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Playing the influence game
Northwest Briefs july 13, 2014
Split-screen presidency
Education debate continues to stir
Wells Fargo reports 3 percent increase in income
NEW YORK, N.Y. (AP) - A stable housing market and fewer bad loans helped lift Wells Fargo's quarterly profit 3 percent.
Bus carrying Chinese tourists crashes in Wyoming
GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) - A bus carrying Chinese tourists flipped on its side on a busy highway in Grand Teton National Park, and eight of the people on board remained hospitalized Friday, officials sa…
Federal Trade Commission sues Amazon over kids' app charges
NEW YORK (AP) - The Federal Trade Commission is suing Amazon over charges that the company has not done enough to prevent children from making unauthorized in-app purchases, according to a complaint filed Thursday …
Prostitute in Google executive case linked to 2nd death
MILTON, Ga. - Two months before police say a high-priced prostitute calmly left a Google executive dying from a heroin overdose on his yacht, the woman panicked on the phone with a 911 dispatcher as her boyfriend l…
Protection for farmers?
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In the nation's agricultural heartland, farming is more than a multibillion-dollar industry that feeds the world. It could be on track to…
European bank scare causes stocks to fall
NEW YORK - Stocks fell Thursday as worries about the soundness of a European bank spooked U.S. investors, prompting them to sell stocks and snap up less risky assets like gold and government bonds.
Suspect in Houston shootings sought ex-wife's locationFour children, two adults killed
SPRING, Texas - A man charged with killing four children and their parents forced his way into the family's suburban Houston home, tied them up and shot them i…
Get out your wallet
NEW YORK - In over three decades of studying ferns, Duke University professor Kathleen Pryer has received her share of grant money. But for her newest project, she's getting help from a retired nurse in Canada and …
Pilot treats grounded passengers to pizza
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - Faced with potentially hungry - and grumpy - passengers, a Frontier Airlines pilot treated them to pizza when storms diverted a Denver-bo…
Stepped-up pooch presence
WASHINGTON - Planning a visit to the White House? Bring your kids and camera. But please, don't feed the animals.
Hanford vapors
RICHLAND, Wash. - About 12,000 air samples taken on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation this year after more than three dozen workers reported being sickened by ch…