Новости за 26.12.2018

Walden, 80, will watch the game from his Spokane home but isn't playing favorites between two of his former employers: "I’m a fan of both places. I have friends in both places."

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Oklahoma’s Kyler Murray and Alabama’s Tua Tagovailoa have struck up a friendship over the past several weeks, which shouldn’t be surprising considering how much time the quarterbacks have spent alongside one another in that span. They were in Atlanta together at a college football awards show, where Tagovailoa took home […]

Matthew Fitch, 45, had gone missing from his home in central Whidbey Island on Oct. 29.

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — An adjunct professor at Willamette University will be joining the Oregon Supreme Court in 2019. The Statesman Journal reports Oregon Gov. Kate Brown announced Monday she will appoint Judge Chris Garrett to the state’s highest court filling a retirement vacancy. Garrett, in addition to teaching at the liberal arts college in […]

Oregon's Justin Herbert, widely believed to be a top QB in the NFL draft, says he'll be back in Eugene for his senior season.

MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) — Authorities say gray wolf OR-7’s Rogue Pack has killed another cow at a northeastern Jackson County ranch, marking the seventh confirmed livestock kill attributed to the pack since late October. The Mail Tribune reports that the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife reports that the dead and partially consumed cow was […]

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli Knesset has voted to dissolve the current parliament and scheduled new elections for April 9. In what was largely a formality, the Knesset voted late Wednesday in favor of dissolving by a 102-2 margin. Earlier this week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that he was disbanding his coalition and taking […]

Few other nations experience anything like a government shutdown during domestic funding disputes. But even if the shutdown is a distinctly American phenomenon, it will be felt internationally in three big ways.

MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Paul Pogba scored twice as interim coach Ole Gunnar Solskjaer marked his first home match in charge of Manchester United with a 3-1 win over bottom club Huddersfield in the English Premier League on Wednesday. Solskjaer, whose first match in charge on Saturday was a 5-1 victory at Cardiff, received a […]

Sylvan Way between Southwest Morgan Street and Delridge Way Southwest will be closed for several hours, according to Seattle police. Three people, two of them seriously hurt, were taken to Harborview.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The Panthers have placed quarterback Taylor Heinicke on injured reserve with an elbow injury. Kyle Allen is expected to start this Sunday against the Saints with Carolina eliminated from the playoffs. The team has signed Garrett Gilbert, who was with Carolina in training camp, as a backup. The team does not […]

WASILLA, Alaska (AP) — Alaska State Troopers are investigating the death of a 51-year-old Wasilla man. Julian Myers was found dead Monday night at a home southwest of the city. Troopers just before 9 p.m. took a call of shots fired during a disturbance. Troopers say the person responsible for firing the shots is cooperating […]

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A South Carolina school shooting will soon become a test case for court rulings that restrict life-without-parole sentences for juveniles, after a 16-year-old pleaded guilty to two counts of murder. Jesse Osborne pleaded guilty earlier this month to two charges of murder for fatally shooting his father in their home and a […]

SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemeni officials say a U.N. team has met with representatives of the country’s warring parties for the first time in a key port city. The team, led by Dutch Maj. Gen. Patrick Cammaert, arrived in Hodeida over the weekend to monitor a cease-fire that went into force in the Red Sea […]

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon is unlikely to reach its goal of recycling and recovering 52 percent of the waste generated in the state by 2020. The Statesman Journal reports that Oregonians recycled and recovered about 42.8 percent of all waste in the state in 2017. That’s just a slight increase from the state’s 42.2 […]

Nutritionist Carrie Dennett shares the facts about antibiotic use in livestock, what "antibiotic-free" really means (and doesn't), and who's really responsible for the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria (hint: sometimes it's us).

Vitamin D-deficient? Checking out your magnesium intake might help. Plus: kiwis for canker sores and the surprising uses of frankincense.

Dan Doornink went from eighth-string quarterback to running back at WSU before ending up going to med school at UW while becoming a Seahawks fan favorite. Now 62, "Dr. Dan" is an internist in Yakima.

Best known for his interception to help the Huskies seal the deal in Pasadena in 1978, Michael Jackson went on to set Washington tackling records that may never be broken. Now, he works at a nonprofit that helps fight homelessness, drug and alcohol addiction, and other issues affecting people from birth through age 24.

America’s foremost treehouse builder lives right here in Washington, and his jewel-like refuges among the maples and firs are like something out of Tolkien.

Ice sculptures are both labor-intensive and luxuriously temporary, made-to-order monoliths whose shimmering surfaces reflect hopes, dreams and achievements.

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. home price growth slowed in October, a likely consequence of higher mortgage rates having worsened affordability and causing sales to fall. Seattle, which for nearly two years led the 20-city S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller index in annual price growth for homes, fell out of the top three metro areas. Las Vegas, San […]

The Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers proposed rules that would scale back the scope of, and weaken, the Clean Water Act, a move that represents the biggest rollback of clean-water protections in five decades.

Washington state must close a gap in its ethics laws that allows top officials to exit state service on a Friday and begin working as a lobbyist on Monday.

SeaTac says it badly needs the affordable, transit-friendly housing a $15.5 million deal will bring. But as many as 50 businesses that serve as a regional gathering place for Somali refugees and other immigrants worry about their future and distrust city plans with a questionable past.