Новости за 15.11.2015

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Brown University's president is promising a full investigation and regular meetings on racial issues after a campus police officer handcuffed a student from another Ivy League school, an encounter officials called "heated and physical." A Dartmouth College student told the Brown Daily Herald student newspaper that a public safety officer slammed him against a wall, threw him to the ground and handcuffed him. Last week, Brown students joined their peers at other colleges... Читать дальше...

(AP) — When Payton Head ran as a gay, black man for student president at the University of Missouri — a school now known for one student's hunger strike and other protests against the administration's handling of racial bias and hostility on campus — he promised to "ignite Mizzou." Recent racist incidents, including one directed at Head, and the perceived lack of response by administrators led to the hunger strike and a threatened boycott by the football team. Tensions seething at the school culminated... Читать дальше...

(AP) — A Tennessee teacher is accused of operating an illegal strip club and promoting prostitution. Shelby County Schools released a statement saying they are concerned about the allegations and have suspended the teacher without pay.

[...] they kidnapped a school bus full of children and buried them under mounds of dirt in a crime that haunts the victims nearly 40 years later. Yet what an appeals court called "the unprecedented mass kidnapping" still resonates in Chowchilla, a town of fewer than 19,000 residents in the San Joaquin Valley. The nation's attention was drawn to the central California dairy region in July 1976, when 26 children and their school bus driver disappeared. Some thought they must have been taken by space aliens... Читать дальше...

(AP) — A Northern California high school and its supporters are mourning after a 17-year-old senior was shot to death, apparently at random, before a football game Friday night. The Sacramento Bee reports (http://bit.ly/1MKKtgS ) Sunday that Jaulon Clavo and four teammates were heading back to Grant High School to play in a playoff game when shots rang into their car.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign on Sunday defended her donations from Wall Street by saying she worked to help the financial sector rebuild after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and sought to address the abuses that led to an economic crisis. On Sunday, Clinton campaign spokesman Brian Fallon elaborated, saying in a statement that her work to help the financial industry rebuild after 9/11 did not mean she ever hesitated to call out and seek to reform the abuses and excesses that led to the economic crisis. Читать дальше...

ANTALYA, Turkey (AP) — Jolted to attention by a horrifying terror spree in Paris, world leaders pledged a renewed fight Sunday against the Islamic State group, but offered little in the way of a revamped counter-terrorism strategy. "The killing of innocent people, based on a twisted ideology, is an attack not just on France, not just on Turkey, but it's an attack on the civilized world," Obama said after meeting with Erdogan as he opened two days of talks in this seaside city just a few hundred miles from the Syrian border. Читать дальше...

Boy killed in what police were told was accidental shooting (AP) — A central Pennsylvania coroner says a 12-year-old boy was killed in what authorities were told was an accidental shooting.

Cobb County police Officer Alicia Chilton says 18-year-old Olivia Smith of Canton has been charged with felony murder in the death of Abbey Hebert of Acworth. Local news media reports that about a dozen students gathered Saturday night for a vigil in Hebert's memory at Allatoona High School.

The Ohio Supreme Court last week upheld a ruling that rejected the city's appeal over its formula for taxing visiting professional athletes. Visiting National Football League players could receive up to $2.4 million, Ryan Losi, executive vice president of PIASCIK, a Virginia-based sports accounting firm, told cleveland.com (http://bit.ly/1MNUzt4 ). The NFL Players Association notified all active players of the court's decision and gave out information about seeking a refund, according to union spokeswoman Jilane Rodgers.

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — The owner of a passport found near the body of a suicide bomber in the attacks on Paris passed through a migrant corridor known for its lax controls and ease in obtaining transit documents as a flood of asylum-seekers surges toward Western Europe. [...] trafficking in fake Syrian passports has increased as hundreds of thousands of people fleeing war and poverty try to get refugee status, the chief of the European Union border agency Frontex has said. In Serbia, some 490,000 migrants have passed through this year... Читать дальше...

Idaho paid about $190,000 to Boise law firm Elam & Burke for legal fees associated with negotiating a settlement over nuclear waste storage and cleanup in eastern Idaho. The coalition sued the state over a new law designed to make it tougher to get initiatives on the ballot by requiring at least 6 percent of registered voters in 22 counties to sign the initiative petition. About $380,000 in legal fees paid to Planned Parenthood attorneys after the organization successfully sued Idaho over parental consent law. Читать дальше...

ROMULUS, N.Y. (AP) — Hundreds of ghostly white deer roaming among overgrown munitions bunkers at a sprawling former Army weapons depot face an uncertain future after living and breeding largely undisturbed since the middle of last century. A group of residents dedicated to saving the animals has proposed turning the old depot into a world-class tourist attraction to show off both its rich military history and its unusual wildlife. The white deer owe their continued existence to 24 miles of rusting... Читать дальше...

