Melvin Franklin Plaisted

Melvin Franklin Plaisted, age 94, a Columbia Basin pioneer and longtime Moses Lake farmer, passed away Saturday, February 18, 2012 at Hearthstone assisted living in Moses Lake, Washington. Funeral services will be at 1:00 p.m., Saturday, February 25, 2012 at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Nelson Road Chapel, 1849 East Nelson Road, Moses Lake. Interment with Military Honors will follow at Pioneer Memorial Gardens. Friends who wish may call at the Nelson Road LDS Chapel on Friday evening, February 24th from 5 to 8 p.m., and on Saturday, February 25th from 11a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

John Lewis' funeral set for Atlanta church that MLK once led

ATLANTA (AP) — When John Lewis is mourned, revered and celebrated at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta on Thursday, he returns to a sacred place imbued with civil rights history.

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Texas GOP condemns posts days before Floyd's Houston burial

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Three promoted a Facebook post suggesting George Floyd's death was staged. Another shared a Martin Luther King Jr. quote over a picture of a banana. A fifth nudged followers to consider that liberal billionaire George Soros pays black people to riot to keep “race wars" flaring.

Texas GOP condemns George Floyd posts by some local leaders

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Three promoted a Facebook post suggesting George Floyd's death was staged. Another shared a Martin Luther King Jr. quote over a picture of a banana. A fifth nudged followers to consider that liberal billionaire George Soros pays black people to riot to keep “race wars" flaring.

Texas GOP condemns George Floyd posts by its local leaders

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Three promoted a Facebook post suggesting George Floyd's death was staged. Another shared a Martin Luther King Jr. quote over a picture of a banana. A fifth nudged followers to consider that liberal billionaire George Soros pays black people to riot to keep “race wars" flaring.

Slain Indiana officer remembered as dedicated, compassionate

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Indianapolis police officer who was

Clashes in impoverished Lebanese city as crisis deepens

TRIPOLI, Lebanon (AP) — Hundreds of protesters in Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli set fire Tuesday to two banks and hurled stones at soldiers, who responded with tear gas and batons in renewed clashes triggered by an economic crisis spiraling out of control amid a weeks-long virus lockdown.

Doris Elaine Vander Veer

Doris Elaine Vander Veer, 54, passed away Thursday, Feb. 21, 2008, in East Wenatchee.

Elizabeth Corning

Elizabeth (Betty) Florence Corning, 92, of Bellingham died August 18, 2011.

Robert 'Bob' Lawrence Echols Sr.

Robert “Bob” Lawrence Echols Sr., 73, longtime Warden resident and area Real Estate broker died in his home in Warden on Thursday, Feb. 11, 2016, after a hard-fought battle with cancer.

Maria Guillermina Tamayo Lopez

Maria Guillermina Tamayo Lopez, 62, of Moses Lake, Wash. died Sunday, Feb. 14, 2016 in her daughter’s home in Moses Lake, Wash.

Randy J. Fair

August 11, 1968 – February 18, 2016

August 11, 1968 – February 18, 2016

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Sheriff: Suspect used knife, hammer to kill 2 Florida boys

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A 30-year-old man who was invited to live on a family's property in northeast Florida has been charged with the “brutal" premeditated first-degree murders of their two young sons, ages 12 and 14, officials said Friday.

Saudi commission insists no minors to face death penalty

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A Saudi Arabian governmental body on Thursday insisted that executions have been abolished for crimes committed by minors, after Human Rights Watch said earlier this week that Saudi prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against a number of young men from the predominantly Shiite eastern region of the kingdom for protest-related crimes they allegedly committed as children.

Sudanese bury man apparently tortured during detention

CAIRO (AP) — Thousands of Sudanese on Tuesday attended the funeral service of a man who was apparently tortured to death this month at a detention center run by a paramilitary force whose members once belonged to a militia that rights groups say committed war crimes in Darfur.

Baghdad procession marks anniversary of Iran general's death

BAGHDAD (AP) — A mock funeral procession marked the anniversary of the assassination of Iran’s top general and a senior Iraqi militia leader in a U.S. drone strike that heightened fears of a military escalation in the region.