Новости за 29.07.2017

Haniger took a 95 mph fastball off his mouth and nose area from Mets' starter Jacob deGrom.

The Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission said Saturday was the mandatory start of 10-digit dialing for all Western Washington area codes.

BOSTON (AP) — A group dedicated to preserving the legacy of John F. Kennedy hopes a global scavenger hunt will help keep the slain U.S. president on the map. The JFK Library Foundation launched the hunt Friday, providing clues to help people populate an interactive online map with the hundreds of schools, streets and parks […]

LEXINGTON, Ohio (AP) — Graham Rahal craves winning the Indianapolis 500 as his father, Bobby, did in 1986, but even if doesn’t happen he can someday retire from the IndyCar circuit with a sense of peace. That’s because he won the Honda Indy 200 two years ago on what’s considered his home track, the Mid-Ohio […]

Here’s how area members of Congress voted on major issues in the week ending July 28.

The rally and benefit, also hosted by the local NAACP, marks the latest community response to the fatal shooting of Charleena Lyles by police last month.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A 115-year-old desert tortoise that disappeared from its garden at a New Mexico senior living community was returned. The Albuquerque Journal reports (http://bit.ly/2w9xGQb ) the tortoise, Diablo, was returned Friday to Manzano del Sol Village. He had ventured to the backyard of a nearby home after a family bought the shell-wearing […]

DENNIS, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts church has been rejected in its bid to change its sign to note it’s accepting of people of all sexual orientations and gender identities. The Cape Cod Times reports (http://bit.ly/2tMx06D ) that the Village Improvement Society in Dennis recently voted 6-5 against the sign proposed by the Dennis Union […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — An attempt by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to portray recently passed Russian sanctions legislation as a sign Americans want Russia to improve relations with the U.S. has been derided by Moscow. In a statement released by the State Department on Saturday, Tillerson said the overwhelming House and Senate votes in favor […]

YPRES, Belgium (AP) — Dismembered soldiers sucked into cesspools of mud. Shattered tree trunks and the waft of poison gas hovering over the wounded who were awaiting their fates on the scarred soil of Flanders Fields. The Third Battle of Ypres, fought in western Belgium a century ago, was as bad as World War I […]

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A homeless woman authorities say was set on fire last week while sleeping on a porch has died. Multiple media outlets report 44-year-old Rachele Jarrett was asleep on a porch in West Virginia last week when 34-year-old Carl T. Magee III poured gasoline on her and set her on fire. Jarrett […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened once more to end required payments to insurance companies unless lawmakers repeal and replace the Obama-era health care law. In apparent frustration over Friday’s failure by the Senate Republican majority to pass a bill repealing parts of the Affordable Care Act, Trump tweeted: “If a new […]

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A rancher in northeastern Oregon’s Wallowa County has asked state officials to kill wolves from the Harl Butte pack after an investigator confirmed wolves killed a calf. The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife tells the Capital Press (http://bit.ly/2uLRUjr) that it received the request Friday and will decide in the coming […]

LAS VEGAS (AP) — It’s supposed to be the hottest ticket in sports. So far, though, fans aren’t exactly storming the box office to buy tickets for Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s fight next month with Conor McGregor. A check online Saturday revealed hundreds — even thousands — of seats still available from Ticketmaster at the T-Mobile […]

OSHKOSH, Wis. (AP) — Authorities have released the name of a 71-year-old Minnesota woman who died after a seaplane tried to take off near an aviation convention in eastern Wisconsin. The Winnebago County Sheriff’s Office identified the victim as Diane Linker, of Sauk Rapids. Linker was a passenger in a six-seat seaplane that hit a […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Police say a 73-year-old man was badly burned after he opened a mysterious package the shape of an oatmeal container left on his doorstep and it exploded. Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce says the man had second- and third-degree burns to more than 80 percent of his torso and legs, and […]

The health care law of the land has survived for now, but it needs help — and it needs it soon. Soaring prices and fewer choices may greet customers when they return to the Affordable Care Act’s insurance marketplaces this fall, in part because insurers are facing deep uncertainty about whether the Trump administration will […]

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s prime minister designate, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, is a veteran lawmaker and close ally of Nawaz Sharif, who nominated him for the country’s top political post after the Supreme Court disqualified Sharif on allegations of corruption. Abbasi, 58, has been elected six times to Pakistan’s National Assembly or powerful Lower House of […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lois Laurel Hawes, the only daughter of famed comedian Stan Laurel, has died. She was 89. A family statement says Hawes died late Friday night at a Los Angeles hospital after a long illness. She was Laurel’s daughter by his first wife, Lois Neilson, and the comedian’s last surviving child. Laurel […]

CINCINNATI (AP) — The Ohio judge who presided at the second mistrial for a white police officer in the shooting of an unarmed black motorist says the justice system worked, despite two juries deadlocking. “Justice was done because the jury made a decision and that decision was: We can’t reach a decision,” Hamilton County Judge […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — China appears to have succeeded in eliminating software programs that enable its people to view an uncensored internet. Companies that let people avoid the government filters say their programs have been removed from Apple’s app store in China. ExpressVPN, one of the companies, posted on its corporate site a message from Apple […]

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian opposition activists say a small number of U.S.-backed rebels have defected and joined government forces south of the country. The defection of at least four rebels came after The Washington Post reported that the White House has decided to halt the CIA supply-and-equip program for Syrian rebels. The defection also came […]

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Authorities in northeastern Nigeria say at least 14 people are dead after a suicide bombing blamed on the Boko Haram extremist group. Bello Dambatta, head of the rapid response team for the State Emergency Agency SEMA, said a female suicide bomber sneaked into a building late Friday in Dikwa, east of […]

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Wildlife officials are boosting a program to vaccinate raccoons in the wild in an effort prevent the spread of rabies in Maine and northward into Canada. About 351,000 oral rabies vaccination baits are going to be distributed over a 2,400-square-mile area in northeastern Maine between Aug. 3 and 7, said Emily […]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A coroner says preliminary findings show the man killed after a ride fell apart at the Ohio State Fair in Columbus died of blunt force trauma. Franklin County Coroner Anahi Ortiz said Friday that 18-year-old Tyler Jerrell suffered head, trunk and lower extremity injuries when he was thrown into the air […]