A 1965 Volkswagen van stolen 35 years ago in Spokane, Washington, was found by customs agents in a shipping container in the Los Angeles port last month, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection official said.
The head of a Washington state mental institution resigned amid an investigation into the escape of a legally insane killer, the state's health department announced Wednesday.
All 22 Shriners Hospitals for Children will stay open, but some eventually might become outpatient-only surgery facilities, the system that offers free specialty pediatric care said Thursday.
Members of the Shriners fraternity voted Monday to withdraw a measure that would have closed six of the 22 Shriners Hospitals for Children, representatives of some of the facilities said.
With teen summer employment expected to hit its lowest level since 1948, the federal government is pumping $1.2 billion in stimulus money into job training programs for youth.
Some have wondered if this might be coach Mark Few's best team yet. "They say that every year," says Matt Santangelo, a guard on the '99 team. "But I do like this team. They can play with anyone in the country." (A sturdy challenge awaits against top-seeded North Carolina on Friday.)
Underrated: No. 4 Gonzaga The Zags flopped the last time they were in a high-profile game, losing by 18 to Memphis in Spokane on Feb. 7, and severely damaged their national rep. But Mark Few's team also went undefeated in the West Coast Conference, has one of the country's best combo guards in 6-foot-5 junior Matt Bouldin, and -- most importantly -- is the only club in the country to finish in the top 10 in both offensive and defensive efficiency. The Zags' defense is ranked higher than that of North Carolina (the South's one-seed), Oklahoma (the two-seed) and Syracuse (the three-seed).
When sisters Monica Simeon and Marina TurningRobe invited Fortune Small Business to do a Makeover of their bath and body products business, they faced exciting opportunities - and daunting challenges ("Sister Act," December 2007/January 2008).
One small business has found a way to dig itself out of the snowballing recession -- snow rakes. Lots of them.
The extremely cold weather that has shocked many Americans before the official arrival of winter kept its grip on much of the nation early Wednesday.
A 1965 Volkswagen van stolen 35 years ago in Spokane, Washington, was found by customs agents in a shipping container in the Los Angeles port last month, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection official said.
The head of a Washington state mental institution resigned amid an investigation into the escape of a legally insane killer, the state's health department announced Wednesday.
All 22 Shriners Hospitals for Children will stay open, but some eventually might become outpatient-only surgery facilities, the system that offers free specialty pediatric care said Thursday.
Members of the Shriners fraternity voted Monday to withdraw a measure that would have closed six of the 22 Shriners Hospitals for Children, representatives of some of the facilities said.
With teen summer employment expected to hit its lowest level since 1948, the federal government is pumping $1.2 billion in stimulus money into job training programs for youth.
Some have wondered if this might be coach Mark Few's best team yet. "They say that every year," says Matt Santangelo, a guard on the '99 team. "But I do like this team. They can play with anyone in the country." (A sturdy challenge awaits against top-seeded North Carolina on Friday.)
Underrated: No. 4 Gonzaga The Zags flopped the last time they were in a high-profile game, losing by 18 to Memphis in Spokane on Feb. 7, and severely damaged their national rep. But Mark Few's team also went undefeated in the West Coast Conference, has one of the country's best combo guards in 6-foot-5 junior Matt Bouldin, and -- most importantly -- is the only club in the country to finish in the top 10 in both offensive and defensive efficiency. The Zags' defense is ranked higher than that of North Carolina (the South's one-seed), Oklahoma (the two-seed) and Syracuse (the three-seed).
When sisters Monica Simeon and Marina TurningRobe invited Fortune Small Business to do a Makeover of their bath and body products business, they faced exciting opportunities - and daunting challenges ("Sister Act," December 2007/January 2008).
One small business has found a way to dig itself out of the snowballing recession -- snow rakes. Lots of them.
The extremely cold weather that has shocked many Americans before the official arrival of winter kept its grip on much of the nation early Wednesday.
A Washington woman who hid a sedated monkey under her blouse on a flight from Thailand was convicted of violating wildlife laws for smuggling the monkey into the United States, prosecutors said Tuesday.
A rock-bottom price just isn't enough for buyers these days - it's a starting point. If the furnace is out of date, they'll demand a new one. Cracked driveways have to be repaved, and dirty carpeting torn out and replaced. All at the seller's expense.
Hundreds of colleges across the nation have purchased a training program that teaches professors and students not to take campus threats lying down but to fight back
Question: How can I attract more customers to my retail boutique without spending a lot of money? - Tony Gim, Naples, Fla.
