Новости за 10.05.2017

RICHMOND, Va. — Richmond, Virginia-based energy giant Dominion Resources Inc. has changed its name to Dominion Energy Inc. The company said in a news release that shareholders voted Wednesday to approve the new name. The proposed change was announced in February. Chairman, president and CEO Thomas Farrell II said at the time that it would

INDIANAPOLIS — The Latest on three voucher-accepting Indiana schools seeking waivers from consequences for low-performance (all times local): 12:40 p.m. The Indiana Board of Education has denied three voucher-accepting private schools’ requests to delay consequences for their low school grades. The three schools are Fort Wayne’s Lutheran South Unity School and, in Indianapolis, Central Christian

DELTONA, Fla. — A 75-year-old man fatally shot himself while deputies were visiting his house to conduct a welfare check on his wife, and he left behind a hand-written suicide note saying he had buried her in the backyard, authorities in Florida said Wednesday. Laurence Caulfield admitted that he killed his wife in the note,

WASHINGTON — The normally spotlight-loving President Donald Trump has kept a rather low profile around his surprise firing of FBI Director James Comey. Leading up to the bombshell announcement, Trump had not opened an event to reporters in several days and offered few details on how he was spending his time. He passed the weekend

COLOGNE, Germany — Brock Nelson scored twice as the United States cruised to its third win of the ice hockey world championship with a 3-0 defeat of Italy on Wednesday. Nelson broke the deadlock with a wrist shot to the top right corner early on, then scored another in the second period, shorthanded, minutes before

PRISTINA, Kosovo — The Latest on the no-confidence vote on Kosovo’s government (all times local): 6:30 p.m. The U.S. embassy in Pristina has called on Kosovo’s outgoing Cabinet to continue to “to serve Kosovo’s citizens – all of them – who are their employers.” A statement issued Wednesday assured Kosovo that the U.S. will “continue

AUSTIN, Texas — The man suspected of stabbing four students at the University of Texas says he carried a knife on campus for protection and that on the day of the attack he had walked the campus in a dream-like state. Twenty-one-year-old Kendrex J. White said in a jailhouse interview with KPRC-TV in Houston that

MEXICO CITY — The Mexican Attorney General’s Office on Wednesday named a new head of its division for Crimes Against Freedom of Expression, a post tasked with investigating the killings of journalists in one of the world’s most dangerous countries for media professionals. A statement from the Attorney General’s office announced that Ricardo Sanchez Perez

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — United Airlines is denying that its staff told a Missouri woman to urinate in a cup rather than leave her seat to use the restroom on a flight from Houston. Nichole Harper told KCTV (http://bit.ly/2qqA6ei ) she had a sudden urge to urinate because of her overactive bladder on the flight

RENO, Nev. — Nevada coach Eric Musselman has signed a five-year extension through 2021-22 after leading the Wolf Pack to their first NCAA Tournament appearance since 2007. University President Marc Johnson announced the signing Tuesday, about seven weeks after reaching an agreement in principal following Musselman’s withdrawal from consideration for the top job at California.

LONDON — A woman who was shot by officers during a raid by counterterrorism police in London was charged along with her mother Wednesday with preparing acts of terrorism and plotting murder. The Metropolitan Police said Rizlaine Boular, 21, and two other women — one of them Boular’s mother, Mina Dich, 43 — are accused

FOLKSTON, Ga. — Ground crews with plows and bulldozers worked Wednesday to box in a vast wildfire threatening small communities at the edge of the Okefenokee Swamp in southeast Georgia. Firefighters have battled to keep the blaze away from rural homes near the Georgia-Florida state line since winds last weekend pushed flames outside the Okefenokee

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Olympic figure skater Michelle Kwan has filed papers in Rhode Island seeking divorce days after her husband, Clay Pell, filed for divorce in California. The Providence Journal (http://bit.ly/2pjXNoH ) reports both listed irreconcilable differences in their divorce papers. Pell filed for divorce March 27, while Kwan filed March 30. Kwan is a

TULSA, Okla. — An Oklahoma judge has awarded $2 million to the family of a man who was fatally shot at a Tulsa motel by an off-duty state trooper, court records show. The settlement approved Tuesday by Tulsa County District Court Judge Rebecca Nightingale requires former trooper Sheldon Robinson to pay the amount to the

SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft’s latest version of Windows is faring better than its maligned predecessor, but the software’s growth is still stunted by a shift away from personal computers. Windows 10 is now running on a half-billion devices nearly two years after its release, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella disclosed Wednesday during the software maker’s annual

INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana University officials announced Wednesday that they are launching a $55 million effort to study the impact of climate change in the state, which could have a profound impact on agriculture, industry and quality of life in the coming decades. University officials, including President Michael McRobbie, largely avoided politically charged terms like “climate

LONDON — NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says the alliance is considering sending several thousand more troops to Afghanistan, but not in a direct combat role. Stoltenberg said Wednesday that “we have received a request from our military authorities to increase our military presence in Afghanistan with a few thousand troops.” He said NATO would decide

DETROIT — Electric car maker Tesla has added another product to its lineup: Solar roof tiles. As of Wednesday, customers worldwide could order a solar roof on Tesla’s web site. Installations will begin next month in the U.S., starting with California. Installations outside the U.S. will begin next year, the company said. The glass tiles

OMAHA, Neb. — Filipino basketball celebrity Kobe Paras has announced he will transfer from Creighton to Cal State Northridge. Paras said in a Skype interview with Filipino media this week that he would leave the Bluejays after one season to play at Northridge, which is about an hour from where he attended high school in

NEW YORK — Harken back to when Shake Shack was not a burger-flipping force in more than 130 locations around the globe. Then, in 2001, it was a hot dog cart in Madison Square Park, where it opened as part of an art installation. It operated for three summers, losing money each year. So says

NORTHAMPTON, Mass. — A school bus driver has been charged in the death of a 9-year-old Massachusetts girl who became trapped in the bus door. Prosecutors said Wednesday that 70-year-old Tendzin Parsons, of Hawley, is scheduled to be arraigned Friday in Northampton District Court on a charge of negligent motor vehicle homicide. Authorities say third-grader

OMAHA, Neb. — A private equity firm is buying communications firm West Corp. for $2 billion. The Omaha, Nebraska-based company said Tuesday that Apollo Global Management had agreed to pay West investors $23.50 per share in cash. When debt is included, the companies say the deal is worth $5.1 billion. West spokesman Dave Pleiss told

MIAMI — The first tropical storm of the Pacific hurricane season is showing little change in strength and poses no threat to land. Adrian’s maximum sustained winds early Wednesday are 45 mph (75 kph). Adrian is centered about 435 miles (700 kilometers) south-southeast of Salina Cruz, Mexico, and is moving northwest near 14 mph (22

Helped by surveillance footage, prosecutors painted a harrowing picture of the events inside a Penn State University fraternity in early February that led them to charge 18 members in the death of a pledge. The video from cameras inside Beta Theta Pi, interviews with students and text messages allowed them to build a detailed timeline

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