The Wenatchee World

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 »

EVERETT — A three-alarm fire has burned through the roof and caused severe damage to Emory’s restaurant on the Silver Lake waterfront south of Everett. The fire broke out about 4:30 a.m. Monday, and flames were visible through the roof as firefighters poured on water from ladders. Full Story »

SEATTLE — Three more fires overnight in Seattle’s Greenwood neighborhood are arsons. Fire Department spokeswoman Dana Vander Houwen says two fires were set about 11 p.m. Sunday behind a commercial building. They caused about $1,000 damage before they were put out. Full Story »

SEATTLE — A consulting group has recommended that Washington state close its smallest prison, the Ahtanum View Corrections Center in Yakima, to cut costs. Christopher Murray and Associates made the recommendation in a final report last week, and it’s almost identical to a draft report last month. The state’s Office of Financial Management will take it under consideration as it develops the ... Full Story »

As Seattle police continued to search the weapons-filled apartment of Christopher John Monfort, suspected of gunning down Officer Timothy Brenton on Halloween night, King County prosecutors Sunday readied themselves to file a potential death-penalty charge against him. Defense attorneys already are jockeying for assignment to his case, according to several attorneys. Monfort’s family has ... Full Story »

WALLA WALLA — For his pay-the-mortgage job, Kurt Schoen flies cargo for UPS. For his live-the-dream work, the Walla Walla man drives to a somewhat-secret location to play a different sort of tune. Full Story »

WENATCHEE — A trip to the Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center on Saturday was a passport to a dozen different lands. Visitors got tastes of Italy and Norway, enjoyed the booming sounds of Asia and danced like birds to Mexican rhythms as they had their passports stamped at the many cultural booths during the museum’s second annual Multicultural Fest. Full Story »

QUINCY — A fire Saturday night destroyed Quincy Market, one of the largest grocery stores in Quincy, leaving dozens of people without jobs. The fire was called in at 10:22 p.m., about 20 minutes after employees closed the store and went home, said District 3 Fire Chief Don Fortier. “It’s a big hit for the community,” Fortier said of the store, 807 2nd Ave. S.W. Full Story »

WENATCHEE — Snow fell fast and hard over the weekend in the North Cascades, closing three mountain passes and giving early hope to managers of the region’s downhill ski areas. A series of winter storm systems that began Friday evening had dumped more than two feet of snow in higher elevations and more — much more — was expected through the week, according to spokesmen for the National Weather ... Full Story »

WENATCHEE — Police have arrested a 22-year-old East Wenatchee man they say told investigators he robbed the Baskin-Robbins ice cream shop Jan. 11. An 18-year-old employee was alone in the store, 1025 N. Mission St., shortly after 7 p.m. when someone walked in with a white bandana over his face and demanded the money from the cash register, said Wenatchee Police Sgt. Cherie Smith. The employee ... Full Story »

EAST WENATCHEE — A food drive will be held today through Nov. 18 at TOP Food & Drug store in East Wenatchee. Full Story »

WENATCHEE — Theo Theokitos lives on. At least in the eyes of marketers for many financial institutions, magazines and insurance companies that keep sending the cat mail 10 years after his death. Full Story »