Новости за 02.12.2017

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Protesters fired up by President Donald Trump’s expected announcement to shrink two national monuments in Utah are rallying in Salt Lake City. The Salt Lake Tribune reports dozens of people have converged on the steps of the Utah State Capitol Saturday afternoon to denounce Trump’s decision. Many chanted and held […]

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval’s committee exploring the effects of recreational marijuana on the gambling industry is wrestling with how the state’s casinos might deal with the pot business while not running afoul of federal law. Lured by a potential economic impact in the tens of millions of dollars, the Gaming Policy […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — One contender to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will keep fighting to get the job after suffering a legal setback. In court papers filed Friday, Leandra English says she will seek a preliminary injunction in her quest to block the man President Donald Trump tapped to run the nation’s top financial […]

OXFORD, Ohio (AP) — Miami University in southwest Ohio has a historical handful with five siblings from one family taking classes at the same time. The Ridge family — 24-year-old Connor, 22-year-old twins Hannah and Christian, 21-year-old Cameron and 18-year-old Olivia — are all enrolled in either graduate or undergraduate classes at Miami’s main campus […]

OXFORD, Ohio (AP) — Miami University in southwest Ohio has a historical handful with five siblings from one family taking classes at the same time. Christian, Olivia, Hannah, Cameron and Connor Ridge, all of Middletown, are simultaneously enrolled in undergraduate or graduate classes at the university’s main Oxford campus and its regional campus in Middletown. […]

OXFORD, Ohio (AP) — Miami University in southeast Ohio has a historical handful with five siblings from one family taking classes at the same time. Christian, Olivia, Hannah, Cameron and Connor Ridge, all of Middletown, are simultaneously enrolled in undergraduate or graduate classes at the university’s main Oxford campus and its regional campus in Middletown. […]

ORONO, Maine (AP) — A new designation for the University of Maine includes $25 million in funding over five years from the Department of Energy. U.S. Sens. Susan Collins and Angus King announced this week that the federal agency has identified UMaine as Combined Heat and Power Technical Assistance Partnership. The idea is to advance […]

THORNDIKE, Maine (AP) — A Maine woman charged with manslaughter after a woman died during a home invasion in Burnham is set to plead guilty. WABI-TV reports that 37-year-old Tara Shibles plans to change her plea as part of a deal where she will be sent to jail for 10 months. Police say that Shibles […]

FARGO, N.D. (AP) — No players were hurt after a bus carrying the Minnesota State University Moorhead men’s basketball team rear-ended a mini-van on Interstate 94 in eastern North Dakota. KFGO radio reports that the accident happened Friday afternoon west of Jamestown as the team was heading to a game at the University of Mary […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump changed his story Saturday on why he fired Michael Flynn as his national security adviser, now suggesting he knew at the time that Flynn had lied to the FBI as well as to Vice President Mike Pence about his contacts with Russians during the presidential transition. That was a […]

COLONIAL HEIGHTS, Va. (AP) — A central Virginia mall has been evacuated while police investigate a shooting that happened inside. TV station WWBT reports the shooting happened between 1 and 2 p.m. Saturday at the Southpark Mall in Colonial Heights, about 20 miles south of Richmond. A Colonial Heights police officer says a man was […]

LYNDONVILLE, VT. (AP) — Police are investigating a fatal crash in Vermont that left a middle-aged woman dead on the side of the road. Vermont police say they found the woman dead on the east side of the road on Saturday morning in Lyndonville north of Route 114. Police say they have not found the […]

LORDSTOWN, Ohio (AP) — Authorities are trying to determine how a man’s body found inside a roll-off container at a northeast Ohio construction landfill got there. The body was discovered Friday morning at the Trumbull County landfill as a driver prepared to unload debris hauled from a construction site in Ravenna. Law enforcement authorities say […]

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The New Hampshire Department of Corrections says it has confiscated substances suspected to be drugs at correctional facilities. The department’s spokesman said investigators on Friday found 4.6 grams of a white substance suspected to be cocaine at the New Hampshire State Prison in Concord. A suspect had returned to the facility […]

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Just weeks after Wilbert Jones was exonerated and released from prison after serving nearly 46 years for rape, prosecutors have asked the Supreme Court to reinstate his conviction. Multiple media outlets report East Baton Rouge Parish prosecutors Friday urged the Louisiana Supreme Court to reinstate Jones’ 1974 conviction in the […]

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A 5-year-old Herriman boy who was found unconscious in a bathtub has died from his injuries. KSL-TV in Salt Lake City reports that Unified police confirmed the boy died around 2 a.m. Saturday at Primary Children’s Hospital. Authorities say the boy’s father found him in the bathtub Thursday night and […]

CARLSBAD, N.M. (AP) — Officials are hoping efforts to save a rare mussel found in southeast New Mexico could lead to restoring a struggling river back to its past strength. The Carlsbad Current-Argus reports a stretch of the Black River south of Carlsbad is home to about 48,000 Texas hornshell mussels. Hornshells were once plentiful […]

The Seahawks are five-point home underdogs entering their Sunday Night Football showdown with the 10-1 Eagles. Here's what needs to happen to pull off the upset.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska death row inmate whose case inspired the 1999 movie “Boys Don’t Cry” is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to take up his challenge to his death sentence. The Lincoln Journal Star reports that John Lotter is asking the country’s highest court to review a U.S. 8th Circuit Court of […]

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — The state has dismissed the majority of claims made against a Lewiston doctor who faced allegations of poor patient care. The Maine Board of Dental Practice found Friday the state didn’t provide enough evidence supporting most remaining claims made against dentist Jan Kippax. The dentist’s license was temporarily suspended license this […]

NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) — Police say two women face charges after Newport’s famous Cliff Walk was vandalized with spray paint. Newport police say Jocelyn Senecal and Jenna Senecal, both 22 and from East Providence, turned themselves in Saturday morning. They were both charged with graffiti and conspiracy, which are misdemeanors. The women were released and […]

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah officials are warning that a program that insures thousands of lower-income children in the state could end early next year without more federal funding. KUTV in Salt Lake City reports that the Utah Department of Health stated on its website Friday that the program can only last through January […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Brushing aside an ongoing Russia probe, President Donald Trump reveled Saturday in the Senate’s passage of a sweeping tax bill, predicting with swagger that he and his fellow Republicans were “unbeatable.” Trump swept into his hometown on a $6 million fundraising blitz, a day after former national security adviser Michael Flynn […]

If the Eagles fulfill Vegas’ faith in them and emerge with a significant victory over a 7-4 Seattle team, Seahawks’ historians might someday view this week as one in which things began to change forever.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Authorities are investigating the death of a 4-year-old child in western Iowa. Des Moines television station KCCI reports that the death occurred Friday in Carroll after police there received a report around 7 a.m. of a child not breathing. Carroll Police Chief Brad Burke says officers arrived at the home […]