Новости за 11.01.2018

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Trying to distinguish your product among the thousands at the CES gadget show is no easy feat, so it helps when music legend Stevie Wonder pays an unexpected visit.

NEW YORK (AP) — Ricky Martin is a married man.

WASHINGTON (AP) — After a confusing morning of tweets by President Donald Trump, the House on Thursday passed a bill to reauthorize a key foreign intelligence collection program with an important tweak: It would require the FBI to get a…

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A jury in Oklahoma has convicted a woman of killing her 33-year-old daughter by forcing a crucifix and medallion down her throat because she believed the woman was possessed by the devil.

SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemen's Shiite rebels say they have fired a ballistic missile targeting a special forces camp and a facility for helicopter gunships in the Saudi border province of Najran.

At least one Badgers player or alumnus has competed in the Olympics since 1976.

SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) — Hollywood's self-celebratory season is continuing with the Critics' Choice Awards Thursday night.

PARIS (AP) — A French labor court was unable to agree Thursday whether four Muslim security guards were unfairly fired from their jobs at Orly airport after the 2015 Paris terror attacks for refusing orders to trim their beards.

The Westby Area High School gymnastics team competed at Holmen on Jan. 5, its first meet after the holiday break. Norse Head Coach Kara Timmel said the team had its best showing of the season, especially considering the long break…

Senior European diplomats have urged the United States not to kill off the Iran nuclear deal, as President Donald Trump mulls whether to reimpose sanctions on the country ahead of a Friday deadline.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Plans for an $88 million high-rise apartment tower in downtown Des Moines are uncertain after the developer announced a property swap with an insurance company.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott raised $9-plus million through the end of last year and now has a record war chest of $43.3 million to fund a November re-election bid that's not expected to be competitive.

The state Ethics Commission has cast a formal, unanimous vote of confidence in its administrator, Brian Bell, amid threats by Republican legislative leaders to force him out.

Bears new coach Matt Nagy is tabbing former Oregon head coach Mark Helfrich as his new offensive coordinator, per multiple reports. The hire is a great example of the "innovative" and "outside the box" thinking that appealed to GM Ryan…

The Norsemen wrestled past Black River Falls/Lincoln (BRFL) winning 58-24 in action on Friday, Jan. 5. The match didn’t see much competition on the mat with a total of nine forfeits in 14 weight divisions. BRFL forfeited a total of…

The Viroqua cooperative boys hockey team, comprised of skaters from Cashton, Viroqua, Westby and Youth Initiative high schools, traveled to West Salem Jan. 4 and were defeated by an 8-0 score.

MINNEAPOLIS — An environmental study exploring the viability of high-speed passenger rail service between the Twin Cities and Milwaukee has been shut down after two Minnesota Republican legislators said it was a waste of taxpayer dollars.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Latest on Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens acknowledging he cheated on his wife but denying blackmail allegations (all times local):

CINCINNATI (AP) — Citing White House encouragement, U.S. Rep. Jim Renacci on Thursday jumped out of the Republican governor's race and into Ohio's U.S. Senate primary in an effort to unseat two-term Democratic incumbent Sherrod Brown.

A Hillsboro man was injured in a single-vehicle crash at about 3:06 a.m. Jan. 10 on Hwy. V near Mt. Tabor Road in the town of Forest.

CAIRO (AP) — The nephew of Yemen's late President Ali Abdullah Saleh has surfaced in the country's south, weeks after he disappeared amid violence in the capital, Sanaa.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland's lawmakers have approved a controversial electoral law that critics say will give the ruling party influence over the voting procedure and will allow more room for vote rigging.

The Westby girls basketball team returned to Coulee Conference action on Jan. 4 at Viroqua where they picked up the 40-31 win.

Washington’s 7-9 season left everyone, including head coach Jay Gruden, ambivalent about where the team is at heading into a crucial offseason. The flashpoint decision as the team figures out how to improve clearly starts with one player: quarterback…

CHICAGO — Here is one thing we knew about Matt Nagy the second the Bears hired him to be the 16th head football coach in franchise history.