Новости за 24.03.2017

SANTA MONICA, Calif. — Disney CEO Bob Iger says the upcoming Star Wars sequel has not been changed due to the death of Carrie Fisher.

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Former Penn State president Graham Spanier was convicted today of hushing up suspected child sex abuse in 2001 by Jerry Sandusky, whose arrest a decade later blew up into a major scandal for the university and led to the firing of beloved football coach Joe Paterno.

NEW YORK — U.S. stocks flirted with sharp losses but managed a mixed finish after Republicans canceled a vote on their health care bill because it became clear the bill would fail. Investors didn’t trade much as they waited for answers about the state of President Trump’s business-friendly agenda.

NEW YORK — Jewish groups had pointed to scores of bomb threats against their communities as the most dramatic example of what they considered a surge in anti-Semitism. Some blamed a far-right emboldened by President Donald Trump. Now, that picture has been complicated by the arrest of an Israeli Jewish hacker who authorities say is responsible for the harassment.

COLUMBUS — St. Bernard Roger Bacon was dominant from start to finish Friday in taking a 68-43 victory over Archbold in a Division III boys basketball state semifinal at Ohio State University's Schottenstein Center.

BOWLING GREEN — Two more members of the Bowling Green State University hockey program have signed professional contracts.

ROME — Posing with Pope Francis in front of Michelangelo masterpiece “The Last Judgment” at the Vatican, European Union leaders started their weekend pilgrimage to Rome with the hope that a visit to the cradle of their project of unity can somehow rekindle the vigor of youth.

MOUNT PLEASANT, Texas — Two drivers were killed and more than a dozen students injured when a tractor-trailer veered into oncoming traffic and struck a passenger car and a bus carrying a Texas high school track team, law enforcement said today.

CAIRO — Far from the cameras that followed him closely over six years of legal wrangling, Egypt’s ousted President Hosni Mubarak quietly returned home to his family today after winning acquittals and release from a Cairo hospital where he has been detained for years.

RAWLINS, Wyo. — Southern Wyoming police say a couple arrested in possession of 48 pounds of marijuana purchased in Oregon was planning on selling it in Indiana.

A boil-water advisory for a portion of South Toledo has been canceled today after city crews completed tests of water samples.

WASHINGTON — Three additional Democrats said today that they will vote against Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch and will support a filibuster against him.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, a key figure in investigations into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia, has volunteered to be questioned by lawmakers as part of a House probe of the Kremlin’s alleged meddling in the 2016 election.

Sweden will host a pair of regular-season games between the Colorado Avalanche and Ottawa Senators in November, the National Hockey League said today.

BERLIN — Germany’s iconic gummy bear will soon be “Made in USA.”

Ohio’s unemployment rate in February inched up to 5.1 percent even as employment increased by 15,200, a report released today shows.

WASHINGTON — The House steered toward a climactic vote today on the Republican health care overhaul, plunging ahead despite uncertainty over whether they had the votes to prevail in what loomed as a monumental gamble for President Trump and his GOP allies in Congress.

DUJIANGYAN, China — American-born giant panda Bao Bao made her first appearance today before the public in southwestern China following her move there from Washington, D.C.

COLUMBUS — Twenty years after the first decision in Ohio’s landmark school-funding lawsuit, hundreds of new school buildings dot the landscape and the notion of what constitutes an adequate education is regularly debated in U.S. state capitals.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronauts ventured out on a spacewalk today to prep the International Space Station for a new parking spot.

GENOA — A nearly four-hour police standoff ended peacefully with a man inside his residence in the 900 block of Washington Street Thursday evening.

MOSCOW — A senior Ukrainian official says the killer of Kremlin critic Denis Voronenko, who was gunned down in Kiev, was a Russian agent.

WASHINGTON  — The Trump administration issued a permit today to build the Keystone XL pipeline, reversing the conclusion of the Obama administration and clearing the way for the $8 billion project to finally be completed.

DAYTON, Ohio — A retired rabbi and a university official will lead an independent committee created to address problems at an Ohio jail that’s facing lawsuits over treatment of inmates.

A man was stabbed early today in east Toledo, according to a Toledo Police report.