Новости за 20.12.2017

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Wildlife managers under the Trump administration are moving to loosen contentious endangered-species protections for Utah prairie dogs, flipping the script in a face off over federal policies. A new U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plan would allow prairie dogs to be killed or removed from private property, relaxing federal regulations […]

LONDON (AP) — UK First Secretary of State Damian Green resigns amid allegations of pornography found on office computer in 2008.

HERNANDO, Miss. (AP) — DeSoto County Coroner Jeffrey Pounders, the longest-serving elected official in the county, has died. The Clarion-Ledger reports Sheriff Bill Rasco confirmed the death Monday. Pounders was 63. Rasco says authorities who had been trying to reach Pounders found him dead at his home in the Nesbit area. He says the death […]

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Clark County has scrapped the idea of building an elevated expressway that leads to McCarran International Airport. The proposed expressway, which would have cost an estimated $200 million, was touted by officials as the best option for managing airport traffic. The county held a public meeting in August and accepted public […]

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan’s unemployment rate rose by one-tenth of a percentage point to 4.6 percent in November when the number of people in the state’s workforce rose by 17,000. Figures released Wednesday by the Michigan Department of Technology, Management & Budget show Michigan’s November unemployment rate was half of a percentage point above […]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio community 30 miles west of Columbus will soon vote on whether to dissolve their village into a nearby township or keep its local authority. Alexandria Mayor Andy Hallam tells The Columbus Dispatch the village council approved placing the issue on the May 8 ballot Monday. If dissolution is approved, […]

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire’s Republican governor is standing by his decision to reject a public safety communications system approved by dozens of other states amid concerns about coverage and costs. The First Responder Network Authority, or FirstNet, was created in response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, when some police and fire departments […]

CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) — Cooper University Health System has filed a lawsuit to recover $15 million in escrow after it failed to acquire three Catholic hospitals in New Jersey. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports the Camden-based system filed the lawsuit Monday after it decided against acquiring Lourdes Health System and St. Francis Medical Center from Trinity […]

Washington freshman tight end Hunter Bryant, out since late October with a knee injury, has returned to practice and could be available when the Huskies play Penn State in the Dec. 30 Fiesta Bowl, UW coach Chris Petersen said Wednesday. Bryant, a 6-foot-2, 239-pound tight end out of Eastside Catholic High, has a limited participant […]

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s state television says that a magnitude 5.2 earthquake has jolted a town near the country’s capital. The report says the quake rocked Meshkindasht, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) southwest of Tehran, at 23:28 Wednesday local time. There were no immediate reports of casualties or major damage. The quake was felt […]

Even more so than most movie franchises, “Pitch Perfect” is the same movie over and over, until the end of time and everybody dies, in which case “Pitch Perfect 45: A-Ca-Wait-Are-We-Dead?” might be a thing. 1.5 stars out of 4.

JAYESS, Miss. (AP) — Authorities are searching for a Mississippi man who they say shot and killed a neighbor, set two houses on fire, and then vanished into rural south Mississippi woodlands. Lawrence County Sheriff Lessie Butler tells local media that the search for 56-year-old Tony Wilson resumed Wednesday morning after being suspended at about […]

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska political leaders are hailing as historic the passage of federal legislation that will allow for oil and gas drilling in a portion of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The state’s Republican congressional delegation see it as a win decades in the making, one they say will provide a boost for […]

URBANA, Ohio (AP) — A 15-year-old Ohio boy charged as an adult in the slaying of his father’s longtime girlfriend has pleaded not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity to aggravated murder and murder charges. Donovan Nicholas entered the not-guilty pleas on Tuesday in Champaign County Common Pleas Court. He was 14 on […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Republican Roy Moore and hasn’t conceded his 20,000-vote loss to Democrat Doug Jones in Alabama’s Senate race, and provisional ballots and military votes totals announced Wednesday aren’t enough for Moore to close the deficit. Jones beat Moore on Dec. 12 to become the first Democrat elected to the Senate from Alabama […]

BIXBY, Okla. (AP) — A prosecutor says it’s been “frustratingly difficult” obtaining key details from an Oklahoma school district being investigated for failing to immediately alert police after a 16-year-old football player said he was sexually assaulted by several teammates. Prosecutor Matt Ballard in a statement Wednesday addressed criticism from Bixby school board members who […]

A man who prosecutors say posed as a physician and treated patients in southeastern Virginia has been arrested in Kansas. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia says in a news release that 30-year-old Vishal Patel of Glen Allen Was arrested Tuesday by Drug Enforcement Administration agents in Overland Park, Kansas. According […]

CANCUN, Mexico (AP) — Mexican state prosecutor: Bus crash that killed 12 caused by driver’s negligence and excess of speed.

NORTH HAVERHILL, N.H. (AP) — A grand jury has returned indictments charging a man with killing his 70-year-old mother in her room at a hospital intensive care unit. The Grafton County grand jury on Friday indicted 49-year-old Travis Frink, of Warwick, Rhode Island, on a first-degree murder. It alleges that he purposely caused the death […]

ELKHART, Ind. (AP) — A northern Indiana couple charged in an August hit-and-run that killed two children and an adult have surrendered to authorities. Elkhart police say 40-year-old Penelope Grosswiler and 42-year-old Leonard Grosswiler of Elkhart surrendered Wednesday at the Elkhart County Correction Facility. She’s being held on a $100,000 bond and he’s held on […]

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska State Patrol trooper has been fired and two officers have stepped down following a probe into allegations that the agency mishandled internal investigations. Patrol Superintendent John Bolduc announced Wednesday that one lieutenant colonel retired, one sergeant resigned and one trooper was fired. Additionally, two officers were demoted and two […]

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island officials warn many medical marijuana cultivators will fail under the state’s current setup. The Providence Journal reports 18 businesses have been approved to sell marijuana to the state’s three dispensaries. Another 93 applicants are currently in the process of acquiring a license. Democratic Rep. Scott Slater expressed his concerns […]

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Gov. Dannel P. Malloy says his administration is closing one of 10 housing units at the Manson Youth Institution, a juvenile detention facility in Cheshire. The Democratic governor said Wednesday the planned closure will save the state of Connecticut more than $600,000 in annual operating costs. The Manson Youth Institution, a […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Speaker Paul Ryan has wanted to change the federal tax system since he arrived in Congress in 1999. So he couldn’t resist a victory lap when the House approved the Republican $1.5 trillion tax bill twice this week, happily gaveling each vote to a close and announcing its passage. Most agree the […]

OGDEN, Utah (AP) — Ogden City Council has passed an ordinance that will allow backyard chickens in the city. The Standard-Examiner reports the city council approved the ordinance in a 4-3 vote on Tuesday. The ordinance had overwhelming support from residents who came to speak on it at the meeting. Ogden residents will be allowed […]