Новости за 30.03.2018

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Sacramento police shot Stephon Clark seven times from behind, according to autopsy results released Friday by a pathologist hired by Clark’s family, findings that call into question the department’s assertion that the 22-year-old black man was facing officers and walking toward them when he was killed.

A 26-year-old Stanton Heights man was charged with pointing a gun at a boy after the boy refused a sexual advance Thursday, according to court records.

Pennsylvania officials have reported 15 more flu -related deaths, bringing the state’s death toll from the current flu season to 207, including six pediatric cases.

HARRISBURG — The DUI case filed against state Rep. John Maher (R-Upper St. Clair) has been closed and expunged from the court record.

DETROIT — Growing up in Lithuania, Dovydas Neverauskas didn’t think much about his first opening day with a Major League Baseball team. Back in the day, he couldn’t watch American baseball on TV, and in any case, he knew his chances of making the big leagues were slim.

Gateway School Board member Steve O’Donnell has resigned after he was accused of making anti-Semitic remarks, but says he is not stepping down because of the controversy and that he stands by his comments.

Pitt has rightfully spent the past two days celebrating the arrival of new men’s basketball coach Jeff Capel. The program has been shrouded in misery for the past two years, and Capel’s arrival is a breath of fresh air. He has re-energized fans and restored hope where hope was quickly fading. It’s appropriate for the school to show him off around town because Capel’s job isn’t just to coach basketball, it’s to rebuild a program. That starts with winning over the fans.

Marc Sylvester needed a moment just to count them all.

Marc Sylvester needed a moment just to count them all.

Two people were killed in a wrong-way crash on southbound I-79 around 3 a.m. Friday morning, authorities said.

A group of troubled East End properties have a new owner who is seeking to rehabilitate them.

Pittsburgh police Detective Donald Pasquarelli never thought about retiring, even as he approached age 65 and faced a mandatory boot from the force.

The offseason was something of a downer for Pirates fans. The team dealt popular players Andrew McCutchen and Gerrit Cole in unpopular trades, which has taken some of the buzz out of baseball’s return this year.

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Drue Heinz, founder of Ecco Press, former publisher of The Paris Review and generous patron of the literary and visual arts, died this morning at her home in Lasswade, Scotland. She was 103 and the widow of the late H.J. "Jack" Heinz II.

On Thursday night in the middle of a National Hockey League game between the Chicago Blackhawks and the Winnipeg Jets, an unfamiliar figure in a No. 90 Blackhawks jersey stepped onto the ice at the United Center.

The Heiltsuk people of British Columbia have long spoken of a time when most of Canada was entombed beneath glaciers, and their ancestors fished and foraged along the coastline that formed a thin green margin between open ocean and impenetrable ice.

Just a year ago, Tesla looked like a rising force destined to revolutionize the auto industry.

According to a menu framed on the wall, on Aug. 23, 1933, the lunch special at Mitchell’s was a cup of Navy bean soup, and a choice of ham and cabbage, cold sardines, English beef stew or breaded veal chop with a side of potatoes, a beet salad, bread pudding for dessert and a drink, all for the peak-Depression era price of 25 cents. On Thursday — a few months shy of 85 years later — it was still a bargain: roast chicken, stuffing, potatoes and corn for a mere $8.75.

NEW YORK — Facebook’s decision to stop working with third-party data collectors might earn it public-relations points, but it is seen as doing little to protect your privacy. The social network still has more than enough data on your interests and hobbies to target ads with precision.

At a time when the country seems hopelessly divided, health officials are here to remind us of something that unites Americans from all walks of life: deaths tied to opioid overdoses.

Matt Clement spent nine years as a major league pitcher, made the All-Star Game once and amassed 87 career wins.

Marian Wagner created a lot of fond memories in Bellevue with her late husband, David.

BATON ROUGE, La. — The investigation of a deadly police shooting that inflamed racial tensions in Louisiana’s capital city has ended without criminal charges against two white officers who confronted a black man outside a convenience store two summers ago.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — In the aftermath of the Parkland massacre, some students with disabilities are being taunted or callously pegged by others as being the next school shooter, parents and experts say.