Новости за 21.11.2015

(AP) — Quarterback Colin Kaepernick was placed on season-ending injured reserve by San Francisco on Saturday with a left shoulder injury, possibly signaling an end to his time with the 49ers just three seasons after he led them to a Super Bowl. [...] after the team submitted the injury report, Kaepernick returned to the training staff Friday following practice and said the shoulder wasn't making any progress and then asked about his options. [...] many already figured Kaepernick's time with the... Читать дальше...

(AP) — Virginia's transportation secretary says he wants to extend express toll lanes in northern Virginia to the District of Columbia line. Transportation Secretary Aubrey Layne said Friday that he's planning to start the process of converting the high-occupancy vehicle lanes on Interstate 395 into high-occupancy toll lanes.

Story by Kendall Jones, via Washington Beer Blog. Story by Kendall Jones, via Washington Beer Blog. On the last Wednesday of each month, Watershed Pub and Kitchen hosts a beer and food pairing event: the Convergence Series. Next Wednesday, November 25th, they’ll host the Convergence Series #15, featuring the beers of Airways Brewing. They’ll serve up six of the brewery’s beers, ranging from... The post Convergence Series 15 at Watershed Pub and Kitchen appeared first on Beer News.

(AP) — Losing the business of a major automaker hasn't stopped the Georgia Ports Authority from racing ahead with a $12.7 million expansion of its lots used to store new cars and trucks being shipping through the Port of Brunswick. The ports authority's governing board voted Monday to pave an additional 63 acres at its Colonel's Island terminal in Brunswick, which already has 422 acres dedicated to parking autos waiting to be loaded onto ships or trucks. According to the U.S. Census Bureau's Foreign Trade Division... Читать дальше...

(AP) — Authorities say a duck hunter has died when a boat overturned on a cranberry flowage in west-central Wisconsin. The Monroe County Sheriff's Office says the hunter was heading out to a duck hunt with two other hunters when their boat took on water and overturned in the Township of Tomah just before 7 a.m. Friday.

NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (AP) — A Rhode Island facility is about to begin building new nuclear ballistic missile submarines. The Providence Journal reports (http://bit.ly/1PSgSmC ) officials with the state and General Dynamics Electric Boat celebrated the opening of a new $50 million facility on Friday at its Quonset Point shipyard in North Kingstown.

(AP) — Castleton University's green-caped Spartan mascot hasn't been seen in a month and school officials say they want him back. Student activities director Matthew Patry says Sparty is usually kept in a storage locker but had been put in a bag under a desk in the offices after the closet shelves collapsed.

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — San Jose Sharks coach Peter DeBoer will miss Saturday night's game in Pittsburgh to deal with a personal matter. General manager Doug Wilson says assistant coaches Steve Spott, Bob Boughner and Johan Hedberg will run the team in place of DeBoer for the game against the Penguins. Wilson did not elaborate on the reason for DeBoer's absence. DeBoer is in his first year coaching the Sharks. San Jose has won the first four games on a a six-game road trip that ends Sunday in Columbus.

The lawyer of a man who rode back to Belgium with Paris attack suspect Salah Abdeslam has told a Belgian newspaper that Abdeslam was extremely nervous and may have been wearing a suicide bomb vest. The U.S. Embassy in Belgium has urged Americans in the country "to shelter in place and remain at home" after local authorities warned the threat of a terrorist attack in the Brussels area is serious and imminent. The American mission urged U.S. citizens to "exercise caution in public transportation systems... Читать дальше...

National Weather Service meteorologist Amy Seeley says Boone and McHenry counties and adjacent areas of Wisconsin had the highest storm totals as of 8 a.m. Saturday, with 14.6 inches reported in Capron, which is about 60 miles northwest of Chicago. Chicago's O'Hare International Airport had 5.4 inches as of 6 a.m. Saturday. Since Friday morning, the storm has left a trail of varying snowfall amounts and some rain from South Dakota to Illinois. Flight- tracking website FlightAware.com showed Saturday... Читать дальше...

NORTH SALEM, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say police officers searching for the wreckage of a small airplane that vanished in a New York reservoir have found human remains and items believed to be from the plane. A New York City Department of Environmental Protection spokesman says the search has resumed Saturday in the Titicus Reservoir in North Salem, in Westchester County.

(AP) — Washington state Department of Transportation officials have revised the schedule for emergency bridge repair work and will open one lane to traffic Sunday on U.S. Highway 2 between Skykomish and Stevens Pass. Officials are seeking emergency relief funds from the Federal Highway Administration.

