Новости за 14.02.2017

Walleye defenseman Simon Denis was named the ECHL player of the week today.

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis’ top advisers are rallying to his defense amid an unprecedented wave of conservative criticism that represents the biggest challenge to his mercy-over-morals papacy.

RALEIGH — A gay rights group says Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s new proposal to get rid of a North Carolina law limiting LGBT rights contains unnecessary additions and blames Republicans for failing to repeal House Bill 2.

Police say an unidentified man robbed a West Toledo bank today.

CLEVELAND — Free agent left-hander Chris Narveson has agreed to a minor league contract with the Cleveland Indians.

GLENWOOD, Iowa – A Sylvania man convicted of killing his former girlfriend last year was sentenced Monday to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

NEW YORK — A former store clerk was convicted today of murder in one of the nation’s most haunting missing-child cases, the disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz on the way to the school bus stop 38 years ago.

WASHINGTON — The Secret Service director is retiring, for a second time.

WASHINGTON -- The Senate’s second-ranking Republican and other GOP senators are calling for an investigation into connections between President Donald Trump and Russia, and want former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn to testify.

One man was fatally shot today after an argument in South Toledo, police said.

COLUMBUS — Ohio Republican Chairman Jane Timken appointed Rob Secaur as the state party’s new executive director.

Owens Community College evacuated its Perrysburg Township campus and canceled classes today after a gas line leak occurred while a crew worked on a nearby project.

On the day he was to have gone to trial, an Oregon man pleaded guilty today in Lucas County Common Pleas Court in his stepson's death.

One of the Toledo Zoo polar bears has moved to Chicago.

LANSING, Mich. — The mayor of Flint is planning to meet with Gov. Rick Snyder today to discuss Michigan’s decision to withdraw some financial assistance that was originally offered to help the beleaguered city and its residents cope with a man-made public health crisis caused by lead-contaminated tap water.

Jerry Sandusky’s adult son is in a Pennsylvania jail, awaiting a hearing next week on charges he pressured one teenage girl to send him naked photos and asked her teen sister to give him oral sex.

Rep. Jason Chaffetz blamed his harsh reception at a recent town hall on "a paid attempt to bully and intimidate." White House press secretary Sean Spicer called anti-Donald Trump marches and protests "a very paid, AstroTurf-type movement."

GENEVA -- North Korea said today its missile launches were “self-defense measures,” rejecting U.N. Security Council criticism of its weekend test, but the United States demanded international action against Pyongyang's weapons programs.

OROVILLE, Calif. — There's no word yet when the 188,000 people who evacuated their homes near Northern California's Oroville Dam can return.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s embattled national security adviser Michael Flynn resigned late Monday night, following reports that he had misled Vice President Mike Pence and other officials about his contacts with Russia. His departure upends Trump’s senior team after less than one month in office.

When the preseason polls came out for the Toledo Area Athletic Conference girls basketball season, Cardinal Stritch was tabbed sixth. When the regular season ends this week, the Cardinals will be sitting atop the league standings.

Piloting a boat is like driving a car. Except there are no brakes, and no grip or traction like tires grabbing the road, and the steering responds much more slowly and gradually than that in a car.

After a 9-4 season in 2016 — including a 6-2 mark in the Mid-American Conference — the University of Toledo football team begins spring practice today. The Rockets figure to factor into the conference championship picture in 2017. In order to challenge for its first league title since 2004, Toledo has several important questions to answer before it kicks off the new campaign.

COLUMBUS — The man charged in the murder and rape of a former Monclova Township woman and senior at Ohio State University was ordered held without bond Monday in Franklin County Municipal Court.