Thursday, August 4, 2016
Condon is ready to move on from the Straub report, but the community is not so sure (and other morning headlines)
ON INLANDER.COM
• NEWS: Mayor David Condon wants to move on from the scathing Frank Straub report. Others say not so fast.
• MUSIC: The Festival at Sandpoint kicks off tonight in, as the name suggests, Sandpoint with Bruce Hornsby and the Noisemakers.
• GLEASON: The story of how a man became a movement.
• HEALTH: Summertime health hazards.
IN OTHER NEWS:
• The U.S. Supreme Court weighed in on the transgender bathroom debate for the first time yesterday. In an emergency order, the court upheld a Virginia school's right to ban a transgender boy from using the restroom that matches his gender identity.
• A Muslim man in the Spokane County Jail is suspected of connections to the Islamic State. A Spokane County deputy prosecutor used the man's religion and previous statements in an argument requesting the judge set a $1 million bail, and it worked (though the man has not been charged with any terrorism related crimes). Jerome Curry Jr., denies any ties to radical Islam. (Spokesman-Review)
• Obama lessened sentences for 214 federal inmates, 67 of whom were serving life sentences. The White House says this is the largest batch of sentence commutations granted by a U.S. leader since 1900, and brings Obama's total to 562, more than the previous nine presidents combined.
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About The Author
Mitch Ryals
Mitch covers cops, crime and courts for the Inlander. He moved to Spokane in 2015 from his hometown of St. Louis, and is a graduate of the University of Missouri. He likes bikes, beer and baseball. And coffee. He dislikes lemon candy, close-mindedness and liars. And temperatures below 40 degrees.
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