Новости за 17.06.2017

EAST LANSING, Mich. — The Whiteford softball team saw its postseason run come to an end with an 8-0 loss to Indian River Inland Lakes in the Division 4 state championship game today at Michigan State University.

With tens of thousands of children lingering in foster care across the United States, awaiting adoption, Illinois schoolteachers Kevin Neubert and Jim Gorey did their bit. What began with their offer to briefly care for a newborn foster child evolved within a few years into the adoption of that little boy and all four of his older siblings who also were in foster care.

CHAMBLEE, Ga. — Trying to stave off a major upset ahead of the 2018 midterm elections, two of President Trump’s Cabinet officers returned to Atlanta’s traditionally conservative suburbs and urged Republican voters to maintain the GOP’s monopoly control in Washington.

LANSING, Mich.  — The state of Michigan is seeking to terminate the parental rights of a sports doctor accused of sexual assaulting dozens of women and girls.

KABUL, Afghanistan — An Afghan soldier opened fire on American soldiers today, injuring at least seven, the U.S. military said. It was the second such insider attack by an Afghan soldier in the past week.

MIAMI  — Pressing “pause” on a historic detente, President Donald Trump thrust the U.S. and Cuba back on a path toward open hostility with a blistering denunciation of the island’s communist government. He clamped down on some commerce and travel but left intact many new avenues President Barack Obama had opened.

WASHINGTON — The man who shot House Majority Whip Steve Scalise and others at a congressional baseball practice this week had with him a piece of paper with doodles and the names of three lawmakers.

LONDON — Fifty-eight people who were in Grenfell Tower are still missing and are presumed to be dead, London police announced today, raising the death toll in the horrific inferno that turned the public housing block into a charred hulk.

NORRISTOWN, Pa.  — Bill Cosby’s trial on sexual assault charges ended in a mistrial today after jurors failed to reach a unanimous decision in a case that nevertheless helped destroy the 79-year-old comedian’s image as “America’s Dad.”

LONDON  — Queen Elizabeth II and senior royals have marked her official birthday in the annual Trooping the Color celebration.

The Los Angeles County medical examiner's office has released a summary of its findings into the death of "Star Wars" actress Carrie Fisher.

WASHINGTON — A key part of House Republicans’ plan to overhaul the way corporations pay taxes is on life support, leaving lawmakers scrambling to save one of President Donald Trump’s biggest priorities and increasing the chances the GOP will simply pass a tax cut instead of overhauling the tax code.

MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that new U.S. sanctions on Russia will damage ties between the two countries.

YOKOSUKA, Japan  — U.S. and Japanese vessels and aircraft searched today for seven American sailors who were missing after their Navy destroyer collided before dawn with a container ship four times its size off the coast of Japan.

YOKOSUKA, Japan  — U.S. and Japanese vessels and aircraft were searching Saturday for seven American sailors who were missing after their Navy destroyer collided before dawn with a container ship four times its size off the coast of Japan.

A Toledo philanthropist will lead a United Nations aid program for underprivileged communities in Lebanon such as Syrian refugees.

A West Toledo man accused of selling cocaine with a juvenile in the home was arrested during a drug raid Thursday.

Above, Officer Kevin Zimmerman, Jr., lights the torch that athlete Kyle Niezgoda, 15, holds before the first leg of the Law Enforcement Torch Run for Special Olympics in Toledo. Also pictured above, Kyle holds the lit torch before the first leg of the run. The run kicked off in Sylvania Township before moving through Toledo on Friday, where the runner was to throw out the first pitch at the Mud Hens game. The route returns to the area Wednesday, starting at Hollywood Casino in Rossford at 8:30 a.m.... Читать дальше...

Country artist Toby Keith will perform on Aug. 31 in Put-in-Bay as part of his 2017 Interstates and Tailgates Tour.

BROOKLYN, Mich. — An oil slick and a flat tire weren’t going to keep Brandon Jones out of Victory Lane.

Toledo landlords required to have their rental properties certified “lead-safe” by the city’s first deadline of June 30, 2018, will soon get a letter in the mail notifying them of their obligations, one of several informational efforts about the law in coming weeks.

Having watched his father die from a heart attack last year, 14-year-old Rocky Bledsoe often wonders if there was more the doctors could have done to keep him alive.

I’m sick and tired of politicians sticking their noses in my medical business and my physician’s business. Especially those politicians who are running for higher office.

Michiganders’ driveways may become a little less regulated, and that’s a good thing.

The filing of charges against 12 members of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s security detail is welcome news. They must not be allowed to get away with brutalizing protesters in America’s capital.