago by a priest who helped start Jesuit High School.
FLORENCE, Ore. – One of the nation's most photographed lighthouses is leaking so badly it's crumbling away.
Ouch! The declining immunization rates for Washington and Idaho toddlers are painful. The lowly rankings among the 50 states sting, too.
Terry Novak, former city manager of Spokane, also worked in city management in Alaska, Minnesota and Missouri. Over his many years in government, he heard so many complaints about potholes that he came up with a foolproof way of eradicating them.
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Change is coming, change you can count on. That is the simple, central message from the two presidential nominating conventions held in Denver and St. Paul during the past two weeks.
At the very end of the Democratic convention, Joe Biden's 92-year-old mother joined everyone on stage. As the Bidens and the Obamas walked one way, Jean Biden seemed stranded alone, uncertain what to do next. She had that slightly irritated look I saw sometimes on the face of my mother-in-law, who lived to 94. The look got everyone's attention. And indeed, in a split second, Jean Biden was folded back into the family group.
When little Lhamo Thondup was 2, Tibetan monks determined he was the reincarnation of the Dalai Lama. Soon people were treating him like a demigod, and he's now revered around the world for his optimism, his laughter and his powerful influence.
Cars emptier than buses
I pondered my response to Harley Frank's rant about empty STA buses ("Empty buses cruise bad streets," Sept. 4) as I rode the standing-room-only 27-Crestline yesterday morning.
PULLMAN – It started seconds after Butch the Cougar's ATV left the Martin Stadium turf. A first-play-of-the-game, 80-yard touchdown run by California's Jahvid Best, through a hole wide enough for Butch's ATV to fit through, set the mood.
KEIZER, Ore. – Volcanoes fans probably thought game two of the Northwest League championship series was strange.
PULLMAN – Statistical hair-splitting may support a different conclusion, but the scoreboard declared that the lousiest game of football played by Washington State occurred at spiffed-up Martin Stadium on Saturday afternoon.
BOULDER, Colo. – Eastern Washington University threw another scare into another major conference football power on Saturday, but ended up with nothing more than another stinging defeat.
MOSCOW, Idaho – At some point last week, the news circulated to Maurice Shaw: Idaho was going to open its first drive of the season at the Kibbie Dome with a deep, play-action pass.
NFL
Morris has finally arrived
For Maurice Morris, today has been a long time coming.
NEW YORK – Ominous clouds overhead, the sort of hard court that troubled him this season underfoot, Roger Federer sensed something Saturday he hadn't in quite a while.
SEATTLE – Sue Bird had 21 of her 23 points in the second half and the Seattle Storm rallied from a 13-point second-half deficit to beat the Minnesota Lynx 96-88 Saturday night.
EWU deserved more credit
The article appearing in the sports section of the Aug. 31 edition of The Spokesman-Review regarding Eastern Washington University's 49 -24 loss to Texas Tech did not give enough credit to the valiant effort of the EWU players and coaches.
Today's TV highlights
AUTO RACINGFormula One Belgian Grand Prix, 4:30 a.m., Speed
Ralph Riddick of Spokane was an age-group division winner in the Rock 'n' Roll Half Marathon last weekend in Virginia Beach, Va.
Clint Dempsey scored late in the second half and the United States held on to beat Cuba 1-0 in a sloppy and low-energy World Cup qualifier Saturday night in Havana, its first match on the communist-run island since 1947.
The University of Idaho, behind the play of Haley Larsen swept past Eastern Washington and Notre Dame during Saturday's final day of competition in the Idaho Volleyball Classic in Moscow, Idaho.
In the minds of participating coaches and runners, the second Tracy Walters Invitational cross country meet was more about end-of-summer training than it was the beginning of a competitive fall season.
KENNEWICK – The Spokane Chiefs jumped out to an early three-goal lead Saturday and hung on to beat the host Tri-City Americans 6-4 in the Red Lion Hotels preseason major junior hockey tournament at the Toyota Center.
Mike Reilly threw four touchdown passes, Ryan Dyer scored on a blocked punt return and Courtney Smith ran a kickoff back 95 yards for a score to lead the 11th-ranked Central Washington Wildcats (2-0) to a 48-14 victory over the Mesa State Mavericks (0-2) on Saturday at Ellensburg.
BUFFALO – And so it begins.Let this not be the day when it all comes to an end.For fans in almost every NFL city, today marks the day when life begins in ecstasy … or agony. Thirteen of the teams that open play today will have the unbridled optimism of the unbeaten, while the other 13 may well feel like the sky is falling.
During the NFL draft, David Vobora couldn't wait for his phone to ring. It meant teams were interested in him. During the last rounds of cuts after training camp, Vobora didn't want to hear his phone ring. It would have been an indication he might need to pack his bags.
