Month: October 2011

NW Sports from the AP

AP-NW–1st SportsMinute,418 Here is the latest Washington, Oregon and Alaska sports news from The Associated Press ALAMEDA, Calif. (AP) – The Oakland Raiders have agreed to acquire linebacker Aaron Curry from Seattle two years after the Seahawks selected him fourth overall in the draft. Raiders senior executive John Herrera says […]

Local News Digest – Fire Prevention; Flu Shots; Hazardous Waste; Gas Prices

It all started with Mrs. O’Leary’s Cow… It happened 130-years ago this week, leaving 100-thousand people homeless, killing 250 people and destroying more than 17-thousand structures over two-thousand acres.  It was the Great Chicago Fire of October 8th and 9th, 1871.  That conflagration is also credited with spawning the modern […]

NW Sports from the AP

AP-NW–1st SportsMinute,429 Here is the latest Washington, Oregon and Alaska sports news from The Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) – In Lorenzo Romar’s decade at Washington, he may not have broken in a younger men’s basketball team than the one that will begin practice later this week. And indoctrinating all these […]