Новости за 11.05.2018

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A father and daughter in Philadelphia walked across the stage together to get their undergraduate degrees from Temple University. Craig Manning and his daughter Juliana Manning both graduated from Temple on Thursday. He graduated with a Bachelors of Arts degree in film and media arts and she graduated with a dual major […]

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — A state-owned property in Vermont’s capital city has sold for $1.1 million, and the winning bidder says he plans to turn the Montpelier property into a new park. The Times Argus reported Friday the state Department of Buildings and General Services accepted Montpelier resident Alan Goldman’s bid for Redstone this week. […]

A study program at an elite Chinese university that was inspired by the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship is now taking applications for its third cohort.

LAWRENCEBURG, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee sheriff and one of his high-ranking employees have been indicted on official misconduct charges. News outlets report 71-year-old Lawrence County Sheriff Jimmy Rex Brown and 40-year-old Capt. Adam Brewer were arrested Thursday. Brown is accused of allowing various county employees to use inmates for labor at personal residences or […]

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia health officials have announced enhanced efforts to prevent more hepatitis A cases in Kanawha and Putnam counties. The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources said in a statement on Friday that part of those efforts include embedding an epidemiologist at the Kanawha-Charleston Health Department. The agency’s Bureau […]

BARTOW, Fla. (AP) — Detectives in central Florida believed they had solved a 32-year-old murder case but the suspect died before they could present their case to prosecutors. The Polk County Sheriff’s Office on Friday said detectives had solved the 1986 murder of John Blakely outside Bartow, Florida. Witnesses told detectives that Blakely was last […]

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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — An agent with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement who sent a Wichita television news anchor sensitive law enforcement material has been sentenced to the six months he has already spent in jail. Andrew J. Pleviak declined to make a statement before his sentencing Friday to time served and a year […]

PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — A senior European Union official has sharply criticized Montenegro after an investigative journalist was shot, and has warned the issue could hamper the Balkan country’s bid to join the bloc. Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn met Friday with Olivera Lakic, a crime and corruption reporter for the Vijesti daily who was shot […]

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BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The North Dakota Legislature will search from within its own research arm for a new director of the agency. The bipartisan Legislative Management Committee voted unanimously Friday to accept applications from Legislative Council staff through June 1. Its incumbent director, Jim Smith, is retiring in August after 39 years with the […]

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Gaza Health Ministry says 1 Palestinian killed, 49 wounded by Israeli army fire in protests on the Gaza-Israel border.

NEW YORK (AP) — Fox News says a retired Air Force general who called Sen. John McCain “songbird John” for allegedly providing information to the North Vietnamese while he was a prisoner of war will not be invited back. The idea that McCain gave up information during the war was judged false years ago by […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Federal investigators have concluded the death of a woman who succumbed to alcohol withdrawal at the state-run mental hospital in Yankton resulted from a number of problems at the Human Services Center. The Argus Leader reports issues identified in a report from the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services […]

Executives from 10 auto companies will meet with President Donald Trump and cabinet officials Friday to discuss the administration’s plan to reduce gas mileage and pollution requirements enacted during the Obama administration. The auto industry wants to relax the standards, but not so much that they provoke a legal fight with California, which has power […]

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopia has dropped terrorism and other charges against a Swedish doctor who had been accused of corruption and orchestrating a prison fire, the state-owned Ethiopian News Agency reported Friday. The Ethiopian-born Fikru Maru has been freed, prominent blogger and former detainee Befkadu Hailu confirmed to The Associated Press. The Swedish […]

PORT HUENEME, Calif. (AP) — A multi-agency Southern California law enforcement task force has made an arrest in an alleged heroin delivery service. The Ventura County Sheriff’s Department says a driver was arrested Thursday in Port Hueneme (wy-NEE-mee) as he was walking to his car to begin deliveries to his customers. The department says search […]

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ATHENS, Ala. (AP) — Officials say an inmate who died in a fall at a state prison in north Alabama last year killed himself. The News Courier of Athens reports the death of 23-year-old Ben Christopher McClure at Limestone prison has been ruled a suicide. McClure was serving 23 years for murder after pleading guilty […]

MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — Rescuers pulled a man from surging floodwaters as Montana authorities issued new evacuation orders and waters continued to rise in rivers and streams across the western half of the state. The rescued man had been using a small raft to reach a camp for transients on a partially submerged island on […]

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — State senators have voted to move up the date of a public vote on whether Missouri should be a right-to-work state. Senators voted 23-7 on the measure early Friday morning after Democrats fought overnight to block a vote. The proposal deals with a right-to-work law banning mandatory union fees that […]

ROGERS, Ark. (AP) — Police in Oklahoma have arrested the live-in boyfriend of a northwest Arkansas woman on suspicion of capital murder in the death of the woman who had been strangled. Rogers Police Department spokesman Keith Foster says 49-year-old Kevin Wayne Clayborn was arrested Thursday in Oklahoma City in connection with last week’s death […]

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The South Carolina legislative session is over, but lawmakers still have work to do. Over the final two days of session, the General Assembly passed dozens of bills that included banning drones from flying near prisons, increasing penalties for human trafficking and allowing school districts to count marching band as a […]

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa is tweaking its new state-funded family planning program that excludes abortion providers like Planned Parenthood by restoring some eligibility to a large hospital system that performs abortions in some cases. UnityPoint Health could soon participate again in the family planning program under a budget bill passed this month. It […]