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Kootenai County Marine Deputies Train, Prepare For Boat Rush For Memorial Day Weekend

Kootenai County Marine Deputies Train, Prepare For Boat Rush For Memorial Day Weekend
KHQ.COM - With warmer weather on the horizon, soon thousands of people will flood local rivers and lakes in the next few months. KHQ Local News previously reported on Bonner County Marine Deputies preparing for the upcoming summer boating season. On Thursday, KHQ Local News Reporter Cristy

Defense releases photos, texts of Trayvon Martin

Defense releases photos, texts of Trayvon Martin
By MIKE SCHNEIDERAssociated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Data released Thursday by the defense from slain Florida teenager Trayvon Martin's cellphone includes texts with a friend about fighting, smoking pot and being forced to move out of his mother's house because of trouble at school, as

UPDATE: 911 Service Outage Restored

UPDATE: 911 Service Outage Restored
UPDATE: The phone outage from Worley, Idaho to Moscow, Idaho has been resolved. All phone lines in the area, including 911, are back in service. **This message has been relayed from Spokane County Sheriff Office** Spokane 911 has been advised of a Frontier telephone service outage involving the 283

Procter & Gamble brings back A.G. Lafley as CEO

Procter & Gamble brings back A.G. Lafley as CEO
By MAE ANDERSONAP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) - Procter & Gamble Co. is bringing back its former CEO, as the world's largest consumer-products maker tries to spur global growth. In a surprise move, P&G said Thursday that former CEO A.G. Lafley, a 33-year industry veteran, is returning

Boy Scouts Approve Plan To Accept Openly Gay Boys

Boy Scouts Approve Plan To Accept Openly Gay Boys
GRAPEVINE, Texas (AP) - The Boy Scouts of America's National Council has voted to ease a long-standing ban and allow openly gay boys to be accepted as Scouts.  Of the local Scout leaders voting at their annual meeting in Texas, more than 60 percent supported the proposal.  Under the

NYPD: Merchant held for ransom, tortured for month

NYPD: Merchant held for ransom, tortured for month
By COLLEEN LONGAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) - A businessman was snatched from a New York City street in broad daylight, then held captive for more than a month in a warehouse where he was bound and burned with acid as he was held for a $3 million ransom his family back in Ecuador did not have,

Lawyer: NY man at center of HIV scare not positive

Lawyer: NY man at center of HIV scare not positive
By CAROLYN THOMPSONAssociated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - Nushawn Williams, a New York drug dealer imprisoned amid accusations he infected 13 young women with HIV in the 1990s, does not have the virus that causes AIDS, according to his attorney, who said he arranged for a new blood test as part of

2 charged in slayings of 6 on Tenn.-Ala. border

2 charged in slayings of 6 on Tenn.-Ala. border
FAYETTEVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Authorities say two men have been charged in six killings, including a toddler and unborn baby, near the Tennessee-Alabama border last fall during a dispute over drug dealing. Lincoln County Sheriff Murray Blackwelder announced on Thursday that 36-year-old Henry Burrell,

Obama lifts ban on Guantanamo transfers to Yemen

Obama lifts ban on Guantanamo transfers to Yemen
By NEDRA PICKLERAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama is lifting his self-imposed ban on transferring Guantanamo Bay detainees to Yemen, where a leadership upheaval has improved the country's security but not eliminated a terrorist organization trying to recruit jihadists.

SALUTING THE BRAVE: Procession For Fallen Fairchild Airmen

SALUTING THE BRAVE: Procession For Fallen Fairchild Airmen
AIRWAY HEIGHTS, Wash. - On Thursday dozens of people lined the streets in Airway Heights to pay their respects to Capt. Victoria Pinckney and Tech. Sgt. Herman "Tre" Mackey III as their bodies were transported to Spokane ahead of Tuesday's public memorial. The two Airmen, along with Capt.

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Obama To Visit Tornado-Ravaged OK Town

Obama To Visit Tornado-Ravaged OK Town
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama will travel to tornado-ravaged Moore, Okla., on Sunday.    That's according to a White House official, who wasn't authorized to publicly discuss the trip ahead of the official announcement and requested anonymity.    A

I-5 bridge collapses into Wash. river, injuring 3

I-5 bridge collapses into Wash. river, injuring 3
By MANUEL VALDES and MIKE BAKERAssociated Press MOUNT VERNON, Wash. (AP) - An Interstate 5 bridge over a river collapsed north of Seattle Thursday evening, dumping two vehicles into the water and sparking a rescue effort by boats and divers as three injured people were pulled from the chilly

Flooding forces evacuation of 1,300 in ND town

Flooding forces evacuation of 1,300 in ND town
By BLAKE NICHOLSON and DAVE KOLPACKAssociated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - A dam that threatened to give way and flood a North Dakota town was holding back the water on Wednesday, though the 1,300 residents of Cavalier were still being told to stay away from their homes. Steady rainfall between