Новости за 05.03.2017

NEW YORK — Tommy Page, a former pop star whose song “I’ll Be Your Everything” went to No. 1 in 1990 and who later became a record company executive, publisher of Billboard magazine, a vice president at Pandora and an executive at The Village Voice, has died. He was 46.

COLUMBIA, Mo. — Kim Anderson was never quite embraced by most Missouri fans, even after starring for the Tigers in the 1970s and serving two stints as an assistant to beloved coach Norm Stewart.

NEW YORK — The R-rated “X-Men” spinoff “Logan” slashed into the weekend box office, opening with a massive $85.3 million in North American theaters, according to studio estimates today, while best-picture winner “Moonlight” got a significant, if far from superhero-sized, Oscar bump.

ISTANBUL — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan likened Germany’s cancellation of public appearances by two of his ministers to Nazi practices, aggravating frictions that had already flared over Turkey’s human rights record.

MOSCOW — A Russian lawmaker has proposed an unorthodox solution to the country’s problems with soccer hooliganism ahead of next year’s World Cup — legalize it and make it a spectator sport.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Rhode Island’s attorney general wants to start fingerprinting Uber and Lyft drivers, as well as traditional taxi drivers.

TEMPERANCE — A day after their church burned to the ground, parishioners of BridgePoint Church gathered in Bedford High School for their regular Sunday worship.

NEW YORK  — The New York Police Department says no evidence of vandalism has been found at a predominantly Jewish cemetery where more than 40 tombstones were toppled over.

NEW YORK — Cursive writing is looping back into style in schools across the country after a generation of students who know only keyboarding, texting and printing out their words longhand.

BEIRUT — Five months of multi-sided clashes in Syria’s crowded northern battlefield have displaced some 66,000 people, a U.N. humanitarian agency said today, a day after the U.S. bolstered Kurdish-led forces with a deployment of armored vehicles amid preparations for a push toward the Islamic State group’s de facto capital.

LANSING, Mich. — Faced with the threat that Asian carp could enter the Great Lakes, Michigan is turning to the public for new ideas and plans to offer a prize to whoever comes up with a way to stop the voracious fish.

PITTSBURGH — Dr. Thomas Starzl, the pioneer of liver transplantation and the driving force behind the world’s first baboon-to-human liver transplants and research on anti-rejection drugs, has died. He was 90.

BOSTON — At the core of Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s appeal is a critique of an economic system she says is rigged against the little guy.

DALLAS — A transgender boy who won a girls wrestling state title in Texas says he would compete against boys if allowed and is taking lower doses of testosterone to try to be fair to his opponents.

PALM BEACH, Fla. — The White House demanded on today that Congress investigate whether former President Barack Obama abused his executive powers in connection with the 2016 presidential election.

LEBANON, Ohio — A former Ohio corrections officer has been sentenced to a year in prison after pleading guilty to illegally carrying drugs intended for an inmate.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence is criticizing The Associated Press for listing his wife’s email address in a story about his frequent resistance to public records requests while Indiana’s governor.

WASHINGTON— As millions of Americans file their income tax returns, their chances of getting audited by the IRS have rarely been so low.

PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump is accusing former President Barack Obama of ordering Trump’s telephones tapped during last year’s election, but Trump isn’t offering any evidence even as he makes politically charged references to Watergate, Nixon and McCarthyism.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Malaysia said today that its expulsion of North Korea’s ambassador was intended to warn Pyongyang that it cannot manipulate the investigation into the killing of the North Korean leader’s half brother.

TSHOLOTSHO, Zimbabwe — From kitchen items to livestock and even her house, Assa Mkwananzi says she has “lost it all” to floods that have hit southern Zimbabwe.

City officials were forced to reschedule a community meeting for residents of downtown and the Old West End after no one showed up last Monday night. City officials said they notified hundreds of residents in District 4 of the forum scheduled for 6 p.m. at the Nexus Healthcare Facility, but not one person came to speak about street and utility projects.

BOWLING GREEN — The ancient game of curling is often called the “roarin’ game,” a reference to the roaring sound that a 38 to 44-pound granite curling stone makes as it slides down 130-foot rectangular lanes of ice known as sheets.

On July 7, 1895, Detroit Avenue resident William Stytts, listed as a bicyclist by trade, was stopped by a Toledo police officer and arrested on a charge of Fast Driving.

Someone interested in doing research on a family member who was a Toledo Police Department officer or who got in trouble with the law between 1872 and 1971 can call the Toledo Police Museum, 419-720-2485, or email toledopolicemuseum@gmail.com, to set up an appointment to look at the logs.