Новости за 30.12.2017

There’s no denying that the biggest sensation in “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” are those adorable little porg creatures, whose squawk is a hybrid of a trio of feathered friends, according to sound designer Ren Klyce. “At Skywalker Sound there’s a chicken coop with these little chickens, and Coya Elliott, our first assistant, went down and recorded those chickens,” Klyce told Cinemablend. “And then we took that sound and slowed it down and stretched it out and found little chirps.” “We found this man who releases doves at weddings... Читать дальше...

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — Daryl Macon and Jaylen Barford combined for 61 points and Arkansas rallied from a nine-point second-half deficit to open Southeastern Conference play with a 95-93 overtime victory over No. 19 Tennessee on Saturday. The win is the sixth straight for the Razorbacks (11-2, 1-0), and it all but assures the school of its first national ranking in nearly three years. Arkansas was last ranked near the end of the 2014-15 season, and it's been 26th in each of the last two weeks in The Associated Press poll. Читать дальше...

Warriors vs. Grizzlies Time: 5:30 p.m. Where: Oracle Arena, Oakland Coaches: Steve Kerr, 4th season with Warriors (235-47 with Warriors and overall); J.B. Bickerstaff (interim), 1st season with Grizzlies (4-12 with Grizzlies and overall) On air: TV on NBC Sports Bay Area; Radio on 95.7 The Game Records... Читать дальше...

Here we are. Somehow we’ve managed to survive seven whole seasons of “Game of Thrones” — something that viewers of the show will know is notoriously difficult to do. But it’s not over yet. Winter has come and everything is really coming to a head in Westeros. We’ve come a really long way from when Daenerys was a timid teenager and Tyrion was a drunk who never did anything useful and nobody in Westeros was at war. Now everybody is at war, kings and princes have been dying left and right for years... Читать дальше...

SARGENT'S PURCHASE, N.H. (AP) — Extreme cold didn't get in the way of a heartwarming proposal on an icy mountainside. Josh Darnell, 31, of Londonderry, New Hampshire, dropped to his knee and popped the question after climbing to a scenic spot Thursday on Tuckerman's Ravine, on the southeastern side of Mount Washington. That same day it hit minus 34 (-37 Celsius) on the mountain's summit, which is more than 6,200 feet (1889.76 meters) high. There's a happy ending: Rachel Raske, 27, of Lowell, Massachusetts, said yes. Читать дальше...

TIMONIUM, Md. (AP) — Two women in Maryland are among dozens across the country who say they were sexually assaulted at a Massage Envy spa. The Baltimore Sun reported Friday that the women say they were assaulted by a male therapist at a Massage Envy in Timonium, which is outside Baltimore. The women sued 29-year-old Timothy Snyder and the spa. Snyder was acquitted on criminal charges. Snyder's criminal attorney, Kimberly Rothwell, said he followed his training and gave a normal massage. Читать дальше...

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Alarmed by the proliferation of false content online, state lawmakers around the country are pushing schools to put more emphasis on teaching students how to tell fact from fiction. Lawmakers in several states have introduced or passed bills calling on public school systems to do more to teach media literacy skills that they say are critical to democracy. The effort has been bipartisan but has received little attention despite successful legislation in Washington state, Connecticut, Rhode Island and New Mexico. Читать дальше...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina suspended guard Rakym Felder will return to school in January, although Gamecocks coach Frank Martin said he won't play for the team this season. Martin announced Felder's status on Friday. Felder was suspended indefinitely this summer after his arrest on assault charges. Those charges were dismissed in September. Martin said he met with Felder recently and has given him an unspecified set of things to do before he can return to the Gamecocks. Felder was arrested twice since October 2016. Читать дальше...

Comedienne Roseanne Barr has deleted tweets threatening to “retire right now” after an online twitter beef with liberals. On Friday, Barr posted a series of tweets saying she “had enough” of being “censored or silence chided or corrected” and announced she was retiring “right now.” Several of those tweets were caught by USA Today before Barr deleted them. i won’t be censored or silence chided or corrected and continue to work. I retire right now. I’ve had enough. bye! — Roseanne Barr (@therealroseanne) December 29... Читать дальше...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the New Mexico Lottery's "Pick 3 Day" game were: 1-3-6 (one, three, six)

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Education is questioning Nebraska's system for gauging school performance and whether it'll comply with the new federal education law. Nebraska submitted plans in September under the federal education law called the Every Student Succeeds Act, which replaced the No Child Left Behind law, the Lincoln Journal Star reported . The state's plan is based on its new system for accountability. It classifies all of Nebraska's schools in four categories: excellent, great, good and needs improvement. Читать дальше...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Police are trying to learn what motivated a partner in a law firm to shoot two of his colleagues before turning the gun on himself. A SWAT team arrived at an office building in Long Beach on Friday to find the gunman and one victim dead and learned that the second victim had gone to a hospital, police Sgt. Brad Johnson said at a news conference. The Los Angeles County coroner's office identified the victim on Saturday as Major Langer, 75, of Rolling Hills and the suspected gunman as John Mendoza, 58, of Redondo Beach. Читать дальше...

MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — George Weah gave his first public address as Liberia's president-elect Saturday, telling potential investors that the nation is "open and ready for business" and calling on Liberians who live abroad to come home. The former international soccer star spoke at Coalition for Democratic Change party headquarters, where he vowed to tackle corruption and asked members of his party to applaud the Liberians who elected him. Weah won Tuesday's runoff with 61.5 percent of the vote over Vice President Joseph Boakai... Читать дальше...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A tax credit for South Carolina drivers who save their gas receipts and a requirement that elections be held even when just one candidate are on the ballot are a few new laws in South Carolina in 2018. When the calendar turns Monday, state law will allow state residents to get a tax credit equal to the two-cent increase in the gas tax that went into effect in July with those receipts. Another new law bans state residents from buying large cats, apes or non-native bears. The... Читать дальше...

TROY, N.Y. (AP) — Two men were arrested Saturday on murder charges in the deaths of two women and two children who were found dead in their upstate New York apartment. Justin Mann and James White were arrested in their hometown, Schenectady, and pleaded not guilty in Troy City Court. According to the Times Union , Troy Police Chief John Tedesco said one of the defendants knew one of the victims. He declined to elaborate. Information given in court said the killings took place at about 9 p.m., Dec. Читать дальше...

MOSCOW (AP) — Police say all of the people taken hostage at a post office in Ukraine's second-biggest city have been released and the man who held them arrested. Ukrainian police chief Serhiy Knyazev says no one was injured in the standoff in Kharkiv. Police say the man said he had firearms and explosives, but he made no immediate demands. It wasn't clear how many hostages there were. Police said earlier that three women and two children were released following talks. A boy interviewed in a video... Читать дальше...

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — The state has dismissed all remaining claims against a Maine doctor who faced allegations of poor patient care. The Sun Journal reports that the decision by the Maine Board of Dental Practice brings to a close all existing charges against Dr. Jan Kippax. The dentist's license was temporarily suspended amid allegations that he extracted the wrong teeth and continued painful procedures despite pleas from patients to stop. A jury in October awarded a Maine man nearly $300,000 in... Читать дальше...

OLD FORGE, Pa. (AP) — A prosecutor has determined that police were justified in shooting and killing an armed bank robbery suspect following a chase in Pennsylvania. Lackawanna County District Attorney Shane Scanlon says officers had "no choice" but to shoot 40-year-old John Souder after he aggressively exited his vehicle and pointed a gun at them. The finding came after authorities reviewed police dash cam videos and tapes from the bank's surveillance system. Authorities say the shooting culminated a Dec. Читать дальше...

NEW YORK (AP) — The victims of New York City's deadliest fire in decades include a man who immigrated to the Bronx from Ghana and dreamed of becoming a military policeman. A relative tells The New York Times that Emmanuel Mensah had rescued a number of people then went back into the burning building, where he died of smoke inhalation. Twum Bredu (BREH'-doo) says Mensah had recently graduated from Army National Guard boot camp. Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro (NY'-groh) says the fire that killed a... Читать дальше...

MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Liberia's new president-elect says he will build on the institutional gains of the country's outgoing leader, who was Africa's first female president. George Weah on Saturday gave his first public address from party headquarters since he was declared president-elect of the West African nation. The former international soccer star says there's no place for corruption in Liberia. He is calling on investors to consider the struggling nation, saying it's open for business, and calling on Liberians abroad to return home. Читать дальше...

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (AP) — An attorney says mental illness has plagued a man accused of stabbing a puppy and leaving it to die in a suitcase in Florida. Thirty-one-year-old Brendan Evans is being held at the Broward County jail on multiple animal cruelty charges. He was arrested Nov. 15, about a month after police say he stabbed the pit bull and stuffed it into a suitcase. Rescuers named the puppy Ollie. The dog died at an animal hospital. In Sun Sentinel report , Evans' attorney, Sarah Anne Mourer,... Читать дальше...

NEW YORK (AP) — The daughter of key Black Lives Matter figure Eric Garner died Saturday after a weeklong hospital stay following a heart attack. "She was a warrior to the end. She stood up for justice for her father," the Rev. Al Sharpton said in announcing the death of Garner, 27, at a New York hospital. Garner's official Twitter account, run by her family and friends since she became ill, asked that she be remembered as a mother, daughter, sister and aunt with a heart "bigger than the world." In 2014... Читать дальше...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A state Supreme Court commission wants New Mexico to inject more accountability and oversight into its system under which guardians and conservators make financial and other decisions on behalf of incapacitated people. The Albuquerque Journal reports that implementation of the recommendations to the court, the governor and the Legislature would require $1 million to computerize filing and monitoring of conservator reports, hire auditors and employ special masters to handle grievances. Читать дальше...

The feud between Vin Diesel and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson just got a lot more interesting, as Diesel edged out Johnson to become 2017’s top-grossing actor at the box office. According to Forbes, Diesel topped the list with $1.6 billion in global ticketing receipts, thanks to the success of “xXx: The Return of Xander Cage” and “Fate of the Furious,” which stars both action superstars. While “xXx” earned over $346 million at the global box office, the eighth installment of the “Fast and Furious” series took in $1.2 billion in 2017... Читать дальше...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the "Pick Four-Midday" game were: 9-9-1-1, Fireball: 4 (nine, nine, one, one; Fireball: four)