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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.

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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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Sports

Former Richland star Brett Jacobs of Washington State University gets a base hit in the bottom of the fourth inning Sunday against University of Washington.

UW baseball tops WSU 5-2 to finish three-game sweep

May hasn’t been a very kind month to the Washington State baseball team. The Cougars are just 1-10 through the first 19 days of the emerald month...

Business

FILE - In this April 18, 2011 file photo, the Yahoo logo is displayed outside of the offices in Santa Clara, Calif.

Yahoo takes big leap with $1.1B deal for Tumblr

Yahoo is buying online blogging forum Tumblr for $1.1 billion as CEO Marissa Mayer tries to rejuvenate an Internet icon that had fallen behind the ... 2 hours ago

Opinion

Jim Morin / Miami Herald (May 16, 2013)

McClatchy cartoons for the week of 5/12/13

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... 3 hours ago

Entertainment

Woman on Trump: 'Somebody had to stand up to him'

An 87-year-old woman who alleges Donald Trump cheated her in a bait-and-switch scheme has told jurors she had qualms about suing the developer-turned-TV star given his power and influence. 20 minutes ago

Nation/World

People survey damage from a tornado that hit Edmond, Okla., on Sunday, May 19, 2013. A powerful storm system rumbled through the Plains and upper Midwest on Sunday, spawning tornadoes that damaged roofs and structures near Oklahoma City and kicked up debris in Wichita, Kan.

Oklahoma, other tornado-hit states brace for more

When Lindsay Carter heard on the radio that a violent storm was approaching her rural Oklahoma neighborhood, she gathered her belongings and fled. ... 55 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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