Новости за 04.10.2017

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas’ attorney general is asking a federal appeals court to allow the state to move forward with imposing new restrictions on how the abortion pill is administered. Attorney General Leslie Rutledge asked the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Wednesday to deny a request from Planned Parenthood to not allow […]

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — A 12-year-old boy died after he was electrocuted when he tried to retrieve a football and touched a chain-link fence that had become electrified, authorities said. Adrian Antunez died Monday at a hospital, four days after he and other children were playing at their apartment complex in Fresno, California, when the […]

DEERFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Authorities say a 4-year-old girl has died in a vehicle crash in central Michigan that also has left her mother seriously hurt. The Morning Sun of Mount Pleasant reports the girl was thrown from the van and her mother was trapped inside the vehicle Wednesday afternoon in Isabella County’s Deerfield […]

CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (AP) — Two West Virginia men have been sentenced for their roles in filing false insurance claims for vehicle accidents. Federal prosecutors say the accidents were staged from 2012 to 2014 in Taylor, Harrison and Marion counties. Fifty-five-year-old Dallas Lewis of Clarksburg was sentenced Wednesday in federal court in Clarksburg to seven years […]

BALTIMORE (AP) — A lawyer for a woman seen on video being dragged off a Southwest Airlines flight in Maryland says she never claimed her allergy to dogs was life-threatening. Forty-six-year-old Anila Daulatzai’s lawyer says she agreed with crew members that she’d be fine with the dogs on the cross-country flight as long as they […]

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A northern Virginia man has been charged with making racist threats directed at Howard University in 2015. Twenty-six-year-old John Edgar Rust of Alexandria was arrested Wednesday and charged in federal court in Alexandria with transmitting threats over the internet. According to an FBI affidavit, Rust posted his threat to a chat […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — When Bryce Harper slipped on a rain-slicked first base and tumbled awkwardly to the ground in apparent agony back in August, many members of the Washington Nationals feared the worst. “Watching that live …” pitcher Gio Gonzalez said, shaking his head as his voice trailed off at the thought of it. “Seemed […]

MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — A man and woman have pleaded not guilty in the death of two people whose bodies were found in plastic tubs of chemicals in a Montana residence. Augustus Standingrock and Tiffanie Pierce entered the pleas Wednesday in Missoula County District Court to charges of deliberate homicide and accountability for deliberate homicide. […]

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Police have arrested an escaped inmate accused ramming a police cruise last month. Police say 30-year-old Nicholas Hupp was arrested Tuesday in southwestern Omaha and found with a handgun and methamphetamine. Police say Hupp failed to return to the Douglas County jail in Omaha on Sept. 13 after being out on […]

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A lesbian who helped raise a child with her former partner following artificial insemination can seek custody or visitation with the child even though they were never married and she was not the one who gave birth, Missouri appellate judges ruled. The Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District’s ruling cited […]

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Officials say a glass company manufacturing plant near Pittsburgh could be closed next summer, affecting almost 200 workers. Pittsburgh Glass Works says discussions about the future of the Creighton plant have begun since the aging facility would need significant improvements to keep up with the auto industry’s increasing technological demands. The company […]

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Police in North Carolina have filed charges against a motorist who’s shown in a video punching a cyclist in the face. The Asheville Citizen-Times reports Asheville On Bikes posted a video of the incident provided by a motorist who was trailing the driver and the cyclist. The video shows a motorist […]

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Three daughters of an Arkansas man who was beaten and stabbed to death in 1991 say his killer doesn’t deserve mercy and should die as scheduled next month. The family of Sidney Burnett met with the state Parole Board on Wednesday, hours after inmate Jack Greene and his lawyers asked […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Wednesday: PepsiCo, up 21 cents to $109.34 A shift from sodas to more healthy and low-calorie drinks crimped quarterly sales but strong snack sales pushed profits up 8 percent compared with last year. Office Depot Inc., down 81 cents to $3.78 Most Read StoriesAmazon […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles will pay $7.5 million to a bicycle rider who was paralyzed when he crashed after hitting uneven pavement. The Los Angeles Times (http://lat.ms/2fM3Efm ) says the City Council voted Wednesday to approve a payout to settle William Yao’s lawsuit. Yao was left a quadriplegic three years ago when his […]

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — An inmate was convicted Wednesday of using a makeshift knife to fatally stab a fellow prisoner and injure another more than a decade ago at a federal prison hospital in Missouri. The same jurors who found Ulysses Jones Jr. guilty of first-degree murder and two other counts will hear more evidence […]

KENNEBUNK, Maine (AP) — A Maine high school health teacher accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a student has been indicted on more than a dozen sex-related counts. Police say 29-year-old Jill Lamontagne of Kennebunk High School turned herself in Wednesday after being indicted by a York County grand jury on six counts of […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled Alabama can proceed with the execution of a man convicted of killing his estranged wife and father-in-law in 1993. A divided court on Wednesday overturned a stay issued by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Jeffery Lynn Borden is scheduled to receive a lethal […]

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — State officials say Hurricane Irma caused more than $2.5 billion in damage to Florida’s agricultural community. Irma dealt Florida’s iconic orange crop the most devastating blow causing more than $760 million in damage. Beef cattle and dairy were next with $237 million and nearly $12 million respectively. The preliminary assessment was […]

BOSTON (AP) — Renewable energy advocates are increasingly spending more on lobbying to capture the ears of Massachusetts lawmakers. An Associated Press review of state lobbying records found that in 2016, energy interests reported spending a combined $6.7 million lobbying Beacon Hill. Six out of every 10 of those dollars — or about $4.1 million […]

Influential Seattle restaurant consultant Jon Rowley has died at age 74.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — The driver in a school bus crash that killed six elementary school children has made his bond and is out of jail while his case proceeds. Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office spokesman J. Matt Lea says 25-year-old Johnthony Walker has been released to the county community corrections program, which offers an alternative […]

MOORHEAD, Minn. (AP) — The governors of Minnesota and North Dakota are forming a 16-member task force to try to revive a stalled flood control project in the Fargo-Moorhead area. Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton and North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum said Wednesday after meeting behind closed doors in Moorhead that they will each appoint eight […]

HILLSBORO, Mo. (AP) — A man who killed six people in Illinois was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for killing an Arkansas couple at a Missouri hotel. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports Nicholas Sheley was sentenced Wednesday after pleading guilty to killing Jill and Tom Estes of Sherwood, Arkansas. Police […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Trump’s nominee to oversee chemical safety at the Environmental Protection Agency is promising to apply sound science in his new job. He also is defending his history on behalf of corporate clients of endorsing far higher exposures to toxins than the government now allows. The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee […]