Новости за 04.02.2018

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Adventurers hoping to see Yosemite National Park’s annual “firefall” will need reservations. The San Francisco Chronicle reports Yosemite has instituted a new reservation system this year to end traffic jams and pedestrian safety problems when spectators flock to Horsetail Falls on the east side of El Capitan to see the fiery […]

Opponents of gerrymandering have won a historic string of victories in the courts recently, yet millions of voters will cast their ballots this fall in districts that judges have declared to be unconstitutional. Federal courts in Texas, North Carolina and Wisconsin found that either politics or intentional discrimination played an unacceptable role in drawing electoral […]

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Court documents show an Austin-area boy can be heard in a 911 call pleading with his stepfather to stop stabbing the boy’s mother. The woman, 36-year-old Emily Martinez Villarreal, died at the scene as deputies arrived Saturday and took 51-year-old Roberto Degollado into custody. An arrest affidavit shows Degollado was walking […]

BALTIMORE (AP) — A parking ticket amnesty program in Baltimore has netted more than $2.1 million for city coffers over a two-day period. The Baltimore Sun reports that the totals collected as of Friday evening only reflected electronic payments. The newspaper says there were also lines at city offices as residents came to pay outstanding […]

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Pima County Sheriff’s officials say a man has been arrested in Vail for allegedly killing his wife and teenage daughter and trying to kill his son. They say 44-year-old Hernando Enriquez will be booked into jail after he’s released from a hospital. Enriquez was found in a culvert Saturday with serious […]

BOSTON (AP) — Attorney General Maura Healey has unveiled a new online portal to let businesses and organizations report data breaches. The Democrat said the online portal should make it easier to alert her office to the potential theft of information. Since November 2007, the attorney general’s office has received notice of more than 21,000 […]

EAST LYME, Conn. (AP) — A women’s prison in Connecticut is offering inmates the opportunity to learn Braille so they will have a new job skill when they’re released. The Day of New London reports that a select group of about 10 women will begin learning Braille at the York Correctional Institution in East Lyme. […]

GREELEY, Colo. (AP) — Weld County in northeast Colorado is poised to see a record for oil production. For 2017, production through November is sitting at more than 105 million barrels of oil. When December numbers are counted that could easily go up to 116 million barrels of oil produced out of the county, an […]

JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) — Police say they recovered a handgun and arrested three Pennsylvania men during a traffic stop at the Holland Tunnel entrance in New Jersey. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said Sunday that an officer saw three people inside a car with Pennsylvania license plates who weren’t wearing […]

Following 78-75 win over No. 9 Arizona, Washington improves 10 spots and jumps to No. 35 in the RPI rankings.

EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) — A federal appeals court says a lawsuit can proceed to trial that accuses Evansville police officers of violating three teenagers’ constitutional rights by coercing confessions in the killing of a homeless man. A panel of 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed there’s enough evidence that officers deliberately coerced confessions from […]

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — The killer serving life in prison for murdering NBA legend Michael Jordan’s father has seen his bid for a new trial postponed for months after a new state law forced off the judge weighing his request. The Fayetteville Observer reports the law affects Daniel Andre Green, who with an accomplice killed […]

There's a combined five teams in the state rankings that finished the regular season undefeated.

That big Sound Transit tax bill you are paying? The investments won’t halt congestion. Guest columnist Chuck Collins suggests a more radical approach.

Do we want late-term abortion so much that we give up our chance at congressional majorities? Do we want it so much that we see our agendas on poverty, immigration, income equality and racial justice thwarted and defeated?

Washington’s death penalty is applied inequitably and its administration is costly.

The Class 4A Bears finish the regular season undefeated. The Class 3A Braves lost twice, both times to a ranked 4A team.

Anyone can commit a racist hate crime because anyone can be tainted by the ideology that defines people by race.

The fun-loving pop star arrived in Washington during a transformative stretch in her career.

NEW TOWN, N.D. (AP) — The family of a missing North Dakota woman says the Bureau of Indian Affairs is taking over the investigation into her disappearance. Olivia Lone Bear has been missing from New Town for three months. The 33-year-old mother of five was last seen leaving a New Town restaurant Oct. 24. Nedra […]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio has issued a $1 million contract to a New Jersey company to operate a toll-free help line for medical marijuana patients, caregivers and physicians. Cleveland.com reports the help line will be operated by Extra Step Assurance from a call center in Bellefontaine (behl-FOWN’-tihn) in central Ohio. The company is a […]

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — A former deputy jailer in Kentucky has pleaded guilty in federal court to assaulting an inmate. Twenty-eight-year-old Jarrod Allen Lucas entered the plea Friday in federal court in Lexington. Prosecutors say Lucas acknowledged kicking an inmate at the Kentucky River Regional Jail in Hazard in October 2011. Lucas says he was […]

SPRINGFIELD, Ore. (AP) — Fire officials say a heat lamp used to keep baby chicks warm sparked a house fire in Springfield. The Eugene Springfield Fire Department says the man who lived at the house returned home Saturday evening to find a dresser and wall in flames and the house filled with smoke. The man […]

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — One Wichita high school used a homecoming pep rally to give a teacher a surprise sendoff before he deploys for a year with the Kansas Army National Guard. The Wichita Eagle reports that woodworking teacher David Young was surprised to be honored at the Wichita South High assembly on Friday. Assistant […]

EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan State University faculty are moving ahead with a motion to take a no-confidence vote on the school’s board of trustees in response to the board’s decision to hire former Gov. John Engler as interim president. Members of the university’s Academic Congress overwhelmingly approved a measure Saturday to hold the […]