Новости за 15.01.2018

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Authorities have accused a Coralville woman of beating her 11-year-old son. Court records say 33-year-old Joni Reed is charged with child endangerment causing injury and with two counts of child endangerment. Her attorney didn’t immediately return a call Monday from The Associated Press. Police say the two had been separated […]

HONOLULU (AP) — Policies to alleviate Hawaii’s persistent homelessness problem and chronic housing shortage are expected to top the agenda when state lawmakers open a new legislative session this week. House Speaker Scott Saiki said they are complex issues that mostly require long-term approaches and also are expensive. “But our House members know that these […]

BERLIN (AP) — A former Auschwitz death camp guard has launched a bid for clemency in a final bid to avoid serving his sentence as an accessory to murder. The dpa news agency reported Monday that attorneys for Oskar Groening have filed the appeal with authorities in Lueneburg, where he was convicted in 2015 as […]

DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Jurors in suburban Philadelphia have acquitted a man of all charges in a case in which he and others were accused of assaulting a boy at parties for people dressed in animal costumes. The Bucks County panel deliberated for about two hours Friday evening before acquitting 57-year-old Kenneth Fenske of Quakertown. […]

SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemen’s Houthi rebels have released a prominent activist nearly six months after detaining him. International rights groups had appealed for Hisham al-Omeisy’s release since he was detained on Aug. 14 in Sanaa, the rebel-held capital. Al-Omeisy’s brother, Essam, said he was released Monday and is at home in good health. A […]

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders took a jab at President Donald Trump’s recent vulgar language during a weekend event honoring the Rev. Martin Luther King. The independent senator said that, “unlike Trump,” the late civil rights leader didn’t denigrate people from other countries and cultures, and looked forward to a day ‘when […]

DARIEN, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut State Police say a woman driving the wrong way on Interstate 95 crashed into a police cruiser driven by a trooper who was dispatched to stop her. Police say they began getting calls shortly after midnight Monday about a 2016 Audi driving the wrong way near Exit 6 in Stamford. […]

FARGO, N.D. (AP) — Drought in 2017 impacted the production of most crops in North Dakota. The latest report from the Agriculture Department shows soybean production in the state down 4 percent from the previous year, canola down 5 percent, corn down 13 percent, non-oil sunflowers down 14 percent, oil sunflowers down 41 percent and […]

The New Hampshire political leader who signed legislation recognizing Martin Luther King Day as a state holiday is participating in annual festivities. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen is joining fellow Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan at the Martin Luther King Day Interfaith Celebration at the North Church in Portsmouth. Shaheen has said one of her proudest days as […]

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Little Rock police are using a federal grant to buy technology that will cut the time it takes officers to link shell casings found at different crime scenes. The nearly $480,000 public safety grant from the U.S. Department of Justice will allow police to purchase their own National Integrated Ballistic […]

She’s not quite a funambulist — yet — but the balance of strength, challenge and concentration has her hooked.

PARIS (AP) — France’s finance minister says he wants new regulation targeted at virtual currencies, to stop them from being used for tax evasion, financing terrorism and other crime. Bruno Le Maire said in a sweeping economic speech Monday that he has ordered a former central bank chief to draft potential new rules, warning against […]

LEXINGTON, Neb. (AP) — A Gretna man has been imprisoned for causing the Dawson County crash death of a passenger in his car. Lexington radio station KRVN reports that 21-year-old Elijah Helms was given six to eight years in prison at his sentencing Friday in Dawson County District Court in Lexington. He’d pleaded guilty to […]

LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. (AP) — Police say a man has been fatally shot at a apartment complex in suburban Atlanta. Gwinnett County Police Corp. Matthew Williamson told local news media that officers found 42-year-old Joe Love dead with gunshot wounds Sunday afternoon. Police say Love wasn’t alone during the time of the shooting. Williamson says the […]

SKOPJE, Macedonia (AP) — Macedonia’s parliament on Monday ratified a landmark friendship pact with Balkan neighbor Bulgaria designed to dampen a historic rivalry in a region beset by old ethnic and territorial disputes. Under the treaty, both countries have renounced territorial claims against each other, and Bulgaria has committed to back Macedonia’s bids to join […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Catherine Zeta-Jones says her husband, Michael Douglas, is “110 percent” in support of the movement against sexual harassment. Earlier this month, Douglas issued what he called a pre-emptive denial of allegations, yet to be published, that he harassed an employee in the 1980s and damaged her career. He acknowledged using “colorful […]

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey has revealed the planned route for an ambitious canal in Istanbul that would link the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea — a project President Recep Tayyip Erdogan once dubbed one of his “crazy projects.” Transportation Minister Ahmet Arslan told reporters on Monday that the 45-kilometer (28-mile) -long “Canal Istanbul” […]

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky businessman has been convicted of defrauding people who invested in a natural-gas pipeline in Tennessee. Media reports say Clay Shelton was convicted of wire fraud, money laundering and securities fraud. Shelton faces up to 20 years in prison. The Bowling Green man was charged with soliciting $1.37 million […]

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Additional investigators and attorneys are being assigned to the Human Trafficking Investigations Unit in the Indiana attorney general’s office. Attorney General Curtis Hill announced the expansion of the unit Monday as part of Human Trafficking Awareness Month. Hill’s office says the added investigators and attorneys include former police officers and prosecutors who […]

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Highway Patrol is investigating a pair of separate crashes that left a 15-year-old girl and 18-year-old man dead. The patrol says 18-year-old Heavener resident Christopher Raymond was killed late Sunday in Leflore County. An unidentified 15-year-old Holdenville girl was killed in a separate crash earlier Sunday evening in Hughes […]

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Anti-poverty activists in New Mexico and a groundbreaking Cherokee Nation declaration about the tribe’s role in promoting equality are part of the focus of Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebrations. At gatherings across the nation, activists, residents and teachers are honoring the late civil rights leader ahead of the 50th anniversary […]

Sketched Jan. 9, 2018 We’ve had some pretty soggy days recently, but rain doesn’t usually deter me from sketching while I’m out and about. There’s always a way to find cover somewhere. Earlier this week, for example, I stood under a canopy next to the Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI) to make a pen […]

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