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20 Benefits and Uses for Hydrogen Peroxide
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Temporary bridges planned for fallen I-5 section
Mike Baker, Manuel Valdes Associated Press
Donna Gordon Blankinship Associated Press
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Restoration of funding means opportunities for schools
Leaders excited to avoid budget cuts
Jody Lawrence-Turner The Spokesman-Review
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Obama shifting terrorism response
President warns against engaging in ‘perpetual war’
Robert Burns Associated Press
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Collection of classic vehicles lines, defines downtown Sprague
Mike Prager The Spokesman-Review
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Former radical takes up drug prisoners’ cause
Associated Press
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Residents survive tornado after taking quick action
Allen G. Breed Associated Press
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In brief: From Wire Reports:
San Antonio flooding kills two, leaves hundreds stranded
SAN ANTONIO – Torrential rains swamped San Antonio with flash floods on Saturday, leaving at least two people dead as emergency workers rushed to rescue more than 200 residents stranded in cars and homes.
A woman became trapped in her car and climbed to the roof before being swept away in floodwaters, said San Antonio Fire Department spokesman Christian Bove. Her body was later found against a fence, he said.
Emergency officials also found the body of a woman who was swept away in her car while firefighters were trying to rescue here.
In suburban Schertz, a teenage boy who was swept away while trying to cross the swollen Cibolo Creek was still missing Saturday night.
The Fire Department conducted more than 235 rescues across the city, some by inflatable boats, authorities said. They continued their search into the evening.
Collision collapses rail overpass
CHAFFEE, Mo. – The National Transportation Safety Board has launched an investigation into the cause of a cargo train collision that partially collapsed a highway overpass Saturday in southeast Missouri, injuring seven people.
The collision occurred about 2:30 a.m. when a Union Pacific train hit a Burlington Northern Santa Fe train at a rail intersection under a highway near Chaffee, a town of about 3,000 southwest of Cape Girardeau.
Several cars derailed and hit a pillar of the Highway M overpass, bringing it partially down, an official said. Two cars were on the overpass when it fell.
Seven people – five in the vehicles and a UP train conductor and engineer – were taken to Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, treated and released by early afternoon, hospital spokeswoman Felecia Blanton said.
Obama: Honor fallen soldiers
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama on Saturday urged Americans to commemorate the Memorial Day weekend by honoring U.S. soldiers who have died in the nation’s wars.
“They gave America the most precious thing they had – ‘the last full measure of devotion,’ ” Obama said in his weekly Internet and radio address, citing a passage from Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address.
On Monday, Obama plans to travel to Arlington National Cemetery to deliver remarks and lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
Suicide bombing injures 18 in Dagestan
MAKHACHKALA, Russia – A suicide bomber blew herself up in the southern Russian region of Dagestan on Saturday, injuring at least 18, including two children and five police officers, authorities said. The attacker was later identified as a widow of two Islamic radicals killed by security forces.
It was the first suicide bombing in Dagestan since the Boston Marathon attacks last month. The Tsarnaev brothers suspected of carrying out those blasts are ethnic Chechens who lived in this turbulent Caucasus province before moving to the U.S. Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the elder brother who was killed in a shootout with police days after the April 15 bombings, spent six months in Dagestan in 2012.
The woman was identified as Madina Alieva, 25, who married an Islamist who was killed in 2009 and then wedded another Islamic radical who was gunned down last year, police spokeswoman Fatina Ubaidatova said.
Marchers protest engineered foods
LOS ANGELES – Marches and rallies against seed giant Monsanto were held across the U.S. and in dozens of other countries Saturday.
“March Against Monsanto” protesters say they want to call attention to the dangers posed by genetically modified food and the food giants that produce it. Marches are planned for more than 250 cities around the globe, according to organizers.
Genetically modified plants are grown from seeds that are engineered to resist insecticides and herbicides, add nutritional benefits or otherwise improve crop yields and increase the global food supply. Most corn, soybean and cotton crops grown in the United States today have been genetically modified. But some say genetically modified organisms can lead to serious health conditions and harm the environment.
Monsanto Co., based in St. Louis, said Saturday that it respects people’s rights to express their opinion on the topic, but maintains that its seeds improve agriculture by helping farmers produce more from their land while conserving resources such as water and energy.
Powell weighs in on use of drones
WASHINGTON – U.S. drone strikes should be conducted by the military, not the Central Intelligence Agency, and limited to targets that present a real immediate threat to the U.S., former Secretary of State Colin Powell said, according to a report Saturday.
According to an interview with Bloomberg TV, Powell, a retired U.S. Army general, said the unmanned, remotely controlled airplanes are a very effective weapon, but they need to be used in a more “circumscribed” manner to make sure the U.S. is focusing on the most high-value targets that represent a real immediate threat to Americans.
Powell, 76, was secretary of state for President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2005. The retired four-star Army general was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff 1989-1993 during the first Persian Gulf War and earlier was, while serving in the Army, President Ronald Reagan’s national security adviser from 1987 to 1989.
Powell’s comments come after President Barack Obama in a major national security speech on Thursday defended the use of drones but said he would work with Congress to increase scrutiny of them.
Powell added that authority for drone use should be transferred to the Defense Department.
Anti-Muslim activity on the rise in UK
LONDON – Police, politicians and activists in Britain are warning of rising anti-Muslim sentiment following the slaughter of an off-duty British soldier in a London street, an apparent act of Islamic extremism that has horrified the nation.
