Новости за 30.07.2018

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality extended an air quality advisory for three southern Oregon counties that are dealing with smoke from wildfires, and added portions of Lake County in south-central Oregon. The agency says the air quality was unhealthy Monday in much of Jackson, Josephine and Klamath counties. It was […]

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A federal lawsuit accuses a conservative group of illegally sending unsolicited texts that appeared to come from Indiana Democratic Sen. Joe Donnelly’s office. The suit filed Friday on behalf of two Indiana residents contends the Judicial Crisis Network sent texts to them and others suggesting they call Donnelly and urge him to […]

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A state employee in Oregon obliged to pay union fees despite her disagreement with the union’s stances, including financing an attack ad against her husband’s campaign for the Legislature, has reached a settlement of her lawsuit. The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation that represented Debora Nearman says the settlement […]

Temperatures are expected to hit the 90s Monday, but winds should shift Tuesday, bringing cooler air and blowing out some of the haze from wildfires.

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Rodney Tom, who has long worn his independence in the Washington state Legislature as a badge of honor, is running as a Democrat — but getting help from interests that usually support Republicans. He is challenging Sen. Patty Kuderer, D-Bellevue, in the Eastside's 48th legislative district.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — An elite prep school in New Hampshire rocked by years of sexual abuse claims has appointed its 14th rector. Kathleen Carroll Giles will start July 1, 2019 at St. Paul’s School. She will follow Amy Richards, who will serve as interim rector of the Concord school up until then. Michael Hirschfeld […]

Researchers are keeping vigil over the orca mother for a seventh day. Now she's falling behind her pod.

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s governor has made good on his vow to restore a jet fuel tax cut that had been controversially killed by state GOP lawmakers who were irate over Delta Air Lines’ decision to cut ties with the National Rifle Association. In a statement Monday, Republican Gov. Nathan Deal ordered the collection of […]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Prosecutors say a Missouri man has been sentenced to 11 years in federal prison for robbing a credit union with a plastic gun. The U.S. attorney’s office said Monday in a news release that 57-year-old Stephen McCrary of Raytown had pleaded guilty in February to one count of bank robbery. […]

A Pennsylvania pediatrician faces dozens of child molestation charges after police say more victims have come forward to allege he sexually abused them, in some cases as their unaware parents were in the same room. The attorney general’s office on Monday filed 69 new counts against Johnstown physician Johnnie Wilson Barto, whose license was suspended […]

President Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani is right that the term “collusion” isn’t a precise one in U.S. law. But that doesn’t change the potential fallout from the Russia investigation. Here’s a look at the buzz term “collusion” and what we’re really talking about.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Security Council has voted to delay the reduction of troops in the joint U.N.-African Union peacekeeping force in Somalia from October to February and its target date for Somali forces to take the lead in the country’s security to December 2021. A resolution adopted unanimously by the council on Monday […]

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Authorities have recovered the body of a 16-year-old boy who appears to have drowned in the Boise River. The Ada County Sheriff’s office says the teen, from Middleton, disappeared under the water around 3 p.m. Sunday. His friends searched for several hours before calling for help, and authorities continued the search […]

Jake Browning is the established star, and redshirt freshman Jake Haener made significant strides in the spring to move into the backup role.

WESTERLY, R.I. (AP) — Fisherman Michael Lorello was very surprised when he dragged up a net off the coast of Rhode Island. Inside, a 6-foot-long great white shark was showing off its teeth and moving about, very much alive. Lorello had caught the fish Sunday morning three-quarters of a mile from Misquamicut Beach. The shark […]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Ron Dellums, a fiery anti-war activist who championed social justice as Northern California’s first black congressman, has died at age 82. Longtime adviser Dan Lindheim says Dellums died early Monday at his home in Washington, D.C., of cancer. Confirmation of Dellums’ death came from his wife, Cynthia Dellums. Ron Dellums served […]

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A St. Louis convenience store is closed for a week, and employees will receive sensitivity training, after two workers were accused of kicking a woman who was standing in front of the store. Gas Mart says it is “committed to working with the community” after the incident that occurred July 24 […]

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A couple has purchased the Maine property where six people died in a fire, and they plan to build on the site while memorializing the victims of the tragedy. The Portland Press Herald reports Mindy Fox and Stephen Hoffman are planning to build a duplex at the site of the Noyes […]

PASCAGOULA, Miss. (AP) — A judge wants to review surveillance video before proceeding in the criminal case against a fired Mississippi school bus driver accused of sitting on and threatening to kill a special needs child. Judge Robert Krebs on Monday delayed prosecution of former middle school bus driver Antioinette Jane Raymond so he can […]

GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — Police have identified two men found dead from gunshot wounds last week in southwestern Oregon. Oregon State Police Sgt. Jeff Proulx said Monday that 28-year-old Matthew Cortez and 28-year-old Jesse Swift were both from Cave Junction. Troopers from the Grants Pass office responded early Thursday to a report of two […]

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — In this year’s Republican gubernatorial primary, former Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell has not endorsed the man who served for four years as his lieutenant governor. Parnell endorsed former state Sen. Mike Dunleavy over Mead Treadwell. Dunleavy and Treadwell are the major Republicans vying in the GOP primary. The winner is expected […]

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — More than $500 million in claims have been approved under the NFL’s concussion settlement in less than two years, nearly a decade earlier than league officials estimated they would reach that amount. Claims administrators in the settlement said Monday that $502 million had been approved. The original actuarial estimates from the NFL […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Law enforcement officials are looking into whether a New York man arrested in California for killing a woman he met on a dating app may have killed others. Danueal Drayton was arrested in Los Angeles last week and charged with raping and strangling a woman. Two law enforcement officials told The […]

As Trump seethed — and tweeted — in defeat late Tuesday and President-elect Elizabeth Warren celebrated, the arc of the Trump story is starting to make more sense than it has for much of his chaotic presidency: The normal rules of politics do apply to Donald Trump, after all.