Новости за 31.10.2017

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The state of Alaska has sued the maker of the prescription opioid OxyContin, alleging deceptive marketing practices and laying blame with the company for the state’s epidemic of opioid abuse. The lawsuit, filed against Purdue Pharma and its affiliates, was announced Tuesday by Attorney General Jahna Lindemuth. Lindemuth says the state’s […]

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Gov. Jim Justice has named a former prison guard who rose through the ranks to be the new acting corrections commissioner for West Virginia. Mike Coleman replaces Loita Butcher, who is retiring. According to state officials, Coleman began his career as a corrections officer in 1984 and was among those taken […]

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota Tax Commissioner Ryan Rauschenberger says he regrets lying to a Highway Patrol trooper about the amount of alcohol he had consumed prior to being arrested for drunken driving. In a video released Tuesday by the patrol, Rauschenberger told Trooper Tarek Chase that he had “like one drink …. like […]

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas needs $61-plus billion in federal funding just to rebuild public infrastructure damaged by Hurricane Harvey, as well as to cover projects to prevent future flooding. John Sharp, Texas’ Harvey recovery “czar,” announced Tuesday that the figure was based on surveys of local officials and future U.S. Army Corps of Engineer […]

U.S. stocks inched ahead on Tuesday after the makers of Kellogg’s cereal and Oreo cookies joined the parade of companies reporting stronger-than-expected profits. On Tuesday: The Standard & Poor’s 500 index gained 2.43 points, or 0.1 percent, to 2,575.26. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 28.50, or 0.1 percent, to 23,377.24. Most Read Stories'He had […]

NEW YORK (AP) — After the summer of Rachel Maddow, Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity has ascended to the top of the cable news mountain. Hannity’s move to the 9 p.m. time slot paid immediate dividends for the network. The Nielsen company said that President Donald Trump’s biggest cable news backer averaged 3.2 million viewers […]

A new combined labor contract for the pilots of Alaska Airlines and Virgin America bumps up the highest pay rate to $251 per flight hour, just below the four biggest U.S. airlines.

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials say an American teenage girl who was taken to Syria by her father several years ago is now with U.S. authorities and will be returned home. She has said her father supported the Islamic State group. The officials say U.S.-allied Syrian forces turned her over to the U.S. military. She’s […]

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Nevada prosecutors say no charges will be filed against a former FBI agent turned speaker who got into a scuffle with a Minnesota sheriff this summer. Retired agent John Guandolo and Hennepin County Sheriff Rich Stanek clashed during a National Sheriffs’ Association conference in Reno in June. At Stanek’s request, the Washoe […]

There are better ways to fund national parks than an exorbitant fee increase proposed by the Trump administration. Washingtonians should submit opposition to this noxious plan during a public-comment period.

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A former men’s basketball coach at Rutgers University stands accused of using his former position with a county parks commission to divert thousands of dollars of public money to a nonprofit he controlled. State authorities also allege Kevin Bannon arranged unauthorized benefits for himself, his family and others at county expense. […]

We treat sympathizers of the failed ideology as romantics and idealists, rather than as the fools, fanatics or cynics they really were and are.

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (AP) — A St. Joseph teenager whose infant died after she fell asleep with the child has been sentenced to five years of supervised probation. Eighteen-year-old Kyla Watson was sentenced Tuesday for endangering the welfare of a child. The St. Joseph News-Press reports Watson admitted in September that on June 1 she […]

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa. (AP) — A robbery suspect shot and wounded by police in a parking garage at a suburban Philadelphia shopping mall has been charged with robbery, theft and other counts. Upper Merion Township police say 23-year-old Kalin Jackson of New Castle, Delaware was identified as a suspect after a woman was held […]

The failure in recruiting people of color for clinical trials is part of a broader failure in providing black women access to information about and services for diagnosing and treating breast cancer.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The highest-level North Korean defector in two decades says America should bring change peacefully by challenging the totalitarian regime’s grip on information rather than resorting to military action. Thae Yong Ho (tay yong ho) is offering rare insight into the reclusive North Korean system and the insecurities he says drove leader Kim […]

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California’s insurance commissioner says property damage losses from October wildfires have topped $3.3 billion.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Activists disrupted a poverty lesson at Philadelphia City Hall and got the councilman who organized the event to instead go on a tour of one of the city’s poorest neighborhoods. Councilman Curtis Jones Jr. had asked his colleagues to join him at a meeting room Tuesday for what he called a “poverty […]

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The former mayor of Mississippi’s largest city subdued and paddled a man who police say was burglarizing his vehicle. Jackson police arrested 22-year-old Juwuan Bibbs on Sunday at Tony Yarber’s house. Yarber told The Associated Press on Tuesday that he caught Bibbs breaking into his truck. Yarber dragged Bibbs into his […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Police: Several people dead, numerous injured after vehicle drives onto bike path near World Trade Center site.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos says the Senate must take lead on a bill cracking down on sanctuary cities. Vos told reporters Tuesday that the Assembly will only take up the proposal if it first passes the Senate. The Assembly passed it last session, only to see it die in the […]

Washington is allowing 3.66 yards per play this season, best in major-college football since 2011.

ARTHUR, N.D. (AP) — Authorities say an electrical malfunction probably caused the fire that destroyed a popular dance barn in eastern North Dakota last week. The Cass County Sheriff’s Office says the fire started on the ground level of Arthur’s Barn near the electrical junction box. The sheriff’s office and the state fire marshal’s office […]

BALTIMORE (AP) — Federal prosecutors say five men have been convicted in a heroin trafficking ring that was protected by a corrupt Baltimore police officer. The U.S. Attorney’s Office said in a statement Tuesday that the five men were convicted last week of conspiracy to traffic heroin and cocaine. Prosecutors say the ring sold 37 […]

NAVAJO DAM, N.M. (AP) — Authorities say the drivers of two vehicles are dead after a head-on collision in northwestern New Mexico. New Mexico State Police say the double-fatal accident occurred about 6 p.m. Monday on State Road 173 west of Navajo Dam. They say a pickup truck being driven by 63-year-old Mary Jane Louton […]