Новости за 28.09.2017

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri elected officials are pushing to expand state confidentiality programs that hide the home addresses of victims of domestic violence. U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt introduced legislation Thursday to require federal agencies and courts to accept substitute addresses created through state programs. Missouri is among 36 states with address confidentiality programs. […]

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A federal appeals court has dismissed an appeal from a man convicted in the 2002 killing a teenager at a Leawood swimming pool. The Kansas City Star reports the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver on Thursday upheld a lower court ruling dismissing the appeal of Benjamin Appleby. Appleby, […]

MASON, Mich. (AP) — A young Lansing-area man charged with killing his mother will get a mental health exam. Experts will determine if 19-year-old Andrew Willson understands the charges and can assist his lawyers. A judge signed off on the exam Thursday. His mother, 51-year-old Lisa Willson, was found shot in the head at their […]

MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — Kneeling in church? Still OK. During the national anthem? You better not. A Roman Catholic diocese in suburban New York has issued a warning to its three high schools that students and spectators cannot kneel or otherwise protest when the national anthem is played before games and other school events. Newsday […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — A senior State Department official acknowledged Thursday that U.S. intelligence agencies don’t believe North Korea will ever pull the plug on its nuclear program, raising concerns among lawmakers over the Trump administration’s strategy for bringing a mounting crisis to a peaceful close. Susan Thornton, the acting assistant secretary of state for East […]

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah officials say health insurance rates for Utah residents who buy coverage under the Affordable Care Act will rise by an average of 39 percent next year. Utah’s Insurance Department released a sampling of rates Thursday for plans sold in the individual insurance market. Insurance Department spokesman Steve Gooch says […]

DETROIT (AP) — President Donald Trump teased an audience with what sounded like inside dope: Five big auto factories or expansions are coming soon to the U.S., he confided. Though sworn to secrecy by another world leader, he was bursting to tell — “I’ll keep my word, OK, unless you force me” — but stayed […]

KEARNEY, Neb. (AP) — This baby wasn’t waiting on traffic. Television station KSNB reports that Kearney paramedics delivered a baby in the back of an ambulance Thursday morning along Interstate 80 after receiving a frantic call from the mother and her family who were trying to get to a Kearney hospital. Ashley Nehls, of Holdrege, […]

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana is sending hundreds of its National Guard troops and emergency response officials to Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands to help with recovery from hurricanes Irma and Maria. In Puerto Rico, 167 members of a Louisiana Army National Guard engineer company are helping with water infrastructure repairs. Another […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump. Ivanka Trump. Steven Mnuchin. Wilbur Ross. Betsy DeVos. Gary Cohn. Jared Kushner. A long list of wealthy insiders in the Trump White House would, at least in theory, enjoy a financial windfall from the tax cuts the president proposed Wednesday. Much of their income in the past has come […]

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — A driver has died of his injuries days after a two-car crash in Wilmington. Delaware State Police said in a news release Thursday that 70-year-old Edwin Jamieson of Aston, Pennsylvania, died Sunday. Troopers say on Sept. 16, Jamieson ran a red light and hit another car. Jamieson, a passenger in his […]

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota man who had wanted to become a Catholic deacon has settled his coercion claims against his bishop. Ronald Vasek, of Tabor, alleged in a lawsuit in May that Bishop Michael Hoeppner (HEP’-ner) of Crookston blackmailed him into signing a letter in 2015 that essentially retracted his allegation that a priest […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch discussed the importance of civility and civics education in a speech at Washington’s Trump International Hotel. Liberal groups say his decision to speak there raises questions about his independence from the president who nominated him. Gorsuch’s speech came just a few days before the opening of the […]

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi’s state auditor says he’s continuing to investigate some contracts made by the state Department of Education that might break state bid laws. Auditor Stacey Pickering on Thursday released reports on a series of consulting contracts, as well as on problems with afterschool grants that forced the department to repay $11.7 […]

NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s Metropolitan Opera says three days after opening its season it has offered buyouts to 21 of its 243 full-time administrative employees. A financial report issued in June showed the Met had $294 million in operating expenses in 2015-16, when it operated at a deficit of $177,000. That was down […]

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) — A 33-year-old eastern Idaho man has died in a farming accident. The Bonneville County Sheriff’s Office in a news release Thursday says that Kevin Fox of Idaho Falls died Wednesday when his clothing got caught in a conveyor belt system while unloading a potato truck. Authorities say other workers and […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military says it has killed three men who played key roles in developing, building and modifying Islamic State drones. Col. Ryan Dillon, a spokesman for the U.S.-led military coalition in Baghdad, told reporters at the Pentagon Thursday that the three were killed in a series of U.S. airstrikes in Syria […]

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — The mayor and council of Georgia’s oldest city want the name of a segregationist ex-governor stripped from the towering suspension bridge that dominates its riverside skyline. The Eugene Talmadge Memorial Bridge is named for the populist Democrat who ruled state government in Georgia for three terms in the 1930s and ’40s. […]

PHOENIX (AP) — The owner of a Peoria business that provided Motor Vehicle Division services is charged with fraudulently obtaining bank loans by altering a vehicle title and misusing MVD databases. Court records say 44-year-old Tamica Lachelle Goree pleaded not guilty Sept. 21 to four fraud charges. Arizona Department of Transportation officials say they began […]

HONOLULU (AP) — The number of visitors to Hawaii climbed nearly 5 percent last month compared to the same month last year. The Hawaii Tourism Authority said Thursday more than 800,000 travelers came to the islands in August. Increased numbers arrived from the U.S. mainland, Japan and Canada. Spending rose more than 6 percent to […]

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Activists opposed to the privatization of a pavilion at Indiana Dunes State Park want officials to review a developer’s renovation plans, arguing they would improperly alter the historic building. Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility and Dunes Action made the joint request in a complaint filed Thursday. It was sent to state and […]

LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — California’s emerging marijuana industry is being rattled by an array of unknowns, as the state races to issue its first licenses to grow and sell legal recreational pot on Jan. 1. Top state pot regulator, Lori Ajax, told an industry group in Long Beach on Thursday that “we all have […]

CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — The Wyoming Game and Fish Department is investigating the poaching of two mule deer in Natrona County. Casper Game Warden Jake Kettley says he was contacted Sept. 22 about a dead mule deer buck discovered in the southern part of the county. Kettley found a buck that had been shot and […]

ROSEBURG, Ore. (AP) — Authorities have arrested a 45-year-old Oregon man accused of raping a 15-year-old girl in 2014. According to Douglas County court records, the woman who’s now 18 came forward in April to say was raped three years earlier by a man who lives in the Canyonville-Riddle area, after he coerced her into […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Years of limited oversight and unchecked growth have turned Facebook into a force with incredible power over the lives of its two billion users. But the social network has also given rise to unintended social consequences — and they’re starting to catch up with it: — House and Senate panels investigating […]