Lions at Falcons
Time: 10 a.m.Line: Lions by 3.
GREENVILLE, N.C. – East Carolina didn't need any final-moment heroics to seal its latest upset. This time, coach Skip Holtz's plucky Pirates all but had No. 8 West Virginia put away by halftime.
COLUMBUS, Ohio – After barely beating Ohio University, No. 3 Ohio State was not a happy football team. In fact, the sluggish win felt more like a loss.
Graham Harrell and Michael Crabtree hooked up for an 82-yard touchdown pass and Eric Morris returned a punt 86 yards for a score to lead No. 12 Texas Tech to a 35-19 victory over Nevada on Saturday night in Reno, Nev.
Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow was good early and even better late, enough to help No. 5 Florida snap a six-game losing streak against rival Miami at Gainesville, Fla.
Senior quarterback Cole Bergquist threw two touchdown passes and ran for another score as No. 5 Montana rallied from a 21-14 halftime deficit to beat No. 11 Cal Poly 30-28 in a non-conference football game Saturday night in San Luis Obispo, Calif.
EASTAkron 42, Syracuse 28Bloomsburg 24, California, Pa. 17
Arizona St. 41, Stanford 17
| Stanford | 7 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 17 | | Arizona St. | 3 | 17 | 7 | 14 | 41 |
ASU—FG Weber 23
SEATTLE – Jake Locker was crestfallen. The sophomore quarterback did everything he could to give Washington a chance for an upset of No. 15 BYU and wound up apologizing for the Huskies' loss.
Another week of off-field drama couldn't slow down No. 19 Penn State.The Nittany Lions (2-0) shoved aside the distraction created by the suspension of two defensive starters, then rolled over Oregon State, 45-14 on Saturday at State College, Pa.
PULLMAN – Is the quarterback controversy at Washington State University that the Cougars don't have a capable one?
Quarterback: F
Three played and three struggled. Four turnovers and too many missed receivers.
First quarter
Cal 7, WSU 0Best 80 run (Seawright kick), 14:49
Baseball
Northwest League playoffs: Spokane Indians at Salem-Keizer, 5:05 p.m.
Manny Ramirez had three chances to hurt the Arizona Diamondbacks on Saturday in Los Angeles. He came through twice, and that was more than enough for the streaking Dodgers.
SEATTLE – Bobby Abreu homered and drove in three runs, Jason Giambi also connected and the New York Yankees rallied for five runs in the seventh inning to beat the Seattle Mariners 7-4 on Saturday night.
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Let's start with a discussion of off-roading. Slice reader Danielle James didn't grow up here. So she's curious about the popular practice of parking cars with two wheels up on the sidewalk. What gives?
Just beyond the clearing, murky figures skulked among the scrub pine. The peace of a sunny weekend morning neared an end.
America, meet Russell Brand.In his native England, he's a comedy giant – instantly identifiable by his Einstein-like tousle of black hair and form-fitting, chest-baring, glam-rock clothes – a television host and stand-up comic with his own radio show and weekly newspaper column.
Dear Carolyn: My daughter is getting married next summer. Her father had an affair and then left me when she was 3. He is still married to the woman he had the affair with. I also remarried when my daughter was 5. My husband and daughter get along great. She also has had a continuous relationship with her father, enthusiastically encouraged by me.
Riding high on his hit single "All Summer Long," Kid Rock comes to the Spokane Arena on Tuesday after finishing an August "Rock 'n' Rebels" tour with co-headliner Lynyrd Skynyrd.
We're all products of our past. And if that past happens to include abuse, then our options for a happy and fulfilled life tend to narrow.
Rip Taylor, the veteran comedian known for throwing confetti, wants the world to know he has a serious side – as an actor and a playwright.
Everyone from Tony Bamonte to Jess Walter has written about Spokane law enforcement.
"Fine Just the Way It Is"
by Annie Proulx (Scribner. 221 pages. $25)
Fiction
1. "Devil Bones"
I've always loved shop talk, with its wonderful language of tools and techniques. This poem by D. Nurkse of Brooklyn, N.Y., is a perfect example. I especially like the use of the verb "lap" in line seven, because that's exactly the sound a 4-inch wall brush makes.
On Tuesday, the U.S. publisher of "Harry Potter" will premiere a highly ambitious series with a mystery ending for readers, and a couple of puzzlers for the industry: How big is the market for a multimedia story – and can a phenomenon be conceived by a publisher rather than created by the public?
