Новости за 01.04.2018

JERUSALEM — Israel's defense minister on Sunday rejected international calls for an investigation into deadly violence along Gaza's border with Israel, saying troops acted appropriately and fired only at Palestinian protesters who posed a threat.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A 61-year-old woman was struck by a police vehicle as it peeled away from protesters demonstrating against the police killing of Stephon Clark in what was described by the victim and protesters as a hit and run.

DETROIT — Trevor Williams descended the dugout steps after the sixth inning Sunday and saw the extended arm of manager Clint Hurdle. That gesture indicates the end of the starter’s outing, hardly unusual after six innings of work, except on Sunday, Williams had held the Detroit Tigers without a hit.

DETROIT — Speaking prior to Sunday’s games, general manager Neal Huntington expressed confidence in closer Felipe Rivero.

DETROIT — After a poor spring and rough first outing of the season, the Pirates are confident Felipe Rivero will return to form, general manager Neal Huntington said.

DETROIT — As weather messed with the Pirates’ season-opening series in an American-League city for the second year in a row, general manager Neal Huntington said the Pirates have voiced concerns about early-season scheduling.

Like him or hate him – and most Penguins fans probably identify more with the latter – Washington Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin is undoubtedly a generational talent, the best goal-scorer going and a surefire Hall of Famer.

DETROIT — Right-hander Joe Musgrove will make his first regular-season start for the Pirates on Thursday against the Cincinnati Reds, general manager Neal Huntington said. The game starts at 7:05 p.m. at PNC Park.

DETROIT — The bus left Pirate City in Bradenton, Fla., at 3 a.m. Saturday, the flight departed from the airport Tampa two hours later, and right-hander Clay Holmes was about to take a nap at his hotel in Indianapolis when he got the call.

Oh, snow.

A 22-year-old man was shot to death early Easter morning in the East Hills neighborhood.

Pittsburgh police are investigating a fatal shooting in the East Hills neighborhood overnight.

VATICAN CITY — On Christianity’s most joyful day, Pope Francis in his Easter Sunday message called for peace in a world marked by war and conflict, “beginning with the beloved and long-suffering land of Syria,” and extending to the entire Middle East, the Korean peninsula and parts of Africa affected by “hunger, endemic conflicts and terrorism.”

Relief spreads rapidly across the landscape at the arrival of April, igniting fresh and widespread satisfaction that we are, at the end of another viciously dreary, soul-mangling Pittsburgh winter, about to behold the tangible reward of our seemingly interminable longing.

The headline caught my eye: “Utah Just Passed America’s First ‘Free-Range Parenting’ Law.”

Matthew Continetti is editor in chief of the Washington Free Beacon, where this first appeared (comments@freebeacon.com).

In softball, the scorebook usually tells all: hits, runs, errors, winners and losers.

The Rev. Randy Bush is senior pastor of East Liberty Presbyterian Church and author of “The Possibility of Contemporary Prophetic Acts” (bethrandyb@verizon.net).

No one is born knowing how to catch a fish, and you have to know it to teach it.

After months of speculation, it was confirmed last week that the price of a Pennsylvania fishing license will not increase for the 2018-19 season. A committee of the state House of Representatives stopped a Senate bill that would have increased funding for the Fish and Boat Commission by raising license fees.

FirstEnergy, an Akron, Ohio-based power supplier, announced late Saturday night that FirstEnergy Solutions, its competitive subsidiary, and FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Co. have made a voluntary filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The filing was made to facilitate financial restructuring, the company said in a news release.

SAN ANTONIO — Michigan has shored up the deficiency that always held it back, becoming one of the nation’s best defensive teams, not one of its worst. Out-shooting teams, no longer necessary.

SAN ANTONIO — To sum things up, Villanova was feelin’ it Saturday night.

In a way, it’s fitting that the Penguins’ power play scored three goals on the night the team clinched a playoff berth.

DETROIT — Right-hander Clay Holmes will join the Pirates as the 26th man for Sunday’s doubleheader against the Detroit Tigers, the Post-Gazette confirmed.