Firefighting officials said Friday that one person died when a wildfire swept through a rural area of Northern California, a rare human casualty among the hundreds of blazes that have tormented the state for weeks
Wind-whipped wildfires burned through sections suburban Spokane Valley in eastern Washington late Thursday, destroying at least four homes and sending hundreds of residents to emergency shelters, authorities said.
Days after calling off two shows, the singer is forced to postpone six more
Dear FSB: My husband and I manage separate small businesses. Will this hurt or help my marriage?
Growing up, Monica Simeon and Marina TurningRobe were introduced to the challenges of running a family business by their father, one of the first Native Americans to open a casino after a 1987 court ruling paved the way for unfettered gambling on tribal lands. A member of the Spokane tribe, Ronald "Buzz" Gutierrez built his casino on the reservation 50 miles northwest of Spokane, Wash. His dutiful daughters tackled every job in the joint: opening the doors to eager gamblers at noon, flipping burgers, dealing cards, counting cash, mopping floors, and locking up at 4 A.M. Someday, they told each other, they would establish their own business - and it would be one with more regular hours.
The last time Stanford made it to the women's Final Four, in 1997, the Cardinal's two national titles (won in 1990 and '92) were twice as many as Connecticut's total and half as many as Tennessee's. Since then, those two powers have collected seven more championships between them, while Stanford's program has struggled to keep pace. In 2004, '05 and '06 the Cardinal made it to the Elite Eight, only to be stopped there every year. Last season's exit was even more distressing as Stanford, second-seeded, lost to 10th-seeded Florida State at home in the second round. "It was awful the way we ended last year," says 5' 11 1/2" senior guard Candice Wiggins, the Pac-10's alltime leading scorer.
Underrated: Pittsburgh. The Panthers lost six games between Feb. 2 and March 1; thus their No. 6 seed. But it's worth noting that they have since avenged two of those losses, to Notre Dame and West Virginia, and that their loss to Rutgers in early February was only by four points. With All-America candidates Marcedes Walker and Shavonte Zellous delivering a reliable inside-out attack, the Panthers are dangerous.
Three teams reached perfection in the last week, none more impressively than St. Anthony of Jersey City, N.J.
Dear FSB: We are a SaaS (software as a service) company that delivers a fully integrated practice-management system for chiropractors. However, we are are on a very tight budget and we are struggling with our marketing and sales. Can you give me any insight into how to create a direct campaign that will get doctors' attention?
SPOKANE, Wash. -- Here in this sleepy town in the Pacific northwest, a basketball hoop still hangs over the driveway of the house where John Stockton grew up on, appropriately enough, Superior Street.
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) -- Talk about taking one for the team.
Drivers waste nearly an entire work week each year sitting in traffic on the way to and from their jobs, according to a national study
Drivers waste nearly an entire work week each year sitting in traffic on the way to and from their jobs, according to a national study released Tuesday.
Bob didn't realize that his season tickets were for the off-season. -- Dale, Fort Walton Beach, Fl.
Forecasters predicted Friday would be another sweltering day for the Western United States, as heat warnings will remain in effect for some areas after Thursday's record-high temperatures.
SPOKANE, Wash. -- USC has not been kind to Arkansas the last few years. The last two years the football team handed the Razorbacks back-to-back humiliations (combined score 120-31). The Trojans' 77-60 win tonight was more of the same, making the Hogs' unlikely trip to the tournament a short one. While Arkansas had a significant height advantage, they didn't take advantage of it. Taking coach Tim Floyd's keys to the game -- defense and rebounding -- to heart, the Trojans held the Razorbacks, 35 percent 3-point shooters, to 15 percent shooting from the arc. Most significantly, they outrebounded them 39-26, a stat that Floyd admitted surprised him.
1. Falcons quarterback Michael Vick is opening a winery restaurant. Sure, he'd like to be associated with something that gets better with age.
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College students grappling with the burdens of a full class and social schedule can barely find enough time to do laundry, let alone have a part-time job or an internship.
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The past three years have given American parents many reasons not to send their precious progeny overseas: terrorist bombings, bird flu, and a tsunami, for starters. But Ambassadors Group (EPAX), N...
U.S. and Canadian authorities said Thursday they had arrested more than 40 people and broken up six rings that smuggled drugs across the border using planes and helicopters.
