Новости за 12.11.2017

LEBANON, Wis. (AP) — A weekend cattle drive planned for southern Wisconsin was scrubbed after cows began wandering into a soybean field. A crew of about 15 people on horseback had planned to drive 50 head of cattle from the town of Lebanon to a farm near Juneau over about four hours Sunday morning. But […]

A poll published Sunday showed Democrat Doug Jones with 46 percent to Republican Roy Moore’s 42 percent. The survey was conducted Nov. 9 and Nov. 11, and with a margin of error of 4.1 percentage points, it suggests the race is a toss-up one month from the election.

SCOTTSBLUFF, Neb. (AP) — Officials have purchased new software that will help police officers in the Nebraska Panhandle share information on cases, but it likely won’t be ready to use for more than a year. KNEB reports that Scotts Bluff County Commissioners recently approved the $560,000 contract with a firm based in Sioux Falls, South […]

ANNANDALE, Va. (AP) — A Washington, D.C. man is facing a long list of charges after leading officers on a chase and slamming into two police cars in Virginia. Edward Jerome Butler Jr. was charged with two counts of felony hit and run, reckless driving, resisting arrest, assault on a law enforcement officer, and other […]

NAMPA, Idaho (AP) — Forensic scientists with the Idaho State Police are struggling to keep up with the growing caseload of evidence waiting to be tested for heroin and other opioids. ISP scientist Corinna Owsley tells the Idaho Press-Tribune that each drug analyst with the agency does about 90 cases a month. In August, the […]

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) — A new park in Springfield will bear the names of two city police officers who were killed in the line of duty more than three decades ago. Mayor Domenic Sarno and other city officials will join family members of Officers Alan Beauregard and Michael Schiavina on Monday for a groundbreaking ceremony […]

MILWAUKEE (AP) — A 26-year-old Milwaukee man is charged in the death of his infant daughter who was burned during a bath. Walter Earl Henderson appeared in court last week on a charge of neglecting a child resulting in death. The Journal Sentinel reports the 6-month-old girl was pronounced dead at Children’s Hospital after two […]

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut officials say they’re able to reopen applications for a state-run child care subsidy program that helps low-income working families. New applications for “Care 4 Kids” were closed to most families in August 2016 after revised federal requirements increased the state’s cost to run the program, which is funded with state […]

Despite a report that the Seahawks are likely to receive penalties for how it enacted the concussion protocol Thursday, the NFL says the investigation is not complete.

Despite a report that the Seahawks are likely to receive penalties for how it enacted the concussion protocol Thursday, the NFL says the investigation is not complete.

If banishment from the greatest country in the world to a place they have never known is not punishment, then what on earth is?

President Donald Trump’s recent declaration of a public-health emergency for the opioid epidemic is mostly meaningless without more dollars for treatment.

The vice president is the ultimate corporate tool. The Koch brothers own him. He has called climate change “a myth” and has helped to plant fossil-fuel toadies in crucial Trump administration posts.

BOSTON (AP) — Republican Gov. Charlie Baker’s administration is touting a five-year, $1 million program that aims to help women entrepreneurs in the life sciences sector. Officials say the public-private partnership known as the Massachusetts Next Generation Initiative will identify women who own or control promising life sciences startup companies. The program, coordinated by the […]

This is a special moment. A torrent of voices being raised against sexual abuse makes a big, sustained push to improve the status of women possible and, I think, likely.

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Supporters of ranked-choice voting are well on their way to collecting enough signatures for a referendum on the issue in June. Under a ranked-choice system, voters would rank candidates in order of preference as a way to ensure a candidate wins majority support. Voters approved the system in 2016, but after […]

FREDERICK, Kan. (AP) — One of Kansas’ tiniest towns has failed again to vote itself out of existence, and the election to decide the fate of another was too close to immediately call. The Hutchinson News reports that measures to dissolve Rice County’s Frederick and Harper County’s Freeport were on the ballot Tuesday. Only a […]

ESPN selects UW-Utah for a 7:30 p.m. start Saturday.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Scott Walker’s refusal to visit Wisconsin’s juvenile prisons, which are under investigation and the target of multiple lawsuits, will be an issue in his re-election, with Democratic challengers saying it epitomizes the Republican’s failed leadership. Walker has never visited the Lincoln Hills or Copper Lake prisons in Irma, about 30 […]

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Police are searching for teenager after a 14-year-old girl was shot in the head in Mississippi. Jackson Police spokesman Sgt. Roderick Holmes says the girl is in critical condition at a local hospital after the shooting occurred around 9 p.m. Saturday. Police are seeking a 15-year-old boy. Commander Tyree Jones says […]

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Records show nearly half of all bears captured by game wardens across New Mexico over the last three years have been released to one northern New Mexico county. According to documents obtained by The Santa Fe New Mexican under an open-records request, the state Department of Game and Fish has […]

For the first time all season, WSU overtook the Huskies in the top 25 rankings. If the Cougars win the Apple Cup (Nov. 25/Time TBA), they'll win the Pac-12 North.

NEW YORK (AP) — A Turkish businessman whose criminal case became a controversy at the highest levels of U.S. and Turkish government probably won’t make it to trial. Even a co-defendant’s lawyer labeled Reza Zarrab the “stealth” defendant after he skipped a pretrial conference three weeks before his trial was to begin on charges he […]

FARGO, N.D. (AP) — Fire officials are crediting a sprinkler system at a Fargo shopping mall with preventing a fire from spreading and causing major damage. The Fargo Fire Department responded to a fire alarm at the Macy’s department store in West Acres about 2:45 a.m. Sunday. When firefighters arrived they discovered a sprinkler head […]

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Challenger Marjan Sarec concedes defeat in Slovenian presidential election, congratulates incumbent Borut Pahor. .