Новости за 20.06.2016

MIDDLETOWN, N.J. — A horse adopted by Jon Stewart and his wife after it was found seemingly abandoned at an auction stable in Pennsylvania has died at their New Jersey farm. The white mare named Lily was euthanized Sunday after falling and breaking a bone in its neck at their Middletown farm, Tracey Stewart said.

SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Storms packings strong winds and heavy rain have rolled across parts of northern Indiana, downing trees and utility poles and leaving thousands of electricity customers without service. Indiana Michigan Power Co. reported nearly 15,000 customers without service in its Indiana service territory late Monday afternoon, nearly all of them in South

STEWARTSTOWN, N.H. — The stepfather of an 11-year-old girl found dead in a river in 2011 was arrested Monday on a second-degree murder charge in her killing. Wendell Noyes, 52, of Stewartstown, was taken into custody in the slaying of Celina Cass, the attorney general said. The girl was reported missing from her home July

BOSTON — A Harvard professor who caused a huge splash when she unveiled a small fragment of papyrus that she said referred to Jesus being married now says it’s likely a forgery. Harvard Divinity School professor Karen King presented the piece of papyrus in Rome in 2012. The fragment, written in Coptic, includes the phrase,

NEW YORK — The website Politico appointed two reporters on Monday to replace Mike Allen at Playbook, which rapidly grew from a morning email to his bosses into a must-read newsletter for Washington power players and those who want to eavesdrop on their conversations. Politico’s Anna Palmer and Jake Sherman will take over the newsletter

DENVER — A Colorado boy attacked by a mountain lion near Aspen was improving in a Denver hospital after his mother snatched him from the jaws of the wild cat, his family said Monday. “Thank you for your concern,” the unnamed family said in a brief statement released on its behalf by Children’s Hospital Colorado.

CHICAGO — Lil Rel Howery of NBC’s “The Carmichael Show” has been arrested on a misdemeanor battery charge. The 36-year-old Chicago comedian was arrested Sunday night after a collision involving a car in which he was riding. Chicago police say that when the other driver called 911, Howery punched him in the face. The Chicago

NEW YORK — A Russian ringleader of a group that fraudulently bought some of the hottest tickets in music, sports and theater by sneaking into StubHub users’ accounts pleaded guilty Monday in a scheme involving over $1 million worth of tickets. Vadim Polyakov is expected to get a 4-to-12-year prison term after his plea to

AUBURN, Maine — Police in Maine shot and killed a slaughterhouse-bound cow that escaped from a trailer and ran into traffic. Police say they were called around 10 a.m. on Monday when a cow being transported from Harvest Hill Farms in Mechanic Falls kicked open its trailer door and made a run for it in

ORANGE, Mass. — A Massachusetts woman can check something off her bucket list: She celebrated her 87th birthday by skydiving. The Recorder reports (http://bit.ly/28JoDcS ) Janis Lefebre’s children bought her the skydiving package from Jumptown, a skydiving center based in Orange, after learning that jumping out of a plane was something she always wanted to

PINE CITY, Minn. — A judge set bail at $1.5 million Monday for a religious sect leader who’s charged with sexually abusing girls at a secluded compound in rural Minnesota. Victor Barnard, 54, made his first state court appearance since his extradition from Brazil. U.S. marshals delivered him to the Pine County Jail on Saturday.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The cultural center showcasing Muhammad Ali’s fights in the ring and outside it against war and segregation has received its first major corporate donation since the boxing great’s death. The UPS Foundation said Monday it is making a $500,000 gift to the Muhammad Ali Center to support education initiatives promoting social awareness

INDIANAPOLIS — Owners of companies that produce the liquid used in electronic cigarettes say they’ve been shut out of Indiana by a state law that has effectively made a Lafayette security company the only one qualified to certify producers. The law requires any company that wants to sell the liquid in Indiana to be certified

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A Tennessee judge on Monday ordered famed wrestler Jerry “The King” Lawler and his fiancee to stay away from one another following their arrest on domestic violence charges. The Commercial Appeal (http://bit.ly/28JOs0l ) reports that the order was among the bond conditions set for the 66-year-old wrestler and Lauryn McBride, his 27-year-old

CHARLESTON, S.C. — Authorities say two tourists visiting South Carolina were arrested over the weekend in a dispute over the Confederate flag. Local media outlets report the South Carolina Secessionist Party was putting on its weekly display Saturday of Southern flags when a woman broke two small Confederate flags off a parked truck and ran

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — A 14-year-old girl who was wounded when authorities say an Uber driver opened fire in the Kalamazoo, Michigan, area has suffered a minor setback, her father said Monday. Gene Kopf spoke about his daughter, Abigail, during a Gun Safety Week event in Ann Arbor. Abigail was shot in the head during

CHICAGO — Shaquisha Gibson-Posey pulls out a grisly cellphone photo of her murdered brother whenever her 15-year-old son complains of being cooped up in the house. This is why you can’t go out in the neighborhood this summer, she tells him. Treshaun Carr takes special precautions when he walks down the street, walking only on

NEW YORK — Don’t call it Tribune anymore: The newspaper company has officially changed its name to Tronc. The company behind the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune is shedding its name to rebrand as a high-tech journalism company as it tries to avoid being bought by USA Today owner Gannett Co. Tronc stands

PITTSBURGH — Two men described as suspects in a cookout ambush that killed five adults and an unborn child near Pittsburgh have been wrongly jailed in solitary confinement on stale, unrelated charges to squeeze them for information about the shootings, their attorneys said Monday. Cheron Shelton, 29, and Robert Thomas, 27, are being held on

NEW YORK — Get a charge out of chocolate? New research suggests candy companies may be able to make lower fat versions of the tasty treat with a little electrical trick. By running liquid chocolate through an electric field, researchers were able to make it flow more easily. And that means it doesn’t need so

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. — The Latest on a black bear attack that wounded a New Mexico marathon runner (all times local): 12:45 p.m. A marathon runner is recovering after a bear attacked her roughly 2 miles from the finish line of a race in New Mexico’s Jemez Mountains. Wildlife officials say a female black bear

JACKSON, Miss. — One day short of the 52nd anniversary of three civil rights workers’ disappearance during Mississippi’s “Freedom Summer,” state and federal prosecutors said Monday that the investigation into the slayings is over. The decision “closes a chapter” in the state’s divisive civil rights history, Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood said. “The evidence has

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Authorities say a stray bullet from a rolling gun battle struck and killed a 4-year-old as he rode in the backseat of a car in Kansas City. Police said in a news release that Mahsaan Kelley-Wilson, of Kansas City, died at a hospital after the car’s driver rushed him there. Police

NEW YORK — As part of a special naturalization ceremony in honor of World Refugee Day, 19 new Americans were sworn in as citizens on Monday in New York’s Central Park. The group of mostly asylum seekers and refugees represented 12 different countries. The evening ceremony was held at the Delacorte Theater, an amphitheater best

CONNERSVILLE, Ind. — A former eastern Indiana doctor has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit forgery in a nearly 3-year-old case in which authorities alleged forged prescriptions were used to acquire narcotic painkillers and other drugs. David Ringel, who entered the plea Friday in Fayette Circuit Court, was among four former employees of Connersville-based Fayette