Новости за 01.12.2017

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Authorities say three West Virginia correctional officers are being charged with permitting the escape of an inmate who was captured four days later in Texas as he tried to swim to Mexico. WCHS-TV reports criminal complaints say the three South Central Regional Jail employees being charged with the misdemeanor are 22-year-old […]

Don’t blame agencies In the Op-Ed “State agencies are regulating our jobs out of existence,” the authors blame the Washington State Department of Ecology and other agencies for harming local economies with regulations. While we share their desire for economic growth in rural Washington, it must go hand-in-hand with clean air and water that doesn’t […]

California regulators have nixed a plan to let self-driving car manufacturers evade liability for crashes if the vehicle hasn’t been maintained according to manufacturer specifications. The new rules released this week delete a provision that was suggested by General Motors, according to Consumer Watchdog, a non-profit advocacy group. John Simpson, the group’s privacy and technology […]

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The highest court in Kansas has overturned a man’s 2013 kidnapping conviction in Shawnee County District Court after finding the prosecutor improperly commented about the alleged victim’s credibility to jurors. The Kansas Supreme Court ruled Friday that the prosecutor in the case of Osi Bisa McBride improperly urged the jury to […]

CASA GRANDE, Ariz. (AP) — The bodies of four children have been brought back to Arizona after they perished in a deadly fire in Illinois that also killed their father and stepmother. The Casa Grande Dispatch reports the remains of Ethan Shaw, LeAnne Shaw, Hailey Shaw and Dylan Shaw were brought back to Maricopa this […]

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco police say they are investigating an incident in which at least one officer fired their weapon in the city’s Bayview neighborhood. Television images from the scene show a patrol car with a shattered front passenger-side window and blood splattered on a side door. Local media reported that officers swarmed […]

The field of Democrats in Washington’s nationally watched 8th Congressional District race is shrinking by one. Toby Whitney, an Amazon manager and former congressional aide, announced Friday he’s withdrawing from the 2018 race, citing family concerns. In a statement, Whitney he’d seen “up close the toll that 14-hour days and 7-day weeks can take on […]

As many people as possible are needed to stop sexual harassment, which goes beyond Hollywood and the Beltway into the halls of medicine and elsewhere.

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts police officer has been fired for writing “Hahahaha love this” on Facebook in response to a story about a car striking and killing a counter-protester at a white supremacist rally in Virginia in August. Springfield Police Commissioner John Barbieri announced the firing of Officer Conrad Lariviere on Friday. Barbieri […]

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts police officer has been fired for writing “Hahahaha love this” on Facebook, in response to a story about a car striking and killing a counter-protester at a white supremacist rally in Virginia in August. The Republican newspaper reports that Springfield Police Commissioner John Barbieri announced the firing of Officer […]

CHICAGO (AP) — Cook County prosecutors say they won’t seek a retrial for two men released from prison last week after serving more than two decades behind bars. Prosecutors on Friday dropped murder and rape charges against Nevest Coleman and Darryl Fulton, who were convicted in 1997 for the 1994 rape and murder of Antwinica […]

Bill Gates Sr. has offered lessons in thoughtfulness, honesty, leadership, humility and generosity, and helped millions along the way.

NEW YORK (AP) — A former Hong Kong government official has been denied bail in a U.S. case accusing of him using bribes to secure business deals. Dr. Chi Ping Patrick Ho had been jailed last week after being charged with paying bribes on behalf of a Chinese energy conglomerate to the president of Chad […]

KETCHIKAN, Alaska — Alaska State Troopers have seized methamphetamine welded inside heavy equipment that was shipped to Ketchikan. A 53-year-old Ketchikan man was charged with a felony drug count in the case. Officers from the troopers’ statewide drug enforcement unit, Ketchikan police and the Coast Guard took part in the investigation at a Ketchikan freight […]

KETCHIKAN, Alaska (AP) — Alaska State Troopers have seized methamphetamine welded inside heavy equipment that was shipped to Ketchikan. A 53-year-old Ketchikan man was charged with a felony drug count in the case. Officers from the troopers’ statewide drug enforcement unit, Ketchikan police and the Coast Guard took part in the investigation at a Ketchikan […]

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah authorities say a man in his 80s fearing a doomsday collapse of society spent more than 30 years creating stockpiles of guns, grenades and food in bunkers and cabins he built in the wilderness. Iron County Sheriff’s spokesman Lt. Del Schlosser said Friday that the stockpiles in the forest […]

John Currie was hired by WSU President Kirk Schulz when he was at Kansas State, and they have a long-standing relationship. WSU is still looking for an athletic director. Does one thing lead to the other?

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Two weeks after his bribery trial ended in a hung jury, Sen. Bob Menendez is renewing a request to have the charges thrown out. Attorneys for the New Jersey Democrat filed the motion Thursday. It asks the judge to dismiss all 12 counts against Menendez, and it claims prosecutors didn’t produce […]

PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona lawmaker is proposing a bill against nondisclosure agreements during sexual assault or harassment allegations that would render them useless in the state. The Arizona Republic reports Republican State Rep. Maria Syms pushed for the bill Thursday in order to close a “sexual predator loophole.” Under her proposed bill, nondisclosure agreements […]

The daddy-and-daughter duo will perform at the Bellevue Festival of Nativity, a free event that's open to the public.

GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) — One of two people charged in North Dakota with murder in connection with a large-scale drug ring has been sentenced to life in prison. A jury in October found 35-year-old Modesto Torrez, of Angus, Minnesota, guilty of three charges, including murder in furtherance of a drug conspiracy. Authorities say Torrez […]

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A southern Utah county is suing for control of a canyon road that’s been a longtime flashpoint in the debate over federal control of public lands. San Juan County argues in the Wednesday lawsuit that longtime use of Recapture Canyon road gives them legal title to the road on federal […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump says media speculation that Secretary of State Tillerson will leave job soon is ‘fake news’

OZARK, Mo. (AP) — A circuit clerk’s office in southern Missouri has found that dogs don’t only eat homework, they eat jury questionnaires too. The Springfield News-Leader reports that the Christian County Circuit Court received a chewed-up jury questionnaire several weeks ago, with a note that read: “Sorry for the damage, the dog thought it […]

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The top FBI official in Indianapolis is retiring after 30 years on the job. Jay Abbott, Indianapolis’ special agent in charge, announced Friday he will step down on Jan. 26. He joined the Indianapolis Division in 2014. Abbott joined the FBI in 1987 in the Washington Field Office, where he worked on […]