Новости за 11.06.2017

NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Times and other media are reporting that Uber’s board is considering placing the CEO of the ride-hailing company on leave. The Times says three people with knowledge of the matter have confirmed that the board is meeting Sunday to consider recommendations from a law firm hired to review […]

The Bulgarian sculptor who cast the 16-foot bronze statue of Vladimir Lenin located in Fremont has died, according to his son.

BARTOW, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say a pilot was seriously injured when his small plane crashed into a car parked outside a church in Florida. Polk County Fire Rescue said the plane went down during the Sunday service at the Good Hope Missionary Baptist Church in Bartow. The church has a medical ministry and two […]

CAIRO (AP) — In a raucous and tense meeting, Egyptian lawmakers on Sunday began reviewing a disputed 2016 agreement to hand control over two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia, a move critics say ignores a final ruling by a high court to annul the pact. The ratification of the pact — an almost foregone […]

CAMARILLO, Calif. (AP) — An analyst says the average price of regular-grade gasoline has fallen less than a penny per gallon over the last three weeks, to $2.40 per gallon. Industry analyst Trilby Lundberg of the Lundberg Survey said Sunday that gas prices in the coming weeks may decline unless crude oil prices rebound quickly. […]

NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Jurors at Bill Cosby’s sexual-assault trial have heard accuser Andrea Constand’s side of the story and have heard Cosby’s version in the form of his police statement and his lurid deposition in her 2005 lawsuit, but they don’t know if they’ll hear from him in person when his defense starts Monday. […]

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A headless body has been found after the head of a young black man was discovered on the front steps of a Mississippi home. Jackson Police Chief Lee Vance told WAPT-TV (http://bit.ly/2rPSLjp ) that a resident discovered human remains in an open field around 3 p.m. Saturday. The remains were located […]

Even Abby Wambach is astonished when she reflects on her year. She went from publicly acknowledging a problem with alcohol and prescription pills to getting sober and marrying a “Christian mommy blogger.” The biggest stunner? She doesn’t miss soccer a bit. “I played soccer until the end,” she said. “I played it and I did […]

FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — A woman accused of not doing enough to prevent her injured and pregnant dog from suffering until it started chewing off one of its legs in 2015 has been sentenced to a suspended one-year jail sentence and a year of probation, officials said. April Gutierrez, 49, will not be allowed to […]

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A former Indianapolis police officer convicted of killing one motorcyclist and seriously injuring two others while driving drunk in his police cruiser was released from prison Sunday after serving about four years of his 16-year sentence. David Bisard was released from the Edinburgh Correctional Facility early Sunday, the Indiana Department of Corrections […]

Law enforcement, corrections officials seek two missing inmates from the Cedar Creek Correctional Facility near Littlerock.

HOUSTON (AP) — Hundreds of individuals, some armed, gathered at a Houston park Saturday to protest what they believe are efforts to remove a statue of Texas hero Sam Houston because he owned slaves. There hasn’t been any organized effort to remove Houston’s statue, which has stood near a city park since 1925. Protesters, some […]

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Qatar Airways announced on Sunday its net profits rose to $540 million in its latest financial disclosure before the airline took a hit and was blocked from flying to major Arab states. The carrier, which marks its 20th anniversary this year and is one of the Middle East’s biggest […]

A core principle of the McCleary decision is that the state must fund districts for the actual cost of providing basic education.

A new state Supreme Court ruling rebukes secret meetings on a critical oil export facility, and sends a message to public agencies and judges alike about the importance of the state Open Meetings Act.

In his own bumbling, befuddled, you-kids-get-off-my-lawn way, Sen. John McCain asked one of the best questions Thursday near the end of the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing with James Comey: What exactly did the president of the United States mean, the last time he spoke to the director of the FBI, when he talked about “that […]

It occurs to me that Trump needs an idiot’s guide to government, among other essential books. He should do it for the country’s sake.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The manslaughter trial of a Minnesota police officer who shot and killed a black motorist last summer will resume Monday with closing arguments. Officer Jeronimo Yanez shot and killed Philando Castile during a traffic stop last July in the Minneapolis suburb of Falcon Heights. Castile’s girlfriend, Diamond Reynolds, streamed the […]

U.S. Coast Guard says boating accidents, fatalities up in Alaska and elsewhere; leading cause of boating accidents in alcohol

CROOKSVILLE, Ohio (AP) — A small Ohio village has demolished a popular pizzeria after a sinkhole opened up beneath it. WBNS-TV reports Sprankle’s Village Pizza in Crooksville had to close and be demolished after a 20-foot-deep sinkhole appeared Friday, causing the first floor to partially collapse. Sprankle’s has been a staple for 47 years in […]

TANGIER, Va. (AP) — In the final minutes of Ed Charnock’s life, he and his son clung to each other to conserve body heat in the frigid Chesapeake Bay. Jason Charnock handed his dad the only lifejacket he could grab from their fast-submerging crabbing boat. But the choppy water swept it away. “The boat sank, […]

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Church bells will toll throughout the Orlando area as residents reflect on the 49 patrons killed during a massacre at the gay nightclub Pulse in the worst mass shooting in recent U.S. history. Starting in the early hours Monday, and continuing almost 24 hours later, survivors, victims’ families, city officials and […]

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Voters in Kosovo were casting their ballots Sunday in an early general election for the new 120-seat parliament. At stake are thorny issues including a border demarcation deal with Montenegro that brought down the previous government, and the approval of another deal with Serbia giving more rights to the ethnic Serb […]

In a two-day span, supporters of LGBT rights are joining in protest marches Sunday in dozens of cities in the U.S. and abroad, and then observing Monday’s one-year anniversary of the mass shooting that killed 49 people at Pulse, a gay night club in Orlando, Florida. The events come amid new political challenges for the […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — In the nation’s capital, and dozens of other cities across the U.S., supporters of LGBT rights are gathering for marches and rallies Sunday, celebrating their gains but also angered over threats to those advances. The centerpiece event, the Equality March in Washington, has been endorsed by virtually every major national advocacy group […]