Новости за 09.03.2018

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Cost of San Francisco-Los Angeles bullet train jumps 20 percent to $77 billion, opening date extended 4 years to 2033.

BARRE, Vt. (AP) - Vermont Democratic U.S. Rep. Peter Welch says he thinks the Trump administration's proposal to replace a portion of food stamp benefits with a box of shelf-stable goods has very little chance of passing.

GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) - A judge in southern Oregon has sentenced a convicted killer to life in prison for the stabbing death of a 78-year-old man.

Martin Shkreli, the so-called "pharma bro" who jacked up the price of a lifesaving drug and enraged Congress, was sentenced Friday to seven years in prison for defrauding investors.

LAS VEGAS (AP) - A federal judge is hearing testimony from former lawyers for an ex-Las Vegas Strip illusionist from Germany who is trying to withdraw his guilty plea in a pornography case that could get him at least 24 years in prison.

Heartbreak for hundreds of families has followed the revelation that a refrigerator malfunction last weekend at Cleveland's University Hospitals' fertility clinics compromised thousands of embryos.

REEDS SPRING, Mo. (AP) - A cockfighting investigation has led to the seizure of more than 230 birds from a rural southwest Missouri property.

Rules requiring social media services to disclose the source of political ads purchased on their platforms likely won't take effect before November midterms, the chair of the Federal Election Commission said Thursday.

A Christian group that had its 75-year history threatened by Wayne State University officials can rest easy — for now.

DETROIT (AP) - Jaida Hampton is Miss Basketball.

The award honoring Michigan's top senior on a girls' basketball team was announced Friday by the Basketball Coaches Association of Michigan and the Detroit Free Press.

Hampton, an East Lansing High School standout, signed with Wichita State. She received 353 of 976 ...

DALLAS (AP) - The Texas Department of Public Safety will begin recording the height, weight and waistlines of its more than 4,000 troopers during their routine physical readiness tests.

WOODRIDGE, Ill. (AP) - A suburban Chicago man is in jail after he allegedly bit a police officer in the face, shoved his head onto the ground and attempted to take his gun.

ELLICOTT CITY, Md. (AP) - In a story March 8 about a Maryland county changing references to "firemen" to "firefighters," The Associated Press reported erroneously in one instance that Harford County made the change. It was Howard County.

DETROIT (AP) - A Michigan agency says drinking water in three southeastern communities have tested positive for contamination.

POST FALLS, Idaho (AP) - Developers are hoping to attract technology and aerospace manufacturers to northern Idaho by building a 245-acre tech park community.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - A coalition of advocacy groups, state senators and low-income residents are rallying behind a petition drive that would let voters decide whether to expand Medicaid in Nebraska.

GLOUCESTER, N.J. (AP) - State police say an off-duty rookie trooper helped save a crash victim's life by using a tourniquet fashioned out of a T-shirt and part of a tree branch.

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - The state Legislature has approved a measure that would require Wyoming K-12 schools to provide all students with computer science instruction.

JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) - State authorities say a doctor used an illegal "runner" to recruit patients and billed an insurance company for treatments that were either unnecessary or never performed on patients.

Dennis Rodman, former NBA star and pal of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, on Friday praised President Trump for planning to meet with the despot to discuss denuclearization.

CONCORD, Vt. (AP) - Three Vermont towns have voted to increase payments to the Essex County Sheriff's Department in order to strengthen its presence in the area.

EVERETT, Wash. (AP) - Prosecutors say the owner of a chain of Mexican restaurants in King and Snohomish counties used sales-suppression software to avoid paying $5.6 million in state taxes.

GILLETTE, Wyo. (AP) - A new law will help Wyoming counties that need to collect unpaid taxes.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Police say a man suffered life-threatening injuries in a shooting in northeast Portland.

DENVER (AP) - Majority Democrats in Colorado's House are losing one seat following the expulsion of Rep. Steve Lebsock on sexual misconduct allegations.