In Spokane
BABYLON A.D. - NorthTown Mall: 12:45, 3:05, 5:25, 7:45, 9:55. River Park Square: 11:40 a.m., 2:05, 5, 7:30, 10. Spokane Valley Mall: 1:45, 4:45, 7:40, 10:30. Village Centre: 11:15 a.m., 1:15, 3:15, 5:15, 7:15, 9:15.
Sacred Heart Medical Center
AXTON WHITTLESEY MAGLAIRE - To Holly Dugenet and Gary Maglaire of Spokane. He weighed 7 lb. 5 oz. and was 20 inches long (Aug. 25).
Flory-PrestonApril Preston and Travis Flory, both of Spokane Valley, plan to marry March 7.
Cobra Roofing Polo Classic - "Tents, Hats and Champagne." Enjoy artwalk, live music, divot stomp, hat competition, silent auction, gourmet food and more. Benefiting Ronald McDonald House Charities. Gates open at noon. Today. Spokane Polo Fields, Highway 2, across from Longhorn Barbecue, Airway Heights. $150. (509) 624-0500.
Age and wear have faded the spray-painted logos touting the Spokane Hot Zone on downtown street corners.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — When Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google Inc. on Sept. 7, 1998, they had little more than their ingenuity, four computers and an investor's $100,000 bet on their belief that an Internet search engine could change the world.
He is the world's most famous personality, better known in this country than anyone living or dead, real or fictional. Market researchers say his 97 percent recognition rate in the U.S. edges even Santa Claus.
Although losing Mickey Mouse would be the greatest rights setback for the world's biggest family entertainment company, it wouldn't be the first.
Justin Roberts has been hired as an electrical drafter for Trindera Engineering in Coeur d'Alene. He is a graduate of the Computer Aided Design and Drafting program at Spokane Community College.
ONGOING EVENTS Real Estate Fundamentals Online Class – Presented by the Community Colleges of Spokane Institute of Extended Learning. A 60-hour course to help prepare for the state Real Estate licensing exam. The cost is $345. Required: computer with Internet service and Windows 98 or higher. Call (509) 533-4700 for information or (509) 279-6000 to register.
Most people search Google only one way: they type in a term and look at the first page of results. A small number of those people go to the next page. A tiny fraction move on to the third page. Those searchers seldom bother with "operators" — the search variables like "AND" or "*" that help produce better search results.
When the time comes for looking up death notices, Legacy.com can be helpful. It's a linked collection of 76 of the country's larger newspapers, along with more than 600 worldwide. One area of the site, the guest book, lets people leave condolence notes and share stories of loved ones.
Dear CartShark Readers: I'd like to think the Inland Northwest is home to some of the savviest online consumers anywhere. Which makes this, my final CartShark column, that much easier to write.
How do I … use my screensaver as an RSS feed reader?We've been accused of ignoring Mac users in dealing with tech solutions. Let's fix that.
After more than 100 sections, The Spokesman-Review's .TXT section is shutting down. This Sunday's page is the section's last.
Most of Lake Roosevelt's 1.4 million annual visitors have come and gone for the season, and what many of them left behind will make you wince.
OUTWRITE
Huckleberry Haiku inspires readers
A bumper crop of huckleberries has inspired readers to take up our challenge and send in some delicious deep purple verse.
While some people are content to simply watch killer whales, sea kayakers have a yen to experience them. The payoff for investing a few days and a little muscle power can be huge, as another eclectic group of adventurers learned this summer in the fabled orca waterways off northeastern Vancouver Island.
Newspaper readers are well-versed in the art of huckleberry picking.When asked if this year's bumper crop of berries could inspire literary achievement, dozens responded.
True story: My family used to throw sauerkraut-making parties. That followed cabbage planting day – when the kids dunked the starts' roots into mud pits, then packed them into metal tubs – and cabbage cutting day. On that occasion, adults broke their backs hacking the heads loose and throwing them on the trailer behind Grandpa's tractor.
1Beach, W Hotel, San Diego2Pavilion Bar & Cafe, Market Pavilion Hotel, Charleston, S.C.
If you want perspective to smack you up the side of the head, go to Northern California's redwoods country. No, smack isn't the right word. The trees that seem to rocket out of sight don't offer a rude awakening, but a gentle, beautiful reminder: Life is shorter than you imagine.
Hawaii this year has hardly been a paradise for travelers.This spring, thousands were stranded when Aloha Airlines and ATA halted flights. As seats vanished, round-trip airfares from the mainland zoomed, hitting $800 or more.
My personal redwood country runs roughly from Leggett to Scotia, on and around Highway 101. But sometimes I drive up from Oakland or even head all the way up to Crescent City. Here are a few of my favorite stops along the way:
Spokane and Spokane Valley, Wash., Coeur d'Alene, Idaho and the Inland Northwest
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