Новости за 20.04.2018

ATLANTA — The prospect of an amicable divorce between Matt Harvey and the Mets, a graceful exit? It diminishes each time the right-hander takes the mound. Sure, get the fallen ace out of the Mets’ starting rotation as soon as possible. Send him to the bullpen. Fake an injury. Let him join the search committee...

TOKYO — A volcano in southern Japan has erupted for the first time in 250 years, and the authorities have set up a no-go zone around the mountain. The Meteorological Agency said Friday that Mount Io erupted Thursday for the first time since 1768, spewing smoke and ash high into the sky. The volcano is...

The TNT crew is trying to help out Kenny Smith’s bid to become the Knicks’ next head coach. After being teased on the air by his colleagues late Thursday night during the NBA postgame show on TNT, Smith confirmed he will be interviewing for the Knicks job Friday in the Big Apple. “I know how...

Mayor de Blasio is set to announce on Friday a plan to ban cars completely from certain roads in Central Park, which already has limited vehicle restrictions. The mayor will ban traffic on a number of roads below 72nd Street that currently are open to cars during daytime hours, a source close to City Hall...

A homeless man dressed only in American flag shorts was arrested Thursday after allegedly stealing a truck full of beer and leading police on a highway chase, authorities in Northern California say. Police later identified the suspect as Matt Hermsmeyer, 46. He was charged with suspicion of vehicle theft, possession of stolen property, priors for...

Saquon Barkley is a thoroughbred. He could be a 233-pound Marshall Faulk. Could be the face of a franchise. Could be a gold-jacket guy. And boy, would he help Eli Manning. “He’s one of those guys that my mother could have scouted,” Giants general manager Dave Gettleman said Thursday. It doesn’t mean there isn’t or...

ORLANDO, Fla. — A Florida man will be sentenced to life in prison for killing the teenage daughter of his longtime girlfriend. The Orlando Sentinel reports that Orange County jurors announced 47-year-old Sanel Saint-Simon’s sentence Thursday. A judge will make it official next month. Saint-Simon had been convicted of first-degree murder and aggravated child abuse....

SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas — A Minnesota woman suspected of killing her husband and then a woman in southwest Florida was captured Thursday night at a South Texas resort. A U.S. Marshals Service statement said two federal deputy marshals arrested Lois Riess, 56, about 8:30 p.m. at a South Padre Island, Texas, restaurant. South Padre...

Common sense is the complete stranger from whom we’ve grown apart. This week, perhaps the same as you, I learned something I never before considered, let alone gave a first thought: The expression “cotton pickin’ ” — as in “wait a cotton pickin’ minute” — is racially insensitive, if not a free-standing racist expression. Having never...

NEW CANAAN, Conn. — A Connecticut town is considering installing cameras at a park to catch dog owners who don’t clean up after their pets relieve themselves. New Canaan Parks and Recreation Chairwoman Sally Campbell tells Hearst Media Connecticut the plan to install cameras was just one part of an effort to address the park’s...

Be careful what you wish for. In a move Republicans are calling an “outrageous power grab,” Gov. Cuomo signed an order that will allow some 35,000 paroled felons the right to vote: “I’m unwilling to take no for an answer. It’s unconscionable to deny voting rights to those who have paid their debt.” Democratic rival...

President Donald Trump is claiming vindication after the release of memos from former FBI Director James Comey about their interactions together. Trump says the memos “‘show clearly that there was NO COLLUSION and NO OBSTRUCTION.” It’s not clear what in the memos led the president to reach the conclusion. Trump also accused Comey of having...

BOSTON — Gil Santos, the New England Patriots’ longtime radio voice, died Thursday on his 80th birthday and 57th wedding anniversary. Son Mark Santos confirmed the death to The Boston Globe. He said the cause of death wasn’t immediately clear to the family. Santos started working Patriots’ broadcasts games for WBZ in 1966 as a...

Nikita Kucherov is skating away scot-free as Sami Vatanen pays the punishment. The Lightning’s 100-point scorer will not have a hearing with the NHL’s department of player safety after his hit on Vatanen knocked the Devils’ top defenseman out for the night Wednesday in Game 4 of the first-round series. Devils coach John Hynes said...

David Lee will leave for the French Open in 10 days. He hopes before heading to Paris with fiancée Caroline Wozniacki that Mark Jackson is named the Knicks head coach. The ex-Knicks/ex-Warriors power forward played for Jackson in Golden State for all three of Jackson’s seasons. “He has a very smart perspective looking at the...

The state of Alabama executed an 83-year-old man on Thursday night — making him the oldest US inmate to be put to death in modern times. Walter Leroy Moody was killed by lethal injection after being a denied multiple requests for a stay of execution, according to AL.com. He reportedly kept his eyes closed throughout...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo urged his lieutenant governor to take on US Rep. Chris Collins this year, upsetting the fellow Democrat who’s already in the race. “There is a very strong feeling that Kathy Hochul would be a great congressional candidate for that race and she would be the strongest Democrat,” Cuomo said during a visit...

WASHINGTON — A man linked to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, who was said to have praised “violent jihad,” was captured in Syria by US-backed forces more than a month ago, the Pentagon said on Thursday. “We can confirm that Mohammad Haydar Zammar, a Syrian-born German national, was captured more than...

MIAMI — A masked Joel Embiid scored 23 points in his postseason debut, Marco Belinelli and Dario Saric each added 21 and the 76ers beat the Heat 128-108 on Thursday night to take a 2-1 lead in their Eastern Conference first-round series. Ben Simmons finished with 19 points, 12 rebounds and seven assists for the...

ATLANTA — The Mets’ symbolic salt-and-pepper shaker disappears on the days Matt Harvey pitches and is replaced by a jug of toilet water. Once the Dark Knight, the right-hander may have lost his opportunity to remain in the Mets’ rotation, with a dismal performance Thursday against the Braves that evoked images of the physically unsound...

Take a hike, Eric. The owner of a virtual currency exchange on Thursday hit back at New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s attempt to collect regulatory info from 13 of the largest exchanges doing business in the state. Jesse Powell, the chief executive of Kraken, a San Francisco cryptocurrency exchange, blasted the AG’s 34-question survey,...

Villanova redshirt sophomore guard Donte DiVincenzo will enter the 2018 NBA Draft without hiring an agent in order to maintain his college eligibility, the school announced Thursday. DiVincenzo is permitted to work out for teams and attend the NBA’s Draft Combine in Florida without committing to enter the league. Once players sign with an agent,...

Big Pot is growing fast, but it’s still just nickels and dimes on Wall Street. While the legal marijuana business has lured high-profile names of late — from Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel to former House Speaker John Boehner, who just last week joined the board of a weed venture — it remains, with US...

The fallout from Nike’s inappropriate workplace-behavior scandal has cost the sneaker maker nine executives, according to one Wall Street analyst. That’s three more than the company has confirmed. Nike declined to comment on the Thursday report from Sam Poser, of Susquehanna International Group, who lowered his price target for Nike shares to $59 from $62....

SAN QUENTIN, Calif. — A man who spent nearly 25 years on California’s death row was freed Thursday after his conviction in the rape and killing of his girlfriend’s nearly 2-year-old daughter was overturned. Vicente Benavides, 68, was released from San Quentin State Prison, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Benavides, who...