Новости за 01.08.2017

NEW YORK — Banks and technology companies took U.S. stocks higher Tuesday, and less-loved sectors including phone and real estate companies also climbed as companies continued to report strong second-quarter results.

LANSING, Mich. — Michigan will wait another month before posting rate increases proposed by health insurers that sell coverage on a government marketplace, due to uncertainty over President Donald Trump’s threat to stop billions of dollars in government payments to insurers.

PHILADELPHIA — Bill Cosby’s defense attorney in his sex assault trial that ended with a deadlocked jury wants off the case before a retrial that’s scheduled to begin in November.

President Trump's appointment of Gen. John F. Kelly as his chief of staff is the best thing that has happened thus far in the Trump Administration.

Lucas County Administrator Laura Lloyd-Jenkins, whose husband is charged with the sex trafficking of a minor, has been placed on paid administrative leave.

Bryan Holaday is in his fourth different season on the Mud Hens roster.

WASHINGTON  — The White House says President Donald Trump has not yet signed a sanctions bill that landed on his desk last week, which includes new sanctions on Russia.

CINCINNATI — Authorities have released the identity of a Cincinnati restaurant employee found dead in its walk-in cooler.

LOS ANGELES  — Actor Casey Affleck’s wife has filed for divorce more than a year after the couple announced their separation.

I am a 34-year-old male born and raised in the great state of Ohio. As were many citizens of this great country, I too was duped into believing the lies regarding the Affordable Healthcare Act. I have reached wits’ end with Obamacare.

DETROIT — U.S. sales of new cars and trucks showed declines in July as automakers cut back on low-profit rental car sales and consumers waited for Labor Day deals.

Yes, I know it’s August, which may as well be a synonym for football in the Midwest. But I’m still going to write about college basketball because Big Ten expansion continues to wreak havoc on the conference’s basketball schedule.

I’m sick of hearing that measles is such a deadly disease that we must make vaccination mandatory, as I see promoted in the July 30 column by Megan McArdle.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s son-in-law told a group of congressional interns that the Trump campaign couldn’t have colluded with Russia because the team was too dysfunctional and disorganized to coordinate with a foreign government.

Lucas County’s first needle exchange program is operating at two Toledo locations starting this week, offering a one-for-one exchange of syringes with the goal of mitigating the health risks of intravenous drug use as well as providing health screenings and other treatment resources.

COLUMBUS — An online charter school accused of bilking taxpayers out of $60 million by inflating enrollment numbers now faces another funding reduction.

BOWLING GREEN — On the day he was to have gone to trial, a Sylvania man charged in a fatal heroin overdose pleaded guilty Monday to tampering with evidence, a third-degree felony.

Libbey Inc.’s struggles continued in the year’s second quarter, with the company reporting a loss of more than $800,000 — its third-straight quarter in the red.

Libbey Inc. sunk to a second quarter loss, company officials said Tuesday, with lower sales and higher administrative costs eating into the glass company’s earnings.

Lucas County Treasurer and Toledo Mayoral candidate Wade promised to push for more restrictions on polluters who dump untreated animal waste into Lake Erie by supporting the fight to declare the chronically algae-choked, open waters of its western basin as impaired.

CINCINNATI — The union representing a white police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black motorist during a traffic stop is seeking his reinstatement with University of Cincinnati police.

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration will allow American journalists, Red Cross employees and other humanitarian workers to apply for exemptions to a ban on travel to North Korea.

The University of Toledo football team received a verbal commitment on Saturday from Nate Bauer, a three-star wide receiver from Archbishop Hoban High School in Akron.

Sunny skies greeted attendees at the opening day of the 144th annual Wood County Fair in Bowling Green, Ohio, on Monday. To view a photo gallery of scenes from the event, scroll through the slideshow above.