Новости за 08.03.2017

MILWAUKEE — A former teacher’s aide shown in a video pushing a student to the floor last year says in a lawsuit that Milwaukee Public Schools failed to warn him about “violent conditions” at the school. The lawsuit filed Tuesday by 40-year-old Jasmine Pennix against the school system also contends he was not provided training

A district attorney has asked the state to investigate two assistant prosecutors after an Associated Press story that quoted former congregants of a North Carolina church as saying the men derailed criminal probes into allegations of abuse by sect leaders. David Learner said Wednesday that he wants the State Bureau of Investigation to look into

LONDON — Bournemouth defender Tyrone Mings was handed a five-match ban on Wednesday after being found guilty by an independent panel of stamping on the head of Manchester United striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic during a Premier League game. Bournemouth reacted by saying the club was “extremely disappointed” by the sanction because there was “absolutely no evidence

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Uber’s self-driving cars will return to California’s streets, though the ride-hailing company doesn’t immediately plan to pick up passengers. Uber received permits Wednesday to run two Volvo SUVs on public roads, the California Department of Motor Vehicles said. Regulators also approved 48 people as backup drivers who must sit behind the wheel

MUNCIE, Ind. — A central Indiana man who spent nearly 25 years in prison left a courthouse a free man Wednesday after a judge set aside his 1992 rape conviction because DNA found on the victim was not his. Delaware Circuit Judge Kimberly Dowling freed William E. Barnhouse, acting on a joint motion filed by

MUNCIE, Ind. — A central Indiana man who spent nearly 25 years in prison has left a courthouse a free man after a judge granted a motion setting aside his 1992 convictions for rape and criminal deviate conduct. Delaware Circuit Judge Kimberly Dowling freed 60-year-old William E. Barnhouse on Wednesday. Prosecutors and attorneys with the

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — Tim Tebow has gotten off to a tough start in his first game for the New York Mets. The former NFL quarterback struck out twice, grounded into a double play, was hit by a pitch and trapped off first base Wednesday in a spring training exhibition against Boston. Tebow batted

LOS ANGELES — Celebrities are using social media to express their support for Wednesday’s International Women’s Day. A sampling: — “We must support the empowerment of women & girls today & forever. Let us bring in a future that holds our shared opportunities. #IWD2017” — Forest Whitaker, on Twitter. — “#internationalwomensday should be everyday. blessings

ST. PAUL, Minn. — A Minneapolis man is sentenced to a year in prison for threatening to blow up a mosque. Fifty-seven-year-old Daniel George Fisher was sentenced Wednesday in U.S. District Court. He pleaded guilty last year to one count of obstructing people from freely exercising religious beliefs. Court documents show that in September 2015

NEW YORK — Kamari Murphy had 16 points and 10 rebounds in his return home to Brooklyn, and Miami held off Syracuse 62-57 on Wednesday in the second round of the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament. The ninth-seeded Hurricanes (21-10) advanced to play top-seeded and sixth-ranked North Carolina in the first quarterfinal Thursday afternoon, seemingly solidifying

DALLAS — Tony Romo’s star-crossed career as the starting quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys will soon be over. A person with knowledge of the decision tells The Associated Press that the Cowboys will release Romo when the NFL year opens on Thursday. The person spoke to the AP on Wednesday on condition of anonymity because

Director Olivier Assayas’s bizarre but transfixing “Personal Shopper ” is not something that lends itself to a simple description. Loosely, it’s about a young artist, Maureen (Kristen Stewart), who is coping (poorly) with the recent death of her twin brother Lewis while working as a personal shopper for a demanding Somebody in Paris. But it’s

RIO DE JANEIRO — Before leaving her home each day to teach art to children, Mariluce Maria de Souza must factor in extra time to account for the shootings and other eruptions of violence that occur daily in Alemao, Rio de Janeiro’s largest complex of slums, or favelas. The 35-year-old mother of a boy sometimes

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Wildfires scorching hundreds of square miles of Kansas, Colorado, Texas and Oklahoma have been blamed in at least six deaths as of Wednesday. Thousands of people have been displaced by the wind-whipped flames. Here’s a look at the situation: WHAT’S BURNING? Kansas has logged more than 1,000 square miles of scorched

CONWAY, Ark. — An Arkansas college student who moonlights as a magician showed off his juggling skills after he was pulled over for a broken brake light, and the act was captured on an officer’s body camera and police cruiser video. University of Central Arkansas police pulled over 21-year-old Blayk Puckett last week in Conway,

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — Tyrod Taylor will remain the Buffalo Bills starter after the team announced it restructured the player’s five-year contract extension on Wednesday. The move was made a day before the NFL’s free-agency period began, and before the Bills faced a deadline on Saturday to determine whether to pick up the extension Taylor

WASHINGTON — America’s work force will only grow over the next two decades if new immigrants arrive to replace retiring Baby Boomers, a report from the Pew Research Center finds. In a report out Wednesday, Pew projects that the U.S. working-age (25-64) population will grow from 173 million in 2015 to 183 million in 2035.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Casey Anthony — the Florida woman accused, then acquitted, of killing her 2-year-old daughter — spoke with The Associated Press five times over a weeklong period. During the interviews, she talked about her love for her daughter, Caylee Marie, and showed photos of her and artwork she finger-painted. Anthony maintains

NEW YORK — The 16th Tribeca Film Festival will close with a “Godfather” cast reunion and a back-to-back screening of parts one and two of Francis Ford Coppola’s classic saga. Tribeca announced Wednesday that the 45th anniversary screenings will be followed by a conversation with Coppola, Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, Robert Duvall, James Caan and

SAN ANTONIO — San Antonio stars Kawhi Leonard and LaMarcus Aldridge are sitting out the Spurs’ next game for rest. The Spurs says Leonard and Aldridge won’t play Wednesday night against Sacramento at home. San Antonio has won eight straight, with Leonard providing winning shots and game-saving defense in the final minutes of the team’s

EAST CHICAGO, Ind. — Authorities say high winds have downed power lines across northern Indiana, causing outages and delays on the Indiana Toll Road and the South Shore commuter rail line. Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District spokesman John Parsons tells The (Northwest Indiana) Times that high-voltage power lines fell on the South Shore tracks in

BALTIMORE — Police in Baltimore have arrested nine young people after a video shared on Facebook allegedly shows them with a man whose cell phone had just been stolen. The victim of that theft can be seen on the video asking the teen-agers for his phone back. Police spokesman T. J. Smith said at a

BUFFALO, N.Y. — A person with direct knowledge of the situation tells The Associated Press that the Buffalo Bills are in discussions with the representative of pending free agent quarterback Brian Hoyer. The person says the talks began Wednesday, when NFL teams have an open window to contact pending free agents a day before the

DOHA, Qatar — Qatar’s ruler has met with Iran’s foreign minister in the latest visit to the Arabian Peninsula by a senior official from the predominantly Shiite nation. The state-run Qatar News Agency reported that Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani met Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif at his Al-Bahr Palace in the capital,

ORLANDO, Fla. — A former inmate didn’t murder his girlfriend after receiving a pardon from President Barack Obama, despite claims made in a widely shared story. The man named in the account isn’t on a government list of pardons or commutations granted by Obama, and a mugshot accompanying the article is from a suspect in