Новости за 14.08.2015

INDIANAPOLIS - The Indiana State Department of Health says its staff has confirmed three people have been infected with E. coli.

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has tightened standards for the nation's landfills to reduce emissions of methane and other harmful air pollutants.

NEWPORT, Rhode Island - An executive at jewelry maker Alex and Ani has to pay about $15,000 to the owners of two Jet Skis he and other people took without permission and damaged earlier this month.

BILLINGS, Montana - A Wyoming company has entered a partnership to develop a Washington state coal port for shipments of the fuel to Asia, in a deal that gives Montana's Crow Tribe the future option of a 5 percent stake in the project.

HAVANA - Cuban-American poet Richard Blanco said he hopes the poem he read Friday at the reopened U.S. embassy in Havana will serve as a catalyst to an emotional reconciliation.

INDIANAPOLIS - A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court's dismissal of a lawsuit the parents of a missing Indiana University student filed against two men who were with her the night she disappeared four years ago.

BEVERLY HILLS, California - The power of writer David Simon's work has drawn remarkable actors to TV dramas including "The Wire" and "Treme."

NEW YORK - The philanthropist Susan Newhouse, wife of billionaire publishing magnate Donald Newhouse, died Thursday at her home in New York City following a long illness.

EDGARTOWN, Massachusetts - The Obama administration approved limited crude oil trading with Mexico on Friday, further easing the longstanding U.S. ban on crude exports that has drawn consternation from Republicans and energy producers.

KANSAS CITY, Missouri - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has declared an end to flooding problems on the lower Missouri River and is beginning to assess what repairs will be needed.

TERRE HAUTE, Indiana - Indiana State University has launched a sexual violence prevention and education initiative before fall classes begin next week.

INDIANAPOLIS - Indiana's health commissioner has approved a needle-exchange program for a third Indiana county to help officials there combat a hepatitis C epidemic.

ALBANY, New York - Payroll records suggest the hunt for two escaped killers in northern New York cost more than $1 million a day, with overtime alone for state troopers and corrections officers $22 million higher than last year.

BLOOMINGTON, Indiana - Smoking remains popular among young people in Indiana, but not in the form of traditional cigarettes, according to a report released Wednesday by Indiana University researchers.

NEW YORK - Nelson Peltz's Trian Fund Management has acquired a 7.08 percent stake in Sysco, making it the food distributor's largest shareholder.

PLANO, Texas - J.C. Penney's turnaround is gaining traction.

NEW YORK - Immaculate conception (sort of). Engagement. Breakup. Childbirth. Kidnapping.

LAFAYETTE, Indiana - It will likely be mid-September before repairs are completed on an Interstate 65 bridge near Lafayette that was closed last week because of safety concerns, state highway officials said Friday.

NEW YORK - Tyson Foods said Friday it will end beef production at a plant in Denison, Iowa, laying off about 400 workers as it cuts back on its capacity.

BEVERLY HILLS, California - The theme song for the annual rollout of fall and winter television shows could have been that cowboy classic "Home on the Range," where "seldom is heard a discouraging word" (seldom, anyway, from the throngs of producers and stars pitching their shows), "and the skies are not cloudy all day" (and even if they were, who would know, since the 17 days of sessions hosted by a vast array of networks were sequestered in the Beverly Hilton's International Ballroom, otherwise... Читать дальше...

NEW YORK - Volkswagen is recalling 420,000 vehicles in the U.S. because of a problem that can prevent front air bags from deploying in a crash.

SOUTH BEND, Indiana - Criminal charges won't be pursued against a former South Bend police chief in the case of wiretapping within the police department, a special prosecutor ruled.

NEW DELHI - For years along the Cornish coast of Britain, Atlantic Ocean currents have carried thousands of Lego pieces onto the beaches. In Kenya, cheap flip-flop sandals are churned relentlessly in the Indian Ocean surf, until finally being spit out onto the sand. In Bangladesh, fishermen are haunted by floating corpses that the Bay of Bengal sometimes puts in their path.

Britax is recalling more than 200,000 child car seats with harness adjuster buttons that may stick and cause the shoulder straps to loosen.

CARVER, Massachusetts - The nation's first Thomas the Tank Engine-themed amusement park is opening in Massachusetts this weekend.