February 2, 2007 in City on Page A1 Betty Winfrey lets a handful of her 20 grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren use the mailing address at her tidy house south of Interstate 90, resulting in stacks of mail every …

February 2, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A1 PARIS – The world’s leading climate scientists said global warming has begun, is “very likely” caused by man, and will be unstoppable for centuries, according to a report obtained today …

February 2, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A2 NEW YORK – Fourteen men who set sail from West Africa on a 60-foot boat in an attempt to reach the United States were plucked from their sinking craft this …

February 2, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A3 Renewed violence between rival Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip left at least six people dead Thursday, despite a three-day-old cease-fire agreement. Clashes broke out around the coastal strip after …

February 2, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A3 BAGHDAD, Iraq – The man looked suspicious. Without speaking a word, police officer Ahmed Eid Majood, manning one of the entrances to the bazaar in the southern Iraqi city of …

February 2, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A4 WASHINGTON — The Senate voted overwhelmingly Thursday to increase the federal minimum wage for the first time in nearly a decade but added small-business tax breaks that are unacceptable to …

February 2, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A4 ST. LOUIS — Abducted teen Shawn Hornbeck was ordered to guard fellow captive Ben Ownby and hide him from police when they were repeatedly left alone in their captor’s apartment, …

February 2, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A5 The most serious flu pandemic should prompt immediate isolation measures, including sending students home from school for up to three months and quarantining households with sick family members, according to …

February 2, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A5 Two men accused of furnishing money and fresh recruits to the militant Palestinian group Hamas were acquitted Thursday of racketeering but convicted on lesser charges. The two men beamed broadly …

February 2, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A5 SAN FRANCISCO – This city’s wildly popular mayor publicly apologized Thursday for having had an affair with his campaign manager’s wife while both she and her husband were working for …

February 2, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A7 RALEIGH, N.C. – President Bush’s 2008 budget will include a proposal for the biggest increase in Pell grants for low-income college students in three decades. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings said …

February 2, 2007 in Business on Page A8 Washington state’s new biodiesel production facility will be looking over the Cascades for more of its raw materials. The Imperium Renewables refinery in Grays Harbor said Thursday it had signed …

February 2, 2007 in Business on Page A8 OLYMPIA — As Rep. Larry Springer sees it, a big part of the answer to the region’s high home prices is simple: build more homes. So Springer, along with nearly …

February 2, 2007 in Business on Page A8 Two former Metropolitan Mortgage & Securities Co. executives and a Rochester, Wash., businessman accused of fraud have settled lawsuits pressed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The men, including …

February 2, 2007 in Business on Page A8 The new food, beverage and retail concessions opened just weeks ago at Spokane International Airport will return about $1 million to the airport this year, an airport official said Thursday. …

February 2, 2007 in Business on Page A9 DETROIT — Ford’s U.S. sales dropped 19 percent in January, allowing Toyota to pass it again as the nation’s No. 2 automaker. But Ford’s numbers were so bad that it …

February 2, 2007 in Business on Page A9 Stocks climbed higher for the second straight day Thursday as an already buoyant Wall Street embraced robust consumer spending figures and largely overcame disappointment in Google Inc.’s profit report. Both …