Новости за 02.05.2018

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Faced with declining ticket sales and increased competition for eyeballs and dollars from streaming, studio executives and movie theater owners are remaining optimistic about the health of the theatrical business. Movie theater owners, exhibitors, celebrities and Hollywood studio executives gathered in Las Vegas last week for the annual CinemaCon convention to […]

OGDEN, Utah (AP) — A Utah man accused of punching and killing a two-month-old baby to keep it quiet is pleading not guilty. The Standard-Examiner reports that a state judge decided Tuesday at a hearing in Ogden that there’s enough evidence against 23-year-old Matthew Daniel Graves to move forward with an aggravated murder charge. The […]

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A cybersecurity firm is investigating an attack that disabled a Tennessee county’s election website. Knox County information and technology senior director Richard Moran says someone “with malicious intent” crashed a website reporting results after polls closed Tuesday in a primary election. Moran said no voting data was affected. But the site […]

NEW TAZEWELL, Tenn. (AP) — Authorities raided a Tennessee sheriff’s office as part of a yet undisclosed federal investigation. The Knoxville News Sentinel reports Tennessee Bureau of Investigation agents spent Tuesday carrying files and computer disks out of the Claiborne County Sheriff’s Office. County Finance Director Sam Owens says agents also gave him a court […]

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Thousands of ancient clay tablets, seals and other Iraqi archaeological objects that were smuggled into the U.S. and shipped to the head of arts and crafts chain Hobby Lobby were returned to the Iraqi government on Wednesday. The Oklahoma City-based private company, whose devout Christian owners won a 2014 U.S. Supreme […]

TOMS RIVER, N.J. (AP) — A woman accused of purposely pushing a friend into the deep end of a motel swimming pool during a night of drinking at the New Jersey shore has pleaded guilty to reckless manslaughter. Jelani Webster entered her plea Wednesday. The 19-year-old East Orange resident now faces up to 10 years […]

HONOLULU (AP) — Dozens of earthquakes are rattling Hawaii’s Kilauea Volcano as magma flows into a new area east of the Puu Oo vent. Officials with the U.S. Geological Survey’s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory say the increased activity Wednesday is associated with the collapse of the crater floor at Puu Oo. The floor began to collapse […]

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A judge has ruled that North Dakota cannot ban North Carolina-based private security firm TigerSwan from the state because it isn’t licensed. The Private Investigative and Security Board sued TigerSwan last June, alleging the company operated illegally in the state during protests against the Dakota Access oil pipeline. TigerSwan had been […]

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A new poll conducted six weeks after Cynthia Nixon announced she was running for New York governor finds the actor and activist trailing two-time incumbent Andrew Cuomo by a wide margin in the Democratic primary. The Quinnipiac (KWIHN’-ih-pee-ak) University poll released Wednesday found 50 percent of registered Democratic voters favor Cuomo […]

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The Illinois Senate has approved requiring public schools to teach LGBT history. The Senate voted 34-18 Wednesday on the plan by Chicago Democratic Sen. Heather Steans (STAYNZ’). It would require schools to teach a history unit on the role in society and contributions of gays, lesbians and other LGBT individuals . […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A man has been charged with trying to extort money from Kevin Hart by threatening to release video he secretly shot of the actor and comedian with a woman in Las Vegas. Los Angeles County prosecutors charged 41-year-old Jonathan Jackson Wednesday with attempted extortion and extortion by threatening letter. Jackson is […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Can a president be forced to testify? While the Supreme Court has never definitively ruled on the subject, the answer appears to be yes. The question was tested during the Watergate scandal in 1974, when justices held unanimously that a president could be compelled to comply with a subpoena for tapes and […]

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana’s campaign contribution limits will stay in place for the June 5 primary elections after a federal appeals court decided against revisiting the issue. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Wednesday it would not reconsider its October ruling upholding contribution limits for state races. The decision is part of […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump will welcome to the White House a teacher honored for her work with refugees. Trump will be speaking at the National Teacher of the Year reception at the White House later Wednesday. 2018 National Teacher Mandy Manning teaches at Newcomer Center at Joel E. Ferris High School in Spokane, […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A major pharmaceutical company is donating 1,744 devices that contain an overdose-reversing drug to Alabama’s volunteer rescue squads to combat the opioid crisis. Kaleo Inc. announced the donation of 872 boxes, which include two devices, to the state’s rescue vehicles at a press conference at the Alabama State Capitol Wednesday. The […]

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Schuette is featuring his support from President Donald Trump in a new TV ad. The 30-second ad , which began running Wednesday on cable, shows Trump promoting Schuette during his weekend rally in Michigan. Trump calls Schuette a “really great friend of mine and a great attorney […]

PURVIS, Miss. (AP) — Bond has been denied for a Columbia, Mississippi man accused of killing his girlfriend in Lamar County. Sheriff Danny Rigel tells WDAM-TV that 46-year-old Ace Joe Mallard was brought back to Mississippi from Florida late Tuesday. A judge denied bond on the murder charge Wednesday morning. Mallard is charged in the […]

CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — A spokesman for Casper College in Wyoming says the school was wrong to have blamed U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for cancelling an upcoming speech by a State Department official. The college said earlier this week that the speech by Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Timothy Lenderking scheduled for Thursday […]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Columbus police have identified the man who stabbed two women and a man to death and critically injured a woman before he was fatally shot by an officer while holding a butcher knife. Police on Wednesday identified the man killed by police Monday morning outside a Columbus apartment complex as 64-year-old […]

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Providence Mayor Jorge Elorza continues to lead the field of potential opponents as he prepares for his re-election campaign. According to the Rhode Island Board of Elections, the Democrat has $661,000 cash on hand. WPRI-TV reports Elorza raised $71,000 and spent $74,000 during the first quarter of 2018. He paid a […]

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Bob Baffert is back at the Kentucky Derby with early favorite Justify after watching the race from his sofa in Southern California last year. The Hall of Fame trainer’s ability to produce Derby contenders year after year is an enviable feat and why his absence a year ago stood out. It […]

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The state collected nearly $1.1 million in marijuana tax revenue in March, a new monthly high. Cultivation facilities pay the tax, which is imposed when marijuana is sold or transferred from a licensed grow facility to a retail marijuana shop or product manufacturing facility. According to Department of Revenue data, there […]

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — An audit of backlogged rape kits held by the Oregon State Police shows the agency is processing them faster than any time in the last two years, and is making progress toward clearing the backlog by the end of the year. The results were released by the Oregon Secretary of State’s […]

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Georgia Air National Guard official says at least five dead in crash of Puerto Rican Air National Guard cargo plane.

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A freight train has derailed in Fort Worth, knocking out power to the area. About 40 train cars were traveling north of downtown early Wednesday when the derailment occurred and about 20 cars slid off the tracks. The BNSF train was carrying lumber and other mixed freight. No one was […]