Новости за 19.03.2018

DETROIT (AP) — Foster Loyer is Mr. Basketball, getting twice as many first-place votes as any other candidate. The award honoring the state’s top senior basketball player was announced Monday by the Basketball Coaches Association of Michigan and the Detroit Free Press. Loyer, a 6-foot point guard, has signed with Michigan State. He will join […]

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A legal battle over the storage of more than 3 million tons of coal ash in Virginia is headed to a federal appeals court. The case pits the Sierra Club against the state’s largest electric utility. A federal judge ruled last year that arsenic is flowing from a site where Dominion […]

LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — U.S. family-owned promotional products company Geiger is buying the largest family-owned promotional products distributor in the United Kingdom. CEO Gene Geiger said Monday the merger with BTC Group expands the company’s footprint in Europe. The new company, Geiger BTC Group, will have nearly 400 employees. Financial terms weren’t disclosed. Geiger told […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The polarizing politics of abortion have burst into the congressional budget debate, overwhelming bipartisan efforts to help millions of consumers who buy their own health insurance policies get relief from soaring premiums. On Monday, Senate and House Republicans released their latest plan to stabilize the Affordable Care Act’s insurance markets. It provides […]

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota’s Senate has signed off on $10 million in emergency funding to fix the state’s troubled new driver’s registration system. The Senate approved a bill Monday to fund repairs to the new platform known as MNLARS on a 47-20 vote. It also includes some new oversight measures like a legislative […]

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Some coastal states opposed to President Donald Trump’s plan to allow oil and gas drilling off most of the nation’s coastline are fighting back with state laws designed to thwart the proposal. They’ve come up with what amounts to a back-door ban on drilling by making it difficult, if not […]

PHOENIX (AP) — One of three firefighters who suffered burns battling a brush fire outside Yuma remains hospitalized. Authorities say two State Forestry firefighters were burned last Friday after falling into an ash pit 14 miles northeast of Yuma. They say one firefighter suffered second- and third-degree burns and was flown to a Phoenix burn […]

ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A man arrested when he and a teenager were found in Mexico almost two weeks after he checked her out of her Pennsylvania school has waived extradition to Pennsylvania. An official with the state attorney’s office in Miami said 45-year-old Kevin Esterly appeared in a Dade County courtroom Monday and agreed […]

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A powerful panel that can alter the Florida Constitution is working on a final set of proposals to go on the 2018 ballot. The Florida Constitution Revision Commission on Monday began deliberating nearly 40 proposals dealing with everything from loopholes to state election laws to the retirement age of judges. The […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court is keeping in place a revised map of Pennsylvania’s congressional districts, turning down a request from Republican leaders in the state Legislature. The court’s order Monday declining to put on hold the revised map comes as incumbents and potential challengers are circulating petitions to get on the May […]

MADRID (AP) — Spanish police say the man suspected of plotting an ISIS-inspired attack in Colombia appeared on their radar for his hate-filled messages toward the United States, a country where he had lived and was allegedly trying to get to. A Colombian judge jailed Raul Gutierrez last week on terrorism and conspiracy charges. On […]

Organizers of the North American bid to host the 2026 World Cup insist FIFA members have not expressed concern about President Donald Trump’s harsh words about foreigners or the U.S. Justice Department prosecuting corrupt soccer officials. “Look, this is not geopolitics,” new U.S. Soccer Federation President Carlos Cordeiro said Monday during a conference call. “We’re […]

HAVANA (AP) — Cuba has opened up its first wholesale market in an economy dominated by government-run enterprises. State-run newspaper Granma says the market is part of an ongoing effort to “reorganize” commerce on the communist island. The market will sell beans, beer, sugar, cigars and other basic staples for 20 to 30 percent less […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — US Supreme Court turns down Republican leaders’ request to put new Pennsylvania congressional map on hold.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The North Dakota Supreme Court is hearing arguments in a lawsuit filed by the Republican-led Legislature challenging the veto powers of Gov. Doug Burgum. Lawmakers allege the Republican governor violated his line-item veto power last spring by deleting words or phrases on several spending bills in a way that changed intent. […]

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — A lawyer for laid-off prison workers said Monday he’s growing impatient over Gov. Paul LePage’s delayed response to a judge’s conclusion that he lacked authority to empty a prison in eastern Maine. Superior Court Justice Michaela Murphy ruled last week that LePage didn’t have authority to shutter Downeast Correctional Facility last […]

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The Palestinian president has called the U.S. ambassador to Israel a “son of a dog,” in an angry rant against the Trump administration. In a speech Monday, President Mahmoud Abbas pre-emptively rejected an expected White House peace proposal. He criticized the U.S. recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, the American […]

FORT CARSON, Colo. (AP) — Burning tires and trash are keeping a few residents from going home after a wildfire started on a southern Colorado Army post and spread across the post boundary, destroying three homes and several vehicles. Fort Carson spokeswoman Brandy Gill said Monday investigators haven’t announced the cause of the fire or […]

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A departing North Carolina Democratic legislator is now a state parole board member. The state Senate received Sen. Angela Bryant’s resignation letter Monday, the same day Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper announced appointing Bryant to the state Post-Release Supervision & Parole Commission. Bryant said last month she wouldn’t seek re-election this fall, […]

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia medical marijuana advocates are outraged over the apparent stalling of a proposal that would expand the state’s medical cannabis oil program to include those who are suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder or chronic pain. Advocates and lawmakers held a news conference inside the state Capitol on Monday and questioned why the […]

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A detention hearing for rapper Juelz Santana has been postponed until authorities decide who will prosecute the drug and gun charges he faces following an incident at Newark Liberty International Airport. A judge was due to decide Monday whether Santana would remain jailed until his trial. Officials say that hearing will […]

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Our first known interstellar visitor likely came from a two-star system. That’s the latest from astronomers who were amazed by the mysterious cigar-shaped object, detected as it passed through our inner solar system last fall. The University of Toronto’s Alan Jackson reported Monday that the asteroid — the first confirmed […]

An option on Justin Britt's contract has been picked. That and a few other notes as the free agent period enters its second week.

FRANKLIN, Ind. (AP) — An Indiana county is planning to install three permanent gates that can be used to close roads that frequently flood to prevent drivers from going into floodwaters. Johnson County Sheriff’s Office Chief Deputy Col. Randy Werden tells the Daily Journal that his department has few options to make sure drivers stay […]

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — A 26-year-old Colorado woman has been sentenced to eight years in prison for leaving her two young children locked in a bedroom for days while she traveled out of state in March 2017. Kanesha Godin of Fountain was sentenced Friday for felony child abuse. Prosecutors say she asked a fellow […]