Новости за 25.06.2016

LOS ANGELES — Gathered around a keyboard in Los Angeles, conductor Ernesto Lima Parets stopped his singers and told them to try again. On Saturday, the men are scheduled to begin their first U.S. tour, performing a repertoire of Cuban classics, pop hits and the Estefan song with the Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles. In an era of renewed relations between the U.S. and Cuba, the joint performance would mark another step toward fostering collaboration between the LGBT communities in each country. ... Читать дальше...

WISN-TV reports (http://bit.ly/28T3rTy ) that Adam noticed flames in his house on Tuesday, so he grabbed his infant sister and 4-year-old brother and got them outside. Fire officials say the blaze might have started when one of the kids tried to cook on the stove.

The letter, signed by past and present presidents of the International Society for Reef Studies on behalf of the attendees of the International Coral Reef Symposium, urged the Australian government to prioritize its Great Barrier Reef and do more to curb fossil fuel consumption in the country. A call to action from three Pacific island nations whose reefs are in the crosshairs of the largest and longest-lasting coral bleaching event in recorded history was presented Friday at the conclusion of... Читать дальше...

An old double-decker bus that’s been stripped down and re-purposed into a hangout space marks the entrance to a unique new 16,000-square-foot outdoor food truck park in San Francisco’s growing Mission Bay neighborhood. Strings of lights 10 feet above the ground run across the sky, floating above bean bag toss boards, picnic tables and planters. A fire pit sits tucked away in a corner, surrounded by swings and other seating. Neighborhood residents and visitors from other parts of the city filled SPARK Social SF food truck park... Читать дальше...

Dennis Opatrny, veteran SF reporter of crime and courts, dies Dennis J. Opatrny, a veteran San Francisco reporter who covered everything from cops to courts to major scandals, died in San Francisco on June 17 after complications from surgery. Mr. Opatrny, who spent 25 years at the San Francisco Examiner, was a legend in the news business. “He was one of the best police reporters I ever knew,” said Leonard Sellers, a journalism professor emeritus at San Francisco State University. Pat’s curiosity... Читать дальше...

DELHI, Iowa (AP) — Officials have closed the floodgates to start refilling Lake Delhi, following six years and $16 million in work to restore the lake after its destruction in the 2010 floods. Property owners formed a taxing district shortly after the storms, and voters approved a $6 million bond measure for the new dam and restoration.

(AP) — Rapides Parish officials are warning a handful of holdouts in south Alexandria subdivisions that they could be isolated if they don't accept federally-financed flood buyouts. Overton tells The Town Talk (http://townta.lk/290Yf2k ) that nearby development along MacArthur Drive has increased flooding in the area after heavy rains. The parish received a $6.1 million Federal Emergency Management Agency grant to make buyout offers in the area, which is outside the Alexandria city limits. The... Читать дальше...

(AP) — A firefighter and police officer from Florida and a Tennessee restaurant owner are accused of striking three Bradley County homes while shooting at a 5-gallon jug on top of a trailer. Bradley County Sheriff's Office spokesman James Bradford told WRCB-TV (http://bit.ly/28UCTQo) the three were on Majeske's property shooting an AR-15 rifle and two pistols toward the woods around midnight on June 8. Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue Deputy Chief Timothy Heiser said Silk has been with the department since 2007 and is "a model employee... Читать дальше...

(AP) — A boat that may have been hit by a wave capsized off the backside of Santa Catalina Island on Saturday, killing three people, authorities said. Another boat reported the capsizing at around 9:30 a.m., and pulled four people from the water, but two seemed unresponsive, Sondra-Kay Kneen of the U.S. Coast Guard said

DC police hope to identify suspect in 2 bank robberies WASHINGTON (AP) — Police are hoping to identify a person of interest in back-to-back bank robberies in northeast Washington.

NEW YORK — Bernie Worrell, the ingenious “Wizard of Woo” whose amazing array of keyboard sounds and textures helped define the Parliament-Funkadelic musical empire and influenced performers of funk, rock, hip-hop and other genres, has died. Throughout the 1970s and into the ’80s, George Clinton’s dual projects of Parliament and Funkadelic and their various spinoffs built upon the sounds of James Brown and Sly and the Family Stone among others and turned out some of the most complex, spaced out, political... Читать дальше...

(AP) — Gov. Rick Snyder has signed into law a change allowing judges to handle more juvenile crimes in informal proceedings to find what advocates say are more age-appropriate penalties for young offenders. Snyder also approved bills requiring child-placing agencies to make reasonable efforts to keep siblings together in the foster care and adoption systems.

