Новости за 14.05.2018

The victim, Lorenzo Marr, was at one time the president of the Magic Wheels Motorcycle Club, Seattle's first African-American motorcycle club,

WASHINGTON (AP) — Turkey says its ambassador to US is being recalled to Ankara after Trump opens embassy in Jerusalem.

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley is recommending that charges be dismissed against a man who has served nearly 20 years in prison for the death of a southeast Missouri woman. Hawley announced Monday that his office is recommending David Robinson of Sikeston be released from prison. Robinson has been behind […]

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — A man who supervises custodians at the federal courthouse in Jefferson City is facing charges of illegally selling firearms to felons. Federal prosecutors announced Monday that 40-year-old Victor Nahum Vargas, of Jefferson City, was charged in a complaint with selling 11 firearms to a felon. Vargas was indicted Saturday and remains […]

MERRIMACK, N.H. (AP) — Police say a woman is accused of beating, scratching, and biting a family member at a home in New Hampshire. Police in Merrimack, New Hampshire, say 25-year-year-old Amanda Kay, of Boston, was taken into custody early Sunday. She was charged with three counts of domestic violence and four counts of criminal […]

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana Senate Republicans selected a new leader to replace outgoing President Pro Temp David Long. Sen. Rodric Bray of Martinsville was chosen Monday during a closed-door meeting of the Senate GOP caucus. Bray had been Senate floor leader, a position he was appointed to in December. His primary rival in the race […]

A celebrity who may be doing performance art is exactly the African-American “supporter” the Trump-era right deserves.

The Seattle region has 16,000 jobs at risk due to Chinese tariffs alone.

The major U.S. stock indexes eked out small gains Monday after a morning rally faded. Gains in health care and energy stocks outweighed losses in real estate companies and other sectors. A slide in smaller-company stocks offset gains in large companies. On Monday: The S&P 500 index added 2.41 points, or 0.1 percent, to 2,730.13. […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is downplaying concerns about a possible low participation in the 2020 Census over the addition of a citizenship question for the first time in 70 years. “61 million families have already been exposed to the question and the sky has not fallen,” Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said Monday. “So […]

Bellevue should step up its homelessness response because housing and caring for these individuals is not just a Seattle responsibility.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado man on trial for murder threw a laptop across a courtroom when a judge denied his request for new representation. The Gazette reports Glen Law Galloway, of Colorado Springs, was put in restraints Monday after temporarily being removed from the proceedings. The incident occurred after Galloway asked Judge […]

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A longtime North Dakota Republican activist is proposing a change to the state constitution that would explicitly bar non-U.S. citizens from voting in elections. Gary Emineth, a candidate for the state Senate seat in Bismarck, submitted the proposed constitutional amendment to the Secretary of State’s office on Monday for review. The […]

PHOENIX (AP) — The city of Phoenix has agreed to settle a lawsuit over the 2011 death of a mentally ill man who was arrested by its police officers and later died in a jail run by then-Sheriff Joe Arpaio. The settlement comes two months after Maricopa County, the jail’s operator, had paid $7 million […]

RENO, Nev. (AP) — A Massachusetts fugitive has been arrested in Reno on federal warrants accusing him of multiple counts of raping and assaulting children. The U.S. Marshals Service says federal agents arrested 42-year-old Daniel Escalante Sunday evening near the baggage area at Reno-Tahoe International Airport. Escalante was being held without bail Monday in the […]

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge is telling the National Rifle Association it must disclose the names of two teenagers if it wants to use them in a lawsuit challenging Florida’s new gun law. The NRA is opposing new age restrictions contained in a gun safety bill signed into law by Gov. Rick Scott […]

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina protesters who say their mission is to reignite Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s campaign to empower poor people held a rally demanding changes regarding poverty and voter suppression. Nearly 100 people gathered Monday on the north lawn of the Statehouse grounds for The Poor People’s Campaign, which was one […]

FARGO, N.D. (AP) — Planting of sugar beets in North Dakota has reached the 90 percent mark, well ahead of the average pace. The Agriculture Department says in its weekly crop report that the five-year average for beets is 71 percent planted. About 93 percent of the crop was planted at this time last year. […]

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CLEVELAND (AP) — Browns coach Hue Jackson is keeping his promise to jump into Lake Erie. Jackson announced Monday that he will take a dip into the chilly waters on June 1 for charity. Last season, Jackson vowed that if the Browns didn’t improve on their 1-15 record from 2016 that he would plunge into […]

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A group representing Oklahoma teachers is asking the state’s highest court to stop an effort to overturn a tax-hike package to fund teacher pay raises the Legislature approved amid a national uprising of educators seeking more classroom money. The Professional Oklahoma Educators filed a protest petition with the state Supreme Court […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — A long-running dispute between American regulators and Chinese telecom company ZTE may have handed President Donald Trump some unexpected leverage in avoiding a trade war with Beijing. Trump’s tweet Sunday that he was working with President Xi Jinping of China to put ZTE “back into business, fast” after U.S. sanctions threatened ZTE’s […]

SOUTHFIELD, Mich. (AP) — A former Detroit-area man has been arrested in the cold case slaying of his 81-year-old neighbor. Southfield police say 52-year-old Darrin Keener was arraigned via video Monday on open murder and mutilation of a body charges. Helen Gale’s badly burned body was found in November 2011 in the rear seat of […]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio sheriff’s office says a deputy who tried to make a traffic stop was shot in the lower abdomen by a driver who was then killed amid gunfire from other officers responding to the scene. The Franklin County Sheriff’s Office in Columbus says the wounded deputy, Jacob Heaberlin, underwent surgery […]

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Parts of Alabama are in the grip of record heat, but a storm system moving through the Gulf of Mexico could bring cooler weather. The National Weather Service says Tuscaloosa reached 95 degrees on Monday to break a record high for the date of 93 degrees set in 1995. Birmingham reached […]