Новости за 20.04.2017

FRISCO, Texas (AP) — The Dallas Cowboys have signed veteran safety Robert Blanton for depth after losing five-year starter Barry Church and J.J. Wilcox in free agency.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican lawmakers are bringing back a bill that would establish a Wisconsin woodchuck hunting season.

A top drug-enforcement official invited by the NFL in 2011 to educate team physicians and staff about medicating players in compliance with federal laws was met with skepticism, catcalls and even occasional boos from the doctors gathered, according to a…

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Two people have been arrested in the suspected opioid overdose of a 4-year-old Milwaukee boy who would be the seventh child under 5 to die after swallowing opioids in Milwaukee County in the last 19 months, if…

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — U.S. regulators are strengthening warnings about the dangers of two types of powerful painkillers due to risks of slowed breathing and death.

NEW YORK (AP) — Fox News Channel has thrived despite losing founding leader Roger Ailes and next generation star Megyn Kelly within the past nine months. Wednesday's firing of defining personality Bill O'Reilly will be its toughest test yet.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A top leader of the Iowa Veterans Home in Marshalltown is returning to her old job of running veterans affairs.

Families making more than $100,000 have claimed $8 million, two-thirds of the benefit, to pay for private school.

The U.S. men's basketball team will begin the long road to the 2020 Olympics when it opens FIBA AmeriCup 2017 preliminary-round play in Montevideo, Uruguay.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A federal judge has blocked a sound engineer from releasing a five-song EP of unpublished music by Prince after the late superstar's estate objected — but one of the songs is still available online.

U.S. stocks climbed Thursday as industrial companies, banks, technology and materials firms and energy companies all rallied. A strong day for corporate results left investors feeling better about the economy. The Nasdaq composite's gain was enough to mark another all-time…

In 2016, 38 players were selected in the NFL Draft even though they weren't invited to the Scouting Combine. In the last week before the draft, PFW is introducing fans to "late risers," prospects who didn't go to the Combine…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Man sentenced to 25 years for killing Saints star Will Smith and 15 years, served concurrently, for wounding his wife.

SEATTLE (AP) — Thursday marks marijuana culture's high holiday, 4/20, when college students gather — at 4:20 p.m. — in clouds of smoke on campus quads and when pot shops in legal weed states thank their customers with discounts.

ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — Barry Trotz is wondering aloud if Washington Capitals have been the victim of some bad bounces against the Toronto Maple Leafs.

WASHINGTON (AP) — World finance leaders on Thursday defended globalization against an assault from President Donald Trump and European populists. They argued that blocking free trade would hobble economic growth instead of saving jobs from foreign competition.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert will not play in Game 3 against the Los Angeles Clippers after hyperextending his left knee and suffering a bone contusion in the series opener.

THURSDAY, April 20, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- An experimental immune-system therapy appears safe for people with progressive forms of multiple sclerosis. And it may ease symptoms in some, a preliminary study suggests.

THURSDAY, April 20, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- In the battle to lose weight, many people switch to diet sodas. But while they cut calories they might also raise the risk of stroke or dementia, a new study suggests.

THURSDAY, April 20, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- There may be new meaning to the term "higher" education: College has become a major setting for first-time pot use, new research contends.

For more than 130 years, Richard Johnson’s family has farmed. Now that legacy is threatened by the glut of milk in the market.

It’s a quick-scooting, gear-collecting, Wiffle Ball-flinging mass of metal and wire that probably weighs more than he does — and Aidan Beckman and his friends have spent the past few months making it go.

State Rep. Greg Davids (R-Preston) joined a bipartisan majority in the Minnesota House recently in approving legislation that addresses our state’s road and bridge construction needs.

Recent coverage and the hoopla concerning the manifesto scribbled by a petty criminal is a classic example of how modern media glorifies the misguided individual and ignores the obvious real problem.

Although no objections were raised at a public hearing about a proposed cell tower to be located in Holmen’s industrial park, the project received a no vote from a member of the Holmen Village Board.