Новости за 13.02.2017

SAN FRANCISCO — Tens of thousands of people below the tallest U.S. dam evacuated after its damaged emergency spillway threatened to give way and cause massive flooding. Here are answers to key questions about problems at Lake Oroville dam in Northern California: WHAT’S AT RISK? Failure of the spillway could send uncontrolled torrents of water

RALEIGH, N.C. — Four athletes from North Carolina’s Atlantic Coast Conference schools have written a letter urging state lawmakers to repeal a law that limits the protections of LGBT people. The letter was signed by North Carolina fencer Ezra Baeli-Wang, Duke football player Chris Taylor, North Carolina State diver Gabi McDermott and Wake Forest men’s

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — Terry Collins has his projected top five starting pitchers together in spring training for the first time in two years. Now the New York Mets manager hopes they stay healthy. “You see them feeding off one another. They’re sitting there, five lockers next to one another. You keep those guys

SHIPSHEWANA, Ind. — Authorities are offering a $10,000 cash reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction in the burglary of a northern Indiana gun store. The LaGrange County Sheriff’s Department says the break-in early Friday at Dutchman Hunting Supplies in Shipshewana resulted in the theft of a large number of firearms. The sheriff’s

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — The Latest on a rally held as Boeing employees consider if they’ll vote to join the Machinists union (all times local): 4 p.m. Community leaders say it’s time for Boeing employees to have union representation to protect their wages and wellbeing. Rep. David Mack told several hundred people gathered at a

VIENNA — Austrian police say they have detained a man described by local media as “Hitler’s double” for possible violations of laws against glorifying the Nazi era. Witnesses who have seen the unidentified 25-year-old say he sports a Hitler mustache, combs his hair in the style of the Fuehrer and dresses in Nazi-era regalia. Police

NORFOLK, Va. — Authorities say a tractor-trailer driver who initially survived after plunging off the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel last week succumbed to hypothermia and drowned. Donna Price is district administrator for Virginia’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. She says the death has been ruled accidental. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration recorded a water

JERUSALEM — Israel’s prime minister heads to Washington this week for a high-profile meeting with President Donald Trump that suddenly is clouded in uncertainty. After embracing Israel’s hard-line nationalist right throughout his presidential campaign, Trump appears to have softened some of his positions on key issues since taking office. Although Wednesday’s meeting is expected to

JUPITER, Fla. — Tyler Lyons recalls being impressed. Then he wasn’t so sure. Then, well, pretty much everyone realized what the Cardinals had in Seung-hwan Oh. A year ago, Lyons was admiring how his new bullpen mate was able to work the corners of the plate with an array of pitches. A couple weeks later,

NEW YORK — In a unanimous court decision, U.S. heavyweight boxer Deontay Wilder won his latest fight Monday. A Manhattan federal jury deliberated a half hour before finding in his favor in a civil action in which the World Boxing Council champion seeks $5 million for a fight that never happened against a Russian heavyweight

ARLINGTON, Texas — Left-hander Adam Loewen has agreed to a minor league contract with the Texas Rangers that includes an invitation to major league spring training. The deal was announced Monday, a day before Rangers pitchers and catchers report to spring training in Arizona. Loewen spent last season in the Arizona organization, going 5-3 with

BISMARCK, N.D. — Notable events in the dispute over the Dakota Access oil pipeline. December 2014 — Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners applies to the federal government to build the 1,200-mile Dakota Access pipeline to carry North Dakota oil through the Dakotas and Iowa to an existing pipeline in Illinois. The pipeline is projected to cost

NEW YORK — President Donald Trump’s travel ban already has harmed some of the nation’s top universities, stranding students, faculty and scholars abroad and making foreign schools more attractive to some of the world’s brightest students, lawyers for the learning institutions told a federal judge Monday. The schools said in papers filed in Brooklyn federal

WASHINGTON — Since the early months of his presidential campaign, Donald Trump has occasionally expressed bluntly critical remarks about the Federal Reserve’s performance under Chair Janet Yellen. Yellen was too “political,” Trump charged. Too willing to keep interest rates ultra-low for too long. Too inclined to favor overly strict regulation of banks. At one point,

PISCATAWAY, N.J. — Rutgers and Adidas have signed a six-year agreement in which the company will be the official athletic footwear, apparel and accessory brand of the Scarlet Knights. Athletic Director Pat Hobbs announced the partnership on Monday without saying how much money the Big Ten Conference school will make. The deal takes effect on

ATLANTA — Braves general manager John Coppolella said Monday he isn’t sure whether it is realistic to hope for a return this season of infielder Sean Rodriguez, who will have shoulder surgery. Rodriguez, who agreed to an $11.5 million, two-year contract with Atlanta in November, hurt his shoulder when a vehicle he was driving was

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Latest on a crab boat missing in the Bering Sea (all times local): 11:30 a.m. A Coast Guard officer on a high-endurance cutter says Bering Sea fishing vessels at this time of year face hazards from large waves to icing that can upset a boat’s balance. Lt. Brenden Kelley is operations

NEW YORK — Watching little Raina McCloskey romp around the Westminster dog show ring with her borzoi buddy, it was hard to tell who was leading whom. Because, really, Briar was so big Raina could’ve ridden him. There were a lot of warm-and-fuzzy sights when America’s top pooch parade began Monday. But something cuter than

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Tuscaloosa police say Alabama guard Lester Cotton has been arrested on a misdemeanor marijuana possession charge. Police said in a statement released Monday that Cotton was arrested on Friday at about 11 p.m. during a traffic stop. The officer found an unspecified amount of marijuana and drug paraphernalia after noticing the smell

CAMBRIDGE, Ohio — A New York graduate student seeking historic recognition for John Glenn’s birthplace in Ohio says the proposal has been rejected. The Times-Reporter of Dover-New Philadelphia reports (http://bit.ly/2l8jCVn) state history officials wrote 24-year-old Adam Sackowitz that the Cambridge home in eastern Ohio where Glenn was born in 1921 wasn’t a strong candidate for

SURPRISE, Ariz. — Reliever Seth Maness has agreed to a minor league contract with the Kansas City Royals and will report to big league spring training with a chance to earn a job in their rebuilt bullpen. Maness, whose deal was announced Monday, underwent an experimental procedure on his right elbow in August to repair

PARADIS, La. — A pipeline fire that broke out Thursday night in south Louisiana, injuring two people and killing one, has been extinguished. Phillips 66 said in a Monday morning news release that the fire was out as of 8:30 a.m. Officials in St. Charles Parish said they began receiving calls Thursday about an explosion

FARMINGTON, Utah — A Utah teenager accused of firing a shotgun into the ceiling of a junior high classroom before being disarmed by his parents agreed to a plea deal with prosecutors Monday. The 15-year-old boy pleaded guilty to two felony charges: theft of a firearm and shooting toward a building, the Standard-Examiner in Ogden

MADRID — Spain’s National Court is summoning the former heads of Spain’s central bank and the stock market watchdog to be questioned for failing to stop the disastrous flotation of a savings bank that had to be bailed out. Eight officials, including former Bank of Spain governor Miguel Angel Fernandez Ordonez and Julio Seguro, the

LOS ANGELES — Bob Miller, the Hall of Fame television play-by-play announcer for the Los Angeles Kings, will miss another seven games while he continues recuperating from a mild stroke he suffered last month. The team said Monday that Miller is recovering at home and “remains in great spirits.” The 78-year-old announcer was stricken on