Новости за 05.09.2016

CALAIS, France (AP) — Truckers, farmers, dock workers and merchants angry at the disruption caused by thousands of migrants in their midst in the northern French city of Calais blocked the main access route to Britain on Monday to press authorities to set the date to raze an overcrowded makeshift camp. The action appeared to […]

WINCHESTER BAY, Ore. (AP) — The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office is still searching for three people involved in a fatal hit-and-run crash between two all-terrain vehicles on the dunes in Winchester Bay. The Register-Guard reports (http://bit.ly/2bOZLqp ) that the crash happened at 11 p.m. Friday and officials were still searching Monday. Deputies say 30-year-old ATV […]

Sunday’s winner of the World Scrabble Championship 2016 at the Grand Palais in Lille, France, gets 7,000 euros (about $7,818) in prize money.

Initial reports indicate that the rider overshot the track, according to the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office.

DETROIT (AP) — General Motors Co. has settled two federal court cases related to its defective ignition switches, but its legal troubles stemming from the switches are far from over. GM settled the cases for an undisclosed amount, plaintiffs’ attorney Bob Hilliard said Monday. In both cases, the plaintiffs said they sustained serious injuries when […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — An election-year bill to fulfill a 70-year-old government promise and protect health-care and pension benefits for retired miners is dividing coal-state Republicans, pitting endangered incumbents against GOP leaders wary of bailing out union workers. Retirement and health-care funds currently support about 120,000 former miners and their families nationwide. But account balances have […]

Drone footage captures a small crowd pushing over the pedestal at Cape Kiwanda last week.

VIENTIANE, Laos (AP) — President Barack Obama has become the first sitting U.S. president to visit the isolated, landlocked Southeast Asian nation of Laos. He arrived late Monday in the capital, Vientiane, for a three-day visit that’s meant to close a dark chapter in the shared history between the two countries and rebuild trust. Obama […]

VIENTIANE, Laos (AP) — Obama arrives in Laos, first sitting US president to visit the Southeast Asian country.

LONDON (AP) — A large wooden model of 17th-century London has been set ablaze to mark the 350th anniversary of the Great Fire of London that ripped through the city in 1666. The unusual 120-meter-long (390-foot-long) model was set on fire Sunday night on the River Thames, producing spectacular flames against the backdrop of the […]

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — A former Miss America pageant winner has scored another honor. The Miss America Foundation announced Monday that Katie Harman Ebner has been named the inaugural recipient of its new Former Miss America Discretionary Scholarship. The scholarship was established to help former pageant winners who still need financial assistance in completing […]

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Finely shaved ice. Sugary syrup that tastes like pralines or strawberries or pina coladas. Perhaps a trickle of condensed milk and some whipped cream. The making of a classic New Orleans “sno-ball,” it would seem, is a simple matter — that is, until lawyers get involved. Allegations of trademark violations and […]

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — Police say they are doing extra patrols in a Winston-Salem neighborhood after two children reported seeing a clown trying to lure kids into the woods with treats. Police said in a news release that officers were called to the area around 8:30 p.m. Sunday. Authorities say two children said they saw […]

MADRID (AP) — Spanish firefighters supported by two dozen water-dropping aircraft worked in temperatures of around 40 C (104 F) on Monday to try and control a forest blaze that forced the evacuation of around 1,000 people. Authorities said more than 300 firefighters with 65 vehicles were deployed to the wildfire near Valencia, around 350 […]

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Carson Wentz Era is now for the Philadelphia Eagles. Wentz will start Week 1 against the Cleveland Browns despite missing the final three preseason games after injuring his ribs in the opener. Coach Doug Pederson made the announcement Monday, two days after the Eagles traded Sam Bradford to the Vikings for […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Support for the Black Lives Matter movement has increased among young white adults, according to a poll that suggests a majority of white, black, Asian and Hispanic young adults now support the movement calling for accountability for police in the deaths of African-Americans. Fifty-one percent of white adults between the ages of […]

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s foreign and interior ministers will visit Britain for talks about the security of hundreds of thousands of Poles there, following two attacks that left one Pole dead and three others injured. Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski says he believes less protection is offered to Poles in Britain than to other nationals. […]

Former UW running back Dwayne Washington also makes the Detroit Lions' roster.

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — Jack Swarbrick almost didn’t get the chance to interview at Notre Dame. The Rev. John Jenkins, the university president, thought the school needed an experienced athletic director because the position is complicated by its independence in football, its contract with NBC and its status in college athletics. He also was […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Typhoons that slam into land in the northwestern Pacific — especially the biggest tropical cyclones of the bunch — have gotten considerably stronger since the 1970s, a new study concludes. Overall, landfalling Asian typhoon intensity has increased by about 12 percent in nearly four decades. But the change is most noticeable for […]

Here is Tony Floor’s Tackle Box report for September: Tell me it isn’t so! What happened to our summer? For this salmon fishing junkie, it went by like a Japanese Bullet Train reaching speeds of 200 miles per hour. I tried everything possible to slow down July and August, chasing king salmon like a coyote […]

Here is the latest fishing report from Dave Graybill, longtime Eastern Washington outdoor radio host and angler: The WDFW has officially announced that sockeye fishing will close on Lake Wenatchee. Although most anglers have stopped fishing up here, I believe the department wanted to give anglers the opportunity to fish over Labor Day Weekend. Most of […]

OAK BLUFFS, Mass. (AP) — Police say a man broke into a home on Martha’s Vineyard and painted the resident’s dog purple. The Cape Cod Times reports (http://bit.ly/2ctgCMl) that Felix Reagan is charged with breaking and entering in the daytime with the intent to commit a felony, cruelty to animals, larceny of a motor vehicle […]

Who to look out for as the Cougars take on Boise State in Boise, Idaho on Sept. 10

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — College applications and high school graduation are the biggest worries for most 17-year-olds. For Gavin Grimm, it’s waiting for the nation’s highest court to decide whether he can use the boys restroom. Grimm, who was born female but identifies as male, heads back to Gloucester High School for his senior year […]