Новости за 12.12.2018

ANDERSON, S.C. (AP) — SC teen pleads guilty to murder in shootings of father, 6-year-old student during recess; was 14 at time of crime.

It could all be a political game, but Suns owner Robert Sarver told Phoenix City Council members he would move the team to either Seattle or Las Vegas if the council doesn't approve $150 million in public funds to renovate the Suns' arena.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Gov.-elect Laura Kelly’s inaugural committee on Wednesday slashed the prices of premium seating for her inaugural ball after facing questions about 10-person packages it was offering for $10,000, which is five times the legal limit for contributions. The Associated Press obtained an email in which the committee’s chairwoman said the […]

HOUSTON (AP) — A federal judge has sentenced a Brazilian couple to minimal prison sentences for helping their daughter kidnap their grandson, who has been living in Brazil for the last five years after being taken from Texas. Carlos Guimaraes was sentenced to three months in prison while his wife Jemima received a one-month term […]

After modeling what seems to have happened to the environment prior to a mass extinction 252 million years ago, scientists at the University of Washington are warning that we all could be heading toward another huge annihilation if humans continue to pump CO2 into the atmosphere.

The settlement reached between Disability Rights Washington and the state is designed to bring the state into compliance with the judge's order to provide timely competency evaluations and treatment for mentally ill people charged with crimes.

Details of the litigation remain shrouded in secrecy because of an unusual order to seal nearly all records from public view. A prominent legal scholar has intervened, arguing the records should be made public.

One will last a decade or more, the other much longer (hopefully).

Mychal Kendricks returned to the Seahawks' starting lineup on Monday against the Vikings, but broke his leg during the game and is now out for the season.

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia governor: Railroad company Norfolk Southern is moving its headquarters from Norfolk, Virginia, to Atlanta.

Super League is trying to bring structure to an industry devoid of it at the youth level. Founded in 2015, it has teams in 16 cities, including Seattle, for kids as young as 6.

NEW YORK (AP) — US Attorney says National Enquirer parent company won’t be prosecuted over efforts to protect Trump during 2016 campaign.

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel wants to legalize marijuana and open a city-owned casino to help pay down the city’s $28 billion public-pension debt. Emanuel’s proposal also calls for issuing up to $10 billion in pension obligation bonds and changing the state constitution to allow cuts to retirees’ cost-of-living increases. The fix proposed […]

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — The Hungarian Academy of Arts says that Ferenc Kosa, winner of the best director award at the 1967 Cannes film festival, has died. He was 81. Kosa, who died Wednesday, was recognized for “Ten Thousand Days,” about the travails of a Hungarian peasant family from the 1930s onward. The film was […]

MILAN (AP) — Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte has presented a revised budget to the European Union that proposes a lower deficit than an earlier version in a bid to avoid costly sanctions. Conte told reporters in Brussels after meeting with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker the new draft lowers the budget deficit to 2.04 percent […]

DOVER, Del. (AP) — Prosecutors are seeking prison time for four former executives of the only financial institution criminally charged in connection with the federal bank bailout program. The four former of Wilmington Trust in Delaware face sentencing next week for fraud and conspiracy. They are requesting probation. Former bank president Robert Harra Jr. and […]

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador signed an initiative Wednesday that would cancel the controversial education reforms of his predecessor and announced plans to vastly expand free university education. Cancellation of the reform was one of Lopez Obrador’s most oft-repeated campaign promises and a gift to teachers’ unions, some of which […]

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s parliament has approved the creation of a new court system to deal with matters related to public administration. According to the bill approved Wednesday, the justice minister will have final say over the appointment, promotion and salary of judges in the new system, which could hear cases on a wide […]

BALTIMORE (AP) — Authorities have announced a new effort in Maryland to combat an alarming increase of overdose fatalities caused by a synthetic opioid that’s fueling the nation’s worst-ever drug crisis. In a Wednesday announcement, U.S. Attorney for Maryland Robert Hur says all arrests involving fentanyl distribution will now be jointly reviewed by U.S. and […]

GLASGOW, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky man got 18 years in prison for killing an 8-week-old baby in his care. The Daily News reports 39-year-old Chad Flora Lewis of Cave City was sentenced Monday in Barren Circuit Court. Lewis pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter and two drug counts last month, days before his murder trial […]

MERIDIAN TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Authorities in a Michigan community have hired someone to examine a 2004 investigation that failed to spur charges against now-imprisoned gymnastics sports doctor Larry Nassar. The Lansing State Journal reports Wednesday that retired East Lansing police officer Ken Ouellette will conduct the 60-day investigation into the handling a complaint made […]

Storm star Breanna Stewart earns distinction for third time in her career after leading Team USA to a Women's World Cup gold medal.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California insurance commissioner says claims from last month’s wildfires already at $9 billion and expected to rise.

COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — A federal lawsuit accuses police officials in a Washington, D.C., suburb of retaliating against black and Hispanic officers who complain about racist, abusive conduct by white officers. Civil rights groups filed the suit Wednesday against Maryland’s Prince George’s County and its police chief, Henry Stawinski, on behalf of several current […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Shares in Chinese streaming music giant Tencent Music Entertainment are up 8 percent to $14.11 on their first day of trading. The company’s initial public offering of 82 million shares was priced at $13 a share and is expected to raise between $1.07 billion and $1.23 billion. The stock is listed […]