Новости за 16.05.2017

PHILADELPHIA — Bill Cosby said he doesn’t expect to testify at his sexual assault trial and suggested that racism “could be” behind the scores of accusations against him.

A subdued day of trading on Wall Street ended today with stocks closing mostly lower even as the Nasdaq composite notched another record high.

BISMARCK, N.D. — An appeals court panel approved a lower court’s plan today for distributing $380 million left over from the U.S. government’s loan discrimination settlement with American Indian farmers and ranchers six years ago.

The moment belonged entirely to Dallas Gant.

Toledo police report a 16-year-old was shot and killed today in the central city.

WASHINGTON — Texas Sen. John Cornyn has told the Trump administration he isn’t interested in serving as FBI director, the second member of Congress to take himself out of the running this week.

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The University of Toledo football team has added a marquee opponent to its 2020 non-conference schedule.

LOS ANGELES — Peyton Manning will take the stage to host the ESPY Awards.

AKRON, Ohio — The estranged husband of one of seven people who died in an Akron house fire has been detained on a suspected parole violation.

Lucas County Commissioners today urged state lawmakers to reject a proposal to create new subsidies for FirstEnergy to shore up its struggling nuclear power plants and have the utility's customers foot the bill through rate increases.

WASHINGTON — Delta Air Lines scores the best for on-time flights in the latest government rankings, and United and American aren’t far behind.

BISMARCK, N.D. — Tribes representing tens of thousands of indigenous people in the U.S. and Canada will be signing a declaration against the planned Keystone XL oil pipeline.

The Mud Hens scored three times in the bottom of the seventh inning to claim a 5-2 win over Louisville at Fifth Third Field today.

LOS ANGELES — Despite his jokes that he’ll never get asked back, Jimmy Kimmel is set to host the Oscars once more. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today said Kimmel will return for the 90th Oscars with producers Michael De Luca and Jennifer Todd, the team behind this year’s ceremony.

Toledo police are investigating shots fired today in South Toledo.

MONROE — The defense attorney for the Frenchtown Township man accused of killing a Maybee, Mich., woman in 2014 asked the jury to find his client guilty of involuntary manslaughter and hiding the victim’s body.

A second complaint against Ohio Supreme Court Justice Sharon Kennedy has been lodged with the Ohio Supreme Court's Office of Disciplinary Counsel by the liberal advocacy group, ProgressOhio.

COLUMBUS — As expected, state Rep. Kathleen Clyde (D., Kent) today announced her candidacy to become Ohio’s next top elections official.

Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted today rejected the appointment of Ernest McCarthy, a close ally of Lucas County Republican Chairman Jon Stainbrook, to the Lucas County Board of Elections, recommending two alternatives instead.

CANTON, Ohio — A natural gas pipeline project across Ohio hasn’t honored an agreement to pay for harm done to historic properties, the State Historic Preservation Office said.

WASHINGTON — Pushing back against allegations of damaging intelligence disclosures, President Donald Trump’s national security adviser insisted today that Trump’s revelations to Russian officials about the terrorist threat from the Islamic State group were “wholly appropriate” and amounted to a routine sharing of information.

Police have identified the person fatally shot in central Toledo Monday evening as Treyvon Warren.

Children living in more than two dozen Toledo homes with orders to vacate because of lead hazards should get new blood tests, Toledo Councilman Peter Ujvagi said Monday.