Новости за 03.05.2017

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A police officer says bodyguards for Somalia’s auditor general have shot dead a government minister near the presidential palace. Capt. Mohamed Hussein says bodyguards escorting Nur Farah opened fire on a car carrying Abbas Abdullahi, the public works and reconstruction minister, near a checkpoint close to the presidential palace Wednesday evening. […]

CINCINNATI (AP) — An Ohio judge will decide later on issues including whether jurors for a white former University of Cincinnati policeman’s murder retrial can see the T-shirt with a Confederate flag emblem he wore under his uniform the day he fatally shot an unarmed black motorist. Hamilton County Judge Leslie Ghiz (giz) on Wednesday […]

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Police are investigating after a woman attending a St. Louis Cardinals baseball game at Busch Stadium was struck by a stray bullet. Police say the 34-year-old victim was inside the ballpark Tuesday during the game against the Milwaukee Brewers when she felt pain in her arm. She went to a first-aid […]

IRVING, Texas (AP) — A Dallas-area community college says it’s on lockdown following reports of an intruder, possibly armed. North Lake College issued an alert to students late Wednesday morning telling them to barricade themselves in the nearest room and wait for further instructions from police. Irving Police said on Twitter that there was an […]

IRVING, Texas (AP) — Dallas-area community college tells students to barricade themselves in rooms amid intruder report.

BILLERICA, Mass. (AP) — District attorney says crash at Massachusetts auto auction building killed 3 people, injured 9 others.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities say former NBA player Brandon Roy was shot while attending a party in Southern California over the weekend. Los Angeles County sheriff’s Lt. Joseph Williams said Wednesday that Roy was one of four people shot in Compton on Saturday. He said Roy and the three other victims were attending a […]

FREDERICK, Md. (AP) — A Maryland couple who posted controversial “prank” videos of themselves berating their children have temporarily lost custody of two of their five kids amid an investigation. Heather and Mike Martin uploaded nearly 300 videos to their popular “DaddyOFive” YouTube channel. In them, the parents screamed profanities at their children, broke their […]

ATLANTA (AP) — A clinical psychologist says a man accused of killing two 17-year-olds behind a supermarket in an Atlanta suburb is competent to stand trial if he remains on medication for mental illness. Jeffrey Hazelwood faces charges including murder in the Aug. 1 slayings of Carter Davis and Natalie Henderson behind a supermarket in […]

Mark Green, a Republican state senator from Tennessee, has a history of seeking to deny equal rights to LGBTQ Americans.

MIAMI (AP) — Authorities say a man opened fire inside a Miami library before an off-duty officer shot and wounded him. Miami-Dade police said in a news release that the suspect entered the library Wednesday morning and began shooting with a handgun. An off-duty police officer working a detail at the library pulled his weapon […]

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The family of an inmate killed during a 2015 riot at a prison in southeast Nebraska has sued the state, saying officials failed to prevent the outbreak of violence and protect him from other inmates. The mother of Shon Collins said in the lawsuit filed Tuesday in Lancaster County that the […]

CHICAGO (AP) — Two suburban Chicago men accused of seeking to provide material support to terrorists and who posed for photos holding an Islamic State group flag have pleaded not guilty to federal terrorism charges. Joseph D. Jones and Edward Schimenti calmly told Judge Andrea Wood Wednesday that they understood the gravity of the allegations. […]

WESTERLY, R.I. (AP) — Police say a rabid fox repeatedly attacked a golfer on his second hole at a Rhode Island country club. The Westerly Sun (http://bit.ly/2qywdko ) reports the fox came charging from the woods and bit the golfer’s pant leg April 28 at the Winnapaug Country Club in Westerly. The man used a […]

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania woman drove around with her newborn daughter’s corpse in a cardboard box, and has been jailed on abuse of a corpse and other charges, court records show. Chesney Anne Wheeler, 37, gave birth at home near Williamsport on April 12, then kept the child’s body in her car until […]

SALMON AND STEELHEAD Cowlitz River – Fish are still being caught throughout the river.  75 bank anglers kept 11 adult and 1 jack Chinook and released 1 steelhead and 1 sturgeon. 20 boat anglers kept 2 jack Chinook, 1 steelhead and released 1 cutthroat and 4 sturgeon. Last week, Tacoma Power employees recovered 418 winter-run […]

NEW YORK (AP) — “This crew is good,” declares Al Pacino’s Los Angeles detective Vincent Hanna in Michael Mann’s sprawling noir saga “Heat.” Hanna is speaking of Neil McCauley’s (Robert De Niro) criminal gang but the same could also be said of Mann and his production team. The sheer filmmaking rigor is one of the […]

NEW YORK (AP) — A former Weather Underground radical who was denied parole after New York’s governor commuted her sentence says the decision was “communally painful” for fellow prisoners who had “connected their sense of hope” to her. “People here want to believe that … what we do wrong matters, and that what we do […]

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Six generic drugmakers are asking a federal judge in Connecticut to dismiss a 40-state lawsuit accusing them of artificially inflating and manipulating prices to reduce competition for antibiotic and oral diabetes medication. The companies filed documents Monday citing a variety of reasons including that the states failed to adequately allege deceptive […]

Marking its 20th year, Rasar State Park on the Upper Skagit River is a little off the beaten path, but it’s worth getting to know.

APEX, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina school system says it’s disciplined a student who posted a racially offense comment on Snapchat that referenced slavery. Local news outlets report a student at Apex Friendship High School posted a black and white photo of the school’s step team with the caption, “Plantation owner watches his former […]

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Yum Brands Inc. is reporting first-quarter net income of $280 million. On a per-share basis, the Louisville, Kentucky-based company said it had profit of 77 cents. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring gains, came to 65 cents per share. The results beat Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of nine analysts surveyed by […]

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he will withhold $1 million in payments to the United Nations following a resolution adopted by its cultural agency that he says diminishes Jewish ties to Jerusalem. Netanyahu called the UNESCO resolution “absurd” and said the agency’s “systematic harassment” of Israel had a price. Speaking at […]

PARIS (AP) — As French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron prepares for a Sunday runoff against far-right rival Marine Le Pen, his wife is pondering the prospect of a prominent job herself. That’s unusual for France, as is the fact that throughout the campaign Brigitte Macron has been her husband’s closest collaborator. Le Pen and her […]

CHICAGO (AP) — Two plain-clothes Chicago police officers were shot and wounded as they sat in an unmarked vehicle in what authorities are describing as a targeted attack on the city’s South Side. A manhunt is underway Wednesday. Two vehicles pulled up alongside the officers and opened fire Tuesday evening in the high-crime Back of […]