Новости за 03.02.2017

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Baseball players with big wads of chewing tobacco in their cheek are now a thing from the past at Busch Stadium.

The Viroqua Police Department has issued a warning to all citizens of a phone scam in the area where people are told that they have won a large amount of money.

PARIS (AP) — The Latest on an attack outside the Louvre Museum in Paris (all times local):

MOSUL, Iraq (AP) — Receipts from taxi rides, ledgers listing internet usage for the privileged few and random logbooks documenting an ever tighter economy are just some of the documents that Islamic State militants left behind when they fled eastern…

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — The Golden State Warriors have waived center Anderson Varejao to clear a roster spot on the NBA's top team as it deals with depth issues and injuries.

A key meeting on the topic of whether NHL players will participate in the Winter Olympics in South Korea a year from now ended Friday without a decision.

A person familiar with the situation says the Nashville Predators have waived forward Mike Ribeiro.

A Winona man survived a plane crash in southern Minnesota late Thursday.

HOUSTON — When Super Bowl LI kicks off Sunday in Houston it will be two years, 3 days and about 20 hours since the Patriots' Malcolm Butler made one of the most famous plays, and became one of the unlikeliest…

FRIDAY, Feb. 3, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- Thirty former NFL players have joined the growing number of retired players who have pledged to donate their brains to research on a devastating brain disease that has been linked to the repetitive…

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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Utilityman Chris Coghlan has agreed to a minor league contract with the Philadelphia Phillies, who settled their salary arbitration case with second baseman Cesar Hernandez by reaching a $2.55 million, one-year deal.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Infielder Wilmer Flores has become the first New York Mets player to go to salary arbitration since Oliver Perez in 2008.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Infielder Rickie Weeks and right-handed relievers Cory Rasmus and David Carpenter have agreed to minor league contracts with the Tampa Bay Rays.

HOUSTON (AP) — For Houston rapper Bun B, Sunday's Super Bowl will be a win for him no matter who takes home the trophy.

SEATTLE (AP) — Officials from Washington state and Minnesota will ask a federal judge Friday for a nationwide restraining order halting portions of President Donald Trump's temporary ban on people from seven predominantly Muslim countries.

INDEPENDENCE, Ohio (AP) — Kevin Love doesn't believe the Cleveland Cavaliers will trade him.

NEW YORK (AP) — He's locked up 23 hours a day. His wife can't visit him. He can't call anyone, except his lawyers. He even was denied water, his lawyers say.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican bakery magnate Lorenzo Servitje has died at the age of 98 after building his Grupo Bimbo into an international snack and baked-goods empire that acquired brands like Entenmann's, Thomas', Freihofer's and Stroehmann.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas Senate panel shrugged off 16 hours of sometimes tearful pleas and defiant opposition to approve a "sanctuary cities" proposal that would withhold grant funding from local jurisdictions that don't hand over immigrants already in…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department says fewer than 60,000 foreigners from seven majority-Muslim countries had their visas provisionally canceled after President Donald Trump's executive order blocked them from traveling to the U.S.

MINSK, Belarus (AP) — In a sign of growing friction between the two ex-Soviet neighbors, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko criticized Russia Friday for cutting oil supplies, ordered his interior minister to press charges against Russia's top food safety official and…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats didn't wait to assemble the facts before they accused President Donald Trump of rewarding "thugs" in the Russian intelligence service by lifting certain sanctions. The facts don't support them.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump (all times local):

Our Pro Football Weekly staff makes their picks for Super Bowl LI, and we have a 50-50 split between the Patriots and Falcons.