Новости за 24.05.2018

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A judge has thrown out the criminal charge filed against a guard on duty when a 15-year-old killed himself in the New Orleans jail. Twenty-seven-year-old Keriana Alexcee was arrested last year on a malfeasance charge. An affidavit alleged she failed to make required security checks every 15 minutes the night Jaquin […]

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — A Canadian company plans to resume its search for gold in western South Dakota, but a project manager says Mineral Mountain Resources is still arranging a water source. The Rapid City Journal reports the company said Thursday it intends to drill nine remaining holes of a 12-hole exploratory project in […]

BOSTON (AP) — Boston Globe executives are investigating an allegation the newspaper’s top editor had an inappropriate text message exchange with a former employee. Hilary Sargent, a former editor for Boston.com, tweeted a screenshot of an undated text exchange she said occurred between her and Brian McGrory. In the exchange, Sargent says McGrory asked her […]

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Environmental groups say a coal-fired power plant in northwestern New Mexico that provides electricity to Arizona customers has been operating under a water discharge permit that should have been updated years ago. The groups say any failure to meet pollution control requirements could affect the Navajo Nation and other areas downstream […]

KINGS MOUNTAIN, N.C. (AP) — Sheriff’s deputies in North Carolina have charged a baby sitter with the death of a 7-month-old boy. Cleveland County deputies told news outlets that 24-year-old Garrett Clay Fredrick of Kings Mountain has been charged with first-degree murder. Deputies say Fredrick was watching Damion Bell while the boy’s mom and her […]

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — Four more students will be charged after a locker room assault on an Alabama high school student was caught on camera. Mobile police said Wednesday that they have identified four more students from Davidson High School involved in an April 27 attack on freshman Rodney Kim Jr. The video shows as […]

AUBURN, Maine (AP) — The family of a Maine boy swept away by a river current has announced a public memorial service. The Sun Journal reports the McFarlands returned to Bonney Park in Auburn and thanked the community for their support Wednesday, nearly a month after 5-year-old Valerio McFarland fell into the nearby Androscoggin River. […]

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska’s longest-serving death-row inmate has filed a motion to fire his attorneys in an effort to allow his execution to move forward. Attorneys for Carey Dean Moore submitted the motion Thursday on his behalf. According to court documents, Moore says he no longer wants legal representation and doesn’t intend to fight […]

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon’s attorney general has released a certified ballot title for an initiative that would restrict the sale of assault weapons and high-capacity magazines in the state. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports the new title released Wednesday states that the initiative prohibits assault weapons and large capacity magazines unless the items are registered with […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has signed into law a measure loosening key restraints for banks that came in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis and Great Recession. Trump savored the legislative triumph Thursday. The Republican-led legislation cleared Congress on Tuesday with the help of some Democrats’ votes and allowed Trump to realize […]

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Supporters of a young man being held in the secure psychiatric unit of the New Hampshire prison walked from the prison to a courthouse, calling for his release and advocating for an end to the practice of putting mentally ill people behind bars. Twenty-one-year-old Andrew Butler, of Hollis, was committed to […]

BRUSSELS (AP) — Facebook says it will not compensate users in the scandal over the misuse of their personal data by political consultancy Cambridge Analytica. The company made the statement Thursday in a list of written replies to questions by European Union lawmakers. The answers were promised after testimony earlier this week by CEO Mark […]

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — The U.S. military says it has carried out an airstrike outside Somalia’s capital that killed 10 extremists. The U.S. Africa Command says it has carried out 14 such airstrikes so far this year against the al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab extremist group, which continues to hold some rural areas of the Horn of Africa […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump says he believes ‘Kim Jong Un wants to do what’s right,’ says it’s up to North Korean leader to seize opportunity.

SPANISH FORK, Utah (AP) — Utah police say they’ve found the body of a woman who disappeared on her way home from English class three years ago shortly after she moved from Mexico. Authorities said Thursday that Elizabeth Elena Laguna Salgado’s death is being investigated as a homicide after her skeletal remains were found in […]

CHICHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Police say a driver was killed in a head-on collision with a commercial truck in a New Hampshire town. Police say the 36-year-old man, who has not been identified, was driving a black Acura when it hit another vehicle from behind before losing control and colliding head-on with a truck on […]

SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A Vermont police department says the vehicle of a suspect wanted in the shooting death of a South Burlington woman has been found in New York. South Burlington Police Chief Trevor Whipple said Thursday that Albany, New York, police found Leroy Headley’s vehicle parked on a city street Friday. Headley […]

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — A man who killed a fellow kitchen worker at a Yonkers, New York restaurant has pleaded guilty to manslaughter. Westchester County District Attorney Anthony A. Scarpino Jr. says Francisco Smile Nicasio-Ramirez of Queens pleaded guilty Wednesday. The 54-year-old victim, Rafael Pena of Yonkers, was stabbed with a kitchen knife after […]

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Police say a 12-year-old boy was severely burned while making camp burners with a church group in Spanish Fork. KSL-TV reports the boy was flown to a hospital Wednesday night after receiving significant burns to his hands and arms. Spanish Fork Police Sgt. Cade Harding says a flammable liquid used […]

MARENGO, Ill. (AP) — Federal investigators found that a small plane had flipped over before a nighttime crash into a northern Illinois farm field, killing a Chicago-area activist in late 2016. The National Transportation Safety Board’s findings don’t give a cause for the crash that killed pilot Rob Sherman since it found no evidence of […]

BERLIN (AP) — German police say a World War II bomb that partially exploded while it was being defused in the eastern city of Dresden has been successfully deactivated. Police said Thursday the nearly 9,000 residents who were evacuated from the city’s downtown area Tuesday could return to their homes. Officials said the 250-kilogram (550-pound) […]

PETERSBURG, Alaska (AP) — A Petersburg teenager who intentionally ran down two deer with a pickup has pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts. Alaska State Troopers say the 17-year-old boy on Tuesday pleaded guilty to harassing game and taking game with a motorized vehicle. He was sentenced to 160 hours of community work service, 30 […]

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — A Kosovo court has imprisoned two ethnic Albanians in an organ harvesting case. The Pristina court on Thursday sentenced former urologist Lutfi Dervishi to seven-and-a-half years and a fine of 8,000 euros ($9,400). He cannot exercise his profession for two years after his prison term ends. Another person, Sokol Hajdini, was […]

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The man who bought guns for a convicted felon who killed seven people in South Carolina has pleaded guilty to 36 federal gun charges. Court records show Dustan Lawson changed his plea to guilty Wednesday. He will be sentenced at a later date, but faces up to 10 years in prison […]

CHICAGO (AP) — U.S. Census Bureau says Chicago’s population has decreased for the third consecutive year. Census estimates released Wednesday say Chicago lost about 3,800 residents last year, but remains the third-largest U.S. city, with 2.7 million residents. Chicago-based demographer Rob Paral says the figures illustrate population trends that have been happening over the past […]