Новости за 04.03.2016

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Chick-fil-A is set to open its first stand-alone Oregon restaurant by the end of March.

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Grizzlies could be hunted across parts of three states under a proposal by the Obama administration to lift federal protections for the animals that were first imposed more than forty years ago.

PHOENIX (AP) — Winter in Phoenix has been looking a lot like summer.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A sign at the entrance of Jackson Wink MMA Academy boasts that behind its doors "walk the greatest fighters in the world." And those with dreams of becoming the next great mixed martial arts fighter flock…

WEST LINN, Ore. (AP) — West Linn has reached a "mutual separation agreement" with a city administrator who claimed she was passed over for the interim city manager position.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Not so tricky. More straightforward. Guessing allowed. The newly redesigned SAT college entrance exam that debuts nationally Saturday is getting good reviews from some of the students who took it early this week.

SYDNEY (AP) — As the two-year anniversary of the disappearance of Flight 370 approaches, the situation would seem decidedly grim. The underwater hunt of a punishing patch of ocean that has trudged along since late 2014 has thus far come…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The military services are already beginning to recruit women for combat jobs, including as Navy SEALs, and could see them serving in previously male-only Army and Marine Corps infantry units by this fall, according to new plans…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Seven Portland residents are filing a class-action lawsuit against a city glass manufacturer over pollution concerns.

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov has met with the U.S. Ambassador to Russia John Tefft to discuss the nearly week-old cease-fire in Syria.

We call Michael Moore’s films “documentaries” because they’re not scripted fiction, but they’re really performance art/commentary, with Moore front and center, soaking up nearly as much camera time as all his subjects put together.

Just a few days after the stardust has settled on the 88th Annual Academy Awards, allow me to tell you about the first surefire candidate for a nomination for NEXT year’s Oscars.

DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — A rare "super bloom" of wildflowers in Death Valley National Park has covered the hottest and driest place in North America with a carpet of gold, attracting tourists from all over the world…

SEATTLE (AP) — That an American adventurer could be the one to help crack one of aviation's greatest mysteries came as no shock to his friends, who say they aren't surprised Blaine Gibson's passion for mysteries, travel and meeting people…

BEIJING (AP) — China said Friday it will boost defense spending by about 7 to 8 percent in 2016, the smallest increase in six years, reflecting slowing growth in the world's second-largest economy and a drawdown of 300,000 troops as…

"(He's) playing the American public for suckers." — Mitt Romney, the Republican Party's 2012 presidential nominee about Donald Trump, who countered by calling him a "failed candidate" and someone who "wants to be relevant."

Men’s basketball

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Honor student Asher Potts was well into his senior year in high school when police got a tip that the earnest teenager who had so impressed community leaders for nearly four years was not the person…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's military says a Palestinian was shot and killed after she used her car as a weapon and drove it into a soldier in the West Bank.

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Stephen Curry and the Golden State Warriors matched one record set by Michael Jordan's Chicago Bulls as they close in on the bigger mark.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — An Egyptian flight student is expected to appear in immigration court Friday to determine whether he should be deported after being investigated by federal agents for posting threatening comments on his Facebook page about Donald Trump.

SEATTLE — Oregon got off to the fast start it wanted, but the Ducks couldn’t slow down Arizona enough to stay alive in the Pac-12 women’s basketball tournament on Thursday.

PENDLETON — Monroe jumped out strong and rolled to a 43-28 win over Lost River on Thursday at the 2A girls tournament.

DALLAS (AP) — Nic Moore remembers his redshirt season at SMU, when he would sit on the bench with Markus Kennedy and joke about counting the sparse home crowds.

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Gabe York has been in a lot of big games for Arizona, and the senior guard ranks Thursday night's win over California his best.