Новости за 16.04.2018

WAUKEGAN, Ill. (AP) — Prosecutors in Lake County have started using alcohol-sensing ankle monitors to measure the sobriety of repeat DUI offenders. The (Waukegan) News-Sun reports that Lake County State’s Attorney Michael Nerheim says the program saves taxpayers money and gives offenders “the chance to get sober and get their lives back on track.” The […]

COLCHESTER, Vt. (AP) — Vermont environmentalists are asking the state to lower the brook trout catch limit. Vermont Public Radio reports the Vermont chapter of the nonprofit Trout Unlimited wants the state to reduce the fish’s catch limit from 12 a day to six. The fish is the state’s only native trout, and it was […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence’s choice to be his new national security adviser has withdrawn from consideration after President Donald Trump got wind of the plan to hire someone associated with anti-Trump ads in the past. The White House says Jon Lerner, an adviser to the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Commerce Department is blocking Chinese telecommunications giant ZTE Corp. from importing American components for seven years, accusing the company of misleading U.S. regulators after it settled charges of violating sanctions against North Korea and Iran. ZTE agreed in March 2017 to plead guilty and pay $1.19 billion for illegally shipping […]

STRATHAM, N.H. (AP) — A young child wearing a pink dress, fairy wings attached to her back, watering seeds in the family greenhouse. That is Forrest Barker’s favorite photograph of herself. Now 23, she may not have the fairy wings, but Forrest’s passion for the farmland on which she grew up has only swelled. She […]

COLCHESTER, Vt. (AP) — Small schools in Vermont say they may be forced to close once lawmakers change how the state disperses small school grants. Vermont Public Radio reports about 44 schools receive the grant. The grants go to schools that have an average enrollment of fewer than 100 or an average grade size of […]

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Hail is covering highways and streets in the San Francisco Bay Area and snow is falling in the Sierra Nevada as a spring storm moves through Northern California. Some cars are sliding off roads and school officials in Oakland say they are considering delaying the start of classes Monday after a […]

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A survivor of the Parkland, Florida, school shooting has shared a senior prom night to remember with a Nebraska girl. Fidan Ibrahimova told the Lincoln Journal Star that she liked what Kyle Kashuv said after the Feb. 14 attack, citing his thoughts on preventing gun violence without infringing on gun rights. […]

ATLANTA (AP) — A man convicted of robbing and killing an off-duty prison guard is set to be the second inmate executed in Georgia this year. State Attorney General Chris Carr announced Monday that 40-year-old Robert Earl Butts Jr. is scheduled to die on May 3 at the state prison in Jackson. Butts and 41-year-old […]

TRUMBULL, Conn. (AP) — Police continue to investigate the weekend death of a tree worker in Trumbull. Police say the 28-year-old man fell about 45 feet on Saturday when the tree he was working on gave way. Lt. Keith Golding said the man was wearing a safety harness and as he began removing the top […]

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A new Pennsylvania law is in place to help guide judges setting bail for defendants accused of domestic abuse. Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf on Monday signed “Tierne’s Law ,” letting county courts set guidelines for assessing whether a defendant in such cases poses a threat. The state sentencing commission will develop […]

Is peeling those veggies necessary? No. Is peeling them good for you and the planet? Not really.

STRATHAM, N.H. (AP) — The state’s largest electric utility hopes its partnership with one of the Seacoast’s largest manufacturers can serve as a template for how the state’s large, medium and small businesses, as well as homeowners, can reduce their energy costs. Eversource in February signed a memorandum of understanding with Lindt Chocolate USA, committing […]

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island had the highest eviction rate among New England states in 2016, and Providence’s rate nearly tripled Boston’s. The Providence Journal reports new data from the Eviction Lab at Princeton University shows elevated eviction rates in the Ocean State. There were 5,069 evictions in Rhode Island in 2016 and 1,580 […]

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Leaders of the New York state Conservative Party are backing Republican Marc Molinaro as he seeks the GOP nomination to run for governor this year. The Dutchess County executive on Monday thanked Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long and the organization’s executive committee for supporting his campaign, which he officially launched April […]

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — An advocacy group says teens in Texas foster care are five times more likely to become pregnant than other girls statewide. Citing 2017 Texas Department of Family and Protective Services data, a 38-page report released Monday by Texans Care for Children says 332 foster care girls were pregnant last year, while […]

TIJERAS, N.M. (AP) — Some Hispanic Catholics in a New Mexico town want a priest removed after he ended Spanish Mass and allegedly told one parishioner he needed to pray for what he did in the Vietnam War. KOB-TV in Albuquerque reports more than two dozen parishioners in the small mountain hamlet of Tijeras picketed […]

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri panel has chosen a new leader for the St. Louis Veterans Home following complaints about care and staff morale at the facility. The Missouri Veterans Commission on Monday announced that members appointed Theresia Metz to be the home’s next administrator. She’s now the administrator for Fitzgibbon Hospital’s The […]

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — An ex-manager of a pest-control company in the U.S. Virgin Islands faces criminal charges of poisoning four members of a Delaware family who were exposed to a pesticide in their vacation rental. A grand jury charged Jose Rivera on Thursday with improperly using the pesticide methyl bromide in the St. John […]

LONDON (AP) — May denies U.K. acted at U.S. behest in Syria strikes, says “we have not done this because President Trump asked us.” .

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Court of Appeal has ruled against the parents of a terminally ill toddler who are seeking permission to take him to Italy for medical treatment. The parents of Alfie Evans have been engaged in a protracted legal fight with Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool over his care. Alfie’s parents were […]

SEAFORD, Del. (AP) — A 9-year-old girl has died two days after she was struck by a car in Delaware after checking her family’s mailbox. Delaware State Police said in a news release Monday that the unidentified girl died Saturday evening. She had been flown to hospital in Wilmington after she was struck. The incident […]

NATCHEZ, Miss. (AP) — Officials in a southwest Mississippi city say a new part of state law means they don’t have to publicly release the price of garbage hauling bids. The Natchez Democrat reports that Natchez aldermen are only disclosing the names of the six bidders and no other information. City Attorney Bob Latham tells […]

EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The Nature Conservancy in Rhode Island has paid about $2 million to ensure that an East Providence country club won’t ever be developed. The Providence Journal reports that under the agreement, the Conservancy bought the development rights to about two-thirds of the Agawam Hunt club. The 82 acres include the […]

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — A person familiar with the situation tells The Associated Press that running back C.J. Anderson has been released by the Denver Broncos. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the team hasn’t officially announced Anderson’s departure, which was first reported by the NFL Network. The move clears a combined $9 […]