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Local & Regional Latah county voters decide on bonds and levies

By Rachel Dubrovin Published: May 21, 2013 at 4:07 PM PDT Last Updated: May 21, 2013 at 4:07 PM PDT

It's election day in Latah county, and a handful of communities are voting on bonds or levies.

Local & Regional Monetary donations will help relief efforts in Oklahoma

By Veronica Miracle Published: May 21, 2013 at 3:34 PM PDT Last Updated: May 21, 2013 at 3:34 PM PDT

Pictures and videos of Oklahomans combing through rubble and debris shows how severely an F-4 tornado has devastated the suburban town of Moore.

Local & Regional FBI officials tight-lipped about Spokane ricin case

By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS, Associated Press Published: May 21, 2013 at 10:54 AM PDT Last Updated: May 21, 2013 at 10:54 AM PDT

The FBI said Monday that no one has been arrested after last week's discovery of a pair of letters containing the deadly poison ricin in Spokane, but the agency remained tight-lipped about the investigation and a weekend raid at a downtown apartment building.

Local & Regional Voters cast ballots for proposed Lewiston school levies (Video)

By Veronica Miracle Published: May 21, 2013 at 10:33 AM PDT Last Updated: May 21, 2013 at 10:33 AM PDT

Local school districts are asking you to take to the polls Tuesday and vote on proposed levies for school funding.

Local & Regional Resident concerned with cost effectiveness using Ports of Lewiston/Clarkston (Video)

By Veronica Miracle Published: May 21, 2013 at 10:31 AM PDT Last Updated: May 21, 2013 at 10:31 AM PDT

The Army Corps of Engineers is strongly considering dredging local waterways after researching sedimentation through a costly Lower Snake River Programmatic Sediment Management plan.

Local & Regional Animal-rights worker arrested for taping rodeo

By Associated Press Published: May 20, 2013 at 3:52 PM PDT Last Updated: May 20, 2013 at 3:52 PM PDT

The Jordan Valley Big Loop Rodeo along the Idaho border is the only rodeo in Oregon known to include the event, called "horse roping" by its advocates and "horse tripping" by opponents such as the organization Showing Animals Kindness and Respect of Geneva, Ill.

Local & Regional Don't blame the breed, mother of girl attacked by pit bull says (Video)

By Erica Nochlin KATU News and KATU.com Staff Published: May 20, 2013 at 10:35 AM PDT Last Updated: May 20, 2013 at 10:35 AM PDT

A 3-year-old girl is recovering at a hospital following a pit bull attack and while her mother wants the dog put down, she said she doesn't blame the breed.

Local & Regional Idaho couple and Sun Valley in Twitter tussle

By Associated Press Published: May 20, 2013 at 9:10 AM PDT Last Updated: May 20, 2013 at 12:09 PM PDT

Leonard Barshack and Erin Smith, the husband and wife, also say Twitter should return the username to them because they'd been using it for nearly three years and weren't impersonating the Idaho resort.

Local & Regional Climbers remember Mount St. Helens eruption 33 years later (Video)

By Lincoln Graves, KATU News Published: May 18, 2013 at 12:18 PM PDT Last Updated: May 18, 2013 at 12:18 PM PDT

Saturday marks the 33rd anniversary of one of the biggest news stories ever experienced in the Pacific Northwest.

Local & Regional FBI searches Spokane apartment in ricin letter case (Video)

By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS, Associated Press Published: May 18, 2013 at 12:16 PM PDT Last Updated: May 18, 2013 at 6:03 PM PDT

Few details have been released in the case, and no arrests have been made. Federal investigators have been searching for the person who sent the letters, which were postmarked Tuesday in Spokane.

Local & Regional 85-year-old wife of Mormon church president dies

By BRADY McCOMBS - Associated Press Published: May 17, 2013 at 1:41 PM PDT Last Updated: May 17, 2013 at 1:41 PM PDT

Frances B. Monson, 85, died early Friday morning at a hospital in Salt Lake City, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has announced.

Local & Regional Boise man Kurbanov pleads not guilty in terrorism plot (Photo Gallery) (Audio)

By JOHN MILLER - Associated Press Published: May 17, 2013 at 10:57 AM PDT Last Updated: May 17, 2013 at 3:30 PM PDT

Fazliddin Kurbanov, 30, was arrested Thursday during a raid of his small apartment. Prosecutors have offered few details of their investigation or Kurbanov's role in helping a militant group back home

Local & Regional Pilot survives small plane crash in Wash. neighborhood (Photo Gallery)

By KOMO Staff Published: May 17, 2013 at 10:29 AM PDT Last Updated: May 17, 2013 at 10:29 AM PDT

A pilot is lucky to be alive after his plane crashed nose-first just short of the runway at Lynden's airport.

Local & Regional Ore. bicycle hearse offers 'one last ride' to final resting place (Video)

By Nicole Comstock Published: May 17, 2013 at 10:13 AM PDT Last Updated: May 17, 2013 at 10:13 AM PDT

Wade Lind sketched out his plans for a bicycle hearse on a napkin at McDonald's. "It doesn't handle like a regular bicycle," the funeral director said.

Local & Regional Monroe prison guard killer moved to Walla Walla's death row

By Associated Press and KOMO Staff Published: May 17, 2013 at 12:05 PM PDT Last Updated: May 17, 2013 at 1:02 PM PDT

Byron Scherf has been moved to the Washington state Penitentiary at Walla Walla after he was sentenced to death for killing a corrections officer at the Washington state Reformatory at Monroe.