Новости за 21.09.2018

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Republican Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach is disputing a new television ad in which his Democratic rival in the gubernatorial race accuses him of saying the state's schools are overfunded. Kobach says Sen. Laura Kelly should change or take down the ad, which began airing Thursday. In the ad, Kelly says Kobach "actually says our schools are overfunded," citing his comments at a Republican primary debate in April in Atchison, The Kansas City Star reports. "We had the entire... Читать дальше...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A fugitive priest accused of child abuse decades ago in New Mexico has been arrested. Court documents show 80-year-old Arthur J. Perrault was arrested Thursday in New York, and has been charged with criminal aggravated sexual abuse and abusive sexual contact in assaults that federal authorities say happened at Kirtland Airforce Base and Santa Fe National Cemetery. He is scheduled for a first federal court appearance Friday in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Perrault had been a chaplain at the base in Albuquerque. Читать дальше...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California's unemployment rate remained at 4.2 percent in August. The state Employment Development Department says Friday the rate has held steady for five months. The department says California adds 44,800 nonfarm payroll jobs in August, for a total gain of more than 3 million jobs since economic expansion began in February 2010.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A civil service board has delayed an appeal hearing for a former police officer who fatally shot a black man during a videotaped struggle outside of a Louisiana convenience store. The Advocate reports the board voted Thursday to move the hearing for former Baton Rouge police officer Blane Salamoni. It's now set for Dec. 20-21. Salamoni's attorney says both parties agreed to seek a delay due to the amount of materials they'll have to review before the hearing. Police Chief... Читать дальше...

The New York Review of Books former top editor is speaking out after being ousted from his job for publishing an essay by MeToo man Jian Ghomeshi. In remarks to the Dutch magazine Vrij Nederland, Ian Buruma says he was the victim of a Twitter mob that punished him without due process. Read the full article on The Wrap

NEW YORK (AP) — A woman stabbed five people — including three newborn babies — early Friday inside a New York City home that was apparently being used as a neighborhood nursery and then slashed her own wrist, police said. All of those wounded in the attack, which happened before 4 a.m., were hospitalized but expected to survive. The 52-year-old suspect was in police custody. No immediate charges were filed, and police said the motive was under investigation. Investigators were trying to piece together what happened inside the building... Читать дальше...

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Las autoridades de Australia arrestaron a un hombre acusado de matar deliberadamente a varios emúes con su automóvil y difundir el video en internet, dijo al policía el viernes. La policía de Victoria dijo que el individuo de 20 años enfrenta cargos de crueldad hacia animales, destrucción de fauna protegida y delitos de tránsito. En el video, se ve a un hombre riéndose mientras atropella a cada ave. Un grupo de derechos de los animales emitió un pedido nacional para identificarlo. Читать дальше...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Police in North Carolina have arrested a 13-year-old in connection with a series of armed robberies in which two people were shot. Charlotte-Mecklenburg police said in a news release the robberies occurred on Sept. 2, 10, 11, 13 and 15. According to police, the first victim was shot at a store on Sept. 11, one night after a victim was shot at a nearby location. The suspect was arrested Thursday. Police released no information on the condition of the victims. The unidentified... Читать дальше...

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky authorities say a former Estill County official accused of theft has been indicted. A statement from Kentucky Attorney General Andy Beshear's office says a Franklin County grand jury indicted former Estill County Judge-Executive Wallace Taylor on Tuesday on one count of abuse of public trust over $10,000. The statement says Wallace is accused of taking more than $38,000 in state and federal grants that belonged to the county from December 2016 through March 2017. Authorities say Wallace... Читать дальше...

“America’s Got Talent” winner Shin Lim can’t stop amazing people with his magic tricks. During his appearance on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” on Friday, the magician and illusionist stunned host Ellen DeGeneres with a new card trick. Read the full article on The Wrap

ELDORA, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa worker safety agency has proposed fining the Iowa Human Services Department, saying the department's school for delinquent juveniles isn't protecting its employees. The Des Moines Register reports that school residents assaulted staffers at Iowa State Training School for Boys in Eldora during at least three incidents last spring. The Iowa Occupational Safety and Health Administration said in its Aug. 28 report that the staffers "were unnecessarily exposed to violent attacks." In one... Читать дальше...

QUINCY, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts middle school teacher has pleaded not guilty to assaulting a student. Jeffrey Knight was released Thursday after entering his plea to charges of indecent assault and battery. Prosecutors say the 57-year-old Cohasset Middle School teacher regularly touched the girl in class starting when she was 13 and continuing when she was 14. The student reported the alleged assaults to school administrators in February, and school officials reported it to police in May. School... Читать дальше...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Bus drivers for Providence public schools say they are prepared to strike now that contract negotiations have stalled. Teamsters Local 251 spokesman Nicholas Williams said Thursday that a strike will be announced at a later date, but drivers will not strike on Friday. The Providence Journal reports that bus company First Student said it is "extremely disappointed" that union leaders walked out of the meeting with no deal reached. A bus strike could play havoc with 9,000 public school students and their families. Читать дальше...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — It's not quite the World Wide Web — but the spiders of Aitoliko in Greece have made a good start. Spurred into overdrive by an explosion in the populations of insects they eat, thousands of little spiders in the western Greek town have shrouded coastal trees, bushes and low vegetation in thick webs. The sticky white lines extend for a few hundred meters (yards) along the shoreline of Aitoliko, built on an artificial island in a salt lagoon near Missolonghi, 250 kilometers (150 miles) west of Athens. Читать дальше...

LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — California State University, Long Beach, will be ousting its "Prospector Pete" statue because of the impact the 1849 gold rush had on indigenous people. A statement on the university website says the gold rush was "a time in history when the indigenous peoples of California endured subjugation, violence and threats of genocide." According to the university, the bronze statue formally named "The Forty-Niner Man" evolved from the creation of the original college in 1949 and... Читать дальше...

CHESTER, Vt. (AP) — The Vermont Board of Education has held its last public meeting before it decides which school districts should merge. Vermont Public Radio reports the board ended its series of meetings in Chester Wednesday after hearing from school districts and residents in Newark, the Northeast Kingdom and Montpelier. While some speakers supported the plan at Wednesday's meeting, the majority opposed the state's plan to consolidate districts that have yet to merge under the state's school consolidation law. Читать дальше...

When the sun rises this weekend, Summer 2018 will officially be over. The hottest season of the year was one to forget for series like “Salvation” and “Quantico” — but neither of them were the lowest-rated show of the summer. TheWrap ranked the Big 4 broadcast networks’ Bottom 17 summer series by their average 18-49 ratings. Read the full article on The Wrap

Abby Clark (Connie Britton) answered some crazy emergency calls on the first season of Ryan Murphy’s “9-1-1.” But now it’s Jennifer Love Hewitt’s turn to deal with people’s bonkers problems. Because Hewitt is about to take over Britton’s headset as Maddie — a new dispatcher in the emergency call center and our new leading lady after Abby’s exit at the end of Season 1 — TheWrap decided to rank a few of the most mindbogglingly injuries and incidents we’ve seen on Fox emergency-responder procedural so far. Читать дальше...

A&E has renewed “Live PD” for a third season made up of a whopping 150 more episodes, the network announced on Friday. The order brings the real-time reality series into 2019 with 450 additional hours of programming. Produced by Big Fish Entertainment, the show’s total episode count is now set to reach 293. Read the full article on The Wrap

Its story couldn’t be more contemporary — what happens to a small community when people’s online secrets start getting exposed — but “Assassination Nation” is clearly the product of artists with a deep background in old movies. The plotline recalls “Le Corbeau” (that 1943 Nazi-occupation classic about a French village torn apart by poison-pen letters) by way of “Jawbreaker,” and the red, white and blue split-screens will tickle both fans of Godard’s “Made in U.S.A.” and Abel Gance’s “Napoleon.” ... Читать дальше...

ABERDEEN, Md. (AP) — Investigators have found evidence that the woman who killed three people and wounded others before killing herself at a Maryland drugstore warehouse was suffering from a mental illness, a law enforcement official said Friday. Harford County Sheriff Jeffrey Gahler told news reporters Friday that the suspect, 26-year-old Snochia Moseley of Baltimore County, had been diagnosed with a mental illness in 2016. "That's as far as I'll go with it," he said, declining to give any more details on her mental state. Читать дальше...

A dam containing a large lake at a Wilmington power plant has been breached by floodwaters from the storm Florence, and coal ash from an adjacent dump might be flowing into the Cape Fear River. Duke Energy spokeswoman Paige Sheehan told The Associated Press on Friday that floodwaters were continuing to overtop an earthen dike at the north side of Sutton Lake, a 1,100-acre (445-hectare) reservoir at the L.V. Sutton Power Station. That water has caused breaches in the dam on the south end of the lake, which is flowing back into the river. Читать дальше...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The number of people killed in fatal crashes in Oregon has gone up by 13 percent from last year. The Oregonian/OregonLive reported Thursday that the total number of deaths on city streets, freeways and county highways was driven up this summer by one of the deadliest crashes in recent state history. Eight people died this August in a head-on crash in Harney County in southern Oregon. Several other multiple-vehicle crashes also took place this summer. Troy Costales with the state's... Читать дальше...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — School officials say the University of Central Florida inappropriately used an additional $10 million of state funds geared for operating expenses on construction projects and building improvements. School officials made the new disclosure Thursday during a meeting with lawyers from an Atlanta law firm hired to investigate the school's use of $38 million in funds meant for operations on the construction of Colbourn Hall. UCF President Dale Whittaker said that in addition to the misused money spent on Colbourn Hall... Читать дальше...

BRENTWOOD, N.Y. (AP) — A mother recognized by President Donald Trump for turning grief over her daughter's suspected gang killing into a crusade against MS-13 was remembered at her funeral Friday as a hero and a warrior. Tim Sini, the district attorney of Suffolk County, New York, called Evelyn Rodriguez "our Batman and Robin." "The world has lost a great warrior," Sini told mourners at St. Anne's Roman Catholic Church in Brentwood. "Evelyn was as strong a person as I've ever met." Rodriguez, 50, was struck and killed by an SUV on Sept. Читать дальше...