Новости за 23.03.2018

NEW YORK (AP) — Boston Red Sox pitcher Steven Wright has accepted a 15-game suspension under Major League Baseball’s domestic violence policy following his arrest on Dec. 8. Wright publicly apologized to his wife, Shannon, after baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred announced the penalty Friday. “I deeply regret my actions that night,” he said in statement […]

It troubles me that Facebook provides a place for true friends to meet and then takes advantage of the friends’ openness with each other.

Hurrah for the kids and adults who’ve revived a national movement for rational gun laws and organized Saturday’s March for Our Lives demonstrations. The truth is that lawmakers who fear the NRA fear the voters even more.

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (AP) — Investigators say no charges will be filed against an Ohio sheriff’s deputy who shot a news photographer setting up to take a photo of a traffic stop. Clark County Deputy Jacob Shaw has said he mistook the photographer’s camera for a gun when he shot him twice last year in New […]

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Lawyers for the state are arguing that Arkansas’ prison director has long had the power to determine a death row inmate’s sanity and that now isn’t the time to change the way it moves prisoners closer to their executions. Jack Greene has argued that Arkansas’ correction director, Wendy Kelley, shouldn’t […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands of protesters are gathering in Washington for what organizers hope will be a massive rally in support of stronger gun-control legislation. The demonstrators will assemble Saturday for a several-hour rally near the U.S. Capitol building that they predict will draw a half million people — many of them high school students. […]

LONDON (AP) — Officers from Britain’s information regulator are raiding the London offices of data firm Cambridge Analytica after being granted a warrant as part of an investigation into alleged misuse of personal information. A High Court judge granted the warrant Friday evening. Soon afterward, 18 people, some in Information Commissioner’s Office jackets, entered the […]

Airbus has lost a contest to sell its A330neo jetliner to American Airlines Group, dealing a blow to the European planemaker’s efforts to boost wide-body sales in the world’s biggest aviation market.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — The Justice Department is opposing release of a 911 call connected to the fatal shooting of a northern Virginia man by U.S. Park Police last year. Twenty-five-year-old Bijan Ghaisar of McLean died after a Nov. 17 chase on the George Washington Parkway when he was shot by responding Park Police officers. […]

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Gov. Eric Greitens’ office says several hundred people may be abusing Missouri’s Blind Pension Fund. In a news release Friday, Greitens’ office said an investigation had flagged 436 people using the state’s Blind Pension Fund who also had driver’s licenses. The Department of Social Services is now investigating at least […]

BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore police are investigating in an incident in which a pedestrian was struck by a vehicle outside a downtown courthouse. Authorities say a 52-year-old man was struck by a minivan about 3 p.m. Friday on East Fayette St. The victim was taken a hospital with serious injuries. The driver of the minivan […]

LEBANON, Ohio (AP) — A milk deliveryman accused of hiding marijuana, tobacco and cellphones inside milk cartons and smuggling them into an Ohio prison has pleaded guilty to a contraband charge. Warren County Prosecutor David Fornshell says defendant Ray Adams made $2,000 delivering contraband to Lebanon Correctional Facility in southwest Ohio. Adams was arrested Jan. […]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The FBI says one of its first responders to the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks has died of brain cancer linked to exposure to contaminants. Special Agent Melissa S. Morrow died Thursday at the age of 48. The agency said in a news release Friday that Morrow made the “ultimate […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The chairman of the House Oversight Committee is seeking details from Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke about a $139,000 project to upgrade doors in Zinke’s office. Oversight Chairman Trey Gowdy of South Carolina is asking Zinke to explain the need for the replacement doors and provide details about the project’s cost estimates, bids […]

MIAMI (AP) — An infant girl taken from a Florida hospital by sovereign Indian nation officials has been reunited with her mother and father. The mother’s attorney Bradford Cohen said Friday the one-week old baby missed critical days to initiate breast-feeding. The Miccosukee tribal court had issued an order of protection for the newborn on […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Dow Jones industrials sink 425 points, closing out their worst week in two years and extending weekly drop to 1,400.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — One of the men sent to federal prison and ordered to pay millions of dollars in restitution for a courthouse corruption scandal that rocked New Mexico politics has been hired by the state Law Offices of the Public Defender. Chief Public Defender Bennett Baur is defending the hiring of Toby Martinez, […]

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Lawmakers in Kentucky are rethinking the state’s recent return to private prisons at a time when Republican Gov. Matt Bevin’s administration warns the state is about a year away from running out of space to hold inmates. Kentucky closed its last private prison in 2013 after years of problems. But in […]

MOSCOW (AP) — A Soyuz capsule carrying two Americans and a Russian cosmonaut has docked with the International Space Station. The docking at 10:40 p.m. (1940 GMT) Friday came two days after the capsule blasted off from Russia’s manned space launch complex in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. On board the capsule were NASA astronauts Drew Feustel and […]

GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — A new report is using Galveston’s past mistakes as an example of what cities should not do when rebuilding housing after Hurricane Harvey. The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas released a report this month called “Seizing the Opportunity for Equitable and Inclusive Redevelopment,” the Galveston County Daily News reported . Slow […]

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A second man has been charged in a double homicide at a residence north of Helena. Kyle Alexander Hamm, 21, was arrested Thursday and charged Friday with two counts of deliberate homicide in the March 18 deaths of David and Charla Taylor. Prosecutors have said the Taylors’ son, 21-year-old Kaleb David […]

CHICAGO (AP) — Forecasters say a winter storm is expected to bring as much as 9 inches of snow to parts of northern and central Illinois. The National Weather Service had winter storm warnings in effect Friday through Saturday evening in northwestern and central Illinois. The weather service predicts wet and heavy snow with wind […]

PHOENIX (AP) — A report by Arizona prosecutors indicates that about one-third of state inmates return to prison within three years of release. KJZZ-FM reports the Arizona Prosecuting Attorneys’ Advisory Council analyzed data from the state Department of Corrections to compile the report, which was made public this week. The report found that more than […]

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — The Vermont Health Department is investigating an outbreak of norovirus at a South Burlington restaurant and pub, following more than 50 reports of illness. Health officials said Friday that the Windjammer Restaurant and its Upper Deck Pub have voluntarily closed for 48 hours to do a thorough cleaning and to discard […]

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Dozens of people are expected to testify before state lawmakers on proposals to ban bump stocks and regulate so-called “ghost” guns made from parts ordered online. Testimony began Friday before the legislature’s Judiciary Committee. More than 300 people submitted written testimony on the proposals. The bills are being supported by gun […]