(AP) — An overnight shelter for homeless young adults in Olympia will stay open over the summer after raising more than $50,000 in one week. The shelter, which has been full since opening in 2013, started an online fundraising campaign last week in hopes of keeping doors open.

Guyana Finance Minister Carl Greenidge said Saturday the two countries have agreed to begin talks with China to finance the project, which is aimed at spurring trade and open up jungle areas for development.

(AP) — Two teenagers have been arrested for lying about the location of a man that investigators say shot two Ouachita Parish Sheriff's Office deputies. Arrest records show that while police prepared to raid the house where Wade was hiding, they received a call from a person who identified himself as Wade and said he was elsewhere.

SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 3 Midday" game were: 1-0-2 (one, zero, two)

(AP) — Western Michigan University is hosting a weeklong music festival dedicated to performers and composers who are interested in combining live performance and electronics. Concerts are held each evening at 7:30 p.m. The Wednesday performance features Joo-Won Park, the festival's guest composer and newly appointed assistant professor of music technology at Detroit's Wayne State University.

NEW YORK — Michael Herr, the author and Oscar-nominated screenplay writer who viscerally documented the ravages of the Vietnam War through his classic nonfiction novel “Dispatches” and through such films as “Apocalypse Now” and “Full Metal Jacket,” died after a long illness. A native of Syracuse, N.Y., with a knack for eavesdropping and a reverence for Ernest Hemingway, Mr. Herr was part of the New Journalism wave that included Tom Wolfe, Truman Capote and Norman Mailer and advocated applying... Читать дальше...

FULSHEAR, Texas (AP) — Police say a Houston-area woman fatally shot her two daughters before officers shot and killed her. Nehls says the two younger women had already been shot when a Fulshear police officer arrived and saw the mother with a gun in her hand, apparently preparing to shoot one of her daughters again.

ABERDEENSHIRE, Scotland (AP) — Donald Trump moved from hole to hole on his wind-swept Scotland golf course Saturday, not a club in hand but promotion on his mind, extolling North Sea views that are among "the great sights of the world." [...] when the abbreviated tour of Trump International Golf Links ended at the clubhouse, Trump ditched the pack of reporters trampling on his fairways, hopped into the driver's seat of a golf cart and gave media mogul Rupert Murdoch and wife Jerry Hall a ride around the property. Читать дальше...

Aunt Betty’s phallic corn dogs nearly got shut down in at the Pride Festival in San Francisco on Saturday, but the shape of the dog had nothing to do with it. Aunt Betty, whose real name is Betty Brett, is a caterer from Sonoma who, when she works the street fairs of Sonoma, sells regular corn dogs instead of anatomically correct ones. Aunt Betty was whipping up a fresh batch of what she calls Porno Dogs when three inspectors from the San Francisco Fire Department happened by, with clipboards. Читать дальше...

Carl Edwards won his 19th career pole Saturday, and on Sunday he’ll shoot for his second win in three years in the Toyota/Save Mart 350 at Sonoma Raceway. Edwards, who posted a speed of 95.777 mph, will be joined in the front row by Los Gatos native AJ Allmendinger (95.676), last year’s pole sitter. The 12 cars that posted the fastest single lap in the first 25-minute round advanced to the second, and the fastest driver in the 10-minutes second round won the pole. [...] even having the fastest... Читать дальше...

BOSTON (AP) — A rat-shaped pencil holder and skull ring are just two of the hundreds of items belonging to gangster James "Whitey" Bulger to hit the auction block. The court-ordered auction in Bulger's South Boston hometown is an attempt to raise money for the families of his victims, including 20 people killed by Bulger and his gang.

(AP) — A 17-year-old Chinese Crested Chihuahua with legs bowed out like a frog and an oozing sore is the winner of this year's World's Ugliest Dog contest. SweePee Rambo took home the title at the annual Petaluma World's Ugliest Dog contest Friday night at the Sonoma-Marin Fairgrounds after besting 15 other malformed pooches, The Santa Rosa Press Democrat reported Saturday (http://bit.ly/299mdGb). Judges in the contest, now on its 28th year, take into account bad appearance, including stench, poor... Читать дальше...

In a year in which the Senate map favors Democrats and the GOP is defending Senate seats in Democratic states such as Illinois, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, the West seemed to offer Republicans a lifeline. In Colorado, the GOP holds a 4-3 edge in congressional seats and unaffiliated voters are the largest voting bloc. Mike Coffman and Scott Tipton declined to enter the Senate race, and a field of 13 whittled down to five, most of whom adopted sharply conservative stands in a state that rewards moderates. Читать дальше...