Новости за 08.10.2017

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Police say a double shooting killed one man and critically injured another in north Philadelphia. A police spokeswoman says an unidentified man was shot multiple times while sitting in a vehicle shortly after 3:30 p.m. Sunday. He was pronounced dead at the scene. A 27-year-old man was shot twice in the head, twice in the chest, and also hit in the right leg and arm. He was taken to Temple University Hospital in critical condition. Police say no arrests were immediately made and no weapons had been recovered.

BEIRUT — Turkish forces shelled areas along its border with Syria’s northwestern province Sunday, an area dominated by al Qaeda-linked militants, a day after Turkey’s president said an operation in the area was under way to enforce a “de-escalation” zone. Mustafa Sejari, spokesman for a Turkey-backed Syrian armed group, said Turkish artillery responded with shells after coming under attack from al Qaeda-linked fighters across the border. Turkey’s private Dogan news agency reported... Читать дальше...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island has been awarded a federal grant to ensure its emergency responders can effectively respond to incidents involving hazardous materials. U.S. Sen. Jack Reed, a Rhode Island Democrat, announced the funding for the Rhode Island Emergency Management Agency Friday. The agency is getting a Hazardous Materials Emergency Preparedness grant for about $125,000 to help it better respond to hazardous materials transportation incidents. The grant program is administered by... Читать дальше...

STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) — The Stamford Symphony has announced that Barbara Smith-Soroca will be retiring as chief executive officer and president after leading the orchestra for 39 years. Smith-Soroca is scheduled to be honored at the orchestra's season-opening concert on Oct. 14. The Stamford Symphony said in a statement that Smith-Soroca joined the organization in 1979 and helped it gain prominence by employing top musicians from the New York City area and running music education and community engagement programs. Читать дальше...

CAVALIER, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota jury has convicted an environmental activist who targeted an oil pipeline a year ago. The Pembina (PEM'-buh-nuh) County jury found Michael Foster of Seattle guilty Friday of conspiracy to commit criminal mischief, criminal mischief and trespass. Foster was acquitted of reckless endangerment. Foster's actions were part of a broader four-state effort last October to draw attention to climate change. Foster did not deny using a bolt cutter to get through a chain... Читать дальше...

Ava DuVernay is concerned that audiences won’t have that “deep in my gut” feeling she has about her upcoming film adaptation of “A Wrinkle in Time” that she has. “We’re really, really in the weeds on trying to finish the movie right now,” the director said during Saturday’s New Yorker Festival, according to Vulture. “I love it, but I don’t know how it’s going to be received. I feel something very deep in my gut when Oprah’s voice says, ‘There’s a darkness in the world, and the only one who can stop it is …’ smash cut to a black girl. Читать дальше...

FILER, Idaho (AP) — A Filer teacher is in the national spotlight. The Times-News reports (http://bit.ly/2xQxp6V ) an eighth-grade English teacher at Filer Middle School, Sara Holley, was named last month to the National Education Association's "30 under 30" list. It recognizes 30 teachers from across the country who are younger than 30. Holley, who's in her third year of teaching, started her career as a kindergarten teacher. But she discovered it meant being a mother 24/7, which she said wasn't fair to her family. Читать дальше...

JAKARTA, Indonesia — Dozens of men, including several foreigners, were arrested in a raid of a gay sauna in Indonesia’s capital, police said Sunday, as lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people face increased hostility in the world’s most-populous Muslim nation. Police spokesman Argo Yuwono said Friday’s raid in downtown Jakarta will lead to seven people being charged under Indonesia’s pornography law, including the sauna’s owner and staffers. They face penalties of up to 10 years in prison and fines. Читать дальше...

INDIANAPOLIS - Another week, another heartbreaker. On Sunday, the 49ers sustained yet another agonizing loss, the latest version being a 26-23 overtime defeat to the Colts on Sunday at Lucas Oil Stadium. The 49ers have now lost their past four games by a combined 11 points and have dropped to 0-5 for the first time since 2010. On Sunday, they lost in overtime for the second straight week on a 51-yard field goal by Adam Vinatieri with 1:38 left in the extra session. Читать дальше...

RATON, N.M. (AP) — The northern New Mexico city of Raton has been awarded over $2.5 million in federal funding to improve its water treatment plant. The Department of Agriculture funding announced Friday by members of the state's congressional delegation includes a loan of $1.7 million and a grant of nearly $830,000. The announcement of the funding says it'll pay for work that includes repairing and replacement equipment while "correcting existing health and sanitary issues in order to make the facility... Читать дальше...

ELLICOTT CITY, Md. (AP) — Police in Maryland are investigating a shooting inside a Walmart store that left one man injured. Howard County Police said in a news release Sunday that officers were called around midnight for a report of a fight with shots fired at a store in Ellicott City. They arrived to find a man with a nonfatal gunshot wound. Police believe the victim went to a vehicle in the parking lot after he was shot, got a gun and fired "multiple retaliatory shots" toward the store. No one was hit by that gunfire... Читать дальше...

HARWOOD, Vt. (AP) — The grief is still fresh for families and friends of five teenagers killed in a collision with a wrong-way driver in Vermont. Sunday marked the one-year anniversary of the tragedy, and high school soccer coach Dan Weintraub says "a year is not a long time." Four teens were juniors at Harwood Union High School, while the fifth attended Kimball Union Academy in New Hampshire, where Weintraub was her coach. Harwood's senior class dedicated a gazebo to the five victims on Thursday. Читать дальше...

