Новости за 03.09.2015

ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) — A 52-year-old St. George woman accused of causing a fatal accident by texting and driving has been sentenced to a year in jail. Defense attorney Edward Flint says Brennan is a normal person who made a bad mistake.

Officials with Triple-A Arizona said Thursday that the average statewide price for unleaded regular gasoline is $2.54 a gallon, down by more than 7 cents from last week. South Carolina has the lowest average gas prices among states in the continental U.S. at $2 a gallon with California has the highest at $3.31.

The school announced the partnership on Thursday and is still pending approval from the university's Board of Regents. The school says the money from the naming rights agreement will be used toward athletic scholarship along with other student and campus programming.

It's beginning to look a lot like ... well, not Christmas, exactly. September-uary?

U.S. Rep. Rick Larsen, D-Wash., announced Thursday he will vote to support the Iran nuclear deal, the fifth member of Washington’s congressional delegation to back the agreement negotiated between the U.S., five other major powers and Iran. “While the agreement is not perfect, it is a major step in preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon,” said Larsen, a member of the House Armed Services Committee. U.S. Rep. Rick Larsen:  Will support Iran nuclear agreement. “The agreement restricts Iranian stockpiles... Читать дальше...

On an acre that once held an abandoned house, garbage and blackberry vines, Givens grows culinary herbs and organic vegetables for 14 high-end Portland restaurants, runs a catering business and hosts "nomadic" suppers for like-minded chefs, foodies and other friends. Providing such direct, on-the-ground help is an intentional policy shift by NRCS. Since 2008, the agency has helped farmers install 139 high tunnels in Oregon, at a program cost of $830,000. Extending the growing season in Oregon... Читать дальше...

Stroll along the riverfront — in the evening when the lights come on is the prettiest time — and check out shops and restaurants like Morimoto Napa (from Masaharu Morimoto of "Iron Chef" fame) which recently added the valley's first sake lounge. Recently opened wineries in the valley include Odette Estate, which has an 8,500-square-foot planted living roof and recently opened a new tasting room. Check out the Crystal Cellar with its stainless steel walls, mirrored bar and collection of Baccarat crystal decanters. Читать дальше...

Some church social service programs will also get tickets, as will other faith communities, church officials said. The ticketing announcement comes just a week after a new marketing campaign, "I'll Be There," was unveiled to encourage attendance at the papal events, driven in part by fears that months of discussions about tight security restrictions had scared many people away from attending. Officials have said hotel bookings, rail pass purchases and charter bus signups have all been running lower than expected. Читать дальше...

About 50 works from the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag in the Netherlands are presented in chronological order to trace Mondrian's path from an art student at the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts in Amsterdam in the late 19th century to his rise to one of the most important artists of classical modernism. After he moved to Paris in 1902, he began transforming natural motifs into abstract geometric compositions using black and gray lines as vertical and horizontal elements. In his Composition in Oval with Color Planes 2... Читать дальше...

Summer is ending, and what better way to prepare for fall TV premieres than by catching up on your favorite shows? Tanked (Midnight-6 a.m., Animal Planet) Dirty Jobs (9 a.m.-3 p.m., Animal Planet) Special Victims Unit (9 a.m.-7 p.m., USA) America's Next Top Model (10 a.m.-2 p.m., Oxygen) Bering Sea Gold (11 a.m.-10:02 p.m., Discovery) Star Trek: The Next Generation (Noon-8 p.m., BBC America) Project Runway (Noon-8 p.m., Esquire) A Haunting (1-10 p.m., Destination America) Lakefront Bargain Hunt (1-7 p.m.... Читать дальше...

Story by Kendall Jones, via Washington Beer Blog. Story by Kendall Jones, via Washington Beer Blog. A few years ago the nice people at Seattle magazine contacted me about a big beer festival they wanted to organize in Seattle. In short, they wanted my advice. At that time there were 30-something breweries in Seattle so I told them that, since they’re Seattle magazine,... The post The Largest Seattle-Only Beer Fest of the Year: BREW Seattle appeared first on Beer News.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former Sony Pictures Entertainment employees whose personal information was posted online last year after a massive data breach have reached a settlement in a proposed class action lawsuit, their attorneys said Wednesday. The settlement was announced in a filing in a federal lawsuit that was seeking class-action status on behalf of nearly 50,000 current and former Sony employees whose private personal, financial and medical information was posted online. Other former employees criticized Sony's response to the data breach... Читать дальше...