Новости за 22.03.2018

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The state comptroller’s office says it found fiscal stress is “relatively low” among the more than 500 village governments across New York. Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli’s says his agency evaluated 529 villages and identified 10 villages as being in some level of fiscal stress. He says Island Park was in significant fiscal […]

WASHINGTON – John Dowd, a personal attorney to President Donald Trump, resigned his position Thursday amid a shake-up in the president’s legal team as Trump has sought more firepower to deal with the special counsel’s Russia investigation. The resignation came Thursday, according to three people familiar with the decision. In an email to The Washington […]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Lanes of the Glenn Highway entering Anchorage could remain closed at least three to five days while an overpass is repaired. A semi-trailer Wednesday crashed into the south Eagle River overpass of the highway. Anchorage police say the crash caused significant damage. Crews from the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public […]

WAITE PARK, Minn. (AP) — A man who has been named as a top superintendent by his colleagues in Minnesota has been arrested on a charge of indecent exposure. Rocori Superintendent Scott Staska was arrested Wednesday, booked into the Stearns County Jail and released. Waite Park police say Staska was captured on store video Sunday […]

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Police in Mexico’s Gulf coast state of Veracruz say a journalist who ran a local news website has been shot to death. State police said Leobardo Vazquez, 48, was found dead late Wednesday near a taco stand he also ran in the town of Gutierrez Zamora. Vazquez managed the news site […]

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Bill Cosby’s lawyers are asking the judge in his upcoming sexual assault retrial to step aside, arguing he could be seen as biased because his wife is a social worker who’s described herself as an “advocate for assault victims.” Cosby’s lawyers said Thursday that some of Judge Steven O’Neill’s rulings, including his […]

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A former Florida police sergeant was sentenced to 120 years in federal prison for making and possessing child pornography, including images downloaded on his patrol car’s computer. U.S. District Judge Timothy Corrigan on Thursday sentenced former Live Oak police Sgt. Kyle Adam Kirby after a jury found him guilty of producing, […]

DENVER (AP) — Colorado’s Senate minority leader, Democrat Lucia Guzman, has stepped down from her post in part to protest Republican leadership’s handling of workplace harassment complaints. The term-limited Guzman was replaced Thursday by Sen. Leroy Garcia of Pueblo. Guzman will serve out her term as assistant minority leader. Guzman struggled this session with Senate […]

RUTLAND, Vt. (AP) — Winter in Vermont has badly impacted budgets for local communities attempting to keep their roadways in check. The state Agency of Transportation says this year’s winter season has been a budget-buster, with the $18.5 million winter maintenance budget already nearly $3 million in the red. The Rutland Herald reports Rutland has […]

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) — A judge is expected to decide Thursday whether to declare a mistrial for a Colorado man being tried for a second time in his wife’s death. The Daily Sentinel reports that Michael Blagg’s lawyer claims his former mother-in-law, Marilyn Conway, purposefully referenced his earlier trial while she testified Wednesday. Defense […]

PARIS (AP) — After just two seasons as creative director of Lanvin, the storied Parisian house has announced the departure of its designer Olivier Lapidus. Lapidus’ designs for the brand since his surprise appointment last July were greeted tepidly by both industry insiders and the French press, for whom Lanvin holds a near-sacrosanct place as […]

LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — A 22-year-old Wyoming man has pleaded guilty to aggravated homicide by vehicle in the death last year of another man that occurred while fleeing police at a high speed. Tyler Lane, of Torrington, entered the plea in Albany County District Court on Wednesday. In exchange for the guilty plea, prosecutors will […]

SAGINAW, Mich. (AP) — The Michigan Supreme Court has cleared the way for public school employees to quit a union at any time. The court this week rejected an appeal from the Michigan Education Association, known as the MEA. It means a 2017 appeals court decision will stand. The appeals court said restricting school union […]

LAPORTE, Ind. (AP) — A Wisconsin man faces a reckless driving charge for allegedly driving in excess of 160 mph on the Indiana Toll Road. Thirty-eight-year-old J. Jesus Duran Sandoval was arrested Tuesday on the preliminary charge. He remained jailed Thursday in LaPorte County. The Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, man allegedly told police he was traveling […]

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Pacific Gas & Electric Co. will create around-the-clock wildfire prediction and response center in San Francisco and hire firefighters on retainer as part of its plan to prevent wildfires or contain them once they erupt. The San Francisco Chronicle reports Thursday the utility will add hundreds of weather stations to its […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The budget bill before Congress includes an update to federal law that makes clear that authorities with a warrant can obtain emails and other data held by American technology companies but stored on servers overseas. Passage of the Cloud Act probably would end a Supreme Court dispute between Microsoft and the Trump […]

DELHI TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Michigan’s law enforcement and education leaders are calling on the Legislature to spend $100 million annually to staff schools with more police officers and counselors after last month’s massacre at a Florida high school. The plan outlined Thursday also proposes spending $20 million to harden schools against threats. Under the […]

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — The father of one of the Nigerian schoolgirls still unaccounted for after Boko Haram extremists returned 104 girls from a mass abduction says he believes his daughter and others are dead and buried. Inuwa Garba tells The Associated Press that friends of his daughter who were freed Wednesday told him the […]

FORT DODGE, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa Corrections Department says inmates have assaulted two guards at the Fort Dodge prison. The attacks occurred around 5 p.m. Wednesday. A department news release says an inmate attacked a correctional officer, and when another officer went to help, all three fell to the floor. The department says more […]

COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho (AP) — Authorities say the body found earlier this month in Lake Coeur d’Alene is the man who went missing during a February outing on the lake. The Coeur d’Alene Press reports the Kootenai County coroner on Wednesday confirmed the identity of the body as 68-year-old Larry Isenberg. Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office […]

HOUSTON (AP) — A federal appeals court has rejected an appeal from a Fort Worth man sent to death row for killing his pregnant ex-girlfriend and her 7-year-old son in 2005. Attorneys for 50-year-old Stephen Barbee argued unsuccessfully to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that lawyers at his 2006 trial were deficient for […]

YPSILANTI, Mich. (AP) — A judge has ordered a southeast Michigan family to remove three out of four potbellied pigs from their rental home. Stephanie Rowland went to court earlier this year to fight a citation that called for the pigs’ removal after a neighbor filed a complaint in August. Rowland argues the pigs provide […]

RENO, Nev. (AP) — A winter storm warning is in effect in the Sierra Nevada around Lake Tahoe as wet weather sweeps in from California. The National Weather Service is predicting rain Thursday in the Reno area, and the Reno Gazette Journal reports that officials are offering sandbags to residents amid concerns about flash flooding. […]

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The latest U.S. Census figures show that Nebraska’s rural-urban population divide continues to grow. The Lincoln Journal Star reports that Douglas, Lancaster and Sarpy counties grew about 10 percent from 2010-2017, an increase of more than 96,000 people. The state’s 90 other counties collectively lost about 2,300 people. Lancaster County’s population […]

CAIRO (AP) — Moammar Gadhafi’s cousin says the corruption allegations against former French President Nicolas Sarkozy are “God’s punishment” for his role in the NATO-backed uprising that toppled and killed the longtime Libyan leader. Ahmed Gaddaf al-Dam, a close aide to Gadhafi based in Cairo, told The Associated Press that he was aware of the […]