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LAS VEGAS (AP) — The abandoned baby strollers, shoes, phones, backpacks and purses strewn for days across the huge crime scene of the Las Vegas massacre were slowly being returned to their owners Sunday to become sad souvenirs of a horrific night. One week ago, the same scene was home to a happy day of country music for 22,000 people at the Route 91 Harvest festival. A few hours later, when 64-year-old Stephen Paddock opened fire on the crowd from the nearby Mandalay Bay hotel, killing 58 people... Читать дальше...

LONDON — British Prime Minister Theresa May, recovering from a dismal performance at her Conservative Party’s annual conference and a rare public threat to her leadership, says she’s not backing down in the face of political adversity. “I am a very determined person,” she told the Sunday Times. “I am not someone who gives up.” The same applies to her determination to fight back Conservative Party doubts about her leadership. May’s grip on the party’s loyalty has... Читать дальше...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Three teenagers have been wounded in a shooting outside a birthday party in Indianapolis. Indianapolis Metropolitan Police say Sunday that the teens -- ages 16, 14 and 13 -- were shot Saturday night on the city's northwest side. WXIN-TV reports that the older teens are boys. The 13-year-old is a girl. They were listed in good condition at an area hospital. The television station reports that shots were fired at a group from a car that had driving into a parking... Читать дальше...

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Greek police say they have arrested eight migrant traffickers who smuggled 49 migrants through Greece's land border with Turkey. The arrests of the traffickers, six Bulgarians, a Syrian and a Pakistani, were made Saturday in northeastern Greece, most close to the border. The biggest case involved two Bulgarians who had stashed 17 Syrians in a crypt inside a tourist bus. In two other cases, police chased down two vehicles to arrest four Bulgarian smugglers. In one, a lone driver carried five Pakistanis... Читать дальше...

BOSTON (AP) — Former President Bill Clinton is visiting Northeastern University for a student conference that's meant to inspire future leaders. Clinton is scheduled to speak at the Boston campus on Friday during the opening session of an annual event known as the Clinton Global Initiative University meeting. The event runs through Oct. 15 and is meant to connect students with experts on topics including education, climate change and public health. Others speaking at the event include Chelsea Clinton... Читать дальше...

HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii officials are grappling with how to control rats, snails and slugs that are known to carry roundworm parasites, which can cause significant harm to people. The state Department of Health has recorded 17 cases of rat lungworm disease this year, with the latest found in an infant last month, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported (http://bit.ly/2y8PxLe ) on Sunday. On the island of Oahu, the first case of the disease in seven years was found in Nick Booth, 29. Booth became sick in early July... Читать дальше...

VALATIE, N.Y. (AP) — A Massachusetts soldier who went missing several decades ago during World War II will be laid to rest this week in New York. Army officials say Sgt. Earl P. Gorman, of Lynn, Massachusetts, was accounted for on Aug. 9. He will be buried on Friday in Valatie, New York. The Army Air Forces technician was working as a radio operator on an aircraft in 1944, when he and his crew were attacked by German planes as the plane flew over Yugoslavia. The then-23-year-old Gorman was critically wounded. Читать дальше...

CAMARILLO, Calif. (AP) — The average price of a gallon of regular-grade gasoline fell 7 cents nationally over the past two weeks to $2.56. Industry analyst Trilby Lundberg of the Lundberg Survey said Sunday that the drop comes as crude oil prices drop and flooded refineries on the hurricane-battered Gulf Coast return to operation. Lundberg says she expects further price cuts as refiners make cheaper "winter grade" gasoline. The current price is 27 cents above where it was a year ago. Gas in San Francisco... Читать дальше...

PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron has inaugurated a major Picasso exhibition in Paris, focusing on one key year in the Spanish master's art and life. After visiting the show for an hour and a half with his wife Brigitte, Macron said he likes in Picasso's paintings a "great sensuality" and at the same time a "political meaning" especially in the years leading up to World War II. The "Picasso 1932. Erotic Year" show displays many portraits of Picasso's mistress Marie-Therese Walter —including a famous masterpiece... Читать дальше...

SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) — Federal marshals think they may finally know what happened to a Pennsylvania prison inmate who escaped from a work detail after a devastating flood almost a half-century ago. The U.S. Marshals Service says 43-year-old William Van Scoten was working on a State Correctional Institution-Dallas prison detail after Hurricane Agnes in 1972. He was two years into a 10- to 20-year burglary sentence. Officials said Friday a family member told them Van Scoten assumed the name of David Paul Hudson... Читать дальше...

KETCHIKAN, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska man lay dead near the streets of Ketchikan for more than 12 hours before police were called to check on the man. Ketchikan police were alerted to body of 55-year-old Richard Branda late Friday morning after he had been killed Thursday evening, the Ketchikan Daily News reported (http://bit.ly/2z7dPU6 ). Police have arrested a man in connection with the death. The initial call to police came in shortly before noon on Friday and reported the man was possibly asleep or passed out... Читать дальше...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A southeast Albuquerque hospital that had been placed on temporary lockdown as police check out a suspicious device has been reopened. Albuquerque police say a bomb squad has rendered the device safe. They didn't say what the device was or if it contained explosives. An explosive disposal unit was called to the scene after an employee of the Presbyterian Hospital found the device around 9 a.m. Sunday. The hospital and a segment of Central Avenue near the facility was closed by police until noon. Читать дальше...