Новости за 05.03.2016

Connie Belton, 65, a retired homemaker from Wichita, Kansas, had a message for Republicans who are uneasy about the potential nomination of Donald Trump as she voted in Kansas on Saturday. Crampton, 31, says the race for the party's presidential nominee "was just too important to me to sleep in." Twenty-year-old Halie Saldana emerged from Lewiston Middle School in Maine wearing a Ted Cruz sticker on her shirt, and said she hopes she also gets a chance to vote for the Texas Republican in the general election. Читать дальше...

Mikko Koivu’s power-play goal tied the game in the third period and the Wild picked up the extra point in the shootout

Don't forget it's Mother's Day tomorrow: Everything you need to know about the day, it's history and where to buy gifts and flowers

Earlier this week, Argentina reached an agreement with a group of U.S.-based hedge funds that sued the country more than a decade ago over billions of dollars in unpaid debt. The dispute was easily one of the longest, most litigious battles over sovereign debt in modern memory, and it never lacked for hijinks. In 2012, a subsidiary of Elliott Management Corporation—the twenty-billion-dollar hedge fund led by Paul Singer—persuaded a judge to allow the seizure of an Argentine naval vessel docked in a port in Ghana... Читать дальше...

KEARNEY — A 20-year-old Kearney man faces decades in prison after pleading no contest to first-degree sexual assault of a minor and an enticement charge.

Football League Division Two leaders Tyrone beat Derry by nine points at Healy Park to remain unbeaten in 2016.

Nicaraguan President compared on Saturday American virtual declaration of war against Venezuela with the blockade against Cuba.

MSNBC’s Thomas Roberts jumps into the ocean with Floridians after achieving his challenge of 1,000 likes on his Instagram photo.

The Pentagon announced it awarded a contract for more than $89 million this week to Aurora Flight Sciences to work toward an X-plane — essentially a plane-helicopter hybrid — that would feature vertical takeoff and landing. Aurora landed the contract for a second and third phase of research on the X-plane, beating out competitor Sikorsky.

The superintendent of a Philadelphia-area school district has apologized for a class skit in which students dressed in Ku Klux Klan-like outfits

Jaguars safety Earl Wolff was abducted by a group of gunmen last month but was later returned unharmed, Wolff’s hometown newspaper, the Fayetteville Observer, has reported. The report said one arrest has been made and police are unsure if Wolff was targeted or that the abduction and robbery were random. Fayetteville (N.C.) Police said they…

Iranians are hoping the recent election of more reformers to parliament will help improve the economy.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Las Vegas substitute teacher is accused of kissing a male student several times because she wanted revenge against her fiance. According to an arrest report, the Harney Middle School teacher and the victim met during an extracurricular program for students from her school and Las Vegas High.

UPPER DARBY, Pennsylvania - A Philadelphia-area school district superintendent has apologized for a class skit in which students dressed in Ku Klux Klan-like outfits, calling the activity "inappropriate" and showing "poor judgment."

(AP) — A Philadelphia-area school district superintendent has apologized for a class skit in which students dressed in Ku Klux Klan-like outfits, calling the activity "inappropriate" and showing "poor judgment." Superintendent Richard Dunlap of the Upper Darby School District sent a message of apology to parents and the community Friday after a photo of the students surfaced on social media Thursday night.

An underwater research craft has spotted a 'ghost-like' octopus that appears to belong to a previously unknown species on the ocean floor near Hawaii, a milky-white creature nicknamed 'Caspar the Friendly Ghost.'

The mogul and the model are married.Global media mogul Rupert Murdoch and model Jerry Hall were married Friday in London, according to the Press Association, which quoted a spokesman for the Murdoch family.The couple announced their engagement earlier this year.Murdoch, 84, a native Australian, is one of the most powerful media barons in the world. Hall, 59, is the former longtime companion of Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger, with whom ...

NASHVILLE, Tennessee - Coach Cameron Newbauer now has to pay up on his promise. It's time to take his Belmont Bruins for ice cream.

Los Angeles County dignitaries opened the first new stretch of Metro rail in nearly four years Saturday before a joyful, excited crowd of rail fans and residents of the San Gabriel Valley.

A Florida man who flew a small gyrocopter through protected Washington airspace before landing outside the U.S. Capitol last spring was seconds away from colliding with a Delta flight that had taken off from Reagan National Airport, prosecutors said. In a court filing Friday, prosecutors said Douglas Hughes flew his one-person aircraft almost directly into the oncoming flight path of the 150-person Airbus turbojet last April. Mark Goldstone, an attorney for Hughes, said they will look into whether... Читать дальше...

CHAMPAIGN, Illinois - The University of Illinois' new athletic director issued a vote of confidence in men's basketball coach John Groce on Saturday, praising his leadership and making clear he will continue in the position.

LINCOLN, Nebraska - Paige Piatkowski had 11 points and five rebounds and Elkhorn South won its first state championship in girls basketball with a 43-33 victory over Waverly in the Class B title game Saturday.

BOSTON - Clemson coach Brad Brownell walked over to Boston College coach Jim Christian and gave him a long embrace, offering some encouragement at the end of the Eagles' long regular season.

Mock funerals, a 'goal' on the half-time whistle and a first home win in 11 months - five things you may have missed in the Football League.

ENSCHEDE – Concordia-directeur Willem-Jaap Zwart heeft zaterdagmiddag de fototentoonstelling ‘Poëzie van een Stad’ van Cyril Wermers geopend in het Petpaviljoen aan de Blekerstraat in Enschede