Новости за 24.02.2017

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — New York's Rochester City School District is working to address a diversity gap among teachers. WHEC (http://bit.ly/2msl5CS ) says the district has started recruiting about two months ahead of schedule — and officials will travel as far as Puerto Rico as part of those efforts.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ellen DeGeneres has handed out college scholarships to the entire senior class of a New York City charter school. DeGeneres surprised the 41 students from Brooklyn's Summit Academy this week at her California studio during the taping of Thursday's episode of her chat show . The four-year scholarships paid for by Wal-Mart will cover tuition for any state university in New York. DeGeneres says the entire gift is worth $1.6 million. The school's first graduating class was last year. Читать дальше...

Teacher and former beauty queen Tara Grinstead vanished from her south Georgia home in 2005, leaving a mystery that had stumped investigators for nearly 12 years — until a tip led to an unexpected arrest. "When I heard, I just broke down in tears of relief, of anger, of sadness and frustration," said Wendy McFarland, a fellow teacher and friend of Grinstead's. Duke burglarized the teacher's home, and used his hands to kill her inside the residence, according to warrants that were read at a late Thursday court hearing... Читать дальше...

Per-Erik Muskos of the city council of Overtornea on the Arctic Circle says he made "a serious and formal" proposal Monday to add sex to the list of acceptable activities, which also include going to the gym or getting a massage, as well as eating.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is blaming the FBI for failing to stop leaks to the media, saying the information being reported is classified and could have a "devastating effect" on the country. Trump writes, The FBI is totally unable to stop the national security 'leakers' that have permeated our government for a long time.

WASHINGTON (AP) — White House chief of staff Reince Priebus asked a top FBI official to dispute media reports that President Donald Trump's campaign advisers were frequently in touch with Russian intelligence agents during the election, a White House official said. The New York Times reported that U.S. agencies had intercepted phone calls last year between Russian intelligence officials and members of Trump's 2016 campaign team. Priebus' discussion with FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe sparked outrage among some Democrats... Читать дальше...

(AP) — A man has been charged with murder in what some witnesses described as a racially motivated shooting at a crowded suburban Kansas City bar that left one Indian man dead and two other men hospitalized. Local police are working with the FBI to investigate the shooting Wednesday night in Olathe, Kansas, but have declined to describe the attack as a hate crime. A bartender at Austins Bar and Grill said Adam Purinton used "racial slurs" before he opened fire as patrons watched the University of Kansas-TCU basketball game on television. Читать дальше...

The Kalamazoo Gazette reports (http://bit.ly/2msewQG ) many of the Kalamazoo Public Schools students complained of stomach illnesses or flu-like symptoms Thursday. The district says the shutdown will allow ill students an extra day to recover before classes resume Monday and will allow crews to clean and disinfect buildings.

(AP) — Wildlife refuge officials say a man with a drone caused 1,500 elk to stampede half a mile. Refuge spokeswoman Lori Iverson said Thursday refuge officials gave the man from Washington, D.C., a $280 ticket after he launched the drone from a highway pullout and flew it over the resting elk herd.

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City police detective who became an internet sensation as the "Hipster Cop" for his fashionable wardrobe during the Occupy Wall Street protests is letting go of something he's been wearing for 25 years — his badge. The 51-year-old worked as a community affairs officer in the 1st Precinct, which encompasses the Zuccotti Park site where protesters gathered in 2011. The Staten Island resident laughs when he thinks about the whole "Hipster Cop" thing, but says it helped make... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Six years ago, as the "money, money, money, money" chorus of his reality TV show's theme song blasted, Donald Trump stepped out before the nation's largest gathering of conservative activists for the first time. Bannon said Breitbart News, which he led before joining Trump's team last summer, and other conservative outlets first took note of the brash billionaire at his CPAC debut. Stone and a gay Republican group had arranged the last-minute appearance, which Trump locked in... Читать дальше...

