Новости за 19.01.2017

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Two New Jersey congressmen have introduced legislation to allow towns to paint strips of blue on roadways to honor police after regulators said the tributes crossed the line of federal safety rules. Republican U.S. Rep. Leonard Lance and Democratic U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell introduced legislation Tuesday to permit the blue lines […]

Outgoing Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell reflects on her tenure running the agency that oversees nearly 20 percent of the nation’s land, including national parks, and relationships with Indian tribes. Her next step: a long road trip before returning home to Seattle.

Utah dominated the glass and Kyle Kuzma scored 19 points and pulled down 11 boards to help the Utes breeze past Washington State 88-47 on Wednesday night.

LUCKNOW, India (AP) — A truck loaded with sand collided with a school bus early Thursday, killing at least 24 young children in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, police said. At least two dozen other children were injured in the collision when the speeding truck collided head-on with the bus, said Javeed Ahmed, […]

ATLANTA (AP) — Not only is President Barack Obama the nation’s first black president, but it’s safe to say he has been America’s first hip-hop commander-in-chief. Obama embraced hip-hop more than any of his predecessors: He’s referenced Jay Z’s lyrics and Kanye West in speeches, released playlists on Spotify that included Nas, Chance the Rapper, […]

BOSTON (AP) — The family of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer killed by the Boston Marathon bombers is creating a new foundation in his name. The Sean Collier Memorial Fund will be announced Thursday in Boston. Collier was shot to death by Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-HAHR’ tsahr-NEYE’-ehv) and his brother, Tamerlan (TAM’-ehr-luhn), as they […]

TOKYO (AP) — Shares were meandering in sluggish trading in Asia on Thursday as investors awaited the inauguration of Donald Trump as president. Japan’s benchmark rose after the dollar slipped against the yen. KEEPING SCORE: Japan’s Nikkei 225 gained 0.9 percent to 19,072.25, lifted by the yen’s weakness, which is a boon to export manufacturers. […]

CINCINNATI (AP) — The Cincinnati Zoo is welcoming its first zoo baby born this year. The still-unnamed guereza (guh-REH’-zah) colobus monkey was born last week to first-time mother Adanna and dad Tiberius. Guereza colobus is a type of monkey once thought abnormal because it has no thumb, or only a stub where the thumb would […]

BANGOR, Maine (AP) — A Maine man convicted of killing his girlfriend and her two children faces 25 years to life in prison when he’s sentenced. Keith Coleman, of Garland, is due to be sentenced Thursday for the deaths of 36-year-old Christina Sargent, 10-year-old Duwayne Coke and 8-year-old Destiny Sargent. Police say Coleman told them […]

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Donald Trump’s assumption of the U.S. presidency couldn’t come at a worse time for Mexico. Drug violence here is again on the upswing, the government has struggled to combat widespread corruption and nationwide protests have erupted after gasoline prices spiked this month amid the country’s falling oil production and inability to […]

A change in thinking about the value of a designated hitter and growing sentiment among eligible voters gave Edgar Martinez his highest percentage of Baseball Hall of Fame votes since appearing on the ballot. But it wasn’t enough to garner induction for the 2017 class headed to Cooperstown, New York. Martinez received Hall of Fame votes […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Ash Carter tells The Associated Press that he opposed commuting the prison sentence of convicted leaker Chelsea Manning, the transgender former soldier who was convicted of espionage and other crimes for leaking classified information. Carter said during an interview in his Pentagon office, “That was not my recommendation.” He adds, […]

An NFL.com report states that the Seahawks are expected to sign veteran cornerback Perrish Cox, who was briefly with Seattle in 2013.

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Ray Liotta knows that he’s firmly cemented in the public’s mind as the real-life mobster he played in the 1990 movie “Goodfellas.” Even if the 62-year-old actor has moved on, working steadily over the years, he found out not everyone else has done so. “I’ve done a lot of independent movies […]

NEW YORK (AP) — A once-powerful New York legislator convicted of lying to FBI agents has been sentenced to five years in prison. Former state Sen. John Sampson was also fined $75,000 at his sentencing Wednesday in Brooklyn federal court after being found guilty in 2015 of obstruction of justice and making false statements. He […]

FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. (AP) — Matt Ryan knew the question was coming. There are four quarterbacks still standing in the NFL playoffs. Only one has failed to win a Super Bowl title. Any guesses who that might be? “Yeah,” Ryan said dryly, pointing toward the questioner with a big smile, breaking the room up. Most […]

LA QUINTA, Calif. (AP) — Phil Mickelson is set to play in the CareerBuilder Challenge, returning from two sports hernia surgeries a week earlier than he originally expected. “I feel good and I want to play,” Mickelson said Wednesday in a statement. “I don’t know where my game is, but I figure the only way […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Jeff Bagwell, Tim Raines and Ivan Rodriguez have been elected to baseball’s Hall of Fame, earning the honor as Trevor Hoffman and Vladimir Guerrero fell just short. Steroids-tainted stars Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens were passed over for the fifth straight year by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America but received […]

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The biggest onshore wind development in the works in the U.S. has received two critical federal approvals. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management on Wednesday approved the 500-turbine first phase of the Chokecherry and Sierra Madre wind project in southern Wyoming. Meanwhile, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service approved permits allowing […]

The state attorney general is suing the nation’s largest servicer of student loans, alleging that it steered students into expensive loans that they had little chance of repaying, and then used unfair and deceptive collection tactics.

NEW YORK (AP) — In his first week, Tucker Carlson moved seamlessly into Megyn Kelly’s time slot at Fox News Channel without skipping a beat in the ratings. Carlson averaged just under 3 million viewers for his first week of shows in Fox’s prime-time lineup, or 10 percent more than the 2.72 million viewers that […]

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Creighton returned to practice Wednesday with the same aspirations it had before Maurice Watson Jr. went out with a season-ending knee injury. With Watson leading one of the nation’s most prolific offenses, the seventh-ranked Bluejays (18-1, 5-1 Big East) were a trendy pick to make a deep postseason run, maybe all […]

MOUNT BALDY, Calif. (AP) — Officials say a woman is recovering after a harrowing rescue caught on tape when she slid down a snow-covered ridge while hiking in Southern California. It happened Monday afternoon as 34-year-old Jennifer Fujita and her brother were hiking down the Devil’s Backbone Trail near the Mount Baldy summit. The San […]

WELLINGTON, Ohio (AP) — A horse-drawn Amish buggy and a truck have crashed in Ohio, killing the horse and a man riding in the buggy. The State Highway Patrol says the truck struck the back of the buggy as both vehicles were traveling north on State Route 58 on Wednesday morning. Both of the buggy’s […]

Seattle Times reader Chris Picard’s whimsical image of color and shape made from something in everybody’s desk drawer.