Новости за 31.08.2018

LA GRANDE, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon hunter who was rescued after hanging upside-down for two days about 30 feet (9 meters) from the ground in is intensive care in a drug-induced coma. The East Oregonian reports Friday that 70-year-old Eddie Voelker, of Prineville, was on a ventilator and has had a procedure to relieve […]

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Authorities say two former rebel leaders of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia have abandoned their camps. Their disappearance raises fears they may leave a fragile peace process that ended five decades of civil war. Colombia’s lead prosecutor Nestor Humberto Martinez said on Friday that the whereabouts of Luciano Marin, who […]

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco transit officials are investigating two men caught on two videos trying to push a young man out of a stopped light rail. San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency tweeted Friday the train operator reported the incident Thursday night and it’s investigating along with police. A 19-second video posted on Twitter […]

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa authorities have confirmed that recorded phone calls citing the slaying of an Iowa college student are being used to promote white supremacist views, but there’s apparently little the officials can do. Lynn Hicks is a spokesman for the Iowa attorney general’s office, and he said Friday that prosecutors have […]

Issaquah pediatrician Kim Schrier makes the case for why she could be the first Democrat to represent the 8th Congressional District.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The second of Arkansas’ three lethal injection drugs has expired and prison officials say their search for a replacement remains on hold until an execution secrecy law is expanded. Arkansas’ supply of potassium chloride, which stops the inmate’s heart, expired Friday. Its supply of vecuronium bromide, another drug that stops […]

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Federal officials have given a Boise ski area permission to build a snow-making system. The U.S. Forest Service gave the Bogus Basin Mountain Recreation Area permission to begin burying water and electrical lines on the Deer Point and Coach portion of the mountain. General Manager Brad Wilson says the organization had […]

Police in Ohio are investigating how and why several people were able to hide a teenager during the past year after he had witnessed his father’s killing. Investigators found 15-year-old Jacob Caldwell earlier this week in the basement of a home near Dayton. Police say Caldwell appeared to be healthy and that there were no […]

MONZA, Italy (AP) — Texas Motor Speedway President Eddie Gossage lambasted Formula One bosses for their “infamous indifference” toward fans after the draft calendar for 2019 was revealed on Friday. The schedule would flip the traditional autumn pairing of the races in Austin and Mexico City, putting the Mexican Grand Prix first for the first […]

The incident occurred Thursday morning during the victim's regular jog through Des Moines Creek Park.

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard is saying its forces have killed four members of a terrorist group in the country’s south. The Friday report by the semi-official Fars news agency quoting the Guard said the clash took place near the Saravan border point with Pakistan. It added that three other militants were […]

MOSCOW (AP) — The news agency of the Russia-backed separatists fighting in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region is reporting that separatist leader Alexander Zakharchenko has died in a cafe explosion. Rebel news agency DAN said the Friday afternoon explosion tore through a cafe in Donetsk, the region’s principal city. Zakharchenko was prime minister of the self-declared […]

The Huskies enter the season with their highest expectations yet under Chris Petersen. Can they live up to them and make — even win — the College Football Playoff? There's plenty of hype to go around.

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police say it has briefly detained several activists from a group of former soldiers critical of the country’s policies toward Palestinians. It said they were detained and questioned Friday after entering a closed military zone. It said an investigation was opened and they will be questioned further. Israeli media said they […]

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s RIA-Novosti reports that Ukrainian separatist leader Alexander Zakharchenko has been killed in a cafe explosion.

NEW YORK (AP) — Ronan Farrow’s former producer at NBC News is criticizing his old network for failing to stick with the story about Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein’s sexual misconduct. Farrow eventually shared a Pulitzer Prize when he wrote the Weinstein story for the New Yorker magazine. Rich McHugh, who just left NBC News as […]

Problems reaching and vetting parents, along with multiple legal challenges, are slowing efforts to reunify families. Advocates and government officials say it could take weeks, months or longer.

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The United Nations refugee agency is pressing Greece to improve conditions at the crowded island camps where thousands of migrants are held as part of a European Union deal with Turkey. The U.N. agency said Friday that conditions in the camps, where nearly 20,000 people live, are “squalid, inadequate and rapidly […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Pence eulogizes John McCain, says President Trump ‘respected his service’

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A church that was spared destruction during the 1921 Tulsa race riots has been added to the National Register for Historic Places. The Vernon African Methodist Episcopal Church is in the Greenwood District of Tulsa where the riots took place in May and June 1921. Whites attacked blacks and destroyed buildings […]

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — The U.S. government says a former Serbian militia member has been extradited to Bosnia-Herzegovina to face charges in the fatal shooting of a Muslim couple in 1994. Federal prosecutors in Michigan say Alexander Kneginich was turned over to Bosnian authorities last week in Chicago. Kneginich told investigators that he was […]

In a private interview, senior Justice Department lawyer Bruce Ohr told members of Congress he learned that information in July 2016 from former British spy Christopher Steele, who conducted Democratic-funded research into Donald Trump’s ties to Russia during the campaign.

College football is back, and Washington is favored to reclaim the Pac-12 crown. Percy Allen breaks down the whole conference and gets you primed for a conference-title run.

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Starting next week, Eugene and Springfield residents will be able to order to an Uber ride from the convenience of their smartphones. The Register-Guard reports Uber announced Thursday that it is returning to the area on Sept. 6 after a three-year absence in the area. Eugene is currently the largest city […]

LONDON (AP) — A supporter of the Islamic State group who plotted to kill British Prime Minister Theresa May received a prison sentence of at least 30 years Friday from a judge who called him “a very dangerous individual.” Naa’imur Zakariyah Rahman was convicted in London last month of planning to bomb the entry gates […]