Новости за 21.04.2018

GROSSE ILE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Three members of a high school rowing team were rescued from the Detroit River after choppy waters flooded their boat. The U.S. Coast Guard says two members of the Grosse Ile High School rowing team were pulled from the water Saturday morning. A third crew member had crawled aboard […]

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Fellow Democrats are calling for a Missouri lawmaker to resign after they say he repeatedly called into a St. Louis-area radio program in which the host is known for making racist and other offensive remarks. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that 69-year-old Rep. Bob Burns, who represents Affton in eastern Missouri, […]

BOSTON (AP) — Done Boston’s Freedom Trail? Now you can tackle a new adventure: the Massachusetts Whale Trail. The state Office of Travel and Tourism says a map debuting Monday will include locations along the coastline and inland with noteworthy connections to the majestic marine mammals. Officials say whale-related points of interest stretch from Provincetown […]

Here’s how area members of Congress voted on major issues in the week ending April 20.

ELIZABETH, N.J. (AP) — An off-duty New Jersey police officer has been indicted in a crash that killed a motorcyclist last fall. The Middlesex County prosecutor’s office said 30-year-old Elizabeth officer Romulo Meneses-Alvarez was indicted on vehicular homicide, evidence-tampering, hindering apprehension and obstruction counts in the Oct. 31 crash. Authorities said he was off duty […]

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Gregg Popovich won’t coach the San Antonio Spurs in their possible series finale against the Golden State Warriors as he grieves the death of his wife. Spurs assistant Ettore Messina coached San Antonio in Game 3 and will again Sunday afternoon. Erin Popovich passed away Wednesday from a long-term illness. Gregg […]

In the largest gun-rights rally at the Washington state Capitol in years, demonstrators brought American flags and semi-automatic rifles. The event comes a day after a gun-violence prevention group announced it would seek new regulations on rifles in a fall ballot measure.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi state media is reporting that security forces responded to a small drone flying over a neighborhood in the kingdom’s capital after online videos circulated purporting to show the area ringing with small-arms fire. The state-run Saudi Press Agency wrote on Twitter Saturday night that an investigation into the […]

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois is receiving a $16 million federal grant to fight opioid abuse. Gov. Bruce Rauner’s administration announced the grant Friday. The Illinois Department of Human Services will administer it to fight a scourge that claimed 2,000 lives in Illinois last year. It’s the second consecutive year Illinois has received funding from […]

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — Syracuse University has permanently expelled a fraternity over an offensive video that fraternity members say was intended as satire. The university announced the expulsion of Syracuse’s Theta Tau chapter on its website Saturday. Chancellor Kent Syverud calls the Theta Tau video “racist, anti-Semitic, homophobic, ableist and sexist.” Syverud says disciplinary actions […]

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Republicans in Minnesota’s 1st District have backed Jim Hagedorn for the U.S. House seat being vacated by Democrat Tim Walz. The party says delegates picked Hagedorn over state Sen. Carla Nelson at an endorsing convention Saturday in Mankato. Walz decided to run for governor instead of seeking re-election the district representing southern […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says his government needs to see a “change of attitude” from the U.S. administration before any meaningful negotiations can begin over several U.S. citizens being held prisoner in Iran. In an interview with the CBS program “Face the Nation,” Zarif accused the Trump administration of arrogance […]

Farquhar, who pitched for the Mariners from 2013-15, suffered a brain hemorrhage in the White Sox dugout Friday night. He was rushed to the hospital, and the team says he is currently "stable but in critical condition."

EAST FALLOWFIELD, Pa. (AP) — Authorities say a collision between a van and a pickup truck killed three people in northwestern Pennsylvania and injured several others. State police said the crash happened shortly after 6 p.m. Friday in East Fallowfield Township. Police said the southbound van went through a stop sign and struck an eastbound […]

Seattle police said it was unclear why the man, believed to be in his 30s or 40s, was on the tracks before 8 a.m.

BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) — A Minnesota man who pleaded guilty to negligent homicide has been given a deferred sentence and ordered to perform 250 hours of community service. Lucas Keith Johnson was arrested in May 2017 for vehicular homicide under the influence in the death of 22-year-old Morgan Lee Gaither. Johnson was driving at the […]

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Two women have been arrested in connection with a man’s overdose death in a Concord hotel room five months ago. Forty-three-year-old Shea Black died on Nov. 25 after snorting what he believed was heroin. The state medical examiner determined he died of “acute intoxication due to the combined effects of ethanol […]

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. (AP) — Harold Wright, who is credited with bringing broadcast television decades ago to the Charlottesville, Virginia, area, is the recipient of The Associated Press’ Robert Gallimore Distinguished Service Award. Wright, vice president and general manager of WVIR-TV in Charlottesville, was honored Saturday by the Virginias Associated Press Broadcasters, a group […]

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. (AP) — The Virginias Associated Press Broadcasters group is honoring Larry Clark of WCHS/WVAH-TV in Charleston with its West Virginia Lifetime Achievement Award. Clark is the station’s news operations manager. The group gives the award is annually to an individual who has been in West Virginia broadcasting for at least 20 […]

WICKLIFFE, Ohio (AP) — Police say a 2-year-old girl has been accidentally shot and killed by her mother at a hotel outside of Cleveland. Wickliffe police in a statement says emergency crews were called to an Econo Lodge around 11 p.m. Friday. A police officer and paramedics tried to resuscitate the girl who was pronounced […]

OGDEN, Utah (AP) — Sheriff’s deputies responding to a report of a dead deer on the side of a highway in northern Utah instead found the dead body of a mountain lion that apparently had been struck by a vehicle. The Standard-Examiner reports that Morgan County sheriff’s Sgt. Corey Stark says no vehicles were at […]

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A former Sedgwick County detention deputy convicted of sex crimes against inmates is now charged with sex crimes against a child. The Wichita Eagle reports that 27-year-old David Kendall was charged Friday with two counts of criminal sodomy, three counts of sexual exploitation of a child and one count of violating […]

BROCKTON, Mass. (AP) — A victim of a three car pile-up in Massachusetts has died as a result of her injuries. Fifty-four-year-old Terri Degennaro declined medical treatment at the scene of the Brockton crash on Thursday, but later died from her injuries at Beth Israel Hospital that night. The Brockton Enterprise reports Degennaro was evaluated […]

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine schools hoping to boost security now get explicit priority for state loans. The law says school security upgrades get high priority for consideration for loans through Maine’s underfunded school renovation fund. Current law gives high priority for safety projects in general. Democratic Sen. Rebecca Millett said the law’s particularly important […]

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — St. Paul police say a 41-year-old man was killed when a man fleeing police crashed into his vehicle. The Star Tribune reports the 26-year-old suspect suffered noncritical injuries in the late Friday night crash. Police say he was arrested on suspicion of criminal vehicular homicide. Officers were called to the […]