In Portola Valley, residents have always treasured their open space. Taking advantage of its proximity to 1,200-acre Jasper Ridge Preserve—and located on 18 acres of its own private land—127 Pinon Drive is being marketed as a “trophy home” in the middle of a “lavish woodland sanctuary,” according to its listing site. The 6,800-square-foot home has only

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Even at the "beginner" spots, surfing can be brutal to learn around in the Bay Area. The water is frigid, you get worked over trying to paddle out, and, odds are, you'll mostly catch closeout waves that will pound you many more times than you get a ride.

Ashley reveals the local stories he wishes he could have covered, experience with stalkers, an on-air bloody nose, and a carb-based guilty pleasure.

(AP) — A charter school in Flint is closed for the day after a bullet struck a public transit bus carrying students. The Flint Journal reports (http://bit.ly/2lzggKt ) Friday's closure of Madison Academy comes after authorities say a gunshot broke a rear window on a Mass Transportation Authority bus Thursday afternoon on the city's southeast side.

The Savannah Morning News (http://bit.ly/2lLQxPk ) reports that Armstrong's Alumni Association drafted a recommendation earlier this month to have Armstrong's main campus be renamed Georgia Southern University — Armstrong Campus. The University System of Georgia's Board of Regents agreed last month to merge Armstrong State with Georgia Southern in Statesboro to create the fourth largest university in the state.

A new poll finds that 8 in 10 say lawmakers should preserve federal funding that has allowed states to add coverage for some 11 million low-income people. Many congressional Republicans also want to rewrite the basic financial contract for Medicaid, the federal-state health insurance program covering low-income and disabled people. The survey found strong support across party lines for keeping the Medicaid expansion funding, with 69 percent of Republicans saying lawmakers should continue to provide the money... Читать дальше...

Department spokesman Robert McEntyre says state education officials believe transgender bathroom use in public schools should be left to local New Mexico school districts to decide. The Trump administration has lifted federal guidelines that said transgender students should be allowed to use public school bathrooms and locker rooms matching their chosen gender identity.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia's U.S. senators say the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency is providing a $1.9 million grant to the state. According to U.S. Sens. Joe Manchin and Shelley Moore Capito, the funds will be used by the Nicholas County School District for protective measures to secure temporary facilities destroyed or damaged in flooding last June.

(AP) — Black people who celebrate the civil rights movement and white people who commemorate the Civil War are suddenly finding themselves fighting on the same side in historic Selma, Alabama: against City Hall. Both groups say the city is squeezing them with demands for thousands of dollars in up-front payments to stage annual events that bring tens of thousands of visitors to an otherwise sleepy community where unemployment is high and boarded-up homes and businesses are a common sight. [...]... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is giving himself too much credit for sending criminal foreigners out of the country and saving money on fighter planes. TRUMP: We're getting gang members out, we're getting drug lords out, we're getting really bad dudes out of this country, at a rate nobody has ever seen before. ... It's a military operation because what has been allowed to come into our country, when you see gang violence that you've read about like never before and all of the things, much of that is people who are here illegally. Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Officials in Washington state, where recreational marijuana is legal, vow to fight any federal crackdown on the nascent industry after White House spokesman Sean Spicer said they should expect to see stepped-up enforcement of anti-pot laws. Enforcement would also shift away from marijuana policy under the Obama administration, which said in a 2013 memo that it would not intervene in states' marijuana laws as long as they keep the drug from crossing state lines and away from children and drug cartels. Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's travel ban has been frozen by the courts, but the White House has promised a new executive order that officials say will address concerns raised by judges that have put the policy on hold. The first order was met by legal challenges, confusion at airports and mass protests. In refusing this month to reinstate the travel ban, which a judge in Washington state had blocked from taking effect, the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals identified... Читать дальше...

(AP) — An Enfield education official is coming under fire after a photo of Abraham Lincoln was posted on his Facebook page with the caption "Haven't seen the democrats this mad since we took away their slaves." J.R. Romano, the head of the state's Republican Party, spoke on Sirard's behalf, saying the petition's organizers are trying to create a controversy where there isn't any.