The past three years have given American parents many reasons not to send their precious progeny overseas: terrorist bombings, bird flu, and a tsunami, for starters. But Ambassadors Group, No. 78 on the FSB 100, shows that small firms can overcome a world of obstacles.
In 1909, while listening to a Mother's Day sermon, Sonora Dodd thought of her father, William Smart, who had been left to raise his six children after his wife died.
The coroner's office concluded Thursday the victims of a triple homicide in this quiet Idaho town died of blunt force trauma to the head -- a crime that has puzzled investigators and left two young children missing.
Investigators have no leads in a triple slaying at a home in Idaho and are searching for two children who lived there, authorities said Tuesday.
Battling colon cancer two years ago, Washington State's senate majority leader James West, who was at the time also a mayoral candidate, granted an interview to the Spokane Spokesman-Review in which he confided that his illness had brought him closer to his maker.
City Hall in Spokane, Washington, is being rocked by a scandal that's making headlines nationwide.
The American Association of Blood Banks estimates that about one in 5,000 units of blood platelets is infected with bacteria, which until recently could be passed to patients who receive transfusio...
It is a good time for small companies to break into the prison market. After all, last year the nation's prison population reached 2.1 million, having grown at its fastest pace in four years, accor...
In an age when you can check your watch against the time on your cellphone, those alternating time and temperature readouts on banks and office buildings may seem passé. But when Luke Williams and ...
A car thief left a trio of streakers in Washington state out in the cold.
A little more each month Tara Brettholtz, 26, Clifton Park, N.Y.
When it comes to U.S. manufacturing, conventional wisdom says the prognosis is bad. Just read the headlines: During the past three years, the nation has lost 2.7 million factory jobs--many of them ...
Airlines are tough to love--especially lately. The stocks--which have rebounded since Sept. 11--are still off 44% on average over the past year. That's why when Merrill Lynch airline analyst Michae...
This year being smart about taxes means focusing on the recent Tax Relief Act. In theory the new law is stuffed with goodies for well-heeled business owners like you. Here are three areas you can't...
Outside Philadelphia, Miss., a wrinkled man drops coins into a slot machine. He's wearing overalls and a Marine Corps cap festooned with pins, and tendrils of smoke rise from the pipe clamped in hi...
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When the time comes to kick back, it's important that you get your head completely out of the game. There's nothing more pathetic than the sight of some poor schmo, his cellular phone in his ear, h...
By the time Bill and Mary Barbour retired to Florida in 1983, they were already well-seasoned travelers. The couple had stayed in lavish hotels throughout Europe and the Far East during Bill's freq...
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Please forward the address of Dr. Richard Richley, subject of your March story , "Tax-Bracket Terror!" I was so taken by the plight of a person earning $600,000 a year who cannot afford to put his ...
Your January article "The Tax Revolt That Wrecked California" overlooks the real problem in the state: how the aging middle class is struggling to cope with life and taxes. Local and state spending...
Among the K-12 set, Japanese language instruction is on the increase. The Japan Foundation Language Center reports that more than 1,700 public and private schools in the U.S. now offer Japanese, do...
WHEN McKesson Corp. wanted to automate its big drug distribution center in Spokane, it turned to Don Bennett. He's no high-priced computer consultant or programmer. McKesson hired those from EDS, t...
Finally! After a three-year slump during which home prices in some cities fell 15% or more and selling a house sometimes took eight months to a year -- or more than twice as long as building one --...
Yes, it's glamorous and glittery. But with its disappointing returns of late, gold can also be absolutely galling. So why is Martin Wiskemann, portfolio manager of the Franklin Gold Fund since 1973...
Your August issue had the greatest idea I have ever seen in the magazine: a tax-advantaged Savings Account for Future Education (SAFE). I was in college from 1936 to 1940. Four years of college and...
Companies shopping for locations should consider a lesson car buyers learned years ago: Small to midsize models often do the job more efficiently than bigger, better-known alternatives. As growth o...
SPOKANE -- A Washington State Penitentiary inmate filed a lawsuit Tuesday charging his civil rights were violated when prison officials ordered him to quit playing Dungeons & Dragons. Kenneth P. Mc...
Five years ago, Vi McAllister was the benefits administrator for Superior Oil in Houston and was closing in on a comfortable retirement. She planned to call it quits and collect a full pension when...
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NEARLY 100,000 U.S. farmers, many of them among the most efficient in the world, are about to go broke. Many are in their 30s and 40s, men who just a few years ago saw rich, prosperous lives ahead....
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