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Limeade Unveils Team Challenge Feature, Announces...
Bellevue, Wash. -- Today, online wellness company Limeade added to its suite of social wellness functionality with the release of the new team versus team challenge feature. This new offering, one of the top-requested features by Limeade clients such as the State of Washington and Group Health Cooperative, sets up team versus team games designed to improve...
How Do We Get More Community College Students to...
President Obama tells us that by 2020, we need an additional eight million more Americans to graduate from college. The pressure is now on for community colleges to deliver. This is the time of year Inver Hills Community College Vice President Barbara Read stands in the door of the admissions office and greets new students with a four-word question: "What is your goal?" The question goes to the ...
Washington County officials: Lake Elmo death a...
Washington County investigators are calling the death of a man in Lake Elmo Thursday a homicide.
Washington area housing market expected to heat up...
The Washington area real estate market is entering its second-busiest sales period of the year under a yellow flag of caution. Washington - United States - Business - Business and Economy - Japan
Murderer Arrested in Palm Springs 20 Years Ago,...
A man who was arrested two decades ago in Palm Springs was executed Friday morning just after midnight in the state of Washington. Cal Brown was given the death penalty for the murder of a Seattle woman in 1991, but he was actually arrested in Palm Springs. Local police tells KPSP Local 2 Brown had met Susan Schnell here in the valley, and nearly killed her but she survived. According to court ...
Washington Trust Finances Two Retail Shopping...
Washington Trust's commercial real estate group has provided $7.2 million in financing to two local shopping plazas.
US soldiers accused of cutting fingers from...
Agencies Washington, Sept 10: Five US soldiers who served in Afghanistan have been accused of murdering three Afghans and cutting off fingers and other body parts to keep as trophies, the Seattle Times reported on Thursday.
Washington County SPCA: 471 dogs saved
The Washington County SPCA early Friday morning sent 29 dogs and puppies to Colorado on a PetSmart Charities Rescue Waggin' Vehicle.
Washington mulls intervention over Qur'an-burning
WASHINGTON - The Obama administration is discussing whether to call a Florida pastor to ask him to call off plans for a Qur'an-burning day that U.S. leaders have warned could endanger American troops abroad, the Pentagon said Thursday.
Washington state carries out first execution in...
Authorities in the US state of Washington on Friday executed a confessed murderer and rapist, in the western state's first use of capital punishment since 2001.
Cal Coburn Brown's final statement before death
Walla Walla, Wash --  Cal Coburn Brown was executed at 12:56 am at Washington State Penitentiary.  Seven media witnesses sat in and listened in on his final statement.  He spoke through a microphone while strapped to a gurney
Washington Junior High closed today
The Washington School District has reported classes will not be held at Washington Junior High School today. A blown transformer caused the school to lose power Thursday evening. While power has been restored, the outage affected the school's fire alarm system and students aren't allowed to attend classes without a fire alarm. For more information, see the Sept. 10 edition of The Washington ...
Washington state executes murderer
Washington state executed its first prisoner in nine years early Friday, when it carried out the death penalty in the case of a man who raped, tortured and murdered a Seattle-area woman.Cal Coburn Brown, 52, was given a lethal...
Washington Parish Jamboree cancelled
The Washington Parish Jamboree for area high school football teams originally scheduled for Franklinton was cancelled and not played Friday due to the death of a student on campus Thursday.
Washington's Onetime Political Star Now the...
WASHINGTON -- By any measure, Mayor Adrian M. Fenty has suffered an astonishing reversal of political fortune.

