Новости за 05.01.2017

Tiger Woods says President-elect Donald Trump is a pretty good golfer for a 70-year-old. “What most impressed me was how far he hits the ball at 70 years old,” Woods wrote on his blog Thursday. “He takes a pretty good lash.” The two played golf last month at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm […]

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has announced a $10 billion plan to overhaul John F. Kennedy International Airport, one of the nation’s busiest and most crowded. Cuomo wants to update and expand the terminals and improve road and rail access at JFK, which served 60 million passengers last year and receives more international travelers than […]

The marching band of a small historically black college in Alabama will participate in the 58th Presidential Inaugural Parade, the school’s president announced Thursday. The decision follows several days of controversy after the Talladega Marching Tornadoes initially accepted an invitation to perform on January 20, with critics saying the move amounts to support for President-elect […]

Brits have flooded the Republic of Ireland with passport applications after the U.K. voted to leave the European Union. Ireland’s foreign ministry reported Thursday that passport applications from Great Britain surged 41% in the wake of the referendum as Brits looked for ways to retain EU travel documents. Nearly 65,000 British applications were submitted in […]

Not near a TV and want to watch live golf? In just two weeks, that won’t be a problem. The PGA Tour announced Thursday that Twitter will be the exclusive platform for more than 70 hours of live golf coverage across 31 tournaments for the rest of the season. This will include the first two […]

Tucker Carlson will take over for Megyn Kelly on Fox News next week, the network announced Thursday. Carlson, a conservative commentator and founder of The Daily Caller web site, is well-known to Fox fans. His two-month-old show “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” an out-of-the-box ratings success at 7 p.m., will move to the 9 p.m. hour. The […]

The young man cowers in the corner of a room, tied up with his mouth bound in plastic. His eyes exude fear as his attackers get ready for their next act. One assailant slashes his sweatshirt with a knife. A young woman streaming the abuse on Facebook Live turns the camera back to herself. One […]

A Georgia college town isn’t the natural setting for a llama, so motorists might have thought they were hallucinating when the wooly creature on the loose caught their eye. Hannah Martin and her boyfriend, Matt Bridgers, had stopped in traffic Wednesday when they saw the llama casually wandering along Epps Bridge Parkway, a busy thoroughfare […]

Senate Democrats are calling on the House Office of Congressional Ethics to launch an investigation into Rep. Tom Price, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Health and Human Services secretary, to probe the congressman’s financial investments and stock holdings. “We are here to call on the House Office of Congressional Ethics to investigate if any laws […]

The young man cowers in the corner of a room, tied up with his mouth bound in plastic.. His eyes exude fear as his attackers get ready for their next act. One assailant slashes his sweatshirt with a knife. A young woman streaming the abuse on Facebook Live turns the camera back to herself. One […]

Two people have been killed in an explosion near a courthouse in the city of Izmir, western Turkey, the country’s state-run Anadolu news agency reports. A police officer and a courthouse staff member both died in the attack, while others have been injured. Police have killed two assailants and are hunting a third, according to […]

Formula E has pioneered electric car racing on city streets, and this weekend Las Vegas hosts another landmark for the fledgling series — this time in the virtual world. The Vegas eRace will pit 20 Formula E drivers against 10 fans as “Sin City” becomes “sim city” in a unique $1 million event, where all […]

CLEARFIELD – Leon Kriner, president of the Clearfield County Farm Bureau, briefly covered a few items of business at Tuesday’s commissioners’ meeting. The bureau will host a county-wide informational meeting at 7 p.m. Jan. 25 at the Lock Haven University Clearfield campus. The featured speaker will be John Bell, legal counsel for the Pennsylvania Farm […]

CLEARFIELD – – A Morrisdale man accused of setting a pick-up truck on fire to conceal misusing his fire company’s funds waived his right to a preliminary hearing Wednesday during centralized court at the Clearfield County Jail. William Blake Verbeck, 62, of Morrisdale has been charged by Pennsylvania State Police with 18 counts of arson, […]

HARRISBURG – Pennsylvania State Police Troopers arrested 328 people for driving under the influence during the three-day New Year’s holiday from Dec. 30, 2016 through Jan. 1, 2017. The total of 328 arrests is an increase from 2016 when 309 DUI arrests were made during the holiday driving period. State police investigated 595 crashes over the holiday weekend, up from 458 […]

EMPORIUM – The golden eagles are back and the Elk State Forest is once again assisting in the Golden Eagle Study. In the winter of 2011-12, the Bureau of Forestry Elk State Forest, in cooperation with Penn State University, West Virginia University and the Pennsylvania Game Commission, participated in a study of Golden Eagles across […]

PA Forward initiative connects residents with library programming; tells story of what libraries bring to local communities MECHANICSBURG – The New Year brings a new statewide program for Pennsylvania’s libraries according to the Pennsylvania Library Association (PaLA). The Star Library Program, publicly announced during the association’s fall conference, is now officially available to all libraries in […]

1. Market movers — Macy’s and Kohl’s: Shares in American retailers Macy’s and Kohl’s are plunging in extended trading. Investors are hitting the sell button after Macy’s issued an disappointing earnings report and said it will close 68 stores and cut more than 10,000 jobs. Kohl’s stock is also sharply lower based on disappointing holiday […]

Britain has a new man in Brussels. Prime Minister Theresa May has moved quickly to fill a key government vacancy, announcing the appointment of Tim Barrow as the country’s ambassador to the European Union after his predecessor’s controversial resignation. Barrow will play a key role in negotiating Britain’s exit from the EU, but he’ll need […]

Facebook has come under fire for blocking a photograph of a bronze statue of Neptune in Italy. Designed by Jean Boulogne, better known as Giambologna, the mid-sixteenth century fountain of Neptune stands in the Piazza del Nettuno in Bologna. Facebook appeared to have taken offense at the disrobed Roman god, asking Italian writer Elisa Barbari […]

Cereal is healthy only if you choose wisely. Ready-to-eat breakfast cereal can make for a convenient, healthy and balanced breakfast, especially if it’s made with whole grains, is low in sugar and is served with fresh fruit. Depending on the type you choose, it can have just as much protein as an egg, the same […]

A senior adviser to President-elect Donald Trump said Wednesday that he doesn’t think anyone should be listening to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Former CIA director James Woolsey, a top adviser to Trump on national security issues, weighed in on Trump using remarks from Assange to continue to raise questions about the intelligence community’s findings that […]

China has slammed US President-elect Donald Trump over his use of Twitter to conduct international diplomacy in a commentary published by the country’s official news agency Xinhua. Trump has earned a reputation for making unpredictable statements on Twitter that often depart from long-standing US policies and he’s made several controversial comments about China. “The obsession […]

Tom Perriello, a former Virginia congressman and an ex-diplomat in the Obama administration, is set to shake up the Democratic primary in the highly anticipated 2017 Virginia gubernatorial race. A Democratic source with knowledge of Periello’s plans confirmed them to CNN. A second senior Democratic source said Perriello has informed Lt. Governor Ralph Northam, up […]

Some Ford owners will no longer need a key to unlock and start their car. The company announced Wednesday at CES 2017 its newer vehicles will work alongside Amazon’s popular Echo smart speaker and its voice assistant Alexa. The move will allow select Ford owners to make voice requests via the Echo such as “Alexa, […]