Новости за 10.12.2017

CRANSTON, R.I. (AP) — A Vietnam War veteran has received medals in Rhode Island more than 40 years after his service. Paul Harvey was awarded a Silver Star, a Purple Heart and other awards during a ceremony Friday in Democratic U.S. Sen. Jack Reed's office. Harvey is a 71-year-old Jamestown resident. He was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1967 and served in Vietnam as a member of the Wolfhounds. He says he earned the Silver Star for retrieving the body of a fallen soldier from an armed North Vietnamese camp. Читать дальше...

TX Houston/Galveston TX Zone Forecast for Sunday, December 10, 2017 _____ HGXZFPHGX FPUS54 KHGX 102042 ZFPHGX FPUS54 KHGX 102041 ZFPHGX Zone Forecast Product for Southeast Texas National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 241 PM CST Sun Dec 10 2017 TXZ211-111000- Austin- Including the cities of Bellville and Sealy 242 PM CST Sun Dec 10 2017 .TONIGHT...Sunny early in the evening then becoming clear. Lows in the upper 30s. Southwest winds around 5 mph. .MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Читать дальше...

Teams out of the Giancarlo Stanton and Shohei Ohtani sweepstakes had a similar reaction to the players finding new baseball homes before the winter meetings. Hallelujah. With Stanton a Yankee and Ohtani an Angel, the business of matching other big-name available players with suitors can commence, and it just so happens the offseason’s wildest week of rumors, innuendos and sometimes even rampant player movement is upon us. The winter meetings in Lake Buena Vista... Читать дальше...

CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) — Erykah Davenport and Shaneese Bailey made key plays back-to-back late in the game and four players scored in double figures as a balanced Miami upset the No. 20 Kentucky women 65-54 on Sunday, handing the Wildcats a second loss in as many games. With the Hurricanes (6-3) holding a 56-52 lead with 97 seconds left, Davenport was frenetic on defense, poking the ball away on one side of the hoop and rushing crosscourt to block an Amanda Pascal jumper from just inside the 3-point line. Читать дальше...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Latest on California wildfires (all times local): 12:30 p.m. Forecasters say gusty, dry Santa Ana winds will continue in Southern California for at least another day in areas where crews are battling wildfires, including one that is threatening a seaside city. The National Weather Service has extended red flag warnings until Monday night for parts of Ventura and Los Angeles counties. Powerful gusts are expected through late Sunday in mountains of Santa Barbara County, where... Читать дальше...

The private charter bus that overturned on Highway 101 in San Francisco, injuring 30, was carrying employees of a for-profit educational organization and their guests to a holiday party in Palo Alto, company officials confirmed Sunday. The bus passengers worked at Udacity, an online education provider that offers courses in computer science, according to a Udacity spokesperson. “Thankfully everyone involved in the accident is stable, and most have been released... Читать дальше...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Alabama's race for U.S. Senate settled into church for worship on Sunday, with the minister at a historic black congregation calling the race a life-or-death matter for equal rights, conservatives standing by Republican Roy Moore and others feeling unsettled in the middle. Speaking at Birmingham's 16th Street Baptist Church, where four black girls died in a Ku Klux Klan bombing in 1963, the Rev. Arthur Price evoked the civil rights era between hymns. Democratic nominee Doug... Читать дальше...

JERUSALEM (AP) — The French and Israeli leaders sparred verbally Sunday over the U.S. decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital, while new violence rippled across the region following the move by U.S. President Donald Trump. In Jerusalem, a Palestinian stabbed an Israeli security guard, seriously wounding him in the first attack in the volatile city since Trump's pronouncement Wednesday. In Beirut, scores of Lebanese and Palestinian demonstrators clashed with security forces outside the heavily guarded U.S. Embassy... Читать дальше...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A new group has been formed to support progressive female candidates in Connecticut. PoliticaCT plans to recruit, educate and mobilize its members to back women running for the General Assembly next year. While women make up 51.2 percent of the Connecticut's population, they comprise 27.8 percent of the legislature. PoliticaCT Board Member and Democratic state Representative Robyn Porter of New Haven says the group was founded on the belief "that our communities and our democracy... Читать дальше...

TX Amarillo TX Zone Forecast for Sunday, December 10, 2017 _____ 813 FPUS54 KAMA 102027 ZFPAMA Zone Forecast Product for The Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles National Weather Service Amarillo TX 227 PM CST Sun Dec 10 2017 TXZ012-017-111315- Potter-Randall- Including the cities of Amarillo and Canyon 227 PM CST Sun Dec 10 2017 .TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 20s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph. .MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. West winds 10 to 15 mph shifting to the north 10 to 20 mph in the afternoon. Читать дальше...

NY New York NY Zone Forecast for Sunday, December 10, 2017 _____ 816 FPUS51 KOKX 102029 ZFPOKX Zone Forecast Product National Weather Service New York NY 329 PM EST Sun Dec 10 2017 NYZ072-111100- New York (Manhattan)- 329 PM EST Sun Dec 10 2017 .TONIGHT...Cloudy. Scattered snow showers after midnight. Lows in the lower 30s. West winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of snow 30 percent. .MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Isolated snow showers in the morning. Highs in the lower 40s. West winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph. Читать дальше...

