Weekend TV/Radio highlights

Television and radio highlights for upcoming weekend.

Records September 10, 2010

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Northwest Notes April 20, 2012

North Idaho masters softball team second at tournament of champions

North Idaho finished second in the Major 65 Division at the Senior Softball USA Tournament of Champions Feb. 3-5 in Polk County, Fla.

Records May 18, 2011

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Obstructive sleep apnea and driving

A simulation study by Dr. Akshay Dwarakanath, Dr. Mark Elliott, and colleagues at St. James’ University Hospital in Leeds, UK, to show the risk for people with untreated obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) was recently presented. The presentation was before the European Respiratory Society International Congress. A driving simulator was used that measured the ability of the driver to stay in his or her lane.

Holiday Light Show finishes 7th in poll

The Coeur d’Alene Resort Holiday Light Show finished seventh in the nation in polling on the USA Today 10Best website.

Divorced UK and EU head for new Brexit fight over N Ireland

The regulations are intended to prevent goods from Britain entering the EU’s tariff-free single market

Initiative backers call it quits on education ballot drive

An Idaho group collecting online signatures for an education initiative for the November ballot has suspended the effort following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling against them

Mort named to roster for Team USA

Post Falls native gearing for second season with Chiefs

Spokane Chiefs defenseman Tanner Mort, a Post Falls native, has been named to USA Hockey's under-18 select team that will compete in the 2010 Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament Aug. 9-14 in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

Miss Rhode Island wins title

New Miss USA cites Hepburn as role model

LAS VEGAS - The nation's newest Miss USA winner is a Rhode Island cellist who describes herself as a nerd and aspires to be more like Hollywood icon Audrey Hepburn.

Records April 1, 2010

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Poll: Most won't change their commenting style

A judge’s order that will likely lead to the unmasking of an anonymous commenter on the Spokesman-Review's Huckleberries Online blog won’t change the way most Press readers post online comments.

Idaho third in Google searches for saving for homes

Taylor Morris knows exactly what she’s looking for in a home.

METALS: Strategy for future

Electric cars, windmills and solar panels are emission-free, but strategic metals to make them such as aluminum, antimony, copper, lead, rare earth metals must be mined and refined, leading to air and water pollution. Rare earth metals are also increasingly needed to fill demand in a wide variety of high-tech equipment. China produces 97 percent of the world’s rare earth metals. The USA used to mine them, but those mines closed — couldn’t compete cost-wise with China.

Let there be light - and lots of votes

It’s time to shine, North Idaho.

Source: Big East to invite Boise State, 5 others

PHILADELPHIA - The Big East is ready to start adding members after spending the last month and a half losing them.

Entertainment Briefs for November 5, 2010

Kiefer Sutherland heads to Broadway

Do you take OTC medications seriously?

According to one survey, nearly one-third of consumers polled said that they did not consider over-the-counter (OTC) medications to be as "serious" as prescribed medications. Are you among those who think this way?

Panic buying leaves retailers scrambling to restock

NEW YORK (AP) — Grocers big and small are hiring more workers, paying overtime and limiting purchases on certain high demand items as they scramble to restock shelves that have been wiped out by panic shopping in response to the global viral pandemic.