Новости за 23.12.2020

Vacaville-based baseball data firm Codify is making major inroads among big-league pitchers, several of whom have enjoyed career best seasons while using the company’s individualized “heat maps,” developed by Michael Fisher, who started the business while working with distant relative Dan Straily, a former A’s starter.

San Francisco is losing another one of its oldest restaurants this month.

"I don’t care, they can fine me. They can take me away. It costs more to be shut down."

Jenny and Dave Marrs have renovated countless homes, but when they renovate Jenny's parents' new house, they need to pull out all the stops.

Many draft pundits believe Zach Wilson is the second-best QB prospect behind Clemson's Trevor Lawrence.

Matt Nerland, who began a 31-year Giants career as an intern in 1989 then rose to scouting director under then-general manager Brian Sabean, died over the weekend. He was 53 and had liver disease.

MADRID — Health Minister Salvador Illa said that, beginning Saturday, Spain will receive 4.5 million Pfizer vaccine doses over the next 12 weeks, enough to vaccinate some 2.3 million people.

CHICAGO (AP) — Futures trading on the Chicago Board of Trade Wed:

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota health officials on Wednesday urged people to take coronavirus precautions during the holidays, saying gatherings threaten to undo the state's recent success in slowing infections.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday afternoon's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "All or Nothing Day" game were:

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday afternoon's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Day" game were:

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday afternoon's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Quick Draw Midday" game were:

GARY, Ind. (AP) — A cousin of a murder suspect who escaped from a security company’s transport van in northwest Indiana has been charged with assisting a criminal after authorities say he tried to collect money for his fugitive relative.

DULUTH, Minn. (AP) — An off-the-grid area of northern Minnesota will soon host a new tower to bring cell service to the region, though some locals and visitors want the area to remain remote.

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Some are elderly and figure they don’t have many Christmases left. Others are trying to keep long-distance romance alive. Some just yearn for the human connection that’s been absent for the past nine months.

NEW YORK (AP) — How has George Clooney been handling isolation? Aside from spending time with his wife, Amal Clooney, and their 3-year-old twins, and editing his new film “The Midnight Sky,” he's relied on, like many others, a text chain with pals and Zoom. He just got off one with Matt Damon and John Krasinski.

NEW YORK (AP) — Dan Marshall’s toy store should be crowded this time of the year with parents and grandparents buying gifts and children trying out games. Instead, only a handful of customers are in Mischief Toy Store at any time, and their visits are short and efficient.

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — It's official, at least according to New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham: Santa Claus and his reindeer are immune to COVID-19 and can safely visit homes all across the state.

DETROIT (AP) — A woman angry with a Detroit-area Republican election official sent photos of a dead body and threatened her family after a clamorous meeting at which the official initially refused to certify results in favor of Joe Biden, authorities said Wednesday.

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — A Vermont select committee has recommended changes to address fiscal challenges within the Vermont State Colleges system, including putting Castleton University, Northern Vermont University and Vermont Technical College under one accreditation.

Some officials want to clamp down on visitors flooding the California vacation destination.

The rapper French Montana has plunked down $8,425,000 for a giant home in Hidden Hills, CA, purchased from the Los Angeles Clippers player Paul George.

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. consumer spending fell 0.4% in November, the first decline since April, as Americans confronted a newly resurgent virus.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A new task force in Des Moines will promote urban agriculture and other measures in hopes of bolstering resources for residents with limited access to healthy diets.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell by 89,000 last week to a still-elevated 803,000, evidence that the job market remains under stress nine months after the coronavirus outbreak sent the U.S. economy into recession and caused millions of layoffs.