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Spokane City Council member’s secretaries will make more money, getting an additional eight hours a week under a budget plan approved unanimously Monday evening.

More than 6,000 pounds of metal went into the medallions that will be awarded to top athletes during the 2010 Vancouver Olympic and Paralympic games. The metals were provided by Teck Resources Ltd., Canada’s largest base-metals supplier. Some of the gold, silver and copper came from discarded electronics.

Attorneys defending Morning Star Boys’ Ranch rested their case on Monday after bringing the ranch’s accuser, Kenneth Putnam, to the stand in the civil trial’s last day of testimony.

Spokane Valley’s Fiber-Tech Industries has earned the 2010 Clean Air Award for reducing emissions at its production plant in the Spokane Business & Industrial Park.

U.S. Rep. Norm Dicks is likely to succeed the late Rep. John Murtha as chairman of the House subcommittee that oversees Pentagon spending.

More than 6,000 pounds of metal went into the medallions that will be awarded to top athletes during the 2010 Vancouver Olympic and Paralympic games. The metals were provided by Teck Resources Ltd., Canada’s largest base-metals supplier. Some of the gold, silver and copper came from discarded electronics.

Spokane Valley’s Fiber-Tech Industries has earned the 2010 Clean Air Award for reducing emissions at its production plant in the Spokane Business & Industrial Park.

Spokane game company Cyan Worlds has revived its popular but financially unsuccessful online world, Myst Online.

Boeing Co.’s giant 747-8 freighter — the biggest plane the company has ever built — successfully completed its first flight Monday, a year later than originally planned.

The Super Bowl was watched by more than 106 million people, surpassing the 1983 finale of “M-A-S-H” to become the most-watched program in television history.

Losers now winners The New Orleans Saints, for decades the NFL’s lovable losers, used the biggest stage Sunday to answer the question their fans have been asking for 43 years.

NEW YORK – The NFL’s party week was briefly interrupted by a sobering message about the league’s labor situation. Now it could be the NBA’s turn.

WASHINGTON – Three goals from Alex Ovechkin. Two feet of snow on the ground. One big comeback against a detested rival, with punches and name-calling added for good measure. The biggest number of all: 14, the length of a winning streak topped by just two other teams in NHL history.

Chris Bosh Hit 14 of 18 from the field and scored 36 points with 11 rebounds in Raptors’ 115-104 win over Kings.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Justin Eller scored 17 points and Duro Bjegovic came off the bench to add 13 points and eight rebounds as Sacramento State beat Eastern Washington 74-67 on Sunday in college basketball, handing the Eagles their seventh consecutive loss. John Dickson had 12 points and four blocks and Antonio Flaggs scored 11 points for the Hornets (9-16, 3-9 Big Sky), who recorded 10 blocks.

Spokane City Council member’s secretaries will make more money, getting an additional eight hours a week under a budget plan approved unanimously Monday evening.

More than 6,000 pounds of metal went into the medallions that will be awarded to top athletes during the 2010 Vancouver Olympic and Paralympic games. The metals were provided by Teck Resources Ltd., Canada’s largest base-metals supplier. Some of the gold, silver and copper came from discarded electronics.

Attorneys defending Morning Star Boys’ Ranch rested their case on Monday after bringing the ranch’s accuser, Kenneth Putnam, to the stand in the civil trial’s last day of testimony.

U.S. Rep. Norm Dicks is likely to succeed the late Rep. John Murtha as chairman of the House subcommittee that oversees Pentagon spending.

National Weather Service forecasters today said they are expecting a significant warming trend starting this weekend with highs reaching the upper 40s by Sunday.

An Iraq war veteran has been charged with assault on suspicion of abusing his daughter, whose head he allegedly held in water to get her to recite the ABCs, according to police in Yelm, Washington.

More than 1,000 people in New Jersey and New York, many of them adolescent Orthodox Jews, have been sickened with mumps since August, health authorities said Monday.

In his hectic, noisy laboratory at the University of Maryland, Michael Pecht is wary when it comes to assessing whether Toyota's suggested repair of sticky gas pedals will have any real impact.

