Новости за 24.11.2017

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A former state official who alleges he was pressured by then-Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad to resign because of his sexual orientation plans to take his discrimination lawsuit to trial next year in a case closely watched by government agencies that fear it could open the door to a flood of […]

INKSTER, Mich. (AP) — The Michigan appeals court has affirmed the conviction of a Detroit-area police officer whose bloody beating of a motorist was recorded on dash-cam video and led to a $1.4 million settlement. The decision this week comes months after William Melendez was released from prison. He served 14 months in jail and […]

COOS BAY, Ore. (AP) — The U.S. Geological Survey has recorded a 4.7-magnitude earthquake in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Oregon. The temblor struck Friday at 9:36 a.m., about 108 miles (174 kilometers) west of Coos Bay. It occurred at a depth of 6.2 miles (10 kilometers). There have been no reports of […]

GILLETTE, Wyo. (AP) — A 22-year-old Wyoming man has been sentenced to 28 to 35 years in prison for shooting at two law enforcement officers with a high-powered rifle, hitting their vehicles. The Gillette News Record reports Brandon Daly pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree murder for shooting at a Campbell County sheriff’s deputy […]

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poles in cities across the country are on the streets protesting plans by the ruling party to push through new laws that would give it greater control over the courts and the national election commission. The demonstrators rallied late Friday under the slogan “free courts, free elections, free Poland,” after lawmakers […]

PHOENIX (AP) — Phoenix police say a man crashed a car through a home’s block fence and partially into a swimming pool after driving away from a nearby parking lot at high speed. Sgt. Alan Pfohl says the man ran from the scene Friday but has been identified, while a woman and a 3-year-old child […]

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — The head of the Arizona National Guard is fighting to keep attack helicopters stationed near Tucson as the Army plans to move most to active-duty units. The Arizona Daily Star reports that Air Force Maj. Gen. Michael T. McGuire says the potential loss of the 400-member Apache combat unit at Silverbell […]

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina agency says a spreadsheet containing personal information for nearly 6,000 people was sent in error to a vendor in an unencrypted email. Multiple media outlets reported Friday that the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services is telling the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for […]

GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — A county in southern Oregon has declared a housing emergency. The Daily Courier reports the Josephine County Board of Commissioners took the action this week, hoping to get state assistance and suspend some state rules to address housing problems. A housing crunch caused by an increasing population and depressed housing […]

President Trump? Many instances and allegations of sexual assault by prominent well-known men are now coming to light, resulting in quick punishment such as being fired from their positions of power or resignation by the perpetrators. Why is President Donald Trump apparently successful at avoiding similar treatment? He has denied many of the allegations though […]

David Cassidy, Bobby Sherman, Davy Jones and all the other guys in bell bottoms with Pepsodent smiles were that beloved buffer between innocence and awakening.

WILLIMANTIC, Conn. (AP) — A Willimantic man is being held on a $1 million bond, facing sexual assault-related charges stemming from an investigation into an alleged underage prostitution ring. Thirty-eight-year-old Devin Quirk, formerly of Hartford, appeared Friday in Hartford Superior Court on charges of first-degree sexual assault, risk of injury to a child, patronizing a […]

The embers of unwanted physical aggression are being stirred up in a wide range of workplaces as victims’ fear of reprisal appears to be diminishing.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A top Republican Oklahoma House leader says work already is underway on potential changes to a broad tax-increase plan to shore up the state’s budget and generate funding for a teacher pay raise. Majority Floor Leader Jon Echols said Friday he’s remaining in touch with the governor’s office and that he’s […]

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Celebrities have reinvigorated the fight to free a Tennessee woman imprisoned for life after she shot and killed a man who solicited her as a prostitute in 2004. On social media, Rihanna, Snoop Dogg, Kim Kardashian West, Lebron James and others have said Cyntoia Brown was a 16-year-old sex trafficking victim […]

KALISPELL, Mont. (AP) — The Flathead County sheriff’s office has released the names of a Kalispell couple killed in a crash west of the city earlier this week. The Daily Inter Lake reports 31-year-old Justin Edward Novak and 33-year-old Rose Marie Novak died at about 1:30 a.m. Tuesday when the vehicle they were in hit […]

CLEVELAND (AP) — Injured point guard Derrick Rose has been excused from the Cavaliers to handle a personal matter. A team spokesman said Friday that Rose, who has been sidelined with an ankle injury, has not been with the team since Wednesday and there is no timetable on when he’ll return. ESPN is reporting that […]

SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) — Volunteers and school officials are teaming up to give laptop computers to Sonoma County teacher and students who lost all their belongings in last month’s deadly wildfires. The Santa Rosa Press Democrat reports the Sonoma County Office of Education and the Volunteer Center of Sonoma County teamed up to provide […]

When Facebook decides which speech is welcome and who can be banned, democracy begins a slippery slide from its founding principles.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — One man has been arrested for driving under the influence and another driver is seriously injured following a car crash in Rhode Island on Thanksgiving Day. Police responded to the crash on the southbound section of Interstate-95 in Providence around 2 p.m. Thursday. Authorities say 28-year-old Thomas Donaldson had suddenly changed […]

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A central Montana county has settled a lawsuit filed by a funeral home in Lewistown because the coroner’s office was housed in a funeral home owned by the coroner. Fergus County Attorney Kent Sipe tells The Billings Gazette that the county will pay $5,000 to Creel Funeral Home and move the […]

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Police in Jackson are investigating after an officer fired shots when a person pointed a handgun during a traffic stop. Jackson Police spokesman Sgt. Roderick Holmes said the incident occurred Saturday morning. Holmes said the car’s passenger was acting suspiciously and then pointed a handgun at the officer. The officer fired […]

LEESBURG, Va. (AP) — Police in Virginia was investigating the death of a teenager who was found not breathing at a mental health treatment center in northern Virginia. Kraig Troxell is a spokesman for the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office. He tells The Washington Post on Friday that the youth died at a hospital, where he […]

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Maps obtained by a Salt Lake City newspaper show that Kane County officials suggested to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke that the nearly 2 million acre Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah could be shrunk to about one-tenth the size. The Salt Lake Tribune reports the map reduced the monument […]

MIDDLESEX, N.C. (AP) — Police say one person is unaccounted for after an explosion at a North Carolina plant. Authorities in Nash County told local media outlets that a fire tank exploded at Pennco, Inc., on U.S. Highway 264 in Middlesex on Friday. The fire marshal said two people were on duty at the time […]