Thursday, July 6, 2017

That was an earthquake, Hobby Lobby dinged for looted biblical artifacts, and morning headlines

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MUSIC: The Spokane band The South Hill will debut their new album today!

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IN OTHER NEWS

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A 5.8-magnitude earthquake in western Montana was felt in Spokane and other areas within a few hundred miles around 11:30 p.m. yesterday. (KHQ, Spokesman-Review)

Hot pursuit
Police in Arizona are searching for a man suspected of starting eight fires Monday and shooting at a U.S. Forest Service employee, about 75 miles southeast of Flagstaff, the Associated Press reports. (U.S. News and World Report)

Thou shalt not steal
click to enlarge That was an earthquake, Hobby Lobby dinged for looted biblical artifacts, and morning headlines
U.S. Department of Justice
A cuneiform tablet smuggled into the country by Hobby Lobby.

The craft and decor chain Hobby Lobby smuggled biblical artifacts looted from Iraq into the country, labeling them as tile "samples," and now has to return the artifacts and pay $3 million, McClatchy reports.

The Christian chain previously earned fame when it fought the Affordable Care Act mandate to provide birth control through employee health plans, taking the case to the Supreme Court, which agreed that in some cases, religious exemptions apply at for-profit chains.

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Samantha Wohlfeil is the Inlander's News Editor, a role she moved into in April 2024 after working at the paper as a news writer since 2017. She oversees the paper's news section and leads annual special sections, from our Sustainability Issue to our philanthropy issue known as Give Guide. As time allows, she...