Новости за 06.05.2016

OLIVER TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A wind turbine's owner and manufacturer say mechanical failures and high winds caused the toppling of a nearly 400-foot wind turbine in a Michigan field about 100 miles north of Detroit.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration says it's moving to limit special sign-up periods under the president's health care law after insurers complained of abuses.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — A spokeswoman says Gov. Bruce Rauner's administration offered the SEIU Healthcare union a chance to discuss overtime-pay limitations for home care workers, but the union declined.

PIKEVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky judge says he will decide next week whether to unseal the secret testimony from a former president of the company that markets the powerfully addictive painkiller OxyContin.

TORONTO (AP) — One of Canada's largest breweries says it is donating up to 200,000 cans of emergency drinking water to firefighters and evacuees affected by the raging wildfires in Fort McMurray, Alberta.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Doctors and nurses hope to lower the city's high infant mortality rate by distributing baby boxes that encourage safe sleeping habits for newborns and their caregivers.

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Friday on the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq stock market:

FRIDAY, May 6, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- Cholesterol-lowering statins may spare people with narrowed leg arteries from the possibility of amputation and even death, a new study suggests.

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Rio de Janeiro's state security secretary acknowledges that cuts of $550 million to his budget pose a risk to the Olympics when they open in three months.

A Hillsboro, Ore., motorcyclist died Thursday afternoon in an accident on Highway 202 near Mist, Ore.

MADRID (AP) — The billionaire founder of Chinese conglomerate Tiens Group treated 3,000 of his top salespeople Friday to a traditional Spanish paella dinner during a free Madrid trip that also included a bullfight and a tour of King Felipe…

On the surface, ramps are a lovely harbinger of spring, wild leeks that are unable to be cultivated, hence part of their mystique (think truffles).

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A line of electric water kettles with a heating element that poses a burn and shock hazard is among this week's recalled consumer products. Others include pacifiers with a part that poises a choking hazard to young children.

FRIDAY, May 6, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- Regular aspirin use may lower the risk of bile duct cancer, a new study suggests.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The Memphis Symphony Orchestra and the University of Memphis have formed a partnership that organizers say will solve the music organization's financial hardships.

Hundreds of small earthquakes have shaken the area under Mount St. Helens over the past two months, signaling another "refueling" of the volcano for its next eruption, the U.S. Geological Survey.

HOUSTON (AP) — The number of rigs exploring for oil and natural gas in the U.S. dropped by five this week to 415, another all-time low amid depressed energy prices.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Little Rock has agreed to settle a lawsuit brought by the family of 67-year-old black man who was fatally shot in 2010 after two off-duty police officers entered his apartment without a warrant.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Lawyer: Little Rock settling lawsuit from family of black man killed after off-duty cops entered home without warrant.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The number of lawsuits accusing a former physician assistant at a Veteran's Administration hospital in Kansas of sexual abuse has grown to at least five.

The last 11 touring elephants from Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus kicked off their retirement in Florida on Friday with a buffet brunch of carrots, apples, celery, loaves of bread and lots of hay.

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A huge Montana nature reserve is adding a 47,000-acre historic ranch to its patchwork of lands along the Missouri River, where supporters hope bison and other wildlife one day will roam freely.

LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — A semi carrying beehives crashed on a Wyoming highway, unleashing millions of bees that hovered in a giant swarm over the roadway.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lawyers on both sides agree that ailing media mogul Sumner Redstone was being manipulated in the months before he expelled a longtime companion from his life.