Новости за 30.06.2016

KEENE, N.H. — Police say a California man has been charged in New Hampshire with arranging a sexual encounter with a 14-year-old girl he met on Snapchat. Twenty-seven-year-old Jonathan Christy, of Placentia, faces a felony charge of certain uses of computer services prohibited. He was being arraigned Thursday afternoon. Court officials didn’t immediately have information

TOPEKA, Kan. — The president of a central Topeka hospital says the lack of Medicaid expansion in Kansas played a large role in the decision to sell St. Francis Health. SCL Health put the hospital up for sale in May, The Topeka Capital Journal (http://bit.ly/29dhoiL ) reports. Hospital president David Setchel says that the facility

NEW YORK — Hershey rejected a $22.3 billion takeover bid Thursday that would have brought together some of the best-known cookie and chocolate brands under one company. Its wooer is Mondelez, which was spun off from Kraft in 2012. Here’s a look at the two companies: MONDELEZ INTERNATIONAL INC. BRANDS: Oreo and Chips Ahoy cookies,

NEW YORK — The NBA hired Byron Spruell on Thursday as president of league operations. Spruell, who has spent the last 20 years at Deloitte LLP, will oversee the basketball operations and referee operations departments when he begins his new job on Aug. 1. He will be responsible for the management of rules changes, training

As many as 18 questions will compete for voters’ attention in November during a red-hot presidential campaign that also includes picking the state’s first new U.S. senator in a generation. Thursday is the deadline for the secretary of state’s office to certify which initiatives have gathered enough valid signatures to qualify for the Nov. 8

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — A former principal who is now personnel director for schools in Alabama’s most populous county was arrested Thursday on charges of having sex with students in two counties. Jefferson County schools personnel director Brett William Kirkham, 39, was arrested in Tuscaloosa County on charges of being a school employee and having sex

TORONTO — Canada launched a task force Thursday to study the regulation of recreational marijuana ahead of a legalization measure the government plans to send to parliament in the Spring of 2017. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had promised to legalize the drug during his 2015 campaign. Canada’s Minister of Justice Jody Wilson-Raybould said that the

INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana must list both spouses in lesbian marriages as parents on their children’s birth certificates, a federal judge ruled Thursday, and end what she called a “discriminatory” practice of listing only the birth mother. U.S. District Judge Tanya Walton Pratt granted summary judgment in favor of eight lesbian couples who sued the Indiana

UNITED NATIONS — Liberia is assuming responsibility for its security for the first time since civil war ended in the West African country 13 years ago, a move welcomed by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. A U.N. peacekeeping force transferred responsibilities Thursday, and President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf will mark the handover on Friday. A reduced U.N.

NEW YORK — Rob Wasserman, a highly respected bass player and composer who performed and recorded with Lou Reed, Neil Young, Brian Wilson and many other musicians, has died. He was 64. Wasserman died Wednesday in Los Angeles, according to Matt Busch, the manager for Wasserman’s close friend Bob Weir. Weir posted on his Facebook

MADISON, Wis. — Interstate highways will likely suffer the biggest traffic backups this Fourth of July weekend, the Wisconsin Department of Transportation said. The Marshfield News-Herald (http://mnhne.ws/29gwOTS ) reports that the American Automobile Association estimates that nearly 43 million Americans will travel this weekend, the highest travel volume on record for the holiday. Peak travel

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina lawmakers took steps Thursday to set aside a half-million dollars for the legal defense of a law limiting protections for LGBT people as a judge sought to streamline a cluster of lawsuits it has inspired. Republican lawmakers were mapping out the end of the session, including possible changes to the

UNITED NATIONS — Countries need to step up enforcement of sanctions slapped on North Korea in March over ballistic missile tests aimed at furthering the Asian nation’s nuclear ambitions, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said Thursday. Samantha Power said North Korea’s “obsessive pursuit” of weapons of mass destruction poses a growing security threat

SAN JOSE, Calif. — San Jose signed pending restricted free agent forward Tomas Hertl to a two-year contract Thursday worth a reported $6 million, keeping one of the team’s top young players in the fold as the Sharks try to build on last season’s trip to the Stanley Cup Final. The 22-year-old Hertl is coming

LILLE, France — Belgium’s injury problems ahead of its European Championship quarterfinal against Wales have shifted from Eden Hazard to Jan Vertonghen. While captain Hazard has recovered from a thigh injury in time for Friday’s game in Lille, Vertonghen has been ruled out for the rest of the tournament after tearing ligaments in his left

NEW ORLEANS — The Latest on the annual Essence Festival held over the July 4th holiday in New Orleans (all times local): 1:15 p.m. There will be another new face at the 2016 Essence Festival but fans will have no problem recognizing her. Organizers Thursday announced that popular television host and actress Oprah Winfrey will

A look at wildfires burning in the West and the aftermath of earlier blazes: SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Authorities planned autopsies on two charred bodies found 45 miles east of San Diego after a wildfire swept through the region. The county medical examiner’s office said the male and female bodies located Wednesday were between two boulders on

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — U.S. champion Gracie Gold and world silver medalist Ashley Wagner will headline Skate America. Assignments for the Grand Prix Series were announced Thursday, with the opening event at Hoffman Estates, Illinois, drawing a strong field of Americans. Also scheduled to compete in Skate America are U.S. men’s champ Adam Rippon, U.S.

HELENA, Mont. — Grizzly bears have rebounded from widespread extermination across the Northern Rockies over the past several decades. But conflicts with humans have been on the rise, and the death of a Montana man on Wednesday brings to at least seven the number of people fatally mauled by bears in the region since 2010.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Porfirio Guerrero has grown increasingly frustrated as a decade-long recession has sapped business from his tailor shop in the Puerto Rican capital. He now feels the only way for the island to recover is to become a full-fledged part of the United States, a sentiment that is gaining force in

LAS VEGAS — The Latest on a murder-suicide that left a Las Vegas family of five dead (all times local): 1:35 p.m. Court records show that the woman who police say was fatally shot by her husband before he killed their three children and himself had sought a divorce last month. Phoukeo Dej-Oudom filed for

ABINGDON, Va. — Kicking off a national tour on opioid addiction, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack brought together the governors of Tennessee and Virginia on Thursday to talk about stemming Appalachia’s drug abuse epidemic. The town hall reinforced President Barack Obama’s call for Congress to pump $1.1 billion more into substance abuse treatment. It also was

HARTFORD, Conn. — A contractor who initially took the blame for accidentally starting a fire in Connecticut that killed his girlfriend’s three children and her parents on Christmas morning in 2011 will testify in a wrongful-death lawsuit and turn over documents, his lawyer said Thursday. A state judge in Hartford had called a hearing for

DEERFIELD, Mich. — Authorities are still hopeful for information in the deaths of two teen boys who were locked in a bathroom and burned alive in a Lenawee County farmhouse in 1982. Crime Stoppers of Lenawee County is seeking the public’s assistance in solving the deaths of David Ray Cole, who lived in the home,

WASHINGTON — A simmering political crisis in Bahrain could spiral into violence, encourage meddling by Iran and weaken a key U.S. ally in the Persian Gulf, a bipartisan group of senators warned Thursday in a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry. The lawmakers told Kerry they are “deeply alarmed” by the government of Bahrain’s