Новости за 17.12.2017

NEW YORK (AP) — Authorities are investigating the death of a man found lying in front of a building with a stab wound to his abdomen. Police responded to Castle Hill Avenue in the Bronx shortly before 8 p.m. Saturday and found the 28-year-old man. He was identified as John Sabater. He was taken to […]

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The city of Portland has reached a proposed $10 million settlement with water and sewer ratepayers who questioned spending ratepayer money on non-water-related programs. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports that the Portland Water Bureau and an attorney for ratepayers on Friday announced the proposed settlement. The Portland City Council will consider approving the […]

WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina environmental officials are trying to discover the cause of a cat urine smell in a coastal city where residents say the odor is overwhelming on some days. The StarNews of Wilmington reports more than a dozen residents alerted the state Department of Environmental Quality on Nov. 25 because the […]

DENVER (AP) — Officials say Colorado State Patrol officers chased a driver 75 miles, traveling through three counties. State Patrol spokesman Rob Madden tells KCNC-TV that around noon on Sunday, police received a report of a suspected drunk driver on Interstate 70 in Jefferson County. Madden says the female driver was traveling west at a […]

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Police in Tucson have identified the victim of a homicide on the city’s south side. They say 42-year-old Tereso Hernandez-Reyes was fatally shot early Sunday. Officers responded to a report of a shooting just before 3 a.m. Upon arriving at the scene, police located a man on the ground with obvious […]

BERLIN (AP) — German police say they’re investigating the explosion of an “apparent pyrotechnical device” in a subway station in the northern port city of Hamburg. Hamburg police said on Twitter there was a “small detonation” on the platform of the Veddel subway station early Sunday evening. They say a pane of glass was damaged, […]

BOSTON (AP) — Democratic members of Congress from Massachusetts and Rhode Island are calling on Congress to immediately extend funding for a popular federal children’s health insurance initiative. U.S. Sen. Edward Markey is planning a press conference Monday at Boston Children’s Hospital to call for an immediate funding extension for the Children’s Health Insurance Program, […]

BRUNSWICK, Maine (AP) — A bank foundation is donating $450,000 to support job growth and small businesses in rural Maine. KeyBank Foundation is giving the money over three years to Coastal Enterprises Inc. in Brunswick. A spokesman says the money will support Coastal’s small business lending, advisory services and partnership efforts with local organizations. CEI […]

Salem, Ore., remains without key water source after fuel leaked into the North Santiam River from a vehicle accident.

CHESAPEAKE, Va. (AP) — A new city ordinance will prohibit Chesapeake firefighters from raising money for charity at busy intersections like they’ve done in past years. The Virginian-Pilot reports that city officials passed a new ordinance earlier this month aimed at blocking panhandling at intersections, but would also prohibit charitable collections. Firefighters raise money every […]

An MSNBC spokesman has confirmed a report saying a news channel staffer had been paid and left the job after complaining she was sexually harassed by ‘Hardball’ host Chris Matthews nearly two decades ago. The spokesman said the woman approached CNBC executives in 1999 to report Matthews made inappropriate comments about her in front of […]

MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — Small businesses in Montana affected by forest fires this year can apply for federal help. The U.S. Small Business Administration announced this week that small businesses in Flathead, Granite, Lake, Mineral, Missoula, Powell, Ravalli and Sanders counties can apply for federal disaster loans of up to $2 million. Gov. Steve Bullock […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Four people have been killed in separate shooting incidents in New York City. Police responding to Patchen Avenue in Brooklyn for a 911 call around 10 p.m. on Friday night found a 24-year old man who had been shot several times in the leg and groin. Around 12:30 a.m. Saturday, police […]

CHATHAM TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey town where bear hunting isn’t allowed has decided against changing that policy. NJ.com reports that the Chatham Township Committee voted 3-2 late Thursday against amending a local ordinance that bars discharge of firearms under most circumstances, including the bear hunt. All five members had voted to include […]

The federal government should find funding to maintain and upgrade the Ballard Locks and ensure passage to the Lake Washington Ship Canal remains safe and reliable.

Republicans’ assumptions are fraught with fiction.

Under current rules, modest houses in our single-family neighborhoods are being torn down to make way for $2 million “McMansions” with two car garages. The planned HALA upzones offer an alternative.

Greater gender equality can erode the power that enables male abuse of women. Push that agenda now, while the public is paying attention.

GOFFSTOWN, N.H. (AP) — A school district says its business administrator has resigned over an accounting error that kept millions of dollars from going toward property tax relief. Goffstown and New Boston school officials in a press release said that an auditor found that since 2011 more than $10 million that could have been used […]

ATLANTA (AP) — Airport authorities say power outage at Atlanta’s international airport causes FAA to suspend outgoing flights.

NEWARK, Ohio (AP) — Residents in one central Ohio county can get online training about using naloxone and receive the opioid overdose reversal drug by mail through a new program billed as the first of its kind in the state. The Columbus Dispatch reports the Licking County Health Department will launch the program in January. […]

The Seahawks will be without K.J. Wright but will have Bobby Wagner against the Rams Sunday.

STATELINE, Nev. (AP) — Skiing and gambling have dominated winter tourism on Lake Tahoe’s South Shore for years, but travel experts say that’s changing. The Record-Courier reports travelers are hitting the slopes and slots less and climate change is threatening snowfall. Resort lodging analytics firm DestiMetrics Founder Ralf Garrison says the baby boomers who grew […]

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