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‘Hundred percent sure’ of death: Oct. 7 survivor tells story to Spokane Israel supporters

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Gal Cohen-Solal, his wife and three young children moved Oct. 1 to Kibbutz Reim. Less than a week later, their home and small community in southern Israel were under siege by Hamas.

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50 years ago in Expo history: A literal ‘pile of junk’ at the fair was meant to make a powerful statement on waste

Fri., May 17, 2024

The Spokesman-Review’s editorial page urged people to look beyond the obvious attraction at Expo ’74’s U.S. Pavilion.

News > World

‘Hundred percent sure’ of death: Oct. 7 survivor tells story to Spokane Israel supporters

Fri., May 17, 2024

Gal Cohen-Solal, his wife and three young children moved Oct. 1 to Kibbutz Reim. Less than a week later, their home and small community in southern Israel were under siege by Hamas.

News > Nation/World

At least four dead as storms batter Houston area

UPDATED: Thu., May 16, 2024

Four people were killed and more than 1 million people were without power as intense thunderstorms swept through Texas on Thursday evening, bringing heavy rain, destructive winds and dangerous flooding to central and southeast portions of the state that had already flooded this month.

News > Transportation

Lime scooters – or some kind of rental e-scooters – probably coming back to Spokane in June

UPDATED: Thu., May 16, 2024

Electric scooters are expected to return to Spokane streets next month, with Lime Scooters the most likely after a six-month hiatus from the city.

News > Nation/World

U.S.: North Koreans posed as tech workers to fund weapons

UPDATED: Thu., May 16, 2024

Posing as Americans, North Korean technology workers secured remote work contracts with hundreds of U.S. companies as part of a scheme to help fund Pyongyang’s illicit nuclear weapons and missile programs, the U.S. government said on Thursday.

News > Crime/Public Safety

Former Spokane bull rider accused of killing Providence nurse is declared unfit to stand trial

UPDATED: Thu., May 16, 2024

A former Spokane bull rider accused of killing his grandmother’s nurse because he thought the nurse was responsible for the 9/11 terrorist attacks is unfit to stand trial, court records show.

News > Further Review

Brown v. Board of Education at 70: How the landmark court case changed America by changing its classrooms

Thu., May 16, 2024

Seventy years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that segregation in schools had to end — but with no deadline, it would take until 2016 for the last U.S. school to desegregate

News > Crime/Public Safety

Downtown Spokane rainbow intersection defaced again, this time with fire

UPDATED: Thu., May 16, 2024

Vandals have defaced a downtown street mural recognizing Spokane’s LGBTQ community by pouring a flammable liquid on the road and setting it on fire, according to a news release.

News > WA Government

Thousands of free opioid overdose reversal kits headed to Washington

UPDATED: Thu., May 16, 2024

State residents can order a naloxone kit at no cost with free shipping through the Department of Health's new mail-order program.

News > Spokane

NASA astronaut, King Cole’s children to be featured in Saturday’s Lilac Festival parade

UPDATED: Thu., May 16, 2024

A NASA astronaut, children of Expo ’74 visionary King Cole and, of course, the royal court will grace the streets of downtown Spokane on Saturday night as thousands take in the city’s largest parade.

News > Nation/World

Biden asserts executive privilege in fight over recording of special counsel interview

UPDATED: Thu., May 16, 2024

President Joe Biden has asserted executive privilege to deny House Republicans access to recordings of his interview with a special counsel investigating his handling of government documents, denouncing their effort as a political stunt with dire implications for federal law enforcement.

News > Nation/World

Abbott grants Daniel Perry pardon in murder of Black Lives Matter protester

UPDATED: Thu., May 16, 2024

Republican Gov. Greg Abbott said Thursday that he was pardoning Daniel Perry, the former Army sergeant convicted in the fatal shooting of a protester during a Black Lives Matter march, after a review board recommended he be released from prison.

News > Idaho

Sandpoint farmer wins $2 million on Powerball

UPDATED: Thu., May 16, 2024

When the fuel pump on Nathan Wood’s truck started making strange noises last week, he pulled into the nearest gas station, Arnie’s Payless Gas on Highway 200 in Kootenai, Idaho, to see what the trouble might be. Since he was already there, Wood purchased a few lottery tickets.

News > Transportation

Bye bye benches: city of Spokane blocks off seating on Monroe Street bridge as part of safety improvement project

UPDATED: Thu., May 16, 2024

The city of Spokane has all but done away with the benches on the Monroe Street bridge.

News > Nation/World

U.S. military says Gaza pier is anchored, aid deliveries set to begin

UPDATED: Thu., May 16, 2024

The U.S. military said Thursday that its floating pier had been anchored to the Gaza shoreline and promised that humanitarian deliveries to the war-ravaged territory would begin “within days,” after delays and amid objections from critics who fear that the operation, directed by President Biden, will leave those involved vulnerable to attack.

News > Business

The Dirt: Spokane County adding new office building

UPDATED: Thu., May 16, 2024

Spokane County is seeking a building permit from the city to build a new Operations Building at 1303 N. Cedar St., which is on a block of buildings that had been used as an asbestos plant.

News > Nation/World

In talks with Putin amid Ukraine war, Xi calls Russia-China ties a ‘strong driving force’

UPDATED: Thu., May 16, 2024

Russian President Vladimir Putin and China's Xi Jinping put their countries' partnership on red-carpet display in Beijing on Thursday, aiming to project a unified alternative to the West as each faces pressure amid Moscow's war on Ukraine.

News > Nation/World

Cohen, Trump’s lawyer match wits in crucial cross-examination

UPDATED: Thu., May 16, 2024

Donald Trump's lawyers on Thursday took their best shot at Michael Cohen, the star witness in the former president's criminal trial in Manhattan, grilling Cohen about a medley of misrepresentations, manipulations and outright lies.

News > Crime/Public Safety

Spokane police receive nearly $120,000 for sale of home used in drug-trafficking

UPDATED: Thu., May 16, 2024

The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday gave the Spokane Police Department nearly $120,000 gained from the forfeiture of a drug-trafficking house in the East Central Neighborhood.

News > Nation/World

Record heat hits Florida, where DeSantis scrubbed ‘climate change’ from state laws

UPDATED: Thu., May 16, 2024

Scorching temperatures set numerous records across South Florida on Wednesday, and historically hot conditions for mid-May will persist through the weekend.

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