Новости за 08.08.2015

TAMPA, Florida - The circus coming to town has caused a minor league baseball game to be postponed.

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina - Rising first-grader Braylon Beam served as the Carolina Panthers' honorary Make-A-Wish Foundation head coach during the team's Fan Fest practice.

BENGHAZI, Libya - Planned peace talks next week between Libyan factions will take place in Geneva, instead of Morocco, Libyan officials said Friday.

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador - Suspected street gang members have killed a policeman in El Salvador, the fifth officer to die in attacks this week.

BEVERLY HILLS, California - A roundup of news Friday from the Television Critics Association summer meeting, at which TV networks and streaming services are presenting details on upcoming programs:

CHILMARK, Massachusetts - President Barack Obama's summer vacation has begun.

MEXICO CITY - In the pantheon of Mexico's pre-Hispanic gods, most Aztec deities are depicted as brutal, blood-thirsty beings only appeased by human sacrifices.

WASHINGTON - Only a handful of railroads are close to meeting a deadline this year to install safety technology that can prevent many crashes, including derailments due to excessive speed like the deadly Amtrak crash in Philadelphia in May, according to a government report released Friday.

PIGEON FORGE, Tennessee - Dollywood has announced a new $22 million ride that the theme park says will be the world's fastest wooden roller coaster.

ALAMOGORDO, New Mexico - A French couple who died during an afternoon hike across the searing New Mexico desert likely saved their 9-year-old son by giving him two sips of water for each one they took before the supply ran out, a sheriff said Friday.

BEVERLY HILLS, California - Marshawn Lynch is able to poke fun at his Seattle Seahawks' final offensive play in the Super Bowl during the season premiere of FXX's "The League."

HONOLULU - A college student traveling to Maui for a vacation instead has spent his time in jail after the FBI accused him of drunkenly threatening to kill passengers, shoving a flight attendant and busting out of plastic handcuffs on a flight from Seattle.

MOUNT HOLLY, New Jersey - Former NFL star Irving Fryar was found guilty of a role in a mortgage scam on Friday and faces up to 10 years in prison.

WASHINGTON - A new era of higher rates on home and car loans, steeper borrowing costs for businesses and the government - maybe even a bit more return for savers - is about to arrive.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - A Puerto Rico senator filed a resolution Friday that would reassign $94 million to the island's Government Development Bank so it can make a bond payment that the U.S. territory missed earlier this week.

CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelans are facing the prospect of a heat wave without their favorite beer, the latest indignity in a country that has seen shortages of everything from disposable diapers to light bulbs.

LANSING, Michigan - A Michigan lawmaker had an email sent to his Republican supporters falsely claiming he had been caught having sex with a male prostitute, apparently believing such a smear campaign would help distract attention from an alleged extramarital affair between him and another lawmaker, a newspaper reported Friday.

COLUMBIA, South Carolina - The police officer who shot and killed a 19-year-old South Carolina man during an undercover drug buy last month had to push off the teen's car to keep from being run over, according to a statement released Friday by the officer's lawyer.

CINCINNATI - The blunt prosecutor overseeing the murder case against a University of Cincinnati police officer has expressed outrage over the shooting, but some say his scathing comments could jeopardize the officer's right to a fair trial and have antagonized police.

NEW YORK - Most 100-year-olds don't mark the milestone birthday with a news conference in a piano bar. Then again, Irving Fields isn't most 100-year-olds.

WACO, Texas - A Texas appeals court reversed a gag order Friday in a criminal case arising from a shootout at a biker gathering in Waco that left nine dead and 18 injured.

JACKSON, Mississippi - A man charged in incidents initially reported as gunshots fired near a Mississippi military base remained jailed Friday and could be returned to prison.

SHREVEPORT, Louisiana - A grand jury will hear evidence in the fall against the man accused of killing a police officer in the northwest Louisiana city of Shreveport, prosecutors said during a brief hearing Friday.

SAN LUIS OBISPO, California - A man who was among three convicted in the 1976 kidnapping of 26 children and their school bus driver was released on parole Friday after nearly 40 years in prison.

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina - A North Carolina police officer told investigators the unarmed black man he is accused of shooting two years ago had "crazy-looking eyes," and said he feared the man would take his gun, a detective testified Friday.