Новости за 02.02.2018

NEW YORK (AP) — The government’s prize witness in the corruption case against a former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo is poised to begin his testimony. Todd Howe will begin testifying Monday in the Manhattan federal court trial of Joseph Percoco. Prosecutors say Percoco accepted more than $300,000 in bribes from three businessmen, most […]

RESTON, Va. (AP) — President Donald Trump says his immigration plan is needed to protect the borders. Trump visited the U.S. Customs and Border Protection National Targeting Center in Virginia on Friday. At a roundtable with top homeland security officials, the Republican president said their jobs would be “100 percent easier” with the right laws. […]

CHULA VISTA, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say a man who called 911 to say he’d just shot to death two women in a San Diego suburb has killed himself more than 100 miles away. Thirty-eight-year-old David Bell was found dead in Norwalk at around 9 a.m. Friday. Police say Bell called 911 at around 3 […]

ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis police are investigating after three men were injured in an apparent shootout that occurred after two cars crashed. The crash happened Thursday afternoon. Police told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that none of the injuries appear to be life-threatening. Police believe two of the men, ages 18 and 20, robbed […]

NEW YORK (AP) — A Port Authority employee has sued the agency, saying it video recorded her medical examination without her consent. Charlene Talarico sought unspecified damages in the lawsuit Thursday in Manhattan federal court. She sought class-action status on behalf of roughly 8,000 employees whose medical exams also might have been recorded. She alleged […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Two government studies that bombarded rats and mice with cellphone radiation found a weak link to some heart tumors, but the research does not provide any clear answers about the safety of the devices that seem like extensions of our bodies. The lead author of the research, John Bucher, says scientists used […]

CHICAGO (AP) — A newspaper analysis of enforcement data show that penalties sought from state polluters have dropped to $6.1 million since Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner took office in 2015. According to the Chicago Tribune analysis, that’s about two-thirds less than the inflation-adjusted amount demanded during the first three years under former Democrat governors Pat […]

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Supreme Court has indefinitely suspended the law license of an Omaha attorney who played a key defense role for a former doctor convicted of killing four people with ties to an Omaha medical school. The state’s high court on Friday suspended the license of Jeremy Jorgenson, who helped represent […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Joakim Noah’s absence from the New York Knicks will continue indefinitely. A team official says Friday that Noah and the Knicks have mutually agreed that he will not be back with the club until further notice. Noah left the team last week after a dispute with coach Jeff Hornacek. He’s already […]

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The agency responsible for promoting Las Vegas says 311,000 people are expected to visit the destination during Super Bowl weekend. Data released Friday by the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority show that’s an increase of 2,000 visitors compared to last year. The New England Patriots are the favorite once again […]

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A hearing to evaluate the sanity of a Louisiana man who his lawyer said believes God ordered him to kill his 18-month-old daughter so he’d be executed and resurrected as Christ was canceled after his murder indictment. Mark Hambrick, 46, was to have had a “lunacy hearing” with a magistrate Thursday, […]

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A judge has ruled Gov. John Bel Edwards’ office complied with Louisiana’s public records law in responding to an environmental group’s request for documents about an oil pipeline project. State District Court Judge Wilson Fields refused Friday to order Edwards’ office to conduct another search for records requested by the […]

Costco co-founder Jim Sinegal apparently has a ready-made market for a book about his life and times.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A student’s defense lawyer says hazing rituals at an Omaha fraternity share the blame for his attack on another student. The Omaha World-Herald reports that 20-year-old Christopher Wheeler is charged with second-degree assault and weapon use on a female Creighton University student in February 2017. Steve Lefler, Wheeler’s attorney, acknowledged that […]

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Voters who originally sued over North Carolina’s legislative districts for racial bias want the U.S. Supreme Court to refuse to delay enforcement of new House and Senate boundaries a lower court approved for this year’s elections. The voters’ lawyers filed a response Friday to a request by Republican legislative leaders to […]

BURLINGTON, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say a man whose body was found in a Burlington basement died from a fall while repairing the basement steps. The body of 53-year-old Ricky Wixom was discovered Jan. 12. Iowa Department of Public Safety agent Richard Rahn said Friday that Wixom occasionally stayed with a friend who lived in […]

House Republicans on Friday released a partisan and bitterly disputed memo that they say shows surveillance abuses in the early stages of the FBI’s investigation into the Trump campaign and Russia. The memo, prepared by Republicans on the House intelligence committee, says there was “a troubling breakdown of legal processes” in the Russia investigation. President […]

I was a fairly early adopter, moving to a PalmPilot (remember those?) in 1998. This year I’ve gone back to a physical Franklin Planner as my primary calendar. Don’t judge. I like the tactile sense of writing, a safe space from the cloud and crashing apps. Few will go that far, but growth in the […]

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Two bills have been introduced in the Kansas Legislature to give the public more say about proposed large-scale poultry processing facilities in their communities. The legislation announced Thursday comes in the wake of outrage last year over a proposed Tyson Foods poultry plant near Tonganoxie. The legislation would allow protest petitions […]

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Las Vegas smoke shop clerk who fatally shot an unarmed 13-year-old in an apparent grab-and-run theft has been sentenced to probation. The Review-Journal reports Raad Sunna offered sympathy to the boy’s family during a sentencing hearing Thursday. Sunna says he’ll suffer from pain and recurring memories for the rest of […]

BELVEDERE PARK, Ga. (AP) — Police say a nightclub security guard in metro Atlanta fatally shot a customer who had gone to his car after an argument and returned with a gun. DeKalb County police spokeswoman Shiera Campbell tells news outlets the 26-year-old man was killed early Friday outside Lavish Bistro in Belvedere Park southeast […]

ELKO, Nev. (AP) — Elko County’s district attorney says he plans to prosecute a 30-year-old Elko woman a second time on child abuse charges after a judge declared a mistrial earlier this week. The Elko Daily Free Press reports District Court Judge Nancy Porter declared the mistrial Wednesday after a bailiff overheard at least two […]

MENLO PARK, Calif. (AP) — YouTube says it has started flagging videos provided by news outlets that receive government backing. The move is part of a commitment that its parent company, Google, made last year when it was hauled before congressional investigators looking into Russian tampering with the U.S. electorate. In particular, Google faced numerous […]

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri lawmaker has introduced a bill that would address the issue of pregnant inmates being shackled and chained during labor. The Columbia Missourian reports that the bill would ban a state correctional center or a city or county jail from using restraints on a woman in the third trimester […]

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — The University of Missouri is preparing to reopen six residence halls that were left mostly idle this year from low enrollment. The Columbia Daily Tribune reports that the university announced Thursday that all the residence halls would be in use in the fall and are expected to be at or near […]