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People's Choice Awards 2013

You voted and the results are in. See the winners of our first annual People's Choice Awards.

A woman carries a child through a field near the collapsed Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Okla., Monday, May 20, 2013. A tornado as much as a mile wide with winds up to 200 mph roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods, setting buildings on fire and landing a direct blow on an elementary school.

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State hammered by two days of deadly tornados.

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Winners of this year's awards for achievement through the Afro-Americans for an Academic Society are from left, Arisha Fite, 18, of Kennewick, Marina Brown, 18, of Pasco, Kendreya Skinner, 17, of Richland, Jamie Wallace, 18, of Richland and Cameron Estes, 17 of Pasco. The girls have had at least a 3.00 grade point for the past nine years.

Tri-City seniors recognized at Afro-Americans for an Academic Society awards ceremony

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FILE - In this Wednesday, Jan, 2, 2008 file photo Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, listens to the state-controlled natural gas monopoly Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller as they tour the newly opened alpine ski center that will be used in the 2014 Olympics at Krasnaya Polyana in the southern Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi. The names of Russia’s business powerhouses have taken over the mountains of Sochi, now the home of Potanin’s slope, Gazprom’s gondola lift and Sberbank’s ski jump. These names, used by local residents and an army of construction workers, leave no doubt about who is paying for next year’s Winter Games.

Russian oligarchs foot most of 2014 Sochi Olympics

The mountains of Sochi are now home to Potanin's slope, Gazprom's gondola lift and Sberbank's ski jump. The nicknames used by locals and an army of...

Business

In this photo taken on Saturday, Nov. 10, 2012 in Salinas, Calif., Omar Chombo carries a bunch of chard across the field which he leases from the Agriculture and Land-Based Training Association, known as ALBA. The organization helps farmworkers, most of whom are first generation Latinos, to become independent organic farm operators. Since the program started in 2001, it has created more than 80 small farm businesses.

Farmers hope immigration bill yields more foreign ag workers

Walk the aisles of any neighborhood grocery store today and you’re as likely to find tomatoes picked in Sinaloa, Mexico, as Central California... 3 hours ago

Opinion

Richland author Maureen Doyle McQuerry recently earned the 2013 best fiction for young adults award from the American Library Association for <I>The Peculiars</I>.

Our Voice: Mid-Columbia LitFest celebrates three Northwest authors this week opens today in Richland

It's prime time for book lovers in the Tri-Cities. 2 hours ago

Living

In this photo taken on Thursday, May 9 2013, Ellen Christensen poses for a photograph with her six-week-old son Remy at the Ann Tayler Children Centre in east London. More than a decade ago, British parents refused to give measles shots to at least a million children because of a vaccine scare that raised the specter of autism. Now, health officials are scrambling to catch up and stop a growing epidemic of the contagious disease. This year, the U.K. has had more than 1,200 cases of measles, after a record number of nearly 2,000 cases last year. The country once recorded only several dozen cases every year. It now ranks second in Europe, behind only Romania.

Measles surges in UK years after flawed research

More than a decade ago, British parents refused to give measles shots to at least a million children because of now discredited research that linked...

Entertainment

FILE - In this Aug. 16, 2012 file photo, Ray Manzarek of The Doors performs at the Sunset Strip Music Festival launch party celebrating The Doors at the House of Blues in West Hollywood, Calif. Manzarek, the keyboardist who was a founding member of The Doors, has died at 74. Publicist Heidi Robinson-Fitzgerald says in a news release that Manzarek died Monday, May 20, 2013, at the RoMed Clinic in Rosenheim, Germany, surrounded by his family.

Publicist: Founding member of The Doors dies at 74

Ray Manzarek, a founding member of the 1960s rock group The Doors whose versatile and often haunting keyboards complemented Jim Morrison's gloomy baritone... 20 minutes ago

Nation/World

A woman carries a child through a field near the collapsed Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Okla., Monday, May 20, 2013. A tornado as much as a mile wide with winds up to 200 mph roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods, setting buildings on fire and landing a direct blow on an elementary school.

Huge tornado hits Oklahoma City suburb, kills 51

A monstrous tornado at least a half-mile wide roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary... 24 minutes ago

Hanford

The Hanford Waste Treatment Plant Project, also known as the Vit Plant.

No furloughs for vit plant workers during July

Workers at the Hanford vitrification plant will not be furloughed for a week in July, they were told Friday.

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