Новости за 18.01.2018

NEWNAN, Ga. (AP) — Authorities say a Georgia Department of Transportation employee has been killed after his dump truck was hit by a train. State Patrol Trooper Ross Buchan tells The Newnan Times-Herald that Carey Byron Ellerbee was attempting to cross railroads tracks Thursday morning at an intersection in Moreland. Coweta County Coroner Richard Hawk […]

RENO, Nev. (AP) — Winter storm watches and advisories have been expanded across nearly all of northern Nevada ahead of a cold front that’s bearing down on the Sierra with the potential for heavy snowfall and damaging winds. As much as 2 feet of snow is possible Thursday into Friday in the mountains around Lake […]

Sundance Institute founder Robert Redford says that the role of men in the Me Too and Time’s Up movement is to listen and let women’s voices be heard. Speaking Thursday at the Sundance Film Festival opening day press conference in Park City, Utah, Redford says he’s encouraged by the change that is happening and how […]

BOWIE, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities say a car crash has closed a lane of Interstate 10 in southeastern Arizona. They say the accident late Thursday morning occurred in Bowie, about 30 miles west of the Arizona-New Mexico border. Details aren’t immediately available about how many vehicles were involved and if there are any injuries. Arizona […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — House lawmakers have unveiled a bipartisan bill to overhaul how sexual harassment claims are handled on Capitol Hill. The bill proposes major reforms to the 1995 Congressional Accountability Act, and comes after months of discussion among both Republican and Democrat lawmakers about how to create more transparency as the #MeToo movement continues […]

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Authorities say a woman who threatened law enforcement officers with a weapon in south-central Idaho has died after officers opened fire. The Ada County Coroner’s Office in a news release Thursday says 53-year-old Kerry Lee Nield died at about 5 a.m. Wednesday in a Boise hospital due to gunshot wounds to […]

DURANGO, Colo. (AP) — Authorities say a 10-year-old boy was killed in a traffic crash that involved four vehicles, including a school bus. The Durango Herald reports Colorado State Patrol Capt. Adrian Driscoll says the boy was a passenger in an SUV stopped behind the bus Wednesday south of Durango. Driscoll says two SUVs were […]

PENDLETON, Ore. (AP) — Authorities in eastern Oregon say a man arrested for burglary stole a patrol car after slipping out of his handcuffs. The 23-year-old crashed the vehicle into a ditch near Hermiston and was on the run Thursday. The East Oregonian newspaper reports that police were searching on foot and with ATVs. Sgt. […]

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The Minnesota Department of Agriculture has announced a public-private partnership to help improve water quality and fight flooding in the Cedar River watershed in southern Minnesota. It’s a collaboration among the department and CFS Cooperative, Land O’Lakes, Hormel Foods, the Environmental Initiative and the Mower County Soil and Water Conservation […]

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — The National Park Service says it found some of the 52 bison that escaped from holding pens in Yellowstone National Park after someone cut the fence. The bison were found in the Mammoth Hot Springs area on the northern end of the park. However, the Park Service says no […]

CHICAGO (AP) — An attorney for a white Chicago police officer charged with murder in the 2014 shooting death of black teenager Laquan McDonald that he plans to hire a polling company to look at the question of whether the trial should be moved out of Cook County. The Chicago Sun-Times reports that Jason Van […]

BRYAN, Texas (AP) — Police say a man found dead in his Bryan apartment had a protective order against his wife whose body was also found at the residence. Melvin Nathan Benefield and Virginia Ann Winzenried Benefield, plus neighbor Larry Darnell Davis, were found shot to death Wednesday at the couple’s home. Investigators don’t believe […]

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The state of Minnesota has approved changing the name of Lake Calhoun in Minneapolis to its original Dakota Indian name of Bde Maka Ska (beh-DAY’ mah-KAH’ skah). Thursday’s decision by the Department of Natural Resources follows a request by the Hennepin County Board. Lake Calhoun was named in the 1800s after former […]

MINDEN, Nev. (AP) — The two leading Nevada Democrats running for governor are scheduled to appear at a Douglas County Democratic Party fundraiser in Minden next month. Party officials said Thursday Clark County Commissioner Chris Giunchigliani (joon-kihl-ee-AHN’-ee) and Commission Chairman Steve Sisolak (SIHS’-oh-lak) both will give keynote speeches at the “Blue Stars Rising Dinner 2018” […]

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Police in Scottsdale say a teenage driver has been killed in an early morning car crash. The name of the 16-year-old boy hasn’t been released yet. Police say he was the only person in the car at the time of the crash, which occurred about 1 a.m. Thursday on Scottsdale Road. […]

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge wants lawyers in a criminal case involving a billion-dollar sanctions-evasion scheme to detail any internal communications they had with the U.S. and Turkish governments. U.S. District Judge Richard Berman directed prosecutors and defense lawyers on Thursday to include the information in sentencing memos in a prosecution that resulted […]

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The Florida Supreme Court is disbarring a lawyer who told clients medical marijuana was legal and issued “Official Legal Certification” cards more than two years before voters approved marijuana for medical use. The Thursday ruling said some of Ian Christensen’s clients were arrested and others lost their jobs because of his […]

ANTIOCH, Calif. (AP) — Police in Northern California say a 4-year-old girl was killed and her 2-year-old sister was critically injured when a stolen pickup truck crashed against their vehicle. KTVU reports 23-year-old Noe Saucedo, of Pittsburg, was arrested on one count of murder and two counts of felony evading in Wednesday’s crash in Antioch, […]

Republicans have insisted on a legislation to fix the so-called Hirst court decision before passing the capital budget. That 2016 state Supreme Court ruling effectively restricted some new household wells in rural areas.

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan says he believes congressional redistricting should be taken out of the hands of politicians, “regardless of who the governor is or what party’s in power.” The Republican governor announced Thursday he would again push for a measure to put redistricting before a nonpartisan commission, despite the bill’s […]

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A lawyer for imprisoned former U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah has zeroed in on the dismissal of a holdout juror in his appeal of the congressman’s racketeering conviction. Fattah’s attorney, Bruce Merenstein, told a panel of federal judges in Philadelphia on Thursday that there wasn’t a good enough reason to dismiss a juror […]

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan’s unemployment rate rose by one-tenth of a percentage point to 4.6 percent in December while the size of the state’s workforce grew by 12,000 people. Figures released Thursday by the Michigan Department of Technology, Management & Budget show Michigan’s December’s employment rate was six-tenths of a percentage point above the […]

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A U.S. Navy destroyer damaged in a June collision that killed seven sailors is expected to arrive at a Mississippi shipyard Friday. Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula announced the ship’s arrival Thursday. A spokeswoman says the Navy won’t discuss the ship until it arrives. The USS Fitzgerald was damaged in a June […]

A classic Union Gap tamale shop, open since 1990, gets a 2018 James Beard America's Classics award.

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Legislation nearing Gov. Rick Snyder’s desk would let charter schools receive revenue from voter-approved property tax hikes. The Republican-led House narrowly approved the bill 55-52 Thursday, largely along party lines, after a different version previously cleared a divided Senate. The taxes now go to the counties’ traditional school districts on a […]