Новости за 06.09.2018

Readers rant about neighborhood complainers, rave about McCain flag

Wayne Kramer's new book, "The Hard Stuff: Dope, Crime, the MC5 & My Life of Impossibilities," coincides with a 50th anniversary tour of the Motor City 5, which comes to Seattle's Showbox at the Market on Oct. 16.

Gary Shteyngart's new book is his best yet, combining the passive-aggressive takeover of New York by the Bros of Wall Street with a road novel.

On one level, the film is a classic coming-of age tale; on another, it’s a near-perfect depiction of the emotional damage that can result from economic insecurity.

Plus, local boutiques team up for an epic end-of-summer sale.

BAINBRIDGE, Ga. (AP) — Police in Georgia are looking for a man who fled a traffic stop, crashed and ran off, leaving behind a child and backpack a filled with drugs. WCTV-TV reports Bainbridge Public Safety says an officer pulled over a vehicle Tuesday night and smelled marijuana. Police say the officer then asked driver […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — US productivity increased at an annual rate of 2.9 percent in the second quarter; revisions largely match August report.

What to do when you’re faced with the option to take on unpaid work.

One of the best ways to get out of a panic hole is to break things down into simpler parts.

Midnight Sept. 12 is the deadline for people with Guaranteed Education Tuition accounts to roll their units into the state's new 592 savings plan, and the state agency that runs GET is swamped with calls.

Even with one narrowly averted strike behind her, Denise Juneau's first year will progress in tandem with a period of financial uncertainty for Seattle Public Schools.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A Portland renter bitten by a raccoon is suing her ex-landlords claiming they allowed so much trash to pile up that it attracted dangerous vermin to the property. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports that Heidi Schultz filed her lawsuit Friday in Multnomah County Circuit Court. She’s seeking to have her $26,000 in medical […]

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — Investigators in Florida say they’ve arrested a New Jersey tourist who told greeters at a Disney World resort that al-Qaida sent him to “blow the place up.” Orange County Sheriff’s deputies arrested 56-year-old Gregory Lazarchick on Tuesday on a charge of making a false bomb threat. An arrest report […]

MOSCOW (AP) — The Kremlin says Russia is not investigating suspects named by UK in ex-Russian spy’s poisoning.

Seattle Opera General Director Aidan Lang is leaving at the end of the 2018-19 season — his fifth year here — to become general director of the Welsh National Opera.

The minimum wage increases that started four years ago are spreading across the country, but economists continue to debate the impact of the policies. The latest look at increased wage floors in six U.S. cities, including Seattle, finds that food-service workers saw increases in pay and no widespread job losses.

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s popular Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has called for an urgent parliamentary session to discuss the situation in the southern city of Basra, where protests against poor public services and joblessness have turned violent. In a televised speech on Thursday, al-Sadr says the prime minister and other officials should either attend the […]

SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Saudi Arabia says 26 civilians were wounded by shrapnel when it shot down a missile fired across the border by Yemen’s Houthi rebels. The official Saudi Press Agency says the rebels fired the missile into the southern Najran province late Wednesday, where it was intercepted. The rebel-run Al-Masirah TV says the […]

HAZARD, Ky. (AP) — Police say a Kentucky man stole from a tractor supply store and then tried to kill an off-duty police officer who attempted to detain him. WKYT-TV reports 45-year-old Allen Combs was arrested on charges including robbery and attempted murder of a police officer. A Hazard police release says Officer Johnny Begley […]

JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — A military judge in South Sudan on Thursday sentenced 10 soldiers to jail for a 2016 rampage in which a local journalist was killed and five international aid workers were gang-raped. The case was widely seen as a test of South Sudan’s ability to hold its soldiers to account during […]

JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — A military judge in South Sudan is delivering the verdict for 11 soldiers accused of rape and murder during a rampage in the capital two years ago. Brigadier General Knight Briano is reading his judgment before a group of diplomats, aid workers and officials who have filled the military courtroom […]

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Slovenian police say they have arrested two people for paramilitary activity after video footage and photos surfaced on social media of a group of armed, masked men led by a right-wing former presidential candidate. Police said Thursday that they were searching five houses in the northeastern area around the town of […]

TOKYO (AP) — Local government says more than 30 feared buried in landslides in town hard hit by quake; 4 dead and 290 injured.

NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian media reports: Top court strikes down law that makes homosexual acts punishable by up to 10 years in prison.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea says it has forwarded a message from Trump to Kim Jong Un, who gave Seoul a message to deliver to Trump.