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Top inner news right now. People who live on Spokane South Hill react to a nasty letter taped on their doors and shoved in their mailboxes.
The letters were found at homes along High Drive and on Browns Mountain yesterday morning.
The anonymous letters accused people of being wealthy, slothful yuppies, guilty of several different crimes against society.
One man who received the letter called the person who left it a coward.
I think it's funny. I wish they had the integrity to talk to me about it. I'd love to explain things to them.
Police say no one reported the letters and they won't take any action. And even though putting the letter into mailboxes is against the law,
post office officials say they won't press charges if police don't.
The tables have been turned in the Wenatchee Child Sexering case. The case shifted from criminal to civil proceedings in Seattle.
Four of those who were acquitted or had criminal charges dropped are suing state agencies, social workers, and police for $100 million in damages.
One prosecutor told jurors the authorities ignored numerous warning signs that the investigations were out of control.
Now Wenatchee's city lawyer claims there was solid, well corroborated evidence of child sexual abuse, including medical evidence.
Senator Patty Murray says schools should put filters on their internet computers to make sure students aren't looking at pornography.
Murray will visit a Seattle school today for a demonstration of the filtering software.
Spokane School District 81 is already using a special program that blocks inappropriate material for kids.
The software filters out pornography and information promoting hate crimes.
Spokane nurse has been charged with overbilling the federal government nearly $7,000 for services she allegedly never performed.
Hope Thomas is charged with 12 counts of Medicaid fraud and one count of first degree theft.
Thomas operated a service that offers care and treatment for families with severely ill children.
Thomas' lawyer says overbillings did occur, but they were mistakes rather than acts of deceit.
It's back to school for students at an Idaho junior high after a standoff with authorities.
Five students holed up inside the Pocatello School took part in the standoff yesterday morning.
It all started with one student and a gun.
A Wednesday, a 14-year-old came to the alternative school and threatened the principal.
Yesterday, he returned with a couple of guns. The kid approached the principal, pulled a gun on him.
That's when the principal ordered other students to run and get out.
But some students...