MORNING BRIEFING: Another stabbing, an escaped inmate and County Commissioners reject the Spokane Tribe's casino proposal

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There was yet another stabbing in Spokane last night. (S-R)

Spokane County Commissioners have filed a formal objection to the Spokane Tribe's plans to build a casino in Airway Heights. (S-R) 

Law enforcement officials are still on the lookout for Michael Wheeler, an escaped Geiger Corrections inmate. (KXLY)

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The U.S. economy shrank for the first time in 3 1/2 years from October to December 2012. (AP)

Former U.S. Representative from Arizona, Gabrielle Giffords -- who was critically injured in a 2011 mass shooting -- addressed the Senate Judiciary Committee in its first gun control hearing since the Newtown, Conn. mass shooting. (NYT)

This morning, an Alabama man shot a school bus driver and then held a child who was on the bus hostage in an underground bunker. (MSNBC)