Buyers on edge

It has to be frustrating being a buyer today with interest rates moving up and down. With nearly a two-year period of mortgage rates below 4 percent it was easy to become complacent. Many new buyers have been unaware that interest rates, even at last week's 4.39 percent, are below the norm historically. Some are now becoming aware that a return to the low, 3 percent range enjoyed earlier this year are unlikely and for many that means scrambling to get qualified for a loan before another spike in rates.

Entertainment Briefs Feb. 24, 2010

'Top Chef' host Lakshmi has baby

Surging market drawing investors to IPOs

Empire State Building owner, Potbelly going public

NEW YORK - Starting next week, you could own a piece of the Empire State Building.

Europe financial crisis is top business story of 2011

NEW YORK - Europe took the financial world on a stomach-churning ride in 2011.

NBA Commissioner Stern says Seattle group has filed for relocation

With one more procedural move, the Sacramento Kings took another step toward Seattle.

Post Falls Landing swap completed

Lender, new owner of city center site in talks with two developers

POST FALLS - The new owner of the Post Falls Landing site has completed a land swap with the city of Post Falls, relieving the city of liability concerns after the deal was tied up for five years with the previous developer.

To scan or not to scan; better ask your doctor

Imagine a medical procedure that costs less than $200, is painless and can tell if you have a tumor anywhere in your body, or a possible deadly swelling, narrowing or other internal abnormality.

NIC buys property, preparing for growth

College leases out some of its recent acquisitions

North Idaho College purchase residential property for future growth

'We're ready for the summer'

Confident Delta CEO predicts fewer flight delays this travel season

League of Women Voters turns 90

Institution offers online voter guide

COEUR d'ALENE - The League of Women Voters is celebrating its 90th birthday in 2010.

Notices Jan. 2, 2012

KELLY, C.C., died Dec. 22, 2011. Born in Williams, Ariz. At his request no services will be held. Yates Funeral Home is entrusted with the care of cremation. Visit his online guestbook at www.yatesfuneralhomes.com

E-commerce learning session for businesses

Free training for small business owners and entrepreneurs who want to grow through e-commerce will be offered Aug. 28 by the SBA (U.S. Small Business Association) Spokane Branch.

Delivery confirmation

Post office retreats on eliminating Saturday mail

WASHINGTON - The financially beleaguered Postal Service backpedaled on its plan to end Saturday mail delivery, conceding Wednesday that its gamble to compel congressional approval had failed.

U.S. stocks bounce back, recovering from rough start to year

MAIN STREET: Post Falls grandma loves her sailors

Chris Pappas is the daughter of a World War II Army pilot and the sister of an Army soldier who made the ultimate sacrifice on the battlefield in Vietnam. She’s also the grandmother of four, three of whom are all wearing the uniform of the U.S. Navy. When Chase Price and Haylie Price graduated from the Navy’s Recruit Training Command in Great Lakes, Ill. last week they followed in their brother’s footsteps. Spencer Price graduated from RTC in April of this year.

Court: 1 Texas execution back on schedule

HOUSTON - A federal appeals court on Wednesday threw out a ruling requiring the Texas prison system to disclose more information about where it gets lethal-injection drugs, reversing a judge who had halted an upcoming execution.

Sports Briefs May 31, 2010

Golf

Iraq driving up gas prices

Violence in Iraq is helping to make gasoline in the U.S. more expensive, depriving drivers of the usual price break between Memorial Day and July Fourth.

Elsie Deane, 100

One Hundred Years of Adventure and Making People Smile

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Francis Patrick Hughes, 61