Thousands of French troops were deployed and tourist sites stood shuttered in one of the most visited cities on Earth, while more details started to emerge about the investigation. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for Friday's gun and bomb attacks on a stadium, a concert hall and Paris cafes that also wounded 350 people, 99 of them seriously. A French police official said that a suicide attacker identified by a skin sample was believed to be living in the Paris suburbs at the time of his death. Читать дальше...

EL-ARISH, Egypt (AP) — A group of Sudanese migrants were on Sunday caught up in the crossfire of a gun battle between Egyptian security forces and Bedouin smugglers as they were about to illegally enter Israel from Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, security and hospital officials said. The death of the 15 ended a lull in attempts by migrants to cross into Israel from Sinai, mostly because of stricter surveillance and stepped up military operations in the area by Egyptian security forces battling Islamic... Читать дальше...

ANTALYA, Turkey (AP) — President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin have held an informal meeting on the sidelines of the Group of 20 economic summit in Turkey. The White House says the 35-minute meeting centered on talks to end Syria's civil war and that the two leaders agreed that the country needs a political transition led by Syrians. The White House says the two leaders also discussed the conflict in Ukraine and that Obama expressed condolences for the victims in the Russian plane crash last month in the Sinai Peninsula. Читать дальше...

(AP) — Gov. Bruce Rauner describes his decision last week to rein in corporate tax breaks as more effective and fair through demanding that recipient companies create jobs rather than merely preserve what they have. [...] the new steps, which also include eliminating special tax breaks for big companies with clout, were met by complaints from business advocates that they will limit Illinois' ability to compete with other states. On the flip side, longtime critics of state corporate tax breaks say... Читать дальше...

Police spokesman Sgt. Jeff Flynn said Sunday the exact number of troopers is not available because of safety concerns. Port Authority of New York and New Jersey police spokesman Joe Pentangelo also says the department is on heightened alert.

Manchester-Boston Regional Airport Assistant Director Thomas Malafronte told WMUR-TV (http://bit.ly/1MvqZcw ) that all employees and tenants have been told to remain on a heightened level of awareness after gun and bomb attacks in Paris Friday killed at least 129 people.

"For us, for our future and for the future of the Air Force, we are looking to be a successful site selection for F-35 basing when they make the next three rounds of basing decisions that are coming up within the next year," said Col. Patrick Renwick, commander of the Air Guard's 122nd Fighter Wing. The Indiana congressional delegation will try to steer an F-35 squadron to Fort Wayne but needs a strategic plan, said Walorski, a member of the House Armed Services Committee. Several military bases... Читать дальше...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A special state fund created to help Idaho navigate state sovereignty conflicts with the federal government has paid out more than $2.1 million over the last two decades, nearly all of it spent on losing legal battles. Earlier this year, a judge struck down an Idaho law banning undercover investigations of farming operations, and the fund could be drawn down further if the state uses it to pay the plaintiff's attorney fees for that case. The fund was created in 1995 to finance... Читать дальше...

PLEASANT POINT, Maine (AP) — Eighty-one years after a neglected tribal water supply caused a devastating outbreak of typhoid fever and a century after the state outlawed spearfishing of the salmon that fed their ancestors, Native American tribes who trace their history back millennia say their trust in the government of Maine is at an all-time low. What has long been an uneasy peace between the state government and the tribes who desire sovereignty has degraded with clashes on issues ranging from fishing rights to new casinos ... Читать дальше...

CENTERBURG, Ohio (AP) — Some students at a small, central Ohio high school took the creative route when they saw the National Honor Society's annual dues spike earlier this year: Several students at Centerburg High School started the Ohio Scholars' Association last April after National Honor Society announced that annual chapter dues would increase from $75 to $385. The teens, with some help, have branched out from their school and have incorporated the association as a nonprofit and applied for a federal tax exemption. Читать дальше...

(AP) — Even though the state Supreme Court recently upheld a death sentence for the first time under the state's 1994 capital punishment law, Kansas isn't likely to see executions anytime soon or a shift in how the justices handle capital murder cases. Several prosecutors are encouraged by this month's decision in the case of John E. Robinson Sr. — who was sentenced to die for killing two women in 1999 and 2000 and tied by evidence or his own admission to six other deaths, including a teenage girl... Читать дальше...

(AP) — In time, Rodney Rogers said, he and his fellow classmates will see the picnic tables they built at city parks and share a sense of pride that they gave back to their community. Rogers and 15 other students at the Gateway to Learning school recently began building the tables -- more than a dozen and counting -- as part of their lessons and as a service project for the city. Tom Luxford, assistant principal at South Sioux City High School, said the school helps those who need to finish their... Читать дальше...