Новости за 01.04.2017

RALEIGH — North Carolina’s deal to undo its “bathroom bill” is receiving both complaints and applause, along with one big vote of confidence that could pump tens of millions of dollars into the state’s economy.

MONTPELIER, Vt. — It’s April Fools’ Day but it’s no joke: People across northern New England woke up to a foot of heavy, wet snow on parts of the region today and more is expected throughout the day.

WASHINGTON — A financial disclosure filed by former Trump Administration national security adviser Michael Flynn shows he earned nearly $1.3 million for speeches to Russian companies and lobbying for a Turkish firm, as well as work for other entities.

STORRS, Conn.  — Connecticut will return to campus from the Final Four on Sunday for the first time in five years without a national championship trophy.

NEW YORK — Ford is recalling 53,000 2017 F-250 trucks because they can roll away even when they are parked due to a manufacturing error.

EDGEWATER, Fla. — Two people died after their single-engine airplanes collided midair Saturday morning over the central Florida coast, authorities said.

BALTIMORE  — A rare 1804 silver dollar fetched almost $3.3 million dollars in what officials say is a record-breaking coin collection auction.

LONDON — U.K. police say the final person being questioned in the March 22 terror attack has been released with no further action.

BOGOTA, Colombia  — An avalanche of water from three overflowing rivers swept through a small city in Colombia while people slept, destroying homes and killing at least 112 unsuspecting residents in their sleep, authorities said today.

STOCKHOLM — Bob Dylan has special fans at a Stockholm concert this weekend — members of the Swedish Academy who will hand him his 2016 Nobel literature diploma and medal.

MADRID — Spanish police say they have arrested 38 people and dismantled a criminal organization dealing in credit card fraud on an international scale.

BERLIN — Volkswagen board chairman Hans Dieter Poetsch says he doesn’t expect an internal investigation into the German automaker’s cheating of U.S. diesel emissions standards, which became public in September 2015, to be wrapped up by year’s end.

ATLANTA — Three people have been arrested in connection with the raging fire that collapsed a portion of Interstate 85 a few miles north of downtown Atlanta, crippling a major traffic artery in a city already known for dreadful rush-hour congestion.

WASHINGTON  — President Trump’s son-in-law and daughter are holding onto scores of real estate investments — part of a portfolio of at least $240 million in assets — while they serve in White House jobs, according to new financial disclosures.

BAGHDAD — A government statement says Iraqi fighter jets have carried out airstrikes against the Islamic State group outside Mosul, killing more than 100 militants.

HOUSTON — A witness says the driver of a pickup truck that collided with a church minibus in rural Texas, killing 13 people, acknowledged he had been texting while driving — highlighting the dangers of sending messages on smartphones while behind the wheel.

A 19-year-old man has died after being shot in East Toledo late Friday, according to a police report.

The Walleye squandered a chance to clinch the ECHL Central Division title on Friday night as they gave up two goals just nine seconds apart to Indy in the second period and never recovered.

DALLAS — When the final shot beat the buzzer and UConn’s record streak was over, Geno Auriemma had to smile.

With seven starters plus four other letter winners returning from a team that won the Toledo Area Athletic Conference baseball championship last season, Cardinal Stritch is the preseason choice of conference coaches to repeat its title this year.

With the opening of the 2017 season less than a week away, the Mud Hens announced their Opening Day 25-man roster Friday.

COLUMBUS — A Columbus man could face the death penalty after a Franklin County grand jury indicted him Friday in the February rape and murder of Reagan Delaney Tokes, a 21-year-old former Monclova Township woman about to graduate from Ohio State University.

Deanna Olsen delicately brushed black paint into a heart on her daughter’s right cheek, the finishing touch for the eighth grader’s Queen of Hearts costume for St. Patrick of Heatherdowns School’s production of Alice in Wonderland.

COLUMBUS — Gov. John Kasich on Friday signed into law a two-year, $7.8 billion transportation and public safety budget, but not before striking a provision he said could throw up barriers to Ohio’s pursuit of driverless vehicle technology.

One of the Great Lakes region’s top algae scientists told 70 people in Perrysburg on Friday there needs to be a more concerted effort to limit nitrogen — not just phosphorus — from area waterways to keep deadly blooms from forming.