SEATTLE The National Weather Service says this will be the warmest weekend in Washington since last summer. Forecasters expect highs in the 80s in Western Washington and 90s in Eastern Washington.

SEATTLE A California woman who drunkenly assaulted a flight attendant while traveling to her sister's funeral has been sentenced to time served and 200 hours of community service.

BOISE, Idaho Being dead since 1940 hasn't kept Idaho U.S. Sen. William Borah from being inserted squarely into 2008 presidential politics after Democratic candidate Barack Obama took issue with President Bush's borrowing of a quote from Borah in his speech to the Israeli Knesset.

WENATCHEE, Wash. The lawyer for a Leavenworth woman convicted of animal cruelty wants a new trial for her client, because she claims one of the jurors was biased.

ELLENSBURG, Wash. A 31-year-old man from Tacoma and a 20-year-old woman from Malaga have been charged with first-degree assault after a car-to-car shooting on Interstate 90 in Eastern Washington.

SEATTLE State officials, paid consultants and interested volunteers are making efficient progress toward revising the Washington science education standards but the leader of the committee managing the effort says their work may be wasted if things don't change in the classroom.

SEATTLE The University of Washington regents are talking about raising tuition 7 percent next fall, the maximum amount allowed in one year.

SEATTLE Chris Harshman and his brother, Paul, have always been "friendly competitors," says Chris.

SPOKANE, Wash. An Idaho police ombudsman has some advice for the City Council as it looks to hire its own independent ombudsman: find someone with character and intellect who can work within the system.

SEATTLE The National Weather Service says minor flooding is possible this weekend in King, Pierce and Lewis counties because of the rapid mountain snow melt in warm weather. The rivers include the Snoqualmie, Puyallup, White, Nisqually, and Cowlitz.

MOSES LAKE, Wash. The city of Moses Lake is fining a couple for too many cats.

BREMERTON, Wash. A veterans' peace group that was denied entry into the Armed Forces Day parade says it will fall in at the rear and walk anyway.

SEATTLE The Coast Guard icebreaker Healy returns to Seattle after two months in the Bering Sea, researching retreating Arctic Ice.

SPOKANE, Wash. The National Weather Service has issued a flood warning for the Stehekin (stuh-HEE'-kin) River in Chelan County. The river is running full because of melting mountain snow.

SEATTLE A scientist has resigned from a state pesticide monitoring panel before even attending his first meeting, blaming environmentalists' complaints about his work for a chemical company.

PARADISE, Wash. After two years of extensive rehabilitation work, the historic Paradise Inn at Mount Rainier National Park has reopened to visitors.

MOSSYROCK, Wash. The mayor, two city council members, city clerk and city attorney have all resigned in Mossy Rock.

CASTLE ROCK, Wash. The highway to Mount St. Helens has reopened.

SEATTLE The autopsy showed that an indicted director of a Thailand museum died at a federal prison in SeaTac of natural causes.

KENT, Wash. A Renton lawyer and state director of the Poker Players Alliance says he'll appeal the King County Superior Court decision upholding the state ban on Internet gambling.

FARGO, N.D. A Seattle woman has been sentenced to 21 years in prison for setting up a methamphetamine operation in North Dakota and other states.

SEATTLE An initiative to remove party labels from most elective offices in King County is advancing.

RICHLAND, Wash. In a cramped control room, a bright yellow sticker cautions workers about critical radiation alarms. Now a novelty stuck on a wall between dials that haven't spun in decades, the sign hints at the enormity of the plant's mission.

SEATTLE The first flight of Copper River salmon to land at Sea-Tac Airport was a little light.

FIFE, Wash. Police say the fire that destroyed the Firwood Tavern in Fife started at the rear of the building.

FIFE, Wash. A fire that broke out about 5 a.m. has destroyed the Firwood Tavern in Fife. The roof has collapsed, so firefighters have to stay outside. They're also depending on tankers because of a lack of hydrants in the area.

