Новости за 02.05.2017

WASHINGTON — Hundreds of students have been marching at American University in Washington a day after bananas were found hanging from string in the shape of nooses on campus. Television station WRC-TV reports (http://bit.ly/2oUQL9S ) that students walked out of a town hall meeting administrators were holding Tuesday, a day after the bananas were found

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A court has ruled against beachgoers who sought more access to the sand in a Rhode Island town where Taylor Swift owns a vacation home. The Rhode Island Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a lower court’s ruling that said landowners in a section of Westerly could put up fences to keep the

BOSTON — Boston Bruins owner Jeremy Jacobs acknowledged Tuesday that he might have held up the coaching change that helped the team turn its season around and qualify for the Stanley Cup playoffs for the first time in three seasons. But in his first public comments on the team since the fall, Jacobs expressed appreciation

PRAGUE — A police official in the Czech Republic says three Americans have been killed in a collision between a car and a truck. Police spokeswoman Lucie Novakova says the crash happened early Tuesday afternoon near the town of Melnik, north of Prague. Novakova says that of the six Americans traveling in a rented Mitsubishi

NEW YORK — Tucker Carlson’s star isn’t only rising on television. The Fox News host and longtime conservative commentator has a two-book deal with Threshold Editions, the publisher told The Associated Press on Tuesday. No details were immediately available about the books by Carlson, who has become one of Fox’s biggest names with the departures

LOS ANGELES — Authorities say Mexican singer Luis Miguel surrendered to U.S. marshals Tuesday in a case involving a dispute in which he has been ordered to pay more than $1 million to his former manager. Deputy US Marshal Matthew Cordova says the singer, whose full name is Luis Miguel Gallego Basteri, is scheduled to

SAN FRANCISCO — A disgruntled former nursing student has pleaded no contest to killing seven people at a Northern California vocational college and will spend the rest of his life in prison. One Goh also pleaded entered the plea Tuesday to injuring three others during his 2012 rampage at Oikos University in Oakland, California. The

INDIANAPOLIS — Indianapolis police say a former teacher provided the anti-anxiety drug Xanax to a 17-year-old student she was having sex with and gave a gun to a second juvenile who she knew planned to commit crimes with it. They say 38-year-old Kathryn Hagan was arrested Tuesday on two counts of child seduction and single

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Quarterback Sheriron Jones is leaving Tennessee’s program again. Tennessee athletic department spokesman Stephen Lee confirmed Tuesday that Jones has been granted his release to transfer. 247Sports first reported Jones was transferring. Jones had left Tennessee’s team in January 2016 to transfer to Colorado, but he returned to the Volunteers later that month.

NEW YORK — Gannett, the publisher of USA Today and other newspapers, has warned about 18,000 current and former employees that hackers may have had access to their personal information after breaking into the emails of members of its human resources department. The company says there is no indication sensitive information was taken, but it

CARACAS, Venezuela — After years of steady economic decline, Venezuela is in the grips of the deepest crisis of its recent history. The streets of Caracas are awash almost daily in tear gas, neighboring governments are issuing increasingly stern condemnations and President Nicolas Maduro just called for the re-writing of the country’s constitution. How did

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Police are investigating an incident where South Carolina linebacker Skai Moore and receiver Deebo Samuel have been accused of assaulting a customer at a bar early Saturday morning. No one has been charged in the incident. Columbia Police Department spokeswoman Jennifer Timmons said the inquiry was ongoing. According to an incident report,

NEW ORLEANS — A south Mississippi funeral home went back on an agreement to cremate an 86-year-old man after he died and paperwork showed he was gay, according to a lawsuit in state court. Picayune Funeral Home had told a nephew in Colorado that Robert Huskey’s body would be picked up and cremated for $1,795,

FORT WORTH, Texas — Former VCU forward Ahmed Hamdy is going to TCU, where he will be immediately eligible to play next season as a graduate transfer. TCU coach Jamie Dixon announced Hamdy’s signing Tuesday. Dixon says the 6-foot-9, 240-pound Hamdy is a big man who runs the floor well and can score in the

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Saudi Arabia’s deputy crown prince said Tuesday in a rare and wide-ranging interview that there is no space for dialogue with rival Iran due to its Shiite ambitions “to control the Islamic world.” The interview, which aired on multiple Saudi TV channels, offered a glimpse into how Mohammed bin Salman

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Thunder Snow took to the track at Churchill Downs for the first time since clearing quarantine ahead of the Kentucky Derby. The UAE Derby winner jogged once around before galloping a mile on Tuesday. He arrived in the U.S. on April 30 from England, and the USDA required him to spend 42

Erin French runs a 40-seat restaurant called The Lost Kitchen in an old mill in a tiny town in central Maine. She takes reservations for the season one day a year, starting midnight April 1. This year, instead of a few dozen calls overnight, she got 10,000 in 24 hours. Calls came in so fast

NEW YORK — Mark Jackson has signed a multiyear deal with ESPN to continue calling NBA games, including the NBA Finals. Jackson and partners Mike Breen and Jeff Van Gundy will work the finals in June for the eighth time, extending their own record for a TV team. The deal with Jackson was announced Tuesday.

HARTFORD, Conn. — A second Connecticut racing pigeon enthusiast has been sentenced to a year of probation for his role in capturing and killing federally protected hawks. A U.S. District Court judge on Tuesday also ordered Stamford resident Adam Boguski to perform 60 hours of community service and pay a $250 fine. Prosecutors say Boguski

FOLKSTON, Ga. — Rainfall from a recent storm failed to quench a vast wildfire in the Okefenokee Swamp on the Georgia-Florida line. A line of thunderstorms crossing southeast Georgia dumped just 0.1 inches (2.5 millimeters) of rain Monday night on the fire in the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. The fire has blackened more than 150

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The Kentucky Derby Museum says it will become the permanent home for items collected by thoroughbred trainer D. Wayne Lukas, a four-time Derby winner who has saddled 48 horses to run for the roses. The museum said in a statement on that that the collection includes trophies from the Kentucky Derby, the

BALTIMORE — Police in Maryland say two people have been sickened after opening a package that they received in the mail. Frederick Police Lt. Clark Pennington says the people went to a hospital for treatment and brought the package with them, and now the hospital is considered a hazmat scene. Pennington says when the people

Garland Jeffreys, “14 Steps to Harlem” (Luna Park Records) Garland Jeffreys salutes his New York City youth and roots on “14 Steps to Harlem,” the neighborhood as significant as memories of Lou Reed, The Clash and John Lennon. Jeffreys digs deep into the past without it eclipsing the present. His childhood tales of watching his

SOCHI, Russia — Lokomotiv Moscow won its second Russian Cup in three years with a 2-0 victory over Ural Yekaterinburg on Tuesday that both sides finished with nine men after a brawl in the closing minutes. Lokomotiv went on the attack but only made the breakthrough in the 76th minutes, when a shot by Igor

Two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova is back at practice, less than six months after being attacked by a knife-wielding intruder. Kvitova posted a photo on Instagram on Tuesday showing herself swinging a tennis racket . She included the message: “I hope this picture makes you as happy as it makes me! I am in Monaco