Новости за 29.06.2017

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Recreational marijuana becomes legal to buy Saturday in Nevada, but that doesn’t mean anything goes in the place where most people think anything goes. Officers say they have been preparing for months to enforce the law passed by voters in November. They will focus on keeping stoned drivers off the road […]

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Florida police say tennis star Venus Williams was in a car crash earlier this month. Palm Beach Gardens police Maj. Paul Rogers confirmed to The Associated Press on Thursday that Williams was involved in a crash on June 9. He said the crash is under investigation but would not […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has nominated Indiana’s health commissioner to serve as the next U.S. surgeon general, choosing an anesthesiologist who served under Vice President Mike Pence. The White House says Trump picked Dr. Jerome Adams for the position. Adams was appointed by Pence, then Indiana’s governor, to serve as the state’s health […]

PHOENIX (AP) — A federal grand jury in Phoenix has indicted a former prison transport officer who’s accused of sexually assaulting three female prisoners while threatening them with a gun. U.S. Department of Justice officials say 49-year-old Eric Scott Kindley was arrested June 1 in Stockton, California. They say Kindley operates a company that jails […]

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A man from El Salvador in the U.S. illegally who sued San Francisco after police turned him over to immigration authorities in violation of the city’s sanctuary law is set to be awarded $190,000. The San Francisco Examiner reported Thursday (http://bit.ly/2s6CKDw ) that 33-year-old Pedro Figueroa-Zarceno reached the settlement agreement with […]

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A man who was convicted and later cleared after falsely confessing to murder at 13 says he is grateful a court revived his request for compensation in Mississippi. Tyler Edmonds, now 28 and living in Florida, tells The Associated Press he previously “lost a lot of faith in Mississippi’s judicial system.” […]

NEW YORK (AP) — An investor in “Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli’s hedge fund says he wowed her by reporting eye-popping returns that prosecutors say were a lie. Sarah Hassan (HAS’-uhn) testified Thursday as the first witness at Shkreli’s security fraud trial. She told jurors she invested $300,000 with Shkreli in 2011 after being told he […]

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee sheriff says a deputy is in critical condition and needs prayers after being shot multiple times during a struggle with an inmate who was killed. Robertson County Sheriff Bill Holt posted on Facebook Thursday morning that 36-year-old Deputy Josh Wiley still faces major surgery. A Nashville police statement says […]

BRATTLEBORO, Vt. (AP) — A Vermont woman has been found guilty of aggravated murder in the 2014 shooting deaths of her ex-boyfriend and his adult son. The jury returned the verdict Wednesday against 65-year-old Robin O’Neill on charges of aggravated murder in the deaths of 60-year-old Steven Lott and his son, 28-year-old Jamis Lott. Under […]

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A former lottery computer programmer has pleaded guilty in Iowa to running a criminal scheme that allowed him to collect millions of dollars in lottery winnings in four other states. Former Multi-State Lottery Association security director Eddie Tipton on Thursday admitted that he manipulated the computer software he designed, allowing […]

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina police identify the woman found dead inside an apartment after they persuaded a man barricaded inside to leave as his girlfriend. North Charleston police spokesman Spencer Pryor tells news outlets that 47-year-old Lisa Sargent of North Charleston was found dead from a gunshot wound to the abdomen. Pryor […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is praising a pending sugar deal with Mexico that clears the way for broader talks on rewriting the North American Free Trade Agreement. Trump tweets that the pact was “a very good one for both Mexico and the U.S. Had no deal for many years which hurt U.S. badly.” […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Thursday that he has declared a state of emergency over New York City’s trouble public transit system and has asked its new leader to complete a series of urgent reviews of the agency’s management and aging infrastructure. The Democratic governor said the state of emergency declaration will […]

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — In a surprise move, Philadelphia’s top prosecutor has pleaded guilty to a corruption charge and agreed to resign. District Attorney Seth Williams pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court to a single count of accepting a bribe from a businessman. The move came after weeks of damaging testimony against the two-term Democrat, who […]

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — In surprise move amid trial, Philadelphia’s district attorney pleads guilty to corruption charge and agrees to resign.

BEIRUT (AP) — A Syria war monitor and a U.S. official say U.S.-backed fighters have seized the last road into Raqqa and are moving toward the river south of the city, tightening a siege on the militant de-facto capital. A spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition told The Associated Press the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces are […]

Medicaid covers nearly 1 in 3 in the state, and people don’t know what to oppose: Obamacare or Republicans’ fix for it.

ATHENS, Greece — Greek municipal garbage collectors on Thursday decided to return to work after nearly two weeks of protests that left mounds of uncollected refuse in the streets amid a heat wave. The municipal workers’ union, which wants employees on fixed-time contracts to be granted full-time jobs, said rubbish collection trucks would hit the […]

UVALDE, Texas (AP) — A grand jury has indicted a Texas man whom authorities accuse of causing a traffic collision that killed 13 people in a minibus returning from a church retreat in March. The Uvalde (yoo-VAL’-dee) County district attorney’s office said Thursday that Jack Young, 20, was indicted Monday on multiple charges, including intoxication […]

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Insurance giant Aetna made it official on Thursday, announcing it will move its headquarters to New York City beginning in late 2018 after nearly two centuries in Hartford, Connecticut. Mark Bertolini, Aetna’s CEO and chairman, said New York City is a “knowledge economy hub” and a driver of innovations. “Many of […]

Michelle Rodriguez is threatening to leave “The Fast and the Furious” franchise unless its female characters are treated differently. Rodriguez wrote on Instagram on Tuesday that she hopes filmmakers decide “to show some love to the women of the franchise” in its next installment. If not, she says, she “just might have to say goodbye.” […]

As tennis turns to Wimbledon, there’s been a bit of a throwback feel to this Grand Slam season so far. At the year’s first major tournament, the Australian Open in January, Roger Federer beat Rafael Nadal for the men’s title, and Serena Williams defeated her sister, Venus, for the women’s title. Matchups from a decade […]

Bond is set at $100,000 for a 32-year-old man who police say intentionally crashed his car into the Ten Commandments monument outside Arkansas' Capitol.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Lower-income renters in New Orleans are facing the loss of their homes and uncertain futures as affordable-housing subsidies start to expire in a city that already has experienced steep rent increases and stagnant wage growth. Michael Esnault, a 69-year-old disabled veteran, says he searched for about three months before finding a […]

HALSTAD, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota woman charged with fatally shooting her boyfriend in a failed YouTube video stunt foreshadowed the event when she tweeted that it would be “one of the most dangerous videos ever.” Monalisa Perez, of Halstad, was charged Wednesday with second-degree manslaughter in the death of Pedro Ruiz III. Perez, who […]