Новости за 28.01.2019

VANCOUVER, Wash. — A measles outbreak near Portland has sickened 35 people in Oregon and Washington, with 11 more cases suspected. Thirty-one patients had not been vaccinated against measles, and the status of four others who were infected is not known. One child has been hospitalized. Public health officials struggling to contain the highly contagious

DETROIT — A reward of up to $10,000 is being offered for information that leads to an arrest in the shooting of a 3-year-old boy who was killed as he rode in a vehicle on Detroit’s west side. Crime Stoppers of Michigan announced the reward Monday. Christian Miller was killed Thursday evening on the Southfield

NEW YORK — After finalizing a $10 million, two-year contract with the New York Mets, reliever Justin Wilson concluded that the number of teams not pursuing free agents has damaged the market. “I think for the role that I pitch in, late in the game and high-leverage situations, there are only certain teams that are

CARACAS, Venezuela — The Caribbean Series starting next week has been moved from Venezuela to Panama for security reasons. Caribbean Professional Baseball Leagues commissioner Juan Francisco Puello announced the decision on Monday. The series will begin on Feb. 4 at Rod Carew National Stadium in Panama City. Violent street protests have erupted in Venezuela since

PHOENIX — Former San Diego Padres pitcher Jose Torres has avoided jail time in a domestic violence case. A Maricopa County Superior Court judge in Phoenix sentenced Torres to two years of probation Monday. He pleaded guilty to attempted aggravated assault in November. Torres was arrested in December 2017 and accused of brandishing a handgun

MISHAWAKA, Ind. — Schurz Communications says it’s selling its publishing division, including 20 newspapers in five states, to GateHouse Media LLC. Indiana-based Schurz, which owns the South Bend Tribune and The Herald-Times in Bloomington announced the deal Monday. Terms were not disclosed. The family-owned company says New York-based GateHouse will assume ownership during the first

LAS VEGAS — Nevada gambling regulators say they will fine Wynn Resorts after an investigation found former executives failed on multiple occasions to investigate allegations of sexual misconduct against former CEO and founder Steve Wynn. A complaint and settlement released Monday by the Nevada Gaming Control Board detailed at least seven allegations of misconduct by

COLUMBUS, Ohio — An Ohio woman’s family says she died at a hospital minutes after receiving two excessive doses of potentially lethal medication ordered by a doctor now being investigated in connection with dozens of deaths . Attorneys say the May 2015 death of 85-year-old Norma Welch prompted one of two lawsuits filed Monday against

ATHENS, Greece — A Greek court has convicted a prominent Orthodox Church official of violating laws against racism and abusing his office over an anti-gay blog posting. Amvrossios, Bishop of Kalavryta and Aigialeia in the southern Peloponnese region, received a seven-month sentence, suspended for three years. Amvrossios urged readers in his 2015 posting to “spit

LONDON — Titleholder Chelsea will host Manchester United in the FA Cup fifth round in a repeat of last season’s final. United will head back to London after beating Arsenal in the fourth round on Friday in another tough draw. Manchester City, the other big team remaining in the draw, was handed a trip to

CARACAS, Venezuela — The Latest on the political crisis in Venezuela (all times local): 4:30 p.m. Sen. Marco Rubio says the U.S. will hit Venezuela’s state-owned oil company with sanctions aimed at increasing pressure on President Nicolas Maduro to step down from office. The Florida Republican and two people briefed on the administration’s plans say

MIAMI — CONCACAF has reached an agreement with the streaming service FloSports to be its U.S. broadcast partner for the new CONCACAF Nations League. Group stage games involving the American national team are not included in the deal. CONCACAF general secretary Philippe Moggio said Monday the U.S. matches will remain on ESPN and Fox. Those

NEW YORK — The actor who played the notorious drug lord known as El Chapo on a Netflix series has made a cameo as a spectator at the kingpin’s U.S. trail. Alejandro Edda showed up early Monday to get a seat in a packed courtroom where Joaquin Guzman is fighting drug-trafficking charges. Guzman cracked a

MONTVILLE, Conn. — A suspect was taken into custody Monday morning after a man and woman were found dead inside a home in southeastern Connecticut, state police said. Montville police went to the home in the Uncasville section of town just before 5 a.m. Monday and found the two people dead in what state police

The premise for “Arctic ” is so simple it’s almost silly to describe: Stranded man tries to survive. It’s also been done more than a few times in movies, so it’s understandable if hearing that invokes a yawn. And yet with barely any dialogue, traditional storytelling methods or even a cute pet or inanimate object

NEW YORK — Kim Mulkey and Baylor returned to No. 1 in The Associated Press women’s college basketball poll on Monday for the first time nearly six years. The Lady Bears (17-1) ascended to the top spot after then-No. 1 Notre Dame lost to unranked North Carolina on Sunday. Baylor, which received 24 of 28

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — The Buffalo Bills have re-signed long snapper Reid Ferguson to a three-year contract. Ferguson was an exclusive rights free agent and returns for a fourth season with Buffalo upon signing the contract Monday. He was initially signed by the Bills as an undrafted rookie free agent in 2016 following four years

ZURICH — FIFA says a former African player of the year and Confederation of African Football executive committee member had his ban for taking cash payments cut on appeal. FIFA’s appeal panel reduced Kalusha Bwalya’s ban from soccer to the time he already served. His fine was reduced to 10,000 Swiss francs ($10,090) from 100,000

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Scientists are rushing to salvage a study of wolves and moose at Isle Royale National Park now that the government shutdown is over. Biologists and support personnel typically spend seven weeks every winter on the Lake Superior island, observing how the predator and prey species interact. But the park was off-limits

ATLANTA — The Latest on Super Bowl 53 in Atlanta (all times EST): 12:20 p.m. The Los Angeles Rams are a slight underdog against the New England Patriots in Sunday’s Super Bowl. But EA Sports begs to differ. In the video game maker’s simulation of the NFL’s championship game on “Madden NFL 19,” the Rams

THESSALONIKI, Greece — A prosecutor in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki has ordered an urgent investigation into the destruction by unknown vandals of a local Jewish memorial. Prosecutor Evangelos Zarkantzias instructed police Monday to treat the attack on a monument marking a former Jewish cemetery as a breach of Greece’s laws against racism, which

Long before the claim of the world’s first gene-edited babies became public, Chinese researcher He Jiankui shared the news with a U.S. Nobel laureate who objected to the experiment yet remained an adviser to He’s biotech company. The revelation that another prominent scientist knew of the work, which was widely condemned when it was revealed,

NEW YORK — Tennessee stayed atop the AP Top 25 men’s college basketball poll for a second straight week. The Volunteers earned 48 of 64 first-place votes in Monday’s poll to extend the program’s first stint at No. 1 since February 2008. Tennessee (18-1, 6-0 Southeastern Conference) has won 14 straight games — the program’s

NEW YORK — Britain’s Sky Sports News is returning to U.S. television this week for a transfer-deadline show on the NBC Sports Network. NBCSN will simulcast SSN’s deadline show in London from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. EST on Thursday. It will then follow with three hours of its own coverage from its studio in

MOSCOW — The U.S. Treasury has lifted sanctions on three Russian companies connected to Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska, reversing a move which wreaked havoc on global aluminum markets last year. To the Treasury and supporters of the move, it was an example of sanctions working as they should by changing a target’s behavior in nine