Новости за 09.09.2017

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — Mike McCoy is calling the plays again instead of the shots. His second stint as Denver’s offensive coordinator begins Monday night against the Chargers, the team that fired him as their head coach nine months ago. McCoy won’t say it, but wide receiver Demaryius Thomas thinks McCoy would like to stick […]

HARLAN, Ore. (AP) — The first half of a 62-mile hiking trail connecting the Willamette Valley to the Pacific Ocean has opened. The Gazette-Times reports (http://bit.ly/2wRzM91) that officials held the formal opening ceremony of the eastern half of the Corvallis to the Sea Trail on Friday. The 32-mile section runs from the confluence of the […]

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A teenager has been charged with five felonies — including attempted murder — after investigators say he fired on Douglas County Sheriff’s deputies with a 12-guage shotgun, hitting one. The 17-year-old was charged Friday with two counts of attempted murder, one count of second-degree assault and two weapons counts. The Associated […]

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A judge in Santa Fe has granted a new trial to a man convicted of killing three people in 2011 with a pickax when he was 16 years old. Nicholas Ortiz’s first trial ended in a hung jury but he was convicted in his second trial of killing 55-year-old Lloyd […]

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Open finalists Rafael Nadal and Kevin Anderson are both professional tennis players who were born in 1986. Not much else in common. Heading into Sunday’s match — well, mismatch, apparently — Nadal owns 15 Grand Slam titles, including two at Flushing Meadows in 2010 and 2013. Anderson: zero. Nadal has […]

A husband apparently fatally shot his wife, then himself late Friday night near Lacey, as the couple’s children fled to safety, according to the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office. Authorities were alerted to the incident around 10 p.m., when the couple’s 24-year-old son called 911 to report that his parents were fighting. Emergency dispatchers could hear […]

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — An Albemarle County animal shelter has taken in 70 homeless animals from Houston. The Daily Progress reports that staff members with the Charlottesville-Albemarle Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals drove down to Houston to pick up homeless cats and dogs to help relieve overcrowded shelters after Hurricane Harvey flooded […]

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Authorities say a 16-year-old South Carolina teen was fatally stabbed after breaking in to a home. Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott says the apartment’s resident told investigators two people he didn’t know started banging on his door about noon Friday. The unidentified resident says he refused to open his door, armed […]

DECATUR, Ill. (AP) — Funeral services have been planned for a Decatur sailor whose remains were recovered from the USS John S. McCain. Twenty-three-year-old Logan Stephen Palmer went missing after the McCain and an oil tanker collided near Singapore last month. He was one of 10 sailors whose remains were recovered. Palmer’s body was returned […]

Here’s how area members of Congress voted on major issues in the week ending Sept. 8.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire’s agriculture commissioner is planning to retire after 10 years on the job. Lorraine Merrill is planning to leave at the end of the year. Republican Gov. Chris Sununu said Merrill’s passion and dedication for New Hampshire farms, farmers and local communities will be missed. Merrill said the decade has […]

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — A federal agency says Mercy Hospital Springfield will lose its eligibility for Medicare if it doesn’t make changes to improve patient health and safety. CMS spokeswoman Julie Brookhart says the findings involve patient rights and nursing services but she said she couldn’t elaborate. The hospital will lose its Medicare agreement Sept. […]

RENO, Nev. (AP) — A 46-yeear-old Reno man faces up to four decades in prison after being sentenced for using a machete to hack his male roommate multiple times during a 2016 domestic dispute. The Washoe County District Attorney’s Office says 46-year-old Celestin Glenn Tappin must serve at least 16 years before being eligible for […]

MACON, Ga. (AP) — A shooting at a house party in Macon’s Unionville neighborhood has left one woman dead and another in custody. Bibb County Coroner Leon Jones says 26-year-old Talshia Taylor was wounded about 3:45 a.m. Saturday. She was pronounced dead about 30 minutes later. The Telegraph reports Taylor had been at the party […]

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras says the Greek economy is turning around and will no longer be under the supervision of the country’s creditors in 2018. Speaking Saturday at the opening of the 82nd Thessaloniki International Fair in Greece’s second-largest city, Tsipras said the Greek economy will grow in 2017 after a […]

WEST CHESTER, Pa. (AP) — A man has been sentenced to life in prison plus 10 to 20 years in the 2014 beating death of his former girlfriend’s 3-year-old son near Philadelphia. Twenty-five-year-old Gary Lee Fellenbaum III was sentenced Friday after pleading guilty to first-degree murder in the November 2014 death of Scott McMillan in […]

BANGOR, Maine (AP) — Police in the Maine city that’s home to Stephen King played a prank to coincide with the opening of the horror film “It,” based on King’s book. The police department said Thursday on Facebook that a red balloon was “found” floating near the department’s stuffed duck, which has been the department’s […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Hundreds of people have rallied outside the Trump International Hotel and Tower in New York City to protest the Trump administration’s decision to end a program protecting young immigrants from deportation. The protesters on Saturday waved signs that read “No one is illegal” and “Immigrants welcome.” Attorney General Jeff Sessions on […]

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Three siblings have been charged with running a money-laundering scheme through their Rhode Island businesses. Authorities say Yohanna Sanchez and her brothers Andry and Donny Sanchez were indicted last week in connection with a wiretap investigation in May dubbed “Operation Stop the Flow” that led to the drug arrests of nearly […]

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — A fire at paper products giant Kimberly-Clark’ mill in Mobile has been contained. The fire started around 12 p.m. Saturday and was contained shortly after. WKRG-TV reports it’s unclear what started the fire. Authorities say no injuries have been reported. Most Read StoriesEmirates wavers on A380 deal; concerned Airbus may scrap […]

CLEVELAND (AP) — The general in charge of the Ohio National Guard says as many as 3,500 Ohio soldiers will be sent to Florida to help the state with the aftermath of Hurricane Irma. Maj. General Mark Bartman told The Associated Press Saturday the Ohio National Guard will be part of a contingent of totaling […]

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam has issued an executive order suspending state laws to assist Hurricane Irma evacuees in receiving medical attention while in Tennessee. The order signed Saturday allows health care providers licensed in other states to practice in Tennessee. It also allows pharmacists to dispense 14-day supplies of prescription drugs […]

MIAMI (AP) — The evacuation took 12 seconds. As bands of Hurricane Irma started making their arrival at Zoo Miami early Saturday morning, Diesel was led from his rainsoaked cage, walked a few feet into a nearby reinforced building and settled in next to another cheetah in their new temporary home with a hay-covered floor. […]

NAMPA, Idaho (AP) — A popular southwestern Idaho lake is contaminated with E. coli bacteria. The Idaho Department of Environmental Quality says lab tests Friday found high levels in Lake Lowell of the bacteria that signals the presence of fecal matter. Officials on Friday said people visiting Lake Lowell shouldn’t ingest the water and should […]

MIAMI (AP) — Maya Kogul was in California when Hurricane Irma began twirling toward Florida. She knew stores would run out of key supplies before she got back to her downtown Miami home earlier this week, so she placed an order for three cases of water through a Nestle water delivery company. She waited and […]