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WSU's Gardner Minshew was voted the Pac-12's offensive player of the year, while UW's Ben Burr-Kirven was voted defensive player of the year by the Associated Press' panel of Pac-12 reporters.

NEW YORK (AP) — An appeals court says the courtroom outburst of a supporter of a terrorist group is evidence that he deserves his 20-year prison term for plotting a New Year’s Eve machete attack in upstate New York. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan on Thursday rejected Emanuel Lutchman’s appeal. Lutchman […]

BOSTON (AP) — A pharmaceutical company has agreed to pay $360 million to resolve allegations that it used a charitable foundation to pay kickbacks to Medicare patients. The U.S. attorney’s office in Boston announced the settlement Thursday with Actelion Pharmaceuticals US Inc., which was acquired last year by health care giant Johnson & Johnson. Federal […]

Living Coral, Pantone's Color of the Year, makes its official debut on a new line of nail lacquers.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The North Carolina Republican Party would be open to a new election if an investigation were to find a high likelihood that wrongdoing swayed the state’s unresolved congressional race, its executive director said Thursday. North Carolina GOP Executive Director Dallas Woodhouse texted a statement to The Associated Press saying that the […]

Avista shares tumbled after Washington state regulators denied approval of its acquisition by a Canadian utility.

NEW YORK (AP) — Apple Watch is now fulfilling its promise to let people take EKGs of their heart and notify them when they have an irregular heartbeat. Apple announced the heart features in September, but didn’t make them available until Thursday. The new features have been given clearance by the U.S. Food and Drug […]

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Police say officers fatally shot a knife-wielding man as he attacked a woman at a Virginia home. The Richmond Police Department said in a statement that two officers called to a home Wednesday found a man stabbing a woman and a man with stab wounds. Police say the man ignored officers’ […]

ATLANTA (AP) — Coca-Cola Co. has named its president and CEO as chairman of the company’s board. James Quincey will become chairman and CEO following Coke’s annual meeting in April. The Atlanta company has already announced that longtime Coke executive Bryan Smith will become president and chief operations officer on Jan. 1. Quincey replaces Muhtar […]

KENAI, Alaska (AP) — A former Kenai Peninsula hockey coach has been sentenced to 62 years in prison for sexually abusing children and possessing child pornography. Kenai radio station KSRM reports 57-year-old Bradley Elliott worked as a junior varsity hockey coach at Kenai Central High School for the 2005-06 school year. He assisted with the […]

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — The Roman Catholic church has released the names of 29 priests, deacons and other men “credibly accused” of sexual misconduct in south Alabama dating back to 1950. Statements released Thursday along with a letter from Archbishop Thomas Rodi Jr. show 17 of the men are dead, and 12 others are prohibited […]

The court ruled the initiative, which was struck down by the King County Superior Court, is outside the scope of local initiative power.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — There’s no such thing as a sure thing when it comes to the mercurial Hollywood Foreign Press Association and its Golden Globe nominations, but this year saw a number of surprises, like the dominance of Adam McKay’s Dick Cheney film “Vice,” and a number of truly shocking exclusions. ___ THEY CHOSE […]

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Incumbent Republican state Sen. Fred Martin has won Boise’s District 15 following a recount. The Ada County elections officials on Wednesday said Martin won the Nov. 6 election by 11 votes over Democratic challenger Jim Bratnober. Officials say the recount ended up with a total of 17,883 votes, with Martin getting […]

BEIRUT (AP) — An opposition activist and a war monitor say U.S.-backed Syrian fighters have broken through the defenses of the last area controlled by the Islamic State group in the country. Members of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces have been trying to take the town of Hajin and nearby villages in the eastern province […]

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — A new indictment alleges sexual assault was the motive for the killing of a cook at a scenic North Carolina mountain inn last summer. Federal prosecutors announced Thursday they filed a superseding indictment adding two counts of aggravated sexual abuse resulting in death against Derek Shawn Pendergraft. The new indictment also […]

HOLLY HILL, Fla. (AP) — A woman has been scorned by her neighbors in a high-rise Florida condo because of a holiday message she spelled out in lights across her balcony. Kathy Hill says the Ebenezer Scrooge phrase ‘Bah Humbug” is one of her favorites at Christmas. But other residents of the twin towers of […]

JERICHO, West Bank (AP) — A Palestinian court has extended the detention of a hunger-striking Palestinian-American activist who claims she was tortured in captivity. The Jericho court on Thursday ordered that Suha Jbara, a U.S. citizen born in Panama, remain in custody 15 more days on suspicions she funded “illegal organizations.” Jbara started a hunger […]

MILAN (AP) — Fiat Chrysler Automobiles is tapping executives from Amazon and Shell Oil Company with previous automotive industry experience to fill its ranks. CEO Mike Manley said in a letter to employees Thursday that Mark Stewart would join FCA as chief operating officer of North America from Amazon, “a company known for its culture […]

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek lawmakers have agreed to fast-track draft legislation to cancel a major round of pension cuts scheduled to take effect on Jan. 1, after bailout lenders agreed they were no longer needed for the country to balance its budget. A parliament committee voted Thursday to debate the amendments as emergency legislation, […]

BERLIN (AP) — Keep your blue suede shoes behind the curb: the central German town where Elvis Presley was stationed as a U.S. soldier in the 1950s has installed three pedestrian lights with images of the American rock icon. The red shows an image of the singer striking a pose at a microphone and the […]

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Ralph Abraham jumped into the Louisiana governor’s race Thursday, becoming the second Republican to announce he’ll challenge Democratic incumbent John Bel Edwards in the 2019 election and ensuring a fractured GOP field. The congressman’s decision comes a month after he won re-election to a third term in the […]

KATOWICE, Poland (AP) — Splits are deepening at the U.N. climate talks between rich and poor countries, oil exporters and vulnerable island nations, and those governments prepared for radical action on climate change versus those who want to wait and see. As the meeting in Katowice, Poland, reached its fifth day, negotiators were divided over […]

New twists on crime narratives in Louise Penny’s “Kingdom of the Blind” and Christopher Fowler’s “Bryant & May: Hall of Mirrors.”

Chef Heather Earnhardt's super-creamy clam-chowder recipe is one of the best, whether it's made with the Pacific Northwest delicacy known as razor clams or whatever kind you have on hand.