Новости за 21.06.2015

TROY, Indiana - The National Weather Service confirms that a small tornado touched down near an Ohio River town in southern Indiana as the remnants of Tropical Storm Bill swept across the region.

NEW YORK - Tens of thousands of revelers turned out Saturday for Coney Island's 33rd annual Mermaid Parade despite gray skies and steady drizzle.

FORT WAYNE, Indiana - Indiana lawmakers' decision to start sending more low-level criminals to community corrections and jails has delayed the state's need for new prison space for at least one year, officials say.

PULLMAN, Washington - Elson Floyd, president of Washington State University, has died at 59 of complications from colon cancer.

COLUMBIA, South Carolina - A Republican state legislator says it's past time for the Confederate flag to be removed from South Carolina's Statehouse grounds.

HABANIYAH, Iraq - Parading across a desert base, hundreds of Sunni tribesmen who graduated a crash training course stood ready to take on the Islamic State group on behalf of a government that many believed left them to die at the hands of the extremists.

ISTANBUL - At the Saudi Embassy in Tehran, diplomats talked about airing the grievances of disenchanted local youth using Facebook and Twitter. At the embassy in Khartoum, they reported anxiously on Iran's military aid to Sudan.

BLUFFTON, Indiana - Northeastern Indiana authorities have charged a Mexican man with attempted murder for allegedly stabbing his estranged wife's grandmother in the neck and wrists.