Новости за 18.08.2017

NEW YORK — Taylor Swift had a “blank space, baby” across social media Friday — and Swifties went wild. There was no immediate word from the Swift camp on what happened, but the “Blank Space” pop star is known for promotional trickery on her social streams ahead of major music drops. In addition to Facebook,

GOSHEN, Ohio — A 13-year-old boy who received a heart transplant months ago has died on the first day of school. WCPO-TV in Cincinnati (http://bit.ly/2fQHKL5 ) reports Peyton West died Thursday. His family says he was born with hypoplastic left heart syndrome and needed three open-heart surgeries before his fifth birthday. He had to have

GREENSBORO, N.C. — The nation’s largest utility is dropping a demand for an advance payment to cover the possibility of delinquent power bills from a museum that honors a historic lunch-counter sit-in. The North Carolina Utilities Commission on Friday posted terms of a settlement between Duke Energy and the operators of the International Civil Rights

SALT LAKE CITY — Eclipse mania is building and so is demand for the glasses that make it safe to view the first total solar eclipse to cross the U.S. in 99 years. Lines are forming, prices are rising and shelves are emptying as people scurry to obtain special eyewear to view the sun Monday

DOVER, Del. — A Delaware judge has dismissed a class-action lawsuit filed by former stockholders of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia over the company’s 2015 acquisition by Sequential Brands. The lawsuit said that Stewart leveraged her position as controlling stockholder to secure greater consideration for herself than was paid to other stockholders. They also accused Sequential

PORTLAND, Ore. — Police could have prevented the fatal stabbing of two men who came to the aid of teenage girls being harassed on Portland light-rail train if they had taken an earlier complaint against a white supremacist more seriously, a woman said Friday. Demetria Hester, who is black, told reporters Jeremy Christian threw a

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A former Massachusetts police officer who asked people to send him nude pictures of their daughters has pleaded guilty to a federal child pornography charge. Former Attleboro police Sgt. Richard Woodhead admitted Friday in U.S. District Court in Providence that he attempted to receive pornographic images of a child under 12. The

NEW ORLEANS — Young teenagers were safety monitors along a Louisiana obstacle course when a wooden climbing framework collapsed under the weight of more than 20 “Warrior Dash” competitors in October, an investigator revealed Friday. Nearly a year after the collapse of the “Diesel Dome,” authorities filed five arrest warrants Friday against contractors accused of

WASHINGTON — The early eclipse weather forecast looks best in the West and least in the East with patchy clouds muddling up the picture in between. As of Friday, the forecast for Monday’s total solar eclipse shows Oregon and Idaho as the most promising for clear sky views, while South Carolina is the most likely

BRISTOL, Tenn. — Brad Keselowski is closing his truck series team at the end of the season, a decision that in part came down to him losing money on the venture. Brad Keselowski Racing has fielded trucks in NASCAR since 2008, and more than a dozen young drivers have come through his organization. His team

BRISTOL, Tenn. — JTG Daugherty Racing has signed Chris Buescher to a multiyear contract extension to drive the No. 37 Chevrolet. Buescher began as a development driver with Roush Fenway Racing. He competed in the ARCA Racing Series for five years, won the ARCA Championship in 2012 and moved to the Xfinity Series in 2014.

Melanie Oudin is retiring from professional tennis, eight years after her captivating run to the U.S. Open quarterfinals as a teenager. The 25-year-old American announced her decision in a series of posts on Twitter on Friday. “Tennis has given me so much and I will always be grateful,” Oudin wrote. “It wasn’t exactly the entire

Baby rattles that pose a choking hazard to children are among this week’s recalled consumer products. Others include boots and batteries in refurbished phones. Here’s a more detailed look: BABY RATTLES DETAILS: BRIO soft hammer baby rattle toys. They have a wooden handle with a white plastic teething ring at one end and a red,

COSTA MESA, Calif. — If there were any doubts that Los Angeles Chargers wide receiver Keenan Allen is healthy again, joint practices with the Rams and New Orleans Saints have quashed them. Allen caught touchdowns in live red-zone and goal-line drills against the Saints, and also had an impressive one-handed grab in the 7-on-7 period.

BAD GRIESBACH, Germany — Defending champion Anthony Wall produced his second big finish in as many days to move into the last 16 at the Paul Lawrie Match Play with a 1-up victory over Haydn Porteous on Friday. The Englishman, who won the European Tour event when it was staged in Scotland last year, was

BEIRUT — The United Nations says the first round of a vaccination campaign following a polio outbreak in eastern Syria has been completed. Fran Equiza, the UNICEF representative to Syria, says the relief agency teamed up with the World Health Organization and local partners to vaccinate 355,000 children under 5 years of age in the

SAN FRANCISCO — California is tightening the strictest rules in the nation on a pesticide that is popular with farmers over new health concerns, officials said Friday. Farmers use chlorpyrifos (klor-PHIR-e-fos) to kill pests that attack a wide variety of crops like grapes, almonds and cotton grown in California, the nation’s agricultural leader, as well

NEW YORK — The captain’s team just got a little bigger. Retired New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter and his wife Hannah have welcomed their first child. According to a tweet Friday from The Players’ Tribune , the media platform founded by Jeter, Bella Raine Jeter was born Thursday. Her birth came as the 14-time

MASON, Ohio — Garbine Muguruza fought off Svetlana Kuznetsova to reach the Western & Southern Open semifinals with a 6-2, 5-7, 7-5 win on Friday. The Wimbledon champion clinched her second straight W&S semifinal berth with a forehand deep into the corner that Kuznetsova could only steer into the net. Muguruza needed 2 hours, 45

CHICAGO — Police say a gunman standing on a downtown Chicago subway platform opened fire at an arriving train in a targeted attack. Police say a male victim was shot at about 7:45 p.m. Thursday. He’s in stable condition at a nearby hospital. Chicago police deputy Supt. Kevin Navarro says the shooter waited for the

MEXICO CITY — It is the first time that Hilda has held a paintbrush, but she’s happy with the result. She painted herself, her three daughters and her husband all smiling on a mural on a school in central Mexico City. The smiles and the brilliant colors, however, mask the pain of assaults and rapes

CROWN POINT, Ind. — A police merit board has fired a northwest Indiana sheriff’s officer charged in a hit-and-run crash after last year’s Gary Air Show. The Post-Tribune reports that the Lake County Sheriff’s Police Merit Board on Thursday voted to fire Lt. Guy Mikulich effective immediately. The board previously found the 38-year-old guilty of

ROCHESTER, N.H. — The mother of slain journalist James Foley is urging action on a position that has remained unfilled since President Donald Trump took office. Rochester, New Hampshire, resident Diane Foley traveled to Washington to speak with hostage recovery and counterterrorism officials on Friday. The Portsmouth Herald reports (http://bit.ly/2wnPGcX ) she hopes to persuade

WEST DES MOINES, Iowa — Europe took a 2 ½ – 1 ½ lead over the U.S. on Friday after foursome play at the Solheim Cup. European star Anna Nordqvist and England’s Georgia Hall won their match by three holes. Karine Icher teamed with Catriona Matthew to beat their American counterparts by a hole. Solheim

OWINGS MILLS, Md. — The Baltimore Ravens have signed center Jeremy Zuttah, who returns to the team that traded him to San Francisco in March. Zuttah started every game last year and made the Pro Bowl as an alternate. He was dealt to the 49ers so Baltimore could save salary-cap space and move up 12