9+ hour, 14+ min ago   (269+ words) From 1976: Washington Mutual Savings Bank was offering an innovative service: Password Plus, which allowed people to “pay your bills by telephone.” The bank’s Spokane regional manager said that this checkless method was, “so far as we know, the first full-service…...

8+ hour, 47+ min ago   (633+ words) OLYMPIA — Washington has filed two multi-state lawsuits alleging the federal government has illegally loosened protections for endangered wildlife. Washington Attorney General Nick Brown announced both cases, which were filed against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine…...

9+ hour, 9+ min ago   (1122+ words) The wife of one of the 11 men killed in the Longview paper mill disaster is suing its operating company, Nippon Dynawave Packaging Company, alleging its negligence led to the chemical tank failure that caused her husband’s death. Attorneys representing Mackenzie…...

11+ hour, 21+ min ago   (222+ words) The man a sheriff’s deputy shot and killed outside Evergreen Middle School on Tuesday has been identified as 20-year-old Joel Malin, according to the Spokane County Medical Examiner’s office. He died of multiple gunshot wounds outside of Evergreen Middle School,…...

15+ hour, 2+ min ago   (238+ words) Five East Valley schools went into lockdown for about half an hour on Wednesday morning after staff reported a “suspicious person” on East Valley High School’s campus. Shortly after 10 a.m., the district sent messages to families that the high…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (206+ words) At least two Idaho high schools were affected Tuesday in a regional swatting incident, including Nampa High School. A call was made to the Nampa Police Department dispatch at 12:34 p.m., and a woman reported that her boyfriend was outside the school,…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (524+ words) PARIS – Fourteen men went on trial in Paris on Tuesday on smuggling charges related to the drowning of more than 30 people in the Channel five years ago, the worst disaster on record involving migrants in the narrow seaway separating France…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (658+ words) NEW YORK – Eight years after U.S. prosecutors secretly charged China’s Huawei Technologies with defrauding HSBC and other banks over its business with Iran, the case is finally heading for trial. Huawei also faces charges of conspiring to steal trade secrets…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (497+ words) NEW YORK – Amazon.com was sued on Tuesday in a proposed nationwide class action accusing the retailer of systematically discriminating against thousands of pregnant employees, including by firing some it claimed took too much time off. According to a complaint…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (116+ words) The Spokesman-Review Multiple Spokane Valley Fire Department crews are responding to a reported shooting on or near the grounds of Evergreen Middle School in Spokane Valley, according to a fire department Facebook post. The Central Valley School District posted that…...