Новости за 24.02.2017

DES MOINES, Iowa — Republican governors from seven states are calling for dramatic changes to Medicaid, which provides insurance to more than 70 million low-income Americans, as they nervously watch President Donald Trump and GOP congressional leaders move to repeal and replace the Obama-era health law.

JACKSON, Wyo. — Wildlife refuge officials say a man with a drone caused 1,500 elk to stampede half a mile through the snow.

FRESNO, Calif. — The bill to repair California’s roadways hammered by floods and rockslides in an onslaught of storms this winter has reached nearly $600 million, more than double what the state budgeted for such emergencies, and the costs are mounting for other badly damaged infrastructure just two months into 2017.

News organizations including the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, CNN and Politico were blocked from joining an informal, on the record White House press briefing today.

WASHINGTON — Ohio Gov. John Kasich says there is no animosity between him and President Donald Trump, his former Republican presidential rival.

LOS ANGELES — On their way to this year's Oscars, Dev Patel searched for his Indian roots, Denzel Washington wrestled with racism as an angry African-American patriarch and Octavia Spencer became a top black female mathematician.

UNITED NATIONS — Nations urging the U.N. to ban helicopter sales to Syria and impose other sanctions over chemical weapons attacks are pressing toward a vote shortly. But Russia is vowing a veto.

The recent stretch of warm weather in northwest Ohio is going out with a bang today, as the 72-degree temperature recorded shortly before 3 p.m. easily surpassed the previous record of 61 set in 2000.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he would make a massive budget request for one of the “greatest military buildups in American history” today in a feisty, campaign-style speech extolling robust nationalism to eager conservative activists.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Four-time NASCAR champion Jeff Gordon will drive the honorary pace car for Sunday’s Daytona 500.

A Toledo man charged with murder in a 2015 North Toledo shooting entered Alford pleas today and was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter and participating in a criminal gang.

A city man was seriously injured in a hit-skip accident in central Toledo this morning, officials said.

SAN JOSE, Calif. — About 20 horses still need to be evacuated after being stranded for days in flood waters in San Jose.

CLEVELAND — Two Ohio men who spent 20 years in prison for a man’s death in 1995 before their murder convictions were overturned are suing prosecutors and East Cleveland detectives.

President Donald Trump credited a crowd of right-wing activists with his unlikely political success today, telling a rapturous crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference he first thought about running after his speech there six years ago.

LUCAS COUNTY

PHILADELPHIA — A judge will let only one other accuser testify at Bill Cosby’s sexual assault trial to support charges the comedian drugged and molested a woman at his estate near Philadelphia.

WASHINGTON — White House chief of staff Reince Priebus asked a top FBI official to dispute media reports that President Donald Trump’s campaign advisers were frequently in touch with Russian intelligence agents during the election, a White House official said.

RAISINVILLE TOWNSHIP — Firefighters are still on scene of a house fire on Raisinville Road that started early this morning, officials said.

NEW YORK — J.C. Penney said today that it will be closing anywhere from 130 to 140 stores as well as two distribution centers over the next several months as it aims to improve profitability in the era of online shopping.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — The poison used to kill the estranged half brother of North Korea’s leader at a crowded air terminal in Malaysia was the banned chemical weapon VX nerve agent, police said today. Eleven days after the deadly toxin was used, they said they would eliminate any possible remaining trace of it from the airport and other locations.

PORT CLINTON — An Ottawa County Common Pleas Court judge has temporarily ordered a company to stop work toward burying residue from Toledo’s water treatment plant in an abandoned Benton Township quarry after the township filed a civil lawsuit against the company and two affiliates.

The possibility of changes to Toledo’s controversial lead-safe ordinance reopened floodgates of complaints opponents hurled Thursday at councilmen.

Thursday night’s City League basketball championship game at Waite’s Grant Murray Field House was, among other things, a coronation.

The Owens women’s basketball team was in full-scale crisis mode.