Новости за 11.01.2018

BALTIMORE (AP) — A French historian has pleaded guilty to stealing dog tags and numerous other documents of U.S. servicemen whose planes crashed during World War II. The U.S. Attorney’s office in Maryland says 33-year-old Antonin DeHays pleaded guilty Thursday to the theft of government property from the National Archives. Between December 2012 and June […]

NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. (AP) — A high school student has been arrested on murder charges in the fatal stabbing of another high school student at a Dunkin’ Donuts in New Rochelle. Police say 16-year-old Z’inah Brown, of Yonkers, turned herself in Thursday afternoon. Information on her lawyer wasn’t immediately available. Police say the New Rochelle […]

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Wildlife officials say Canada lynx no longer need special protections in the United States following measures to preserve populations of the snow-loving big cats. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Thursday it will begin drafting a rule to revoke the lynx’s threatened species status, which has been in place since […]

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — An education advocate plans to challenge Republican U.S. Rep. Don Young for Alaska’s lone House seat. Alyse (uh-LEES) Galvin says change is needed. Young is the longest-serving member of the House, first elected to the chamber in 1973. But Galvin says more needs to be done in areas such as early […]

SHERIDAN, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming police have arrested a 33-year-old man while investigating the shooting death of another man in Sheridan. The Sheridan Police Department says it took Christopher M. Labuy into custody Wednesday night. The Sheridan Press reports that police were called about 11:15 p.m. Wednesday about a shooting at an apartment building where […]

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City police have arrested 18 people, including two councilmen, in protests over the detention of a prominent immigration activist. The demonstrations outside a federal building in Manhattan were over the detention of Ravi Ragbir (RAH’-vee RAHG’-beer), a citizen of Trinidad who has been fighting deportation after a fraud conviction. […]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska health officials are warning that serious health issues could crop up as the state warms. A report by the Alaska Division of Public Health released this week says longer growing seasons and fewer deaths from exposure are likely positive outcomes from climate change. But the 77-page report says additional diseases, […]

JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) — Police say a gas station clerk in New Jersey trapped a woman in his store after she dumped a pot of hot coffee on him and swiped more than $360 from the register. Authorities say 42-year-old Alicia Harris has been charged with robbery and receiving stolen property for the Wednesday […]

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey’s Democrat-led Legislature says it’s planning to review its nearly decade-old sexual misconduct policy, which now makes lawmakers aware of it but does not offer any training. Senate Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg and Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin say they are looking to update the policy, which dates to 2009. Weinberg, […]

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Two men are suing Pennsylvania’s governor and Transportation Department officials to challenge a state law that suspends driver’s licenses for even the most minor drug convictions. The lawsuit filed this week in federal court in Philadelphia seeks to stop the state from suspending licenses for drug offenses that are unrelated to […]

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Vermont Republican Gov. Phil Scott says he plans to sign a bill that will legalize the recreational use of marijuana, but he hasn’t decided yet if he will do it publicly. Scott made the comments Thursday, a day after the state Senate gave final approval to a bill that will legalize […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Six senators say they’ve reached bipartisan deal protecting young immigrants and bolstering border security.

Sam’s Club, the warehouse-store unit of Walmart, is closing three King County locations as part of a 63-store retrenchment across the U.S.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster raised just over $1 million in the final quarter of 2017, ending the year with almost $2.6 million cash on hand as he heads into the campaign season. The figure, obtained from the State Ethics Commission’s online records, marked the Republican incumbent’s best quarterly fundraising report […]

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Vermont legislators are considering a bill that would add “housing status” to its list of protections from discrimination in state law. The Burlington Free Press reports the House Committee on General, Housing and Military Affairs took up the bill Wednesday on Homelessness Awareness Day at the Statehouse. The bill argues homeless […]

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — The father of a 38-year-old suburban Houston man on Texas death row is seeking clemency for his son who is set to die next month for arranging the shooting deaths of his mother and brother. Kent Whitaker also was shot in the 2003 attack at the family’s home in Sugar Land […]

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida appears poised to replace the statue of a Confederate general with famed educator Mary McLeod Bethune. A Senate panel on Thursday voted to place a statute of Bethune in the U.S. Capitol. The legislation (SB 472) heads next to the full Senate, and a similar bill is moving through the […]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Petroleum spill responders have begun cleaning up a diesel fuel spill outside a learning center in Bethel. The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation says an estimated 3,000 gallons of diesel spilled Tuesday outside the Yuut Elitnaurviat (YOOT LIT-now-vat) People’s Learning Center. The DEC says maintenance workers manually operated a pump transferring […]

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Health officials are adding a Utah food pantry to the list of places where people may also have been exposed to hepatitis A amid a widening outbreak. Utah County health officials said Thursday that Tabitha’s Way Local Food Pantry in Spanish Fork received donated food from an Olive Garden where […]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — BP Energy Company is paying California $102 million to settle claims that it overcharged the state for natural gas between 2003 and 2012. Attorney General Xavier Becerra (HAH-vee-air Bah-sehr’-ah) said Thursday that BP regularly violated contracts with the state to provide gas for numerous state agencies and other governments by exceeding […]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Legislation aimed at expanding rent control in California is drawing hundreds of landlords and renters to the Capitol to voice their opinions. Up for debate is the repeal of a 1995 law that strictly limits cities’ abilities to adopt rent control on properties built after that year. Supporters say repealing the […]

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — As the sexual misconduct wave hit Hollywood, the media and other industries last fall, an open letter circulated through the Illinois Capitol demanding an end to a culture of disrespectful treatment of women. Lawmakers have been trying to decide the best way to respond, but finding consensus has been more difficult […]

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Forecasters have issued a flood watch in much of West Virginia as a storm approaches. The National Weather Service says the flood watch is in effect through Friday morning for about half of West Virginia’s counties. The weather service says up to 2 inches of rain is possible, and that could […]

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A southern Indiana woman who was 17 when she pleaded guilty to the murder and criminal confinement of a 12-year-old girl has been released from prison. The Indiana Department of Correction says 43-year-old Laurie Tackett of Madison was released from the Rockville Correctional Facility early Thursday on the 26th anniversary of the […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Voters are a big step closer to getting an opportunity to decide whether to oust a California judge for his handling of a sexual assault case involving a Stanford University swimmer. Stanford University law professor Michele Dauber said the campaign to remove Santa Clara County Judge Aaron Persky submitted nearly […]