Новости за 22.03.2018

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The effects of global warming are hardly an abstraction along the Louisiana coast, where officials have begun buying land on higher ground to relocate an entire town being swallowed by higher seas. The Louisiana Office of Community Development said Tuesday that it will spend $11.7 million on a 515-acre (208-hectare) tract […]

PHOENIX (AP) — Public school supporters won a major victory Wednesday in their bid to block Arizona’s massive school voucher expansion law when the state Supreme Court ruled voters could decide the issue in November. The high court’s decision was also a major loss for Republican Gov. Doug Ducey, Republican state lawmakers and school choice […]

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The father of a 16-year-old girl who was tortured and starved to death is pleading guilty to three counts of assault while participating in a felony causing a serious injury. The Des Moines Register reports that 47-year-old Joseph Finn II appeared in court Wednesday to plead to the charges, which […]

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan’s Legislature has passed a statewide ban on the antidepressant tianeptine sodium. House lawmakers voted 102-6 Wednesday to classify the drug as a Schedule II controlled substance, placing it in the same highly restrictive category that cocaine, marijuana and opiates fall under. The bill cleared the Senate last month and now […]

BALTIMORE (AP) — A rare $1,000 bill from 1863 is expected to sell for about $1 million at an auction in Baltimore. Stack’s Bowers Galleries says the bill is one of only two of its kind available to collectors. The U.S. Treasury Department says thousand-dollar bills haven’t been printed in the U.S. since 1945 . […]

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A southern Missouri couple has been sentenced in a sexual abuse case involving a young girl who lived with them. Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley announced Wednesday that 55-year-old David Bauer was sentenced to 15 years in prison for first-degree statutory sodomy. His wife, 33-year-old Tiffany Bauer, was sentenced to […]

TARRANT, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama man who led police to his wife’s remains two years after she went missing has pleaded guilty in her shooting death. Jefferson County Deputy District Attorney Shawn Allen said Wednesday that 45-year-old Joseph Sylvester Poe III was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole on an […]

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says that the United States will consider rejoining the Trans-Pacific Partnership after it deals with other priorities. Trump withdrew the U.S. from the agreement last year, but the remaining 11 members pressed ahead and recently signed a sweeping free trade deal in the Chilean capital. Mnuchin […]

Medical bills can push patients over the financial cliff, but a new study says this may not happen as often as previous research suggests. Hospitalizations cause only about 4 percent of personal bankruptcies among non-elderly U.S. adults, according to an analysis published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine. This contrasts with previous research […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A federal appeals court has upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit against investigators and former state officials involved in a now-halted secret investigation into Gov. Scott Walker’s 2012 recall campaign. The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday agreed with a lower court’s ruling in 2017 tossing the lawsuit by […]