Новости за 07.01.2017

PORTLAND, Maine — Lobster lovers are used to adjusting to high prices, but this winter, they’re shelling out even more for the cherished crustaceans because of a lack of catch off of New England and Canada and heavy exports to China.

OLYMPIA, Wash. — As Washington state prepares to swear in its first blind lieutenant governor, the Senate has undergone a makeover that incorporates Braille into that chamber’s floor sessions.

MINNEAPOLIS — An inventory of Prince’s estate submitted to a probate court in Minnesota shows he had acquired tens of millions of dollars’ worth of real estate and other personal property before he died last year.

It was a new look for the White House, bathed in rainbow colors to celebrate the Supreme Court decision allowing same-sex marriage nationwide.

DALLAS — A Dallas County Jail inmate was fatally beaten by his cellmate late last month, but the attacker said it wasn’t until he called jailers for help because the victim was “breathing hard” that they realized what had happened, a newspaper reported.

DEERFIELD, Ill. — Authorities say a suspect in a Chicago-area slaying was killed in a police shootout on a Metra commuter train while dozens of other people were aboard.

PERRYVILLE, La. — A Louisiana wildlife agent has been hospitalized after being shot multiple times while on patrol.

The University of Toledo women's basketball team defeated Miami 64-50 today at Savage Arena.

MUNCIE, Ind. — The Bowling Green State University men's basketball team claimed its first road win of the season, a 76-71 victory over Ball State at Worthen Arena today.

ANN ARBOR — Michigan’s season opener against Florida in Arlington, Texas, could be moving to Sept. 3.

AKRON, Ohio — A couple who lived in an Ohio apartment destroyed when a corporate jet plunged into their building is suing the estates of the two pilots who died in the crash that killed nine people on board.

The man police say opened fire with a gun from his checked baggage at a Florida airport had a history of mental health problems — some of which followed his military service in Iraq — and was receiving psychological treatment at his home in Alaska, his relatives said Friday after the deadly shooting.

ISTANBUL — The once bustling Grand Bazaar in Istanbul is astonishingly quiet. The shops and restaurants in the city’s trendy Istiklal Street are all but empty of foreign customers and the hotels in the upscale Nisantasi district are nearly deserted.

AMBALANTOTA, Sri Lanka — At least 21 people were injured Saturday in violent clashes between Sri Lankan government supporters and villagers marching against what they say is a plan to take over private land for an industrial zone in which China will have a major stake.

LONDON — Overcrowding in U.K. hospital emergency rooms has become a “humanitarian crisis,” the British Red Cross has said, urging the government to spend more on social care for the sick and elderly.

HARRISBURG, Pa.  — Penn State’s costs related to the Jerry Sandusky scandal are approaching a quarter-billion dollars and growing, five years after the former assistant football coach’s arrest on child molestation charges.

BEIRUT —  At least 43 people were killed today when a car bomb went off in a busy market in a rebel-held Syrian town along the Turkish border, activists and rescue workers said.

WASHINGTON — The FBI has released 100 pages of heavily censored documents related to its agreement with an unidentified vendor to hack into an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino, California, shooters, but it did not identify whom it paid to perform the work or how much it cost.

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — Gunfire could be heard for a second day in a row in Bouake, Ivory Coast’s second-largest city, as top security officials prepared to meet disgruntled soldiers who staged a mutiny over pay and other conditions, witnesses and officials said today.

DURHAM, N.C — A winter storm blanketed parts of North Carolina and Virginia with snow early today as its slow march across the Southeast left grocery store shelves empty and roads icy and impassible.

WASHINGTON — After a briefing from the nation’s top intelligence officials, President-elect Donald Trump said Friday he is confident Russians did not affect the outcome of the U.S. presidential election.

WASHINGTON — U.S. intelligence officials have concluded that Russian President Vladimir Putin personally “ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the U.S. presidential election.”

Stacie Lause of Toledo and her dog Lucy, a rescued whippet/terrier mix, set out for a walk at Wildwood Metropark. The National Weather Service posted wind-chill advisories for the Toledo area for early today.

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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — An Army veteran who complained that the government was controlling his mind drew a gun from his checked luggage on arrival at the Fort Lauderdale airport and opened fire in the baggage claim area Friday, killing five people and wounding eight, authorities said.