Новости за 07.06.2017

BOSTON (AP) — The mother of a 2-year-old girl known as “Baby Doe” after her body washed up on a Boston Harbor beach insisted she’s telling the truth during her final cross-examination in the murder trial of the man accused of killing the girl. Defense attorney Jonathan Shapiro questioned Rachelle Bond again Wednesday in the […]

MONTGOMERY VILLAGE, Md. (AP) — Two teenagers killed the night before their high school graduation outside the nation’s capital suffered multiple gunshot wounds. The Montgomery County Police Department announced this finding of the state medical examiner on Wednesday. Police say the manner of death for 17-year-old Shadi Najjar and 18-year-old Artem Ziberov is “homicide by […]

TIVERTON, R.I. (AP) — Residents of a small Rhode Island community say their neighborhood has been beset by a terrible stench after one of their neighbors paved a road with unwashed clamshells. WJAR-TV reports (http://bit.ly/2r6UPA5 ) a property owner in Tiverton put down the shells on an access road last week. But the uncleaned shells […]

NEW YORK (AP) — A prominent leader of the abstinence-only sex education movement has been appointed to a senior position at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, joining several other social conservative activists in the leadership ranks at HHS. Valerie Huber, named this week as chief of staff for the Office of the […]

JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) — Authorities are reviewing a weekend police pursuit in Jersey City that ended when the driver struck a utility pole, sparking a fiery crash that seriously injured another motorist. The review comes as a video obtained by Univision shows police kicking at a man and dragging him into the roadway in […]

The receiving competition is shaping up to be an especially interesting one for the Seahawks.

There may be a retail apocalypse going on, but you wouldn’t know it from Washington state’s retail sales in 2016.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Assurances to an incoming president that he was not under federal investigation. A president’s unprecedented request for loyalty from an FBI director. A “very concerning” request from the president to end an investigation into a devoted presidential appointee. Lawmakers hungry for answers and frustrated by the reticence of national security executives to […]

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Four underperforming private schools won approval Wednesday to accept more students who receive vouchers under Indiana’s school choice program, benefiting from a new law that provides a second chance at avoiding penalties. The State Board of Education voted 6-2 Wednesday to grant the four waivers. Three of the schools didn’t receive enough […]

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper is pushing Republican state legislators to immediately redraw General Assembly districts, now that the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed that nearly 30 House and Senate maps are illegal racial gerrymanders. Cooper announced Wednesday he’s calling a special session — to begin Thursday and run simultaneously […]

DENVER (AP) — A pot farm’s neighbor can sue them for smells and other nuisances that could harm their property values. That’s according to a federal appeals court in Denver. The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling Wednesday revives a lawsuit between a southern Colorado horse farm and a neighboring marijuana company. The horse […]

The addition of Bonderman and Bruckheimer, to be announced at a news conference at 2:30 p.m. at KeyArena, provides the strongest signal yet that the Oak View Group intends to bring an NHL team to Seattle near-term and an NBA team further down the road.

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops abruptly announced his retirement Wednesday, a stunning offseason move by the 56-year-old future Hall of Famer who led the Sooners to 11 conference championships and a national title in 18 seasons. Stoops was the longest-tenured active coach in major college football, taking the job at Oklahoma a […]

CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey couple was convicted Tuesday of bringing a Kenyan woman to the United States and exploiting her for domestic labor in their home. Federal prosecutors say 53-year-old Michael Wood and his 45-year-old wife, Mary, recruited the woman in Kenya to care for their four minor children. In August 2005, […]

WILLISTON, Vt. (AP) — James Pocock was living a quiet, under-the-radar life in the Vermont woods when he suddenly was showered with attention and called a hero, responsible for possibly saving another man’s life. He’s grateful his unselfish act may transform his life for the better. Pocock, 45, was sitting near his tent last month […]

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A judge rejected requests by a Nebraska lawyer accused of soliciting prostitution for police records about any women who might have been let off or offered pretrial diversion on that charge. Vincent Valentino, 67, was among 12 males arrested last summer during a prostitution sting in Lincoln. He pleaded not guilty. […]

CINCINNATI (AP) — Authorities say the grave of an 8-year-old Ohio boy who killed himself after his mother says he was bullied at school was opened to remove a computer tablet sought by investigators. The Hamilton County Coroner’s Office says Gabriel Taye’s grave was opened Wednesday to remove the tablet for the county prosecutor’s office. […]

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The North Dakota Industrial Commission has revoked an oilfield facility’s permit for illegally dumping waste. The commission voted Monday to revoke Apollo Resources’ permit and ordered the site to be cleaned by October, the Bismarck Tribune (http://bit.ly/2r25dxM ) reported. Commission records show that a state inspector observed a facility employee intentionally […]

CATONSVILLE, Md. (AP) — A man is in custody after police say he tried to ram a Maryland Natural Resources Police officer in a park. Baltimore County police say he turned himself in Wednesday. He hasn’t been officially charged. Natural Resources Police spokeswoman Candy Thomson says the confrontation happened Tuesday night at Patapsco Valley State […]

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A jury is now considering the fate of a Virginia man who traveled to Syria and Iraq because, as he put it, he wanted to “check things out” inside the Islamic State. Lawyers presented closing arguments Wednesday in the terrorism trial of Mohamad Khweis of Alexandria, who eventually fled the Islamic […]

BOSTON (AP) — Boston airport officials say an aircraft was damaged in what was described as a “minor incident” with a piece of ground equipment, forcing passengers to spend the night on cots in a terminal. A spokeswoman for Logan International Airport said in a statement that no injuries were reported late Tuesday night, but […]

U.S. stocks edged higher in early trading Wednesday, led by gains in banks. Energy companies were down the most as crude oil prices headed lower. Bond yields were moving higher a day after sliding to the lowest level since November. Investors were sizing up the latest company earnings and looking ahead to former FBI Director […]

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas legislators have repudiated the tax-cutting experiment that brought Republican Gov. Sam Brownback national attention. The state House voted Tuesday night to overturn Brownback’s veto of a plan that reverses many of the income tax reductions he championed. The legislation aims to fix the state budget and provide additional funds for […]

LONDON (AP) — When Shazzadur Siddiqui returned to his London Bridge restaurant Wednesday, he was hit by a wall of smell. Four hundred pounds (more than $500) worth of condiments and toppings were putrefying behind the sneeze guard. “All the food was rotten,” he said Wednesday as his wife and a member of staff finished […]

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — A New York business owner says he’s “just happy to be alive” after being struck by lightning while sitting at his office desk. Nick Gemayel tells WHEC-TV in Rochester (http://bit.ly/2rLtLIf ) he was inside his auto repair shop on Monday when severe thunderstorms rolled across the area. He says he saw […]