Новости за 23.03.2017

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Police have arrested two more people after finding the body of an elderly New York man in a suitcase on an Arkansas farm. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (http://bit.ly/2nGOxcs ) reports 34-year-old Leeann Naomi Sager and 25-year-old Aaron Rulison were arrested Tuesday in New York. Both are charged with concealment of a […]

CHICAGO (AP) — A grand jury has added 16 counts of aggravated battery with a firearm to the first-degree murder charges against a white Chicago police officer accused in the fatal shooting of a black 17-year-old. A special prosecutor and attorneys for former Officer Jason Van Dyke didn’t discuss the new indictment announced during at […]

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah’s governor has announced he will sign legislation giving the state the strictest DUI threshold in the country. Republican Gov. Gary Herbert on Thursday said he plans to approve the measure lowering the blood alcohol limit to .05 percent from .08 percent. Restaurant groups and representatives of the ski and […]

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah governor announces he will sign legislation giving the state the strictest DUI threshold in the country.

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine is dealing with so many drug overdose deaths that the state medical examiner is asking for more money to handle the workload. The epidemic of heroin, fentanyl and other opioids is behind a record number of overdose deaths — 378 last year in Maine. The attorney general’s office, which oversees […]

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas lawmakers will consider exempting college sporting events from a new state law that greatly expands where concealed handguns are allowed. The Arkansas Senate was expected to take up a proposal Thursday to add the exemption to a new state law allowing concealed handguns at colleges, government buildings, some bars […]

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A major World War II museum has opened in northern Poland amid plans by the conservative government to change its content to fit its nationalist views. The Museum of the Second World War in Gdansk was initiated in 2008 by then-Prime Minister Donald Tusk, as a project focused on the suffering […]

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Toxicology results show that a New Jersey doctor was not under the influence of alcohol or drugs when he collided with a state trooper’s cruiser in December, killing both men. Test results provided to The Philadelphia Inquirer (http://bit.ly/2mwCNcP ) by the state attorney general’s office do not say whether 61-year-old Lloyd […]

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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Somalia’s president Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed is urging the world to help avert a massive famine saying almost half the population is facing acute food shortages and 15 percent are facing famine now. Mohamed told the U.N. Security Council by videolink from Mogadishu Thursday that Somalis are resilient and would be the […]

DETROIT (AP) — A man accused of setting a fire that killed five people in Detroit is denying the allegations and will be examined to determine whether he understands the murder charges against him. Henry Johnson appeared in court Thursday and said: “I didn’t murder nobody.” Five men died and others were injured in an […]

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A Justice Department attorney says Ferguson, Missouri, is making “meaningful progress” in enacting policing and court reforms agreed upon after Michael Brown’s 2014 police shooting death. KWMU Radio (http://bit.ly/2nVpO1h ) reports Jude Volek told U.S. District Judge Catherine Perry during a hearing Tuesday in St. Louis that he’s encouraged with the […]

Matthew Atewe becomes first Washington player to transfer since the school fired Lorenzo Romar last week.

NEW YORK (AP) — Erica Dao used to shop at malls once a month, looking in stores and seeing what the mannequins displayed. Now, she mainly looks for inspiration on social media. “I discover brands through Instagram,” said Dao, 33, of St. Paul, Minnesota. Elizabeth Troy says she was the “queen of sales,” going through […]

Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler of Vancouver has become the first GOP member of Washington’s delegation to oppose the looming health-care overhaul. Rep. Dave Reichert says he’s undecided.

BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian authorities tightened security Thursday in the port city of Antwerp after a Frenchman drove his car at high speed through a busy shopping area, forcing pedestrians to jump out of the way. French President Francois Hollande compared the incident to the attack in London that that left three people dead Wednesday, […]

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Africa faces the world’s largest humanitarian crisis since 1945, with more than 20 million people facing starvation, and any cut in funding to humanitarian agencies working in famine-affected areas will cause untold suffering, a spokesman for the World Food Program said in Johannesburg Thursday, responding to questions about U.S. President Donald Trump’s […]

But when Howard Schultz steps down as CEO, he will still have a bonus target and equity award that are worth millions.

HELSINKI (AP) — British actress Emma Thompson says she once turned down an offer by Donald Trump to stay at the Trump Towers, years before he became the U.S. president. Speaking on a Scandinavian TV show, Thompson said that while filming the 1998 film “Primary Colors,” the phone in her trailer rang and the voice […]

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Shipping containers full of coal ash from China, Poland and India have come into the U.S. through the Port of Virginia as foreign companies find a market for the same industrial waste that America’s utilities are struggling to dispose of. Critics call it a missed opportunity. Coal ash is treasure as […]

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Jordan’s national airline has taken up rhyming to cheer up customers following the new U.S. aviation restrictions — and entice them to book flights before more rules are imposed. Royal Jordanian posted a five-line poem on its Twitter account, telling potential travelers: “Every week a new ban. Travel to the U.S. […]

CAIRO (AP) — The Egyptian army says it has lost 10 soldiers in fighting with Islamic extremists in central Sinai, following a raid launched against militants. The army said in a Thursday statement that its troops killed 15 extremists and took seven prisoners in the raid, but that three officers and seven enlisted men were […]

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian counterterrorism police have fatally shot a suspected Islamic militant and arrested three others near the capital, Jakarta. Local police chief Listyo Sigit Prabowo said the shootout occurred Thursday in Banten province when a counterterrorism squad ambushed four suspected militants on the outskirts of Cilegon city. Prabowo told TVOne that police […]

BERLIN (AP) — Scientists in Germany are flipping the switch on what’s being described as “the world’s largest artificial sun,” hoping it will help shed light on new ways of making climate-friendly fuel. The “Synlight” experiment in Juelich, about 30 kilometers (19 miles) west of Cologne, consists of 149 giant spotlights normally used for film […]

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe’s 93-year-old leader might be slowing down, but his busy foreign travels have led the opposition to call him the “non-resident president.” President Robert Mugabe has visited Singapore, Ghana, Swaziland and Mauritius in the past three weeks alone. At times he stops over in Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare, for just a night […]