Новости за 24.09.2018

PARIS, Ky. (AP) - Kentucky authorities say a Colorado woman died when her vehicle was swept away in floodwaters.

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A former contracting official for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in Los Angeles has been sentenced to five months in prison for lying to investigators when he denied taking bribes as part of a $13 million fraud scheme.

COVENTRY, R.I. (AP) - Police say a man driving a military-style vehicle that truck another vehicle hauling a horse trailer on a Rhode Island highway was under the influence.

STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) - Police in Connecticut say a 26-year-old motorcyclist was killed in a crash over the weekend.

The Trump administration has overextended a program designed to recruit local police departments to assist in immigration enforcement, shirking the planning and technology needed to make the operation work, an inspector general reported Monday.

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - Shouting "Kava-NO, Kava-NO," a group of protesters in Portland is pressuring Republican Sen. Susan Collins on the Supreme Court nomination of Brett Kavanaugh.

Brett Kavanaugh said Monday that he's the victim of attempts at "character assassination" but said he won't be intimidated into withdrawing his nomination to sit on the Supreme Court.

IRONDALE, Ala. (AP) - Authorities in Alabama are searching for a man wanted in the disappearance of two motel owners who are feared dead.

Aid groups on Monday said a rebel attack near a city in the Democratic Republic of Congo has disrupted efforts to respond to an Ebola outbreak that's now killed 100 people.

ATLANTA (AP) - Falcons starting safety Ricardo Allen will miss the remainder of the season with a torn left Achilles tendon, dealing another blow to Atlanta's already injury-ravaged defense.

The Washington Capitals will be wearing some new threads this season.

For 12 games, the defending Stanley Cup champions will wear a new alternate jersey, which closely resembles the team's home jersey worn from 1974-1995. The Capitals also wore similar looking alternates from 2015-2017, when the NHL had a partnership ...

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday scolded CNN chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta for asking a "ludicrous" question about Cabinet members allegedly discussing invoking the 25th Amendment against President Trump.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday scolded CNN chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta for asking a "ludicrous" question about Cabinet members allegedly discussing invoking the 25th Amendment against President Trump.

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) - A Veterans Affairs hospital official says investigators have discovered 11 significant errors and three deaths in more than 30,000 cases originally seen by a pathologist officials say was working while impaired.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - Wildlife managers say Minnesota's gray wolf population remains stable and healthy.

NORTHBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) - Massachusetts State Police say a driver suffered a medical emergency just before he was killed in a crash.

BARRON, Wis. (AP) - Two people have died in a head-on collision with a semi in northwestern Wisconsin.

WYOMING, Mich. (AP) - Authorities say a domestic dispute took place about a week before a western Michigan man fatally shot two people and took his wife and children hostage before killing himself.

LOGAN, Utah (AP) - Authorities say a 14-year-old boy was accidentally shot and killed while riding in his family's car in northern Utah near a group of target shooters.

NEW YORK (AP) - White House: Trump, Rosenstein spoke Monday, will meet Thursday at White House amid uncertainty about Deputy AG's fate.

BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) - Virginia Tech quarterback Josh Jackson has a broken left fibula and will have surgery.

PELICAN RAPIDS, Minn. (AP) - A man who informed sheriff's deputies of a death at his home in western Minnesota has been arrested after a body was found buried on his property.

HOOVER, Ala. (AP) - U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions told a gathering of law enforcement officials that "we have your back" and praised tough on crime policies he said can lower violence rates.

World Anti-Doping Agency president Craig Reedie's message to all those angry athletes out there: What else did you want me to do?

NEWARK, Calif. (AP) - Authorities say the body of an elderly woman was found in a car that the bottom of an embankment in the San Francisco Bay Area and another woman was rescued farther north three days after she crashed down a reservoir embankment.