Новости за 25.11.2016

BOWLING GREEN, Ohio (AP) — The State Highway Patrol says troopers found 71 pounds of marijuana and other drugs wrapped as Christmas gifts in a vehicle that was stopped for a driving violation in northwest Ohio. The patrol says the drugs seized Monday on Interstate 80 in Wood County, south of Toledo, have an estimated street value of $330,000.

NEW YORK (AP) — A Congolese boy who was severely disfigured in a chimpanzee attack is marveling doctors with his resiliency a year after he was brought to New York to undergo reconstructive surgery. Dunia lives with Chaix, his wife and their 9-year-old daughter Annabelle, who walks to school with Dunia arm in arm. On a recent afternoon, Dunia played video games with Anabelle before reading the Dr. Seuss classic "The Cat in The Hat." "A lot of the social stigma that he came with is now gone," said Dr. Читать дальше...

"Make Way for Ducklings" opens Friday, commemorating the 75th anniversary of the children's book of the same name. The heartwarming story and elegant illustrations in "Make Way for Ducklings" have dazzled readers for decades, but especially so in Boston, where bronze statues of the duck family are a fixture in the downtown Public Garden. [...] Ducklings" fans might argue there is no better place for a McCloskey retrospective than the Museum of Fine Arts, situated less than 2 miles from the spot where the bronze birds call home. Читать дальше...

DETROIT (AP) — Aretha Franklin's lengthy version of the national anthem ahead of the Detroit Lions-Minnesota Vikings matchup may have been as much a topic at Thanksgiving dinner as the game itself. The CBS production team got in on the fun during the game by including Franklin in a time of possession graphic .

(AP) — Police have arrested a third suspect in the fatal shooting last year of a former Worcester high school football star. Bath was held on $250,000 cash bail after pleading not guilty to manslaughter, assault with a dangerous weapon, and carrying a firearm without a license at his arraignment in Superior Court.

(AP) — The West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission reports that more students are entering four-year colleges in West Virginia this year with almost 4 percent more freshmen than last year while overall enrollment remains steady. According to the commission, the college retention rate, meaning students returning for their second enrolled year, is nearly 71 percent, the highest level in five years.

A top adviser to President-elect Donald Trump has gone on Twitter to note opposition among some of his supporters to selection of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney as secretary of state. In a pair of posts on her verified Twitter account @kellyannePolls on Thursday, Trump spokeswoman Kellyanne Conway seemed to be stating an argument against the placement of Romney in Trump's Cabinet. In another, she makes references to former secretaries of state Henry Kissinger and George Schultz, both Cabinet secretaries in Republican administrations... Читать дальше...

Conventional wisdom often says that spring is the best time to sell a home and that winter (with its cold, rainy weather and likelihood of holiday travel) is the worst. But new data from Redfin shows that while, yes, spring does see the quickest sales and the greatest likelihood for selling above list price, winter

STREET SOCCER BENEFIT CHANGE OF VENUE This is the fourth year FootySF will be hosting our MLS Cup Final Viewing Party as a benefit for the Bay Area chapter of Street Soccer USA. For the past 3 years, our annual fundraiser has been held at McTeague’s Saloon, and they’ve been gracious and generous hosts. But

Ohio State and Miami University professors teamed up with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources to devise the "FanQuakes Magnitude Scale," and have planted sensors around the stadium this year to measure the seismic activity created by fans. At a more advanced level, we'll use the data to teach data reduction and collection as well as wave propagation, earthquakes and the local geology. Jeffrey Fox, a seismologist at the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, said fan quakes present a good opportunity... Читать дальше...

The video includes aerial shots of the main campus, features students dancing and building a race car, and shows New Mexico sights such as snow-covered mountains. There's usually a slight decline between the fall and spring semester, so the effects of the campaign on enrollment likely wouldn't be visible until next fall.

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — The president of the University of Toledo is telling students that their safety is her top priority after three sexual assaults were reported in little over a month since mid-October. University President Sharon Gaber sent a letter to the campus community this past week that says the university and its police department are investigating all three reported assaults.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The 144-year-old shipwreck of a rare sailing vessel that typically wasn't used for long voyages on the Great Lakes has been found in deep water off Lake Ontario's New York shore, according to two underwater explorers. Western New York-based explorers Jim Kennard and Roger Pawlowski announced Friday that they identified the wreck as the Black Duck in September, three years after initially coming across it while using side-scan sonar in 350 feet of water off Oswego, New York. The ship's captain... Читать дальше...

