Новости за 04.04.2018

PHOENIX (AP) — Police have identified the dead body of a woman found in a Phoenix alley and say it’s still likely a homicide case. The body was discovered about 10 a.m. Tuesday near 36th Street and Thomas Road. Police announced Wednesday that the body was identified as 38-year-old Darling Williams. Detectives will coordinate with […]

CINCINNATI (AP) — A federal judge has given preliminary approval to a $3.5 million settlement of a lawsuit against the IRS over alleged targeting of tea party and other groups. U.S. District Judge Michael Barrett on Wednesday set a July 10 hearing in Cincinnati on making the settlement final, and set deadlines for claims and […]

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The medical director for a privately run prison in east Mississippi told a federal court that inmates sometimes have to miss medical appointments if the prison is locked down. Lawyers have begun their defense this week of the state of Mississippi in a federal lawsuit in which plaintiffs claim East Mississippi […]

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Police have arrested a man in connection with a home invasion during which another suspect was shot and killed. News outlets reported Wednesday that 21-year-old Devon Colvin was arrested in the March 28 robbery. A Metro Nashville police affidavit says Colvin and Terry Adams Jr. were armed with a hammer, knife […]

BOSTON (AP) — A Rhode Island man has been sentenced to over six years in prison by a Boston federal court judge for armed robbery. Thirty-five-year-old Michael Dirocco was sentenced to 77 months behind bars on Wednesday after pleading guilty to one count of armed bank robbery in Nov. 2017. He was arrested in Sept. […]

A research team designed a new molecule, called a polymer, that targets five deadly types of drug-resistant microbes and kills them like ninja assassins.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A man who was released from jail after two juries couldn’t convict him in a 2015 Kansas killing is now charged with a homicide in Kansas City, Missouri. Jackson County authorities announced Wednesday that 30-year-old Antoine Fiedler was charged with first-degree murder in the December death of Rosemarie Harmon. He’s […]

MILFORD, N.H. (AP) — A manufacturer in New Hampshire is planning to add on an 85,000-square-foot plant and hire about 85 more workers. Hitchiner Manufacturing in Milford supplies metal castings for the aerospace, defense, and automotive industries. It says its $50 million investment is contingent on securing financing and permits from the town and state. […]

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Federal authorities on Wednesday began legal proceedings to strip U.S. citizenship from two Bosnians, including one living in Oregon, for war crimes including executing civilians during that country’s civil war in the 1990s. The move by the U.S. Justice Department comes years after Rasema Handanovic and Edin Dzeko were extradited and […]

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa is expected to become the latest Republican-led state to target so-called sanctuary cities by withholding money from local governments that don’t comply with federal immigration laws. A bill outlining an expansive immigration enforcement plan is expected to receive final legislative approval this week. It comes as President Donald Trump […]

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A Pittsburgh man faces a mandatory life sentence without possibility of parole after being convicted in his third trial in a 2012 homicide. Twenty-four-year-old Deshawn Nelson was convicted Wednesday of first-degree murder in the August slaying of 19-year-old Daimond Hill. Allegheny County prosecutors said Nelson previously shot at the car of the […]

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Gov. Rick Snyder says the city of Flint will be released from state receivership and the Flint Receivership Transition Advisory Board will be dissolved upon approval by state Treasurer Nick Khouri. Khouri says he intends to release Flint from more than six years of state oversight one the matter reaches his […]

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Coast Guard says a leak in a storage tank led to 4,200 gallons of crude oil spilling into a southeastern Louisiana bay. The Coast Guard says in a news release that the spill in Bay Jacques was reported just before noon Wednesday. The cause of the leak, reported by Summit […]

Two aces who went unscathed in their first starts face off as the Mariners go for a 4-1 start to the season and a two-game sweep of the Giants. Follow here for live updates, analysis and more from AT&T Park.

SWANTON, Vt. (AP) — The U.S. Border Patrol says agents in Vermont arrested three men from Mexico who entered the country illegally, including one who was previously removed. The patrol said agents in St. Albans saw a car Tuesday with three people driving on U.S. Route 7. The car was moving erratically and at one […]

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump will sign a proclamation Wednesday sending National Guard troops to the southern border to ramp up security efforts, the administration announced Wednesday, after days of warnings from the president about the dangers of illegal migration to the border. The National Guard will be sent to assist Border Patrol agents until […]

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts says he’s still hopeful lawmakers will advance a tax-cut measure, despite the bill facing heavy criticism from several lawmakers. Ricketts said Wednesday there is still time to advance the measure before a Friday deadline to grant it first-round approval. Lawmakers passed over the bill without a vote […]

NEW YORK (AP) — A man accused of helping to plan the Sept. 11 attacks wants to be able to distribute art he makes in his cell at the Guantanamo Bay detention center. Ammar al Baluchi’s attorney sent a motion to a military commission on Wednesday, saying the military violated his rights by blocking him […]

OFFUTT AIR FORCE BASE, Neb. (AP) — The court-martial hearing for an airman accused of killing another airman in an Offutt Air Force Base dormitory will be moved downtown. Airman 1st Class Timothy Wilsey’s court martial is now scheduled to begin Thursday at Omaha’s federal courthouse. He could be sentenced to life without parole if […]

ST. CLOUD, Minn. (AP) — An Avon police officer who shot and killed an attacker at a central Minnesota mall is being honored for bravery. Officer Jason Falconer is set to receive a Congressional Badge of Bravery on Thursday in St. Cloud. U.S. Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith and U.S. Rep. Tom Emmer will […]

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit over the jailhouse informant scandal that has upended more than a dozen criminal cases in Southern California. The suit announced Wednesday claims the Orange County district attorney’s office and the sheriff’s department engaged in an elaborate scheme to violate defendants’ constitutional […]

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A Pennsylvania couple has been sentenced to between seven and 14 years in the November 2015 death of a man with disabilities who was living with them. Forty-nine-year-old Adam Haynes and 59-year-old Pamela McNeal both apologized Wednesday before they were sentenced Wednesday in Allegheny County in the death of 54-year-old David Fuhrman. […]

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A former Valley Center police sergeant awaiting trial on sex-crime charges was returned to jail after reportedly contacting his ex-wife, who is a witness in his case. The Wichita Eagle reports jail records show 50-year-old Thomas Delgado was booked into the Sedgwick County Wednesday after his bond was revoked for failing […]

The potential impact of the Chinese trade tariffs on Boeing is likely to be limited in the near term. More troubling is the possibility that an active U.S./China trade war could precipitate a broad downturn economic activity that would seriously damage airplane sales.

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The lone survivor of a deadly 2007 home invasion in Connecticut is considering running for Congress. He’s among a growing list of potential candidates eyeing the seat now held by Democrat U.S. Rep. Elizabeth Esty, who is under fire for her handling of harassment complaints in her office. She’s not seeking […]