Новости за 29.09.2017

The La Crosse tax rate will go down in 2018 but the overall levy will increase thanks to what Mayor Tim Kabat called a “phenomenal” increase in the city’s tax base.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on HHS Secretary Tom Price's travels on charter flights (all times EDT):

WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington Nationals right fielder Bryce Harper is out of the starting lineup because he feels sore after returning from a left knee injury that sidelined him for about a quarter of the season.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has confirmed the nomination of former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman to serve as U.S. ambassador to Russia.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — A 30-year-old Eagle Grove man has pleaded guilty to one count each of sexual exploitation of a child and extortion.

NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Rangers have sent rookie center Lias Andersson back to his Swedish League club.

ATLANTA (AP) — Dan Quinn and Sean McDermott were filled with nostalgia this week as they remembered their time together on a William & Mary team that was a launching pad for NFL coaches.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A former assistant principal at Bemidji Middle School has pleaded guilty to producing child pornography.

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Ten vetoes by Republican Gov. Susana Martinez have been invalidated by a state district judge because the governor missed deadlines or failed to explain her reasoning, allowing the piecemeal legislation on economic development, high school…

NEW YORK (AP) — The helmet that performed best in NFL testing this year is being used by 50 players spread across only half of the NFL teams.

Blessed Sacrament School and West Salem Elementary are the cream of the crop.

CHICAGO (AP) — The Latest on Gov. Bruce Rauner's signing of expanded abortion coverage (all times local):

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A federal fraud and bribery scandal shaking college basketball has led to a key question of what will happen to recruits who received money linked to attending certain schools.

FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) — Lawrence Thomas stops each day in front of the large framed photo that's hanging in his home and speaks to the man he considered a brother.

U.S. regulators have approved a new medicine for treating a common type of breast cancer that has spread to other parts of the body.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minneapolis police say a woman has died after a man set her on fire in a domestic dispute.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A day after President Donald Trump's rebuke, health secretary Tom Price promised Thursday to reimburse taxpayers for his cost on charter flights taken while on government business. He issued a public apology as he fought to keep…

He got the bread, the meat and the cheese. He got volunteers on a production line. And within hours, renowned chef Jose Andres got thousands of hospital workers fed.

MAHWAH, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey township is under investigation after it adopted a rule limiting use of a public park to state residents, which opponents said targets the Jewish community from a nearby New York town.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on Twitter's sessions with congressional investigators (all times local):

In the wake of Hugh Hefner's death, many are debating just what he did — and didn't do — for women. Was he an oppressor, a liberator, a feminist, an exploiter, or something else?

LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — California's emerging marijuana industry is being rattled by an array of unknowns, as the state races to issue its first licenses to grow and sell legal recreational pot on Jan. 1.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The latest on a U.N. Security Council meeting on Rohingya Muslim refugees fleeing Myanmar (all times local):

Some higher education experts are questioning the Flexible Option's rapid expansion -- it will grow to 16 degree and certificate programs by December 2019.

FORT BELVOIR, Va. (AP) — An appeals court has upheld the conviction and life sentence of former Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales for the slayings of 16 Afghan civilians and the wounding of six others in solitary pre-dawn raids on…