NEAH BAY, Wash. A Makah tribal judge has deferred prosecution for five tribal members who killed a gray whale last September in an unsanctioned hunt off the Washington coast.

SEATTLE Nearly a year and a half after a contractor for Blackwater USA shot an Iraqi guard in Baghdad's Green Zone, a Justice Department team traveled to Iraq this month to investigate the killing.

SEATTLE Cleaners began blasting Seattle's Space Needle with hot water and high pressure hoses Thursday as they demonstrated how they'll give the structure what is billed as its first deep external cleaning since it opened in 1962 for the World's Fair.

SAN FRANCISCO Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Jerry Yang spent months fending off Microsoft Corp.'s unsolicited takeover bid. Now he may only have a few weeks to persuade the software maker to revive its last offer of $47.5 billion, or risk being fired in a shareholder mutiny led by activist investor Carl Icahn.

OLYMPIA, Wash. Six more inspectors have been added to the agency that checks Washington's 49,000 gas pumps to make sure people are getting all the gas for which they pay close to $4 a gallon.

SEATTLE Researchers say clean up of Lake Washington in the late 1960s forced a little fish into reverse evolution. A study led by Seattle's Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center compared samples of the threespine stickleback from the 1950s with current samples, and found the fish had evolved back into a more armored, ancestral version of itself.

BOISE, Idaho Even if confessed child killer Joseph Duncan is found mentally incompetent to represent himself at his federal sentencing hearing, his previous guilty pleas will likely stand, legal experts say.

SPOKANE, Wash. Washington's Department of Ecology has released a new environmental study of an ambitious plan to make more Grand Coulee Dam water available for farms, towns and fish in Eastern Washington.

SEATTLE The University of Washington plans to merge six forestry, oceans and atmosphere disciplines into a new College of the Environment.

SEATTLE How to find a bargain and avoid sales tax in this state: Visit shops, talk with sales clerks, decide on a desired model. Then, drive home, log onto the Internet, find the product from an out-of-state vendor and add to cart.

RIDLEY PARK, Pa. Two military helicopters were vandalized on the production line at a Boeing factory near Philadelphia, the Defense Department said Thursday as it offered a reward.

NEW YORK The memories are painful - and liberating - for Tonya Harding.

WENATCHEE, Wash. The Transportation Department has closed the North Cascades Highway through the weekend because of avalanche danger from melting snow in high temperatures.

SEATTLE While a few days of sunshine and hot temperatures sound good to most people in Washington after the cool spring, authorities are warning of possible dangers.

RENTON, Wash. Human bones and what may be the remnants of a coffin have been found at a construction site in Renton.

TACOMA, Wash. A man was unconscious when he was pulled out of a burning home in Tacoma and taken to a hospital.

WASHINGTON All six Pacific Northwest senators back the wide-ranging farm bill that boosts farm subsidies and money for food stamps to help the poor deal with rising grocery prices.

EVERETT, Wash. A man who strangled his cellmate at the state Reformatory at Monroe is facing 30 more years in prison.

PULLMAN, Wash. Washington State University will let some employees work a 10-hour day, four days a week to reduce commuting time and save gas.

HELENA, Mont. A Washington-based recycling company that stored hazardous waste in Montana without a permit has paid a $67,500 state penalty, the Montana Department of Environmental Quality said Wednesday.

OLYMPIA, Wash. When drivers fill up their tanks at current high prices they want to make sure the pumps are accurate.

SEATTLE Defense lawyers have wrapped up their case in the trial of Naveed Haq (nah-VEED' hahk) who is charged with killing a woman and wounding five at the Jewish Federation office in Seattle.

SEATTLE The Seattle parks department now has seven rangers patrolling downtown parks.

SEATTLE Witnesses to a drive-by shooting in south Seattle where two women were wounded told reporters the suspects had been kicked out of a send-off party for a man headed to jail.