Новости за 17.09.2017

GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Poor ice conditions after a weekend concert has forced the Arizona Coyotes to cancel their scheduled preseason home game Monday night against the Los Angeles Kings. Coyotes president and CEO Steve Patterson announced Sunday that the game — which was to be the team’s preseason opener — won’t be rescheduled. He […]

DE KALB, Texas (AP) — Authorities have captured a Northeast Texas man after investigators say he shot two deputies checking reports of his house on fire. The Bowie (BOO’-ee) County Sheriff’s Office says both deputies were treated for minor injuries Sunday. Charges were pending against the homeowner. Chief Deputy Jeff Neal says two deputies responded […]

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. says Secretary-General Antonio Guterres opposes the Sept. 25 independence referendum planned by Iraq’s Kurds for the enclave in the country’s north. U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said Sunday that Guterres believes any unilateral decision to hold a referendum now would detract from the need to defeat the Islamic State extremist […]

GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado family of four has been identified as the victims of a fatal small airplane crash. Relatives on Sunday said in a statement that 47-year-old Jeff Makepeace, his 45-year-old wife, Jennifer, and their twin 10-year-old children, Addison and Benjamin, died in the crash late Friday. The family from the […]

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Supporters of a soda tax have started collecting signatures to put a ballot measure before Multnomah County voters. KGW-TV reports (https://goo.gl/HmnPqB ) that the Coalition for Healthy Kids and Education needs to collect about 18,000 signatures to get the soda tax proposal on the May 2018 ballot. Voters would decide whether […]

BUENA, N.J. (AP) — Authorities have released the names of a man and a woman found shot to death inside a vehicle. But it’s still not clear what sparked the shooting in Buena. Atlantic County prosecutors say 34-year-old Damon Jones, of Bridgeton, and 23-year-old Talisa Colon, of Vineland, were found in the vehicle around 1:20 […]

MISHAWAKA, Ind. (AP) — A new Veterans Affairs Clinic for the South Bend area is set to start serving its first patients. The $38 million clinic in Mishawaka (mish-ah-WAH’-kuh) is opening Monday after almost two years of construction. Officials say the new clinic will offer more outpatient services than the previous clinic in downtown South […]

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) — Massachusetts will soon be protected by 21 new firefighters. The state Department of Fire Services’ firefighting academy’s Springfield campus is holding a graduation ceremony for the new firefighters on Tuesday. State Fire Marshal Peter Ostroskey and Massachusetts Firefighting Academy Director David Evans will present certificates of completion to the class. The […]

MIAMI (AP) — Across Florida, people spent Sunday trying to get back to normal after one of the worst storms to hit the state since Hurricane Andrew. Keys residents were allowed to visit Monroe County for the first time since Hurricane Irma struck a week ago. Elsewhere, residents are waiting for electricity, cleaning up from […]

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut judge is considering whether to dismiss a lawsuit against the state by the Schaghticoke Tribal Nation, which is seeking $610 million for land it says the state seized from 1801 to 1918. The state has filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit based on government immunity. State officials also […]

Michael Bennett's younger brother, Reshaud, helped lead a rally in support of his brother Sunday morning before the Seahawks game.

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Anyone with a taste for salmon, take note: fish harvested at Michigan’s state-operated weirs will soon be on the market. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources maintains a number of weirs in the northern Lower Peninsula. Salmon are collected there each fall while returning to their native streams, where they […]

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana’s state schools superintendent wants high schools to nominate their best students for the U.S. Presidential Scholars Program. Superintendent Jennifer McCormick’s office is asking each high school in the state to nominate three students. McCormick’s office wants one boy, one girl and third student who would be a good candidate. All high […]

HOT SPRINGS, S.D. (AP) — Firefighters have completely contained a wildfire that burned more than 2,100 acres in Wind Cave National Park in southwestern South Dakota. The National Park Service says firefighters had the blaze 100 percent contained Saturday morning. The fire started with a lightning strike last Monday. Rain and cooler weather helped bring […]

ROANOKE, Va. (AP) — Officials have identified a hiker who died in a fall on the Appalachian Trial. The Bedford County Sheriff’s Office identified the hiker as James Allen Nanninga, a 70-year-old Florida man. The sheriff’s office says Nanninga’s cause of death will not be determined until all test results are in, but there is […]

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A Native American-owned plaza in Albuquerque is about to expand with a popular restaurant. Indian Pueblos Marketing, Inc., the development group tasked with redeveloping the 46-acre (186,155 square meter) parcel near the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, is nearing completion of phase one of a project designed to breathe new life into […]

LEXINGTON, S.C. (AP) — More than a dozen county coroners in South Carolina now paint white crosses on the roads where people died in car wrecks, an action criticized by some say the image violates the separation of church and state. The State in Columbia reports that Lexington County Coroner Margaret Fisher recently began painting […]

BOSTON (AP) — The four female U.S. tourists who authorities say were attacked with acid at a train station in France have been all identified as Boston College students. The university said in a statement the students were treated for burns at a hospital in Marseille, France, after they were attacked by a 41-year-old woman […]

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — An Arizona man has been sentenced to more than a year in federal prison for threatening members of the Mormon church in Utah. Prosecutors say 72-year-old Richard Corrie Beals of Tucson was sentenced to 13 months and one day in prison and fined $5,000. Beals was convicted after a jury trial […]

LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistani minister says the wife of ousted Pakistani premier Nawaz Sharif has won his parliament seat which fell vacant after the country’s Supreme Court disqualified him for concealing assets, according to unofficial results. Climate Change minister Mushahid Ullah Khan says Kulsoom Nawaz Sharif of the Pakistan Muslim League party won the […]

PARIS (AP) — Boston College says four Americans attacked with acid in France are students studying abroad, doing ‘fine, considering.’

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Three separate shootings in New Jersey’s capital city have left three men dead this weekend. Trenton police say the first shooting occurred around 9:20 p.m. Friday, when 43-year-old Anthony Flowers, of Pemberton, was found shot in the vestibule of a Lamberton Street home. He was soon pronounced dead at the scene. […]

HAMILTON, Mont. (AP) — The Bitterroot National Forest is seeking input on a plan that affects access, logging and prescribed burns in an area near Darby. The Ravalli Republic reports (http://bit.ly/2wo12Pg) the 27,453-acre (10,700-hectare) project near Darby involves land acquired from the Darby Lumber Co. It’s part of a years-old effort to reduce fire danger […]

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh panel has recommended a merging the current 188 parishes in the six-county diocese into 48. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (http://bit.ly/2haPbNU ) reports that the On Mission Commission’s recommendations are part of a restructuring process launched by Bishop David Zubik. The diocese earlier said it planned a dramatic […]

MILWAUKEE (AP) — The U.S. Department of Justice has halted a review of Milwaukee’s police department. The Justice Department says it is changing a program that once focused on improving trust between police and communities. The DOJ initiative will now focus instead on helping local law enforcement fight crime. A department spokeswoman tells the Milwaukee […]