NATIONAL NEWS
     
      WASHINGTON (AP) - New jobless claims are down for the third time in four weeks but remain elevated.   The Labor Department says first-time claims for unemployment insurance dropped by 11,000 to a seasonally adjusted 457,000.   Analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters had expected a smaller drop.  
     
      ELMENDORF AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska (AP) - Authorities say all four airmen aboard a plane that crashed at an Air Force base in Alaska were killed.   Three were in the Alaska Air National Guard and the fourth was on active duty at Elmendorf Air Force Base.   The plane was on a local training run yesterday when it crashed.   Witnesses say the crash sent a fireball rising hundreds of feet over the base near downtown Anchorage.  
     
      KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - The Taliban had said they captured him -- but now, the body of a second U.  S.   Navy sailor who went missing in a dangerous part of eastern Afghanistan has been found.   NATO officials have not said why they were in such a dangerous part of the country.   According to senior military officials, they were instructors at a counterinsurgency school.  
     
      COOKE CITY, Mont.   (AP) - A woman who was attacked by a bear at a Montana campground says she was bitten on her arm and leg before she instinctively played dead so the animal would leave her alone.   At least one bear rampaged through a heavily occupied campground early yesterday, killing one man and injuring Deb Freele of Ontario and another man.  
     
      WASHINGTON (AP) - Vice President Joe Biden is welcoming the decision by a federal judge yesterday to put most of Arizona's new immigration law on hold.   Biden tells NBC that he doesn't think there can be "50 different immigration laws out there.  " The judge who held up most of the law agreed with the administration that immigration enforcement is a federal responsibility.  
     
     
     
      REGIONAL NEWS
     
      OLYMPIA, Wash.   (AP) - A sixth and final initiative will be on the November ballot.   State officials said yesterday their check of petition signatures for Initiative 1107 is complete, and voters will decide its fate this fall.   I-1107 would roll back higher taxes on candy, bottled water, pop, and other products.   Lawmakers passed those taxes to help balance the budget, but opponents say they've hit consumers and retailers too hard.  
     
      BEND, Ore.   (AP) - Bend police say a well-known developer has been hospitalized in critical condition after his wife mistook him for an intruder and shot him.   KTVZ-TV reports that 60-year-old Stephen Trono was critically wounded yesterday.   Police say Trono's 39-year-old wife, Angelicque, said she was awakened by a noise and sent her husband to investigate.   She told police that she later mistook her husband for an intruder and shot him.  
     
      LEWISTON, Idaho (AP) - Work by the U.  S.   Army Corps of Engineers and the Idaho Department of Fish and Game to add nutrients to Dworshak Reservoir has stalled while the agencies try to secure permits from the EPA.   The decision comes after an Orofino resident began the process to sue the agencies, saying the nutrients were boosting the growth of toxic algae.  
     
      CHELAN, Wash.   (AP) - The Washington Transportation Department says a two-mile section of U.  S.   Highway 97a about nine miles south of Chelan (shuh-LAN') has been closed by a mudslide.   The agency says the flow of water, mud and debris blocked the highway yesterday evening.   Cleanup operations are to resume at daylight.  
     
      Weather: Mostly sunny.   High near 96.   Spokane and the Palouse near 91 with a chance of thunderstorms.