Новости за 10.12.2018

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — U.S. tire company Goodyear has announced it will no longer continue production in Venezuela as economic conditions in the South American nation continue to deteriorate. Spokesman Eduardo Arguelles confirmed to The Associated Press Monday that Goodyear-Venezuela has decided to stop producing tires. Arguelles said the company’s goal had been to maintop […]

BOSTON (AP) — A lawyer for James “Whitey” Bulger says he plans to sue the government over the notorious gangster’s prison killing. Attorney Hank Brennan told The Wall Street Journal that he will bring wrongful death and negligence claims on behalf of Bulger’s estate. Brennan told The Associated Press he expects to begin filing a […]

ASTORIA, Ore. (AP) — Oregon’s Dungeness crab fishery will not open until at least Dec. 31 after testing by state fishery managers revealed crabs are still too low in meat yield in some areas of the coast. The Daily Astorian reports the valuable commercial fishery traditionally opens on Dec. 1. In November, fishery managers announced […]

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon has a new playbook for preparing and responding to a major earthquake that dictates what should be tackled over time versus a list of tasks to get done. The playbook provides a two-week blueprint for the state’s response and expectations for prioritizing Oregon’s recovery from what would be the deadliest […]

TACOMA  — Authorities say two people were shot to death in Tacoma. KOMO reports that police responded to a call in the McKinley neighborhood shortly before 5 p.m. Sunday. When they arrived, officers found two men, both dead, with what appeared to be gunshot wounds. Investigators said they don’t know if the victims were shot […]

HARPURSVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — A giraffe whose birth became an internet sensation has been moved into another barn away from his mother. Animal Adventure Park in Harpursville, New York, tells the Press & Sun-Bulletin that Tajiri (tah-JEER’-ee) the giraffe was moved so he has space to grow this winter. Tajiri is the offspring of April […]

NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Police Department is investigating video that shows a group of officers pulling a child from a woman’s arms while arresting her. NY1, which aired video of the incident, says it occurred on Friday at a Brooklyn social services center. A witness said security confronted the woman when she […]

SOMERS POINT, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey woman has her wedding ring back, nine years after she accidentally flushed it down her toilet. Paula Stanton was sure the diamond-encrusted gold ring was lost forever after she noticed it wasn’t on her finger while she was cleaning her bathroom nearly a decade ago. Luckily, a […]

You’re going to need your rain gear this week. Starting Tuesday, Seattle’s weather forecast returns to normal: a lot of rain. It’s not typically big news when a “Jet Stream” — a ribbon of air high up in the atmosphere — comes into the area from over the Pacific Ocean. But after a period of unusually […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has rejected a Mississippi county’s appeal in the case of a woman who was jailed for more than three months without seeing a judge. The court’s order on Monday leaves in place a federal judge’s ruling that Choctaw County and its sheriff are liable for violating the woman’s constitutional […]

In survey after survey, airline passengers say kids — especially the misbehaving, seat-kicking kind — are their top annoyance. Whether you're a parent or a fellow traveler, here's how to deal.

Some people’s stories cast a spell long after their lives are over. Here are three to get lost in, starring Ada Lovelace, Thomas Cromwell and Napoleon.

Like lions and sea otters, beavers are a keystone species whose existence supports an entire ecosystem. In a new book, Ben Goldfarb explains why.

It’s a fight to the finish at Pacific Muay Thai, where you’ll sprint, punch, kick — and sweat from the get-go.

A 16-year-old boy has life-threatening injuries after being shot in a Renton apartment complex on Sunday, according to police. Renton police responded to a report of the shooting around 6:30 p.m. Sunday. They found the boy in the driver’s seat of a car that had crashed into a parked van in the 600 block of […]

DELRAY BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Students at a Florida high school found an unwelcome surprise in a vending machine: a rat climbing the rows of packaged snacks and drinks. Video of the rat shot by an 11th-grader quickly spread on social media among students at Atlantic Community High school in Delray Beach. In the video […]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A massive tuba ensemble has smashed a Guinness World Record in Kansas City and spread some Christmas cheer. KSHB-TV reports that 835 tuba players performed “Silent Night” on Friday at a downtown arena, setting a new Guinness World Records. The previous record of 502 tuba players in California in 2007. […]

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s Interior Minister Nouhad Mashnouk says the country’s police have discovered and thwarted planned bombing attacks by the Islamic State group. Mashnouk told reporters Monday that the bombs were smuggled in from the rebel-held northwestern Syrian province of Idlib in buckets of cheese, and were intended for targeting places of worship, gatherings […]

HOOVER, Ala. (AP) — Three people have been arrested in the continuing protests over the fatal police shooting of a black man inside Alabama’s largest shopping mall on Thanksgiving night. News outlets report two men were arrested Sunday on disorderly conduct charges after a protest that briefly shut down an interstate highway. And a woman […]

CONROE, Texas (AP) — Firefighters in Texas have rescued more than 100 snakes from a reptile-filled home that caught fire over the weekend. Authorities say a Christmas tree may have sparked the blaze Saturday near Conroe, about 40 miles (65 kilometers) north of Houston. The snakes included pythons and boa constrictors. Authorities say that when […]

The now-discontinued comments section of my column often turned into a vicious free-for-all, and that contradicted my goal of fostering awareness, inclusion and civil exchange.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Media personality and political commentator Glenn Beck is pitching in to keep a trove of artifacts related to Abraham Lincoln in the 16th president’s hometown. Beck’s charity, Mercury One, has donated $50,000 toward a $9.2 million debt owed for a collection of 1,400 artifacts purchased a decade ago for the Abraham […]

NHL commissioner Gary Bettman got plenty wrong early on. But now, with Seattle managing partner David Bonderman's $3.3 billion fortune ranking only 12th among 32 principal NHL owners, Bettman's league is arguably the most stable it's ever been.

Seattle’s high-density census tracts cover less than a quarter of the city’s land area, but they have absorbed more than 70 percent of household growth this decade.

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