Новости за 04.03.2018

CHESTERFIELD, Va. (AP) — A county prosecutor in Virginia says cases will be lost and convictions appealed if the county fails to properly fund its police body camera program. The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported Saturday that Chesterfield Commonwealth’s Attorney William Davenport wants to hire more prosecutors to review thousands of hours of footage. Davenport has repeatedly […]

RIVERDALE, Ga. (AP) — Payless Shoes is offering condolences to the family of a 2-year-old girl who died after a mirror inside one of its suburban Atlanta stores fell on top of the girl. Riverdale police Lt. Nicole Rabel told news outlets that Ifrah Siddique was found severely injured Friday night. The discount footwear company […]

DENVER (AP) — A wildfire near a rural Colorado community southeast of Denver has destroyed three homes and four barns but no one has been hurt. Authorities say the fire in Elbert County began sometime about 10 a.m. Sunday and was driven by strong winds. By early afternoon it had burned about 350 acres (142 […]

MARINETTE, Wis. (AP) — Authorities say a 79-year-old Green Bay man is dead after the truck he was driving fell through the ice on Lake Noquebay. The Marinette County Sheriff’s Office says its dive team found the man inside the truck Saturday morning at the bottom of the lake. WBAY-TV reports the man was identified […]

BOSTON (AP) — From Virginia to Massachusetts, about 1 million people remained without power Sunday, two days after a destructive nor’easter, leaving some unsure when they could return home and schools unsure if they would open Monday morning. Skies were clear Sunday over much off the Northeast hit by the storm, which was blamed for […]

BALTIMORE (AP) — A church in Maryland has caught fire while congregants were attending Sunday school. The Baltimore Sun reported Sunday that everyone was able to make it out safely from the historic Grace Memorial Baptist Church in east Baltimore. But much of the building’s roof was destroyed or damaged. Fire officials had received calls […]

JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey man who acknowledged tossing lit matches in an apartment, sparking a fire that killed an infant and damaged dozens of buildings, has been sentenced to three years in prison. The Jersey Journal reports 20-year-old Edwin Diaz was sentenced on Friday in Hudson County on a reckless manslaughter […]

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Police have identified a pedestrian who was fatally struck by a vehicle that crashed into a fast-food restaurant in Tucson. Tucson police say 54-year-old Barbara Angiolini was standing on the sidewalk before the crash around 11 a.m. Saturday. They say the driver of the SUV lost control of the vehicle and […]

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Turnover is increasing among Nebraska prison guards despite the state’s efforts to improve pay. The Omaha World-Herald reports turnover increased to 34 percent among prison guards last year from the previous year’s 31 percent despite the state giving 7 percent pay increases to guards. State prison guards are often forced to […]

LIMA, Ohio (AP) — Authorities say a U.S. Army reservist who was pinned between two vehicles at a reserve center in western Ohio has died. The Shawnee Township Police Department in Allen County says 20-year-old Jacob Wilkes, of Oregon, suffered severe head injuries in the accident around 1:15 p.m. Saturday. He died at the scene. […]

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — A 12-year-old has won the Delaware State Spelling Bee by correctly spelling the word phyton. It is defined as the “smallest part of a stem, root or leaf.” The News Journal of Wilmington reported that seventy students from across Delaware had faced off on Saturday. The competition lasted five hours and […]

The good news is that most of these hangers-on don’t hang on for very long. More than one-third of senior aides in the Trump White House have been fired, quit or been reassigned in the first year — a record.

Washington’s elected officials are right to challenge the Federal Communications Commission’s terrible decision to rescind net-neutrality protections.

NEW YORK (AP) — Police are investigating a shoot that left one man dead and three others injured. The New York Police Department says officers responding to a report of an assault on Saturday evening at Kings Highway and East 53rd Street in Brooklyn found a man with gunshot wounds in his leg and chest. […]

NORTHFIELD, N.J. (AP) — Closing arguments are to be submitted to a New Jersey judge in the case of a New Jersey teacher charged with simple assault of a student who hit his head on a cafeteria floor after authorities say she kicked a chair he was leaning back in. The Press of Atlantic City […]

A car carrying four Aberdeen residents slammed into a snow plow making a U-gturn on U.S. 12, killing two and sending two others to the hospital.

Shaquem Griffin, twin brother of the Seahawks' Shaqull, continued his electrifying performance at the NFL Combine on Sunday with a record-breaking 4.38 40.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Portland Police say 7-Eleven was robbed at gunpoint. KPTV-TV reports that officers were called to the convenience store on Northeast Sandy Boulevard at 4 a.m. Sunday. Police said a suspect entered the convenience store and demanded money while holding a handgun. The suspect left with cash without incident. Most Read StoriesState […]

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The most senior Vatican official ever charged in the Catholic Church sex abuse crisis will appear in an Australian court in a hearing to determine whether prosecutors have sufficient evidence to try him. Australian Cardinal George Pell’s preliminary hearing begins in the Melbourne Magistrates Court on Monday and is scheduled to […]

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — State education officials are proposing to roll back Maine’s proficiency-based diploma law, which was one of the first in the nation. The Maine Sunday Telegram reports that Department of Education officials are proposing the elimination of a key tenet of the law: Students would no longer have to attain a standard […]

PARIS (AP) — Authorities say two people have died, two others have been seriously injured and one is missing after a series of avalanches in the French Alps. The gendarmes in France’s eastern region of Haute-Savoie said three avalanches occurred over a two-hour period Sunday in the Vallorcine sector and a fourth took place earlier […]

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The Oregon Legislature gifted a high school student $200,000 to help fund a homeless youth shelter in Salem. The Statesman Journal reports lawmakers included $200,000 for the shelter in a $93 million omnibus spending bill approved Saturday as the 2018 Legislative session neared its final hours. McKay High School student Raul […]

HAYESVILLE, Ohio (AP) — Authorities say a woman whose 8-year-old son shot his 4-year-old sister has been arrested. The Mansfield News-Journal reports the Ashland County Sheriff’s Office has said the girl was shot multiple times around 2:30 p.m. Saturday and her wounds are not considered life-threatening. She was flown to a hospital in Cleveland where […]

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A man has been indicted for the fatal shooting of two apartment complex employees in north Florida. The Gainesville Sun reports that 23-year-old Cedric Tremaine Plummer was indicted Friday on two counts of first-degree murder for the fatal shootings on Feb. 13. Prosecutors say Plummer killed 28-year-old Jude Osuji Jr. and […]

MINERAL, Va. (AP) — An art history buff believes he’s identified a centuries-old print of a famous painting in a small Virginia church. The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported Saturday that the print is at the Gilboa Christian Church in Mineral, Virginia. The mid-19th Century building is about an hour from Richmond. Federico Colagrande believes the print […]