Новости за 20.08.2018

CONCORD, Mass. (AP) — The estranged husband of former Massachusetts Senate President Stan Rosenberg has pleaded guilty to placing harassing phone calls to a treatment facility where he was a patient. The Middlesex district attorney’s office says Bryon Hefner was sentenced Monday to one year of probation. Hefner pleaded guilty in Concord District Court to […]

My 11-month twin grandsons don’t understand why they are being kept inside, but my 4-year-old granddaughter tells me, “it’s because of the wildfires in Eastern Washington and Oregon.” Summers of smoke-filled air are not her “new normal,” they are her normal. Clean air was not her birthright. As I watch my grandchildren breathing air more […]

U.S. stocks closed broadly higher Monday as retailers and other consumer-focused companies posted solid gains. Industrial stocks also rose, led by airlines. Energy companies rose along with the price of U.S. crude oil. Technology stocks lagged the market. On Monday: The S&P 500 index rose 6.92 points, or 0.2 percent, to 2,857.05. The Dow Jones […]

I would be happy as a woman who has raised two successful, educated and decent children to offer to take the job of teaching Sound Transit Chief Executive Officer Peter Rogoff how to be respectful, tolerant, inclusive and successful without resorting to vulgarity and aggression. I would be more than happy to take on this […]

Thank God for the grand jury subpoenas. For they extracted — like rotting teeth — clergy-abuse personnel files in unreachable corners of six Pennsylvania Roman Catholic dioceses serving 1.7 million people. And thank God for the courage of the victims.

Through a superior educational system, American labor out-skilled the rest of the world. The result was rising output and wages.

Bellevue fashioned its new downtown bike lanes into an interesting and creative experiment in public-policy process.

Why wouldn’t American Airlines allow Bo Bao to sit with his mother, who uses a wheelchair, on a flight from Dallas to Paris and back?

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Indigenous hunters in southwest Alaska initially believed they were legally taking a beluga whale when they unlawfully killed a protected gray whale with harpoons and guns after it strayed into the Kuskokwim River last year. That’s according to a federal investigative report provided to The Associated Press through a public records […]

The change is meant to help mitigate the upcoming traffic disaster when the Alaskan Way Viaduct shuts down. About 100,000 people board or get off a bus on Third every weekday.

It’s a good practice to include a little of your outdoor surroundings with your indoor projects.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The FBI says a Chinese man was kidnapped after a business meeting in the Los Angeles-area last month, but authorities haven’t heard from the kidnappers since they demanded a $2 million ransom. Officials said Monday 28-year-old Ruochen “Tony” Liao was abducted by three men on July 16. He owned a Southern […]

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Gov. Paul LePage called a fellow Republican “the most repugnant human being” on Monday and stormed away from lawmakers who are investigating whether his administration retaliated against mill owners at odds with the governor on softwood lumber tariffs. A report by the Office of Program Evaluation & Government Accountability released Monday […]

DETROIT (AP) — Judge orders Michigan health chief to face trial on manslaughter charges tied to Flint-area Legionnaires’ outbreak.

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Milwaukee County Sheriff Richard Schmidt says it wasn’t a law officer who made a racially charged comment during a weekend traffic stop that was caught on video. Schmidt told a news conference Sunday night that if his officers had made any racial statements, “they would have been suspended on the spot.” WISN-TV […]

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Prosecutors say a hotline set up to get information on child sexual abuse by clergy within Pennsylvania’s Roman Catholic dioceses has received more than 400 calls over the past six days. A spokesman for the attorney general’s office said Monday agents are returning all calls and assessing the facts. Spokesman Joe […]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Opera, former South African archbishop Desmond Tutu and Alaska’s most famous gay bar all have a connection to Tuesday’s Alaska primary. Here’s a look at the election: ___ WAIT, WHAT? If you vote a straight party ticket in the Republican primary, you won’t need a road map to vote the ballot. […]

Pruitt left President Donald Trump's cabinet last month after coming under fire for how he spent tax dollars and treated his staff. The soundproof booth, which Pruitt had installed last year, is still there. The new administrator says it would be expensive to take it out.

NORWAY, Mich. (AP) — Authorities say a longtime drag racer died after crashing his jet engine-powered car at a track in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. The Iron Mountain Daily News and WLUC-TV report 80-year-old Doug Rose, driver of the Green Mamba, died Friday evening at the Norway Speedway. Rose, of Ringtown, Pennsylvania, crashed into a guardrail […]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Report: Firefighter on California’s largest-ever wildfire died from falling tree debris after crews dropped retardant.

Republican Gov. Rick Scott, now running for the U.S. Senate against the Democratic incumbent, Bill Nelson, nickeled, dimed, slashed and ignored Florida’s environmental protections for almost eight years.

OSKALOOSA, Iowa (AP) — Race drivers and others have been answering the call from an 11-year-old Iowa boy who wants racing stickers to cover his casket after he dies from leukemia. Caleb Hammond’s uncle, Chris Playle, told The Des Moines Register that his family brought him home to Oskaloosa, about 55 miles southeast of Des […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is set to roll back the centerpiece of President Barack Obama’s efforts to slow global warming. It’s expected to propose regulations that give states broad authority to determine how to restrict greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power plants. The plan would let states relax pollution rules for power plants […]

The Togo wolves have targeted cattle six separate times since November, including three times in the past 30 days, according to the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife.

BEND, Ore. (AP) — Rehabilitation of the base of Pilot Butte in Bend is still underway about six weeks after an illegal firework ignited a fire that ravaged the area. The Bend Bulletin reports Bend resident Alan Joseph Stout illegally lit the firework on the Fourth of July, sparking the fire and forcing nearby residents […]