CHICAGO (AP) — The first significant wintry storm of the season blanketed parts of the Midwest with a foot of snow and more was on the way Saturday, creating hazardous conditions as some travelers prepared to depart for the Thanksgiving holiday. About 250 flights in and out of the busy airport had been canceled by Saturday morning, according to the tracking website FlightAware.com, while Midway International Airport had canceled about 100 flights. The Iowa Department of Transportation warned people... Читать дальше...

The slow-moving wintry weather is putting a stop to some flights in the Chicago area. Flight- tracking website FlightAware.com showed Saturday morning that about 250 flights in and out of Chicago's O'Hare International Airport had been canceled. Midway International Airport, which is in the southeast part of Chicago, only had about 100 departing and arriving flights that had been canceled by Saturday morning. New totals were not yet available for the Chicago area although south of the city only an inch fell... Читать дальше...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Indonesia and Malaysia, the world's top two palm oil producers, signed an agreement Saturday to set up a council for palm oil producing countries in a bid to ensure price stability by managing production and stock in the global market. Indonesian Resources Minister Rizal Ramli said the council will be a "game changer" for an industry under pressure from falling prices and unsustainable farming practices. The two countries account for 85 percent of the world's palm oil production... Читать дальше...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's semiofficial Fars news agency says a 'foreign' reconnaissance drone has crashed in the country's southwest. Saturday's report says the drone crashed on the outskirts of the town of Shush near the border with Iraq the day before, but did not provide further details.

(AP) — The Colorado Department of Transportation is launching weekend service on part of its interstate highway bus system beginning Saturday. The project is funded by the 2009 FASTER bill, which raised car registration fees to pay for transportation projects.

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — There's a bit of good news for drivers in northwestern Ohio who've been dodging bumps and dips on Interstate 75 during a massive widening project south of Toledo. A spokeswoman with Ohio's transportation department tells The Blade (http://bit.ly/218rEKR ) newspaper that it at least should be a smooth ride for motorists through the rest of the project.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Four tourists from Britain and two from Australia were among seven people killed Saturday when a helicopter crashed on a scenic New Zealand glacier, police said. Police said in a statement that the difficult terrain had prevented rescuers from reaching the wreck, but that they believed all six tourists along with the pilot had been killed. A rescue helicopter reached the scene Saturday afternoon and used a winch to lower a paramedic and an alpine rescue team to the vicinity of the crash... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — An aviation industry task force is recommending that operators be required to register drones weighing as little as a half a pound, a threshold that could include some remote-controlled toys, industry officials said. [...] the consensus of the task force is that the weight threshold that triggers registration should be set at 250 grams or above, which is about a half-pound, said people familiar with its deliberations. Four people familiar with the advisory group's deliberations... Читать дальше...

(AP) — Valentine Izundu struggled to find playing time with the Houston Cougars, but he may find himself working overtime with the Washington State Cougars. Izundu, a junior transfer from Houston, energized teammates and fans alike with a career-high six blocked shots Friday night in WSU's 85-67 triumph over Idaho State. Izundu, playing 23 minutes off the bench, also had career highs of 10 points — mostly on thunderous dunks — and seven rebounds. Ike Iroebu led the Cougars (2-0) with a career-high 21 points... Читать дальше...

BEIJING (AP) — Three senior executives of a powerful state-owned Chinese company were killed in the Friday attack on a Radisson hotel in the Mali capital of Bamako, officials said Saturday. China has been sending engineers and construction workers to Africa to help build infrastructure and public facilities such as hospitals and stadiums, as part of Beijing's outreach to forge closer ties with African nations.

1: Last night, the M’s shipped recently-acquired and even more recently-injured OF prospect Ramon Flores, in part, it seems, because the player they got in return (Luis Sardinas) had another option year while Flores did not. As Flores is still recove...

An upcoming evangelical conference in South Carolina with its theme, “The Most Excellent Way to Lead,” has as a marquee speaker  — Mark Driscoll, high-profile senior pastor at the Seattle-based Mars Hill Church, which imploded last year and ceased to exist on New Year’s Day. “Do you want to leave a legacy by the impact of your leadership?” asks a promotion for the conference, to be held in early March and hosted by Pastor Perry Noble at the New Spring Church, a megachurch in Anderson, South Carolina. Читать дальше...

The wreckage of a helicopter was located inside a crevasse on Fox Glacier, but rescuers were unable to reach it due to the difficult terrain, police said in a statement. A rescue helicopter used a winch to lower a paramedic and an alpine rescue team to the vicinity of the crash, said Vince Cholewa, a spokesman for Maritime New Zealand.