Новости за 21.09.2018

The ex-CFO of Barrett Business Services was indicted on charges of endorsing financial statements he knew were false, and profiting from the misreported results. The company has settled civil charges resulting from the misstatements.

DALLAS (AP) — An undercover Fort Worth police officer fatally shot while pursuing robbery suspects has been remembered as a devoted family man and colleague. The funeral for 40-year-old Garrett Hull was Friday in Fort Worth. Chad Mills, a former partner, says Hull “was an example in the right way of what an officer should […]

PRATTVILLE, Ala. (AP) — Authorities say a 13-year-old boy has been found naked and chained at an Alabama home. Autauga County Sheriff Joe Sedinger tells news outlets authorities responded to an anonymous call of child abuse Thursday afternoon. Deputies found the child naked with chains padlocked around his ankles. The chains were attached to a […]

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A union leader says striking workers at Four Roses will return to work next week after the Kentucky bourbon maker and union officials reached a tentative agreement to end a two-week walkout. More than 50 hourly employees walked off the job Sept. 7 over a dispute dealing mainly with sick leave […]

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Grammy winner Jack White is helping preserve a piece of 1980s movie history. Management for the former White Stripes singer confirmed Friday he donated $30,000 to help restore a house in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that was featured in “The Outsiders.” Danny O’Connor is leading an effort to turn the house into a […]

ATLANTA (AP) — A group of ranking Georgia lawmakers is sounding the alarm about cost overruns from construction at a nuclear power plant near Augusta. The two additional reactors being built at Plant Vogtle, approximately 30 miles (50 kilometers) south of Augusta, are years behind schedule and billions of dollars over budget. The lawmakers said […]

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The Idaho Supreme Court heard arguments Friday in a case that could determine whether individuals have the right to sue if they think a journalist implied — but didn’t outright say — something defamatory. The issue arose in a lawsuit brought last year by former teacher James Verity against USA Today […]

Pocic sat out practice all week with an ankle injury and will likely be replaced by J.R. Sweezy at left guard.

LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — California State University, Long Beach, will move its half-century-old “Prospector Pete” statue away from a prominent place on campus because of the impact the 1849 gold rush had on indigenous people. A statement on the university website said the gold rush was “a time in history when the indigenous peoples […]

Weighing a 2020 campaign for president, former Vice President Joe Biden says he should have protected Anita Hill from what he called “character assassination” during the Supreme Court confirmation hearings of Justice Clarence Thomas more than a quarter century ago. Biden chaired the Senate Judiciary Committee during the contentious 1991 hearings. As sexual misconduct again […]

Ending months of speculation and pleas from service providers, city officials said Friday that Seattle would impose financial penalties for missing contracted goals intended to boost the number of people who found "permanent exits" from homelessness.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Emissions near a troubled St. Louis County landfill once posed health concerns for workers and nearby residents, but the risks have largely disappeared thanks to cleanup efforts, according to a state report released Friday. The report from the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services is based on air quality data […]

I never planned to be a fossil dad, but now that I am, I relish the diversity to society this brings. Too bad social policy has not kept up with the times.

If you think a prior sexual assault doesn’t disqualify someone from the United States Supreme Court, what are your priorities, I wonder?

In the latest allegation of inappropriate conduct against Rep. Matt Manweller, a former high-school student of his says she had a sexual relationship with him in the early 1990s when she was a minor.

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Federal agents arrested an Oregon man who threatened to kill YouTube employees and specifically threatened the CEO of the company, saying he was coming for her, the FBI said Friday. William Gregory Douglas, 35, of Cave Junction, faces charges of cyberstalking and transmission of threats in interstate commerce to injure another. […]

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The FBI has arrested an Oregon man who allegedly threatened to kill YouTube employees and specifically threatened the CEO of the company. William Gregory Douglas, 35, of Cave Junction, Oregon, faces charges of cyberstalking and transmission of threats in interstate commerce to injure another. The FBI says Douglas was arrested Thursday […]

DALLAS (AP) — Court documents show search warrants have been issued for video from addresses near the apartment complex where a white Dallas police officer killed her black neighbor inside his home this month. The search warrants obtained by The Associated Press on Friday are tied to the slaying of 26-year-old Botham Jean, who was […]

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The U.S. Naval Academy’s cyber operations program has been formally accredited. The academy said Friday the program was accredited recently by ABET, a leading nonprofit accrediting agency. Three other universities also were accredited under the new cybersecurity criteria: the U.S. Air Force Academy, Towson University and Southeast Missouri State University. A […]

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey sheriff has resigned after being heard in a recording making disparaging comments about blacks and alleging the state’s first Sikh attorney general got his job only because of “the turban.” A spokesman for Bergen County Sheriff Michael Saudino announced the resignation Friday along with the resignations of four […]

CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. (AP) — A jury has recommended 40 years in prison for a former Virginia Tech student found guilty for her role in the death of a 13-year-old girl. News outlets report that the jury recommended the sentence for Natalie Keepers on Friday after convicting her Thursday. A judge will consider the recommendation with […]

Daron Morris, 45, had announced his candidacy for King County prosecutor in the spring. He suspended his campaign Friday.

The King County Board of Health is urging local governments to use emergency homeless shelters in anticipation of the quickly-approaching cold weather. The board of health this week unanimously approved board member Bill Daniell’s proposal to call homelessness a public health disaster and advise local governments to do whatever is necessary to get people inside. The board’s action […]

PHOENIX (AP) — Court records show driver in Arizona crash that killed 4 Guatemalans had been convicted of immigrant smuggling charges.

Patrick Marshall answers your personal technology questions each week.