Новости за 28.03.2018

Movie review Ramen is just noodles and broth, right? Well, no, it’s actually much more, as we learn in the entertaining Japanese documentary “Ramen Heads.” The dish has a fanatical following in Japan, where the movie’s central figure, chef Osamu Tomita, is celebrated as the king of ramen. He’s a tireless perfectionist who cooks up […]

A look at what's coming to home viewing and streaming this week.

The Mariners now own the longest playoff drought in professional sports. Along the way, there have been pitfalls, blunders and gaffes abound. Sometimes you just have to laugh.

Here's a big list of Easter events in the Seattle area and beyond.

We interviewed four guidebook authors and came up with this essential list.

It isn’t one thing or one person, despite the finger-pointing of fans. It’s years of dong a lot of little things — and also a few big things — wrong.

Is having plans to do nothing a good enough reason to say no to sibling? Carolyn Hax weighs in.

Some call it a “tax on jobs.” Some call it a “tax on Amazon.” Draft legislation has yet to emerge, but business owners and progressive activists aren’t waiting to ratchet up their rhetoric.

Russian intelligence gathering in Washington state stretches back for decades — long before the 1992 opening of the Seattle consulate.

COLEMAN, Okla. (AP) — Authorities say a 72-year-old woman died after she was swept away in floodwaters in southern Oklahoma. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says Lutreca Bates’ vehicle stalled Tuesday morning after she drove into a creek near Coleman, about 100 miles (160 kilometers) southeast of Oklahoma City. According to a preliminary report, Bates got […]

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas agriculture officials have approved a statewide quarantine in hopes of slowing the spread of an invasive beetle that destroys ash trees. The State Plant Board announced Tuesday the quarantine in response to the emerald ash borer, which is a beetle native to Asia that feeds on and kills ash […]

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia’s governor has signed legislation to limit opioid prescriptions that doctors can prescribe to treat acute pain. Gov. Jim Justice on Tuesday signed the bill that would limit such prescriptions to supplies lasting three, four or seven days, depending on who writes them. It would also establish protocols for treating […]

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey man who signed up for internet gambling has won nearly $194,000 on his very first spin of an online slots game. Anibal Lopes (LOW’-pez) of Woodbridge said he was bored after work Monday night, so he created an account on the playsugarhouse.com website on his smartphone. Choosing […]

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A Romanian European Parliament lawmaker has been summoned to explain comments he made in the EU parliament that allegedly defamed his country — an increasingly sensitive issue in Romania. Cristian Preda will answer accusations Wednesday in Bucharest before a seven-member committee that he spoke ill of Romania when he criticized the […]

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — A Le Mars man has been given two years of probation for using counterfeit cash at a Sioux City casino. Woodbury County District Court records say 27-year-old Kurt Jones pleaded guilty Tuesday to forgery. He was fined $750 and given a deferred judgment, which will allow his conviction to be […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy grew at a solid 2.9 percent annual rate in the final three months of last year, a sharp upward revision that caps three straight quarters of healthy growth. The Trump administration is hoping the economy will accelerate further this year, aided by sizable tax cuts and increased government spending. […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — US economy grew at revised 2.9 percent rate in fourth quarter, helped by stronger consumer spending.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The president and chief executive of the Southern Baptist Convention’s executive committee has resigned following a “morally inappropriate relationship.” Frank Page initially announced Monday he was retiring. But on Tuesday the 65-year-old released a statement saying he was resigning because of “a personal failing.” He said he first announced his retirement […]

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The son of a former University of Nebraska-Lincoln athletic director has pleaded not guilty to producing child pornography. Court records say 18-year-old Jack Eichorst entered the written plea Monday in Lincoln. No trial date has been scheduled. Eichorst had been arrested last year on suspicion of the sexual assault of two […]

MANITOWOC, Wis. (AP) — Dozens of nursing home residents were evacuated in Ashwaubenon after the facility flooded because of a water main break. Water began to flow through the Maple Ridge nursing home late Tuesday night. WLUK-TV reports Ashwaubenon Public Safety began evacuating the 51 residents who were taken by area rescue units and by […]

LONDON (AP) — The Bank of England is advising European financial firms operating in the U.K. to plan to operate as they do now for a period after Brexit in a little more than a year’s time. The bank welcomed last week’s agreement between the British government and the remaining 27 members of the European […]

HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. (AP) — Some students at New York’s Hofstra University want a Thomas Jefferson statue removed because Jefferson was a slave owner who believed black people were inherently inferior to whites. Student Ja’loni Owens started a Change.org petition demanding that administrators of the university on Long Island remove the statue and “no longer display […]

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) — The Democratic mayor of Springfield, Massachusetts, is criticizing a city church providing sanctuary to a Peruvian woman facing deportation. Mayor Domenic Sarno on Tuesday ordered an inspection of the South Congregational Church for possible housing code violations and is seeking to have the church’s tax-exempt status stripped. Sarno previously said he […]

NEWPORT, Vt. (AP) — Police in Vermont say they found 400 bags of heroin and fentanyl marked “poison” during a car search and arrested two men. MyNBC5.com reports an officer in Newport pulled a car over on Saturday on Interstate 91 after it entered a gas station the wrong way and drove erratically. Police said […]

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — A Wounded Knee man has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the starvation death of his infant son. Authorities say 25-year-old Darwin Red Cloud withheld food from the 2-month-old in the fall of 2014, and the baby died. Red Cloud initially was charged with first-degree murder and felony child abuse […]