Новости за 18.12.2015

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Three prosecutors filed a motion Friday to intervene in a court case halting a secret investigation into Gov. Scott Walker's recall campaign.

CHICAGO (AP) — Grain futures were mostly higher Friday on the Chicago Board of Trade.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Gov. Mark Dayton says the state lottery director's resignation was warranted given questions about his expenses.

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentines expressed shock at soaring prices on Friday and a major union called for protests to demand salary increases in the initial fallout from a major deval…

Katz (Kromke) Palmer, 65, of La Crosse died Thursday, Dec. 17, 2015, at Gundersen Health System in La Crosse. She was born Sept. 16, 1950, to Hubert and Doris Kromke. Her family would like to …

NEW YORK (AP) — More often shoppers are making the decision to sit on their couches rather than head to stores this holiday season.

SEATTLE (AP) — The Mariners didn't wait long to bring back Hisashi Iwakuma after his agreement with the Los Angeles Dodgers failed to get finalized.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The effort to build a $1 billion football stadium and potentially keep the Rams from moving to Los Angeles faces a key vote Friday when St. Louis aldermen decide whether to sp…

PEORIA, Ariz. (AP) — Two cowboys are being credited with coming to the rescue of a deer stuck in an Arizona canal.

Christian McCaffrey showed off his explosiveness in Stanford's final three games in 2014 after being an afterthought for most of his freshman season. That ratcheted up expectations for this se…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Russia is expelling a Moscow-based correspondent for a leading Polish newspaper in a retaliatory move after a Russian reporter was stripped of his right to reside in Pola…

Associated Press video game critics Lou Kesten and Derrik J. Lang's favorite titles of the year featured monster hunters, treasure hunters, guardian spirits and murder suspects:

MOSCOW (AP) — Ukraine won't make a $3 billion debt repayment due to Russia this weekend because Moscow refused to agree to terms already accepted by other international creditors, Ukraine's pr…

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota's state lottery director has resigned amid questions about his expenses.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Anyone under the age of 18 would be barred from using indoor tanning equipment, under a federal proposal to help reduce skin cancer linked to the devices.

NEW YORK (AP) — Tourists are riding bikes in New York's Central Park and shorts have been spotted on Chicago's Miracle Mile this December. That can mean only one thing. Stores that sell coats,…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress on Friday sent President Barack Obama a bipartisan but deficit draining year-end budget package that boosts federal agency spending and awards tax cuts to both famil…

WASHINGTON (AP) — A bold federal effort to curb prescribing of painkillers may be faltering amid stiff resistance from drugmakers, industry-funded groups and, now, even other public health officials.

As a member of the Governor’s Council on Workforce Investment, I got to participate in an extremely in-depth examination of Wisconsin’s workforce trends. The outcome of that process was a four…

NEW YORK (AP) — "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" has set a box office record with an estimated $57 million from Thursday night shows.

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are skidding Friday as investors continue to worry about global economic growth. Financial stocks like Goldman Sachs and Citigroup took the biggest declines while t…

GENEVA (AP) — Companies in Switzerland that claim a tax break for paying bribes, be advised: The government is cracking down.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — State agencies would have to give the governor plans for cutting spending or maintaining it at current levels along with their biennial budget requests under a bill two Re…

ZURICH (AP) — Michel Platini's fading chances of becoming FIFA president were tested Friday at an ethics hearing over a payment of about $2 million from Sepp Blatter.

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Martin Shkreli, the pharmaceutical executive arrested Thursday on charges of securities fraud, has resigned as the head of one of the companies he runs, Turing Pharmaceuticals.