Новости за 18.04.2017

Toledo City Council today voted 10-1 to approve a new lead ordinance amendment that staggers compliance deadlines but keeps dust-wipe testing in the law.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. military says it intercepted two Russian bombers in international airspace off Alaska’s coast.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — One of the last surviving veterans of the sinking of the USS Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor has been reunited with his fallen shipmates.

ISTANBUL — Turkey’s state-run news agency says a court has accepted an indictment against columnists and senior staff from the opposition Cumhuriyet newspaper for “aiding terrorist organizations.”

Kevin Spacey is hosting the Tony Awards.

A Montana real estate agent sued the founder of a neo-Nazi website today, saying the publisher orchestrated an anti-Semitic “campaign of terror” that bombarded the woman and her family with hateful messages from anonymous internet trolls.

NEW YORK — Starbucks is calling a limited-time beverage that changes colors and flavors with a stir of the straw a “Unicorn Frappuccino.”

MILFORD, Pa. — Prosecutors rested their case today against an anti-government survivalist charged with ambushing two troopers at a Pennsylvania state police barracks, having presented more than 500 exhibits that helped tie him to the deadly late-night attack.

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WILMINGTON, Del. — The family of a guard who was killed and five other officers who survived a prison riot sued the state of Delaware in federal court today, blaming the deadly uprising on security and staffing problems that officials had ignored for years.

FLINT, Mich. — In a reversal today, Flint’s mayor recommended that the Michigan city keep getting its drinking water from a Detroit-area system for the long term, saying a planned switch would be too risky and expensive following a man-made crisis that left the supply contaminated with lead.

United Airlines executives said today that it’s too soon to know if last week’s dragging of a man off a plane is hurting ticket sales. The chief executive said no one will be fired over the incident.

U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D., Toledo) will travel to Germany, Italy, and Poland with other lawmakers to assure those countries of America’s commitment to NATO and meet with American military service people.

CLEVELAND — The man who randomly killed a Cleveland retiree and posted video of the crime on Facebook shot himself to death in his car today during a police chase in Pennsylvania, ending a multistate manhunt less than 48 hours after it began.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. —  A space station supply ship named for John Glenn is bound for orbit.

A 17-year-old boy was shot Monday at a West Toledo parking lot.

LONDON — rince William has enlisted Lady Gaga in his campaign to persuade people to be more open about mental health issues.

NEW DELHI — British police say they have arrested Indian business tycoon Vijay Mallya in London on behalf of authorities in India, where he is wanted on charges of money laundering and bank demands that he pay back more than a billion dollars in loans extended to his now-defunct airline.

CLEVELAND — The suspect in the random killing of a retiree posted on Facebook made his living mentoring teens in Cleveland, but his life appeared to be unraveling under the weight of gambling debts and trouble with his girlfriend.

LONDON — In a shock announcement, Prime Minister Theresa May today called for an early general election to be held June 8 to seek a strong mandate as she negotiates Britain’s exit from the European Union.

Toledo confident heading into Game 3 at Kalamazoo

Notre Dame might have been picked to finish third in the Three Rivers Athletic Conference softball race this season, but the Eagles appear to have an alternate plan in mind.

For most of the year, the biggest complaint about Canada geese involves their business cards — the droppings they leave everywhere they visit.

COLUMBUS — Johnnie Dixon’s once-high prospects were all but forgotten by the end of last season, and Dixon himself openly wondered whether football was worth the effort.