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PRAGUE (AP) — Czech taxi drivers are blocking a major road to Prague's international airport to protest Uber and other similar ride-hailing services. The protest began Monday morning with taxis driving slowly in both directions on a key road to Prague's Vaclav Havel airport, causing traffic delays. The protest comes after inconclusive talks between the drivers and City Hall, which says only the government is in a position to address the complaints. The drivers claim Uber and other ride-hailing apps... Читать дальше...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A squad of 7-foot (2.1-meter) infantrymen cast in bronze for an anti-terrorism memorial is being delivered to a Georgia museum this week by the central Ohio sculptor who created the statues. The Columbus Dispatch reports that Army veteran Alan Cottrill and a team of artists spent more than a year making the nine soldiers for the Global War on Terrorism Memorial. It's scheduled to be dedicated later this month at the National Infantry Museum in Columbus, Georgia, near Fort Benning. Читать дальше...

BARTOW, Fla. (AP) — A man has been sentenced in a fatal crash that killed a retired police officer in 2016. The Ledger of Lakeland reports 55-year-old Albino Contreras was sentenced to over seven years in prison Thursday. Contreras faced a five-year sentence for driving without a license, but Circuit Judge Neil Roddenbery chose to follow state sentencing guidelines. Polk County Sheriff's Office reports show that Contreras was driving without a license when his vehicle crossed the center line and struck David Szewczykowski's motorcycle. Читать дальше...

BALTIMORE (AP) — Two men have been killed in separate shootings in Baltimore, bringing the total number of homicides to 268 this year. Police found a 34-year-old man with a gunshot wound to the head early Sunday in northeast Baltimore. Then on Sunday afternoon, an 18-year-old man died after being shot in the chest, also in the northeast part of the city. A total of four people were killed in shootings in the city over the weekend. The Baltimore Sun reports that the city's per capita murder rate is... Читать дальше...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — Police in Rochester are investigating the fatal shooting of a 23-year-old man who was hit by gunfire in a parking lot. Officials say the shooting occurred around 1 a.m. Sunday near a stretch of the northern end of Lake Avenue that's home to several restaurants. Police say the man was shot in the torso and collapsed in the road running along Ontario Beach Park. Police say the man died at the scene. His name hasn't been released.

Roommates are a fact of life in expensive cities like San Francisco. But while the typical roommate scenario involves a bunch of young singles sharing a place, in recent years more and more couples have been hopping on the roommate bandwagon. Local leasing agent James Wavro started noticing an uptick around 2014, as rents in

Four out of six paralyzed patients who had 10 million stem cells transplanted into their spinal cords have shown striking improvement a year after treatment, including increased ability to move their hands and arms and to perform basic functions like feeding and bathing themselves, according to research results being released Monday. All six patients in the early-stage clinical trial, conducted by Fremont’s Asterias Biotherapeutics, reported at least some recovery after the stem cell transplant. Читать дальше...

We couldn't ignore it any longer: Pumpkin spice-flavored everything is all around us.

NEW YORK (AP) — Google is ending so-called "first click free," a policy loathed by many publishers and media because it required a limited amount of free content from them before readers could be subjected to a paywall. Richard Gingras, vice president of news at Google Inc., said in a blog post Monday that publishers will now be allowed to decide how many, if any, free articles they want to offer readers before charging a fee. The minimum number of items offered under the previous Google search engine rules had been three. Читать дальше...

LEECHBURG, Pa. (AP) — A 44-year-old Pennsylvania police officer has been hospitalized in critical condition after suffering cardiac arrest during a foot chase. Michael Robison, assistant chief of the Allegheny Township Police Department, tells WJAC-TV (http://bit.ly/2yCH6VM ) that one of the department's officers collapsed during a pursuit Sunday morning. Robison says other officers gave him CPR and revived him at the scene. The officer's name was not released. Police say he had been responding to... Читать дальше...

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Officials at Norfolk International Airport will soon begin tearing out a 350-foot people mover that was once the longest continuous moving walkway in the world. The 350-foot moving walkway was installed at the airport in 2002, between its arrival terminal and baggage claim area. The walkway looks like a flat escalator and helps people get across the lengthy bridge faster. The former record-holder has since been eclipsed by a 680-foot moving walkway in the Sydney, Australia, botanical gardens. Читать дальше...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Las Vegas concert is deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history with at least 50 dead.

