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For now, the 2,000 or so books are stored in 96 boxes at Northwest Indian College, but in a few years they will fill a special reading room dedicated to Vine Deloria Jr.

Talking on your cell phone can distract you from your surroundings - even if they include a unicycling clown.

Photo: Giancarlo Yerkes, a 30-year-old advertising employee, crosses a street in downtown Chicago while text-messaging with his cell phone.

Editor's note: Donald W. Whisenhunt is an emeritus professor of history at Western Washington University.

A narrowly leading "everything but marriage" ballot measure gave hope Wednesday to gay rights' activists that Washington might soon be the first state in which a measure dealing with equality for same-sex couples won voter affirmation.

How blind to their surroundings can people be when they're talking on their cell phones? Enough to miss seeing a clown - wearing bright purple and yellow clothes, with a red nose and big red shoes - riding a unicycle near them as they walked across Red Square on the Western Washington University campus, according to a study conducted by a WWU ...

A recent study has shown that people talking on cellphones have the blinkers on so badly most couldn't even spot a clown on a unicycle.

Washington has a new name for a very old waterway. The inland waters including the Puget Sound, the Strait of Juan de Fuca and the Strait of George will now be known together as the Salish Sea.

Many public universities have been hit hard by the recession, and Western Washington University is no exception.

Interpreter Marc Schmitz and Gig Harbor High School American Sign Language teacher Dean Roberts during the teacher's planning period last Wednesday.

More than 800 Whatcom and Skagit county fifth-graders became Western Washington University students for the day Tuesday, Oct.

Brooke Evan Jonasson and DyLon Dreux McClary of Washington were married Aug. 2 in Stanwood, Wash., with Penny Truitt officiating.

Despite a growing pile of evidence that people talking on cellphones are less aware of their surroundings and an ever-increasing list of provinces that have banned mobile devices behind the wheel, the government of New Brunswick has no immediate plans to follow suit.

Pedestrians who talk on a mobile phone are slower, change direction more, have difficulty navigating -- and are less likely to notice obvious distractions like a unicycling clown, a study showed Tuesday.

A researcher at Western Washington University says he has proof that people talking on cellphones are twice as oblivious as people who aren't. A researcher at Western Washington University says he has proof that people talking on cellphones are twice as oblivious as people who aren't. Psychology professor Ira Hyman employed a clown riding on a ...

A group of clowns are seen laughing during the 14th Latin American clown convention in Mexico City, Mexico on October 21.

WASHINGTON: Pedestrians who talk on a mobile phone are slower, change direction more, have difficulty navigating - and are less likely to notice obvious distractions like a unicycling clown, a study said this week.

But Your Honor, I never left my chair: A Minnesota man has pleaded guilty to drunken driving while operating a motorized recliner .

The vampires will be out in New Orleans tonight. But they'll probably be more interested in munching popcorn than sucking blood.

Would you notice this clown? How much do you miss when you're distracted by a cellphone conversation? Researchers at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Wash., decided to study whether talking on a cellphone was such a distraction that people wouldn't notice obvious events happening in the world around them.