Новости за 08.03.2021

WOODSIDE, Utah (AP) - One person has died and another was injured in an off-highway vehicle rollover crash in Utah on Sunday, authorities said.

TAUNTON, Mass. (AP) - Authorities in Massachusetts say they have figured out at least one of the people responsible for the disappearance and killing of a professional gambler nearly 30 years ago.

NEW YORK (AP) - Two New York City police officers were grazed by bullets in a shootout with a man who had just shot his roommate in both legs, police officials said Monday.

Benchmark U.S. crude oil for April delivery fell $1.04 to $65.05 a barrel Monday. Brent crude oil for May delivery fell $1.12 to $68.24 a barrel.

HONOLULU (AP) - Hawaii has detected a new COVID-19 variant in the islands, one that first emerged in South Africa.

The Alabama Senate will debate a gambling bill Tuesday, the bill's sponsor said, marking the first major test of the proposal to start a lottery and have as many as eight casinos statewide.

Hillary Clinton said Monday she's holding out hope the Republican Party "will find its soul" post-President Donald Trump.

NEWBURY, Vt. (AP) - State officials are hoping to open a proposed six-bed juvenile detention facility in Newbury by the end of the year to replace the state's only such facility, the Woodside Juvenile Rehabilitation Center in Essex, that closed in October.

Former Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops will replace Urban Meyer on Fox’s college football pregame show, the network announced Monday.

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - Wyoming will join a handful of states that have lifted mask-wearing mandates to limit the spread of the coronavirus, Gov. Mark Gordon announced Monday.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - More than $23.5 million in COVID-19 relief funds was split up among 25 applicants for the first two rounds of the South Dakota small business grant program, leaving some proprietors to question the process.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - New Hampshire Republicans are doubling down on efforts to tighten the state’s voter eligibility laws even though one of the recent changes they backed has yet to be settled in court.

ST. LOUIS (AP) - A year after Missouri confirmed its first COVID-19 infection, local governments on Monday continued to relax coronavirus restrictions as the number of cases in the state declines and vaccinations efforts expand.

NEW LONDON, Conn. (AP) - A Connecticut woman accused of killing her 4-year-old son was ordered detained on $2 million bail Monday and placed under suicide and mental health watches.

SAO PAULO (AP) - A justice from Brazil’s top court on Monday annulled all sentences against former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, which for now restores his political rights and allows him to run for the presidency in next year’s election.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention can go fly a kite.

There are now more fully vaccinated people in the U.S. than the total number of confirmed coronavirus infections, but the government agency would like to see us locked down and masked up forever. It’s time for Americans to ...

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) - A meteor first spotted over Vermont’s Mount Mansfield State Forest was likely traveling more than 40,000 miles per hour before it burned up, experts say.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - Nebraska officials may start using mobile sites to help expand the number of places where residents can get a coronavirus vaccines as the number of available doses increases, Gov. Pete Ricketts said Monday.

Rep. Steve Cohen vowed to renew the push to remove former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover’s name from the bureau’s downtown Washington headquarters, according to an interview released Monday.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte on Monday extended the country's tough coronavirus lockdown until the end of the month, but he added a note of hope to his message to a pandemic-weary nation by predicting that a “tipping point is coming when the vaccine gains ...

BLUFFTON, S.C. (AP) - An 18-year-old high school senior was shot to death in a drive by shooting on a South Carolina road, authorities said.

VAIL, Ariz. (AP) - Investigators say a Union Pacific Railroad employee who died five weeks ago in an on-the-job accident in southern Arizona was struck by a piece of by maintenance equipment that’s used to tamp on wood crossties that sit underneath tracks.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Jury selection in the trial of a former Minneapolis officer accused in the death of George Floyd was put on hold Monday while an appeals court considers whether to reinstate a third-degree murder charge against him.

ISTANBUL (AP) - Thousands of people joined a Women’s Day march in central Istanbul on Monday to denounce violence against women in Turkey, where more than 400 women were killed last year.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) - A 9-year-old tiger died last week at a Colorado Springs zoo following an artificial insemination procedure, zoo officials said Monday.