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ON INLANDER.COM 

• NEWS: Washington voters will have the chance to vote on an initiative this November that would raise the state's minimum wage to $13.50 (over four years) and require paid time off for illnesses. 
• FILM: The Garland Theater is showing Coen Brothers classic Raising Arizona this Wednesday. 
• DRINKS: The Steam Plant is hosting a second rooftop happy hour. 

IN OTHER NEWS: 

• Election 2016:
1. Emails show Democratic National Convention officials favored Hillary Clinton and colluded to undermine Bernie Sanders' campaign, according to nearly 20,000 hacked emails released on WikiLeaks. Throughout the primaries, Sanders' campaign accused the DNC of treating him unfairly.

2. After the emails were released, DNC chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (R-Fl) said she would step down.

3. Hillary Clinton picked Sen. Tim Kaine as a running mate.

• Mysterious plane crash in the Colville National Forest from 1955 solved. (Spokesman-Review)

• Two people were killed, and more than a dozen were wounded, after an early morning shooting at Fort Myers, Florida nightclub. The two victims killed were 14 and 18, the New York Times reports. The nightclub was hosting a party for teens. Some of the victims were as young as 12 years old. It is unclear how many shooters there were, but police have detained three people for questioning. Authorities have said this is not an "act of terror." 

This shooting comes after a gunman killed 49 people and injured more than 50 others at a gay nightclub in Orlando.

• Ken Griffey Jr. and Mike Piazza were inducted into the baseball Hall of Fame over the weekend. Griffey is the first player inducted into the Hall wearing a Mariner's cap.  

Ken Griffey Jr., welcome to immortality. #FIRSTLOOK #HOFWKND @Mariners https://t.co/ifqgcf6tV0 pic.twitter.com/ilRvp5hKCb

— Baseball Hall ⚾ (@baseballhall) July 24, 2016

• Spokane City Council President Ben Stuckart aims to ask Mayor David Condon for more time to select a police chief after one of the original three candidates withdrew his name from consideration. (KXLY)