Новости за 28.03.2017

FOSTORIA — Police are investigating a report of inappropriate communications last year between an assistant athletic coach in the Fostoria school district and a student.

U.S. stocks ended sharply higher today, with financial and energy shares surging as data showed U.S. consumer confidence soaring to a more than 16-year high.

WASHINGTON — Retired star gymnasts testified before Congress on today that they were sexually abused by a former USA Gymnastics doctor and recommended a bill that requires tougher sex-abuse reporting for Olympic sports.

LAS VEGAS — The future of Hollywood movies is in the hands of young and diverse audiences.

CARSON CITY, Nev. — Even with the Republican failure to repeal Barack Obama’s health care law, Democratic lawmakers in some states are pressing ahead with efforts to protect birth control access, Planned Parenthood funding and abortion coverage in case they are jeopardized in the future.

WASHINGTON  — A government watchdog will investigate the taxpayer-funded travel costs when President Trump travels to the Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida and the security procedures surrounding those trips.

Paramount refusal to pay for EMS endangers lives

MONTGOMERY, Ala.— Alabama prosecutors will not seek the death penalty against a man who has been jailed nearly 10 years while he awaits trial.

Police said an East Toledo woman and man were forced to strip their clothing while the woman’s boyfriend pointed a gun at the man and threatened to kill him.

Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted today suspended a Republican member of the Lucas County Board of Elections and broke a tie vote to block the Republicans’ nominee for director.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — The World Video Game Hall of Fame’s 2017 finalists span decades and electronic platforms, from the 1981 arcade classic “Donkey Kong” that launched Mario’s plumbing career to the 2006 living room hit “Wii Sports,” that made gamers out of grandparents.

WASHINGTON — House intelligence chairman Devin Nunes rebuffed calls to step aside from the Russia investigation today as demands grew for him to recuse himself as head of that probe.

DAKAR, Senegal — Three bodies, including those of a male and female Caucasian, have been found in Congo’s Central Kasai province two weeks after two U.N. experts and their colleagues disappeared there, the government said today.

DETROIT —  Ford Motor Co. is investing $1.2 billion in three Michigan facilities, including an engine plant where it plans to add 130 jobs.

Toledo attorney Nicole Khoury announced today she plans to run for an open seat on Toledo Municipal Court.

Unemployment rates in metro Toledo mostly went down last month, a state report released today shows.

WASHINGTON — U.S. home prices jumped in January from a year earlier at the fastest pace in nearly 2 ½ years, as a tight supply of houses for sale spurred bidding wars in many cities.

DETROIT — A judge is holding a hearing on a plan to replace water lines at 18,000 homes in Flint, Michigan, where lead poisoned the water system.

WASHINGTON — President Trump is expected to sign an executive order today aimed at moving forward on his campaign pledge to unravel former President Barack Obama’s plan to curb global warming.

CINCINNATI — A mother of five who was wounded in the Cincinnati nightclub shooting described a chaotic scene in which she and other club patrons were frantically crawling over one another to reach the exits and said that all she could think about was her children.

COLUMBUS — Nearly 15 percent of Ohioans lived at or below the federal poverty line in 2015, down from 16.4 percent in 2011, according to a new report.

WASHINGTON — President Trump is proposing immediate budget cuts of $18 billion from programs like medical research, infrastructure and community grants so U.S. taxpayers, not Mexico, can cover the down payment on the border wall.

A company car is a nice perk, but it’s rarely something worthy of any excitement. Fleet cars generally tilt toward the bland. Beige, slow, utilitarian.

The Toledo Board of Education will consider giving its support to a levy renewal request that would go before voters in November.