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Cloie Boardner watches her grandfather pound a cross into the ground at the Libby Cemetery prior to a memorial service for asbestos victims. Cloie's grandmother died of asbestosis and both her parents have lung abnormalities. It was also discoverd…

Libby's pride and financial stability is built around the natural resource market. The only industry left in Libby is financially unstable Stimson Lumber Company since the mining for vermiculite ore was ceased years ago.

Lerah Parker had a dream come true when W.R. Grace sold her riverfront property with enough dirt to start a successful nursery. Now her home has been razed and decades of personal belongings are now being sealed back into the mine. She has had to…

An asbestos fiber found in a home during EPA testing is detected by the fine eye of an electron microscope. The fiber is straight with spear-like appendages. When breathed into the lungs the fiber digs deeper into the tissue with no way to reverse…

A worker for the EPA enters the sealed home of Libby resident Mike Powers before the start of a cleaning scenario that will measure the levels of airborne asbestos fibers in the air. Like many families before them the Powers family had to relocate…

I was always wiping the dust from everything inside and out. said Libby, Montana resident Mary Cassidy before her death from asbestos exposure. Cassidy lived a stones throw away from the W.R. Grace vermiculite mine where her husband worked in the…

A cat along a porch railing on Lindeke St. in Spokane stretches after an afternoon nap Monday afternoon.

Lakeland Hawks' Ashley Jameson, center, puts the big squeeze on her teammates after defeating Priest River to win the A-2 State Basketball Championship.

Larry Hawkins of Pinehurst, Idaho., shares a moment with his grand daughter Madisen who wants to share her lollipop with him. Hawkins spent 32 years as a supervisor at the Sunshine Mine, now retired he developed the neuromuscular disease Myasthenia…

Battling a brain tumor and blindness, Kyle Woodard climbed the stage to accept the Teen Individual Award for personal acheivement at the Spokane Opra House during the Chase Youth Awards.