Новости за 18.06.2017

WYOMING, Ohio  — Over and over, Otto Warmbier apologized and begged — at first calmly, then choking up and finally in tears — to be reunited with his family.

PEDROGAO GRANDE, Portugal — A raging forest fire in central Portugal sent flames sweeping over roads, killing at least 61 people, many of them trapped in their cars as they tried to flee, officials said today. The country’s prime minister called it “the biggest tragedy” that Portugal has experienced in decades and declared three days of national mourning.

LOS ANGELES  — Lightning McQueen and his pals in “Cars 3” raced to the top spot at the box office this weekend, pushing “Wonder Woman” into second place for the first time since it opened.

YOKOSUKA, Japan — The search for seven U.S. Navy sailors who went missing after their destroyer collided with a container ship off the Japanese coast was called off after several bodies were found today in the ship’s flooded compartments, including sleeping quarters.

WASHINGTON — A member of the president’s outside legal team said today that Donald Trump is not under investigation, days after Trump tweeted about being the target of a “witch hunt.”

COLUMBUS — A federal judge has set a date to accept the guilty plea of an Ohio man accused of trying to travel to Libya to join the Islamic State group.

Beyoncé and Jay Z have welcomed twins, a source close to the couple tells CNN.

LONDON — The British government today scrambled to contain political fallout from the London high-rise inferno that has claimed at least 58 lives.

NORRISTOWN, Pa.  — Bill Cosby, the comedian once known as “America’s Dad” for his TV role as paternal Dr. Cliff Huxtable, is declaring victory this Father’s Day after a jury deliberated 52 hours without reaching consensus on charges he drugged and molested a woman in 2004.

WASHINGTON  — President Donald Trump is beginning his day with a stream of tweets defending his record and lashing out at the investigation into Russian interference in the election.

MOSCOW  — The Russian Foreign Ministry has criticized President Donald Trump’s decision to freeze a detente with Cuba and his verbal attack on the Caribbean island’s leaders.

BROOKLYN, Mich. — When Darrell Waltrip showed up at the racetrack in the 1980s, only a handful of cars were capable of taking the checkered flag.

EAST LANSING, Mich. — Following her sixth trip to the softball state finals in her 39 years as head coach at Whiteford, Kris Hubbard will stand proud even though a fourth state title eluded the Bobcats on Saturday at Michigan State.

OAK HARBOR — Accompanied by a couple of their sons and a daughter, six brothers boarded a couple of charter boats north of here recently and headed out on Lake Erie.

Willy Adames was once a part of the Tigers organization.

Life is good for Bernard Reedy these days.

PUT-IN-BAY, Ohio — A 19-year-old man from suburban Columbus died Friday evening after he was shocked by an electrical current in the water around his family’s boat as it was moored at a Put-in-Bay marina.

Michelle Querback and her grandson Christopher Lanting ambled across the Sumner Street bridge over Norfolk Southern railroad tracks on a recent afternoon in search of aluminum cans to recycle.

It’s a sunny 70-degree day, and Zachary Callicoat and Jake Laplant are thousands of feet off the ground traveling at 120 miles per hour.

Kelvin Peals remembers when a telephone conversation with his son meant a heated negotiation with the boy’s mother, an ex-girlfriend with whom he split when the boy and his sister were a few years old.

They came for the sports; they stayed for the bikes.

Millions more dollars could be in the city of Toledo’s capital improvement fund — on top of the millions Mayor Paula Hicks-Hudson announced in late May was unexpectedly available for residential street repaving, The Blade has learned.

Rich liberals feel guilty that their private jets, mega yachts, and mansions pollute the hell out of the planet. So they are more than willing to pay for their sins with your tax money — rather than change their lavish lifestyles.

President Trump may project the notion that he is a man with all the answers, but in truth he may go down in history as the man who posed many of the important questions.

Taking tests consumes 200 hours of a high school student’s career, State Superintendent Paolo DeMaria says. He wants to cut back.