Metropolitan Police investigating the killing of Lee Rigby, a 25-year-old soldier who was run over by attackers then butchered with knives, arrested three more men in the murder investigation Saturday. Stun guns were used on two of the three men, ages 24 and 28, police said.
The latest arrests came as an estimated 1,500 members of an extremist right-wing group called the English Defense League marched in the northern English city of Newcastle, chanting Rigby’s name. In the southern English city of Portsmouth, police arrested two men for a racially motivated assault as hundreds of demonstrators gathered near one mosque, while several more people were detained for alleged racist offenses elsewhere.
The two men suspected of killing the soldier, Michael Adebolajo, 28, and Michael Adebowale, 22, remained under armed guard in separate London hospitals after police shot them at the scene. Police have not officially named the suspects because they have not been charged, but British officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to discuss the investigation, have confirmed their names to the Associated Press.
French soldier stabbed in throat
PARIS – A French soldier was stabbed in the throat in a busy commercial district outside Paris on Saturday, and the government said it was trying to determine if there were any links to the brutal killing of a British soldier by suspected Islamic extremists.
French President Francois Hollande said the identity of the attacker, who escaped, was unknown. The life of the 23-year-old soldier was not in danger, the Interior Ministry said in a statement.
On Wednesday, British soldier Lee Rigby, 25, was viciously stabbed on a London street in broad daylight in a suspected terrorist attack that has raised fears of potential copycat strikes.
The French soldier was on a group patrol as part of a national protection program when he was attacked from behind, prosecutor Robert Gelli told Europe 1 radio. The assailant did not say a word, Gelli said.
Suspected rebels kill 28, wound 24
NEW DELHI – About 200 suspected Maoist rebels set off a land mine and opened fire on a convoy of cars carrying local leaders and supporters of India’s ruling Congress party in the country’s east, killing at least 28 people and wounding 24 others, police said.
Senior police officer M. Gupta said the attack occurred Saturday in the Sukma area, about 215 miles south of Raipur, the capital of Chhattisgarh state.
Two state party leaders and five police officers were among those killed, said R.K. Vij, a police officer. Other victims were party supporters.
Police identified one of those killed as Mahendra Karma, a Congress leader in Chhattisgarh state who founded a local militia, the Salwa Judum, to combat the Maoist rebels. The anti-rebel militia had to be reined in after it was accused of atrocities against tribals – indigenous people at the bottom of India’s rigid social ladder.
The rebels, known as Naxalites, have been fighting the central government for more than four decades, demanding land and jobs for tenant farmers and the poor. The fighters were inspired by Chinese communist revolutionary leader Mao Zedong and have drawn support from displaced tribal populations opposed to corporate exploitation and official corruption.
GU building sports center
Gonzaga University has started construction of a $6 million indoor tennis and golf center on three vacant acres at 1220 N. Superior – the east edge of the private school’s north Spokane campus
Construction is expected to take five months.
The 72,000-square-foot structure will include six regulation tennis courts, a golf practice area, locker rooms, a training room and offices.
A second-floor area will provide for a viewing space and restrooms. Gonzaga purchased the property for the project in 2007.
General contractor is Walker Construction, of Spokane; Gonzaga architect Mac McCandless designed the project with assistance from ALSC Architects.
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Hezbollah leader confirms group is fighting in Syria
Bassem Mroue Associated Press
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Celebs turn out for AIDS gala
‘Tales of 1,001 Nights’ theme electrifies Vienna fundraiser
George Jahn Associated Press
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911 call center’s outage caused by ‘almost a perfect storm’
Jonathan Brunt The Spokesman-Review
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picture story
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Eye on Boise: Crapo addresses losing campaign funds
Betsy Z. Russell The Spokesman-Review
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Oregon teen accused of school bombing plot
Steven Dubois Associated Press
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Spin Control: When all else fails, candidates shouldn’t whine
Jim Camden The Spokesman-Review
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Logging project stalls in Montana
Associated Press
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opinion:
Gary Crooks The Spokesman-Review
Kathleen Parker
Cousin Sam does not necessarily agree with the opinions of others which may be linked in this blog; and in particular does not agree with the following two opinions.
Local businesses squeezed by out-of-state online competitors’ unfair advantage
Pam Eaton
Loss of revenue hurting state, local governments’ provision of basic services
Carol Nelson
Local businesses squeezed by out-of-state online competitors’ unfair advantage
Pam Eaton
Carol Nelson
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sports:
Golf needs more give and take, but stop with the racism
George Diaz Orlando Sentinel
George Diaz Orlando Sentinel
David Haugh Chicago Tribune
John Blanchette The Spokesman-Review
Rich Landers The Spokesman-Review
Rich Landers The Spokesman-Review
Rich Landers The Spokesman-Review
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Memorial service programs could definitely use an upgrade
Rebecca Nappi The Spokesman-Review
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For some homeowners a house is a canvas
Cedar Burnett Associated Press
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In the Garden: Bright and easy, zinnias are annual favorite
Susan Mulvihill The Spokesman-Review
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Top films capturing WWII
Gary A. Warner McClatchy-Tribune
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Gettysburg commemorates 150 years with plethora of events
Diane W. Stoneback McClatchy-Tribune
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Wise investors stay engaged with retirement strategy
Alex Veiga Associated Press
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Berg turns camps into comfy quarters for military, others
Michael Guilfoil Correspondent
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More businesses are returning to made-in-USA mentality
Joyce Rosenberg
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Holiday travelers stay close to home
Scott Mayerowitz Associated Press
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