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SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - An Eastern Washington political committee has decided it will not auction an AR-15 rifle at its Lincoln Day Dinner in March because of criticism that is the same type of weapon used in last week's Florida high school massacre...

Here are the latest weather-related school and business closures and delays for Wednesday, February 21, 2018: EPIC / Head Start - All AM ECEAP classes at EPIC Place, OIC, East Valley and Ahtanum are canceled. Head Start AM classes at Tieton, Fairview, Union Gap and Wide Hollow are canceled...

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OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - House Democrats have unveiled a budget proposal that sticks to an education funding timeline that the state Supreme Court has previously rejected and also includes a capital gains tax for long-term property tax relief. The plan released Tuesday comes a day after Senate Democrats released their own plan that doesn't include new taxes and also complies with the court's most rec

An 82-year-old Pasco woman is believed to be the second person murdered by a man already behind bars. Officers say they discovered the woman had been killed in her home in the 1200 block of W. Washington Street, because she possibly owned a car that the suspect was driving when he was arrested...

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - Gov. Jay Inslee has appointed Michelle Szambelan to the Spokane County Superior Court. The new judge will replace retiring Judge Linda Tompkins, who has served on the bench for 20 years. Inslee said Tuesday that Szambelan has served as a judge in Spokane Municipal Court for nine years...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Light snow began falling before the morning commute in the Portland metropolitan area, a preview of the heavier precipitation that's expected during the drive home from work and into the evening. The National Weather Service says a winter storm warning is in effect from the Portland metro area north into Southwest Washington, with potential snow accumulations of 3 to 8 inches

Nearly 35,000 sandhill cranes will stop in Othello for just a few days in March as they migrate north to their breeding grounds in Alaska. For those who want to take it all in, registration for the Othello Sandhill Crane Festival tours opened Monday...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Federal officials are offering a $100,000 prize to find a way to kill invasive quagga and zebra mussels. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation says the only area not yet invaded by the mussels in the contiguous United States is the Columbia River Basin in the Pacific Northwest...

SALEM, Ore. (AP) - Most recent data show 38 Oregon residents 19-and-under died by suicide in 2015. The Statesman Journal reports the Oregon Health Authority's 2016 Youth Intervention and Prevention Plan Annual Report says those 38 suicides accounted for 45 percent of the suicides reported among youth 24-and-under...