Новости за 22.06.2016

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Trumpet player Wayne Jackson, who played standout horn lines on rock ‘n’ roll, soul, R&B and pop mainstays along with Memphis Horns partner and tenor saxophonist Andrew Love, has died. He was 74. His wife, Amy, said her husband died of congestive heart failure Tuesday night at a hospital with her by

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — President Barack Obama’s administration said Tuesday that California did not violate a religious freedom law when it ordered health insurance companies to pay for elective abortions. The decision by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services upholds California’s 2014 order requiring seven insurance companies to rescind and re-issue policies covering workers

SAN FRANCISCO — Electric car maker Tesla Motors wants to buy solar panel maker SolarCity for up to $2.8 billion in an attempt to create a one-stop shop for cleaner energy as consumers become more concerned about fossil fuels harming the environment. The all-stock bid announced Tuesday values SolarCity Corp. at $26.50 to $28.50 per

BOSTON — The headmaster of a prestigious Boston high school that’s been plagued by allegations of civil rights violations has stepped down. The Boston Globe reports (http://bit.ly/28Qv938) the school district on Tuesday announced Lynne Mooney Teta’s resignation from Boston Latin School. The local U.S. attorney’s office announced in March it was launching an investigation into

SEATTLE — An official says a flight was diverted to the Seattle area after a man tried to kiss a sleeping girl next to him on the airplane. Seattle-Tacoma International Airport spokesman Perry Cooper said Tuesday that Port of Seattle police arrested the 23-year-old California man for investigation of fourth-degree assault. Cooper says the man

“Flight of the Conchords” went off the air in 2009 but the beat has gone on in the films of Taika Waititi. Waititi, who was a writer and director of that cult HBO series, has carried on the show’s New Zealand deadpan and childlike whimsy with varying success. Often collaborating with “Conchords” star Jermaine Clement,

INDIANAPOLIS — FBI agents arrested an 18-year-old from suburban Indianapolis as he tried to board a bus to New York and join the Islamic State terror group overseas, federal authorities said Tuesday. Akram Musleh of Brownsburg was arrested without incident, FBI spokeswoman Special Agent Wendy Osborne said. Musleh was in the custody of federal marshals

HOUSTON — Several professional athletes, including San Francisco Giants pitcher Jake Peavy, Denver Broncos quarterback Mark Sanchez and retired Houston Astros pitcher Roy Oswalt, were cheated out of more than $30 million by an investment adviser in a Ponzi-like scheme, federal investigators said Tuesday. In a lawsuit filed last month in Dallas federal court, the

BALTIMORE — A judge gave himself until Thursday to decide the fate of an officer in whose van the neck of a young black arrestee was somehow broken. It could take much longer to repair the tense and uneasy relationship between Baltimore’s prosecutors and police, now that they’ve traded accusations of sabotage, misconduct and dirty

NEW YORK — Twitter is now letting its users post videos that are up to 140 seconds long, an increase from its previous 30-second limit. The move is part of the social media company’s efforts to attract a broader set of users, some of whom feel confined by its limits on the length of tweets

RENO, Nev. — Nevada’s prisons are discriminating against inmates with HIV under illegal segregation policies that deny them access to work programs where other prisoners earn credits to reduce the length of their sentences, the U.S. Justice Department has concluded. Justice Department lawyers warned Nevada’s attorney general this week they may sue the state under

NEW YORK — New York’s governor demanded an investigation Tuesday into allegations that a lane in one of the traffic-clogged tunnels connecting Manhattan to New Jersey was shut down as a special favor to a politically connected businessman accused of paying bribes to police commanders. Gov. Andrew Cuomo directed the inspector generals for both the

DALLAS — FedEx Corp. lost $70 million in the latest quarter because of large pension and acquisition items, and the delivery giant gave a cautious outlook for the next 12 months. The company’s fiscal fourth quarter results Tuesday still beat Wall Street expectations, as FedEx and other delivery companies continue to benefit from the growth

WASHINGTON — The Latest on efforts to rescue sick worker from U.S. science station at South Pole (all times EDT): 5:45 p.m. Federal officials say a rescue plane has landed at the South Pole to evacuate a sick worker from a remote U.S. science station. The small plane made the 1,500-mile, nine-hour trip on Tuesday

ST. LOUIS — Education officials say Missouri schools experience widespread chronic absenteeism with more than 40,000 students in the St. Louis region and nine area counties who have missed 15 or more days of school during the 2013-14 school year. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/28T8qVa ) reports that attendance data was released this month by

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Alabama athletic director Bill Battle is set to undergo a series of treatments for cancer, which he has been battling for more than two years. The university announced in a statement Tuesday that Battle will undergo a stem cell transplant for multiple myeloma at Emory University’s The Bone Marrow and Stem Cell

WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Jack Lew on Tuesday faced Senate Democrats skeptical about a rescue package for debt-stricken Puerto Rico, raising doubts about its fate just 10 days before the U.S. territory must make a $2 billion payment to creditors. “The question at the end of the day will be, does Congress act to give

LOS ANGELES — California’s last nuclear power plant, perched on a seaside bluff midway between San Francisco and Los Angeles, is set to close by 2025 under an agreement announced Tuesday. The Diablo Canyon plant has been operating commercially since the mid-1980s, supplying power to about 3 million homes in Northern and central California. Here’s

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — There’s some monkey business afoot at a Massachusetts zoo. WWLP-TV reports (http://bit.ly/28QJKLX) a 12-pound guenon monkey named Dizzy escaped from its enclosure at The Zoo in Forest Park, in Springfield, on Tuesday. The zoo is temporarily closed while employees try to recapture the animal. The zoo says on its website that an

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — A Pennsylvania jury has acquitted a man in the death of his girlfriend’s toddler, which he said occurred as he was mimicking a professional wrestling move. The all-female Lycoming County panel deliberated for less than two hours Monday before acquitting Brandon Hoffman, 21, of aggravated assault, involuntary manslaughter and related counts. Families

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Minnesota health officials have issued a warning about handling young poultry after nine cases of salmonella have been linked to young birds. The Minnesota Department of Health says the salmonella cases occurred over the past several months, and are associated with a multistate outbreak being investigated by the U.S. Centers for

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — In stories June 17 and June 20 about rafting deaths in Alaska, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Alaska Alpine Adventures said 10 people were in one raft. The company on Monday said there were five rafts with two people in each. A corrected version of the story is below: Women killed

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The lack of a state budget may hinder Illinois Conservation Police from monitoring outdoor recreational activities this summer. The State Journal-Register (http://bit.ly/28SFGvK ) reports that Illinois Department of Natural Resources spokesman Tim Schweizer said the department intends to have officers available this summer but he called on Democratic legislative leaders to approve