Новости за 15.05.2017

ALLISON PARK, Pa. (AP) — Officials say an 83-year-old man fatally shot his 80-year-old wife and then himself at an independent living apartment community for retired people north of Pittsburgh. The shootings were reported shortly after 6:30 a.m. Monday at Cumberland Woods Village in an upscale suburb of the city. It wasn’t immediately clear where […]

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A few hundred national Brazilian security forces are patrolling parts of Rio de Janeiro following a surge in violence. The troops began patrols along busy thoroughfares in northern Rio on Monday. Many were also positioning themselves at the entrances to several favelas, or slums. The patrols are expected to last […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein will brief all members of the Senate on Thursday about President Donald Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey. That’s the word from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s office on Monday. Last week, Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said he made a request for Rosenstein to answer lawmakers’ […]

CRANSTON, R.I. — A 91-year-old World War II veteran in Rhode Island has received his overdue medals. Joseph Aquilante, of North Providence, sought the medals so he could leave them for his grandchildren and great-grandchildren. He says he wants to pass them on as a keepsake and part of history. Democratic U.S. Sen. Jack Reed […]

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Sheriff’s officials in Florida have agreed to pay $2.5 million to the family of an unarmed nurseryman shot dead by a sergeant five years ago. Attorneys for the family of Seth Adams announced the settlement Monday. Palm Beach Sheriff’s Sgt. Michael Custer shot the 24-year-old on May 16, 2012, […]

DENVER (AP) — Mark Reynolds glided into the Colorado Rockies clubhouse on a motorized skateboard. A fitting ride these days for a player who just keeps rolling along. Reynolds is having an unlikely All-Star-caliber season, hitting .326 with a team-leading 12 homers and 33 RBIs. Unlikely, because he wasn’t even supposed to be the everyday […]

New Seahawks running back Eddie Lacy has met the first of his weight incentives with the Seahawks, earning an additional $55,000.

DALLAS (AP) — United Airlines is changing the keypad codes used to open cockpit doors after the previous codes were accidentally posted on a public website. The airline sent a memo to pilots over the weekend telling them to use “alternative security measures,” a spokeswoman said Monday. The spokeswoman said the breach in security measures […]

LA VERNE, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say a bear has been struck by a vehicle while crossing a Los Angeles-area freeway near mountains. California Highway Patrol Officer Stephan Brandt says the animal managed to limp to the shoulder after being hit Monday morning on Interstate 210. Television news footage showed the bear on the ground […]

The brothers got into a scuffle just before the Sunday afternoon barbecue and one retrieved a rifle and fired a gunshot, narrowly missing the victim.

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey woman who joined a group urging a Republican congressman to diverge from President Donald Trump’s policies says she quit her job after the congressman referred to her in a fundraising letter to her employer. Saily (SAY’-lee) Avelenda says a handwritten note on the letter to a board member […]

BALTIMORE (AP) — O.J. Brigance will hold a celebration Tuesday on the 10th anniversary of a day that forever changed his life. On May 16, 2007, the former Baltimore Ravens linebacker learned he had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS. There is no known cure for the motor neuron disease commonly called Lou Gehrig’s disease, and […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Brad Grey, an influential Hollywood leader who served as the chairman and CEO of Paramount Pictures for 12 years, has died. A family spokeswoman said Monday that Grey, who was battling cancer, died Sunday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 59. Before exiting Paramount in February, Grey oversaw franchises […]

MIAMI (AP) — Florida Gov. Rick Scott says a record number of tourists are visiting the state. Scott visited Miami’s Jungle Island Monday to announce that 31.1 million people visited Florida during the first three months of this year. That’s a 2.5 percent jump over the same time period in 2016. Nearly 113 million tourists […]

NEW YORK — “Big Bang Theory” star Jim Parsons has married longtime partner Todd Spiewak. Parsons’ publicist, Jillian Roscoe, has confirmed reports from People magazine and the New York Post that Parsons and Spiewak married Saturday night at the Rainbow Room restaurant in New York’s Rockefeller Center. Parsons posted a picture on Instagram on Monday […]

GREENSBURG, Pa. — An 18-year-old western Pennsylvania man who authorities said shot a friend and then posed for a selfie with the dying teen has been sentenced to 15 to 30 years in prison. Maxwell Morton of Jeannette, who turns 19 this week, told a Westmoreland County judge on Monday that he didn’t want to […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Brad Pitt and Gen. Stanley McChrystal — the inspiration to Pitt’s four-star Afghanistan commander in the upcoming Netflix war satire “War Machine “— would seem to be worlds apart. One, an affable member of Hollywood’s elite; the other a hard-charging lifetime military man. But Pitt found one connection with his character: […]

NEW YORK (AP) — A fraternity pledge who was ordered to guzzle alcohol during a hazing ritual and twice fell down a flight of stairs before his death was treated like “roadkill,” his father said Monday after criminal charges were filed against 18 of his son’s Penn State fraternity brothers. Jim Piazza, the father of […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Anheuser-Busch is upgrading its U.S. breweries and plans to build two new distribution centers as it adapts to an increasingly fragmented beer market. The maker of Budweiser, Bud Light and Stella Artois says the upgrades and new distribution centers in Los Angeles and Columbus, Ohio will allow it to store a […]

ICYMI: "SNL" offers a brutal take down of Paul Ryan and welcomes McCarthy into the five-timers club.

WALTHAM, Mass. (AP) — Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is buying Patheon for $5.2 billion, giving the scientific instrument maker more access to the contract development and manufacturing organization market. Thermo Fisher will pay $35 for each share of Patheon NV, based in the Netherlands. That’s a 35 percent premium to the company’s Friday closing price […]

AKRON, Ohio (AP) — Firefighters say multiple people have died in a fire at a northeast Ohio home. The number of victims and their names weren’t immediately released at the scene early Monday morning in Akron, about 30 miles (48 kilometers) south of Cleveland. Crews responding to the site around 3 a.m. found a house […]

BOSTON (AP) — The fiancee of former NFL player Aaron Hernandez is speaking out publicly for the first time. A two-part interview with Shayanna Jenkins-Hernandez is scheduled to air on the “Dr. Phil ” show on Monday and Tuesday. In excerpts already released, Jenkins-Hernandez tells host Dr. Phillip McGraw that she does not think that […]

Kevin Hart and wife Eniko Parrish are expecting a baby boy, their first child together. The 37-year-old comedian decided to announce the news on his Instagram account on Mother’s Day by posting a selfie with Parrish and writing, “We are laughing at the fact that this time next year we will be celebrating her 1st […]

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin, who whiled away the time playing the piano while waiting Sunday for the Chinese leader, says he has not decided yet what he would play when he meets U.S. President Donald Trump. U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson met Putin with in April, followed by Russian Foreign Minister […]