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More details about Khalid Masood’s travels, confirmed by the Saudi Arabian embassy in Britain, emerged Saturday amid a massive British police effort to discover how a homegrown ex-con with a violent streak became radicalized and why he launched a deadly attack Wednesday on Westminster Bridge. The embassy said Saudi security services didn’t track Masood and he didn’t have a criminal record there. Masood drove his rented sport utility vehicle across London’s Westminster Bridge on Wednesday, striking pedestrians. Читать дальше...

A Louisiana law enforcement officer was convicted on a lesser charge of manslaughter in a shooting that killed a 6-year-old autistic boy, a gruesome encounter captured on tape by another officer’s body camera. Jurors on Friday found Derrick Stafford guilty of manslaughter and attempted manslaughter charges. Stafford, 33, and another deputy city marshal opened fire on a car — killing Jeremy Mardis and critically wounding his father — after a 2-mile car chase in Marksville on the night of Nov. 3, 2015. Читать дальше...

Double amputee joins suburban New York police force BRENTWOOD, N.Y. — The wounded warrior is now a cop — and he’ll be walking the beat on titanium legs. Matias Ferreira, a former U.S. Marine Corps lance corporal who lost his legs below the knee when he stepped on a hidden explosive in Afghanistan in 2011, is joining a the Suffolk County Police Department in suburban New York City. The 28-year-old graduated Friday from the Suffolk County Police Academy on Long Island after 29 weeks of training. Читать дальше...

A report released Friday was heavily blacked out, but the readable portions said Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks didn't pay for $5,000 worth of a gym membership and 48 personal training sessions. UC ethics rules bar employees from the unauthorized use of campus resources or facilities or the "entanglement" of private interests with UC obligations. In one case, Sujit Choudhry, the former dean of the law school, received only a temporary pay cut and orders to undergo counseling as punishment following... Читать дальше...

Arnold Schwarzenegger Terminates Facebook Troll Over Special Olympics Comment Arnold Schwarzenegger is in his home country of Austria this week for the Special Olympics World Games, and he posted a Facebook video Thursday with some of the competitors talking about how he’s inspired by them. In response to the video, one commenter wrote that the “Special Olympics make no sense,” before using a derogatory term for mentally-challenged people. Right now, I guarantee you that these athletes have more courage... Читать дальше...

Yelena Yelagina owns apartment 30H at 721 Fifth Avenue, the glitzy address of President Donald Trump, according to an affidavit filed with the summons seen by The Associated Press Saturday. State officials passed legislation last year that made it easier to regulate by making the advertising, not just the renting, of such apartments illegal. [...] 65 violations to nine hosts were issued, including Yelagina, on several sites, said Melissa Grace, a spokeswoman for the city.

Housing rates also differ, depending on the residence hall, whether it's a single- or double-occupant room and other factors. A two-person room at Chadron State's Edna Hall will increase $1,738 per semester from $1,679, a 3.5 percent hike. A meal plan including 150 meals at the dining hall will rise to $1,581 from $1,506.

Here’s the Flash battling an alien wearing a Nazi uniform in a really oddly composed and claustrophobic shot. Football may be America’s game, but in this trailer all this shot does is remind fans that this long-awaited superhero team-up movie is also saddled with the extra baggage of being the origin movie for Cyborg for some reason. Oh wait, it’s actually two origin movies, as this shot of the Flash visiting Billy Crudup in jail reminds us. Not hard to imaging Snyder’s directions on this shot... Читать дальше...

UPPER FRUITLAND, N.M. (AP) — A University of Denver program is helping Native Americans draft wills, helping overcome a cultural aversion to discuss death. The Daily Times reports (http://bit.ly/2nnJAV4 ) that about 20 law students from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law visited the Upper Fruitland Chapter of the Navajo Nation to help tribe members draft wills.

(AP) — Kiara Jefferson had 24 points, eight rebounds, two steals and one blocked shot to give the city of Sacramento's West Campus a 63-55 victory over Los Osos for the Girls Division IV state basketball title. Namiko Adams had seven points, eight rebounds, six assists and three steals for West Campus (30-4), which won its first championship.

(AP) — The Elko County School District is planning to update its aging fleet of school buses with 20 new vehicles this spring. The Elko Daily Free Press reports (http://bit.ly/2o3XOcb ) that Transportation Director Bill Micheli says the new buses should reduce the overall age of Elko's fleet, which is considerably older than the national average fleet age of nine.

