REC Silicon breaks ground on $600 million expansion

New plant will be 20 stories tall

Readers document eclipse with photos, video livestreamed from the paper's rooftop

MOSES LAKE — Visitors to the Herald’s Facebook page shared a nice variety of photos from this week’s solar eclipse that stopped people in their tracks throughout the Columbia Basin and backed up traffic in Oregon. Images of the darkened sun, a child holding up a welding mask, and a man enjoying a boat ride were just a few of the images gracing the Herald’s Social Media channels.

Artist JMW Turner replaces Adam Smith on new UK banknote

LONDON (AP) — Britain's new 20-pound (about $29) note went into circulation Thursday — one that replaces the image of a pioneering economist with a battered warship being towed away for scrap.

Artist JMW Turner replaces Adam Smith on new UK banknote

LONDON (AP) — Britain's new 20-pound (about $29) note went into circulation Thursday — one that replaces the image of a pioneering economist with a battered warship being towed away for scrap.

Artist JMW Turner replaces Adam Smith on new UK banknote

LONDON (AP) — Britain's new 20-pound (about $29) note went into circulation Thursday — one that replaces the image of a pioneering economist with a battered warship being towed away for scrap.

Artist JMW Turner replaces Adam Smith on new UK banknote

LONDON (AP) — Britain's new 20-pound (about $29) note went into circulation Thursday — one that replaces the image of a pioneering economist with a battered warship being towed away for scrap.

Washington State Potato Commissioner Frank Martinez 'Loves the Industry'

"I love the industry and I want to do everything I can to help it," Washington State Potato Commissioner Frank Martinez says about why he serves on the Potato Commission board. Martinez, who will be 63 years old next month, has been a commissioner for 12 years including time spent as chairman of the board and chairman of the Trade and Market Access Committee.

Prosecutors: Man sought to have his child porn victim killed

CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey man who sought and exchanged sexually explicit videos and images with a 13-year-old New York girl paid $20,000 in bitcoin in a bid to have the child victim murdered before eventually calling it off, prosecutors announced Thursday.

Prosecutors: Man sought to have his child porn victim killed

CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey man who sought and exchanged sexually explicit videos and images with a 13-year-old New York girl paid $20,000 in bitcoin in a bid to have the child victim murdered before eventually calling it off, prosecutors announced Thursday.

Alicia Keys, Backstreet Boys kick off 'living room' concert

NEW YORK (AP) — Alicia Keys sang softly from the piano — from her home — to kick off the hour-long “living room" benefit concert put on to raise money during the coronavirus crisis.

AP Entertainment Digest for Friday, Sept. 4, 2020

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Video shows 6 American oil executives jailed in Venezuela

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela has released a video showing six American oil executives jailed in Caracas as relatives appealed for international help in securing their release over fears about the men's health amid the coronavirus pandemic.

AP Entertainment Digest for Friday, Aug. 21, 2020

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WSU researchers may have found treatment for stubborn bacterial infections

PULLMAN — Washington State University researchers may have found a way to trick bacteria into sending messages that make it easier to kill them, according to a WSU press release.

Learn about survival and live

This is the last of a three-part series about survival skills.

After reading the past two parts to this series and columns about survival in past years, readers are sure to realize passing along information about survival skills are important to me. This is true, of course, as survival information may save a life.

Anti-Cancer Compound Could Give Cancer Patients New Hope

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El Salvador president denies negotiating with gang

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador President Nayib Bukele denied a report Friday that his government has been negotiating with one of the country’s most powerful gangs to lower the murder rate and win their support in mid-term elections in exchange for prison privileges.

Video in apparent Epstein suicide attempt is lost, US says

NEW YORK (AP) — Video footage of the area around Jeffrey Epstein's jail cell on a day he survived an apparent suicide attempt “no longer exists,” federal prosecutors told a judge Thursday.

Video in apparent Epstein suicide attempt is lost, US says

NEW YORK (AP) — Video footage of the area around Jeffrey Epstein's jail cell on a day he survived an apparent suicide attempt “no longer exists,” federal prosecutors told a judge Thursday.