Новости за 04.05.2018

ATLANTA (AP) — Jose Bautista is back in the major leagues with the Atlanta Braves, who inserted the 37-year-old at third base and fifth in the batting order against San Francisco. Unable to find a job during the offseason, Bautista agreed to a minor league contract with the Braves on April 18 and hit .250 […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Friday: Fluor Corp., down $13.23 to $45.76 The company slashed its annual forecast because of problems with a gas-fired power project. Shake Shack Inc., up $8.54 to $55.95 Most Read StoriesFed up with Seattle? Data show where people are moving | FYI GuyWhy a […]

CAMDEN, S.C. (AP) — Authorities say a 34-year-old sheriff’s office employee in South Carolina stole money paid by sex offenders when they had to register. An arrest warrant from the State Law Enforcement Division said Samantha Connell took all the money paid into the fund in Kershaw County for 16 months starting in January 2015. […]

Additional State Patrol troopers, police officers and sheriff's deputies will be patrolling in King and Snohomish counties to look out for impaired drivers.

READING, Mass. (AP) — The Massachusetts State Police have retained a former state attorney general to investigate the agency’s handling of an August fatal car crash. The Boston Globe reports the State Police, which has faced a series of scandals in recent months, has enlisted Thomas F. Reilly to investigate an Aug. 24, 2017 crash […]

U.S. stocks made up for a shaky week with a strong finish Friday as Apple led a rally in technology companies. The tech giant hit an all-time high after Warren Buffett said he’d made another big investment. On Friday: The S&P 500 index advanced 33.69 points, or 1.3 percent, to 2,663.42. The Dow Jones industrial […]

In comments this week, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein was not backing down, after Trump allies in the U.S. House reportedly drafted articles of impeachment against him. Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Horsey is a syndicated political cartoonist.  See more of David’s work at: st.news/DavidHorsey See more syndicated cartoonists at: st.news/cartoons

Author Junot Diaz is facing allegations of sexual misconduct weeks after publicly disclosing his own childhood abuse. Fellow author Zinzi Clemmons tweeted Friday the Pulitzer Prize winner forcibly kissed her while she was a graduate student at a workshop several years ago. Clemmons tweeted she knows of other women who were likewise assaulted by Diaz. […]

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan regulator will consider an advisory board’s recommendation to add autism and other conditions to a list of allowable medical conditions for the use of marijuana. The review panel Friday recommended including nine conditions. They are obsessive compulsive disorder, arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, spinal cord injury, inflammatory bowel disease, ulcerative colitis, […]

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Todd Pletcher is throwing numbers at the Kentucky Derby again. Bob Baffert is seeking a fifth victory and he’s got the favorite, too. An old jinx could be disproved, and history would be written if Mendelssohn wears the garland of red roses. The 20-horse field for Saturday’s 144th Run for the […]

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Much of Vermont is under a tornado watch as showers and thunderstorms are expected to move through the state. The National Weather Service says some of the storms Friday afternoon and night could produce damaging winds, large hail and heavy rainfall. It says isolated tornadoes are possible. The tornado watch is […]

ELLABELL, Ga. (AP) — Authorities have recovered the body of a boater who went missing in Georgia days before. Bryan County Sheriff’s Office Chief of Investigations Mike Fordham tells news outlets that search teams found the body floating in the Ogeechee River on Thursday. Georgia Department of Natural Resources Game Warden Bill Bryson identified the […]

The players are taking the field for Seattle's annual rookie mini-camp Friday.

JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Authorities have charged a North Carolina man with murder in the death of a 22-year-old woman whose decomposed body was found last New Year’s Eve. Local news outlets report the Onslow County Sheriff’s Office said 41-year-old James Moore of Greensboro was arrested in Guilford County on Friday in connection with the […]

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A St. Louis judge will allow lawyers for a man accused of a two-state murder spree to send an investigator to Mexico to research the man’s childhood and background, and he has ordered the Missouri attorney general’s office to pay most of the cost. Pablo Serrano-Vitorino goes to trial in October […]

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The House of Representatives is again debating whether to create a process that could eventually lead to a new, $500 million casino in Connecticut. A bill requiring two state agencies to develop and issue a request for proposals from casino developers was pulled late Thursday night after it became clear discussion […]

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The Rhode Island chapter of the Women’s March says it separated from the national organization because one of its leaders refused to denounce anti-Semitic statements made by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. Rhode Island organizer Shanna Wells tells the Providence Journal the group split from the Women’s March because the […]

NEW YORK (AP) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says a proposal to open supervised injection sites for illegal drug users in an effort to combat fatal overdoses will be closely reviewed. Cuomo said Friday that the goal of fighting opioid overdoses is “laudable.” But he said the plan to open injection sites raises legal […]

RICHMOND, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s attorney general says the Eastern Kentucky Board of Regents violated the state open meetings acts when it held a closed-door session before announcing they’d deal with a $25 million budget shortfall by cutting around 120 jobs. The Lexington Herald-Leader reported Thursday that Attorney General Andy Beshear found that the discussion […]

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina’s peso has rebounded following the government’s decision to boost the reference interest rate to 40 percent. The peso was selling at 22.20 per dollar in the afternoon, recovering from a record of 23.30 on Thursday afternoon. It was one of several international currencies hurt by rising U.S. Treasury bond […]

LONGMONT, Colo. (AP) — Longmont officials say they have a reached an agreement with two oil and gas companies to end the possibility of surface drilling within city limits. The Daily Times-Call reports the city announced the proposed agreement Thursday with TOP Operating Co. and Cub Creek Energy LLC. Under the agreement, TOP would plug […]

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) — State wildlife commissioners are extending the limits for licenses for a several big-game species while cutting back on licenses for elk. The Daily Sentinel reports the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission approved the increases during its Thursday meeting. Andy Holland, the agency’s big game species manager, says deer, elk and […]

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The Connecticut Supreme Court has vacated Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel’s murder conviction and ordered a new trial in connection with a 1975 killing in wealthy Greenwich. The court issued a 4-3 ruling Friday that Skakel’s trial attorney, Michael Sherman, failed to present evidence of an alibi. The decision reversed the court’s […]

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea has readjusted its time zone to match South Korea’s, a sign of warming ties following a landmark summit between leaders of the rival nations. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un promised to sync his country’s time zone with the South’s during his April 27 talks with South Korean […]

The $814 million mission hinges on detecting something that has never been definitively detected before: Marsquakes.