Новости за 19.03.2017

Two brothers will face charges of assaulting the officer who shot them

19-month-old toddler died after she ran from her mother into the path of a truck in the Sunnyside Wal-Mart parking lot

With starters going longer in Cactus League games, the pitchers need to get their regular work in minor league games

In the decade from 1955 to 1965, Chuck Berry created a body of work filled with dozens of perfectly crafted masterpieces. Here are just some of them.

State Ecology officials have deployed an emergency boom on the Columbia River near Wenatchee to contain a growing oil sheen of unknown origin.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The top two lawmakers on the House intelligence committee said Sunday that documents the Justice Department and FBI delivered late last week offered no evidence that the Obama administration had wiretapped Trump Tower, but the panel’s ranking Democrat says the material offers circumstantial evidence that American citizens colluded with Russians in Moscow’s […]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A Holocaust survivor who became a sculptor and has his work on display at Ohio’s governor’s mansion has died. A Columbus funeral home says services will be Monday for Alfred Tibor who died Saturday. He was 97. The Columbus Dispatch (http://bit.ly/2nASy2t ) reports Tibor was a gymnast in Hungary but was […]

The Northwest Fly Anglers are hosting a Beginning Fly Casting Class starting Tuesday (April 4) at the Green Lake Casting Pier on the northwest side of lake. The six-week classes begin every Tuesday at 6:30 p.m.  Cost is $60 per person and class is limited. Details: https://northwestflyanglers.wildapricot.org/classes.

This down year for Big Ten basketball might just end on an up note in the NCAA Tournament. Eighth-seeded Wisconsin took out No. 1 overall seed and defending national champion Villanova in a second-round game Saturday, and No. 7 Michigan ousted No. 2 Louisville on Sunday. In between, No. 4 Purdue defeated No. 5 Iowa […]

MANCHESTER, England (AP) — With their top strikers absent, there were concerns that Manchester United and Tottenham could stumble in their push for Champions League qualification from the English Premier League. No need to worry. United defied the absence of the suspended Zlatan Ibrahimovic — and fatigue because of its hectic fixture schedule — to […]

NEW YORK (AP) — In May 2002, Associated Press National Writer Jerry Schwartz interviewed the famously blunt-yet-lyric author and columnist Jimmy Breslin about his life and work. Breslin died Sunday at age 88. The following story was originally published on May 25, 2002: ___ At 73, he’s no longer the hulking Irish wild man of […]

PENDLETON, Ore. (AP) — Amazon is proposing to build a third data complex west of Hermiston consisting of four data centers. The East Oregonian reports (https://goo.gl/1JgU92) that the Seattle-based e-commerce giant recently bought 120 acres of land next to the Hermiston Generating Plant. It already operates two server farms in eastern Oregon. Amazon, doing business […]

BERLIN (AP) — Germany has rejected President Donald Trump’s claim that the country owes NATO large sums for underspending on defense. Trump tweeted Saturday that “Germany owes vast sums of money to NATO and the United States must be paid more for the powerful, and very expensive, defense it provides to Germany!” His comments came […]

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Arguing a case before a panel of federal appeals-court judges can be daunting even for experienced lawyers. Their clients often have much at stake, and the judges can be relentless, interrupting with questions to point out weaknesses and even occasionally to scold. So Helen Andrews was understandably anxious when, as a […]

KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — Key West police detectives nabbed a man wanted in Georgia for an assortment of violent crimes, including felony strangulation and aggravated assault with a weapon — after he used a store rewards card, which tipped authorities off to his whereabouts. The Keynoter reports (http://bit.ly/2nAoDrr) Cobb County Sheriff’s officials contacted Key […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A battle pitting big-box retail giants including Menards and Wal-Mart against Wisconsin towns and cities is headed to the Legislature. Republican-backed proposals, written in conjunction with the League of Wisconsin Municipalities, are designed to close the so-called dark store loophole and increase how much the mega-retailers pay local communities in property […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Disney’s live-action “Beauty” was a beast at the box office, opening with an estimated $170 million in North American ticket sales and setting a new high mark for family movies. According to studio estimates Sunday, “Beauty and the Beast” blew past the previous record-holder for G- or PG-rated releases. Last year, […]

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has warned Syria not to fire at its jets when they carry out missions over its territory aimed at destroying weapons bound for the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman spoke Sunday, days after Syria fired missiles at Israeli warplanes that had carried out airstrikes on its territory against […]

The Sweet 16 field will be filled out in Sunday’s eight NCAA Tournament second-round games. No. 1 seed Kansas against No. 9 Michigan State features two top freshmen in the Jayhawks’ Josh Jackson and the Spartans’ Miles Bridges. No. 2 Kentucky against No. 10 Wichita State is a rematch of the 2014 game where the […]

WOODS HOLE, Mass. (AP) — Researchers are planning what they say is the first manned submersible expedition to the Titanic since 2005. OceanGate Expeditions recently announced that the seven-week research mission will depart from Newfoundland, Canada, in May 2018. Experts from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts are also taking part. Everett, Washington-based OceanGate […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Paul Ryan says he will seek changes to a divisive GOP health care bill to provide more help to older people hard hit by the plan. A Congressional Budget Office analysis last week concluded that older people would likely pay higher premiums under the proposal to repeal and replace Barack […]

ROME (AP) — Italy’s president, whose brother was murdered by Cosa Nostra, has traveled to an organized crime stronghold in southern Italy to honor hundreds of Italians slain by the country’s mobsters over the past decades. President Sergio Mattarella praised the judges, prosecutors, police officers, union leaders, businessmen and politicians who courageously combatted or denounced […]

LONDON (AP) — A man has been charged with criminal damage after a painting in Britain’s National Gallery was slashed in front of shocked visitors. Witnesses say a man lashed out with what looked like a screwdriver at Thomas Gainsborough’s 18th-century portrait of a wealthy young couple, “Mr. and Mrs. William Hallett” — better known […]

The Huskies have found a men’s basketball coach and hired Mike Hopkins, who had been an assistant the past 21 years at Syracuse. “I’m extremely excited to welcome Mike and his family to Seattle,” UW athletic director Jen Cohen said in a statement released by the school. “His resume and reputation within the basketball community […]

PARIS (AP) — The Socialist candidate for the French presidency is seeking to breathe new life into his flagging campaign. Benoit Hamon held a boisterous rally Sunday that packed out an indoor sports and concert arena in Paris with at least 20,000 people. Since he won the Socialist primary in January, the 49-year-old former minister […]