Новости за 08.08.2015

VINITA PARK, Missouri - A Ferguson court clerk fired over racist emails uncovered by the U.S. Justice Department after the police shooting death of Michael Brown has a new court job in another suburban St. Louis.

WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina - The U.S. Justice Department failed to prove a North Carolina county sheriff ordered deputies to target Hispanic residents in violation of their civil rights, a federal judge ruled Friday.

YORK, Pennsylvania - A Maine man who travels the nation to document the final resting places of poets has completed a summer tour in which he visited his 500th grave.

PHILADELPHIA - A Philadelphia judge has reversed 158 more narcotics convictions amid a long-running probe of seven narcotics officers, even though the officers were mostly acquitted of corruption charges.

AUGUSTA, Maine - Some shipbuilding maintenance employees in Maine are splitting a $3 million lottery jackpot.

ATLANTA - The administrator of Bobbi Kristina Brown's estate has added a wrongful death count to the lawsuit against her partner.

BAGHDAD - Thousands of Iraqis braved the scorching summer heat to stage a huge protest in central Baghdad on Friday, calling on the prime minister to dissolve the parliament and sack corrupt government officials.

NEW YORK - Verizon, the nation's largest wireless provider, will stop offering phones at discounted prices when customers sign two-year service contracts.

INDIANAPOLIS - Democratic gubernatorial front-runner John Gregg praised Indiana schools Superintendent Glenda Ritz, his chief Democratic rival who dropped out of the race.

An alderwoman in Frederick, Maryland, is renewing her decade-old quest to remove from City Hall a sculpture of the U.S. Supreme Court chief justice who wrote the 1857 Dred Scott decision affirming slavery.

BEVERLY HILLS, California - Lady Gaga is going from pop star to the hospitality industry - she'll be playing a hotel owner in "American Horror Story: Hotel."

CINCINNATI - Investigators probing a crash involving a van and a train that killed an adult passenger and injured 9 children and the van's driver are looking into whether prescription drugs might have played a role.

Puerto Rico is staggering under a $72 billion public debt load that its governor has said the U.S. territory cannot pay and must restructure. The island has missed a debt payment and its worsening economic crisis has spooked investors who fear it's headed toward default, with no options for a bailout or bankruptcy declaration. Here's a brief explanation of how Puerto Rico accumulated so much debt, how its territorial status complicates matters and how it could emerge from a nearly decade-long economic slump. Читать дальше...

CAMPBELLTOWN, Pennsylvania - A New Jersey man fatally shot by Pennsylvania police in a soybean field had stolen 81 handguns from a gun shop, authorities said.

MEXICO CITY - In the pantheon of Mexico's pre-Hispanic gods, most Aztec deities are depicted as brutal, blood-thirsty beings only appeased by human sacrifices.

OKLAHOMA CITY - An Oklahoma man convicted of illicit sexual conduct with children at a Kenyan orphanage has challenged the constitutionality of the law he was convicted of violating and wants a federal judge to throw out a jury's guilty verdicts.

RALEIGH, North Carolina - RALEIGH, North Carolina - An endangered loggerhead sea turtle that died after being found with a crushing head wound at a North Carolina national park may have been attacked by a person, authorities said Friday.

NEW YORK - State health teams will deploy to the Bronx to help collect and test samples from cooling towers amid a deadly outbreak of Legionnaires' disease as the number of those sickened grew by one to 101, officials said Friday.

PHILADELPHIA - When Pope Francis speaks outside Independence Hall in September, he will stand at the same lectern that President Abraham Lincoln used to deliver the Gettysburg Address.

BALTIMORE - A psychology firm under investigation for alleged contract violations involving Baltimore police officers' assessments for mental stability will not get more referrals from the city during the probe, the mayor said Friday.

HONOLULU - Atop Hawaii's Mauna Kea, where some Native Hawaiians have been peacefully protesting the construction of what would be one of the world's largest telescopes, astronomers have spent the past 40 years observing our universe and helping make some of the most significant discoveries in their field.

ELSMERE, Kentucky - Police say a northern Kentucky officer has fatally shot a man involved in a domestic dispute and a woman injured in the altercation has died.

OMAHA, Nebraska _ Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BRK.A) on Friday reported second-quarter profit of $4.01 billion.

BOSTON - Two beacons that guided New England mariners past treacherous shoals for generations are back in the spotlight.

WATERBURY, Vermont - For years, the company now known as Keurig Green Mountain provided well-paying, stable employment in Vermont. That's about to change.