Новости за 12.10.2017

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Gov. Jim Justice is calling lawmakers back to the statehouse for a special session, and pushing them to re-write the state’s tax code to exempt military retirees from paying personal income tax. In a proclamation, Justice recalled the state Legislature starting at noon Monday to address two tax issues that lawmakers […]

MIAMI (AP) — Federal health officials are dropping a Florida nursing home from the Medicare program after 14 patients died after the facility lost air conditioning during Hurricane Irma. On Sept. 13, eight residents died and the others were evacuated from the sweltering Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills. Six more have since died, which attorneys […]

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho’s new U.S. Attorney Bart Davis says he believes a new offshoot of the street and prison gang Surenos is close to being eradicated after a series of indictments in state and federal court. During a press conference Thursday, Davis said five people believed to be members or associates of the […]

ROME (AP) — Backers of Italy’s populist 5-Star Movement are protesting the initial passage of revised election rules they contend are designed to foil their bid to gain national power for the first time. The Chamber of Deputies — the lower chamber of the Italian Parliament — approved the rules late Thursday despite defections by […]

PLANO, Texas (AP) — A judge has postponed indefinitely the sentencing of a North Texas couple who had lied to authorities about their sons’ activities in the Middle East. The delay of the scheduled Thursday sentencing of 57-year-old Mohommad Hasnain Ali and 49-year-old Sumaiya Ali comes after they received a court hearing behind closed doors. […]

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler is pitching a 15-percent tuition hike for nonresident students for each of the next two years. Kaler told the Board of Regents on Thursday that the university now ranks second-to-last for nonresident tuition in the Big Ten, and the change would bring the school toward the […]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A storm in the Bering Sea is expected to cause minor flooding and beach erosion at low-lying coastal areas along Alaska’s western coast. The National Weather Service says the storm front that began earlier this week also has brought rain along the coast. Meteorologist Ed Plumb says the storm also has […]

MIAMI (AP) — Forecasters say Ophelia strengthens to a Category 2 hurricane far from land in eastern Atlantic.

BURLINGTON, Iowa (AP) — A prosecutor says no charges will be filed against a policeman who shot and killed a fleeing 27-year-old Burlington resident. Assistant Iowa Attorney General Scott Brown concluded Thursday that the Oct. 1 shooting of Marquis Jones by Burlington officer Chris Chiprez was a justifiable homicide. Officers stopped Jones for a loud […]

SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) — Authorities say a man has been charged with killing a co-worker after he told investigators the person he shot was an unknown intruder who broke in his South Carolina home. Spartanburg Sheriff’s Lt. Kevin Bobo said deputies don’t know why 59-year-old Donald Partaka killed 34-year-old Laura Hood at Partaka’s home in […]

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho Republican Party Chairman Jonathan Parker says he is disturbed that a former GOP state lawmaker has formed a political action committee to encourage Independent and Democratic voters to register as Republicans. In a prepared statement released Thursday, Parker said the Idaho Republican Party’s decision to close the GOP primary so […]

WESTFORD, Mass. (AP) — Authorities say a woman in her 50s has died after becoming pinned under her own vehicle in a supermarket parking lot accident in northeastern Massachusetts. The accident happened Thursday outside the Market Basket in Westford. Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan and Westford Police Chief Thomas McEnaney say the woman was at […]

DENVER (AP) — The energy industry has sued a Denver suburb over its new rules for oil and gas drilling, saying they illegally conflict with state rules. The Denver Post reports the Colorado Oil and Gas Association and the American Petroleum Institute sued Thornton on Tuesday. City officials said they had no immediate comment. Thornton’s […]

VAN BUREN, Ark. (AP) — A former Arkansas death row inmate is a free man after spending more than 16 years in prison for murder. Rickey Dale Newman was released from the Crawford County jail, after a special prosecutor dropped charges in a 2001 killing, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported. Newman was convicted of first-degree murder […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Thursday: Viacom Inc., down 64 cents to $24.57 Reports said the entertainment company hasn’t been able to resolve a contract dispute with cable company Charter. AT&T Inc., down $2.33 to $35.86 Most Read Stories'They let him lay there': Family wants answers from Boeing on […]

VIENNA (AP) — Austria is asking the European Court of Justice to declare planned highway tolls in Germany illegal, arguing that the charges discriminate based on nationality. Austrian Transport Minister Jorg Leichtfried turned to the court on Thursday. He called the levies “a foreigners’ toll” that the European Commission approved with its eyes “firmly closed.” […]

DOVER, Del. (AP) — Delaware public health officials are reporting the first case of West Nile virus infecting a human since 2015. Officials said Thursday that a 70-year-old Kent County woman was briefly hospitalized but is now recovering at home. West Nile Virus is transmitted by mosquitoes, with a peak transmission period from mid-August to […]

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Dozens of fellow “yellow shirt” security guards were among the hundreds of people mourning a Las Vegas man who died helping people escape the deadly Las Vegas concert shooting. At the funeral Thursday morning for Erick Silva, 21, loved ones and dignitaries hailed him as a hero for helping people climb […]

FRISCO, Texas (AP) — A federal appeals court has lifted an injunction that blocked a six-game suspension for Dallas Cowboys star Ezekiel Elliott, clearing the way for the NFL’s punishment over domestic violence allegations and likely leading to the running back’s legal team seeking further relief. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New […]

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Frontier Communications is refusing to return $4.7 million in grant money that the federal government says the state overpaid as part of a broadband internet extension project. The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports that Frontier sent a letter to state Chief Technology Officer John Dunlap earlier this week, telling him that the funds […]

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — A jury has recommended the death penalty for an Oklahoma man convicted of beheading a co-worker in 2014. Thirty-three-year-old Alton Nolen was convicted on Sept. 29 of killing 54-year-old Colleen Hufford and trying to kill another co-worker at a food processing plant in Moore, a suburb of Oklahoma City. Jurors agreed […]

ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. (AP) — Several employees of a North Carolina prison have been injured during an attempted inmate escape. The state Department of Public Safety posted on its twitter account Thursday that the attempted breakout from Pasquotank Correctional Institution in Elizabeth City involved fires set in the prison’s sewing plant. A spokesman for the […]

RENO, Nev. (AP) — A documented gang member from Stockton, California has been sentenced to up to 19 years in a Nevada prison after he was convicted of drug-trafficking charges in Reno. The Washoe County District Attorney’s Office said Thursday 30-year-old Jeffry Taylor must serve a minimum of 5.5 years before he’s eligible for parole. […]

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Atlantic City’s casinos won more from gamblers in September than they did a year earlier. Figures released Thursday by the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement show the seven casinos and online gambling outlets won $235.8 million, an increase of 4.1 percent compared with September 2016. When the now-shuttered Trump […]

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Jury recommends the death penalty for Oklahoma man convicted of beheading co-worker in 2014.