Новости за 21.06.2016

CHICAGO — The latest on a meeting of representatives of the eight Great Lakes states to determine whether the city of Waukesha, Wisconsin, will be allowed to use Lake Michigan as its drinking water source (all times CDT): 1 p.m. A council representing the eight Great Lakes states has voted to allow Waukesha, Wisconsin, unprecedented

MONTPELIER, Vt. — A type of algae called “rock snot” that was thought to be an invasive species in the Northeast is actually native to the northern United States, researchers have concluded. The aquatic algae, Didymosphenia geminata, has caused massive blooms in some U.S. rivers. Fishermen spotted it in rivers in Vermont in 2007, sparking

BARATARIA PRESERVE, La. — In the heyday of oil exploration on Louisiana’s coast after World War II, companies dug about 10,000 miles of canals as straight as Kansas highways through a natural world that’s unraveling today — due, in part, to those canals. Soon, about 16.5 miles of canals are to be filled in the

RALEIGH, N.C. — A federal jury in North Carolina on Tuesday convicted a prisoner of directing a botched kidnapping attempt from his prison cell, in an incident where the kidnappers mistakenly grabbed the father of a prosecutor. Kelvin Melton, 51 was found guilty of multiple charges, including kidnapping and aiding and abetting and conspiracy to

BALTIMORE — Olympic gold medal swimmer Michael Phelps has completed his probation for drunken driving. Department of Public Safety and Corrections Services spokesman Gerard Shields said Tuesday that 30-year-old Phelps completed his probation Sunday and his case is closed. The 18-time gold medalist pleaded guilty in 2014 to driving under the influence. A one-year sentence

JERUSALEM — Violinist Itzhak Perlman, a longtime advocate for the disabled, is still upset over Donald Trump’s derisive behavior toward a disabled reporter last fall and says he will be supporting Hillary Clinton in November’s election. The mild-mannered musician, who contracted polio as a child and uses an electric scooter to move around, said he

CHICAGO — The latest on a meeting of representatives of the eight Great Lakes states to determine whether the city of Waukesha, Wisconsin, will be allowed to use Lake Michigan as its drinking water source (all times CDT): Noon Representatives of the eight Great Lakes states have begun a meeting in Chicago that is expected

NEW YORK — A Pennsylvania man who lost his daughter to a heroin overdose earlier this year was arrested with two other people after they were stopped while trying to drive through the Holland Tunnel with a cache of weapons on their way to “rescue” a teenage girl involved with drugs in New York, according

BAY CITY, Mich. — Regional tourism officials have proposed the construction of a building near the Veterans Memorial Bridge with an observation tower to welcome travelers to Bay City. The Bay City Visitors Bureau currently operates out of an office at the Doubletree Hotel downtown. It previously occupied the Pere Marquette Depot and the Delta

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — A face representing “rolling on the floor laughing” and a hand taking a selfie are among 72 new emojis that will soon make their way to your smartphone. The California-based Unicode Consortium, which controls emoji standards, has released a list of the new characters. Other highlights include emojis representing a pregnant

WASHINGTON — After flying through dangerous dark and cold, a rescue plane landed Tuesday at the South Pole to evacuate a sick worker from a remote U.S. science station, federal officials said. The plane arrived at the South Pole after a daring 1,500-mile, nine-hour trip from a British base on the Antarctic peninsula, according to

PITTSBURGH — The Latest on ‘Dance Moms’ star getting ready to plead guilty to federal bankruptcy fraud and currency reporting charges: (all times local): 12:55 p.m. A federal judge in Pittsburgh has scheduled a guilty plea hearing next week for “Dance Moms” star Abby Lee Miller on bankruptcy fraud and currency reporting charges. Miller on

LAKELAND, Fla. — Authorities say a child is among four people killed in a seven-vehicle crash on Interstate 4 in central Florida. Florida Highway Patrol spokesman Steve Gaskins tells local media the crash happened Tuesday morning when an eastbound pickup truck clipped another vehicle as it changed lanes. Gaskins says the truck veered into a

I could eat quarts of gazpacho all summer long. When I set about making this version, the goal was a gazpacho with great, fresh tomato taste, but even deeper flavor. The solution was simple: roast the tomatoes first. The sweet, layered result is well worth the slight extra hands-off time it took to bake them.

A massive rocket booster that never made it to space instead made its way Tuesday to Mississippi’s Infinity Science Center after a carefully orchestrated days-long move over land and water from New Orleans. The rocket booster was part of the Saturn V rocket used to support the Apollo moon program. This particular piece of equipment

Wallpaper goes in and out of fashion. Right now, it’s enjoying an “in” moment. There are wildly creative designs coming out of studios all over the world. Some of the best take us on a journey to far-flung places both real and imagined. Londoner Nina Campbell’s new Fontibre collection for Osborne & Little is inspired

DETROIT — Detroit’s police chief says a security guard briefly left a checkpoint when a bag containing a gun passed through an X-ray machine, causing a lockdown and evacuation at a government building. The owner of the bag picked it up and continued walking into the Coleman A. Young Municipal Center on Monday morning before

NEW YORK — Many American painters, inspired by French Impressionists at the turn of the 20th century, flocked from East Coast cities to sun-dappled garden havens in places like Appledore, Maine; Old Lyme, Connecticut; and Long Island’s East End. The gardens they sought, known as “grandmother’s gardens,” were utterly unlike the formal Victorian gardens of

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. — Police say a teenager is dead after being thrown from a truck that was fleeing from deputies in East Tennessee who were investigating a report of a robbery. Tennessee Highway Patrol Sgt. Noah Click told media outlets Tuesday that the girl had died. The crash report identified her as 14-year-old Lacey

My delphiniums are now in all their stately glory, the 5-foot, blue spires reaching for the sky as they guard the gate to my vegetable garden. I have to admit that besides their beauty, I also enjoy growing delphiniums to show off. On the one hand, they are not hard to start from seed, and

BENNINGTON, Ind. — Authorities say an 11-year-old girl has died after lightning toppled a tree onto a cabin at a southeastern Indiana camp. The Switzerland County Sheriff’s Office says the girl, three adult camp counsellors and other campers were inside the cabin about 2 a.m. Tuesday when the tree fell on the building. It says

NEW YORK — A handful of new startups are tackling a thorny problem that AOL couldn’t solve with zillions of dollars: How to cover local news in different cities without going broke. Some see a news hole left behind by the shrinking newsrooms of traditional city newspapers and alt-weeklies. Others want to woo smartphone-addicted millennial

BRISTOL, Vt. — Police say a man operating a lawnmower on a road in Vermont has been accused of driving under the influence of drugs. The Burlington Free Press reports (http://bfpne.ws/28MxTmb ) police say 67-year-old Claude Spaulding, of Bristol, was stopped Monday after they got a report that a man was driving the John Deere

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A 29-year-old Kansas City man accused of intentionally running over a transgender woman several times and leaving her to die remains jailed in Colorado awaiting extradition. Luis M. Sanchez was charged Monday with first-degree murder and armed criminal action in the August death of 36-year-old Tamara Dominguez. Charges were unsealed Friday

ALTOONA, Pa. — Two sisters have sued a Catholic priest, his central Pennsylvania diocese and two ex-bishops who supervised him, saying the cleric molested them repeatedly as girls — including one at her first Communion party. The younger sister, who is now 47, said she met the Rev. Charles Bodziak at St. Leo Church in