Новости за 27.03.2018

SALT LAKE CITY — The Mormon church is changing its guidelines for how local leaders handle sexual abuse reports and one-on-one meetings with youth a week after a former prominent missionary leader was accused of sexually assaulting two women in the 1980s. The changes announced Monday by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

MILLBROOK, Ala. — A man arrested in Alabama and accused of producing a viral child porn video has been charged in federal court. News outlets report prosecutors announced 11 child pornography production charges against 44-year-old Germaine Moore, who authorities say is the focus of child sexual abuse cases in Alabama and Michigan. A criminal complaint

TOLEDO, Ohio — An Ohio man has been convicted of killing a university student who disappeared while bicycling. James Worley was convicted by a jury Tuesday of aggravated murder and kidnapping in the 2016 death of University of Toledo student Sierah Joughin (JAW’-gihn) and could face the death penalty. The 20-year-old student was found dead

HONOLULU — A lawsuit filed in federal court in Utah seeks to grant U.S. citizenship status to American Samoans. Lead plaintiff John Fitisemanu, and others who were born in American Samoa, are asking the court for citizenship under the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution, which confers citizenship at birth to anyone born in the U.S.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A man suffered serious head injuries when he was struck by an airplane taking off from ice in Alaska’s Beaufort Sea during Navy exercises. The civilian employee of the Navy’s Arctic Submarine Laboratory is expected to recover. Anchorage television station KTVA reports the man was at the base camp on March 20

MOSCOW — Russia’s aviation agency says a passenger plane has aborted a takeoff from one of Moscow’s airports because of smoke in the cabin, but no one has been hurt. Rosaviatsiya said the Boeing 737 operated by Russian carrier Globus was making its takeoff run at Moscow’s Domodedovo airport when the crew spotted smoke in

Writer-director Aaron Katz’s “Gemini ” is a very stylishly executed and well-cast attempt at a Lynchian neo-noir that doesn’t really work. Glum and meandering, the Los Angeles-set mystery about a Hollywood starlet and her assistant starts off promising enough but trudges along aimlessly to a deeply silly and maddening end. Heather Anderson is the name

While some say there is no such thing as a sleeper anymore, there certainly is still such a thing as a bust. A bust is a player that does not return the value that you paid on draft day. Can a player be a bust and still be used in your lineup? Of course, but

CARACAS, Venezuela — The new head of Venezuela’s famed youth orchestra network says he will strive to uphold the program’s legacy of musical excellence and social service as it faces one of the toughest periods in its history following the death of its charismatic founder. In an interview at the network’s Caracas headquarters, incoming director

NEW YORK — The speculation is wide, the rumors numerous and the denials firm. The crime? Somebody allegedly bit Beyonce on the face at a party in December. How do we know this? Because Tiffany Haddish told us so, more specifically, GQ magazine in a profile released Monday. She didn’t nail the culprit but set

LOS ANGELES — CBS’ “60 Minutes” proved it still has the moves in its 50th year to dominate the ratings. The news magazine’s interview with Stormy Daniels was the most-watched program for the week of March 19 with 22.1 million viewers. The adult film star is alleging a 2006 sexual encounter with Donald Trump, which

MOSCOW — A court in southern Russia has ruled to uphold an injunction to block an online investigation featuring a woman who has boasted of her relationship with a Russian oligarch. The video posted in February by Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny drew from the social media account of Anastasia Vashukevich, a Belarusian woman who

LAKE STATION, Ind. — Fire swept through a northwestern Indiana shopping plaza, destroying several businesses as it took crews about four hours to extinguish the blaze. The fire was reported about 12:30 a.m. Tuesday in the plaza in the Lake County city of Lake Station. Fire Chief Chuck Fazekas tells The (Northwest Indiana) Times that

Even among the elite in women’s college basketball, UConn stands out. The Huskies are back in the Final Four for an 11th straight season, breaking a tie with John Wooden and the UCLA men’s program for the Division I record. UConn beat defending national champion South Carolina 94-65 on Monday night to earn the trip

JERUSALEM — The Israeli government says Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been admitted to a Jerusalem hospital with a high temperature and a cough. The statement released Tuesday quoted his personal physician as saying he would undergo tests, without elaborating. The Ynet news website said Netanyahu, 68, suffered a throat infection two weeks ago. It

CHENEY, Wash. — Eastern Washington head volleyball coach Michael King and assistant coach Nathan Fristed have been relieved of their duties, effective immediately. Athletic director Lynn Hickey made the announcement Tuesday. Hickey said the issue is a personnel matter and declined additional comment. Hickey says leadership of the volleyball program will be handled by the

LOS ANGELES — Portuguese midfielder Andre Horta is joining Los Angeles Football Club as the MLS expansion team’s third designated player. LAFC announced the deal Tuesday. The 21-year-old Horta has spent the past season on loan to SC Braga from Benfica, the defending champions of Portugal’s Primeira Liga. He scored one goal for Benfica last

CLEMSON, S.C. — Audra Smith is out as Clemson’s women’s basketball coach after five struggling seasons. Clemson athletic director Dan Radakovich announced the decision Tuesday. Smith entered the season looking like her team had turned the corner after the Tigers went 15-16 in 2016-17, an improvement of 11 wins from a year earlier. But Clemson

DALLAS — The Seattle Seahawks released quarterback Trevone Boykin shortly after his girlfriend alleged in a television interview that he physically assaulted her in Texas. The practice squad player was released from the team Tuesday, after WFAA-TV in Dallas posted an interview with Boykin’s girlfriend. She alleges he broke her jaw during an altercation last

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — The state of Michigan has declared a winner in its contest to find new ideas for preventing Asian carp from invading the Great Lakes. The top award of $200,000 in the “Carp Tank” competition goes to Edem Tsikata, a software consultant at Harvard Medical School in Boston. He proposed using specially

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Former Toronto Raptors coach Darrell Walker has been hired as the coach at Arkansas-Little Rock. Walker’s hiring follows the firing of former coach Wes Flanigan this month after a school-record 25 losses by the Trojans. The 57-year-old Walker most recently spent two seasons as the coach at Division II Clark Atlanta

When a figure is as fundamental to our history and national identity as Martin Luther King Jr., is there anything left to learn about him? Actually, it may be precisely because King is such a towering figure in our collective memory that we tend to focus on a few big moments — Montgomery, Birmingham, Selma

LUCERNE, Switzerland — Switzerland routed Panama 6-0 Tuesday in a mismatch of two teams going to the World Cup in Russia. Six different players scored — four in the first half, two in the second — as the Swiss cut directly through the center of Panama’s defense with ease. Switzerland coach Vladimir Petkovic picked Panama

Bettye LaVette, “Things Have Changed” (Verve Records) There are enough cover versions of Bob Dylan songs for a lifetime but Bettye LaVette’s own dozen are a truly special kind. She doesn’t simply sing them — she molds, adopts and transforms them, taking possession of the songs like few other interpreters do or can. If Dylan

LAHAINA, Hawaii — Final Four-bound Kansas, Michigan State and UCLA headline what will be another strong field at the 2019 Maui Invitational. The Maui field is annually one of the best among college basketball’s holiday tournaments and the 2019 bracket, announced on Tuesday, will include teams that have combined for 16 national championships and 44