Новости за 01.03.2016

The Jackson Citizen Patriot reports (http://bit.ly/1oLBIKH ) that officers extinguished a fire reported about 7:40 p.m. that day and found Budds dead inside the badly burned vehicle. Public safety Director Michael Jester says in a statement that Budds owned the house and was in the process of fixing it up so he could move there.

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq's Oil Ministry says crude exports averaged 3.225 million barrels a day in February, far below levels planned to provide the nation with badly needed cash for ongoing military operations against Islamic State extremists. Ministry spokesman Assem Jihad said on Tuesday that the exports grossed about $2.2 billion, based on an average price of about $23 per barrel.

NEW CITY, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say eight people are facing charges they sold heroin, cocaine and prescription pills across three suburban New York communities. The Journal News reports (http://lohud.us/1OL0yPM ) Rockland County authorities made the announcement Monday following undercover drug buys and investigations.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A bus traveling through western Oman's desert crashed into a truck and a passing car later slammed into the wreckage early on Tuesday morning, killing at least 18 people and injuring 16 others, police said. Authorities received first word of the crash near the Nahdah area on the road connecting the cities of Fahud and Ibri around 1 a.m., Oman police spokesman Mohammed bin Salama al-Hashimi said. Omani police later issued a statement via Instagram saying their... Читать дальше...

RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (AP) — Tens of thousands of Pakistanis converged Tuesday on a city near the country's capital to attend the funeral of a police officer executed the day before for assassinating a secular governor in 2011 over accusations of blasphemy. Roads around key government buildings and diplomatic compounds were also closed off, said police official Ashfaq Tarar. [...] many Pakistanis, including some in the religious establishment and in legal circles, praised Qadri — a sign of the spread... Читать дальше...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Ku Klux Klan leader who was injured when his small group of demonstrators brawled with counter-protesters in a Southern California park this weekend says he called police beforehand asking for security and was told, "We don't do that." Will Quigg said in an interview with The Associated Press that he contacted the Anaheim Police Department but that the agency denied his requests for a police presence. The Police Department is facing scrutiny for its response after three people... Читать дальше...

The Danish company gave a positive outlook and said it plans to continue global expansion. Describing 2015 as a "fantastic year," CEO Joergen Vig Knudstorp said the toy maker estimates that some 100 million children played with Lego products or used Lego's educational materials in schools.

BAGHDAD (AP) — Backed by paramilitary forces and aerial support, Iraqi troops on Tuesday launched a new push to retake a key area north of the capital, Baghdad, and dislodge Islamic State militants from there, officials said. According to a statement by the Joint Operations Command, the "new offensive" began at dawn in a swath agricultural area northeast of the city of Samarra, 95 kilometers (60 miles) north of Baghdad, with the aim to cut IS supply lines and to tighten the grip around the IS-held northern city of Mosul. Читать дальше...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A neighborhood in turmoil after the death of a man who police say was wanted on a drug charge is awaiting answers about what led an officer to fatally shoot him as authorities continue investigating. During a vigil Monday night, a group of ministers and community activists tried to bring a positive message to a remembrance of the slain man. Several hundred people gathered to hear speakers address the crowd, with many holding candles and signs, including some with the slain man's name and picture. Читать дальше...

(AP) — After years of wrangling, a legal fight will play out in a Florida courtroom between former professional wrestler Hulk Hogan and the news and gossip website Gawker over a sex tape the celebrity made with the wife of radio personality Bubba the Love Sponge Clem. Last June, Gawker founder Nick Denton told The Associated Press the fight for the right to publish the video was an important one, both for his news organization and the First Amendment. Denton says Gawker had the right to publish... Читать дальше...

(AP) — When you walk into Classroom 16 at Porter Lakes Elementary School and see students playing with a bean bag or rolling around on the floor, it may look like they are just having fun. [...] the youngsters are participating in Minds in Motion, a process that educators say allows them to develop essential skills to later benefit them in the classroom. Minds in Motion is a set of 15 exercises to improve sensory development and motor skills. The grant awarded us equipment to use in our maze as... Читать дальше...

The two front-runners, Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump, hope Super Tuesday is definitive for them — signaling the inevitability of their march toward the party nominations. If vote margins aren't too tight, expect rolling waves of race calls as polls close in various states: Caucuses are local meetings of registered party members organized by the state party. Primaries, on the other hand, are run by the state government and are done by secret ballot at polling stations, similar to the general election. Читать дальше...

Five Republicans are still mixing it up, but all the bellowing is either by or about GOP front-runner Donald Trump. The New Yorker is driving toward the Republican nomination and his rivals are trying to splatter him with everything they have. Hillary Clinton, the establishment pick, scored a weekend blowout in South Carolina on Saturday, looks strong in many Super Tuesday states and would become an overwhelming favorite for the nomination if she performs to expectations. Immigration policy, the swollen U.S. debt... Читать дальше...

