Новости за 19.12.2017

FREEHOLD, N.J. (AP) — A former New Jersey police officer convicted of helping gang members in investigations has been sentenced to 10 years without parole. Forty-nine-year-old Keith German, a 16-year veteran of the Asbury Park police department, was convicted in September of three counts of official misconduct, including hindering apprehension of gang members, as well […]

BARRE, Vt. (AP) — A Vermont man who admitted to drinking and driving before a crash that paralyzed a passenger has been sentenced to at least eight years in prison. Andrew Baird, of Waitsfield, was sentenced Tuesday in the 2016 crash. WCAX-TV reports in considering the time Baird would serve, the judge says he acknowledged […]

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) — A Springfield attorney has decided to challenge U.S. Rep. Richard Neal in next year’s Democratic primary. Tahirah Amatul-Wadud officially launched her campaign Tuesday with stops across western Massachusetts. Amatul-Wadud is a member of the Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women and a board member for the Massachusetts Council of American-Islamic […]

ST. JOHNSBURY, Vt. (AP) — The owners of a Vermont distillery say they have been forced to close ahead of the holiday season because of an issue with their name change. Dan Hughes, one of the owners of the St. Johnsbury Distillery, tells The Caledonian Record they were issued a cease and desist order from […]

NEW YORK (AP) — A man convicted of fatally shooting a New York City police officer in 2015 has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Demetrius Blackwell was sentenced Tuesday after being convicted of first-degree murder and other charges in the death of Detective Brian Moore. The 25-year-old officer and […]

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A federal appeals court panel has ordered a new trial for a man convicted in the 2012 killings of two co-workers at a Coast Guard communications station in Alaska. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals says James Wells did not receive a fair trial. The Tuesday […]

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon health officials are preparing to transfer Portland-area Medicaid recipients to a new health care provider after their current carrier announced it would likely close. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports the president and CEO of the current provider, FamilyCare, says the company’s chance of survival is “probably about 5 percent at the best.” […]

MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — Missoula airport officials say American Airlines will begin offering year-round flights to Dallas and seasonal flights to Chicago starting this summer. The new flights from the Missoula International Airport were announced on Monday and begin in early June. Airport officials say travelers can already began booking the daily direct flights. The […]

ELKHART, Ind. (AP) — A northern Indiana couple is facing criminal charges in an August hit-and-run that killed two children and an adult. Elkhart County Prosecutor Vicki Becker announced Tuesday that felony charges had been filed against 40-year-old Penelope A. Grosswiler and her 42-year-old husband, Leonard Grosswiler, in the Aug. 26 crash along a street […]

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A panel of state representatives has taken an early step forward in efforts to improve Kentucky’s struggling adoption and foster care system. The bipartisan panel adopted a series of recommendations Tuesday as lawmakers look to offer a bill to make changes to the system. The 2018 legislative session starts in January. […]

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire’s Business and Industry Association is asking the Executive Council to reject the state’s contract with a company to build its statewide public safety communications network. Earlier this month, New Hampshire became the first state to say it will reject the First Responder Network Authority, or FirstNet, the nationwide public […]

JAYESS, Miss. (AP) — Officials say they’ve surrounded a man in a mobile home in rural south Mississippi after he shot and killed another man and wounded a woman. Mississippi Highway Patrol spokesman Warren Strain says officers are on the scene near Jayess in Lawrence County. Strain says the incident began before noon Tuesday, and […]

BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts man convicted of conspiring to behead blogger on behalf of Islamic State group sentenced to 28 years.

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia woman has entered a Kennedy plea in a drunken driving accident that killed two of her young children and injured a third. Media outlets report Siera Lenise Burgess entered the plea Tuesday in Cabell County Circuit Court to two counts of DUI causing death and one count of […]

CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE, N.J. (AP) — One of two men charged in the death of a teenager girl whose remains were found in the crawl space of a vacant New Jersey home has pleaded guilty to first-degree aggravated manslaughter. The Press of Atlantic City reports that the plea entered Tuesday by Charles Mosley at […]

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Gov. Larry Hogan has announced $461 million in new traffic relief initiatives for the Baltimore region. Hogan said Tuesday it includes adding lanes to 27 miles of highway to reduce congestion on the Baltimore Beltway and Interstate 95. Part of the plan includes $151 million for congestion relief on both the […]

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A Feb. 17 special election has been set to fill a southeast Louisiana-based House seat. Rep. Chris Broadwater, a Hammond Republican, has announced he is stepping down, saying that the job is taking too much time away from his family. He intends to leave the House no later than March […]

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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota’s Department of Health commissioner is resigning. Gov. Mark Dayton’s office announced Tuesday that Commissioner Ed Ehlinger would step down. Ehlinger had been head of the state’s health oversight board since 2011. The announcement didn’t specify why Ehlinger was resigning but it follows reporting by the Star Tribune on serious […]

EASTON, Md. (AP) — Maryland State Police say a civilian helicopter pilot for the agency has been charged with possessing child pornography. Troopers said in a statement that 36-year-old David Eldredge of Preston was arrested Tuesday at the aviation command in Easton. State police say an investigator received information about child pornography being uploaded from […]

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A legislative panel signed off on legislation to protect civil liberties on the campuses of Utah’s nine public universities and to encourage colleges to defend students’ constitutional rights. The Deseret News reports the Administrative Rules Committee passed a bill and resolution Monday aimed at safeguarding the rights outlined in the […]

LOGAN, Utah (AP) — A teenager accused of encouraging a plot that left a 14-year-old girl with a gunshot wound to the head has agreed to plea deal. Seventeen-old Jayzon Decker faces up to life in prison after pleading guilty Tuesday to attempted aggravated murder and obstruction of justice. Prosecutors say Decker and his friend […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — So what’s in the massive $1.5 trillion Republican tax package, what’s not and what does it mean for most Americans? The complex legislation, weeks in the making, scales back the popular deduction for state and local taxes, bad news for Americans in some of the wealthiest suburbs of New York, New Jersey […]

SHALLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina sheriff’s deputy shot a dog after it attacked his dog as they went to serve a warrant. The Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office told local media outlets that the suspect fled as the deputy approached the home on Monday to serve a warrant for failure to appear in court […]

CHICAGO (AP) — A Maryland man has pleaded guilty in Chicago federal court to running a hacker-for-hire service that shut down websites and affected people around the world. Twenty-year-old Zachary Buchta of Fallston, Maryland, pleaded guilty Tuesday to one count of conspiracy to commit damage to protected computers. Buchta admitted in a plea agreement that […]