Новости за 10.02.2016

Corvallis Fire Department

In the middle of his choir class on Tuesday, Dan Johnson abruptly told his students to follow him out of the room and into the lobby of Philomath High School.

SALEM — Sen. Sara Gelser, D-Corvallis, said Tuesday she supports a measure to increase the state’s minimum wage on a three-tiered level of $12.50, $13.50 and $15 over six years, in part to avo…

NEW YORK (AP) — When the curtain rises on Giuseppe Verdi's "La Battaglia di Legnano" ("The Battle of Legnano") in Sarasota, Florida., later this month, it will cap an achievement as historic i…

KOLKATA, India (AP) — A wild elephant rampaged through an east Indian town on Wednesday, smashing cars and homes and sending panicked people running before the animal was tranquilized to be re…

Expect mostly cloudy conditions, with a slight chance of rain, Wednesday in the mid-valley.

KILIS, Turkey (AP) — Turkey's president on Wednesday fired back at the United Nations for demanding that Turkey open its border to tens of thousands of more Syrian refugees, accusing the world…

BAD AIBLING, Germany (AP) — Emergency workers on Wednesday started removing the wreckage from the head-on train crash that killed 10 people and injured dozens in southern Germany, after police…

BERLIN (AP) — The Latest on the massive influx of migrants into Europe (all times local):

BEIRUT (AP) — Kurdish fighters backed by Russian airstrikes launched an attack in northern Syria on Wednesday in an attempt to capture a military air base held by Syrian insurgents, activists …

TOKYO (AP) — Ken Watanabe, one of a handful of Japanese actors who has made it on the international stage, underwent surgery for stomach cancer. But he has beaten serious sickness before, havi…

BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO defense ministers should approve plans Wednesday for increasing NATO's forward presence in Eastern Europe to deter Russia, and discuss what the alliance might do to stanch…

Indulge us in a couple of thoughts about a proposal from the Corvallis School District to expand a program that supplies students with iPads.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea said Wednesday that it will shut down a joint industrial park with North Korea in response to its recent rocket launch, accusing the North of using hard c…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Air tests at five Portland schools have found no traces of carcinogens that have been found in other neighborhoods of the city.

BAYONNE, N.J. (AP) — A cruise ship is returning early to its New Jersey port after it was battered by a major storm in the Atlantic Ocean.

MOSCOW (AP) — A prominent Russian opposition figure says he was threatened by a group of men who then attacked him with a cake while he was dining at a restaurant in Moscow.

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A Romanian appeals court on Wednesday upheld a 20-year prison sentence for a 90-year-old communist-era prison guard convicted of crimes against humanity, the most hig…

What do Corvallis, Albany and Philomath citizens have in common other than one city leaning liberal and the other two, conservative? Intelligent, dedicated, public officials, community leaders…

"When in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People...", "We the People of the United States...", "A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free state…

BANBURY, England (AP) — Manor Racing has selected German driver Pascal Wehrlein for the Formula One season, which starts next month at the Australian Grand Prix.

NEW YORK (AP) — Harper Lee's classic novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" — and its now-somewhat sullied hero Atticus Finch — are heading to Broadway in a new adaptation written by Aaron Sorkin.

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Italian opera singer Cecilia Bartoli and Swedish songwriter-producer Martin Sandberg have won the 2016 Polar Music Prize.

BALTIMORE (AP) — A retired Baltimore judge who will determine whether a man convicted of a killing at the center of popular podcast "Serial" deserves a new trial said the five-day post-convict…

BERLIN (AP) — Police say they are no longer looking for a missing person in the train crash that has killed 10 and injured dozens in a rural area in southern Germany.