ISTANBUL (AP) — CORRECTS: President Erdogan warns he will open border gates, let migrants leave if EU continues threatening Turkey. (Corrects APNewsAlert that said Erdogan was the prime minister )

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Cold weather and freezing temperatures that engulfed a remote northern province in Afghanistan this week killed at least 20 people, all of them internally displaced and including several children, Afghan officials said Friday. The area in the remote province, which borders Turkmenistan, has no electricity or medical facilities and the road linking it with the provincial capital of Shibirghan has been cut off by the Taliban.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Florence Henderson, who went from Broadway star to become one of America's most beloved television moms in "The Brady Bunch," has died, her manager and her publicist said. Henderson had suffered heart failure, her manager Kayla Pressman said in a statement. On the surface, "The Brady Bunch" with Henderson as its ever-cheerful matriarch Carol Brady, resembled just another TV sitcom about a family living in suburban America and getting into a different wacky situation each week. Читать дальше...

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Police have seized 120 live cobras being carried in boxes on a bus in Vietnam in violation of a law banning transportation of products dangerous to people. Tuoi Tre state newspaper reported the bus with four passengers was stopped by police in the central province of Dak Nong on Wednesday night.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A long-distance first lady will be one of the many different things about Donald Trump's administration. Breaking with tradition, Melania Trump and 10-year-old son Barron will remain in New York City until the end of the school year, after the new president moves into the White House on Jan. 20. The decision sets Melania Trump apart from other first ladies.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump holds stock in the company building the disputed Dakota Access oil pipeline, and pipeline opponents warn that Trump's investments could affect any decision he makes on the $3.8 billion project as president. While Trump's stake in the pipeline company is modest compared with his other assets, ethics experts say it's among dozens of potential conflicts that could be resolved by placing his investments in a blind trust, a step Trump has resisted. The delay... Читать дальше...

BERLIN (AP) — Germany's Lufthansa says it has canceled 830 short- and medium-haul flights affecting 100,000 passengers after a pilots' strike entered its third day in a long-running dispute over wages. Cockpit is seeking retroactive raises of 3.66 percent a year going back 5½ years, a demand Lufthansa says is impossible as it faces increasing competition from Gulf airlines and European budget carriers.

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A train collision on Friday in northern Iran killed at least five people and injured 20, Iran's state media reported. State TV said accident happened in subzero temperatures when a passenger train that was in motion hit another that had stopped at a station about 250 kilometers (150 miles) east of the capital, Tehran.

Two possible appointments loom: retired neurosurgeon and former presidential candidate Ben Carson as secretary of housing and urban development and billionaire investor Wilbur Ross Jr. as commerce secretary. The most recent Cabinet-level picks to be announced were South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley to serve as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and charter school advocate Betsy DeVos to lead the Education Department. In Trump's case, he has set $1 million donation limits for corporations and no limits for individual donors... Читать дальше...

Ueckermuende zoo director Katrin Toepke told the dpa news agency Friday that the emu had died of the H5N8 strain of the virus, which can easily spread among birds but isn't known to infect humans.

SINGAPORE (AP) — Singapore's Defense Ministry says a shipment of nine of its armored personnel carriers has been delayed by customs authorities in the Chinese territory of Hong Kong. The Defense Ministry notice says no ammunition was included in the shipment, which it said had been held under a "request for routine inspections" by Hong Kong customs.

For firefighters, emotional stress often the deadliest enemy (AP) — Battalion Chief David Dangerfield's nickname was "Super Dave," a moniker the veteran firefighter had earned over the years for his cheerful, get-things-done personality. The leader of a fire department dive team in a quiet Florida beach community of 15,000 volunteered for charities helping kids and families and was the 2013 Treasure Coast Emergency Service Provider of the Year. Dangerfield's death shined a light on firefighters who suffer post-traumatic stress disorder... Читать дальше...