Новости за 02.05.2018

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Financial firm AllianceBernstein Holding LP is moving its global headquarters from New York to Tennessee, bringing 1,050 jobs and investing more than $70 million in the booming southern city of Nashville. Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam, Nashville Mayor David Briley and state economic development chief Bob Rolfe announced the company’s plan Wednesday […]

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — The Burlington School Board says it’s reached a contract agreement with paraeducators, who assist teachers. The Burlington Free Press reports both groups came to an agreement Tuesday following months of negotiations. Contract talks had stalled in December over rising health care premiums. Paraeducators had said they were paying most of their […]

NEW YORK (AP) — The NFL players’ union says former San Francisco 49ers safety Eric Reid filed a grievance against the league, alleging that he remains unsigned as a result of collusion by owners. Reid had joined former teammate Colin Kaepernick two seasons ago in kneeling during the national anthem to protest police brutality and […]

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An Iranian-British national and an Iranian who works for the British Council who traveled to Iran on a private trip to visit family have been detained in Iran. The British Foreign Office told The Associated Press on Wednesday that it was “urgently seeking information from the Iranian authorities” after […]

NAUGATUCK, Conn. (AP) — Nearly 150 people are expected to lose their jobs when a Connecticut yogurt factory closes next year. The Republican-American reports that Danone North America filed notice this week that it’s closing the YoCrunch complex in Naugatuck next March. Company officials say 147 jobs will be eliminated. A Danone spokesman says the […]

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Officials have requested an audit from the Oklahoma Department of Transportation after concerns were raised about a county road fund. Pontotoc, Seminole and Hughes County District Attorney Paul Smith has requested that the Oklahoma State Auditors and Inspector’s Office “examine the books and accounts” of the department to find missing funds. […]

WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — A man who was shot by a retired police officer after he was spotted on the man’s yard has pleaded not guilty to trespassing and assault charges. The Telegram & Gazette reports that 29-year-old Zachary Bailey entered his plea Tuesday and bail was set at $10,000 cash. Prosecutors say retired officer […]

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The North Carolina Democratic Party has filed a formal complaint against U.S. Sen Thom Tillis’ campaign committee and the state Republican Party stemming from work performed by Cambridge Analytica. Cambridge Analytica is the firm that ex-employees allege vacuumed up data from tens of millions of Facebook users to try to influence […]

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel says the nuclear treaty with Iran should be preserved, but urged Israel to quickly share the purported new intelligence about Tehran’s nuclear program with the International Atomic Energy Agency. Merkel says related issues can be discussed “in addition” to the nuclear accord, citing Tehran’s influence in Syria, its […]

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — State Police say the back doors of a Brinks armored truck swung open along a highway in Indianapolis, sending cash falling onto the highway’s lanes. Sgt. John Perrine says the truck lost some of its cargo along Interstate 70 about 9 a.m. Wednesday when the truck’s back doors opened up. Officers remained […]

MANCHESTER, Conn. (AP) — The operator of a Connecticut daycare and another person have been charged with leaving three preschool girls alone inside a vehicle for about a half hour while they shopped. Manchester police responded to a BJ’s Wholesale Club at 11 a.m. Tuesday after a store employee heard crying. Beth Rich and Mark […]

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas has a special election set for late June to replace Republican U.S. Rep. Blake Farenthold, who resigned last month amid allegations of sexual harassment and word that he used $84,000 from a special House fund to settle a 2014 lawsuit stemming from them. But the race isn’t expected to capture […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A cold late-season weather system has brought snow to Southern California mountains. Enough snow has fallen that Caltrans says chain controls are in effect Wednesday for various routes in the San Bernardino Mountains east of Los Angeles. The National Weather Service says snow is at elevations above 5,500 feet (1,676 meters) […]

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Winter storm warnings and winter weather advisories have been posted for the mountains in southeast Wyoming with up to 21 inches (53 centimeters) of snow possible. The National Weather Service says difficult travel conditions could occur Wednesday night in an area that includes a stretch of Interstate 80 between Cheyenne and […]

HOUSTON (AP) — A Houston woman has been arrested on charges that she left her two young children behind in squalid conditions after being evicted from her apartment. Houston police spokesman John Cannon says 22-year-old Kerri Green was arrested Tuesday and faces two counts of abandoning a child. Authorities in court records say an apartment […]

CALDWELL, Idaho (AP) — Idaho county officials are considering spending $11 million for steel trailers to house female inmates at a crowded Caldwell detention center. The Idaho Press-Tribune reported Tuesday that Canyon County officials are looking at installing temporary inmate housing in the front parking lot of the Dale G. Haile Detention Center in Caldwell. […]

MOUNT PLEASANT, Iowa (AP) — A trial has begun in southeast Iowa for a Colorado man who’s been charged in the death of his estranged wife more than 17 years after her disappearance. The Hawk Eye reports that the trial for 58-year-old Michael Syperda began Tuesday. He was indicted in December on a charge of […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump wants a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit accusing Trump of accepting payments at his Washington hotel in violation on the Constitution. At issue of a clause that prohibits a president and other government employees from accepting gifts and payments from foreign governments without congressional approval. In this case, […]

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut judge has dismissed a lawsuit against the Boy Scouts of America by 17 men and two women who say a scoutmaster sexually abused them when they were children in the 1960s and 1970s. Judge Charles Lee ruled the lawsuit was barred by a statute of limitations that prohibits child […]

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi’s largest hospital says it will stop accepting policies from the state’s largest private insurer, citing contract dissatisfaction. The University of Mississippi Medical Center tells Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Mississippi that it will stop accepting policies after June 30. The medical center has hospitals in Jackson, Grenada and Lexington. […]

BERLIN (AP) — Austrian authorities say a 63-year-old Vienna man is suspected of killing and dismembering a woman and stashing pieces in his freezer to later eat. Prosecutor Verena Strnad told reporters Wednesday the suspect, whose name wasn’t released, confessed to authorities he killed the unidentified woman in his apartment at the end of March […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Two major organizations that promote birth control have filed lawsuits in federal court seeking to block the Trump administration from shifting national family planning policy in a conservative direction that would stress abstinence and limit counseling for adolescents. One suit was filed by Planned Parenthood, which serves 41 percent of the […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is making his first visit to the State Department to attend the ceremonial swearing-in of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Pompeo, the former CIA director, is replacing Rex Tillerson, the former Exxon executive fired unceremoniously by Trump in March after months of personality and policy clashes. Pompeo was confirmed […]

LOVELAND, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado solider killed in combat in Afghanistan was nearing the end of a nine-month deployment. The Defense Department said Tuesday that 22-year-old Spc. Gabriel D. Conde of Loveland died April 30 after he was hit by enemy small arms fire in the Tagab District of Afghanistan. Conde, an airborne infantryman, […]

STRATFORD, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey police officer charged with child endangerment after his 8-year-old daughter fatally shot herself with a gun he owned has quit the force after he was allowed to enter a pretrial program. NJ.com reports that Kenneth Righter’s recent resignation from the Stratford police force was a condition of his […]