Новости за 25.01.2017

DoNormaal, Wimps and The Dips are among the Pacific Northwest acts to rock Leavenworth.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a cashier at a Pittsburgh monuments and engraving firm stole at least $9.5 million from the company during the 16 years she worked there. The charges filed Wednesday against 55-year-old Cynthia Mills include tax evasion and money laundering. Her attorney says he plans to comment on the charges later […]

Alternative energy like solar power is getting cheaper and more competitive with traditional sources, but experts don’t expect pro-renewable-energy policies from a Trump administration.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Kansas Republican Rep. Lynn Jenkins says she will retire from Congress when her current term expires in two years. The 53-year-old Jenkins has had a low national profile but is a member of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee. That panel will be in the middle of this year’s GOP effort […]

Business owners affected by the gas explosion in Greenwood are calling on Puget Sound Energy to take financial responsibility.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A proposed settlement has been reached in the state investigation of West Virginia American Water’s role in a chemical spill and resulting water crisis in the Charleston area. Thousands of gallons of a coal-cleaning agent leaked from a Freedom Industries storage tank into the Elk River in January 2014, leaving 300,000 […]

Former Seahawks cornerback Marcus Trufant dishes on his tough, but successful transition between professional football and the business world.

English lit teachers must be having their moment of vindication this morning – George Orwell’s “1984” is the No. 1 best-selling book on Amazon.com.  The English journalist/novelist’s vision of a dystopian future in which England is in thrall to a mind-and-information controlling government has been perceived as, well, prescient, if you’re nervous about President Donald […]

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) — A judge says the Guantanamo war crimes tribunal can’t go forward without a defense lawyer who broke her arm. The court convened Wednesday at the U.S. base in Cuba for several days of pretrial motions in the case against five prisoners charged in the Sept. 11 terrorist attack. […]

LEWIS RUN, Pa. (AP) — A longtime Pennsylvania congressman convicted of racketeering has reported to a federal prison to begin his 10-year sentence. Officials said former U.S. Rep. Chaka (SHAH’-kuh) Fattah was logged in just after 11 a.m. Wednesday at the Federal Correctional Institution-McKean in Lewis Run, in western Pennsylvania, near the New York border. […]

Illumination: Art in the Market puts the spotlight on local artists.

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Unidentified vandals have spray-painted Nazi graffiti at a memorial cemetery in Ukraine where some Poles are buried. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin denounced the vandals’ action Wednesday at the Bykivnia memorial on the outskirts of Kiev, the Ukrainian capital. Bykivnia is a burial place for victims of the Soviet secret police, […]

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Carl Edwards remains a hot topic in NASCAR, two weeks after his abrupt retirement as a full-time driver. Terry Smith, a political science professor at Columbia College, speculated in a Wednesday piece for KBIA’s Talking Politics that Edwards will challenge U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill in Missouri next year. McCaskill, a Democrat, […]

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Notes that Mark Twain jotted down from a fairy tale he told his daughters more than a century ago have inspired a new children’s book, “The Purloining of Prince Oleomargarine.” At the Mark Twain House and Museum in Hartford, there is excitement that the story could help introduce the writer to […]

Trump Hotels is considering opening luxury properties in Seattle, Dallas, Denver and San Francisco.

FREDERICK, Md. (AP) — Police say several vehicles have crashed at the intersection of two interstates in Maryland after a motorcade from Washington, D.C., passed through. State Police spokeswoman Elena Russo says at least one person is dead, but the motorcade was not involved in the accident Wednesday. The motorcade was headed to West Virginia. […]

CHERRY HILL, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey high school is weighing whether it should allow students to utter racial slurs during performances of the musical “Ragtime.” Cherry Hill school district officials had planned to remove the N-word from the show that’s due to debut March 10 at High School East. But that has been […]

GLENSIDE, Pa. (AP) — Crews are assessing a massive sinkhole that has swallowed parts of two residential yards and is threatening to swallow a pickup truck in the Philadelphia suburbs. Officials in Cheltenham Township say the hole, which appears to be about 20 feet deep, opened up about 4 a.m. Wednesday. A tree could be […]

Ikea will open its new, two-story store in Renton, adjacent to its original store, on Feb. 22.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — To get you come into McDonald’s and buy new versions of its Big Mac, the chain is giving away 10,000 bottles of its trademark special sauce for people to use at home. The move is to celebrate the introduction of the Mac Jr. and the Grand Mac, two different-sized variations of […]

PARIS (AP) — The real winner of France’s left-wing presidential primary may be a man who demonstrably shunned it: Emmanuel Macron. The 39-year-old former investment banker and ex-economy minister with pro-free market, pro-European views has chosen not to take part in the Socialist primary. Instead, in recent days he has been drawing attention away from […]

VALHALLA, N.Y. (AP) — Twin 11-month-old girls who were formerly conjoined have been separated after undergoing a marathon surgery at a suburban New York City children’s hospital. A team of more than 50 medical professionals helped perform the delicate 21-hour operation to separate Ballenie and Bellanie Camacho at Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital in Valhalla over […]

BERLIN (AP) — A closely-watched survey of business confidence in Germany, Europe’s largest economy, dropped in January as managers worried about the uncertainty associated with the advent of Donald Trump’s presidency. The Ifo index released Wednesday fell to 109.8 points in January from 111 points in December, as companies’ greater satisfaction with their current situation […]

AMSTERDAM (AP) — A Dutch man suspected of cyberbullying young girls and gay men via webcams has gone on trial in the Netherlands. The suspect, Aydin C., also faces a separate trial in Canada, where he is charged in the cyberbullying of Amanda Todd, a 15-year-old girl who drew global attention to online abuse when […]

BRUSSELS (AP) — A senior European Union official has urgently called the leaders of Serbia and Kosovo following a recent spike in tensions between the two countries. EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini encouraged them to put aside their differences and work harder for normalizing their relations, according to a statement issued late Tuesday. Tensions […]