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‘I don’t plan on going back’
MOSES LAKE — Abel Valdez didn’t walk into Community Court expecting a fresh start.
Jeans company True Religion files for Chapter 11 _ again
NEW YORK (AP) — Jeans retailer True Religion Apparel Inc. filed for bankruptcy protection under Chapter 11 on Monday, the second time in three years, as extended closures of its stores in the pandemic have hurt its…
AP PHOTOS: Ghostly virus-era NYC, captured from a motorbike
In its best days, in its highest moments, New York City is dizzying.
AP PHOTOS: Iraqi couple gets police help to wed amid curfew
NAJAF, Iraq (AP) — Iraqi student Ahmed Khaled al-Kaabi, 23, proposed to the love of his life last year. The couple's dream was to have a huge celebration with family and friends in the southern holy city of Najaf.
Liz Weston: How to raid your retirement funds in a crisis
In an ideal world, your retirement accounts would be left alone for retirement. You’ve probably noticed that we’re not living in an ideal world.
Flowers cover cross to add color for Easter
MOSES LAKE — It was eerily quiet in Moses Lake on Sunday morning. On the most important festival day of the western Christian calendar, churches across the Bas…
Writer, outdoors enthusiast Dennis Clay passes away
MOSES LAKE — Dennis Clay, a longtime contributor to the Columbia Basin Herald, passed away on Thursday, April 9, at the age of 72.
AP PHOTOS: Ghostly virus-era NYC, captured from a motorbike
In its best days, in its highest moments, New York City is dizzying.
Summer camps facing rocky start, uncertain future
NEW YORK (AP) — For 17-year-old Morgan Carney, missing her seventh summer at overnight camp in the Ozarks would be worse than what she's feeling now in isolation without her school friends and usual slate of activi…
Hopeful birdsong, foreboding sirens: A pandemic in sound
NEW YORK (AP) — Hopeful birdsong and foreboding sirens. Chiming church bells and bleating ferry horns.
The howling: Americans let it out from depths of pandemic
DENVER (AP) — It starts with a few people letting loose with some tentative yelps. Then neighbors emerge from their homes and join, forming a roiling chorus of howls and screams that pierces the twilight to end ano…
Virus-era decisions: Way too many, and each with high stakes
Should you wash your hands?
AP PHOTOS: Iraqi couple gets police help to wed amid curfew
NAJAF, Iraq (AP) — Iraqi student Ahmed Khaled al-Kaabi, 23, proposed to the love of his life last year. The couple's dream was to have a huge celebration with family and friends in the southern holy city of Najaf.
Drums, dancers livestream as virus moves powwows online
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — The names pop up quickly on Whitney Rencountre's computer screen, and he greets them as he would in person.
VIRUS DIARY: Isolation and patience on a quiet Gaza farm
BEIT LAHIYEH, Gaza Strip (AP) — I haven't spent more than a single night at my family's farm on the northern edge of Gaza since an Israeli airstrike killed my father there more than a decade ago. But the arrival of…
Bunnies to the rescue as virus hits Belgian chocolatiers
SINT-PIETERS BRUGGE, Belgium (AP) — Master chocolatier Dominique Persoone stood forlorn on his huge workfloor, a faint smell of cocoa lingering amid the idle machinery — in a mere memory of better times.