Новости за 29.10.2015

MEMPHIS, Tennessee - The Cleveland Cavaliers looked like the defending Eastern Conference champs. The Memphis Grizzlies looked like a royal mess.

AUBURN HILLS, Michigan - The Detroit Pistons are two games over .500 for the first time in more than six years, and the most encouraging sign may be Andre Drummond's free throws.

WHITE HOUSE, Tennessee - Authorities say a Kentucky fugitive on the run for five days amid a massive manhunt across two states was spotted again but fled into a cornfield after crashing his car.

WEST PALM BEACH, Florida - A funeral for a Florida man killed by a plainclothes police officer has been set for Saturday.

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korea's highest court on Thursday sentenced the head of a ferry operator to seven years in prison over a ship sinking last year that killed more than 300 people.

ORLANDO, Florida - The Washington Wizards spent the preseason getting a feel for the new high-scoring, breakneck pace on offense that coach Randy Wittman wants to be their calling card.

SYDNEY - A man was arrested in the slaying of a woman whose skeletal remains were found in an Australian forest 1,200 kilometers (750 miles) from where her daughter's body was discovered dumped in a suitcase, police said Thursday.

WASHINGTON - With Sidney Crosby and the rest of the Pittsburgh Penguins' skaters off to a low-scoring start to the season, goalie Marc-Andre Fleury is carrying the club.

HOUSTON - If the Denver Nuggets play as well as they did in Wednesday night's opener they will be a much-improved team this season.

KANSAS CITY, Missouri - Johnny Cueto smothered the New York Mets with another big October outing. And the pesky Kansas City Royals kept fouling off Jacob deGrom's best pitches, wearing him down with persistence and prowess.

SAN DIEGO - The lawyer who is leading the San Diego Chargers' efforts to move to Los Angeles was vigorously booed as he addressed the crowd at the beginning of a public hearing the NFL mandated as part of the relocation process.

WASHINGTON - The Republican presidential contenders and party leaders are railing against the moderators of the third GOP debate.

Three days after losing their leader to cancer, the Minnesota Timberwolves are making sure everyone knows that Flip Saunders is still with them.

NEW YORK - So much has changed for Derrick Rose and the Chicago Bulls. Some defensive schemes are different, and so is the playing rotation.

MIAMI - Throughout the preseason, the Miami Heat kept being questioned about whether they had enough 3-point shooting.

SEOUL, South Korea - Samsung Electronics Co. reported its first earnings gain in more than a year on Thursday as a record profit from computer chips masked a decline in its smartphone business.

MILAN - Ferrari Chairman Sergio Marchionne is edging Ferrari production higher as the luxury sports car brand prepares for a future as a stand-alone company.

LOS ANGELES - The bodies of two young women have been found in a Los Angeles nature park, and investigators are trying to determine how they died.

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina - The Carolina Panthers easily could've thrown in the towel last season after going two months without a win and watching their record fall to 3-8-1.

TORONTO - Jonas Valanciunas had 21 points and 15 rebounds, DeMar DeRozan scored 25 and the Toronto Raptors beat the Indiana Pacers 106-99 on Wednesday on opening night for each team.

BOSTON - Isaiah Thomas had 27 points and seven assists, and the Boston Celtics beat the Philadelphia 76ers 112-95 on Wednesday night in the season opener for each team.

INDIANAPOLIS - The percentage of Indiana students who passed the state's new and more-stringent standardized exam is expected to drop dramatically after the State Board of Education on Wednesday set pass-fail benchmarks for last spring's test.

WASHINGTON - Chris Rolfe scored in the 83rd minute to help D.C. United beat the New England Revolution 2-1 on a rainy Wednesday night in the knockout round of the MLS Cup playoffs.

ATHENS, Greece - At least 11 migrants died in the eastern Aegean Sea Wednesday in five separate incidents, including a large shipwreck from which 242 others were rescued by the Greek coast guard.

PASADENA, California - London-born model and TV actor Sam Sarpong has died in Southern California after jumping to his death from a bridge.