In Brief - May 13, 2008
Around the Northwest
- A new study shows human trafficking is a concern in Spokane.
- If your regular coffee just doesn't do enough for you, Starbucks is adding +Energy to the menu.
- Ada County, Idaho housing sales rise and prices drop, as the market takes an upswing.
- Tornadoes are deadlier, more powerful and greater in number than in past years.
- Real estate auctions have become a way for high-end property owners to unload property quickly in Atlanta.
- ACLU membership has doubled since George W. Bush took office.
- The earthquake in China has claimed over 12,000 lives.
- Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is being investigated for corruption.
- Irena Sendler, who saved thousands of Jewish children from the Nazis in the Warsaw Ghetto has died.
- 1846 - The United States declares war on Mexico, starting the Mexican-American War.
- 1917 - Our Lady of Fatima.
- 1981 - Mehmet Ali Ağca attempts to assassinate Pope John Paul II.
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