Новости за 12.02.2018

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Activists are calling for Maine Gov. Paul LePage to stop blocking Medicaid expansion as his administration nears deadlines approved by voters at the polls. Maine last fall became the first state to expand Medicaid by popular vote. Office of Fiscal and Program Review analyst Luke Lazure told The Associated Press that […]

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A Rhode Island judge has ruled in favor of a Providence ordinance that limits the number of college students who can rent a house at once. WPRI-TV reports Superior Court Judge Maureen Keough sided with the city in her decision on Monday while also writing that the measure probably won’t achieve […]

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A federal prosecutor nominated to fill a judge’s vacancy in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is under fire after opinion pieces he wrote as a college student mocking multiculturalism surfaced. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports liberal judicial advocacy group Alliance for Justice says Ryan Bounds’ writings “reveal strong biases that call […]

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A synagogue, an African-American library and two elementary schools in Mississippi have been named to the National Register of Historic Places. The listings were announced Monday by the state Department of Archives and History. B’nai Israel Synagogue was built in 1946 in Hattiesburg and has been used since then. Myrtle Hall […]

SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — A Louisiana sheriff’s office is looking for the owner of a brown male goat named Rowdy. He’s not a baaaad goat, but will be sold at auction if his owner cannot be found. The Caddo Parish Sheriff’s Office says in a news release that its livestock patrol picked the goat up […]

Recent security attacks signal the need for a new organizational culture that bridges cybersecurity and business operations.

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — A Virginia woman who faked her own death in connection with an elaborate fraud scheme has been sentenced to four years in prison. Fifty-year-old Alexandra Hatcher of Portsmouth pleaded guilty last year in federal court in Newport News. She was sentenced Monday. Her husband, Albert Hatcher Jr., also pleaded guilty […]

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The Seminole Tribe of Florida would be allowed to add craps and roulette at its casinos under a bill now moving in the Florida Senate. The Senate committee that oversees tax issues approved a 90-page gambling bill (SB 840) on Monday. The legislation calls for a new agreement that would let […]

In an effort to improve traffic conditions during peak times, more companies in Seattle are encouraging employees to telecommute – working outside the office, usually from home.   Are you a telecommuter? We’d like to hear from you. Include details, such as how often and where you work when you telecommute, and what incentives helped you […]

JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) — Authorities have released the names of two people killed in an early morning crash in New Jersey over the weekend. The Hudson County prosecutor’s office says 25-year-old Mario Guevara and 24-year-old Heather Acosta were killed in the 3 a.m. Sunday crash in Jersey City. Officials said both Union City residents […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Air Force says the venerable B-52 bomber, which gained lasting fame in Vietnam as an aerial terror, is now likely to outlive its younger, far snazzier brother bombers, the swept-wing B-1 and the stealthy B-2. Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson announced Monday that the service plans to begin retiring the B-1 […]

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The principal at a Philadelphia elementary school in a violent corner of the city is paying eighth-graders to not fight. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports Mitchell Elementary School Principal Stephanie Andrewlevich is taking the innovative approach to manage behavior at the school. If all eighth-graders make it to graduation with no physical violence, […]

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport will receive a $640,000 grant from the federal Environmental Protection Agency to buy zero emissions ground support equipment. City officials said Monday that the grant will let the Chicago Department of Aviation and United Airlines invest $1.4 million to buy 26 new pieces of equipment to replace older, […]

You don’t have to buy into every #MeToo claim to see female dignity regularly mocked at the highest levels of government.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — A former Arkansas state representative has pleaded guilty to his role in an embezzlement scheme involving a Springfield, Missouri-based charity. Federal prosecutors say 51-year-old Eddie Wayne Cooper, of Melbourne, Arkansas, pleaded guilty Monday to conspiracy to embezzle more than $4 million from Preferred Family Healthcare. Prosecutors say Cooper and several executives […]

Chris Petersen signed his highest-rated recruiting class ever in 2018. What's next? The Huskies figure to compete for many of the same targets as their conference foes.

BOSTON (AP) — U.S. Sen. Edward Markey is blasting President Donald Trump’s $1.5 trillion plan for the nation’s crumbling infrastructure, calling it a “monetary mirage.” The Massachusetts Democrat said the bill would commit just $200 billion of direct federal investment while cutting other core transportation and infrastructure programs like Amtrak and federal transit grants. Markey […]

Dropping games at Oregon and Oregon State certainly hurt UW's NCAA tournament bid, but there's still time for the Huskies to rebound.

BOSTON (AP) — A group of Massachusetts lawmakers have unveiled a bill that aims to sharply increase the state’s use of renewable energy. The bill released Monday by the Senate Committee on Global Warming and Climate Change sets an overall goal of making the state 100 percent reliant on renewable energy by 2050. The measure […]

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey appeals court has turned down a request from environmental groups and a former state senator to undo a $225 million pollution settlement between the state and Exxon Mobil. The state’s intermediate appeals court said Monday that the trial judge had not made a mistake in judgment when he […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has a tweet for just about everything, but he’s got nothing so far for Team USA a few days into the 2018 Olympic Games. Trump sent a pair of tweets last week about the games that opened Friday in Pyeongchang (PYUHNG’-chahng), South Korea. Both complimented the host country. Vice […]

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Police in Albania say they have arrested a 25-year-old citizen who is accused of being part of a cybercrime organization that U.S. authorities allege cost consumers and businesses more than half a billion dollars. A statement issued Monday said Aldo Ymeraj was arrested in the Albanian capital, Tirana, on an international […]

SUWANEE, Ga. (AP) — Police say a construction worker who was hit by a car while working along a Georgia interstate died over the weekend. Gwinnett County police say 42-year-old Lamar Ragland died from his injuries on Saturday. Ragland was removing barrels from the end of a closed section of Interstate 85 around 5 a.m. […]

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — North Korea is again asking U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to organize an international forum of legal experts to clarify the legality of increasingly tough Security Council sanctions, which it says are erasing its people’s “right of existence.” North Korea’s U.N. Mission said in a statement Monday that the intensified sanctions resolutions […]

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah Republican Rep. Rob Bishop is praising the Trump administration’s plans and streamline environmental reviews to speed up permits for infrastructure projects. Bishop told lawmakers in Utah’s Senate in Salt Lake City on Monday that Trump’s plan to shorten the environmental review process as part of the president’s $1.5 trillion […]