Новости за 21.04.2016

Wilbert Ray Sagler, 74, of La Crosse died Tuesday, April 5, 2016.

ONALASKA — Arnold “Skip” LeFebre, 78, of Onalaska passed away peacefully April 19, 2016, at Mulder Health Care Center in West Salem Wis.

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BLACK RIVER FALLS — Registration is open for the 12th annual Karner Blue 5K-10K-Half Marathon set for July 2 in Black River Falls.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Jason Spezza scored the go-ahead goal with his skate, Ales Hemsky and Patrick Eaves each scored on a second-period power play to give Dallas’ lagging special teams a lift, and the Stars defeated the Minnesota…

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Cole Hamels had never hit more than two batters in a game. So suffice it to say, the Texas left-hander was off to a strange start when he plunked the first two Houston hitters Wednesday night.

CLEVELAND (AP) — J.R. Smith looked down at the postgame box score and couldn't believe his eyes.

Aaron Hill, Chris Carter and Domingo Santana all go deep for Milwaukee.

FLINT, Mich. (AP) — The Flint water crisis has become a criminal case, with two state regulators and a city employee charged with official misconduct, evidence-tampering and other offenses over the lead contamination that alarmed the country and brought cries…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders continued to outpace rival Hillary Clinton in fundraising — and spending — last month, new Federal Election Commission filings show.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — About 160 countries are expected to sign the Paris Agreement on climate change Friday in a symbolic triumph for a landmark deal that once seemed unlikely but now appears on track to enter into force years…

HAVANA (AP) — One of Cuba's most renowned advocates of economic reform has been fired from his University of Havana think tank for sharing information with Americans without authorization, among other alleged violations.

NEW YORK (AP) — Four months after negotiating a global climate agreement in Paris, government officials are coming to New York on Friday to sign the pact in a ceremony at the United Nations.

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — President Rafael Correa said Ecuador's worst earthquake in decades caused billions of dollars of damage and he is raising sales taxes and putting a one-time levy on millionaires to help pay for reconstruction.

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Aaron Hill, Chris Carter and Domingo Santana hit home runs to help Jimmy Nelson and the Milwaukee Brewers beat the Minnesota Twins 10-5 on Wednesday night.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — An explosion rocked a petrochemical plant on Mexico's southern Gulf coast, causing evacuations in the area as a fire billowed a toxin-filled cloud into the air. Officials said three workers died and more than 100 people…

BUSAN, South Korea (AP) — The 14-year-old boy in the black school jacket stared at his sneakers, his heart pounding, as the policeman accused him of stealing a piece of bread.

Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott says the conference's representative on the NCAA's Division I Council did not vote the league's position when the council banned so-called satellite football camps this month.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire man who got away with murder for 20 years is trying to get his sentence reduced to the 10 years he already has served.

ST. PAUL — The UW-La Crosse baseball team extended its winning streak to nine games Wednesday before St. Thomas ended it there during a nonconference doubleheader split.

Curt Schilling helped the Boston Red Sox end an 86-year championship drought and then immediately started squandering the goodwill he had earned.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Jamaica defended its decriminalization of possession of small amounts of marijuana. Iran said it seized 620 tons of different types of drugs last year and is helping protect the world from "the evils of addiction." Cuba…

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping is assuming a more direct role as commander of the country's powerful armed forces with the new title of commander in chief of its Joint Operations Command Center.

Setting up a batter inside or out, shifting the defensive alignment, then playing the percentages still gets Bill Sandillo juiced up. So does thinking about the La Crosse Loggers’ 2015 offense and the seven records it obliterated during a 40-win…

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