Новости за 31.08.2017

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Great Smoky Mountains National Park will receive a $2.5 million upgrade to its radio communications systems in response to a fire in Tennessee that contributed to 14 deaths and millions of dollars of damage in November. The National Park Service announced the improvements before Thursday’s scheduled release of an independent report about

INDIANAPOLIS — An Indiana State Police spokesman says a trooper is recovering a day after he was thrown over a highway guardrail by a crash while he was outside his patrol car checking on a stopped van. Trooper Ronneal Williams was taken to a hospital in serious condition after the Wednesday morning crash along Interstate

JACKSON, Miss. — A Mississippi school district where 97 percent of the students are black will review whether to rename three elementary schools now honoring Confederate leaders. The Clarion-Ledger reports that a committee of the Jackson Public Schools board will examine whether to change the names in Mississippi’s capital city. Davis Magnet School is named

WESTERLY, R.I. — A mysterious metal object discovered a few weeks ago off a Rhode Island beach has been removed and carted away in pieces. Media tweets show a crew used an excavator Thursday on Westerly’s East Beach to dig up the circular metal object. The object puzzled beachgoers and had posed a hazard to

BRAZIL, Ind. — State Police say a western Indiana couple faces neglect charges after officers found them living in a dilapidated rural shack with the woman’s 11-year-old daughter. The 29-year-old woman and her 36-year-old husband were arrested Wednesday on one count each of neglect of a dependent. They remained jailed Thursday at the Clay County

BOSTON — A judge says two wrongful-death lawsuits pending against the estate of late NFL player late Aaron Hernandez will be heard in Boston, in Suffolk County. An attorney for Hernandez’s estate asked that the lawsuits filed by the families of Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado be heard in Bristol County, where the attorney’s

CAMDEN, N.J. — Campbell Soup Co. said Thursday that it expects sales to keep falling over the next year as more people skip its canned soups and bottled juices in favor of fresher foods. “The operating environment for the packaged foods industry remains challenging,” CEO Denise Morrison said. The company’s stock fell to a two-year-low

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans have pledged to overhaul the nation’s complex tax code. To slash taxes, they say they’ll curb a web of expensive deductions and credits to allow more revenue to flow to the government. Problem is, they’re likely to run into a wall of resistance from people and groups

EASLEY, S.C. — An automotive parts manufacturer in South Carolina is closing and moving operations to Mexico. News outlets reported the decision by Kongsberg Automotive to close its plant in Easley early next year will eliminate nearly 100 jobs. The Easley plant makes parts for the company’s fluid transfer systems, which supplies hose and tube

PARIS — The way Princess Diana died 20 years Thursday — in a high-speed Paris car crash while she and her boyfriend were being chauffeured by an intoxicated driver and pursued by photographers — shocked and angered the public. It also preserved her in memory as a glamorous, beloved and vulnerable figure. Nearly two decades

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — The Hard Rock Cafe on the Atlantic City Boardwalk will shut down and be relocated into the former Trump Taj Mahal casino when Hard Rock reopens it under its own brand next summer. The global casino and hospitality company says the Atlantic City Hard Rock Cafe will cease operations on Sept.

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Protesters are vowing to continue a sit-in protesting a Confederate statue even after the University of North Carolina removed picnic tables, tarps and other equipment from the site. Police officers and other university officials removed the objects from around the statue known as Silent Sam on Thursday morning. The protesters chanted,

INDIANAPOLIS — Andretti Autosport has signed a multiyear extension with Honda. Andretti Autosport CEO Michael Andretti said Thursday that the team has a great history of success with the Japanese automaker and he has no doubt that it “will continue to grow.” Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Andretti has captured three series championships

KRUBONG, Malaysia — Syria is one victory away from advancing from its World Cup qualifying group, with an automatic spot at the 2018 tournament in Russia still possible. The war-torn country’s national soccer team beat Qatar 3-1 on Thursday in Malaysia, moving into third place in the six-team Group A of Asian qualifying. If the

NEWPORT, R.I. — President Donald Trump and Navy leaders say the nation needs about 350 ships, roughly 75 more ships than the fleet has today. But there isn’t money in the defense budget to buy a lot of new ships at once, and they take years to build. Adm. John Richardson, the chief of naval

WARSAW, Poland — Police in western Poland are investigating whether a historic Jewish cemetery was damaged after workers uncovered human remains and tombstones at a construction site. Anna Dygas, from the police department in the village of Maszewo, told The Associated Press on Thursday that an investigation has been opened into possible damage to a

More people are trading in commutes and cubicles for couches and coffee shops: As of 2016, 43 percent of employees worked remotely at least part of the time, up from 39 percent in 2012, according to Gallup’s State of the American Workplace report. For small businesses that don’t need employees onsite, high-speed internet, communication apps,

CROSBY, Texas — The Latest on a Houston-area chemical plant that lost power after Harvey (all times local): 12:30 p.m. The Harris County sheriff says 15 deputies sought medical attention for eye irritation after a fire started at a Houston-area chemical plant but most were quickly treated and released. Sheriff Ed Gonzalez says 13 had

SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Indiana-based AM General says it has received a $2.2 billion contract from the U.S. Army to build Humvees for foreign military sales. The South Bend company says the contract calls for it to produce about 11,500 Humvees over the next five years. The Humvees are built at the company’s factory in

NEW YORK — A former sales director for a New York charter bus company is accused of stealing 36,000 amusement park admission tickets, worth over $1 million. According to the Daily News (http://nydn.us/2glhm8V ), prosecutors say Rosemarie Bader used a company credit card to over-purchase tickets from New Jersey’s Six Flags Great Adventure and from

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The U.S. Department of Justice is pressing federal regulators to come up with a way of keeping inmates from using cellphones in the nation’s prisons. In a letter obtained Thursday by The Associated Press, Assistant Attorney General Beth Williams told the Federal Communications Commission that addressing the security threat posed by contraband

JOHANNESBURG — South African President Jacob Zuma has faced insults and heckling in parliament, where a vote of no confidence in him recently failed. Zuma on Thursday was frequently interrupted by opposition lawmakers during a question-and-answer session. The opposition Economic Freedom Fighters party walked out of the chamber in protest, a relatively common occurrence. Even

Prosecutors said Thursday there isn’t enough evidence to bring criminal charges in the deadly thrill ride accident at this year’s Ohio State Fair that killed a high school student and injured seven other people. The State Highway Patrol, which led the investigation, said it interviewed over 80 witnesses, including people on the ride when one

BERLIN — German authorities are seeking to end the prosecution of a former SS medic who served at the Auschwitz death camp, saying lengthy delays mean that the nearly 97-year-old suspect is now no longer fit for trial. The prosecutors’ office in Schwerin said Thursday that Hubert Zafke was examined by experts twice in recent

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — The Sioux Falls Storm will compete in a new league starting next season. The Storm are leaving the Indoor Football League and joining the Champions Indoor Football league. The Sioux Falls franchise will rekindle several former rivalries from when it competed in the United Indoor Football league. Champions Indoor Football will