Новости за 01.09.2017

VIENNA (AP) — An Austrian court has found a man guilty of contravening the nation’s anti-Nazi laws after he sent a picture on a messaging service of headwear adorned with the swastika and death-heads, with the message “dear refugees, you will recognize your caseworker by these hats.” After pronouncing its verdict, the court on Friday […]

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A court will decide the best option to clean up a former manufacturing plant where tons of mercury had been dumped into Maine’s Penobscot River decades ago. Maine’s highest court ruled in 2014 that the cleanup of the former HoltraChem Manufacturing Co. plant must be paid for by Mallinckrodt US LLC, […]

BERLIN (AP) — Two more Germans have been arrested in Turkey for what Berlin considers political reasons, Germany’s Foreign Ministry said Friday, deepening tensions between the two countries. The arrests took place Thursday, and airport police in Antalya confirmed to the German Consulate in Izmir information on the detentions it had received through other channels, […]

SELMA, Ala. (AP) — A re-enactment of the Battle of Selma in Alabama has been canceled for the second year in a row because of the cost. James Hammonds, president of the organizing group The April 1865 Society, says it’s unlikely the re-enactment of the Civil War battle will be held again. News outlets report […]

The NFL says Commissioner Roger Goodell was aware of one of his lead investigator’s view that Ezekiel Elliott shouldn’t be disciplined before the Dallas running back was suspended for six games in a domestic violence case. League spokesman Brian McCarthy on Friday disputed a key claim in a lawsuit filed by the players’ union on […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tim Lester is among the thousands of football men who became big fans of Sam Darnold last season. Just 11 days after Darnold’s 453-yard, five-touchdown performance for Southern California in the last Rose Bowl, Lester got the head coaching job at Western Michigan — and Darnold became his first problem. The […]

A Federal Way nurse who was thrown to the ground at gunpoint, handcuffed and forced to stand outside barefoot in the winter while Tacoma police raided her apartment in error was awarded $250,000 by a King County Superior Court jury on Thursday. The jury found after a two-week trial that the Tacoma Police Department was […]

The Seahawks created more than $5 million in salary cap space for 2017 by converting Doug Baldwin's salary for 2017 into a bonus.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Another leader of a New Mexico paramilitary religious sect rocked by child sexual abuse allegations has been arrested. Court records say James Green of the Aggressive Christianity Missions Training Corps was arrested Wednesday on kidnapping, child abuse and tampering with evidence charges. He is the ninth person arrested since authorities raided […]

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut financial adviser has been charged with running a Ponzi scheme and defrauding clients out of more than $1 million. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed a complaint at federal court in New Haven on Thursday, alleging 40-year-old Leon Vaccarelli engaged in a Ponzi scheme for more than […]

NEW YORK (AP) — When Joan Osborne first met Bob Dylan, the two singers got very, very close. There wasn’t much of a choice — they had to share the same recording studio microphone. “I’m like literally inches away from his face,” Osborne recalled. “I had to focus so particularly on his mouth and his […]

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel is welcoming the extension of a U.N. peacekeeping operation under tougher directives in southern Lebanon adding it must act to maintain stability there. The Foreign Ministry said Friday UNIFIL must act in a “significant and decisive way” to stop Iranian-backed militants Hezbollah from strengthening near its frontier. The Security Council renewed […]

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — A monkey named Spiderman has died at a New York zoo after an unusually long life. The Seneca Park Zoo in Rochester said Friday that 43-year-old Spiderman was among the oldest spider monkeys in conservation care. Spider monkeys have a life expectancy of about 25 years. A necropsy confirmed that Spiderman […]

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A Florida prosecutor says she will comply with a state Supreme Court decision and seek the death penalty in future cases if it is unanimously recommended by a panel of her assistant prosecutors. Orlando-area state attorney Aramis Ayala previously announced she would stop seeking the death penalty altogether. An angry Republican […]

ATLANTA (AP) — Officially, the College Football Playoff is still four months away. No matter. This feels like a postseason game. No. 1 vs. No. 3. At a neutral site. Most Read StoriesVideo surfaces of King County sheriff's detective pulling gun on motorcyclist; he's been placed on leave  WATCHAutopsy shows Charleena Lyles was shot 7 […]

U.S. figure skating star Gracie Gold is stepping away from the sport to seek professional help with the Olympics a little more than five months away. The 2014 Olympic team bronze medalist and two-time national champion did not specify in a statement Friday to U.S. Figure Skating what sort of help she needs. “My passion […]

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A federal judge has rejected Sen. Bob Menendez’s request to schedule his trial on corruption charges so the New Jersey Democrat can attend critical Senate votes, saying he would have ruled no differently if Menendez were a cab driver, a surgeon, a construction worker or in some other line of work. […]

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s foreign minister is urging the United States to negotiate a deal with North Korea to avert war, voicing concern that tensions might spiral out of control. Referring to the U.S., Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Friday that “the one who is smarter and stronger must take the first step” in diplomatic […]

LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. (AP) — A police helicopter crashed at an airport outside Atlanta on Friday, and two officers on board were taken to a hospital, authorities said. The chopper “went down” at Briscoe Field, a general aviation airport northeast of Atlanta, Gwinnett County police Detective David Smith said in a brief statement. The county’s fire […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Five women still remain in contention for the No. 1 ranking as the U.S. Open’s third round begins. Venus Williams and Garbine Muguruza are among them and try to reach the fourth round by winning Friday. Two of the others, current No. 1 Karolina Pliskova and Elina Svitolina, will play Saturday. […]

GENEVA (AP) — Thunderstorms set off a new mudslide through southeastern villages in Switzerland near the Italian border, rumbling along the same creek bed where a powerful, rocky mudslide left eight people missing and feared dead last week, authorities said Friday. The mudslide demolished several houses in Bondo, the most-hit village from the recent slides […]

NEW DELHI (AP) — Two massive, rain-soaked cities on opposite sides of the world are struggling with swirling, brackish waters that have brought death and devastation. For Houston, it’s unprecedented. For Mumbai, it’s painfully common. Across South Asia, floods are regular, cataclysmic occurrences made worse by breakneck urban development and population booms. In the last […]

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A cleaning crew removing and burning trash at a recently purchased home in Mississippi made a startling discovery — a body wrapped in a blue tarp. Authorities say the remains inside the empty house in Jackson were too decomposed to determine a gender. News outlets reported Thursday that police don’t know […]

BOSTON (AP) — A rare yellow lobster has made its debut at the New England Aquarium, posing for a photo op with fellow oddly colored crustaceans. The lobster was donated to the Boston aquarium by a Salem seafood company. They marked its arrival by showing it off with other lobsters in usual shades , including […]

PARIS (AP) — France’s labor minister has conceded that her planned reforms to the country’s work practices won’t on their own miraculously reduce the country’s unemployment rate. Muriel Penicaud said Friday on France Info radio the labor reform plan outlined on Thursday “is not a magic wand” for reducing unemployment. That, she said, will require […]