Whitman falls to Northwest in extra time
KIRKLAND, Wash. -- Whitman's women's soccer team was unable to hold on to a 2-1 halftime lead and fell in overtime, 3-2, to Northwest University Thursday. Junior Amy Hasson, who missed Whitman's season-opening victory last week because of injury, came off the bench to boot both first-half Missionary goals.Hasson's first strike, coming in the 21st minute off a goalie deflection, evened the game at 1-1. She scored again at the 36:28 mark, this time with an assist from first-year sophomore Marisa Poorboy, to give Whitman a 2-1 lead.The Eagles, now 1-0-2 on the season, squared the score at 2-2 on Kirstie Perron's goal in the eighth minute of the second half. Whitman, which outshot Northwest 6-4 in the second half, generated four shots at regaining the lead but failed to find the back of the net.Poorboy took two of those shots, forcing Eagle keeper Jordan Thomas to make a save in one instance. Shots by junior Taylor Chock and sophomore Julianne Masser were blocked. Whitman also produced the first shot in sudden-death overtime, but the attempt from first-year Missionary Kelsey Roehner sailed wide.  Northwest countered with the game-winner with 2:37 showing on the overtime clock. Abby Brauer knocked home the golden goal from nine yards out. She also had the first Eagle goal early in the first half.Whitman finished with a 13-11 advantage in shots, although the Eagles held a 7-4 edge in shots on goal. Missionary keeper Lauren Brougham made four saves.Whitman hosts its home opener at noon this Saturday, facing Northwest Nazarene at the Whitman Athletic Fields. That game will be followed at 3 p.m. by a men's game between Whitman and Warner Pacific.
Teen baby sitter accused of abusing children
PULLMAN - A 14-year-old boy has been accused of raping and molesting children he baby-sat at an apartment complex in Pullman.Whitman County court documents indicate there are four victims.
Missionary men drop soccer match to Colorado...
SALEM, Ore. - Playing its third game in as many days, the Whitman College men's soccer team dropped a 2-0 decision to Colorado College here Sunday afternoon. Whitman, slipping to 1-2 in the win-loss column, outshot the Tigers 13-12, which included a 7-5 advantage in shots on goal. But it was Colorado, improving to 1-2 on the season, that broke through with a pair of first-half goals. "Both goals were mistakes on our part," Whitman coach Mike Washington said. "We didn't react well to a short...
Missionary soccer 1-1 after Friday's opener
SALEM - Whitman's men's soccer came back from a Friday loss for a 2-0 victory against Minnesota's Bethen University Saturday. With senior keeper Tim Shu posting the shutout, making two saves against seven Bethel shots, Whitman evened its early season record at 1-1. Coming on the heels of yesterday's loss to UC-Santa Cruz, Whitman played a "much better game today," coach Mike Washington said. "Yesterday was definitely an issue of not being very well organized, so we addressed that and the...
LEAPING INTO NARNIA
On a summer evening Laurel Skorina, 7, spends the last minutes of sunlight leaping from rock to rock in Whitman College's Narnia glenn near Boyer Avenue.
What's Going Up?
What: The project is an addition and remodel to Harper Joy Theatre at Whitman College. The $7.4 million remodel includes the addition of 6,645 square feet of interior space, including new offices, costume shop, stairs and an elevator. A new black box performance theater will be added. The entrance and lobby will be expanded, and seats in the Alexander Stage area will be replaced. The basement will be transformed into a student rehearsal space.Timeline: According to Ruth Wardwell, Whitman College...
Whitman Mission will host American Indian dancing,...
Curtis Bearchum will be at Whitman Mission National Historic Site demonstrating different types of American Indian dancing from 1-4 p.m. Saturday at the Whitman Mission Historical Site, 328 Whitman Mission Road.Bearchum is an enrolled member of The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation. His tribal lineage is Walla-Walla-Yakama-Northern Cheyenne. He will demonstrate traditional social and longhouse dances, wearing head-to-toe regalia. On Sunday there will be "Waste Not, Want Not"...
Man working on combine killed - Sun, 15 Aug 2010...
A 69-year-old man died Saturday after a combine accident near Endicott, Wash. The Whitman County Sheriff's Office said the man, whose name was not released, was working with another person to perform maintenance on the combine around 11:30 a.m. As the other person started to drive the combine forward, the man fell underneath the rear tire.
