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President Barack Obama on Thursday will free 10 states from the strict and sweeping requirements of the No Child Left Behind law, giving leeway to states that promise to improve how they prepare and evaluate students, The Associated Press has learned...

A storm chaser featured on The Weather Channel has been killed in a head-on collision in northeastern Oklahoma.

Assuming the wireless signal is strong enough in the performing arts center at Lakes High, we’ll stream video live of Zach Banner’s college announcement. The news conference is scheduled to begin at 2:30 p.m. Monday. Here’s a story,...

Zach Banner’s mind is made up. “I know where I’m going to school,” Banner said Sunday evening. “I can’t wait for Monday.” The elite offensive tackle from Lakes High will let the public in on his choice at a n...

MOBILE, ALA. — It helped Brian Quick’s confidence that even after he struggled in the first few days of Senior Bowl practices, missing some balls and dropping a few passes, teams continued to want to talk to him. The receiver out of Appalachian S...

And now, your daily recruiting update… Puyallup High offensive lineman Joshua Garnett will make his announcement at 3 p.m. Thursday in the commons at Puyallup High School. He’s choosing between Michigan and Stanford. Lakes High offensive...

Speculation ran rampant on the Internet this weekend that Lakes High offensive tackle Zach Banner gave an oral commitment to USC during his official visit this weekend. I sent Zach a text shortly after 11 a.m. on Sunday and asked him to clear up spec...

Twenty-five years ago, The News Tribune published its first its annual look at the top football recruits in the region — the Northwest Nuggets. At the time, this was the only recruiting resource available in the region. It was a smashing succes...

A couple high-profile football recruits played basketball at Alaska Airlines Arena at UW on Monday when Lakes took on Garfield at the King Holiday Hoopfest. Garfield wasn’t the only team putting a full-court press on Lakes. At least six Univers...

The New York Knicks struggled against a really weak group of opponents (other than the Oklahoma City Thunder) and now the schedule just gets tougher. On Monday afternoon (Jan...

UPDATE (8:26 p.m.) I just spoke with Lakes High football coach Dave Miller, who’s in San Antonio for the U.S. Army All-American Bowl. Miller confirmed that Banner has not eliminated Washington. “I asked Zach if the story that broke was tr...

Had the officials noticed Louisiana-Lafayette's extra player last night, the penalty would have been a technical foul. In nearly all forms of basketball today, playing with six players is illegal. But there was a time when 6-player basketball was com...