Новости за 18.03.2017

PORTLAND, Ore. — Faced with an intractable homeless problem, officials in Portland are thinking inside the box.

Austin Rotroff led Wauseon with 24 points as the Indians defeated Elida 54-45 in the Division II regional final at Savage Arena.

Former Notre Dame football coach Lou Holtz today rallied Toledo-area coaches and youth leaders with a message about the key responsibility they share.

NEW YORK — Chelsea Clinton is joining the board of directors of online travel booking site Expedia.

BUFFALO — Jevon Carter scored 24 points, and West Virginia is headed to the Sweet 16 for the third time since 2010 following a 83-71 win over Notre Dame.

LIMA, Peru — The intense rains, overflowing rivers, mudslides and flooding being experienced in the country are the worst seen in in two decades, Peruvian authorities said today, affecting more than half the nation as the death toll since the beginning of the year hits 72.

HONOLULU — The government is asking a federal judge in Hawaii to clarify his order blocking President Trump’s revised travel ban, arguing that it shouldn’t apply to new rules on refugees.

LOS ANGELES — The federal act that created public broadcasting is marking its 50th year, but if President Trump has his way it will be its last with government funding.

PALM BEACH, Fla. — The White House said today that an individual was apprehended after jumping a low metal barrier just outside the White House fence, a week after an intrusion raised questions about lapses in security under the watch of the U.S. Secret Service.

BADEN-BADEN, Germany — The world’s top economic powers dropped a pledge to oppose trade protectionism amid pushback from the Trump administration, which wants trade to more clearly benefit American companies and workers.

STORRS, Conn. — Napheesa Collier and Kia Nurse each scored 24 points as top-seeded UConn routed Albany 116-55 today for the program’s 108th straight win and 25th straight in the NCAA Tournament.

CASIMIRO DE ABREU, Brazil — This small city in the state of Rio de Janeiro is on high alert after authorities confirmed the death of one man by yellow fever and are investigating several other possible cases.

MOSCOW — A top official of Russia’s space agency has been found dead in a prison where he was being held on charges of embezzlement.

Authorities are investigating a robbery early today in West Toledo.

MOSCOW — Residents of cities in Crimea and Russia are gathering to commemorate the third anniversary of Russia’s annexation of the Black Sea peninsula from Ukraine.

WASHINGTON — The House GOP health care bill has competition from other Republicans, a group of governors who’ve made their own proposal about how to overhaul Medicaid for low-income people. They’re hoping GOP senators will find their ideas more persuasive.

BOWLING GREEN — The Wood County Safe Communities transported hundreds of people Friday during St. Patrick’s Day festivities.

MONROE — An area man is recovering after a train struck him late Friday in Monroe.

WASHINGTON — President Trump defiantly refused to back down from his explosive claim that Barack Obama wiretapped his phones, and sidestepped any blame for the White House decision to highlight an unverified report that Britain helped carry out the alleged surveillance.

Toledo police report one person was shot early today in North Toledo.

ORLY, France — French soldiers shot and killed a man who wrestled a colleague to the ground today and tried to steal her rifle at Paris’ Orly Airport. The melee forced the airport’s busy terminals to close and evacuate and trapped hundreds of passengers aboard flights that had just landed.

“There is just no music on Earth that can compare to ours. The angelic voices gladden our senses, so that all awaken for joy.”

CORVALLIS, Ore. — In its first NCAA tournament game since 2001, nothing went according to plan for the University of Toledo women’s basketball team. The Rockets never led in a 76-49 loss Friday to Creighton in a first-round game at Gill Coliseum.

COLUMBUS — Ariel Cummings is the niece of Terry Cummings, and she found a way to channel the former DePaul and 18-year NBA star in Friday night’s Division I girls basketball semifinal.

INDIANAPOLIS — Instead of the OK Corral, Bankers Life Fieldhouse played host to this shootout.