WENATCHEE — Chelan County PUD commissioners Monday agreed to move ahead with a proposal that could raise the water level behind Rocky Reach Dam by as much as 3 feet. Commissioners unanimously agreed to allow PUD General Manger Rich Riazzi to sign an agreement with the state Department of Ecology to explore ways to increase water storage around the region. Full Story »
QUINCY — Investigators have not yet determined a cause of the Saturday fire that destroyed the Quincy Market. Don Fortier, chief of Fire District 3, said he has heard that 27 people worked at the store. The building is badly damaged, with only exterior walls standing, and only a small part of the roof remaining in place. Full Story »
100 years ago — 1909: A crew from Kerrick Construction of St. Paul, Minn., has arrived here to begin building an engine round house, coal bunkers and sheds for the Great Northern Railroad. Full Story »
WATERVILLE — A Brewster man pleaded guilty Thursday to unlawful imprisonment and will serve three months in jail after taking his ex-girlfriend’s daughter, who was six at the time, from her home in August. Court documents say Andres Zavala-Ramirez, 36, came to his ex-girlfriend’s home while she was out grocery shopping. Court papers say the girl called her mother and told her Zavala phoned to ... Full Story »
Dear Abby: My wife, “Paula,” and I have a friend I’ll call “Mark.” I recently learned that before our wedding, Mark made a pass at Paula. (He was separated from his wife at the time.) Paula told him she wasn’t interested. I also found out that Paula kissed Mark while we were having some difficulties during the past couple of years. But when Mark and his wife worked things out, he told Paula the ... Full Story »
Here is a list of what’s open and what’s closed Wednesday for the Veterans Day holiday:Banks: Most banks will be open. Call ahead to double-check. Buses: Grant County Transit buses will not run. Regular schedules will resume Thursday. Link buses will run regular schedules. Full Story »
HUAMPAMI, Peru — In his first year at San Marcos University, Hermenegildo Espejo barely spoke, and certainly not in class. His Spanish was rudimentary, his accent an embarrassment. Classmates in Lima, a two-day trip from his Amazon home town, laughed at his grammatical stumbles, his odd pronunciation. Full Story »
Have you heard of “the fat gap”? It’s a term that sprang up in September, when a survey in Great Britain found the majority of overweight people there are oblivious to the fact that they’re heavy. The findings pin down a phenomenon that health professionals have been talking about for years: as those around us get fatter, our perception of our own size changes accordingly. Are you, too, caught ... Full Story »
At its most basic, paella is a rice dish cooked in a broad shallow pan and includes olive oil, garlic, tomatoes, broth and a few more ingredients. Its soul, though, depends on perfectly cooked rice. Full Story »
Do your eyes deceive you? A ramekin — an individual, ovenproof serving cup made of porcelain or ceramic — is a simple way to keep portion sizes in check. Full Story »
WASHINGTON — A shampoo that prevents airborne virus particles that settle on the scalp from causing swine flu. Special disposable gloves that offer protection from ATMs, door handles or steering wheels that might be “contaminated” with H1N1. A “natural immunization” that purports to be a safer alternative to a flu shot. These are among 140 drugs, devices and pieces of equipment marketed over the ... Full Story »
WENATCHEE — Police say a device resembling a homemade bomb was found outside of the Salvation Army Corps thrift store at about 4:40 p.m. today. Wenatchee police shut down the 1500 block of North Miller Avenue and called for a bomb squad from Yakima, said Sgt. Stephyne Silvestre. Full Story »
WENATCHEE — A homemade bomb inside a large appliance was found outside of the Salvation Army Corps thrift store at about 4:40 p.m. today. Wenatchee police shut down the 1500 block of North Miller Avenue and called for a bomb squad from Marysville to disarm the device, said Sgt. Stephyne Silvestre. The wait could be up to two hours, depending on mountain pass conditions. Full Story »
CLEVELAND — The man who lived in the house of rotting corpses never gave people reason to wonder what he was doing behind closed doors. Full Story »
VERAPAZ, El Salvador — Soldiers and townspeople dug through rock and debris today in hopes of finding dozens of people missing in a mudslide that swept down on a town, part of a wave of floods and landslides that killed at least 124 people in El Salvador. Full Story »
BERLIN — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is again calling on Iran to release three Americans as a senior Iranian prosecutor said they have been accused of espionage. Full Story »
CLEVELAND, Texas — Authorities called to check on a family’s well-being in a rural southeast Texas home found the bodies of four people who had been shot to death. Full Story »
PENSACOLA, Fla. — Schools closed, residents of low-lying areas sought shelter and Florida’s governor declared a state of emergency today as a late-season tropical storm churned toward the Gulf Coast. Full Story »
SELDEN, N.Y. — Authorities in New York say a woman who had about 20 dead dogs buried in her backyard on Long Island faces a misdemeanor animal cruelty charge. Full Story »
WASHINGTON (AP) — Don’t look for the Senate to quickly follow the House on health care overhaul. A government health insurance plan included in the House bill is unacceptable to a few Democratic moderates who hold the balance of power in the Senate. They’re locked in a battle with liberals, with the fate of President Barack Obama’s signature issue at stake. Full Story »
BERLIN — Chancellor Angela Merkel thanked former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev for making change possible in East Germany as she visited what was once a fortified border crossing today — retracing her steps on the night 20 years ago the Berlin Wall fell. The Bornholmer Strasse bridge was the first crossing to open on Nov. 9, 1989, following a confused announcement that East Germany was lifting ... Full Story »
NEW YORK (AP) — Students and university officials started getting e-mails last year in which a prominent Judaic studies scholar seemed to make a startling confession: He had committed plagiarism. The messages, it turned out, were a hoax. Prosecutors filed criminal charges, saying a lawyer sent the messages to tarnish the professor, his father’s rival. Full Story »
WASHINGTON — As an evangelical Christian living in Texas, climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe found that many conservatives had questions about climate change based on things they’d heard on talk radio. So Hayhoe and her husband, Andrew Farley, the pastor of a nondenominational church in Lubbock, Texas, decided to answer the questions in a new book from religious publisher FaithWords, “A Climate ... Full Story »
BELLINGHAM — The Bellingham Herald reports the Defense Department has told a Custer family their son was killed Thursday in Afghanistan when the Stryker vehicle he was driving went over a buried explosive. Twenty-two-year-old Spc. Aaron Aamont was a member of the 5th Stryker brigade from Fort Lewis. Full Story »
TACOMA — Sound Transit will have to pay an additional $2.5 million to the owner of a Tacoma business displaced by a new commuter rail line. Sound Transit acquired Star Ice and Fuel by eminent domain for $8.9 million last spring as part of its plans to extend rail service to Lakewood by 2012. Full Story »
A morning moonset peeks through the autumn foliage near Bradfordton, Ill. AP Photo/Seth Perlman
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