Новости за 27.06.2017

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Two Vanderbilt football players were shot in what police are calling an “ill-conceived plan” to recover a teammate’s stolen cellphone. Tae Daley, 18, suffered a noncritical gunshot wound to his leg, and Frank Coppet, 18, received noncritical birdshot wounds to his arms, Nashville police said Tuesday in a statement. Detectives were working

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Officials say a research center at Penn State University aiming to prevent child abuse and improve treatment should open in a few months. A university spokeswoman told The Daily Item (http://bit.ly/2tRY3K2 ) the school is targeting September for the opening of the Center for Healthy Children. The center, which was announced

BUCHAREST, Romania — U.S. military officials say an American soldier has been hospitalized in Romania in critical condition after suffering an electric shock while working at a railway station near the Hungarian border. A U.S. Army statement from Poland sent to The Associated Press said the unnamed soldier was transported to the Arad County Hospital

MILWAUKEE — The Milwaukee Brewers will induct former outfielder and first baseman Corey Hart into the team’s Wall of Honor on Friday. Hart will have a plaque commemorating his career installed at Miller Park. The team will honor him with a pregame ceremony before Friday night’s game against the Miami Marlins. Hart also announced Tuesday

WASHINGTON — Elena Delle Donne scored 25 points, Kristi Toliver made three of Washington’s 10 3-pointers, and the Mystics beat the Seattle Storm 100-70 on Tuesday. Delle Donne was 7 of 10 from the field and hit nine straight free throws as Washington was 26 of 29 at the line. Washington made five 3-pointers in

ATHENS, Greece — Greek police say they have arrested an elderly man for allegedly setting up an improvised firing range on his balcony in a densely populated area and using guns he owned illegally for target practice. A police statement Tuesday says one of the handgun shots the man allegedly fired at a wooden target

International arrivals to the U.S. declined slightly in October 2016 compared with October 2015, continuing a downward trend in inbound tourism that began earlier in 2016. The U.S. Department of Commerce in Washington, D.C., said Monday that 6.6 million international visitors traveled to the U.S. last October, down 4,955 visits from the same month in

LONDON — Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said Tuesday that she believes banking regulators have made enough improvements to the financial system that the world will not experience another financial crisis “in our lifetimes.” Addressing an audience at the British Academy in London on Tuesday, Yellen said the banking reforms put in place in recent

DUESSELDORF, Germany — One of Alberto Contador’s key support riders has failed a doping test and been suspended from the Trek-Segafredo team four days before he was slated to start the Tour de France. The UCI says Andre Cardoso of Portugal was notified that he tested positive for the banned blood booster EPO following an

CHICAGO — The Chicago Bulls are not ready to say whether veteran point guard Rajon Rondo will be back for a second season. Vice president of basketball operations John Paxson says that “is still to be determined.” The Bulls can pay Rondo $13.4 million or buy him out for $3 million by Friday’s deadline. Paxson

“My Glory Was I Had Such Friends: a Memoir” (Harper Wave), by Amy Silverstein Amy Silverstein received a new heart when was 25 years old, and for the next 26 years she beat the odds, surpassing all expectations for a transplant recipient. Then a single jolt of dizziness warned her that something was terribly wrong;

WASHINGTON — The Latest on the Supreme Court’s decision to take up New Jersey’s bid to allow sports betting at casinos and racetracks (all times local): 12:15 p.m. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says he is encouraged by the Supreme Court’s decision to take up the state’s effort to allow sports betting at its casinos

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration’s top environmental official met privately with the chief executive of Dow Chemical shortly before reversing his agency’s push to ban a widely used pesticide after health studies showed it can harm children’s brains, according to records obtained by The Associated Press. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt’s schedule shows he

WASHINGTON — Millionaires would get tax cuts averaging $52,000 a year from the Senate Republicans’ health bill while middle-income families would get about $260, according to a new analysis of the foundering bill. The analysis was done by the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center. It found that half of the tax cuts would go to families

VIENNA — Austria goalkeeper Robert Almer needs surgery on his injured right knee for a third time, ruling him out of the World Cup qualifiers against Wales and Georgia in September. Almer’s club, Austria Vienna, says the ‘keeper will have the operation in a clinic in Germany on Wednesday, forcing him to postpone his comeback

LEXINGTON, S.C. — A South Carolina couple is looking for some bigger baby clothes after their son was born at a whopping 14.4 pounds. WLTX-TV reports (http://on.wltx.com/2sXwYoQ ) that Colin Austin Keisler was born by cesarean section at a hospital in Lexington. The baby is healthy, but his mother, Cindy Richmond, says they had to

NEW YORK — Russell Westbrook has earned kudos from Michael Jordan and Taylor Swift after being honored with his first league MVP trophy at the NBA Awards show. A letter signed by Jordan and posted in an Instagram story on his Nike brand’s account reads: “Congrats Russell, I got my first MVP award before my

CARACAS, Venezuela — A total of 68 stores were looted and several government offices were burned following anti-government protests late Monday and Tuesday in the city of Maracay, west of Venezuela’s capital of Caracas. Large protests against the government of President Nicolas Maduro have been regularly held in Caracas over the last three months, but

ANDERSON, Ind. — An environmental group fighting a stalled proposed reservoir in central Indiana has lined up backing from four mayors for its alternative plan of a recreation trail. But Anderson Mayor Thomas Broderick Jr. is withholding support of the Mounds Greenway, the proposed trail along the White River between Muncie and Indianapolis. He said

HOBOKEN, N.J. — The family of a woman killed when a New Jersey Transit commuter train slammed into a station last year filed a wrongful death lawsuit on Tuesday against the agency. Fabiola Bittar de Kroon’s family is seeking unspecified compensatory damages in the lawsuit filed in state Superior Court in Hudson County. The 34-year-old

RALEIGH, N.C. — A man who plotted to shoot hundreds of people on behalf of the Islamic State group received a life sentence Tuesday in a case that prosecutors say illustrates the dangers of Americans radicalized through social media. Justin Nojan Sullivan, 21, received the sentence in federal court in Asheville after pleading guilty late

PORTLAND, Maine — Famed defense lawyer F. Lee Bailey has filed for bankruptcy again to tie up loose ends following his bankruptcy filing last year. The attorney, whose high-profile clients have included O.J. Simpson, discharged more than $4 million in debt to the Internal Revenue Service in the previous case, Bailey’s attorney, John Molleur, said

MENLO PARK, Calif. — Facebook is reaching another milestone, announcing that it now has more than 2 billion users. CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the new marker was reached early Tuesday and in a Facebook post said that he’s proud of the role his company is playing in connecting people around the world. Facebook says more

SLATINGTON, Pa. — A Pennsylvania auto salvage yard has been destroyed in a dramatic blaze punctuated by a series of explosions. The fire was reported Monday afternoon at Hanna’s Auto and Truck Recycling Center in Washington Township. It appeared to start near an office building and spread out to the junked cars in the yard.

HYANNISPORT, Mass. — Officials say the captain of a ferry couldn’t see the breakwater before the vessel crashed June 16 into a jetty in Hyannisport, Massachusetts, leaving 18 people injured. The Steamship Authority said Tuesday that waves about 5 feet (about 2 meters) high obscured the view that day. The captain later saw the breakwater