Новости за 13.05.2018

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Milwaukee police are investigating a shooting that left one man dead and two others injured. Authorities say the Saturday afternoon shooting appears to involve a drug transaction. Officials say a 32-year-old man died at the scene, while two 20-year-old men received non-life threatening gunshot wounds. Detectives are investigating the circumstances surrounding the […]

Like nearly all of the 13 human feet that had mysteriously washed up on Canadian shores before it, the 14th foot appeared, unexpectedly, on the banks of the Salish Sea in British Columbia. This time, a man walking the beach on Gabriola Island discovered the appendage last Sunday afternoon, trapped in a mass of logs, […]

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Police in Las Vegas say a 20-year-old man has survived a fall from a fourth-story balcony inside of a Strip casino-hotel. They say the man jumped or fell off the balcony about 9:30 p.m. Saturday inside of the Luxor. Police tell the Las Vegas Review-Journal that some of the decorations broke […]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Authorities in Ohio have identified a man who they say was shot and killed in an exchange of gunfire with a sheriff’s deputy who also was shot. The Franklin County Sheriff’s Office on Sunday identified the suspect who was killed as 55-year-old Darrell Bruffy, of Orient. The sheriff’s office says the […]

MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — Officials say Montana’s Clark Fork River will continue to decrease slightly until Monday because of cooler weather. The river began to recede Saturday after cresting at its highest levels in a century and is now at the moderate flood stage level. Cooler weather is re-freezing the mountain snowpack, which has slowed […]

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. (AP) — Authorities in Hot Springs say a standoff between a homeowner and police has ended peacefully with the man’s arrest. Little Rock television station KATV reports that 46-year-old Davy Rollins was arrested shortly before 3 p.m. Sunday after an hours-long standoff. The standoff began about 4 a.m. when officers responded to […]

BOSTON (AP) — The last class of a Massachusetts college has graduated in a bittersweet ceremony in Boston. The senior class of Newton-based Mount Ida College graduated Saturday in a commencement ceremony that did not include college president Barry Brown and the school’s board of trustees. The Boston Globe reports students asked they not attend […]

The Tigers get a walk-off win against the Mariners, who lost their second baseman indefinitely after he was hit on the hand by a pitch during the 5-4 defeat.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Police in Ohio’s capital city of Columbus are creating a new digital forensics unit for officers to analyze and download information from cellphones taken during investigations. The Columbus Dispatch reports the new unit is expected to be fully staffed by year’s end. Police Chief Kim Jacobs says there’s a big need […]

WASHINGTON – The grand jury witnesses arrive one by one at the windowless room in the federal courthouse on Constitution Avenue in downtown Washington. They are struck first by how commonplace the setting feels – more classroom than courtroom, two witnesses said. One of special counsel Robert Mueller III’s prosecutors stands at a lectern. The […]

EAST HUNTINGDON, Pa. (AP) — A small Pennsylvania church has been temporarily shuttered after its steeple was struck by lightning, sparking a fire. The fire at Christ Reformed Church in East Huntingdon occurred around 6 p.m. Saturday, sending flames and smoke pouring out of the steeple. A passing motorist spotted the fire shortly after the […]

BOSTON (AP) — A rally meant to highlight the challenges facing the poor in the United States is being planned for Massachusetts. The Massachusetts Poor People’s Campaign kicks off at 2 p.m. Monday on the Statehouse steps. Organizers are calling for what they describe as a sweeping overhaul of the nation’s voting rights laws and […]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (troo-DOH’) is scheduled to speak at a gathering of tech entrepreneurs at MIT. Massachusetts Institute of Technology officials say Trudeau will visit campus Friday to headline the annual meeting of the school’s Solve initiative . The project connects tech entrepreneurs with leaders in government, business and […]

WAUWATOSA, Wis. (AP) — The Original Black Panthers of Milwaukee are calling for the firing of a Wisconsin police officer after a video surfaced showing an officer punching a teen outside a mall during an arrest. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that the video shows a 17-year-old getting punched by an officer during a Friday […]

MALDEN, Mass. (AP) — Massachusetts education officials are seeking input on a new accountability system to judge school performance. The Board of Elementary and Secondary Education is inviting public feedback at a Monday meeting to be held at the panel’s Malden headquarters. Massachusetts is revamping its system for evaluating public schools in response to federal […]

FAIRFIELD, Conn. (AP) — Officials say a volunteer firefighter in Connecticut has been killed in a car crash. Austin Buoni, who volunteered with the Shelton and Trumbull fire departments, died from injuries sustained during a car crash Saturday. The New Haven Register reports Buoni was a 2014 graduate of the Valley Fire Chiefs Regional Training […]

CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio (AP) — A 113-year-old woman living in suburban Cleveland is believed to be the oldest person in the United States after the death of a 114-year-old Pennsylvania woman. Cleveland.com reports the 88-year-old daughter of Lessie Brown says her mother remarked, “that’s good” when told Friday she had become the country’s oldest person. […]

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — A California jury has awarded nearly $8 million dollars to the former manager of a Chipotle Mexican Grill who was framed for theft and wrongly fired. Jeanette Ortiz was accused in 2015 of stealing $626 in cash from a safe at the restaurant in Fresno. Her bosses claimed the theft was […]

Osvaldo Alonso is scratched from Sunday's 100th clash between the Sounders and Timbers while Clint Dempsey gets a rare start at the striker position.

BIDDEFORD, Maine (AP) — Maine Secretary of State Matt Dunlap is going to host a series of informational meetings on the new voting system that’ll be used for the first time in June primaries. Dunlap will hold four sessions starting on Monday in Biddeford. Then meetings will follow on May 15 in Bangor, May 21 […]

DEPTFORD TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — A man charged with murder in what authorities say was a deadly road rage incident that occurred during a nor’easter will remain jailed until his trial. Everett Moore Jr.’s lawyer sought to have him released Friday with electronic monitoring, calling the state’s case “inadequate.” But Gloucester County prosecutors cited the […]

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A judge in Oregon says the Portland Public Schools must release records that disclose the both the name and duration of all employees on paid administrative leave. The Oregonian reports Multnomah County District Judge Judith Matarazzo on Friday sided with reporter Beth Slovic and parent Kim Sordyl in the public records […]

A South Carolina city trying to get a handle on smells related to a chicken plant has set up a hotline so people can file complaints about offensive odors that draw complaints from visitors and residents. Callers to the code enforcement hotline in West Columbia are asked to include the date and time of the […]

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Three Billings police officers who were disciplined for having sex with a civilian department employee on the job or in public buildings want any documents related to the cases sealed. The officers previously asked a judge to keep their names private to spare their families from more pain and suffering, noting […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota voters enthusiastically passed “Marsy’s Law” in 2016, joining several states that have embraced the constitutional amendments requiring crime victims to be notified of developments in their cases and giving them other rights. Now they’re being asked to embrace changes to the amendment to help police and prosecutors cut […]