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YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (AP) — A Pennsylvania man was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for sending an online message to a suburban Cleveland high school student in 2018 about a shooting he warned would occur the next day.

CRESCO, Iowa (AP) — A former teacher in northeast Iowa accused of having sex with a student has made a deal with prosecutors.

UnitedHealth’s fourth-quarter net income surged 16%, and investors shrugged off a rare revenue miss to make the nation’s largest health insurer one of the biggest gainers in Wednesday trading.

Police in Tennessee have arrested a homeless man following an incident that prompted a bomb squad response and briefly shut down a parking garage outside a hospital in Nashville.

WASHINGTON (AP) — “OK, Boomer" made its first appearance in the Supreme Court Wednesday, invoked by baby boomer Chief Justice John Roberts 12 days before he turns 65.

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — The Vermont Department of Motor Vehicles has agreed to make changes to settle a lawsuit over allegations that it forwarded information about immigrant farm workers to federal authorities, leading to arrests and deportations, the immigrant rights group Migrant Justice announced Wednesday.

PARIS (AP) — The bears have cute names — Bubble, Feather, Snowflake and the like — and look so soft and huggable when caught on video by remote cameras that study their habits. But to herders high in the Pyrenees mountains of southwest France, the animals are stone-cold killers, ravaging flocks and undermining farming livelihoods.

RENO, Nev. (AP) — A former substitute teacher in Reno has been sentenced to three months in jail and probation for having sex with a student.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump signed a trade agreement Wednesday with China that is expected to boost exports from U.S. farmers and manufacturers and is aimed at lowering tensions in a long-running dispute between the economic powers.

On Wednesday, Sam Amick of The Athletic published an interview with Antetokounmpo, who addressed the conversation for the first time. After joking that the two were actually discussing NBA 2K and not PUBG, the 2018-2019 MVP proceeded to give a quote that lent no further clarity to the situation.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Billionaire businesswoman Penny Pritzker, a major Democratic fundraiser and former commerce secretary under President Barack Obama, has endorsed Joe Biden for president.

FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — The state medical examiner has identified human remains found in a vacant Fairbanks apartment and police have opened a homicide investigation.

PAPILLION, Neb. (AP) — A man is scheduled to be sentenced March 25 for his role in a suburban Omaha slaying.

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A county jail has released New Mexico state Sen. Richard Martinez after he served his four-day sentence for aggravated drunken driving.

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan lawmaker apologized Wednesday a day after telling a young female reporter that a group of high school boys could “have a lot of fun” with her.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas man shook his girlfriend's 9-month-old daughter and either tortured or “cruelly beat" her before she was found with critical injuries amid a marijuana-growing operation, prosecutors allege in court documents.

TX Marine Warnings and Forecast for Thursday, January 16, 2020

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DENSE FOG ADVISORY

URGENT - MARINE WEATHER MESSAGE

National Weather Service Lake Charles LA

1027 AM CST Wed Jan 15 2020

...DENSE FOG ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 AM CST THURSDAY...

* WHAT...Dense fog will reduce visibility to one quarter mile or

less.

* WHERE...Sabine Lake, Coastal waters from Lower Atchafalaya

River to Intracoastal City LA out 20 NM, Calcasieu... Читать дальше...

DETROIT (AP) — More than 1,350 temporary workers at 14 General Motors facilities in the U.S. will get full-time positions before the end of March, the company says.

MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin has named Tax Service chief Mikhail Mishustin as Russia's new prime minister, the Kremlin said Wednesday.

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Former Connecticut Gov. John G. Rowland, who has served two stints in federal prison, has asked to be released early from the probationary period stemming from his most recent conviction so he can devote himself more fully to his job with a prison ministry.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana personal income taxpayers can start filing their 2019 state tax returns on Jan. 27, the same day the IRS begins accepting federal income tax filings.

\CHICAGO (AP) — Grain futures were mixedower Wednesday in early trading on the Chicago Board of Trade.

San Jose’s City Council this week gave a tentative green light to revisions in the long-term master plan for Mineta San Jose International Airport that could eventually give the facility a new terminal, more gates, a new hotel, and thousands of additional parking spaces. A final vote on the plan is expected in March.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin's education department is illegally treating private choice schools differently to public schools by not allowing them to count online classes toward instructional time, a judge ruled this week.