Новости за 12.01.2017

CHARLESTON, S.C. — Dylann Roof’s death sentence this week for killing nine black church members ends one chapter in his case, but it’s far from over. Roof has indicated he will appeal his federal punishment and there are nine murder charges looming in state court. Monuments and memorials to those slain at Emanuel AME in

NEW YORK — Stephanie J. Block, Mandy Gonzalez, Mario Cantone, Robert Creighton and Randy Graff will lend their voices to the fight against the lung-scarring disease pulmonary fibrosis. The seventh annual concert Broadway Belts for PFF! will be held Feb. 27 at the Edison Ballroom in New York City. Actress and comedian Julie Halston, who

LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Prosecutors in Tippecanoe County say they’ve determined that nearly 150 former inmates need to be fingerprinted after glitches with the jail’s fingerprint machine. Indiana requires inmates to be fingerprinted when they are jailed. But the (Lafayette) Journal and Courier reports (http://on.jconline.com/2j4UDPa ) that between July 30 and Aug. 26 of last year

LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Three Chinese women weightlifters have been stripped of Olympic titles for doping at their home 2008 Beijing Games. China faces a one-year ban from international weightlifting which should be triggered for having three Olympic doping disqualifications in a re-testing program by the IOC, which announced the verdicts on Thursday. The IOC also

INDIANAPOLIS — The top Republican in the Indiana House says it’s important for Gov. Eric Holcomb to help sell a proposal that would raise taxes to pay for road improvements. House Speaker Brian Bosma said Thursday that he doesn’t know if the new Republican governor will address the road funding needs during his first State

RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil’s most powerful criminal gang, First Command, is exploiting overcrowding and squalid conditions in the country’s penitentiaries to expand its reach across the national prison system, an incursion at the center of massacres that have left nearly 100 inmates dead in the new year. Some prisoners were beheaded or had their

NEW YORK — The Tony Awards are going back to their old — and much larger — stomping grounds. The American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League said Thursday that the telecast on June 11 will originate from the 6,000-seat Radio City Music Hall, the show’s long preferred home because of its size and proximity

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Many Haitians lit candles and offered prayers Thursday to remember relatives and neighbors who died in a catastrophic earthquake that struck near the Caribbean nation’s capital seven years ago. Hairdresser Nerlande Voltaire, Bible in hand, attended a church service in Port-au-Prince to honor her mother, who was crushed by a building reduced to

LIVERPOOL, England — France midfielder Morgan Schneiderlin ended an underwhelming 18-month spell at Manchester United by sealing a move to English Premier League rival Everton for an initial fee of 20 million pounds ($24.5 million) on Thursday. Schneiderlin has signed a 4 1/2-year contract with Everton, where he will be reunited with manager Ronald Koeman.

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Officials say an 18-year-old accused of holding 11 people hostage at a credit union branch near the University of Alabama was armed with a BB gun. University spokesman Chris Bryant said in an email Thursday that Cedrick Lamar Collins of Tuscaloosa is charged with first-degree robbery in the two-hour standoff Tuesday. Bryant

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Esteban Santiago stood alone in the cold one day last month outside Mom & Pop’s liquor store in Anchorage. He was waving his arms and having a terrible argument in the parking lot. “He’d just be talking to himself … screaming as if he was having a battle with himself,” said Naomi

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Four children were injured, one of them critically, after being run over on their way to school Thursday morning in Colorado. Police are still investigating what led up to the crash in Colorado Springs. Witnesses told The Gazette (http://bit.ly/2jnOqgZ) that a crossing guard had stopped traffic at a crosswalk so the

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be the nation’s top health official will sell off stock holdings to avoid potential conflicts of interest, according to government documents released Thursday. Rep. Tom Price’s ethics agreement and financial disclosure were posted online by the Office of Government Ethics. The Georgia Republican has been nominated to head

RAMSEY, Minn. — Police stopped a stolen vehicle in a Twin Cities suburb and found the driver in labor and some of her seven child passengers with their mouths taped shut. Police say an officer stopped the vehicle in Ramsey, Minnesota, just after midnight Tuesday for a traffic violation and learned it had been stolen.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The capital of California and an apartment complex have agreed to pay $1.35 million to an elderly stroke victim who was raped several times by an off-duty Sacramento police officer. The Sacramento Bee reports (http://bit.ly/2jAm42C ) that the city and the senior complex in which the woman lived will each pay $675,000

GURDON, Ark. — The National Transportation Safety Board says it will soon issue a preliminary report on a plane crash in southwest Arkansas last week that killed a former Oklahoma Christian University baseball player and another person. An agency spokesman said Thursday that the preliminary report on the Jan. 5 crash near Gurdon could be

PRAGUE — Nearly 30 years ago, Donald Trump was confident he would win the U.S. presidential election — as an independent in 1996, according to recently uncovered files from Czechoslovakia’s Communist-era secret police. Czechoslovakia was the home nation of Trump’s first wife, Ivana, a model, athlete and businesswoman who became the mother of his three

WASHINGTON — The Women’s March on Washington says it’s partnering with the Natural Resources Defense Council. Organizers for the march, which is planned for a day after Donald Trump’s inauguration, announced the nonprofit environmental group would be a “presenting partner” in a statement Thursday. The march already has some 150 partners listed on its website

BERLIN — German Chancellor Merkel says Europe can only master global challenges if it is willing to “take on more responsibility in the world in the future.” The chancellor spoke after receiving a joint honorary doctorate from the Belgian universities of Ghent and Leuven in Brussels on Thursday. Among other things, she was cited for

BASEL, Switzerland — Turkish government has used last year’s failed military coup to launch an expansive crackdown that has swept up peaceful critics and undermined democracy, a human rights group said Thursday. Human Rights Watch’s report said the July 15 botched coup was no excuse for the scale of the government’s moves against critics and

RENO, Nev. — A national fraternity has revoked the charter of its chapter at the University of Nevada, Reno, where an 18-year-old pledge died after falling down a stairway. Sigma Nu executive Brad Beacham said Thursday an investigation by the Lexington, Virginia-based fraternity found violations of alcohol and hazing policies at the chapter. The student

WASHINGTON — Long-term US mortgage rates fell this week, the second week of declines after snapping a nine-week run of increases. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday the rate on 30-year fixed-rate loans eased to an average 4.12 percent from 4.20 percent last week. That was still sharply higher than a 30-year rate that averaged

ROSEVILLE, Mich. — A Detroit-area man has been ticketed for leaving a vehicle running unattended in his driveway as he warmed it up. Nick Taylor, of Roseville, says the incident happened on a chilly morning earlier this month. He says he went inside his home and left his car running for about 5 minutes. When

ORLANDO, Fla. — Investigators say a Florida man killed his wife and tried to cover up the crime by making posts on her Facebook page. An Orlando police report says 42-year-old George Joseph McShane was arrested Tuesday after officers found him inside his running SUV in his garage, attempting to kill himself. The Orlando Sentinel

CINCINNATI — An Ohio prosecutor deciding how to proceed after Cincinnati Bengals player Adam “Pacman” Jones’ latest arrest says he wants to know first what punishment Jones faces from the NFL. “I want to know what the NFL is going to do,” Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters told WKRC-TV (http://bit.ly/2j8cBCp ). Deters said he’s asking