Новости за 21.12.2017

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Three foreign companies are setting up manufacturing operations in North Carolina in return for millions of dollars in tax breaks. A state committee on Thursday approved incentives for Sunrise Global Marketing and Tristone Flowtech USA, both of which forecast lower-than-average salaries compared to the counties where they’re locating. Sunrise is part […]

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — A report finds that incidents of alleged abuse and neglect of residents under the care of the Illinois Department of Human Services have increased by half since 2010 and the time it takes to completely investigate them has grown. The audit released Thursday by Auditor General Frank Mautino (maw-TEE’-noh) reports that […]

HARRISON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Selfridge Air National Guard Base in suburban Detroit has lost out on a bid for F-35A Lightning, the nation’s newest fighter aircraft. The Air Force announced Thursday it has selected Truax Field Air National Guard Base in Wisconsin and Dannelly Field in Alabama as the preferred locations for the next […]

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The Pennsylvania Department of Health is citing a hospital for restraining a patient who later died from a brain injury. PennLive.com reported Thursday the health department found Geisinger Holy Spirit Hospital “failed to protect the patient’s safety” when they restrained the patient Sept. 26. The department says staff at the Cumberland […]

FARMINGTON, Pa. (AP) — Two workers have been airlifted from a Pennsylvania resort after equipment they were using overturned near a bungee jump ride. A spokeswoman for Nemacolin Woodlands Resort says a lift the workers were standing toppled over at about 11 a.m. Thursday. She says they were flown by two helicopters to a hospital […]

For nearly 50 years, the National Transportation Safety Board has been pushing railroads to implement critical speed-control technology in trains. The agency says it could’ve prevented 150 crashes since 1970. But despite the overwhelming evidence it could save lives, Congress extended the deadlines for railroads to implement positive train control. All the while, new high-speed […]

STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) — An 82-year-old Stamford woman has been charged with assault after an October accident in a parking lot that left one person injured and 12 cars damaged. Police say Mercedes Garcia surrendered Thursday after being informed there was a warrant for her arrest. Police say Garcia backed into one parked car in […]

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Authorities in central California say someone is randomly shooting at vehicles and that at least 10 have been struck by bullets. No major injuries have been reported. Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims said Thursday a woman who was sitting in one of the vehicles was wounded by shrapnel. Mims says detectives […]

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — State officials say food stamp benefits will be restored by this week for tens of thousands of Illinois households that lost them because of problems with a state computer system. The Chicago Tribune reports that officials with Illinois Department of Human Services announced Thursday that the benefits would be restored by […]

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The Providence School Board has hired six “culture coordinators” for the city’s middle schools in an effort to reduce student absenteeism. Democratic Mayor Jorge Elorza and Superintendent Chris Maher announced the hiring of the six new culture coordinators on Thursday. The goal is to promote student engagement through the coordinators, who […]

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The police chief in Mississippi’s capital and most populous city says he will retire before the year’s end. Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba told The Clarion-Ledger on Wednesday that Jackson Police Chief Lee Vance will retire by the end of the month. Vance says he and Lumumba spoke and decided together […]

WEST POINT, Miss. (AP) — A 37-year-old Mississippi woman has been arrested for capital murder after investigators concluded she set a house fire that killed her disabled father-in-law on Thanksgiving. Latoria Brownlee is accused of the murder of William Brownlee, Sr., who died in a fire in his home. She was arrested Wednesday and denied […]

Senator Cantwell, a longtime supporter of truck, rail, and port infrastructure, mentions recent rail accidents in seeking a congressional review of Amtrak safety.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Shawnee County authorities say a 21-year-old man has been charged with killing a 5-year-old girl in a drive-by shooting. Jessie Deshawn Hughes, of Topeka, was charged Thursday with one count of felony first-degree murder in the 2015 shooting death of 5-year-old Lily Coats-Nichols. He was also charged with criminal discharge of […]

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut residents without health insurance are being urged to sign up for coverage before the state’s midnight deadline Friday night. Democratic Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman stressed Thursday how elimination of the health insurance mandate in the new Republican tax bill “doesn’t have any bearing on next year” and residents must be […]

BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) — A new report says summer fires cost the state of Montana $240 million in visitor spending. The Bozeman Daily Chronicle reports preliminary date released by the University of Montana’s Institute for Tourism and Recreational Research estimates that tourists spent almost $3.3 billion in Montana this year, supporting more than 53,000 jobs. […]

ESSEX, Vt. (AP) — Police in Vermont say an investigation into a one-vehicle accident that killed two people shows the driver was speeding and under the influence of alcohol or drugs. The crash happened on Sept. 26 in Essex on Fort Parkway at Ethan Allen Avenue. Police identified the victims as 21-year-old Nicholas Lizewski and […]

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A 62-year-old Topeka man has admitted stabbing two men to death in September in Topeka. Maximo Campillo-Echevarria pleaded guilty Thursday to murder in the deaths of 61-year-old Thomas Paul O’Conner and 22-year-old Chance Christian Clark, who was dismembered. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports Campillo-Echevarria pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in the O’Conner […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Move over, Alexa. While Amazon pioneered the internet-connected speaker that responds to voice commands, it now has plenty of competition from other tech heavyweights. Even the original Amazon Echo has six Alexa-powered alternatives vying for your attention and dollars. Digital assistants on these speakers — Amazon’s Alexa, Google Assistant, Microsoft’s Cortana […]

CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Three months after they became legal, sales of recreational marijuana in Nevada are continuing to outpace projections. The Nevada Department of Taxation says the $27.7 million in sales reported for September was down from the $33 million reported in August, but $5 million more than the state had anticipated. The […]

With Congress sending President Donald Trump a tax overhaul, state and local governments are preparing for some fallout. A look at some of the ways it might affect them: FEDERAL-STATE CONNECTIONS The federal tax overhaul will force officials in most states to decide whether to apply similar changes to their own income taxes. Most Read […]

LYSANDER, N.Y. (AP) — Police in central New York are investigating a head-on crash that killed two men. The Onondaga County Sheriff’s Office says a westbound Chevy pickup truck collided with an eastbound Mercury sedan on Route 370 in Lysander around 12:30 Thursday afternoon. Both drivers were pronounced dead at the scene. The names of […]

PUEBLO, Colo. (AP) — The Colorado Bureau of Investigation is reviewing a shooting by a sheriff’s deputy during a traffic stop that ended with three people fleeing. Police say Otero County Sheriff’s Office deputies pulled over one man and two women in a Nissan Sentra around 12:30 a.m. on Thursday in Swink. It’s not clear […]

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota’s health insurance exchange says it has signed up more than 108,000 residents in health plans. Open enrollment in Minnesota continues through January 14. But Wednesday’s deadline for coverage effective in the New Year helped MNsure hit a new high watermark for registrations. MNsure chief executive Allison O’Toole said Thursday […]

BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts Institute of Technology janitor facing deportation to El Salvador has been released from a Boston jail. Francisco Rodriguez-Guardado was released by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Thursday after being held since July at the Suffolk County House of Corrections. His lawyers say his removal proceedings have been stayed pending […]