Whitman College is state's tops, says Forbes
Whitman College in Walla Walla is the highest ranking college among 10 Washington schools listed in Forbes' annual ranking of the nation's 610 best colleges.
Whitman County couple in suspected murder-suicide...
A Whitman County couple going through a divorce have been found dead in what detectives believe to be a murder-suicide.
Whitman Co. couple dead in apparent murder-suicide
Sheriff's deputies in Whitman County are investigating an apparent murder-suicide near the town of Thornton.
Whitman Mission to provide tour of its green...
The Whitman Mission, 328 Whitman Mission Road, has two events this weekend.<BR><BR>Master fabric artist Susan Swayne will demonstrate weaving from 1-4 p.m. Saturday. There will be a loom available for visitors to try weaving.<BR><BR>On Sunday a...
Whitman spending hits $99M in California gov race
Billionaire Republican Meg Whitman reported Monday that she has spent more than $99 million in her quest to become California's governor, while Democrat Jerry Brown is saving money for what could become the most expensive gubernatorial contest in American history.
Fiery crash kills one - Sun, 25 Jul 2010 PST
Authorities believe drugs or alcohol were involved in a fatal two-car collision in Whitman County.
Terry Nealey has a running life - on and off the...
DAYTON - Question: What do politics and basketball have in common? Answer: Running is required. Just ask local attorney Terry Nealey, a 63-year-old hoops junkie who has spent the better part of two decades bouncing back and forth between basketball gymnasiums and one political arena or another. Nealey, who grew up on a farm in Whitman County and graduated from Lacrosse High School in 1965, got into politics by running for Columbia County Prosecutor in 1983. He won that election and was...
In brief: Pair killed in crash were Albion couple...
A husband and wife killed Friday in a motorcycle accident in Whitman County have been identified. William and Kathleen Russell, of Albion, Wash., were killed when their 2005 Harley-Davidson collided with a truck on Pullman-Albion Road near state Route 27.
Two killed in Whitman County crash identified -...
Two people killed Friday in a motorcycle accident Whitman County have been identified.
Two killed in Whitman County motorcycle crash -...
A motorcyclist and his passenger both died this afternoon after their motorcycle collided with a truck in Whitman County.
Wash. bank, feds agree on requirements
A Colfax, Wash.-based bank and the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco have agreed on a plan that imposes new requirements on the Bank of Whitman.
Man loses lower leg in auger accident - Wed, 14...
A 27-year-old Moscow man lost his lower right leg after he stumbled into an operating grain auger, Whitman County officials say.
Learn how to start a fire like a pioneer at...
Whitman Mission National Historic Site, 328 Whitman Mission Road, will offer hands-on training on how to start a fire without matches or a lighter from 1-4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.In the past, starting a fire was a necessary survival skill. Visitors of all ages can try creating those necessary sparks using a flint and steel. Adventurous individuals can try their hand at using flint, steel striker, char-cloth and tinder to actually start a fire. The action takes place directly behind the Visitor...
Brown invites rival Whitman to house for tea
Democratic gubernatorial nominee Jerry Brown on Thursday invited his Republican rival to tea at his $1.8 million house to discuss their next debate.
Bird watchers invited to go walk at Whitman...
Local bird watcher Mike Denny will conduct a bird walk at 6 p.m. Tuesday, at Whitman Mission, 328 Whitman Mission Road. <BR><BR>Denny will share his extensive knowledge of the birds as he leads the group around the mission grounds. Participants...
At Whitman Mission, see how pioneers cooked over...
Each summer weekend a different activity focusing on skills used by Cayuse, explorers, missionaries, or emigrants is presented at Whitman Mission, 328 Whitman Mission Road, from 1-4 p.m.<BR><BR>On Saturday, Rogers Miles will portray the Rev. Cu...
Woman left injured in road near Pullman;...
Whitman County prosecutors have filed a felony hit-and-run charge against the former boyfriend of a young woman left severely injured last November in the middle of a road outside Pullman.

  Woman left injured in road; ex-boyfriend charged
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