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Gonzaga students taking hate out of hoops

The Associated Press The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, February 24, 2012 - 5:12pm

SPOKANE, Wash. -- A group of Gonzaga students promoted sportsmanship at Thursday night's basketball game against BYU with a "Take the Hate Out of Hoops" campaign against Mormon slurs.

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Gonzaga's dominance of WCC on the line

Nicholas K. Geranios The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, February 8, 2012 - 1:57pm

SPOKANE, Wash. -- Gonzaga's streak of 11 consecutive West Coast Conference regular-season titles, the second-longest run in Division I history, is in danger of being snapped.

With only six games left, Gonzaga (18-4, 8-2 WCC) is three games behind No. 16 Saint Mary's heading into Thursday night's showdown between the league's top two teams.

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Porn was part of Steve Powell divorce

Mike Baker, Nicholas K. Geranios The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, September 28, 2011 - 4:01pm

SPOKANE, Wash. — The father-in-law of a missing Utah woman was once accused of inappropriately discussing sex with children and keeping pornography in his home against the wishes of his wife, according to court documents.

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Grand jury indicts man with alleged neo-Nazi ties in bomb-plot case

Mike Carter, The Seattle Times

Last updated Wednesday, March 23, 2011 - 9:29am

SPOKANE, Wash. -- A federal grand jury has indicted a Stevens County man with purported ties to a neo-Nazi group on charges of attempting to detonate a rat-poison-laced bomb along the route of Spokane's Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade in January.

Kevin William Harpham is scheduled to appear in U.S. District Court in Spokane on Wednesday to be arraigned on charges of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and one count of knowingly possessing an improvised explosive device. The weapon-of-mass-destruction charge carries a penalty of up to life in prison.

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