Новости за 25.08.2017

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Friday: Autodesk Inc., up $4.36 to $114.97 The design software company had a better second quarter than analysts expected. Ulta Beauty Inc., down $21.35 to $212.36 Most Read StoriesThanks to Amazon, Seattle is now America’s biggest company townPlease go fishing, Washington state says after […]

FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say a Florida middle schooler has been arrested with a loaded gun and marijuana in his backpack. The News-Press of Fort Myers reports that the 13-year-old boy was taken to a juvenile detention center Wednesday after his arrest on firearm and drug possession charges. The Lee County Sheriff’s office […]

Stocks rose on Friday, and the Standard & Poor’s 500 index cruised to its first winning week in the last three. It was a relatively quiet week, with fewer shares trading hands than usual. On Friday: The Standard & Poor’s 500 rose 4.08 points, or 0.2 percent, to 2,443.05. The Dow Jones industrial average gained […]

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Ohio is ending its plan to move death row for the third time in a little over a decade. Prison officials said Friday that death row won’t be moving to Toledo and instead will stay put at its Chillicothe (chihl-ih-KAHTH’-ee) prison in southern Ohio. The death row move announced last October […]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The chief justice of the Ohio Supreme Court has appointed a visiting judge to help out while a judge who was shot and wounded outside his courthouse continues his recovery. Judge John Solovan will serve in Jefferson County court through Nov. 21. He is a retired judge from Belmont County in […]

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Relief workers, U.S. and foreign military officials, and field experts are meeting at Brown University to figure out how to work better together as the world faces the largest humanitarian crisis since 1945. The two-day workshop began Friday, and is drawing representatives from the United Nations, the U.S. Agency for International […]

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A Texas businessman has been sentenced in Iowa to two years of probation and six months of home confinement for his role in a lottery scandal. Robert Rhodes, who lives near Houston, reached a plea deal to testify against his friend Multi-State Lottery Association computer programmer Eddie Tipton. Tipton rigged […]

PITCAIRN, Pa. (AP) — Police say a Pittsburgh-area woman left her five children alone so she could drive her fugitive boyfriend across the state to avoid arrest. Thirty-four-year-old Tiffany Jackson, of Pitcairn, is wanted on charges including child endangerment and hindering apprehension. Pitcairn police say Jackson left her children behind when she drove her boyfriend […]

CHICAGO (AP) — The Department of Justice has objected to Chicago’s request for a preliminary injunction barring the Trump administration from withholding public safety grants from so-called sanctuary cities that don’t comply with U.S. immigration laws. The Justice Department submitted a filing late Thursday in Chicago federal court in which it argues that the federal […]

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s government says results from a recently conducted national census show the country’s population has risen to 207.7 million. Friday’s government statement says Pakistan’s population was just over 132 million in 1998 when the last census was done. The results of the national census, which was conducted by officials by going door-to-door […]

CLEVELAND (AP) — E-commerce giant Amazon plans to build a massive warehouse outside Cleveland on the site of a closed shopping mall. The Plain Dealer reports (http://bit.ly/2wN51UA ) Amazon finalized a lease deal Thursday to build an 855,000-square-foot (79,431-sq. meter) warehouse in North Randall, a village of just over 1,000 people. The newspaper reports Amazon […]

NEW YORK (AP) — The latest on developments in financial markets (All times local): 11:45 a.m. Stocks are mostly higher in midday trading on Wall Street, putting the Standard & Poor’s 500 index on pace for its first winning week in the last three. The gains were broad Friday, with every sector in the S&P […]

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The Trump administration on Friday slapped sweeping financial sanctions on Venezuela, barring banks from any new financial deals with the government or state-run oil giant PDVSA. The sanctions Trump signed by executive order are bound to dramatically escalate tensions between Venezuela and the U.S. and exacerbate the country’s economic crisis. “These […]

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A man riding his bike in the middle of a Philadelphia interstate during morning rush hour traffic — causing delays as drivers tried to avoid hitting him — has been taken into custody. WPVI-TV reports (http://6abc.cm/2xySgKB ) the ordeal happened Friday around 8:30 a.m. in the westbound lanes of I-76, also called […]

MILAN (AP) — Italian mountain rescue crews say they have recovered the remains of two — or possibly three — hikers on a glacier on Mont Blanc’s southern face likely dating from the 1980s or 1990s. Alpine rescue commander Delfino Viglione said Friday the bodies were discovered this week by a hiker who was searching […]

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Jerry Lee Lewis is one of the early pioneers of rock ‘n’ roll music, but he doesn’t understand why his contributions to country music haven’t been recognized by the Country Music Hall of Fame. Now 81, Lewis said that when he first came to Nashville from Louisiana, he was advised to […]

Parts of Texas hit by Hurricane Harvey could get more rainfall in a week than Seattle has since Jan. 1.

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — A beer company in Vermont’s Green Mountains says it has reached a resolution with a snowboard company over use of the slogan “Take a Hike.” Long Trail Brewing Co. sued Burton Snowboards on Wednesday, claiming Burton is using the beer company’s slogan on its apparel. Bridgewater Corners-based Long Trail says it […]

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian media are reporting that Apple Inc. has removed all Iranian mobile apps from its App Store. In reaction to Apple’s decision, Telecommunication Minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi said Apple should respect its Iranian consumers. Apple, based in Cupertino, California, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Jahromi tweeted: […]

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — A grand jury has decided against charging a North Texas police officer who fatally shot a man who ran over another police officer during a traffic stop. The Tarrant County District Attorney’s Office issued a statement late Thursday saying jurors voted to take no action against Arlington Police Officer Craig Roper. […]

SHAWNEE, Kan. (AP) — A man has pleaded guilty to an attempted robbery outside a Wal-Mart in Kansas that ended with a good Samaritan wounded and a second suspect dead. The Kansas City Star reports that 28-year-old Arthur Fred Wyatt III, of Overland Park, pleaded guilty Thursday to charges that included second-degree attempted murder. He […]

SPRINGDALE, Ark. (AP) — Tyson Foods says an investigation into allegations of price-fixing has ended and that it likely won’t face disciplinary action from federal regulators. Arkansas Business reported Friday that the Springdale, Arkansas-based meat producer had received a letter from the Securities and Exchange Commission that the investigation was over. Some Tyson shareholders had […]

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The CEO of South Carolina’s state-owned utility is retiring and is the first executive to leave following last month’s failure of a nuclear power project that customers have been funding since 2009. The board of Santee Cooper announced Lonnie Carter’s resignation Friday. Carter has been CEO since 2004 and worked with […]

GALLOWAY, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey’s Stockton University has removed a bust of its namesake, who signed the Declaration of Independence and owned slaves. The bust of Richard Stockton was removed from the school’s library on Wednesday. President Harvey Kesselman tells The Press of Atlantic City (http://bit.ly/2vcmEh8 ) the discussion about the school’s namesake has […]

WEYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) — An aspiring firefighter in Massachusetts says she was driving home from an agility trial when she encountered an unexpected second test of her skills: a burning building with no firefighters in sight. Jackie Giacchetti says she didn’t think twice when she saw the black smoke billowing in Weymouth on Thursday. She […]