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An employee of Badger Development Landscaping & Excavation scrapes a layer of sod away Monday of the outline for the new Carousel of Dreams building next to the pavilion at the Southridge Sports and Events Complex in Kennewick.

Construction begins on Kennewick's Carousel of Dreams

Construction on the future home of the Carousel of Dreams started Monday morning at Kennewick’s Southridge Sports & Events Complex.

Sports

San Antonio guard Tony Parker drives against Miami Heat's LeBron James, left, during the second quarter of Game 5 in the NBA Finals in San Antonio on Sunday, June 16, 2013. The Spurs won 114-104, leading the best-of seven series 3-2. Parker scored 26 points.

As Spurs fans celebrate 3-2 lead, Heat focuses on forcing Game 7

The Spurs haven't won a title since 2007, so forgive the locals for their premature celebration after San Antonio snatched a 3-2 lead over Miami in...

Business

What will happen on Wall Street tomorrow?

Federal Reserve faces pressure to provide clarity

The economy is showing enough improvement to justify dialing back some of the Fed’s life support, yet financial markets are terrified of what ...

Opinion

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Living

FILE - In this March 14, 2009 file photo, a woman gets ready to check her blood sugar in Sacramento, Calif. Medicare begins a major change next month that could save older diabetics money and time when they buy crucial supplies to test their blood sugar _ but it also may cause some patient confusion. On July 1, Medicare opens a national mail-order program for diabetes testing supplies that will drop substantially the prices the government pays for those products _ and will restrict who's allowed to sell them. The goal is to save taxpayer dollars, and seniors in the program should see their copays drop, too, from more than $15 an order to less than $5. For a chronic disease, that can add up fast.

Medicare: Cost-saving changes coming for diabetics

Medicare begins a major change next month that could save older diabetics money and time when they buy crucial supplies to test their blood sugar - ...

Entertainment

The annual Hogs & Dogs event will feature more than 4,000 motorcycles and 100 classic cars.

Hogs & Dogs to rumble into West Richland

The annual Hogs & Dogs event, featuring more than 4,000 motorcycles and 100 classic cars, is scheduled for 4-10 p.m. June 20 at the Bombing Range ...

Nation/World

This undated photo released by the Department of Justice shows Daniel Brown. Authorities in Ohio have arrested three people, including Brown, on charges of enslaving a mentally disabled young mother and her daughter over a two-year period. Federal agents and Ashland police said Tuesday, June 18, 2013 the trio forced the woman to do housework, threatened her and the girl with violence and fed their pets better than the victims.

3 charged with enslaving disabled Ohio mom, child

A mentally disabled woman charged with shoplifting a candy bar asked to be jailed because three people "had been mean to her" - then went on to tell authorities about her time spent in unfathomably cruel servitude, along with her young daughter, at... 10 minutes ago

Hanford

Jacklyn O'Neil, shown at her home in Spokane Valley Thursday, June 6, 2013, is a thyroid cancer survivor who has secured a settlement for radiation exposure but is not likely to get any money. She believes, like many downwinders do, "they're just waiting for us to die."

Hanford downwinder hopes for settlement

Jacklyn "Jackie" O'Neil had thyroid cancer that could have been caused by clouds of radioactive iodine-131 released from Hanford's plutonium plants...

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