Новости за 24.02.2016

Being a part of the same basketball team for the first time has taken some getting used to for the Tinkles.

CHICAGO (AP) — Availability is tight for a $10 Airbnb rental in Chicago designed to look like a Vincent Van Gogh masterpiece.

AL-SHAKRIYEH, Jordan (AP) — A coming-of-age drama set among Bedouin tribesmen roaming the desert is the first Oscar contender produced by Jordan's nascent film industry.

GOLD COAST, Australia (AP) — Australian Ladies Masters promoter Bob Tuohy says he's struggling to keep the tournament afloat after 27 years.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Portland Trail Blazers kept up their midseason tear through the NBA thanks to their increasingly prolific backcourt duo.

Corvallis High needed a spark after a sluggish first half.

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Pop star Madonna made surprise visits to two Manila shelters for orphans and street children, taking selfies with kids a day before the start of her two-night concer…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Latest on severe storms moving across the South (all times local):

KENNER, La. (AP) — Tornadoes and severe weather ripped through the Gulf Coast on Tuesday, mangling trailers at an RV park, ripping off roofs from buildings and killing at least three people in…

NEW YORK (AP) — Bill Gates is supportive of investigators' efforts to force Apple to help them crack into an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters, saying a balance needs to be str…

BOSTON (AP) — Nonprofit groups are calling on the National Football League to stop offering fantasy sports competitions to children because they're concerned the games could lead some young sp…

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Several top leaders from Warren Jeffs' polygamous sect were arrested Tuesday on federal accusations of food stamp fraud and money laundering — marking one of the biggest …

DALLAS (AP) — Antonin Scalia suffered from coronary artery disease, obesity and diabetes, among other ailments that probably contributed to the justice's sudden death, according to a letter fr…

WACO, Texas (AP) — Landen Lucas and Wayne Selden felt the wrath of Kansas coach Bill Self at halftime, when the second-ranked Jayhawks trailed No. 19 Baylor.

WACO, Texas (AP) — Frank Mason III scored 19 points and Landen Lucas had the tiebreaking layup as No. 2 Kansas won its eighth straight game, moving closer to a 12th consecutive Big 12 title wi…

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina sits atop the Atlantic Coast Conference standings, right where the Tar Heels were expected to be when they were the preseason No. 1 pick. Now, though, t…

The Corvallis City Council held its first back-to-back meeting/work session pairing last week.

Republican voters in Nevada made their voices known in the GOP's first-in-the-West presidential caucuses ahead of the party's national nominating convention in July.

STAYTON — Philomath played tough defense from the start in the 59-32 Oregon West Conference boys basketball road win at Stayton.

STAYTON — Philomath played tough defense from the start in the 59-32 Oregon West Conference boys basketball road win at Stayton.

DALLAS (AP) — The Latest on the death of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia at the Cibolo Creek Ranch in West Texas (all times local):

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivian voters have handed Evo Morales his first electoral defeat as president, rejecting by a slim margin a constitutional amendment that would have let him run for a …

SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say a horse and a dog were killed, and another horse was sickened, after the animals ate poisoned cookies that apparently were deliberately left for them to eat.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — An Albuquerque woman is expected to face child abuse charges after she crashed on a busy freeway during rush hour and left behind two children, the youngest of whom wa…

STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) — Amended charges have been filed against a woman accused of crashing her car into spectators at the Oklahoma State University homecoming parade, killing four and injuri…