Новости за 28.04.2018

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A California Highway Patrol officer has been injured after he was dragged up to 1,000 feet on a San Francisco freeway. The CHP says the motorcycle officer stopped a Jeep Friday evening on Interstate 80 near the Bay Bridge. KNTV-TV reports that the driver provided false identification and then drove off, […]

High school pitcher Don King turned in quite the two-way performance — throwing a no-hitter, striking out 16 and going 15 for 17 at the plate — in an 82-0 nonconference baseball win over Notre Dame Cristo Rey.

The revelation that the biggest tax levy in Seattle history is already short of funds after less than three years ought to prompt a reckoning at City Hall about how they do business. It probably won’t.

The Bellevue telecom company is once again in talks to merge with rival Sprint, and the third time could be the charm. The combination would have more than 127 million customers, putting it within spitting distance of the industry’s top two, Verizon and AT&T.

Patrick Marshall answers your personal technology questions each week.

Police say blood found in the suspect’s car matched the DNA of the victim, Lalita “Lita” Byrnes.

NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on sexual harassment allegations against former NBC news anchor Tom Brokaw (all times local): 8:10 p.m. A group of 65 women in the television industry have circulated a letter in support of NBC’s Tom Brokaw after he was accused by a former colleague of unwanted sexual advances. The women […]

A roundup of notable obituaries from the week ending April 27.

Backtalk: Letters to the Sports Editor

The cancellation troubles many lunar scientists, who said the mission is vital to human exploration and to scientific understanding of the moon.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A 22-year-old Portland baby sitter has pleaded guilty to assaulting and mistreating of a 10-month boy he was watching. The Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office says Sean Middleton pleaded guilty Friday in Multnomah County Circuit Court. He was sentenced to 18 months in prison for criminal mistreatment. He also received a […]

DENVER (AP) — Authorities have identified a bank robbery suspect who was fatally shot by police after pulling a firearm during a confrontation in east Denver. The Denver Post reports 36-year-old Charles Boeh was shot multiple times after trying to flee police by ramming his vehicle past two cars at a stop light Wednesday afternoon. […]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Documents indicate Ohio Lt. Gov. Mary Taylor’s gubernatorial campaign repaid a $3 million loan from the candidate to someone else: her husband. A copy of the $3 million check from the Republican’s campaign to Donzell Taylor was part of her Thursday campaign finance report. The Associated Press obtained it through a […]

SYDNEY (AP) — The Australian Olympic Committee has awarded a posthumous Order of Merit to Peter Norman, the Australian sprinter who shared the podium with Tommie Smith and John Carlos when the two Americans raised their fists in a human rights protest at the 1968 Olympics. Norman, who died in Melbourne in 2006, stood alongside […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities are trying to determine whether three men found dead in a downtown Los Angeles apartment died from drug overdoses. City News Service says the bodies of Gabriel Dirzo, Gilbert Valenzuela Jr. and Robert Ramirez were found Thursday night in the apartment on South Spring Street. Ed Winter of the Los […]

RENO, Nev. (AP) — A 47-year-old Reno man has pleaded guilty to using stolen identities to create more than 8,000 fraudulent online accounts and bilk victims out of $3.5 million. Kenneth Gibson pleaded guilty Friday in U.S. District Court in Reno to one count each of wire fraud, mail fraud, aggravated identity theft and filing […]

A widely read author and widely heard lecturer, Dr. Samuel Epstein was venerated by some as an environmental prophet and reviled by others as an overzealous toxin avenger. He outlived many of his critics, perhaps because he had practiced what he preached about prevention.

San Francisco 49ers fans, you just got the most accomplish punt returner in NCAA history. But Dante Pettis is a lot more than that. Here are some things you need to know, from the beat writer who covered his record-breaking college career.

Back then, the government placed hundreds of human guinea pigs — wearing only shorts and long socks — in the front areas of the test zones to devasting effects. Nowadays, after a multimillion-dollar cleanup, radiation poses little danger to visitors.

A Danish slave escapes to Iceland, to freedom and history.

They thought they would be fighting poverty with a smart app. Then came the roadblocks.

Scientists hypothesize that the holes could be formed by convection or by seals looking for a place to take a breather.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that people 50 and older, including those previously immunized with Zostavax, should now get the Shingrix vaccine.

We have forgotten the pollution and environmental disasters that prompted the creation, in a bipartisan effort, of the Environmental Protection Agency and protective legislation. It’s time to look back.

The GoFundMe money that poured in after news of his selfless act hasn’t changed the reality of his drug addiction. Life has changed only so far.