TX Lake Charles LA Zone Forecast for Sunday, December 10, 2017 _____ 635 FPUS54 KLCH 102023 ZFPLCH Zone Forecast Product National Weather Service Lake Charles LA 223 PM CST Sun Dec 10 2017 TXZ180-111015- Tyler- Including the cities of Town Bluff, Fred, Hillister, Ivanhoe, Spurger, Warren, and Woodville 223 PM CST Sun Dec 10 2017 .TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 30s. Southwest winds up to 5 mph. .MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Southwest winds up to 5 mph. .MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s. Читать дальше...

WINCHENDON, Mass. (AP) — Authorities say a driver whose vehicle plunged into a Massachusetts pond has been rescued from the water. The Winchendon Fire Department says a man was plowing a parking lot in the town around 4 a.m. Sunday when he saw the vehicle leave the roadway and enter Hunts Pond. The man called 911, telling dispatchers the vehicle was still in the water with the driver inside. The department says the driver extricated himself from the car and sat on the roof of the vehicle, which was in about 8 to 10 feet of water. Читать дальше...

EVERETT, Wash. (AP) — Authorities say a 16-year-old boy arrested in a murder case has been recaptured after escaping custody in the Seattle area. The Daily Herald reports that the manhunt early Sunday involved dozens of police officers and three police K9 teams in downtown Everett. The teen was initially arrested following a recent drug-related fatal shooting that left one woman dead and her son wounded. Police say that just before 2 a.m. Sunday, the boy slipped his right hand free from the handcuffs... Читать дальше...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Latest on California wildfires (all times local): Noon Officials say smoke from wind-whipped wildfires is causing unhealthy air for large swaths of Southern California. A flare-up Sunday on the western edge of a huge fire burning in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties sent up a new plume that added to heavy smoke already choking areas around the cities of Ventura, Oxnard and Santa Paula. The Ventura County Air Pollution Control District says air quality is especially bad in the Ojai Valley... Читать дальше...

The Golden Globes have already had their category controversy this year, with a fair amount of outrage whipped up over the fact that Jordan Peele’s socially-conscious horror movie “Get Out” was submitted and accepted into the comedy categories. But with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association gearing up to announce its nominations on Monday, it’s time to stop worrying about who’s in what category and start thinking about who’s getting in and who’s getting left out. It no longer pays to predict outrageous or embarrassing choices... Читать дальше...

MAPLEWOOD, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey town's ban on landscapers and other businesses using gas-powered leaf blowers is heading to court. NJ.com reports that the suit by the New Jersey Landscape Contractors Association and nine companies against Maplewood calls the ban costly and discriminatory. The leaf blower ban was approved in April after residents complained that a less restrictive leaf blower rule wasn't being enforced. It bars commercial landscapers from using gas-powered blowers during summer months. Читать дальше...

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — More than 10,000 people are participating in another round of protests against Romanian legislation that critics say would make it harder to punish high-level corruption. The main protest outside government offices in Bucharest brought out thousands on Sunday. There also were anti-government demonstrations in the cities of Cluj and Iasi. Protesters blew whistles and chanted, "Justice, not corruption." Romania's Parliament is in the process of approving a series of laws that... Читать дальше...

COLUMBIA FALLS, Maine (AP) — A convoy loaded with Christmas wreaths has left Down East Maine for a weeklong journey to Arlington National Cemetery, where the wreaths will adorn tombstones this holiday season. The Wreaths Across America caravan departed Sunday from Columbia Falls, where the wreaths were made. It'll travel through Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and Washington D.C., before arriving in a week in Arlington, Virginia. The grand marshals... Читать дальше...

DALLAS (AP) — Federal officials have warned that patients at a psychiatric hospital in Dallas are in "immediate jeopardy" two years after Texas regulators threatened to close the facility over severe safety problems, a newspaper reported Sunday. A Nov. 1 letter from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services addressed to Timberlawn's chief executive said that Timberlawn Mental Health System "no longer meets the requirements for participation in the Medicare program because of deficiencies that... Читать дальше...

ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Play4 Day" game were: 7-6-3-8 (seven, six, three, eight)

ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Play3 Day" game were: 8-7-0 (eight, seven, zero)

ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Lucky Links Day" game were: 01-02-06-07-15-17-18-21 (one, two, six, seven, fifteen, seventeen, eighteen, twenty-one)

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine's Republican U.S. senator said on Sunday that Alabama politician Roy Moore was unfit to serve in the Senate even before sexual-misconduct allegations against him came to light. Sen. Susan Collins made the comments on CBS' "Face the Nation." She called the Republican National Committee's decision to support Moore in the Alabama race "a mistake." Collins said she thought Moore was a poor choice for Senate because of his views on Muslims and gays even before she learned of the misconduct allegations. Читать дальше...

PARIS (AP) — Authorities were evacuating a ferry carrying 313 people that ran aground Sunday at the French port city of Calais, interrupting boat traffic across the English Channel. A towing operation — aided by a rising tide — managed to unstick the ferry that hit a pebble bank at the Calais port just after noon because of bad weather conditions and strong winds. Six hours later, hundreds of passengers from the Dover-bound Pride of Kent were in the process of disembarking the vessel that had been pulled to a nearby dock, authorities said. Читать дальше...