Новости за 16.03.2018

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The U.S. Department of Agriculture has rejected a petition from an animal rights group that sought more humane treatment for turkeys and chickens sent to slaughter. California-based Mercy For Animals filed a petition in November asking the USDA to include poultry in the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act, a 1958 […]

PHOENIX (AP) — A woman photographed wearing what appeared to be a wedding dress during her impaired-driving arrest in southern Arizona disputes that she was taken into custody on the way to her wedding. The image of Amber Young being arrested Monday while wearing a white open-back dress made its rounds on social media. She […]

NEW ALBANY, Ind. (AP) — Four southern Indiana residents are accused of pocketing more than $125,000 through fundraisers touted as benefiting veterans and their families. All four were indicted on fraud charges alleging that they solicited funds from individuals and businesses in Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio. They allegedly pocketed more than $125,000 in cash, gift […]

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) — Police say a hotel guest in New Hampshire asked a housekeeping employee to clean her room, and then stabbed the worker in the face, neck and chest with a pair of scissors. Portsmouth Police Chief Robert Merner tells the Portsmouth Herald no argument preceded the stabbing Friday at the Sheraton Portsmouth […]

NEW YORK (AP) — A deadly New York City helicopter crash has prompted regulators to temporarily ground flights that have the doors open and that use tight seat restraints that could trap people in emergencies. The Federal Aviation Administration ordered the ban Friday amid concerns such harnesses prevented passengers from escaping when their helicopter plunged […]

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) — Now that’s a big baby! The Santa Barbara Zoo’s Masai giraffe, Audrey, gave birth this week and the newborn is 6-feet-1 (1.8 meters), weighing in at 180 pounds (81.6 kilograms). Curator of Mammals Michele Green says it was a fast and smooth birth, and the female calf stood up and […]

IVA, S.C. (AP) — Authorities have charged a 28-year-old man for killing a woman who was found in a pool of blood at a South Carolina home with her 2-year-old daughter safe nearby. Arrest warrants from the State Law Enforcement Division said Adam Lawless stabbed and strangled 24-year-old Tabatha Duncan after an argument. Anderson County […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Gina Haspel’s long spy career is so shrouded in mystery that senators want documents declassified so they can decide if her role at a CIA black site should prevent her from directing the agency. It’s a deep dive into Haspel’s past that reflects key questions about her future: Would she support President […]

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo’s ombudsman has urged the government to issue residence papers for ethnic Albanians who have been displaced from neighboring Serbia for “security, social or economic reasons.” A report from the people’s advocate said Friday that since 2001, some 3,500 ethnic Albanians from Presevo, Medveda and Bujanovac in southern Serbia have come […]

WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) — Officials say the injured mother of two children killed in a Waterloo house fire has also died. The Courier reports that 33-year-old Amber Dawn Everman died shortly before noon Friday at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City, where she had been taken after being pulled from the burning […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Friday: Overstock.com Inc., down $2.50 to $45.70 The online discount retailer said it will take losses and ramp up its growth to compete with rival Wayfair. Adobe Systems Inc., up $6.68 to $225.55 Most Read StoriesCo-pilot sues Alaska Airlines over alleged drugging, rape by […]

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Federal immigration agents arrested 115 people during a three-day operation in the San Diego area amid heightened tensions between the Trump administration and the state of California over immigration enforcement. It was U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s third California operation in barely a month, following one in the Los Angeles area […]

With Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s departure, who will put the brake on President Donald Trump’s erratic foreign policy impulses?

There is such a thing as the free world where citizens enjoy liberty, rule of law, and mutual trust. That world is now adrift in self-doubt.

U.S. stocks edged higher Friday as gains from energy companies, industrial firms and smaller companies helped the market end a modest losing streak. On Friday: The S&P 500 index picked up 4.68 points, or 0.2 percent, to 2,752.01. The Dow Jones industrial average advanced 72.85 points, or 0.3 percent, to 24,946.51. Most Read StoriesCo-pilot sues […]

BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts House Speaker Robert DeLeo is defending the use of non-disclosure and non-disparagement agreements a day after a fellow Democratic lawmaker said she was pressured into signing the agreements when she was a legislative staffer. DeLeo told reporters Friday the agreements are “part of doing business.” DeLeo’s office on Thursday said since […]

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — So-called free-range parenting is now the law of the land in Utah, after Gov. Gary Herbert announced he has signed a bill that formally legalizes the practice of letting kids do things on their own to foster self-sufficiency. Herbert gave his approval Friday to a measure that specifies that it […]

SHELBURNE, Vt. (AP) — A dispatcher for a Vermont police department says a single-engine plane has crashed in Shelburne, but the pilot was uninjured. Jake Kilpeck of the Shelburne Police Department says there were no injuries on the ground, either. The crash, about five miles south of the Burlington International Airport in South Burlington, was […]

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland has issued a permit for a proposed natural gas pipeline in western Maryland. The Maryland Department of the Environment announced Friday that the wetlands and waterways permit for the proposed Columbia Gas pipeline includes customized conditions specific to the project and its location to ensure protection of public health and […]

North Carolina officials will take over a county child welfare agency that illegally removed potentially hundreds of kids from their homes. The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services said Friday that it will temporarily take over Cherokee County Cherokee County Department of Social Services, starting Monday. The move comes after an Associated Press […]

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Jurors who will decide the fate of three militia members accused of conspiring to bomb an apartment complex housing Somalis in the Kansas will not hear evidence about alleged child pornography found during searches. The images found on a computer and drives were excluded Friday by U.S. District Eric Melgren amid […]

Longtime family owned business Daly's Paint and Decorating closes doors, leaving debt and unfulfilled customer orders.

The contractor on the Hanford nuclear reservation project was given 14 days to provide documentation — not because of a specific safety concern but because the records have not previously been provided.

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Prosecutors say a drug courier has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for transporting heroin pills across southern Arizona. Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich (burn-o-vich) announced 41-year-old Sergio Ramon Chavez’s sentence Friday. Chavez, who authorities say had told police that a cartel was paying him $1,500 to pick up and […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Aretha Franklin is canceling two upcoming concerts on doctor’s orders. The Queen of Soul’s management team says in a statement Friday that Franklin will not perform March 25 at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark, New Jersey. That show would have taken place on her 76th birthday. Franklin also […]