Новости за 05.09.2017

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A report says there’s no sign a Virginia State Police helicopter that crashed after monitoring violent clashes in Charlottesville last month was struck by another aircraft, animal or object. The National Transportation Safety Board issued a preliminary report Tuesday into the Aug. 12 crash that killed two state troopers, the pilot […]

BOSTON (AP) — Dozens of items with a direct connection to Princess Diana are being sold at auction in Massachusetts. The 79 items for sale 20 years after her death in a Paris car crash include articles of clothing, jewelry, signed papers and photographs, and even a piece of her wedding cake still stored in […]

The suit against St. Joseph Medical Center says it has been violating the state’s consumer-protection laws since at least 2012, and that senior management at the hospital was aware of the problems.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — More than 100 aftershocks have rattled southeastern Idaho since a 5.3 magnitude quake hit near the town of Soda Springs late last week, and experts say they could continue for another week or so. The 5.3 quake was the second in the series, and it hit about 6 p.m. Saturday. There […]

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Sabres star center Jack Eichel is focused on taking on a larger leadership role, and not concerning himself with contract talks — even it means waiting until next year to sign a new deal. “I have no problem playing the season out and just trying to earn whatever,” Eichel said Tuesday. […]

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A 28-year-old man has pleaded not guilty to killing a California man with a single punch outside a downtown Las Vegas bar. James Michael Beach remained jailed on $350,000 bail following his arraignment Tuesday on murder and intimidating a witness charges. Beach’s lawyer, Greg Knapp, says he wants to check medical […]

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The second round of talks on renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement has ended amid resistance to discussing Mexico’s low wages. Relatively few concrete proposals appear to have been made on issues like dispute-resolution mechanisms, seasonal farm tariffs and regional content rules during the talks in Mexico City. The United […]

LOS ANGELES — Scientists assessing efforts to eradicate invasive ants on the Channel Islands off California have enlisted a four-legged expert to sniff out the destructive insects. A golden retriever named Tobias has lived for months with a handler on Santa Cruz Island. The specially trained dog keeps its snout to the ground, searching for […]

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Sen. Heidi Heitkamp is the only statewide-elected Democrat in heavily Republican North Dakota, where President Donald Trump rolled to a win last year and the GOP is optimistic about knocking out the senator in next year’s midterm elections. Yet Heitkamp hardly resembles many of her hard-charging, Trump-resisting Democratic colleagues in Washington. […]

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — The Charlottesville City Council is set to vote on removing a second Confederate monument. The city’s decision earlier this year to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee helped spark a rally of white nationalists that descended into violence. Although the council had initially planned to leave a statue […]

ATLANTA (AP) — Alabama will play Miami to open the 2021 season in the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game at Mercedes-Benz Stadium, their first meeting since a memorable national title game in 1993. Officials in Atlanta made the announcement on Tuesday, continuing the trend of matching teams from the Southeastern Conference and Atlantic Coast Conference. No. 1 […]

CONCORD, N.H. — The chairman of New Hampshire’s Democratic Party has come under fire for comments suggesting some unregistered voters in the state are white supremacists. Ray Buckley was responding over the weekend to news that a group with links to President Donald Trump’s campaign was planning on reaching out to thousands of the state’s […]

Green Bay has beaten the Seahawks the past two years at Lambeau Field by a combined 65-27.

CLEVELAND (AP) — Authorities say a police officer who fatally shot an unarmed Ohio man after he was transported to a homeless shelter had used a stun gun on him unsuccessfully before firing. The man was identified as 30-year-old William Andrew Porubsky by Summit County Medical Examiner Gary Guenther. Guenther says that Porubsky and the […]

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Relatives of two exchange students from Thailand who were killed in California are planning funeral ceremonies after their bodies were pulled from a mangled rental car lodged on boulders in the middle of a river. A recovery team reclaimed the two bodies on Friday from the car in the middle of […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Bad design and construction and inadequate state oversight led to a disastrous spillway collapse at the nation’s tallest dam, an independent team of national dam safety experts said Tuesday. The experts investigating February’s spillway failures at California’s Oroville Dam say the state probably could have detected the problems if dam managers had […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A former Tennessee lawmaker who led a multimillion-dollar Ponzi scheme promoted on Christian media and centered on buying and selling gold and silver coins has been sentenced to more than 21 years behind bars. A Memphis federal judge on Tuesday also ordered 73-year-old former Democratic state Rep. Larry Bates to pay […]

TULSA, Okla. — Two hit-and-run crashes reported in less than 12 hours appeared to target homeless people in northeast Oklahoma, and investigators believe the same person carried out both attacks, police said. The first crash killed one person Monday morning under an interstate overpass, Tulsa Police Sgt. Stephen Florea told the Tulsa World. He said […]

ST. LOUIS — The mayor of St. Louis says the city is “on edge” as it awaits a verdict in the first-degree murder trial of former police officer Jason Stockley, in part because of a troubled history of justice in St. Louis and nationwide. Stockley is accused of fatally shooting Anthony Lamar Smith in 2011. […]

Yes, five of the Pac-12’s opponents were FCS teams and not one of the 11 was ranked. But 11-0 is 11-0, and it’s a lot better than, say, 6-5 with an FCS loss, which is how Week 1 unfolded in 2016 for the Pac-12. It’s also the first perfect Week 1 in the conference’s 12-school era.

DETROIT (AP) — If you’re willing to fly, you can save when you buy. Perhaps thousands of dollars on a used SUV, car or truck. Used vehicle prices vary wildly between U.S. metro areas, sometimes over $3,000. So with some careful research and a plane ticket, it might be worth the time it takes to […]

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Digital maps that dodge traffic jams are saving time for millions of motorists, but they’re also turning some neighborhood streets into headache-inducing escape routes from congested highways. The unsettling side effects of traffic-tackling technology are popping up more frequently as more drivers depend on smartphones equipped with navigation apps like Waze, […]

DETROIT (AP) — After seven straight years of growth, U.S. sales of new vehicles could be hitting their peak. That’s putting extra pressure on automakers to update their vehicles and hang on to their market share. Some important vehicles are getting revamps for the 2018 model year, including the Toyota Camry, which has been the […]

NEW YORK (AP) — The latest on developments in financial markets (All times local): 9:35 a.m. Stocks are opening lower on Wall Street as traders return from the Labor Day holiday weekend. Banks and technology companies fell more than the rest of the market Tuesday. Bank of America lost 1.5 percent and Nvidia fell 1.9 […]

HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) — Police say a California woman believed kidnapped by her ex-boyfriend has been found at a Nevada hotel. Henderson Officer Rod Pena says security at the Railroad Pass Hotel and Casino reported that Virginia Paris approached guards late Monday and told them she had been kidnapped. The Las Vegas Review-Journal newspaper reports […]