Новости за 02.03.2017

Red Sox left-hander David Price was scratched from his first spring training start and will consult with specialists after experiencing soreness in his left forearm and elbow. Price underwent an MRI on Wednesday but results of the test are not yet available. Price is expected to seek second opinions from Dr. James Andrews and Dr. […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A spokeswoman for the PwC auditing firm says the company has hired protection for the two accountants responsible for the best-picture flub at the Oscars. Carey Bodenheimer said Thursday that PwC is providing security to Brian Cullinan and Martha Ruiz. They are the accountants who were dismissed by the film academy […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon says an incorrectly typed command during a routine debugging of its billing system caused the five-hour outage of some Amazon Web Services servers on Tuesday. In a summary posted online, the Seattle company says a command meant to remove a small number of servers for one of its S3 subsystems […]

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Official: Fire in rural Oregon that killed 4 children caused by portable space heater.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — To say actress Zoey Deutch is a regular at Art’s Deli is an understatement. Sporting an oversized sweatshirt, she breezes into the restaurant, a Studio City institution since 1957, and is immediately greeted with familiar hugs from the wait staff. One chimes in that he’s known her since she was a […]

WEST CHESTER, Pa. (AP) — Police say a teenager assaulted and robbed a 72-year-old woman, bound her and locked her inside a closet in her suburban Philadelphia home, where she was not discovered for four days. Prosecutors said Thursday the 17-year-old boy is being charged as a juvenile with attempted homicide and other offenses. The […]

CHICAGO (AP) — As tough as it was to lose Kevin Durant to a leg injury, the Golden State Warriors were breathing a little easier. After all, they expect their superstar forward will return this season. “There was definitely a sense of relief that he’ll be able to come back at some point down the […]

HARPURSVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — A pregnant giraffe has its own website, a GoFundMe page, an apparel line and millions of people worldwide watching live-streaming video waiting for it to give birth. The 15-year-old long-legged YouTube star, named April, is expected to give birth any time now in her enclosed pen at the Animal Adventure Park […]

About 1,800 union employees at Boeing accepted voluntary buyouts last month as the jet maker continues to cut jobs in the state. Boeing declined to release any figures, so the number of nonunion job cuts is unknown. Further job cuts are expected through the year.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa state lawmaker said Thursday that he didn’t mean to mislead anyone by claiming he had a business degree from a company that actually had awarded him a certificate for participating in a training program when he worked at Sizzler. Sen. Mark Chelgren’s biography on a website run by […]

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Federal prosecutors are fighting to keep the wife of the Orlando, Florida, nightclub shooter in jail until she is tried on charges she helped her husband scout out potential targets. The prosecutors filed a motion in federal court Thursday asking that Noor Salman’s release be halted while the court considers their […]

Amazon explained what triggered the outage in a post-mortem published on its website Thursday.

Washington’s Senators Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Thursday calling for him and the Department of Justice to uphold its existing policy for states that have legalized recreational marijuana.

PELLA, Iowa (AP) — A central Iowa prosecutor says no charges will be filed against a man who crashed his pickup truck into a Wal-Mart store, killing three people. Marion County Attorney Ed Bull tells KCCI-TV (http://bit.ly/2mQbRjQ ) that all evidence indicates 66-year-old Dennis Mockenhaupt suffered an unknown medical condition that caused him to lose […]

Seahawks coach Pete Carroll said Thursday at the NFL Combine he expects safety Earl Thomas and receiver Tyler Lockett to be ready for the start of the 2017 season.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Apple, IBM and Microsoft are among 53 companies urging the Supreme Court to rule that a transgender teenager has the right to use the boys’ bathroom at his Virginia high school. The businesses signed onto a brief filed Thursday in high school senior Gavin Grimm’s lawsuit against the Gloucester (GLAH’-stur) County school […]

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Two people each face decades in prison after pleading guilty in a quadruple slaying at an Indianapolis drug house. Marion County Prosecutor Terry Curry said Thursday that Valencia Williams was sentenced to 55 years in prison for one count of murder. Anthony LaRussa was sentenced to 44 years in prison for conspiracy […]

DETROIT (AP) — Ford Motor Co is recalling more than 36,000 vehicles in the U.S. and Canada because their air bags may not inflate properly. The recall affects the 2016-2017 Ford Edge, 2016-2017 Lincoln MKX and 2017 Lincoln Continental. Most are in the U.S. but around 4,300 are in Canada. The air bags were made […]

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas has taken a first step toward celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. on the third Monday in January and honoring Robert E. Lee in the fall rather than the current practice of recognizing both men on the same day in January. Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Thursday made the unusual move […]

HOUSTON (AP) — Authorities say two gang members from El Salvador who had a Satanic shrine in their Houston apartment are suspects in the killing of one teenager and the kidnapping of another. Twenty-two-year-old Miguel Alvarez-Flores and 18-year-old Diego Hernandez-Rivera appeared in court Wednesday on charges of aggravated kidnapping and murder. Prosecutors say a 14-year-old […]

Our look at five players the Seahawks could be paying particular attention to at the Combine includes three offensive linemen.

The e-commerce giant says it will place solar power-generating systems in 15 fulfillment and sortation centers in the U.S. this year. By 2020, 50 Amazon facilities around the globe will be drawing some energy from the sun.

SINGAPORE (AP) — Michelle Wie rolled in several clutch putts on Thursday and had six birdies in a 10-hole stretch to take a one-stroke lead after the first round of the HSBC Women’s Champions. The 27-year-old Wie, who has struggled with injuries and form since winning the U.S. Open in 2014, shot a 6-under 66 […]

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey judge has turned down an appeal by two former aides to Republican Gov. Chris Christie of their convictions in a plot to cause traffic jams at the George Washington Bridge. The judge on Wednesday rejected requests by Bridget Kelly and Bill Baroni for an acquittal and a new […]

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.5 hit southeastern Turkey on Thursday, causing wide panic in one town, damaging buildings and injuring five people, officials and news reports said. The earthquake was centered on the town of Samat in Adiyaman province. It was followed by four more tremors, the strongest […]