Новости за 20.12.2016

Be prepared. Your Secret Santa will probably disappoint you this year, cause your Secret Santa isn’t Bill Gates. A Reddit user named Aerrix says the world’s richest man — worth a cool $75 billion, in case you’ve forgotten — sent her gifts last week through Reddit’s Secret Santa Gift exchange. The gifts were awesome, and […]

After a concussion, most pediatricians recommend that teens and children rest until all their symptoms disappear. A new study questions this advice. Compared with those who rested, children who began physical activity within seven days of an injury reduced their risk of persistent postconcussive symptoms, according to research published Tuesday in the Journal of the […]

Christmas Eve will begin a couple of hours earlier for Walmart workers this year. The nation’s largest retailer announced it will close at 6 p.m. this Saturday. In recent years it has closed at 8 p.m. on Christmas Eve. “Our associates work hard all year to make this holiday season special for our customers, and […]

Margot Robbie offered a saucy response to speculation that she’s gotten married. She gave her followers the finger, her ring finger to be exact. The “Suicide Squad” star posted a photo of her kissing British director Tom Ackerely and flashing her finger sporting her ring. The News.Au.Com reported that the 26-year-old Australian actress got married […]

Mark Wahlberg’s new movie, “Patriots Day,” is about a tragedy, the Boston Marathon bombing. But he’s hoping people will leave the theater encouraged. “I want people to feel hopeful [after watching this film],” Wahlberg told CNN in a recent interview. “And encouraged that, you know, love will always win and we’ll come together and be […]

A desperate operation to evacuate thousands of Syrians from eastern Aleppo could be completed by Wednesday, Turkey has claimed. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu tweeted Tuesday that 37,500 people had been evacuated from the war-torn city so far, adding that “all evacuations are intended to be finished by tomorrow.” However, the International Committee of the […]

Lawrence Township Police received a report about an alleged theft from a motor vehicle in the area of Hotel Heights. Police conducted a warrant service at the station. Police received a report about a disabled vehicle blocking the roadway on Martin Street Extension. It was removed from the roadway, police said. Police received a report […]

Cindy Stowell died earlier this month after a long battle with cancer, but her friends and family are currently watching her “Jeopardy!” winning streak play out on television. “That’s kind of been a real bright point among… some other tragic circumstances,” her boyfriend Jason Hess told CNN’s Chris Cuomo and Alisyn Camerota on “New Day” […]

The Grinch stole Christmas this year for thousands of Americans who were given pink slips before the holidays. General Motors: GM announced Monday that it will lay off 1,300 workers at a Detroit plant. The workers make the Chevy Volt, in addition to the Chevy Impala and Buick LaCrosse. Those job cuts are in addition […]

The Associated Press photographer who captured images of Russian ambassador Andrey Karlov’s assassination at an art exhibition in Ankara has recalled the terrifying moment the gunman opened fire. “I heard shots, very loud — bam bam bam,” Burhan Ozbilici told CNN. “The people standing in front they disappeared. They threw them(selves) on the floor. They […]

On average, one new contagious disease has emerged each year for the past 30 years. Yet most states are easily caught off guard, according to a new report from Trust for America’s Health, issued Tuesday. Twenty-six states and the District of Columbia scored a six or lower on 10 key indicators of public health preparedness, […]

The weekend shopping trip wasn’t supposed to end like this. One minute, the grandmother of 3-year-old Acen King steered them toward the JC Penney in Little Rock, Arkansas. The next, the boy was fatally shot in the seat of her maroon Dodge Charger. “My [grandson’s] been shot,” she wailed over the phone to a 911 […]

The weekend shopping trip wasn’t supposed to end like this. One minute, the grandmother of 3-year-old Acen King steered them toward the JC Penney in Little Rock, Arkansas. The next, the boy was fatally shot in the seat of her maroon Dodge Charger. “My [grandson’s] been shot,” she wailed over the phone to a 911 […]

WINSLOW TOWNSHIP – A 32-year-old Reynoldsville man, Jordan M. Bogacki, has been accused of trying to stab and threatening to kill two men who tried to help him after he wrecked his vehicle Sunday night in Winslow Township. According to the report from state police at DuBois, a silver Mazda 3 operated by Bogacki was […]

CLEARFIELD – Staff members at the Joseph & Elizabeth Shaw Public Library recently held their annual children’s Christmas party. Santa came to visit and had a gift for each child. There was hot chocolate and cookies, and the children colored pages and made a Christmas ornament. Children finished off their party by listening to “The […]

By: Eryn Spangler, Press Assistant With the year coming to an end, Pennsylvania state agencies have released their 2016 accomplishments to highlight the progress made by each agency this year. Since taking office, Gov. Tom Wolf has focused on three priorities for his administration: creating Jobs That Pay, funding Schools That Teach and providing a […]

HARRISBURG – The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) has announced that all driver license and photo centers, including its full-service center in Harrisburg, will be closed Saturday, Dec. 24, through Monday, Dec. 26 for the Christmas holiday. Customers may still obtain a variety of driver and vehicle products and services online through PennDOT’s Driver and Vehicle Services Web site, www.dmv.pa.gov. […]

DUBOIS – The student council of DuBois Central Catholic High School will be hosting Homecoming on Thursday, Dec. 22.   The Cardinals will be playing the Owls of Harmony Area High School.    Homecoming events have been organized by student council officers Riley Meyers, president, and Alexsis Kosko, vice president, along with fellow council members Meghan Graeca, […]

1. Investors shrug off attacks: Global markets have reacted calmly to deadly attacks in Germany and Turkey, and a shooting at an Islamic center in Zurich, Switzerland. European markets are mostly edging up in early trading. U.S. stock futures are also in positive territory. “Aside from the tragedy of the human cost, markets will consider […]

Orania is not prime real estate by any stretch of the imagination. The settlement west of the Orange River in Northern Cape, South Africa lies on arid and weather-beaten land; baked by the harsh summer sun and frigid through the dry winter. It’s farmable, but not easy, requiring strong backs and calloused hands. Rising above […]

Diplomats from Turkey and Russia will meet as planned on Tuesday to discuss the situation in the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo, one day after the assassination of Russia’s ambassador to Turkey. On Monday night, a Turkish police officer fired several shots at Andrey Karlov as the Russian envoy opened an art exhibition in Ankara, […]

On June 28, 1914, a 19-year-old Serbian nationalist named Gavrilo Princip fired into an open-top car traveling through the streets of Sarajevo, carrying Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of the Austria-Hungarian Empire. Within a month, the assassination set off a chain reaction that unleashed World War I, leaving tens of millions dead and […]

Teams searching for missing aircraft Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 have been looking in the wrong place, a new Australian government report confirmed. “Given the high confidence in the search undertaken to date, the experts agreed that the previously defined (search) area is unlikely to contain the missing aircraft,” a spokesman for the Australian Transport Safety […]

The apparent violent truck assault on Berlin’s crowded Breitscheidplatz Christmas market had all the hallmarks of Islamic State terrorism — the same type of semitruck, the same high speed of 40 miles an hour, the same mass of holiday revelers — as the horrific attack on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice last summer. In […]

A gunman walked into an Islamic center in central Zurich and shot three men, police in the Swiss city said Monday. The man, decked out in dark clothing, opened fire on a group of worshipers standing inside a prayer room at about 5:30 p.m., police said, citing eyewitnesses. The shots injured the men, some seriously, […]