Новости за 03.12.2015

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Get ready to start watching live video of your friends and family doing something fun, boring or even dumb on Facebook.

Fashion buffs can experience the glamour of the runway at the first Miss Onalaska Style Show fundraiser. Money raised through the event will go toward the Miss Onalaska Organization’s scholars…

LONDON (AP) — As British jets opened airstrikes against the Islamic State group in Syria and Germany prepared to send troops and aircraft to the region, Russia's president called on the world …

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The European Central Bank on Thursday ramped up efforts to stimulate the sluggish eurozone economy, but the measures fell far short of what investors had expected and…

MILWAUKEE (AP) — A case of the mumps has been confirmed in a student at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

FERRYVILLE -- Joanne Ona Grimsled, 79, of rural Ferryville passed away Tuesday morning, Dec. 1, 2015, at Bland-Bekkedal Center for Hospice, where she had been a resident since Nov. 23, 2015.

LA FARGE -- Richard “Richie” Sidie, 58, died suddenly Monday morning, Nov. 30, 2015, at his rural La Farge home of a heart attack.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Colts cornerback Vontae Davis watched most of last year's game at Pittsburgh wishing he could have helped.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The European Central Bank is cutting interest rates. The Federal Reserve is poised to raise them.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota lawmakers from both parties agree that a nearly $1.9 billion budget surplus is good news. They just disagree on how to spend it.

WEST LONG BRANCH, N.J. (AP) — Monmouth may have the most popular bench in America, and the guys playing on the court are also making quite a name for themselves.

NEW YORK (AP) — Sen. Al Franken has a book deal for a memoir that will cover his career from "Saturday Night Live" to his years in Washington.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Is the U.S. job market finally healthy enough to lift Americans' long-stagnant pay?

SEATTLE (6-5) at MINNESOTA (8-3)

If the receiving unit doesn't step up, beginning Thursday night in Detroit, making the playoffs could become problematic.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says the United Nations is working to launch talks between Syria's warring parties and start a nationwide cease-fire in the country in January.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Ash Carter on Thursday ordered the military to open all combat jobs to women, rebuffing requests by the Marine Corps to exclude women from certain front-lin…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli tourism officials are trying to capitalize on the turmoil in the region by marketing the country to Russian visitors as an alternative to Turkey and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Alarmed that black lung disease routinely goes unreported decades after it was discovered among miners, federal mine safety officials are touting new regulations that wi…

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A grandmother is facing child endangerment charges after authorities said a meth pipe was found in her 8-year-old granddaughter's backpack.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship was convicted Thursday of a misdemeanor count connected to a deadly coal mine explosion and acquitted of more serious charges.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A San Francisco police officer has pleaded not guilty to two felony hit-and-run charges after two pedestrians were struck in a crosswalk and the driver walked away from the scene.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Gov. Mark Dayton is laying out a high-speed Internet marker by proposing a $100 million infusion to help bring broadband to more rural Minnesota areas.

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus has long had the reputation of a peace mediator's graveyard.

NEW YORK (AP) — The brother of a Washington Post reporter detained in Iran since July 2014 has delivered a petition to Iran's United Nations mission demanding the journalist's release.