Новости за 15.08.2015

ANAHEIM, California - The force will awaken in just 125 days, but "Star Wars" fans didn't learn anything new about the film at Disney's D23 convention on Saturday.

SEATAC, Washington - Four million passengers passed through Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in June, breaking a monthly record set in 2014 but straining services and creating long lines at security checkpoints.

GREENSBURG, Indiana - A state legislative committee will look in to why Indiana is seeing a decline in number of people becoming teachers.

FORT WAYNE, Indiana - Fort Wayne police say a woman was fatally shot at an after-hours club after a disturbance elsewhere.

EVANSVILLE, Indiana - The state budget committee will vote in October whether to release $25.2 million in state funds to build a medical school campus in downtown Evansville.

WASHINGTON - Authorities say rivers tainted by last week's massive spill from an abandoned Colorado gold mine are starting to recover, but for the Environmental Protection Agency the political fallout from the disaster could linger.

FRANKFORT, Indiana - A 20-year-old central Indiana father has been charged in the death of his 6-week-old child.

ATLANTA - Granville Automatic, a band with roots in Atlanta, is releasing its collection of songs inspired by Civil War battles, part of a related project to film videos of the songs on battlefields across the nation.

ALBANY, New York - He committed billions of dollars to overhaul LaGuardia Airport and build a new Tappan Zee Bridge - but New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has taken a wary approach to building a new Hudson River rail tunnel, even though the stakes could be even higher for the state and the nation.

SOUTH HERO, Vermont - As more farms open themselves up to visitors for apple picking, hay rides and some extra income, experts are advising owners to take steps to prevent accidents - be they small or fatal.

SOUTH BEND, Indiana - The Morris Performing Arts Center in South Bend has received an industry award that places it among the likes of the New York City Center and the Fabulous Fox in Atlanta.

FORT WAYNE, Indiana - Some Indiana politicians get around specifying about how they spend their campaign funds by listing only payments to credit card companies.

ANAHEIM, California - Beanstalks will grow, animals will walk upright, oceans will part, a forgetful fish will remember her family, and toys will fall in love in Disney and Pixar Animation's upcoming films.

WASHINGTON - Opportunity News Media wants you to know it's OK to be a Republican, and it is spending $3 million to say so in the presidential battleground states of Ohio and Colorado.

CONROE, Texas - A series of explosions rocked an oil filed chemical supply company north of Houston on Friday, setting off a fire that sent a broad, dense column of thick, black smoke towering into the otherwise blue skies.

FALMOUTH, Massachusetts - While thousands of runners descend upon Cape Cod for the New Balance Falmouth Road Race this weekend, an additional 100 are planning to compete from the comfort of their home or gym.

WASHINGTON - The International Monetary Fund delivered a reassuring economic assessment of China on Friday, at the end of a week that saw the Chinese currency plummet and global stock markets buckle at the prospect of more bad news from the world's second-biggest economy.

LOS ANGELES - Terrence Howard tearfully told a judge Friday that his ex-wife repeatedly threatened to leak damaging information about him to get him to sign a divorce settlement in 2012.

NEWARK, New Jersey - A lawyer representing former "Jersey Shore" reality TV show star Michael "The Situation" Sorrentino has withdrawn from a federal tax fraud case against him.

SEATTLE - A family dispute over the estate of guitarist Jimi Hendrix has been settled.

HELENA, Montana - A retired Pittsburgh schoolteacher could do nothing but laugh after a black bear broke into her car in Montana, destroyed the interior while trying to escape, and finally busted out through the windshield.

LAS VEGAS - Las Vegas can be many things to many people, but MGM Resorts International wants leaders and visitors from Japan to know its resorts are more than gambling hubs.

NEW YORK - SFX Entertainment said Friday that a deal to sell the music-festival promoter to its chairman and CEO is off, although it said Robert Sillerman is still interested in buying the company at a lower price and there is another potential buyer.

SALT LAKE CITY - A river in Colorado that was turned sickly yellow by a mine waste spill reopened Friday after the now-diluted toxic plume passed through and reached Lake Powell - a huge reservoir 300 miles downstream that feeds the Colorado River and supplies water to the Southwest.

LOS ANGELES - A judge on Friday ordered two women to stay away from Salma Hayek and her family after the actress accused them of impersonating her and threatening to kidnap her daughter.