Новости за 17.05.2017

WALLINGFORD, Conn. (AP) — A memorial service honoring the wife of longtime ESPN broadcaster Chris Berman has been held in Connecticut. The Hartford Courant reports (http://cour.at/2qtCwYU ) friends, colleagues and relatives of Berman and his wife gathered Wednesday at Seymour St. John Chapel at Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford. Sixty-seven-year-old Cheshire resident Katherine Ann Berman […]

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Prosecutors have dismissed a misdemeanor battery complaint made against Cleveland Browns sixth-round draft pick Caleb Brantley, a defensive tackle from Florida, citing insufficient evidence. “It is apparent that there is no reliable evidence upon which an arrest or prosecution would be warranted or legally justified,” the office of State Attorney William […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Here are the questions from the championship rounds of Wednesday’s National Geographic Bee. The winner, 14-year-old Pranay Varada of Irving, Texas, answered all of them correctly. — Scientists are planning to reintroduce tigers to Central Asia 50 years after they became extinct in the region. One potential site for reintroduction is the […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The former senator President Donald Trump picked to be his ambassador to New Zealand has pledged to push for expanded trade and military cooperation with the island nation. Scott Brown told Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday that New Zealand is an important ally in the Pacific as China continues to flex […]

Maria Sharapova is vowing to “rise up again,” a day after she was denied a wild-card entry for the French Open. On her Twitter feed Wednesday, Sharapova posted these words: If this is what it takes to rise up again, then I am in it all the way, everyday. No words, games, or actions will […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Sylvia Acevedo, who earned a science badge as a Girl Scout and later became a rocket scientist and entrepreneur, was appointed Wednesday as CEO of the Girl Scouts of the USA. A top priority, she said, would be to stem a sharp decline in the organization’s membership. Acevedo had been serving […]

IRVING, Texas (AP) — Sergio Garcia and Jordan Spieth were teenagers playing at Byron Nelson’s tournament before they became Masters champions. Garcia, now the reigning Masters winner and defending Nelson champ, was only 19 when he shot a 62 in his first round as a pro at the 1999 Nelson. Spieth was a baby-faced 16-year-old […]

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal appeals court has sidestepped making a ruling on whether U.S. prison officials can hold people who were convicted of marijuana offences that were legal under state medical marijuana laws. In a decision Wednesday, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals focused instead on a narrower issue. The court was […]

NEW YORK — Sylvia Acevedo, who earned a science badge as a Girl Scout and later became a rocket scientist and entrepreneur, was appointed Wednesday as CEO of the Girl Scouts of the USA. A top priority, she said, would be to stem a sharp decline in the organization’s membership. Acevedo had been serving as […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Robert Carter, the father of Nick Carter of the Backstreet Boys and fellow singer Aaron Carter, died on Tuesday, the singers announced. Nick Carter said in a statement Wednesday that he was “heartbroken to share the news that our father, Robert, passed away last night.” No more details about the death […]

The museum wanted the broadest possible concept of writing, one that includes not just novels, memoirs and poetry, but screenplays, journalism, rap lyrics, advertising slogans and even stand-up comedy.

BOSTON (AP) — The verdict in the Massachusetts trial of a compounding pharmacy executive charged in a deadly fungal meningitis outbreak seemed clear in court but is now being questioned by some legal experts. The verdict read by the court clerk in March said the federal jury found Barry Cadden guilty of conspiracy, fraud and […]

SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s top judicial oversight board has decided it won’t sanction a judge who allegedly got angry at a bakery cafe waiter and demanded the man address him as “Your Honor.” Witnesses say Judge Dilermando Motta Pereira was upset because the waiter did not put ice in his cup. The judge allegedly […]

SPRINGFIELD, Mass.  — A Massachusetts man who authorities say tried to stab an officer with a steak knife in a police station lobby has pleaded not guilty to armed assault with intent to murder and other charges. The Republican reports (http://bit.ly/2qtsR4B ) 22-year-old Juan Delvalle entered the plea Tuesday in Springfield District Court. He also […]

For more than three decades, women in their late 20s had the highest birth rates, but that changed last year, according to preliminary data released Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Federal authorities have charged a fraternity at California State University, Chico with illegally cutting down dozens of trees in a national forest during an initiation of new pledges, the U.S. Forest Service said. The complaint was filed Tuesday against the school’s Pi Kappa Alpha chapter and its president, Evan Jossey. The […]

The Justice Department last month told the nonprofit Northwest Immigrant Rights Project it cannot provide certain legal assistance to immigrants unless it undertakes formal representation of them in court. The nonprofit says it doesn’t have the resources to do that

Population overshoot is behind many of our most pressing economic problems. But the best intelligent response faces terrible obstacles.

The northward shift to get to cooler weather was expected, but the study's lead author and several outside experts were surprised by the move to the west, which was larger and in a majority of the species.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Dutch passengers on KLM flights might have recognized the co-pilot’s voice when he introduced himself on the airline’s Cityhopper services. It was not just their co-pilot telling them weather conditions and estimated time of arrival. It was their king. King Willem-Alexander told national daily De Telegraaf in an interview published Wednesday […]

The latest on developments in financial markets (All times local): 9:35 a.m. Stocks are opening lower on Wall Street as banks and industrial companies fall. Banks were sliding along with bond yields early Wednesday. Bank of America sank 2.7 percent and Wells Fargo lost 2 percent. Falling bond yields mean lower interest rates on loans […]

JACKSON, Ga. (AP) — Georgia on Wednesday carried out its first execution this year, putting to death a man convicted of killing his 73-year-old neighbor 25 years ago. J.W. Ledford’s time of death was 1:17 a.m. after an injection of compounded barbiturate pentobarbital at the state prison in Jackson, Warden Eric Sellers told witnesses. Ledford, […]

A federal database wrongly cast Ruben Van Kempen, Roosevelt High’s drama teacher for 37 years, as an “unlawful alien.” It’s the same database Republicans have been clamoring to use to try to purge the voter rolls.

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Authorities in Florida say a man fatally shot the owner of a tow truck company during a dispute over $285 he owed for his impounded vehicle. Orlando police tell news outlets that 35-year-old Tremain Polk was arrested Tuesday evening. He is accused of first-degree murder in the death of 53-year-old Paul […]

NEW YORK (AP) — For the second time in little more than a year, a TV film probes Bernie Madoff, the fraudster-financier who in 2008 made explosive news with his arrest for perpetrating a Ponzi scheme that ruined thousands of his clients at a cost of $60 billion or more. In February 2016, an ABC […]