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REMINDER: NO EWU Northern Quest Casino and Resort Coaches Show will take place tonight (Dec. 1), however, the shows featuring head coach Beau Baldwin will resume next Monday (Dec. 8). The evening with Baldwin will start at 5:30 p.m. at the Impulse Club at Northern Quest. Baldwin will show video from this week’s Montana playoff game and provide commentary prior to his appearance on the Eagle Coaches Show at 6 p.m., on 700-AM ESPN (via the web at www.700espn.com). Radio play-by-play voice of the Eagles Larry Weir and Paul Sorensen will host the show, which features Baldwin and player guests. More information is available at: http://www.goeags.com/sports/m-footbl/2014-15/releases/14atAug21CoachesShows

MOSCOW, Idaho -

A billboard campaign in Washington state aims to reignite a debate that splits the Pacific Northwest: Do wolves belong?

    

The four billboards near the Idaho border by Washington Residents Against Wolves calls for the state to decrease the wolf population.

    

Group spokeswoman Jamie Henneman says wolves kill livestock, endanger elk populations and pose a threat to the public.

 Rob Fry of Ontario-Artic Wolf

Law enforcement agencies, gun groups and others in Washington state are waiting to see exactly what impact that new, more expansive gun background checks will have.

Initiative 594 passed earlier this month with 59 percent of the vote. It requires background checks on all sales and transfers, including private transactions and many loans and gifts, with some exceptions.

Ron Rattray

Northwest Washington awoke to a blanket of snow that ranged from a dusting in Seattle to 1 to 3 inches farther north. Morning winds knocked down trees causing power outages.

The National Weather Service says the snow started falling early Saturday and began to taper off as a cold front moved in from the north. But Bob says it will be very warm in a week and you will think its spring...

Rick Price

Published on Nov 12, 2014

Chris Picco singing Blackbird to his son, Lennon James Picco, who was delivered by emergency C-section at 24 weeks after Chris' wife Ashley unexpectedly and tragically passed away in her sleep. Lennon's lack of movement and brain activity was a constant concern for the doctors and nurses at Loma Linda University Children's Hospital, where he received the absolute best care available. During the pregnancy, Ashley would often feel Lennon moving to music so Chris asked if he could bring his guitar into the NICU and play for Lennon, which he did for several hours during the last days of Lennon's precious life. One day after filming this, Lennon went to sleep in his daddy's arms.

For more information please visit: http://www.piccomemorial.com

Kathy  Meader

When it comes to holiday shopping the Friday after Thanksgiving, you could say that green is the new black.

Friday was the first Black Friday that people could legally buy marijuana. It is that reason why pot retailers called the day Green Friday.
Employees at Cinder in Spokane Valley said they were busy all throughout the day. Their Green Friday deals were 20 percent off varieties of marijuana.
One shopper said he finished all his Christmas shopping while he was there. 
http://www.krem.com/story/news/local/spokane-county/2014/11/29/spokane-co-pot-shops-double-their-business-on-green-friday/19660031/