Новости за 17.01.2017

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Creighton point guard and national assists leader Maurice Watson Jr. will miss the rest of the season because of a major knee injury. Watson tweeted on Tuesday that an MRI revealed a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee. Coach Greg McDermott tweeted he was “devastated” for Watson. Watson was […]

MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — A New York utility is set to vote later this month on a plan to construct an offshore wind farm off eastern Long Island. The Long Island Power Authority says the 90-megawatt, 15-turbine wind farm 30 miles east of Montauk would be the largest offshore wind project built to date. Plans […]

MIAMI (AP) — Some recent Cuban immigrants to the U.S. are fretting over how the rest of their families will join them now that Washington has ended its policy of granting automatic residency to Cubans who arrive on U.S. soil. Luis Alberto Rodriguez says it was exhilarating to arrive across the Texas border into the […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — With just three days left in office, the Obama administration has doubled an initial $500 million commitment to a fund that helps nations fight climate change. The incoming Trump administration and some Republicans oppose the program. The State Department’s announcement Tuesday brings U.S. contributions to the Green Climate Fund to $1 billion […]

MIAMI (AP) — Miami Seaquarium says it won’t release its orca named Lolita to “appease a fringe group” that includes Mexican actress Kate del Castillo. Del Castillo and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals released a campaign Tuesday calling for the orca’s release. In the videos, del Castillo says Lolita is suffering in a […]

Two Democratic members of Washington’s congressional delegation, U.S. Reps. Pramila Jayapal and Adam Smith, plan to skip Donald Trump’s inauguration this week.

The struggling New York Islanders fired coach Jack Capuano on Tuesday, ending his tenure in the middle of its seventh season. General manager Garth Snow named assistant GM/coach Doug Weight as Capuano’s interim replacement. The Islanders were 17-17-8 and are in last place in the Eastern Conference with 42 points. “The New York Islanders would […]

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — A beach town is using blunt legal arguments to resist a demand that it permanently close a section of beach where a man plunged into an inlet and drowned when the sand gave way beneath his feet. North Wildwood acknowledges that the 2012 death of Brad Smith, of Horsham, Pennsylvania, […]

Sheley Secrest, a local NAACP leader, is running for Position 8 on the City Council this year. She’s one of five registered candidates.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The first stage of a SpaceX rocket that landed on a platform floating in the Pacific Ocean after a weekend launch has arrived in the Port of Los Angeles. Spectators watched Tuesday as the landing barge entered the harbor with the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket standing vertically. Justin […]

CHICAGO (AP) — A federal judge has approved a plan to reorganize a subsidiary of casino giant Caesars Entertainment Corp., clearing the way for the operating unit to exit bankruptcy after filing for Chapter 11 protection with $18 billion in debt. The CEO of Las Vegas-based Caesars Entertainment heralded the approval Tuesday in federal bankruptcy […]

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Texas Rangers reliever Jake Diekman is expected to miss at least half the season after upcoming surgery to treat colitis, a digestive condition. Diekman, the top left-hander in the Texas bullpen, has battled the condition throughout his career. Rangers general manager Jon Daniels said Tuesday the team was aware of the […]

MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) — An Indiana cancer services agency says it will replace and rebuild its data after a computer hack demanding a ransom. Cancer Services of East Central Indiana-Little Red Door in Muncie says it was hacked Jan. 11 and the hackers demanded a ransom of 50 bitcoins, or about $43,000, for access to […]

BOSTON (AP) — A lawyer for a Massachusetts woman accused of helping dispose of her 2-year-old daughter’s body has asked a judge to dismiss the charges or move the trial. Rachelle Bond is charged as an accessory after the fact in the 2015 killing of her daughter, Bella Bond. Bond’s former boyfriend, Michael McCarthy, is […]

The San Juan Islands continue to be one of the better marine fishing locations for hatchery chinook, and here is a report from Kevin Klein with the Puget Sound Angler’s Fidalgo-San Juan Islands Chapter: Winter chinook fishing has been pretty good in the Islands, according to Klein. Silver Horde 3-ich spoons have been producing very […]

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Any attempt by Israel to annex part or all of the West Bank risks destroying prospects for peace with the Palestinians, the U.N. envoy trying to promote Middle East peace warned Tuesday. Nickolay Mladenov told the U.N. Security Council that “divisive” calls for annexations in the 60 percent of the West […]

KENNER, La. (AP) — A 44-year-old man is accused of killing and dismembering a 27-year-old who was living with the suspect’s ex-girlfriend in an apartment where detectives found evidence of blood spatters, a big pool of blood and a struggle, authorities said Tuesday. Viusqui Perez-Espinosa was arrested Tuesday on charges of second-degree murder and obstruction […]

ROANOKE, Va. (AP) — A judge is considering a request to move the upcoming trial of a former Virginia Tech student charged in the slaying of a 13-year-old girl. News media outlets report that Judge Robert Turk has taken under consideration the request from 19-year-old Natalie Keepers. Keepers is charged with being an accessory to […]

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe will not spare the life of a man convicted of murdering a well-known family of four in Richmond. The Democratic governor said in a statement Tuesday that he will not commute Gray’s sentence to life in prison. The governor says Ricky Gray had a “fair and impartial […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Carmelo Anthony still believes the Knicks can win and still wants to be in New York when they do. Another January collapse makes it easier to wonder if either will happen. The Knicks have fallen off the playoff pace, again proving they can win headlines but not games. It seems like […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Internal Revenue Service’s battle against fraud and identity theft is intensifying as the tax filing season opens, and some of the neediest taxpayers are getting caught in the middle. The agency is barred from issuing refunds before Feb. 15 on any returns claiming the Earned Income Tax Credit or the Additional […]

Developers see big potential in Big Sky resort and surrounding projects such as the once-bankrupt Yellowstone Club.

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s president has compared talk of renegotiating its nuclear accord to “converting a shirt back to cotton,” and says U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s talk of doing so is “mainly slogans.” Trump has strongly criticized the deal struck with world powers, in which Iran agreed to curb its uranium enrichment in exchange […]

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A senior Romanian intelligence official announced his retirement Tuesday after a businessman indicted on wide-ranging corruption charges claimed he had a close relationship with the officer. Florin Coldea, the No. 2 in Romania’s main domestic intelligence agency for 12 years, said that he wanted to step down to preserve “the dignity […]

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — At least three Oregon football players have reportedly been hospitalized following a series of intense workouts. The Oregonian reported (http://bit.ly/2iCfSGt ) late Monday that the players remain hospitalized after being taken there late last week. The school didn’t immediately identify the players who were hospitalized. It says in a statement to […]