A second round of snow is heading toward Washington, D.C., and surrounding cities, where residents are still digging out after a record-setting blizzard.

Criminal charges relating to Michael Jackson's death last summer will be filed Monday, Los Angeles prosecutors said.

Toyota's president apologized profusely Tuesday, as he announced the global recall of more than 400,000 of the automaker's 2010 hybrid models, including the popular Prius, for problems in their anti-lock braking systems.

Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud is dead, three Taliban sources said Tuesday.

The U.S. Baptist missionaries in Haiti who are facing kidnapping charges for trying to take 33 children out of the country last week made an earlier attempt at taking children, a Haitian police officer said.

Iran's envoy to the International International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said the window for nuclear negotiations is still open -- even as tensions rise over Iran's decision to defy the world on uranium enrichment.

A former Sri Lankan general who ran against President Mahinda Rajapaksa in January has been arrested on charges of plotting to overthrow the country's government, authorities announced Monday night.

South Carolina's first lady, Jenny Sanford, said on "Larry King Live" that writing her much-anticipated memoir of her husband's affair was a "cathartic" and "cleansing" experience.

Good night, Loran.

President Obama's bipartisan meeting on health care reform planned for February 25 will be broadcast live, a senior administration official said Monday.

Rep. John Murtha of Pennsylvania, a longtime fixture on the House subcommittee that oversees Pentagon spending, has died.

The Tea Partiers are propelled by competing claims -- a principled commitment to fiscal conservatism and a serious case of Obama Derangement Syndrome, John Avlon says.

It took a while, but after 13 cycles of "America's Next Top Model," Tyra Banks has finally convinced Vogue editor-at-large André Leon Talley to take a seat at the judges' table.

Dr. Conrad Murray, personal physician to Michael Jackson, has been charged with a single count of involuntary manslaughter, prosecutors said.

There is no rule anywhere in existence that says that the Super Bowl should be free of politics and social causes. None. So what's the big deal over Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow and his mother starring in a pro-life ad?

Whether they're overcoming odds to reach stardom, battling inner demons or dealing with tragedy, the personal histories of our musical heroes are made for the big screen.

EW talked to "The Late Show" executive producer Rob Burnett about David Letterman's surprising decision to include Jay Leno in a promotional spot during the Super Bowl.

ORLANDO, Fla.(AP) The high-flying layups. The fall-away jumpers. The step-back 3-pointers.

Super Bowl XLIV is in the books. What lies ahead for the Saints and Colts? Don Banks looks at the needs of each team as they prepare to enter an offseason unlike any in recent history.

SEATTLE (AP) -- Cliff Lee's first spring training with the Seattle Mariners is off to a slow start already.

Mission managers loaded the crew into the space shuttle Endeavour early Monday for a second attempt in as many days at getting into orbit.

The U.S. Coast Guard is shutting down a mapping service called Loran-C, which has been in use since World War II. Some advocates say killing Loran will make the U.S. too reliant on its replacement: GPS.

A proposed partnership between the French government and Google is stoking fears in France that the country's literary treasures will fall under commercial control of a U.S. technology company.

As the players, coaches and halftime performers -- not to mention the Lombardi Trophy -- made their way to Miami's Sun Life Stadium for the Super Bowl on Sunday, Jerry Hunter and company were keeping a close eye on them.

Google long has been an advocate of a single Web, one that's free of government censorship and barriers to information access.

More than 1,000 people in New Jersey and New York, many of them adolescent Orthodox Jews, have been sickened with mumps since August, health authorities said Monday.

Michael Jackson's doctor was charged Monday with involuntary manslaghter in connection with the pop star's June 25 death at age 50.

President Obama's bipartisan meeting on health care reform planned for February 25 will be broadcast live, a senior administration official said Monday.

"Electronic cigarettes" that vaporize nicotine juice to inhale instead of smoke from burning tobacco do not deliver as promised, according to research at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Worried about your child's weight? You can do more than just nag him or her about eating too much junk food. Implementing three healthy family habits--eating dinner together, making sure they get enough sleep, and limiting TV--may help.