Новости за 20.02.2018

YUMA, Ariz. (AP) — Buying local to replace an aging ambulance has provided big savings for the Yuma Fire Department. The Yuma Sun reports department officials say they saved the city about $70,000 by buying a new chassis from an auto dealership and then paying other businesses to finish outfitting the vehicle, which includes a […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Guess Inc. says that co-founder Paul Marciano will give up his day-to-day responsibilities at the clothing company until a sexual misconduct investigation is completed. Model and actress Kate Upton told Time magazine earlier this month that Marciano forcibly grabbed her breasts during a Guess photo shoot nearly eight years ago. She […]

CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — One person is confirmed dead in a crash of a twin-engine light passenger plane south of Carson City. Reno Gazette-Journal reports Douglas County Undersheriff Paul Howell says the identity of the person killed Monday in the crash is being withheld pending the confirmation of the identity and notification of their […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — California is in the grip of a cold air mass that has sent temperatures plunging. Hard freeze warnings are in effect early Tuesday up and down the Central Valley and on the Central Coast, with a mix of freeze and frost warnings elsewhere. Numerous locations are in the 20s and 30s, […]

SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) — A man has been arrested in the shooting death of his girlfriend’s new boyfriend in South Carolina. Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Lt. Kevin Bobo said 24-year-old Andrew Ryan Murphy of Spartanburg has been arrested and charged with murder in the shooting death of 25-year-old Daeshawn Brown of Moore on Sunday morning. Murphy […]

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MASSILLON, Ohio (AP) — A school official in Ohio says a middle school student apparently shot himself after bringing a gun to school. Police say Jackson Middle School, near Massillon, is on lockdown Tuesday and that the students and staff are safe. The school official tells The Independent newspaper that the student is being treated […]

WEST WARWICK, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island is marking the 15th anniversary of a nightclub fire that killed 100 people and injured more than 200 others. The Feb. 20, 2003, fire at The Station nightclub in West Warwick started when pyrotechnics for the rock band Great White set fire to flammable foam installed as soundproofing. […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Special counsel’s office files new charge against man accused of lying to investigators in Russia probe.

EXETER, R.I. (AP) — Three people have been charged with stealing cash and what police say was a large quantity of marijuana from a home in Exeter. State police say 19-year-old Jarod Bourbonniere, of Coventry, 19-year-old Ryan White, of Exeter, and a juvenile broke into the house on Feb. 10. They say White and the […]

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“Our History, Our Responsibility: Day of Remembrance 2018,” held Monday in Seattle Center’s Fisher Pavilion, marked the 76th anniversary of President Franklin Roosevelt’s signing of Executive Order 9066, which ordered Japanese Americans into internment camps.

Who would spend $900 on a vine-covered, 77-year-old car that doesn’t run, with a rusted-out floor and so many dead rats in the upholstery they’d have to be shoveled out? Jim Sullivan would — and did. He bought this 1941 Cadillac Series 63 in need of a year of restoration. Only 1,750 were made, and […]

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NEWTON, Iowa (AP) — An Ankeny man has been sentenced to life in prison for kidnapping and sexually abusing an 11-year-old girl in Jasper County. The Des Moines Register reports that 58-year-old Jeff Altmayer was sentenced Monday in Jasper County District Court. Last month a jury found him guilty of kidnapping, sexual abuse and two […]

MOSS POINT, Miss. (AP) — Authorities say a Mississippi boy who was run over by his mother’s car has died. Jackson County Sheriff Mike Ezell tells WXXV-TV that 5-year-old Drayke Whittington died Sunday afternoon after Melissa Shields accidentally ran him over at a home in Moss Point. Ezell says Drayke was hit after getting out […]

MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. (AP) — A northwestern Indiana man is awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty in the hit-and-run death of a 5-year-old girl. The (Michigan City) News-Dispatch reports 35-year-old Marcus Scully of Trail Creek entered the plea last week to leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death. No plea agreement was offered in […]

APPLETON, Wis. (AP) — An Appleton man has been formally charged with making terrorist threats after investigators say he sent an electronic message to the FBI threatening to “shoot up” a school. Cash bond of $10,000 was set Monday for 23-year-old David Etheridge. Authorities say no specific school was targeted. WLUK-TV reports police searched Etheridge’s […]

Qualcomm is raising its takeover bid for NXP Semiconductors by nearly 16 percent to about $43.22 billion, citing in part NXP’s strong results since the companies first announced their merger in October 2016. The move announced Tuesday comes as Qualcomm itself is in the crosshairs of Broadcom Ltd., which earlier this month raised its own […]

BANGKOK (AP) — Rights groups are urging authorities in Myanmar to investigate and release information about two ethnic Kachin civilians believed to be held by soldiers in the country’s north, where fighting has raged between government forces and armed Kachin rebels. Fortify Rights, a Southeast Asia-focused human rights group, urged Myanmar officials on Tuesday to […]

LONDON (AP) — An art collection amassed by billionaire David Rockefeller could raise more than $500 million for charity when it is auctioned this spring. Auctioneer Christie’s is selling hundreds of artworks from the collection of Rockefeller and his wife Peggy, including major paintings by Monet, Matisse and Picasso. Rockefeller, grandson of Standard Oil founder […]

MERRILLVILLE, Ind. (AP) — NiSource Inc. (NI) on Tuesday reported a fourth-quarter loss of $52.4 million, after reporting a profit in the same period a year earlier. On a per-share basis, the Merrillville, Indiana-based company said it had a loss of 16 cents. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs mainly attributed to the recent sweeping tax […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is again accusing his predecessor of not doing enough to prevent Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. Trump tweets that’s because President Barack Obama “thought Crooked Hillary was going to win and he didn’t want to ‘rock the boat.'” But Trump says when he won “the whole game […]

AKRON, Ohio (AP) — A man suspected of fatally shooting a 4-year-old girl as she sat in the back seat of a car is set to make his initial appearance in a northeastern Ohio court. Police say 31-year-old Darnell Bitting was arrested Saturday in Akron for the Friday night shooting of Janaya Swain. Bitting has […]

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — One rural Missouri county is moving to a privatized system for public defenders, a system that some advocates would like to see become more common. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that starting March 1, people charged with crimes in Texas County who cannot afford an attorney will get private lawyers, […]