(AP) — Authorities learned a 6-year-old brought a gun to an elementary school outside Los Angeles, but parents of other students didn't learn about it for nearly two weeks. The father of the child who allegedly brought the gun to school was arrested on suspicion of child endangerment after sheriff's deputies concluded his children could access his gun safe.

Giants’ Morse still hopes to play, will rehab rather than retire SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - Michael Morse fans, rejoice. When general manager Bobby Evans persuaded Morse to sign a minor-league deal and come to spring training to see if he had anything left, Morse declared he would make the team or go home. Morse still wants to wear the Giants uniform again. Henry Schulman is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer.

(AP) — It's now up to the House of Representatives to act on legislation that would require Connecticut to join a group of states wanting to pool their Electoral College votes for the presidential candidate who wins the popular vote. House members of the General Assembly's Government Administration and Elections Committee on Friday narrowly passed the bill on a partisan 8-7 vote.

With Donald Trump’s health care bill pulled from a vote in the House of Representatives Friday, you’d think “SNL” would have plenty of hilarious fodder for politically themed sketches and “Weekend Update” monologues this weekend. [...] the three-week break extends for another week, so don’t expect a new episode on Saturday, April 1, either — likely a wise move with the NCAA Final Four happening that night. The next new episode is April 11, and comedian Louis C.K. will host that episode with The... Читать дальше...

Experts say attacks in which cars or trucks are driven into popular pedestrian areas present a unique challenge for law enforcement officials as they are nearly impossible to predict and easy to pull off. Four people were killed and dozens wounded Wednesday in London with this tactic — the worst attack on British soil since the transport network bombings on July 7, 2005. Charlie Winter, a senior research fellow at the London-based International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence... Читать дальше...

MOSCOW, Idaho (AP) — A northern Idaho woman told police she crashed into a deer because she was distracted by a sasquatch in her rearview mirror. Sheriff's officials marked the incident as a vehicle versus deer collision but did not report any evidence of Bigfoot.

(AP) — Officials say a self-driving Uber SUV was operating on its own when it was struck by another vehicle making a left turn at an intersection in Arizona, where the company is testing autonomous vehicles. Police in Tempe say the self-driving SUV was obeying the law and the driver in the other car who didn't yield was cited for a moving violation after the Friday night crash.

(AP) — A number of Flagstaff schools have received a series of threatening notes presumably written by students. A student found a note in a boys' bathroom at Flagstaff High School on March 8 warning there would be a shootout at school.

Fans who want one last chance to say goodbye to Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds can do so today, as a joint memorial service for the mother-and-daughter Hollywood royalty will be live-streamed starting at 1 p.m. PT on debbiereynolds.com. Fisher, who shot to global prominence as a teenager after playing Princess Leia in “Star Wars,” died on Dec. 27 at the age of 60 after suffering a medical emergency on a flight from London a few days earlier.

Senators voted unanimously Thursday to approve Gov. Phil Bryant's appointment of retired state Supreme Court Justice Ann Lamar of Senatobia to the College Board, for a term running until May 2021. Lamar succeeds Karen Cummins, a trustee who died from cancer in January, representing the northern third of the state on the board running eight public universities.

The Order of Timor was presented to the Rhode Island Democrat from the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, nearly two decades after Reed visited the island on a fact-finding trip to learn more about the residents' struggle for freedom.

[...] the comedian and host of HBO’s “Real Time” is taking aim at the new president’s supporters. Bill Maher Gloats Over Trump Health Care Fail: 'You Know How Putin Feels About Failure' (Video) “I know you real Americans hate being called stupid, [but] you gotta meet me halfway and stop being stupid,” Maher said. Promising “insurance for everybody… much less and much expensive,” as Trump put it, turned out to be a plan that was a “giant tax cut for the rich, paid by kicking 24 million people off their health insurance,” Maher said. Читать дальше...

The 49ers, who have just one player on their roster with more than 14 career sacks, hosted Buccaneers defensive end Jacquies Smith on Friday, the NFL Network reported. Smith, 27, is a restricted free agent who had 13.5 sacks from 2014-15 before sustaining a torn ACL in last year’s season opener. Tampa Bay tendered him with an original-round offer. Since Smith entered the NFL as an undrafted free agent in 2012, the 49ers wouldn’t surrender a draft pick to the Buccaneers if they signed him. The... Читать дальше...

BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts man dubbed the "Incognito Bandit" has been arrested and charged with bank robbery as he tried to board a flight to South Africa from Virginia. In most cases, prosecutors say the robber was disguised wearing a dark-hooded sweatshirt, dark face mask, sunglasses, dark gloves and other dark clothing.