Новости за 23.02.2018

LAKEVILLE, Minn. (AP) — The parents of two Lakeville South High School students who were killed in a 2015 car crash are suing the local school district, alleging officials failed to protect the teens from a known danger called “Nerf wars.” Seventeen-year-old Jacob Flynn and 18-year-old John Price died when they were thrown from a […]

ASBURY PARK, N.J. (AP) — Authorities say a gunman who fatally shot a 10-year-old boy and wounded his mother at their New Jersey home was trying to hit someone else there when he opened fire. But they haven’t disclosed a motive for Wednesday night’s shooting in Asbury Park. A 16-year-old Neptune Township boy was arrested […]

BETTENDORF, Iowa (AP) — A Bettendorf counselor accused of kissing and touching a patient against the woman’s wishes has pleaded guilty. Court records say Aracely Schutters’ plea was filed Tuesday to misdemeanor sexual exploitation by a counselor or therapist. The original charge was a felony. A plea agreement says Schutters will pay a fine of […]

BRUSSELS (AP) — Top EU diplomat says donors pledge 414 million euros ($510 million) for Africa’s Sahel region .

MORRISTOWN, N.J. (AP) — A family whose son took his own life after being bullied in 2012 has settled a lawsuit with a New Jersey school district. Fifteen-year-old Lennon Baldwin committed suicide after three students at Morristown High School robbed and terrorized him, according to prosecutors. Three teens were charges with offenses including robbery, making […]

BERLIN (AP) — German automaker BMW says it’s in talks to build battery electric models of its Mini cars in China, which would be the first time the iconic cars have been made outside Europe. BMW said in a statement Friday it has signed a letter of intent with Chinese manufacturer Great Wall Motor. China […]

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (AP) — Close friends, fierce competitors and, now, the two best women figure skaters in the world. Alina Zagitova edged training partner Evgenia Medvedeva on Friday for victory in the singles competition, giving the Russians their first gold medal of the Pyeongchang Games. “I haven’t fully realized yet that I’ve won,” the […]

SUMMERVILLE, S.C. (AP) — Despite a petition, protest march and neighbor-erected fences, a South Carolina woman had vowed she would die before she would stop flying a Confederate flag in her predominantly black community. But a recent heart attack has yielded a change of heart. The Post and Courier reports that after seven years of […]

PEORIA, Ill. (AP) — An Illinois man is set to be sentenced next week after pleading guilty to charges that he defrauded an elderly person out of nearly $100,000. The U.S. Attorney’s office in Peoria says the case of 42-year-old Deryl Wright of Pekin is one of 250 defendants across the country to be charged […]

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A former employee of a South Carolina chiropractor says he sexually assaulted her and tried to convert her to Scientology. The State reports a lawsuit filed in state court accuses Joseph Ben Barton of unlawfully firing the woman, identified as “Jane Doe,” in retaliation for rejecting sexual advances. The lawsuit says […]

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s top aide has summoned the U.S. ambassador to discuss a global threat assessment by American intelligence agencies that mentioned Duterte along with dangers facing democracy in Cambodia, Myanmar and Thailand. Presidential spokesman Harry Roque Jr. said Friday that Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea discussed the U.S. intelligence community’s […]

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Winners of the North Carolina Associated Press News Excellence Awards were announced Thursday at the North Carolina Press Association Winter Institute in Raleigh. AP-member newspapers across the state submitted entries in the AP contest to recognize exemplary journalism published in 2017. The AP is a not-for-profit news cooperative representing thousands of […]

CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (AP) — A man has been charged in the 1981 slaying of 7-year-old Conrad Roger “C.R.” Diaz. News outlets report convicted sex offender William Clyde Jeffries said at his Wednesday hearing that he doesn’t want a life sentence and wants to get treatment. Outlets report Harrison County Sheriff’s Department Sgt. Detective Dixon Pruitt […]

BRUSSELS (AP) — European leaders — minus Britain’s prime minister — are meeting to discuss how the bloc will cope with a multibillion-euro hole in its budget caused by Brexit. Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite, a former EU budget commissioner, said Friday the meeting will gauge the EU’s ambitions as it sets a new multiyear budget […]

RUSKIN, Fla. (AP) — A man whose boat capsized has been rescued from a Florida river. The Tampa Bay Times reports Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office deputies were alerted to the incident at about 2 a.m. Thursday when they received a call about a man crying out for help in Little Manatee River. Deputies arrived to […]

BALTIMORE (AP) — Maryland Transportation Administration officials have asked for an outside review in the face of mounting criticism of the agency’s maintenance issue handling. A spokeswoman for the Maryland Department of Transportation, Erin Hensen, tells The Baltimore Sun that MTA’s Thursday request comes as the Federal Transit Administration is conducting its own review of […]

GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi police are searching for a driver who struck a pedestrian in a fatal hit-and-run. The Sun Herald of Biloxi cites a release by Gulfport police Sgt. Josh Bromen that says police were on their way to conduct a welfare check when they found a man lying unconscious in the road. […]

CALEDONIA, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi student has been arrested for possessing a gun which should have been logged into evidence 10 years ago. The Commercial Dispatch reports the Lowndes County Sheriff’s Office’s announcement this week comes after the Caledonia High School student was arrested on Jan. 31. It says the firearm was in possession […]

GANGNEUNG, South Korea (AP) — A second Russian athlete has failed a doping test at the Pyeongchang Games, a day before the International Olympic Committee’s executive board is to decide whether to reinstate the country for Sunday’s closing ceremony. Russian Bobsled Federation president Alexander Zubkov told The Associated Press on Friday that a drug-test sample […]

LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — The Lewiston City Council has approved an agreement that will give a local redevelopment effort at least three more years for completion. The agreement gives developer Tom Platz exclusive rights to purchase a 350,000-sq. foot building owned by the city for $1, but leaves the door open for another developer to […]

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Five Congolese refugees have been killed during protests over reduced food rations, with the U.N. refugee agency saying Friday that police fired at the angry protesters. Another 15 refugees were injured this week as several hundred marched to the U.N. agency offices in Kiziba camp in the west, Rwandan police said […]

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Police say a man taunted officers, yelling “you’ll never catch me,” minutes before crashing his all-terrain vehicle in Rhode Island and getting caught by police. Authorities say 25-year-old Ruddy Rodriguez was among a group of 10 to 15 people driving ATVs and other vehicles erratically on Providence streets Wednesday night. Police […]

BREBES, Indonesia (AP) — Heavy rains hampered the search for victims of a landslide on the Indonesian island of Java as authorities raised the death toll to seven. The chief of the disaster mitigation agency in Brebes, Eko Andalas, said a body was found Friday and one of the people injured in the disaster had […]

SERHETABAT, Turkmenistan (AP) — Construction has begun on the Afghanistan stretch of an ambitious pipeline that is to carry natural gas from Turkmenistan to Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. The 1840-kilometer (1140-mile) TAPI pipeline is to carry 33 billion cubic meters of gas a year, an important new export outlet for Turkmenistan whose economy centers on […]

FALL RIVER, Mass. (AP) — Relatives say three Massachusetts residents who were killed in a rollover crash in New York were on their way to a funeral. New York State Police responded to the crash on the New York State Thruway in Verona around 10:30 a.m. Wednesday. Authorities say 81-year-old Maria Braga, 73-year-old David Botelho […]