Новости за 09.07.2017

A motorcyclist crashed Sunday while riding eastbound on State Rt 2 east of Port Clinton.

WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Sunday the Trump administration isn’t considering a tax increase on wealthier Americans, knocking down a report that White House adviser Steve Bannon had floated the idea as a way to pay for tax cuts for middle-income taxpayers.

SANTA MARIA, Calif. — Wildfires barreled across the baking landscape of the western U.S. and Canada, destroying a smattering of homes, forcing thousands to flee and temporarily trapping children and counselors at a California campground.

NEW YORK — Spider-Man: Homecoming swung past expectations, opening with an estimated $117 million in North America and giving a Sony Pictures a much needed hit.

WASHINGTON — A senior U.S. Republican senator predicted on Sunday that the Republican bill to roll back Obamacare would likely fail, adding to growing signs that the bill is in trouble.

CINCINNATI — Authorities say two men have opened fire on a party where a pregnant woman was to reveal her child’s gender, killing a woman and wounding eight people, including the expectant mother and three children.

KALAMAZOO, Mich. — Craft beer pioneer Bell’s Brewery Inc. plans to pump more than $7 million into capital improvement projects in southern Michigan between now and the end of 2018.

The Athens Fire Department will resume searching today for a kayaker who disappeared Saturday after going over a waterfall on the Hocking River.

MOSUL, Iraq — Iraq’s prime minister celebrated with troops on Sunday after they drove Islamic State militants from some of their last strongholds in Mosul, even as heavy fighting continued in a small portion of the Old City neighborhood.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Sunday that “it is time to move forward in working constructively with Russia” after his lengthy meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Germany. But he is still avoiding the question of whether he accepts Putin’s denial that Russia was responsible for meddling in the 2016 election.

BEIRUT — An open-ended cease-fire in southern Syria brokered by the United States, Russia, and Jordan came into effect on Sunday at noon.

Two men were arrested in connection with a robbery and shooting Saturday in South Toledo, police said.

The dogs pictured above are newly available for adoption at Lucas County Canine Care & Control, 410 S. Erie St., Toledo. Listed are the name, breed, sex, and impound number. For information, call 419-213- 2800.

FREMONT — Staff are back in the historic Sandusky County Courthouse following major renovation work in recent months.

HILLSBORO, Ohio — Each time he goes down to his boat moored at the marina in Rocky Fork State Park, Reggie Strauss gets that creepy feeling that he has walked onto the set of an Alfred Hitchcock classic.

Riley Keller didn’t so much emerge as a freshman quarterback starting for football power Whitmer High School in 2016 as burst onto the scene.

For a vocal majority of Detroit Tigers fans, Brad Ausmus is George Costanza.

DURHAM, N.C. — Casey Gillaspie hit a two-run homer in a six-run second inning, leading the Durham Bulls to a 6-4 win Saturday against the Toledo Mud Hens.

COLUMBUS — Since inheriting a thin men’s basketball roster at Ohio State, coach Chris Holtmann has been searching for ways to add talent for his first season.

NASHVILLE — Dom Dwyer scored for the second straight game but Miguel Camargo’s goal gave Panama a 1-1 tie Saturday against the United States, the first time the Americans failed to win their opener in the CONCACAF Gold Cup.

The Senate negotiations that resume this week on the overhaul of the health-care system are about many things — Medicaid spending levels, taxes, the opioid drug crisis, the number of Americans who will be uninsured. But this fight is only marginally about health care. It’s really about power and politics and the presidency.

Once a year folks in Bowling Green head over to their favorite ice cream shop to show a little “sundae kind of love.” Their reward: a purple T-shirt, some free ice cream, and the warm feeling that comes from knowing they’ve smacked cancer in its ugly face.

On July 4 weekend my wife and I went to a July 4 party. While watching little kids splash in a swimming pool I was privileged to talk to a young Toledo cop, and, later, a young Marine officer. They both made me feel good about the country, at a time when the country doesn’t feel very good about itself.

MONROE — Betty I. Swartout, who taught generations of Monroe children over a more than four-decade teaching career, died Tuesday in ProMedica Monroe Skilled Nursing Center. She was 84.

“Mexico is gonna pay for it,” Donald Trump promised about the border wall. I believe we were deceived. All signs point to U.S. taxpayers paying for it. If it is built. That’s just one promise I heard from President Trump.