Новости за 20.09.2018

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — An attorney for two Native American brothers pulled from a Colorado State University tour is asking the school for policy changes. A letter sent Wednesday from an American Civil Liberties Union attorney says campus officers violated the teens’ constitutional rights when they questioned and patted them down without any suspicion of […]

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Actor Brad Pitt’s foundation has sued a New Orleans architect for defective design work that led to leaks and other flaws in homes built for residents in an area that was among the hardest hit by Hurricane Katrina. The lawsuit filed Tuesday says damages caused by architect John C. Williams could […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists say they’ve confirmed that puzzling fossils from more than 500 million years ago are traces of an animal. That would make it one of the earliest known creatures. The fossils are impressions in rock: oval shapes with internal lines, looking somewhat like a leaf imprint densely packed with veins. First […]

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho Democratic gubernatorial candidate Paulette Jordan’s campaign has been fundraising for a new federal political action committee known as a “super PAC” since May, prompting the resignation of a top campaign staffer. The Idaho Statesman reports former campaign manager Michael Rosenow wrote in his resignation letter that the campaign was more […]

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Pittsburgh Steelers star wide receiver Antonio Brown says he doesn’t want to be traded and admitted he’s got to do a better job of limiting distractions going forward. Brown raised eyebrows in the aftermath of Pittsburgh’s loss to Kansas City last Sunday when he skipped mandatory meetings on Monday for what he […]

TWIN FALLS, Idaho (AP) — A southern Idaho school district is adding unarmed security aides to help bolster the protection of its students and faculty. The Times-News reports Twin Falls School District trustees voted in July to hire the unarmed school security aides. The school district aims to have 15 security aides — one for […]

Amazon launched a slate of new Echo devices designed to play music or link with speakers that customers already own.

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KING COVE, Alaska (AP) — A city on the Alaska Peninsula is getting 80 percent of its energy production from hydroelectric sources. King Cove on Wednesday held a ceremony to commemorate its second hydroelectric facility. High energy costs are a perennial problem for rural communities off the power grid. Most villages use generators that burn […]

The solo acoustic gig, billed as a celebration of the new Dave Matthews Band album, was an invite-only affair for Spotify Premium users.

HUDSONVILLE, Mich. (AP) — Charges have been dismissed against a western Michigan woman who faced possible jail time after taking away a cellphone from her 15-year-old daughter as punishment. Jodie May of Grandville tells WOOD-TV she took away the iPhone 6 in April after the girl got in trouble in school. May says she was […]

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A tossed net has managed to capture space junk in a demonstration of ways to clean up orbit. In the British-led experiment , a big net was cast from a mini satellite Sunday. The net successfully wrapped around its target, an inflated structure that had just been deployed as part […]

BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) — Officials at Yellowstone National Park say new thermal activity occurred at the park over the past several days. The Bozeman Daily Chronicle reports a release from the park Wednesday says the new activity is in the Geyser Hill area of Upper Geyser Basin, across the Firehole River from Old Faithful. The […]

Calvin grew up a huge USC fan, but when the Trojans didn't recruit him, he started to dislike them. Now, he can make them pay when WSU plays the Trojans on Friday night.

ABERDEEN, Md. (AP) — Sheriff: Lone suspect in Maryland warehouse shooting apprehended, in critical condition.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A former Anchorage air traffic controller who offered a woman a ride and choked her until she was unconscious is free after a plea deal. Anchorage television station KTVA reports 34-year-old Justin Schneider pleaded guilty to one count of felony assault. He was sentenced two years in prison with one suspended. […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — A rising stock market lifted U.S. household wealth to a record $106.9 trillion in the April-June quarter, the culmination of a decade of economic recovery but a gain that is concentrated largely among the most affluent. The value of Americans’ stock and mutual fund portfolios rose $800 billion, while home values increased […]

KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — Authorities in Rwanda have found new mass graves they say contain 5,400 bodies of genocide victims nearly a quarter-century after the 1994 bloodshed. Naphtal Ahishakiye, executive secretary of genocide survivors’ organization Ibuka, told The Associated Press the bodies were exhumed from 26 mass graves in the capital’s Kicukiro district. He said […]

Most cities, Seattle included, employ a Housing First strategy in driving down the number of those who are homeless.

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — A Vermont man facing a death penalty retrial on charges of abducting and killing a supermarket worker nearly two decades ago is expected to plead guilty and avoid the death penalty. Donald Fell was convicted in 2005 and sentenced to death under federal law for the 2000 kidnapping and killing of […]

NAMPA, Idaho (AP) — City officials in Idaho are looking for volunteers to help ward off what has become a local sign of fall: The arrival of roughly 10,000 crows to the city of Nampa. Nampa Chief of Staff Robert Sanchez tells Boise television station KTVB that he expects the annual migration of crows to […]

FRUITLAND, Idaho (AP) — Authorities say a man died Wednesday after he was crushed under some equipment being unloaded at a southwestern Idaho mill. Payette County Coroner Keith Schuller says 60-year-old Richard Foss of Prineville, Oregon, was making a delivery to Woodgrain Millwork in Fruitland, Idaho when he was crushed by some equipment he was […]

BEL AIR, Md. (AP) — Sheriff’s office in Harford County, Maryland, reports a shooting that has left “multiple victims.”

Politicians who expressed outrage about the immigrant suspect charged with killing runner Mollie Tibbetts have been silent or more restrained about the white homeless man accused in the death of a college golf star from Spain.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Two Portland men were sentenced to prison for their roles in what authorities believe was a gang-related shooting in 2001. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports Luis Felipe Gonzalez was sentenced to 14 years in prison Wednesday, while Ramon Manuel Gonzalez was sentenced to 17 years last week. Both men pleaded guilty to first-degree […]