KILN, Miss. (AP) — Authorities say a man has been shot several times following an altercation in Mississippi. The Sun Herald reports 27-year-old Bo Blanchard was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in connection with a backyard shooting on Friday night in Kiln. Hancock County Sheriff's Office Chief Investigator Glenn Grannan says Blanchard pulled out a pistol and started shooting following a disagreement. Authorities say the victim was then shot in the head, neck and groin. Grannan... Читать дальше...

PARIS (AP) — The Latest on Marseille knife attack (all times local): 12:30 p.m. France's main counterterrorism prosecutor says a man who fatally stabbed two women at Marseille's main train station had used seven different identities in previous encounters with police. Prosecutor Francois Molins told reporters Monday that the suspect's most recent arrest occurred just two days before Sunday's train station stabbing. Molins said that the suspect was picked up for shoplifting and released the next day, and the case was dropped. Читать дальше...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada sheriff: We have located the female person of interest in the deadly shooting at a Las Vegas outdoor concert.

WA Seattle WA Zone Forecast for Sunday, October 1, 2017 _____ 852 FPUS56 KSEW 021039 ZFPSEW Zone Forecast Product for Western Washington National Weather Service Seattle WA 339 AM PDT Mon Oct 2 2017 Spot temperatures and probabilities of measurable precipitation are for today, tonight, and Tuesday. WAZ558-030045- Seattle and Vicinity- Including the cities of Seattle, Shoreline, Federal Way, and Kent 339 AM PDT Mon Oct 2 2017 .TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 60s. Northeast wind to... Читать дальше...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada sheriff identifies Las Vegas resident Stephen Paddock as the dead man suspected of opening fire on concert.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A monthly survey of business leaders suggests economic conditions are still improving for nine Midwest and Plains states. A report released Monday says the Mid-America Business Conditions Index rose to 58.2 in September from 57.5 in August and 56.1 in July. Creighton University economist Ernie Goss oversees the survey, and he says international sales, strong profit growth and low interest rates boosted the economic outlook among supply managers in the nine-state region. The survey... Читать дальше...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada sheriff says at least 50 people dead and at least 200 injured in Las Vegas concert shooting.

MOUNT VERNON, Ga. (AP) — A man wanted in connection with the fatal shooting of a 20-year-old college-student athlete at a college party has turned himself in, while his twin remains at large. Georgia Bureau of Investigation spokeswoman Nelly Miles told news outlets that 19-year-old Khalif Wagner turned himself in at the Toombs County Sheriff's Office on Saturday. Wagner faces murder and aggravated assault charges in the Sept. 24 shooting of Stevenson Derival at an off-campus party. Derival attended... Читать дальше...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi store clerk has been arrested in connection with a double shooting at a gas station that left him wounded and killed another man. News outlets report 26-year-old Chris Conley was charged with murder in the Saturday death of 31-year-old James Terrell McGee. Authorities say the shooting occurred at a Chuk Stop in Jackson on Friday. Jackson police Sgt. Roderick Holmes says McGee was allegedly trying to shoplift from the store, which led to an argument with Conley. Читать дальше...

TOKYO (AP) — Nissan is recalling 1.2 million vehicles in Japan that were produced between October 2014 and September this year to re-inspect them as they had not gone through the proper final checks. Japanese automaker Nissan Motor Co. said Monday a team, including an independent third party, was investigating the cause of the oversight and promised to prevent a recurrence. The failure is not believed to have affected vehicle safety as they were final-stage checks, according to the Yokohama-based maker of the March subcompact... Читать дальше...

KENT, Wash. (AP) — Authorities say a man was shot to death and two others were injured at a strip mall in Kent. KOMO reports ( http://bit.ly/2wrbDoH ) that officers responded about 3:20 a.m. Sunday after a report of shots fired. According to Kent Police, a security guard on patrol found the man who had been shot to death on the ground in a strip mall. Officers found a second man with a gunshot wound. He was taken to Harborview Medical Center with life threatening injuries. A third person was also... Читать дальше...

CA San Francisco Bay Area Zone Forecast for Sunday, October 1, 2017 _____ 727 FPUS56 KMTR 021001 ZFPMTR San Francisco Bay Area/Central California Zone Forecast National Weather Service San Francisco Bay Area 300 AM PDT Mon Oct 2 2017 This is an automatically generated product that provides average values for large geographic areas. For a more site specific forecast...please visit weather.gov/sanfrancisco (1) Select a location from the drop down menu above the map... -- or -- (2) Click a location on the map. Читать дальше...