Voters from Vermont to Colorado, Alaska to American Samoa and a host of states in between were heading to polling places and caucus sites on the busiest day of the 2016 primaries. Clinton has increasingly turned her attention to Trump in recent days, casting herself as a civil alternative to the insults and bullying that have consumed the Republican race. Sanders, who has energized young voters with his call for a political revolution, was seeking to stay close to Clinton in the South and pick... Читать дальше...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Community members gathered Monday night to remember a Raleigh man fatally shot by a police officer during a foot chase as he was trying to arrest him on drug charges. In the first several hours after the shooting, local television coverage showed police forming a line in the street near the downtown neighborhood where the shooting took place as a number of people gathered behind yellow crime-scene tape that blocked off the area and began chanting "No justice, no peace!" The... Читать дальше...

Jesse's success is the perfect case history to show this can happen," said Bill Hillsman, a Minneapolis ad man and close Ventura adviser who came up with several memorable campaign ads, including one that depicted Ventura as an action figure who tells special interests: "I don't want your stupid money. Ventura also was a Reform Party candidate who blasted Republicans and Democrats as "rival gangs," while Trump is seeking the GOP nomination. While in the back of his mind he worries a Trump presidency... Читать дальше...

Their design was to give party leaders and elected officials more of a say on top-of-the-ticket candidates after big general election losses by George McGovern in 1972 and Jimmy Carter in 1980. [...] if it looked like what you're now seeing on the Republican side, with renegade candidates like Donald Trump whom the party doesn't like, these people would be a counterbalance. Before superdelegates, these Democratic insiders typically had to run against grass-roots constituents in the primary and caucus process to become a delegate. Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Brooklyn jurist has scolded the government in a stinging rebuke of arguments it has used to shame Apple for refusing to surrender information from its customers' iPhones, saying it's stretching a 1789 law to get "impermissibly absurd results." The New York case features a government request far less onerous for Apple and its cellphone technology; the extraction technique exists for that older operating system and it's been used before some 70 times to assist investigators. Since late 2014... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration plans to renegotiate portions of an international arms control arrangement so it's simpler to export tools related to hacking and surveillance software, since those technologies are also used to secure computer networks, a lawmaker says. On Monday, the co-chairman of the Congressional Cybersecurity Caucus, Rep. Jim Langevin, D-R.I., issued a statement revealing the administration's decision to ensure countries discuss the removal of language that would... Читать дальше...

In a New York drug case that echoes the much higher-profile San Bernardino dispute, U.S. Magistrate James Orenstein has ruled the government doesn't have authority to make Apple pull information off a suspect's iPhone. Congress has resisted attempts over the years to extend that authority to tech companies like Apple, according to experts who have studied the law, known as the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, or CALEA. Federal prosecutors have argued that a much older law known... Читать дальше...

Just a day after wowing audiences with a pair of his solo Piano and a Microphone concerts at the Paramount Theatre in Oakland, a leaked Ticketmaster link indicated the singer was ready to announce another one-off show, set to take place across town at the Oracle Arena on Friday, Mar. 4. During his Paramount sets, one of which was attended by Draymond Green, he repeatedly praised wunderkind Steph Curry, while reworking his classic hits like “Purple Rain,” “Controversy” and “Pop Life.” Aidin Vaziri... Читать дальше...

Depressed, pregnant wife confined by abusive husband Dear Abby: I’m 39 and seven months’ pregnant with my husband’s only child. Since becoming pregnant, I have become somewhat withdrawn due to depression. Two nights ago he took a single female friend out to dinner, and they were gone for five hours. Feeling depressed during a pregnancy under these circumstances isn’t surprising. [...] while you’re at it, contact the National Domestic Violence Hotline (www.thehotline.org) — the phone number is (800) 799-7233 ... Читать дальше...

(AP) — Eight years ago, when Noel Caldellis began serving time for killing a university student, his main objective was to make 20-plus years in prison pass as quickly as possible: work out, walk circles in the yard with inmates and watch TV. College education in American prisons is starting to grow again, more than two decades since federal government dollars were prohibited from being used for college programs behind bars. "Since I started school and educating myself, I've built up connections... Читать дальше...

With the trade deadline passed, the roster set and the stretch drive ahead, the Sharks played one of their better games of the season Monday night. The team’s second win in two nights moved the third-place Sharks to two points behind Anaheim and four back of first-place Los Angeles in the Pacific Division. The Sharks broke open a one-goal game with two early strikes in the third period before adding another late to win going away. Left wing Melker Karlsson scored his eighth goal by punching... Читать дальше...

Health officials say it's part of a national spike in cases tied to increased testing, a rise in anonymous sex tied to social media, and a less consistent use of condoms. Social media's link to syphilis in the gay community has prompted health officials to take their educational outreach directly to the websites and apps, in some cases creating profiles or buying advertisements. Caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum, syphilis spreads through skin-to-skin sexual contact when there's a sore or lesion... Читать дальше...