Новости за 06.05.2017

WASHINGTON — Sidney Crosby passed his concussion test, and it will be determined at game time tonight if the Penguins captain can play in Game 5 against the Washington Capitals.

LeBron James doesn’t prolong the inevitable.

BOWLING GREEN — Bowling Green State University graduated more than 2,300 people at commencement ceremonies today.

WASHINGTON — For the first time in nearly 30 years, Tennessee will soon tax motorists more to fill their tanks. So will California, Indiana and Montana.

NEW YORK — New York’s American Museum of Natural History has an intriguing proposition: Bring in anything you have and don’t know what it is, and scientists will try to identify it.

CANTON, Ohio — Authorities say an Ohio woman was arrested after multiple rants were made on Facebook threatening to kill people.

LOUISVILLE — Danielle Bunker’s flowery hat drooped and rain dripped from her pink poncho as she settled into the waterlogged Churchill Downs infield, but she wasn’t going to let gloomy weather dampen her Kentucky Derby bachelorette party.

WASHINGTON — Twenty-seven national monuments, mostly in the West, face the curtailing or elimination of protections put in place over the past two decades by presidents from both parties, the Interior Department said.

WASHINGTON — In late November, a member of Donald Trump’s transition team approached national security officials in the Obama White House with a curious request: Could the incoming team get a copy of the classified CIA profile on Sergey Kislyak, Russia’s ambassador to the United States?

HILLSBOROUGH, Calif. — Keith Green was a popular but troubled Northern California high school football star who had recently washed out of college when he met Tiffany Li.

COLUMBUS  — A newspaper is reporting that Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s economic development trip to Germany and England in February cost about $41,000.

EL-ARISH, Egypt — The decapitated bodies of a father and his two sons recently kidnapped by Islamic militants were found today lying in the street in the northern Sinai town of Rafah, according to security officials and witnesses — the latest grotesque act of brutality in the country’s long-running insurgency.

The University of Toledo Board of Trustees have selected columnist and Toledo-native Christine Brennan to be its first national board member.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. —Country music legend Loretta Lynn remains hospitalized after having a stroke, a publicist said today.

BRAINTREE, Mass. — A man who authorities say barricaded himself in a Massachusetts motel room after shooting a police officer in the face has been found dead.

A family of five escaped unharmed from a house fire on Hill Avenue in South Toledo early today.

OAKLAND, Calif. — Michael Fulmer got some advice in the dugout from catcher James McCann after the second inning Friday night.

After months of debate, two community surveys, and one petition from concerned parents, Sylvania Schools’ redistricting task force reached a consensus on how the public school system should redraw its boundaries for the 2018-19 school year.

BOWLING GREEN — Wood County sheriff’s deputies will increase their traffic enforcement as area high schools host proms.

Toledo fire Capt. Mike Benadum, an expert in firefighting, could not say whether any of the recommendations made in the wake of a 2014 fire that killed two firefighters would have saved their lives.

Stefan Sanderling’s final appearance as principal conductor of the Toledo Symphony began last evening with the concluding concert on this year’s Classics Series. The performance was not a bombastic hurrah of brassish symphonic standing ovations, but rather a journey into the extreme sublime of perfectly crafted orchestral beauty.

FORT WAYNE, Ind. — Toledo withstood an early determined push from Fort Wayne, but the Komets staved off elimination with another late surge Friday night to extend the Central Division finals.

If you heard someone singing, “Rain, rain, go away,” on Friday, chances are good you were listening to Mud Hens manager Mike Rojas.

Longtime boys basketball coach Bruce Smith has resigned after four seasons at Southview High School.

LOUISVILLE — Classic Empire was Mike Battaglia’s pick as the morning line favorite for Kentucky Derby 143 at Churchill Downs today. He is not the pick of the collection of track analysts, trainers, national writers, coaches and athletes polled for their top three Derby finishers.