Новости за 06.05.2018

MONTOURSVILLE, Pa. (AP) — Officials say fire swept through a mobile home in central Pennsylvania, killing a man. Firefighters said they were called to the Vali View Mobile Home Park in Fairfield Township near Muncy at about 7:45 a.m. Saturday. The Lycoming County coroner’s office says 47-year-old Richard Wysocki was found dead in the kitchen. […]

BOSTON (AP) — Ireland’s influence on the U.S. is being explored at a forum at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston. Monday evening’s discussion — “Nine Irish lives: The thinkers, fighters & artists who helped build America” — will center on a new book by the same name. Screenwriter and author […]

ANTIGO, Wis. (AP) — A woman is dead and her passenger injured after a car being chased by police rolled in north-central Wisconsin. According to the Wisconsin State Patrol, the Shawano County Sheriff’s Department was pursuing a Chevrolet Monte Carlo going 91 mph in a 55-mph zone. The driver crossed into Langlade County and crashed […]

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Tougaloo College is granting honorary degrees to the national president of NAACP, a civil rights activist and an astrophysicist. The private college is graduating students Sunday in an outdoor ceremony on its Jackson campus. Derrick Johnson is president of the nation’s oldest civil rights organization and a 1993 Tougaloo alumnus. He […]

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana State Police collected more than 1,700 pounds of unwanted medications through the federal Drug Enforcement Administration’s annual drug take-back initiative. State police set up collection sites across Indiana on April 28, where expired, unused or unwanted medications could be turned in and later destroyed. Organizers say the program aims to prevent […]

SHILOH, S.C. (AP) — Officials say they’re trying to figure out why a person was lying on a South Carolina highway before being hit by a car and killed. The State newspaper of Columbia reported the pedestrian was struck early Sunday morning on a Sumter County highway. South Carolina Highway Patrol Lance Cpl. Matt Southern […]

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Time is running out to apply for federal grants that can help pay for planting trees and restoring native vegetation in the Great Lakes region. The U.S. Forest Service says it expects to distribute about $3.7 million this year with funding from the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, a program designed […]

WEWOKA, Okla. (AP) — Authorities say one man is dead following an officer-involved shooting at the end a police pursuit in central Oklahoma. Oklahoma City television station KWTV reports that the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation is examining Sunday’s deadly shooting in Seminole County. Officials say officers were involved in a pursuit with the suspect […]

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — The Coast Guard says a barge carrying scrap metal caught fire on a river near southwest Alabama. A news release says the barge caught fire on the Mobile River around 10 a.m. Sunday. No crewmembers were reported to be aboard the barge when it caught fire. There have been reports of […]

For now, Thomas is skipping voluntary workouts. But that will change in June.

MINNETONKA, Minn. (AP) — Authorities have declared ice-out on Lake Minnetonka in the western Twin Cities, tying the record for the latest ice-out on the big lake. The Freshwater Society and the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office Water Patrol declared the ice-out just after noon Saturday. This year’s ice-out ties 1857 for the latest on record. […]

MORAINE, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio convenience store is being presented with a $100,000 check for selling the winning $143 million Mega Millions ticket in last Friday’s drawing. Officials from the Ohio Lottery’s Dayton Regional Office say they’ll present the check on Monday at Fat Daddy’s Road Dog, a division of Duncan Oil Co. in […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is scheduled to take part in an announcement Monday about site development for the Foxconn Technology Group campus in the southeast corner of the state. The governor’s press office says Walker will join business owners and workers from across Wisconsin for announcements planned in Black River Falls, […]

CHICAGO (AP) — James Shields of the Chicago White Sox has lost his no-hit bid with one out in the seventh inning against the Minnesota Twins. Eduardo Escobar singled to right center field for the Twins’ first hit Sunday. The 36-year-old Shields had struck out five and walked two before giving up a hit. He […]

As the McCleary school-financing case winds down, Washington’s students still need leaders to improve education and equity, the state’s paramount duty.

Going forward, justice may finally be done for composers who score and arrange their songs on tape and who have been systematically exploited by the music industry.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A woman whose daughter was fatally shot at a Nashville Waffle House has accepted her diploma during a commencement ceremony. News outlets report Shirl Baker received a standing ovation as she walked across the stage in her daughter’s place Saturday at Belmont University. Twenty-one-year-old DeEbony Groves majored in social work and […]

BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts’ highest court is set to hear arguments in the case sparked by the misconduct of a former chemist who authorities say was high almost every day she worked at a state drug lab for eight years. The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts and the state’s public defender agency will ask […]

AURORA, Ill. (AP) — A suburban Chicago man shot at with a paintball gun faces charges after he allegedly shot back with a real gun. An Aurora police statement over the weekend says someone shot a paint ball from a car at 25-year-old Aurora resident Malcom Wheeler as he walked his dog Wednesday. He allegedly […]

MARQUETTE, Mich. (AP) — Some students and other protested Gov. Rick Snyder’s handling of the Flint water crisis during his trip to speak at Northern Michigan University’s graduation ceremony. A group gathered chanting and singing on the school’s Marquette campus before Saturday’s ceremony. Dozens of the school’s some 800 graduates and other commencement attendees turned […]

Kendrick Lamar, SZA and their Top Dawg Entertainment mates took over White River Amphitheatre when their Championship Tour came to the Seattle area on Saturday.

ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo. (AP) — A Wyoming gubernatorial candidate says he’s switching from the Republican Party to the Constitution Party. Rock Springs veterinarian Rex Rammell has been a perennial candidate for the GOP in Idaho and Wyoming for more than a decade, including a failed run for the U.S. House in 2016. He’s reportedly described […]

MILFORD, Neb. (AP) — At least one person died after several crashes along Interstate 80 in eastern Nebraska. The Nebraska State Patrol closed eastbound I-80 between mile markers 369 and 382 near Milford, Nebraska, on Sunday morning because of the crashes. At least three separate crashes occurred between Lincoln and York. One semitrailer truck caught […]

JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has announced plans to protect from mineral development more than 1,400 acres (567 hectares) of winter range used by the struggling Whiskey Mountain bighorn sheep herd in northwest Wyoming. The former Montana congressman says there are places where it is appropriate to mine and places it is […]

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Melting snow coupled with rain is forecast to swell rivers and creeks in areas of western Montana in coming days, flooding numerous homes in and around Missoula. The National Weather Service on Sunday extended a flood warning for the Clark Fork River above Missoula until further notice. The river is expected […]