Новости за 10.10.2018

ROCKFORD, Ill. (AP) — An Illinois judge is rebuffing claims that a youth football coach brandished a gun during a fight with parents, and he agreed to set lower bonds for both men arrested during the melee. Forty-three-year-old Terrance Morris of Valparaiso, Indiana, and 39-year-old Devorah Clark of Merrillville, Indiana, are facing felony charges stemming […]

NEW YORK (AP) — The Justice Department says a Chinese spy who attempted to steal trade secrets from multiple U.S. aviation and aerospace companies has been charged. Yanjun Xu was charged Wednesday with conspiring and attempting to commit economic espionage and theft of trade secrets. Prosecutors allege that beginning in December 2013, Xu recruited experts […]

The USFL helped change professional football in just three years of existence. The spring league that featured such stars as Herschel Walker, Steve Young, Jim Kelly and future President Donald Trump is the subject of a new book by bestselling author Jeff Pearlman. “Football for a Buck: The Crazy Rise and Even Crazier Demise of […]

BELLEVUE, Idaho (AP) — On a recent Friday morning in September, rancher John Peavey stood waiting outside Wood River Welding on Main Street in Bellevue. His flock, the 2,800 ewes of the Flat Top Sheep Co., was waiting, too, 10 miles south of town. Peavey’s trailer broke an axle hauling the metal piping of a […]

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York State Police: Limo company operator charged with criminally negligent homicide.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge says video of a racially charged, fatal San Francisco police shooting “casts doubt” on officers’ accounts that a 26-year-old black man was moving quickly toward them when they shot. Five officers shot Mario Woods a combined 21 times in December 2015, saying he refused to drop a kitchen […]

MIAMI (AP) — Hurricane Center: Category 4 Hurricane Michael makes landfall near Mexico Beach, Florida, with 155 mph winds.

SAO PAULO (AP) — Rock star Roger Waters is causing a stir in Brazil after calling the leading candidate in October’s presidential election a neo-fascist. A big screen behind the stage at Waters’ concert in Sao Paulo on Tuesday showed the words “Resist neo-fascism.” And then displayed a list of names — including that of […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska is brushing back against President Donald Trump, saying she knows her state’s political terrain “better than he does.” Trump says voters “will never forgive” Murkowski for opposing Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court, and he says the senator will “never recover” politically. Murkowski, who isn’t […]

PENDLETON, Ore. (AP) — A woman whose son was shot and killed in 2014 by a corrections officer at the state prison in Pendleton, Oregon, iled a wrongful death lawsuit in federal court against the officer. The East Oregonian reports that Kristen Wilson lost the case in early August and now the state is asking […]

Betty Lavonne Grissom, the widow of astronaut Virgil “Gus” Grissom who successfully sued a NASA contractor after his death in the 1967 Apollo launch pad fire, has died. She was 91. Mark Grissom said Wednesday that his mother had been in good health before her death Sunday at her Houston home. He says she will […]

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Passport control looks a little different in Dubai International Airport — the world’s busiest for international travel. That’s because the airport debuted a new “smart tunnel” that uses biometric technology, instead of human checks, to allow some air travelers to complete passport control in just 15 seconds. Passengers register […]

YORK, Pa. (AP) — Authorities say the husband of “Real Housewives of New Jersey” star Teresa Giudice will be deported back to Italy once he’s released from prison next year. Giuseppe “Joe” Giudice appeared before an immigration court in York, Pennsylvania, via teleconference Wednesday. He can file an appeal by Nov. 9. Giudice is an […]

A Virginia man who was playing a Medieval knight impaled and killed himself with his 7-foot-long lance during a reenactment performance. Peter Barclay of Woodbridge, Virginia, a retired Army lieutenant colonel, died after he was impaled with his lance in a timed competition on Saturday in Williamstown, Kentucky. Barclay was a longtime and active member […]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A federal judge has rejected a voting rights group’s latest arguments that voters were illegally purged from Ohio’s voting rolls. U.S. District Court Judge George C. Smith on Wednesday sided with the state’s arguments defending confirmation notices sent to voters that set off a removal process tied to failure to participate […]

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Distinctions emerged between Oregon’s leading gubernatorial candidates in their final debate as the two clashed public pensions, immigration, the state’s housing crisis and several other hot-button issues. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports that Rep. Knute Buehler on Tuesday sought to make the case a Republican can lead a distinctly Democratic state, declaring flatly […]

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho officials have sent another 150 male inmates to be housed in Texas due to overcrowding in Idaho. Idaho officials say the inmates arrived at the Eagle Pass Correctional Facility in Eagle Pass, Texas, on Tuesday afternoon. Idaho officials say that 549 Idaho inmates are now housed at the facility and […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump ‘demanding’ answers from Saudi government about missing Saudi journalist, plans to invite fiancee to White House.

HOUSTON (AP) — The Department of Homeland Security has issued another waiver of environmental laws to build new border barriers in South Texas, this time for roughly 17 miles (27 kilometers). DHS posted a waiver Wednesday that lists six sections here it plans to build “physical barriers and roads” in the Rio Grande Valley, at […]

Conference coaches tabbed Oregon as the overwhelming favorite to win the Pac-12. Stanford picked second and Oregon State third in preseason poll.

The PGA Championship will remain with CBS Sports and pick up a powerful partner in ESPN for weekday rounds. That’s part of an 11-year agreement in which the networks will combine to deliver 175 hours of coverage across broadcast, cable and digital platforms. Financial terms of the deal announced Wednesday were not disclosed, though it […]

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Lottery players will have a chance at the nation’s ninth-largest jackpot when numbers are drawn for Friday’s Mega Millions game. The estimated $548 million prize would be the largest jackpot in more than nine months. Players who buy $2 tickets face extremely long odds, with a one in 302.5 million […]

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York State Police: Operator of limo company in crash that killed 20 is in custody, charges pending.

WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) — Police say a 15-year-old Iowa boy has been taken into custody following a social media threat that prompted officials to cancel classes at three local high schools. Waterloo Police Maj. Joe Leibold says the boy is suspected of being involved in a SnapChat message that threatened two of the schools. It […]

DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Prosecutors say a former Pennsylvania township official and his girlfriend spiked a woman’s drink and used a hidden camera to take sexually explicit photographs of her while she was unconscious. Lawrence Weinstein and Kelly Drucker are charged with false imprisonment, invasion of privacy, recklessly endangering another person, criminal conspiracy and violations […]