Новости за 06.08.2015

Media companies led a broad decline on the stock market Thursday as investors worried about fading revenue from cable television. MTV owner Viacom sank 14 percent Thursday and 21st Century Fox…

SeaWorld says its theme park attendance is still falling as animal activists protest the company's treatment of whales, but the company says some of its parks are doing better as it prepares t…

Clatskanie Police Chief Marvin Hoover is on paid administrative leave while the city investigates an allegation that he made racist statements.

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Thursday on the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq Stock Market:

A Woodland woman found two dead opossums hanging from her car mirrors Wednesday outside her home on the 1300 block of Woodside Street.

A home on Beech Street has been ransacked of at least $20,000 worth of property in the past six weeks, the homeowners told police Wednesday.

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Junior Seau was many things to many people.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — After a circus tent collapse that killed two spectators, questions have arisen about how the circus operator could have prepared for and put on a show at the town's fairgr…

NEW YORK (AP) — McDonald's says it is cutting about 225 corporate jobs as part of a push intended to revitalize its flagging business.

The owner of a Winlock lumber business and three other Lewis County men have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Seattle for illegally logging and selling massive bigleaf maple trees from…

Lower Columbia School Gardens' popular mascot Steve the Rabbit passed away suddenly on Wednesday.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is proposing new safety rules to limit workplace exposure to beryllium, a type of metal used in aerospace, electronics and other industries that can …

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — Sierra Leone has only four recorded cases of Ebola, the West African nation's head of Ebola said Thursday, adding that he is hopeful the countdown to zero can soon begin.

NEW YORK (AP) — The NFL and CFL are partnering on concussion testing during Canadian league games and practices this season.

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Uganda's top court on Thursday banned the practice of refunding bride price — normally livestock given by the groom to his bride's family — when a marriage ends in divorce.

MANKATO, Minn. (AP) — The attorney for Adrian Peterson says the Minnesota Vikings star running back who was accused of injuring his 4-year-old son is off probation early.

Recent reports of criminal activity from our local law enforcement agencies.

Editor’s note: Today’s editorial appeared originally in The Tri-City Herald. Editorial content from other publications is provided to give readers a sampling of regional and national opinion a…

A look at what's happening all around the major leagues today:

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — On every team that Will Shields played, from high school in Oklahoma to college at Nebraska to the NFL with the Kansas City Chiefs, there was always someone better than him.

Way of life

The 27th annual Relay for Life of Cowlitz/Wahkiakum counties will start at 10 a.m. Saturday at Kelso High School.

Northbound drivers who regularly take Exit 36A off of Interstate 5 will need to find a new route between Friday and next Wednesday, Aug. 12.

For the first several days of fourth grade, Clarence “Bud” Whittle played hooky.

BOSTON (AP) — From storied Fenway Park to youth baseball diamonds across the city, Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh is calling for a ban on dip, snuff and chewing tobacco.