Новости за 13.09.2017

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho has sent 10 lawmakers to a planning meeting in Arizona to debate details for carrying out a growing national effort to amend the Constitution to require a balanced U.S. budget. Idaho’s top legislative leaders approved sending the Republican delegates despite the GOP-controlled Statehouse’s repeated failures to pass legislation calling for […]

COMMACK, N.Y. (AP) — Police say a United Cerebral Palsy employee falsely reported that her co-worker, whom she previously dated, had sexually abused a resident at a home for the vulnerable on Long Island. Fifth-three-year-old Judy Campbell, of Amityville, was arrested Wednesday on charges of falsely reporting an incident. Information on her lawyer wasn’t immediately […]

The conference signed a deal with AT&T worth an estimated $90 million. Now a firm that helped execute it is suing.

With millions of Floridians still without power because of Irma’s destruction, concerns have begun to mount over the safety of the state’s 4 million senior citizens in the late-summer heat. Because the power outages could last for many more days, residents have flocked to buy generators and other supplies. Eight patients from a Hollywood, Florida, […]

What has been named the Whitechapel fatberg is a rock-solid agglomeration of fat, disposable wipes, diapers, condoms and tampons. It was discovered to the east of the city’s financial district, occupying a sixth of a mile of sewer.

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily on Wednesday: Centene Corp., up $7.28 to $98.16 The health insurer and Medicaid coverage provider will expand into New York by buying Fidelis Care for $3.75 billion. Nordstrom Inc., up $2.69 to $47.74 Most Read StoriesSeattle Mayor Ed Murray resigns after fifth child sex-abuse […]

PHOENIX (AP) — Authorities say a Litchfield Park man has been arrested in connection with the murder of his wife two years ago. Maricopa County Sheriff’s officials announced Wednesday that 53-year-old Elias Udechime is jailed on a $500,000 bond on suspicion of second-degree murder. It’s unclear if he has an attorney yet. Sheriff’s officials say […]

Even with two years left on his contract with the Colorado Avalanche, Matt Duchene’s situation is anything but simple. With his name in trade talks at the deadline and then again at the draft, Duchene went about his business playing for by far the NHL’s worst team. But after another offseason of general manager Joe […]

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A study shows public schools in Rhode Island need nearly $628 million worth of repairs just to ensure that students and teachers are warm, safe and dry in their classrooms. The independent report commissioned by the state Department of Education’s School Building Authority released Wednesday estimated the cost for schools to […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Prosecutors have charged the president of the Los Angeles Unified School District board and a relative with felonies and misdemeanors for alleging reimbursing nearly $25,000 to donors he claimed in a campaign filing form. The district attorney’s office says Board of Education President Refugio Rodriguez and a cousin were each charged […]

HOUSTON (AP) — A Houston man accused of fatally shooting a Harris County sheriff’s deputy has pleaded guilty to capital murder and has accepted life in prison without the possibility of parole. The plea by Shannon Miles, who turns 33 Friday, allows him to avoid a possible death sentence for the August 2015 slaying of […]

EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A judge has heard arguments challenging a Michigan city’s decision to keep an apple grower away from its seasonal market because of his views on gay marriage. In defense, East Lansing attorney Michael Bogren says the city doesn’t want a vendor who discriminates. Stephen Tennes has been a popular apple […]

NEW ALBANY, Ind. (AP) — The former vice principal of a southern Indiana middle school faces voyeurism charges after authorities linked him to a camera found inside the boys locker room. Sixty-five-year-old Paul Raake didn’t comment to reporters as he left a Floyd County court hearing Wednesday, a day after he was arrested on the […]

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Authorities are preparing to discuss the findings of an internal investigation into the rough arrest of a Utah nurse who refused to allow a blood draw on an unconscious patient. Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski is set to speak Wednesday on the case that drew widespread attention after the […]

A Montana coal company says more than 80 miners could be laid off in coming months after environmentalists successfully sued to halt its expansion. Signal Peak Energy President Brad Hanson said in a court affidavit filed Monday that about 30 employees at the Bull Mountain mine north of Billings could run out of work by […]

SAN DIEGO (AP) — The military says 15 Marines have been taken to Southern California hospitals after a seafaring tank caught fire during training at Camp Pendleton. Marine 1st Lt. Paul Gainey told The Associated Press that at about 9:30 a.m. Wednesday an amphibious assault vehicle caught fire while the Marines were conducting a training […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has selected a Texas attorney and supporter to join the beleaguered Federal Election Commission. Trump appointed James “Trey” Trainor III, a well-known election-law specialist based in Austin, to the panel that monitors and polices federal campaign fundraising and spending. The position requires Senate confirmation. Trainor would serve a term […]

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — For seven years from 2006-12, parity in college football meant determining which of the Southeastern Conference’s contenders would finish as the national champion. These days, it feels as though the only national contender from the SEC resides in Tuscaloosa, where Alabama has been the conference’s lone representative in each of the […]

GREENEVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The owner of a Ferris wheel in which four people were injured in Tennessee last year has responded to lawsuits over the incident, saying that one of the injured children was to blame for a gondola overturning. The Greeneville Sun reports that Family Attractions Amusement LLC denies responsibility and instead said […]

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California prosecutors say a fast-food restaurant cashier gave birth to a baby boy while at work and then tried to kill him by flushing him down a toilet. The San Mateo County district attorney said Wednesday that 25-year-old Sarah Lockner has been charged with attempted murder after the child survived. Prosecutors […]

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A former member of the Brazilian Olympic committee has shown The Associated Press letters he sent to the IOC eight years ago that warned against awarding the games to Rio de Janeiro, and cautioned against the administration of Carlos Nuzman. Nuzman, an IOC member who headed last year’s Rio Olympics, […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans are not clamoring for single-payer health care, as Sen. Bernie Sanders suggests they are in proposing a plan that would have the government foot most medical bills. He’s right that support for the idea has grown and in some polls tops 50 percent. But polls suggest that the prevailing sentiment is […]

BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi police chief has resigned amid questions about a videotaped drug bust. Bay St. Louis Mayor Mike Favre said the video shows Chief Daren Freeman holding his hand on the face of a handcuffed person. The mayor said the video is months old, but he recently saw it […]

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Scientists in Ecuador’s Galapagos islands are hoping to restore a turtle species believed extinct since the 1800s. The Chelonoidis elephantopus lived on Floreana Island and was captured by seamen in large numbers for food during their long journeys across the Pacific. The species is thought to have disappeared shortly after Charles […]

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Military says 15 Marines taken to hospitals after seafaring tank catches fire during training at California base.