Новости за 12.03.2018

ALAMEDA, Calif. (AP) — Richard Sherman spent seven years tormenting the San Francisco 49ers with his lockdown coverage, colorful trash talk and celebratory turkey eating at midfield. Now he has decided to join the enemy, signing a three-year contract with the 49ers almost immediately after being let go by the Seattle Seahawks last Friday. “It’s […]

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Police have arrested a 14-year-old student after discovering several threatening social media posts involving a school in New Orleans. The teen was arrested for terrorizing and disruption of the operation of a school. Threats of a school shooting were discovered Friday. The arrest was made Saturday. The New Orleans police department […]

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The man nominated by Gov. Bill Walker to fill the public safety seat on Alaska’s marijuana regulatory board has withdrawn from consideration after losing his law enforcement job. Travis Welch’s withdrawal from consideration was announced Monday. Bob Griffiths, executive director of the Alaska Police Standards Council, says he was notified Thursday […]

March 12, 2018 The Quincy Herald-Whig Quality jobs are available for skilled workers Illinois manufacturers say they will have at least 27,000 quality jobs available each year for the next five years. Most Read StoriesCutting the cord: Streaming instead of cable TV means complicated choices, and some trade-offsDay after Seahawks release, Richard Sherman agrees to […]

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Disaster declarations have been made for 17 Michigan counties and two cities hit hard by recent flooding from heavy rain and melting snow. Gov. Rick Snyder’s office says Monday’s declarations make state resources available to those areas, including grants of up to $100,000 for reimbursement of local response costs to the […]

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Members of the Arkansas House have elected a Republican representative from El Dorado to lead the chamber in 2019. Rep. Matthew Shepherd picked up 57 votes in Monday balloting by House members. A vote total wasn’t released for Republican Rep. Andy Davis of Little Rock. If affirmed next year, Shepherd […]

Two years ago Kent City Council stopped the sale of 10-acre Pine Tree Park to a land developer after a four-month citizen uproar, attentive news-media coverage and donated funds to hire a Seattle land-use attorney to represent the case. Citizen requests for records through the Public Records Act exposed city officials scurrying to cover up […]

Eyman filed the lawsuit Monday in Thurston County Superior Court, four days after lawmakers approved and Gov. Jay Inslee signed a compromise measure backed by both activists and law enforcement groups.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Six more women will join a task force to seek a long-term funding solution to an insurance program for teachers and other public employees. Gov. Jim Justice announced the latest appointments Monday after receiving complaints that his initial picks included only two women. The task force is scheduled to meet Tuesday, […]

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A state agency is telling 3,000 college scholarship recipients in South Carolina that their personal information was posted online for 10 months. The Commission on Higher Education sent a letter to students who earned Palmetto Fellows scholarships, saying their names, addresses and Social Security numbers were posted in May 2017 when […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Monday: Broadcom Ltd., up $9.06 to $262.84 The Wall Street Journal reported that Intel might make an offer for Broadcom. Goldman Sachs Group Inc., up $2.61 to $273.38 Most Read StoriesCutting the cord: Streaming instead of cable TV means complicated choices, and some trade-offsDay […]

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Andrew is blasting conditions in New York City public housing — and wading deeper into another conflict with Mayor Bill de Blasio. The Democratic governor met with tenants in a Bronx housing development on Monday. He said the conditions he saw were “disturbing,” ”intolerable” and “disgusting” and included […]

U.S. stocks were split Monday as technology companies continued to climb, but Boeing and other industrial companies gave back some of the ground they won on Friday. On Monday: The S&P 500 index gave up 3.55 points, or 0.1 percent, to 2,783.02. The Dow Jones industrial average skidded 157.13 points, or 0.6 percent, to 25,178.61. […]

LONDON (AP) — The use of Russian-developed nerve agent Novichok to poison ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter makes it “highly likely” that Russia was involved, British Prime Minister Theresa May said Monday. Novichok refers to a class of nerve agents developed in the Soviet Union near the end of the Cold War. The agents […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — Gov. Dennis Daugaard has signed a bill to make permanent an expiring law that governs the use of lakes on private land for recreation. The Republican initially pushed the Legislature to move the law’s June expiration to 2021, but lawmakers instead sent him a bill that removed the sunset. The law […]

CONWAY, Ark. (AP) — A jailer, a bail bond agent and a county jail inmate in central Arkansas are charged with trying to help the inmate escape. Court records show Faulkner County jailer Robert Ellis, bond agent Margaret Cockrell and inmate Glen Toney, Jr. were charged Monday. All three are charged with conspiracy. Ellis and […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says President Donald Trump will hold talks next week with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders says 32-year-old bin Salman – the heir apparent to King Salman – will visit the White House on March 20. Sanders says Trump looks forward to discussing how to […]

NORTH BELLE VERNON, Pa. (AP) — A woman accused of placing her newborn baby in a trash receptacle after giving birth in a gas station restroom in Pittsburgh is facing endangerment charges. The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports that misdemeanor child endangerment and reckless endangerment charges were filed Monday against 25-year-old Brittany Conway of Vandergrift. Emergency responders […]

AUBURN, Maine (AP) — An IHOP manager in Auburn, Maine, is issuing a public apology after a server asked a group of black teenagers to pay upfront for their meal. Manager Melvin Escobar told the Sun Journal newspaper that “this is the first time it happened, and that will be the last time.” The incident […]

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Republican legislative leaders want the North Carolina Supreme Court to keep intact a lower-court decision voiding only one portion of the state law creating a combined elections and ethics board. Lawyers for House Speaker Tim Moore and Senate leader Phil Berger filed Monday their response to Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s motions […]

GREAT NECK, N.Y. (AP) — Police say an officer on Long Island has shot and killed a bat-wielding man during a road rage incident. Nassau County police say it happened after the suspect got out of his car at about 10:30 a.m. Monday in Great Neck and smashed the windows of two vehicles. One of […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Buried within new Senate legislation to roll back restraints on banks is a provision that would exempt an estimated 85 percent of all U.S. banks and credit unions from public reporting requirements, raising fears that discriminatory practices by lenders could go undetected. The data that would be exempt from reporting includes the […]

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico’s unemployment rate fell to 5.9 percent in January, down from 6 percent in December. The state jobless rate was at 6.5 percent in January 2016, still higher than the national unemployment of 4.1 percent. Labor officials say New Mexico recorded aggregate gains in the private sector that resulted […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is avoiding criticism of China for removing term limits on its presidency. Press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders says that’s “a determination for China to make, not something for the United States to weigh in on.” She was speaking after China’s rubber-stamp legislature opened the way for President Xi Jinping […]

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The North Dakota Oil and Gas Division says an oil spill has been contained at an oil and gas well in northwestern North Dakota. Slawson Exploration Co. reports an estimated 10,584 gallons of oil was released, contained and recovered when a recycle line failed to the tanks Saturday. The spill happened […]