Новости за 05.03.2017

Kim Anderson was never quite embraced by most Missouri fans, even after starring for the Tigers in the 1970s and serving two stints as an assistant to beloved coach Norm Stewart. His won-loss record may have had a lot to do with that. Unable to get his alma mater on track, Anderson was relieved of […]

MILWAUKEE (AP) — A group representing Great Lakes region mayors in the U.S. and Canada is sounding the alarm against potentially drastic cuts to an ecological recovery initiative for the Great Lakes. The Trump administration’s potential cuts to the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative were reported by the Detroit Free Press last week. They would slash […]

WARWICK, Mass. (AP) — A small Massachusetts town is grieving after a woman and her four children were killed in a house fire. The Boston Globe reports (http://bit.ly/2msYN7C) dozens of churchgoers gathered at the Trinitarian Congregational Church in Warwick for an emotional Sunday service. The five victims perished in a fire that reduced their home […]

The victim, who is out of the hospital, said the shooter told him to “go back to your own country”

By all indications the age of spin is over. It has been replaced by an era of raw, shameless dishonesty.

DUETTE, Fla. (AP) — Authorities in Florida say two people are dead after their twin-engine plane crashed in the Tampa Bay area. Manatee County Public Safety Director Bob Smith told the Bradenton Herald (http://bit.ly/2lLglrc ) the crash Saturday sparked a wildfire before emergency responders could reach the wreckage. Sheriff’s office spokesman Randy Warren said both […]

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Two police commanders in Texas have been temporarily replaced as investigators determine who leaked police video and other material in the controversial arrest of a black woman and her daughters by a white Fort Worth police officer. KXAS-TV in Dallas reports an assistant chief and deputy chief were questioned in […]

Bruno Mars, Katy Perry, Ed Sheeran, Shawn Mendes, Coldplay’s Chris Martin and The Chainsmokers are set to bring your Top 40 radio stations to life when they perform at Sunday’s iHeartRadio Music Awards. The show, in its fourth year, will take place at the Forum in Inglewood, California, and will air live at 8 p.m. […]

Sounders forward Clint Dempsey got "back to scoring ways'' against the Houston Dynamo on Saturday after being sidelined with an irregular heartbeat last August and missing out on the team's championship run

BERLIN (AP) — Deutsche Bank says it is planning a capital increase to raise 8 billion euros ($8.45 billion). The German lender said in a statement Sunday that the capital increase will come through the issuance of up to 687.5 million new shares. Deutsche Bank also said it won’t sell its Postbank subsidiary but merge […]

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Dr. Thomas Starzl, the pioneer of liver transplantation and the driving force behind the world’s first baboon-to-human liver transplants and research on anti-rejection drugs, has died. He was 90. The University of Pittsburgh, speaking on behalf of Starzl’s family, said the renowned doctor died Saturday at his home in Pittsburgh. Starzl performed […]

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The $500 million spent annually on habitat restoration projects and improvements are helping salmon, steelhead and other wildlife in the Columbia River Basin, federal agencies responsible for operating 14 federal dams say. The Bonneville Power Administration, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and U.S. Bureau of Reclamation released a report Thursday outlining […]

Here is the latest fishing report from Anton Jones of Darrell & Dad’s Family Guide Service: What’s heating up is trolling the edges of Lake Chelan for Kokanee. Also continuing hot is trolling the trench on Lake Chelan for Mackinaw. Finally, fishing through the ice on Roses Lake is hot for rainbow trout. On Chelan, […]

It’s hard to get a definitive read from 10 days in Arizona, where everything is sunshine and rainbows — even in years that eventually turn putrid. But I do have some observations from my near-fortnight in the desert.

Doctors seeking to help terminally ill patients under state Death with Dignity laws have come up with a new drug mixture. It’s the latest alternative to one drug that suddenly got too expensive and a mixture that took too many hours to work.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump’s recent executive order calling for a review of a rule protecting small bodies of water from pollution and development is strongly supported by golf course owners who are wary of being forced into expensive cleanups on their fairways. It just so happens that Trump’s business holdings include a […]

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Lawmakers in several states want to require driver’s education courses to teach motorists about proper traffic-stop behavior. Most bills don’t legislate what that behavior should be, but Illinois’ 2017 “Rules of the Road” handbook published last month offers some do’s and don’ts: — slow down and safely pull over to the […]

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Many of the Medicare fraud charges against prominent Florida eye doctor Salomon Melgen are complicated, but one is simple — federal prosecutors say he claimed reimbursement for treating both eyes of patients who have one prosthetic. Melgen is scheduled to go on trial Monday in West Palm Beach, facing […]

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Faced with the threat that Asian carp could enter the Great Lakes, Michigan is turning to the public for new ideas and plans to offer a prize to whoever comes up with a way to stop the voracious fish. Michigan’s global search challenge comes after the U.S. government and others have […]

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Visitors arriving at the Philadelphia Flower Show this year will feel as if they’re stepping into the endless flower fields of Holland. A rainbow sea of 30,000 tulips and other blooms will stretch seemingly into the horizon as a canopy of 6,000 cut and dried flowers floats overhead. Bridges covered in Delft […]

Sunday marks the 105th anniversary of Seattle's first mass transit ballot measure. It failed by a 2-to-1 margin on March 5, 1912.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Despite metal detectors and armed guards at the doors to the Capitol and leading to galleries overlooking the Arkansas House, a state lawmaker says he would feel safer if he were allowed to pack his own heat. Republican Rep. Mickey Gates is proposing that lawmakers licensed to carry a concealed […]

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — It was the swag-bags that convinced community health organizer Julia Liou to redraw the battle plan in a fight to reduce the hazardous chemical exposures of nail-salon workers, most of them low-paid Asian immigrant women. In 2005, Liou watched at California’s state Capitol as dozens of lobbyists gave away bags of […]

KRANJSKA GORA, Slovenia (AP) — Overall World Cup champion Marcel Hirscher wrapped up his fourth slalom title Sunday with Austrian compatriot Michael Matt winning the penultimate race of the season. Hirscher’s fourth-place finish, 0.80 seconds behind Matt, was enough for the 28-year-old to take his third globe of the weekend after his only rival, Henrik […]

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Several thousand people have protested the cancellation of a popular singer’s concert in Serbia, allegedly over his support for a liberal opposition candidate before next month’s presidential election. The concert by Vlado Georgiev in the town of Smederevo, central Serbia, was to be held on March 4 in the town’s sports […]