Новости за 06.03.2019

WASHINGTON — Federal meteorologists say this winter was America’s wettest on record. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says that from December to February, what it calls winter, the Lower 48 states got 9.01 inches of rain and snow, which is 2.22 inches more than the 20th century normal. It surpassed the 1997-1998 winter by

MIDLAND, Texas — A West Texas man is charged with second-degree manslaughter after authorities say he admitted shooting at a police officer who had come to his home to investigate a home security alarm. An arrest affidavit says David Charles Wilson told an investigator that he was inside his Midland home early Tuesday when he

Nick Waterhouse, “Nick Waterhouse” (Innovative Leisure) “There’s an exit/and there’s a way out/the two just ain’t the same” is a typical lyric from Nick Waterhouse’s self-titled fourth album, a collection that stays true to his particular style and sets images and stories of 21st-century noir to soul and R&B sounds rooted in the 1950s and

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Arizona’s Merrill Kelly hopes to emulate St. Louis pitcher Miles Mikolas. Kelly never got above Triple-A during five seasons in the Tampa Bay organization, went to South Korea and won 48 games over four years with the SK Wyverns. Mikolas won 31 games in Japan with the Central League’s Yomiuri Giants from

ST. CHARLES, Mo. — A 65-year-old Missouri man is jailed after being charged in the shooting of an Amazon delivery driver in a dispute over a handicapped parking spot. KTVI-TV reports that Larry Thomlison of St. Charles is charged with assault and armed criminal action. Thomlison does not yet have an attorney. The shooting happened

MOSCOW — Ukraine’s prosecutor-general says two people have been arrested for trying to bribe Yulia Tymoshenko into dropping her run for president. Yuriy Lutsenko said in a post on Facebook Wednesday that the suspects proposed paying Tymoshenko 5 million hryvna ($188,000) to drop out of contention for the March 31 vote. The post said the

ROME — Pope Francis has urged Roman Catholic faithful to free themselves from the “clutches of consumerism and the snares of selfishness” as he marked the start of Lent, the period of prayer and fasting before Easter. Francis led a procession and then celebrated Ash Wednesday Mass at the basilica of Santa Sabina, one of

MARACAIBO, Venezuela — Marin Mendez leaned a shoulder into his rusty Chevy Malibu, rolling it forward each time the line of cars inched closer to the pump. Waiting hours to fill up, he says, is the high cost he pays for gasoline that’s nearly free in socialist Venezuela. “You line up to get your pension,

PENDLETON, Ind. — A Maple Ridge sixth-grader took the microphone and shared her heart-wrenching experience of considering suicide two years ago. “I was scared to ask my parents for help. How can I get through life without these negative feelings?” she asked tearfully. Her question was for Jenna Scott, survivor of her 14-year-old son Hudson

HAMMOND, Ind. — Monica Spisak gave away most of the photos she had of her son. In the search for Joseph Spisak, his family handed out his photo to different people and agencies. Some of the family photo albums were ruined in a basement flood. Today, Monica Spisak is left with a small photo of

VINCENNES, Ind. — When administrators with the South Knox School Corp. embarked last year on a corporation-wide $15 million renovation project, long-time shop teacher Bob Greene wanted nothing to do with it. “They wanted to move this wall over here and that one over there,” Greene said, gesturing wildly inside his wood shop, sawdust covering

KOKOMO, Ind. — Marcus was 13 months old, lying in a bed inside a medical facility, struggling to stay alive. His tiny body was racked by fevers and infections due to severe heart and lung defects. A ventilator and trach tube were the only things keeping him fed and breathing. Marcus was motherless and alone.

ANDERSON, Ind. — A central Indiana woman has pleaded guilty to a neglect charge in connection with the death of her 23-month-old daughter. The Herald Bulletin reports that 25-year-old Kayla Hudson entered guilty pleas Tuesday in a Madison County court. One was for neglect of a dependent causing the girl’s death and the other was

SALISBURY, N.C. — Police say a 6-month-old boy has been killed by his babysitter’s dog at her home in North Carolina. News outlets cite a statement from Salisbury police as saying Jacari Long died after the boxer-pit bull mix bit him Tuesday afternoon. He died from his injuries after a helicopter took him to a

SAN FRANCISCO — Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook will start to emphasize new privacy-shielding messaging services, a shift apparently intended to blunt both criticism of the company’s data handling and potential antitrust action. In effect, the Facebook co-founder and CEO promised to transform a service known for devouring the personal information shared by its users. Going

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Veteran musher Aliy Zirkle is leading in Alaska’s Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. She is seeking to become the first woman to win in nearly three decades. Zirkle is a three-time second-place finisher in the 1,000-mile (695-kilometer) race. She was first to leave the Ophir checkpoint Wednesday morning, 432 miles (695 kilometers)

PRAGUE — The mayor of Prague has welcomed the prime minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile and presented him with the symbolic key to the Czech capital. Zdenek Hrib told Lobsang Sangay at a ceremony at Prague’s Old City Hall Wednesday he wants show solidarity with the Tibetan people, saying they were “were deprived of freedom

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says his country reserves the right to deploy missiles prohibited by a nuclear arms treaty that the Trump administration withdrew from. Lavrov says if U.S. withdrawal from the treaty gives it a free hand to begin deploying such missiles, “We reserve the right to

RENO, Nev. — Nevada’s latest bid to block incoming shipments of weapons-grade plutonium points to the U.S. Energy Department’s own scientific warnings about the dangers of prematurely moving the highly radioactive material out of South Carolina. State lawyers say in briefs filed this week with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that the Trump

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ryan Day began his tenure as Ohio State’s head coach with lots of new faces on the indoor field at the Woody Hayes Athletic Center. Day, who took over after Urban Meyer retired in January, began his inaugural season running the show on Wednesday when he convened the first of 15 spring

GREENVILLE, S.C. — Delicia Washington and Funda Nakkasoglu combined to score 30 of their 34 points in the second half to help Florida beat Mississippi 64-57 on Wednesday in the first round on the Southeastern Conference tournament. The 13th-seeded Gators (8-22) will play No. 5 seed Missouri in Thursday’s second round. Washington shot 8 of

BERLIN — The leader of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party is rejecting criticism over a speech she made in which she poked fun at toilets proposed for intersex people. Political opponents have called on Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, who leads Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union, to apologize for a speech during a Carnival event in southwestern Germany last

NEW YORK — The New York Police Department says it has finished equipping all uniformed patrol officers with body cameras, completing a rollout pushed back two months after one exploded last fall. The NYPD said Wednesday that it has handed out about 20,000 cameras and will give about 4,000 to specialized units like emergency services

TOPEKA, Kan. — A judge has ordered Kansas to pay $48 million to settle a long-running legal fight with former pizza magnate Gene Bicknell. Bicknell once owned the most Pizza Hut franchises in the nation. His legal fight with Kansas centered on whether the Pittsburg native lived in Kansas or in Florida when he sold

AURORA, Ind. — The Latest on a school bus crash in southeastern Indiana (all times local): 4:30 p.m. A 13-year-old boy who suffered serious injuries when a school bus collided with a garbage truck in southeastern Indiana is in fair condition at a Cincinnati hospital. Jordan Cole was taken to Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center