Новости за 01.01.2016

TOLEDO, Ohio - Former U.S. Rep. Mike Oxley, who helped write landmark anti-fraud legislation following a wave of corporate scandals that brought down Enron Corp. and WorldCom Inc., died Friday at age 71.

MUNCIE, Indiana - A central Indiana man serving a 40-year sentence for killing a man he said sexually molested him and his late brother as children is seeking early release from prison, saying he's turned his life around behind bars.

FLORHAM PARK, New Jersey - New York Jets running back Bilal Powell, right tackle Breno Giacomini and backup tight end Kellen Davis are questionable for the game against the Buffalo Bills because of injuries.

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minnesota - Minnesota Vikings nose tackle Linval Joseph has been listed as doubtful to play at Green Bay due to a foot injury that has hampered him over the last month.

BOGOTA, Colombia - Venezuela's state oil company is temporarily halting gas exports across the border to Colombia, citing climate factors and the need to generate electricity, the Colombian Mining Ministry reported Friday.

ELIZABETH CITY, North Carolina - Court documents show a North Carolina man accused of stealing a dog from an animal shelter and dyeing it purple faces several charges, including larceny and cruelty to animals.

SAN FRANCISCO - Banking into the wind and then gliding out of sight, a male California condor flew back into the wild after a captive breeding program that helped save North America's largest species of land bird.

GUATEMALA CITY - Guatemalan officials say a prison riot in the eastern state of Izabal has left eight inmates dead.

NASHVILLE, Tennessee - The Tennessee Titans will be without three starters Sunday in their season finale in Indianapolis.

GLENDALE, Arizona - Notre Dame standout linebacker Jaylon Smith was helped from the field with an apparent leg injury early in Friday's Fiesta Bowl.

AUSTIN, Texas - Texas' highest criminal court halted more executions in 2015 than in any of the last nine years, which some legal experts say is a sign of a legal shift in the nation's most active death penalty state.

ALGIERS, Algeria - Tens of thousands of Algerians massed in a mountain village for a chaotic burial ceremony Friday of a national hero of the brutal independence war with France.

The latest developments on flooding in the Midwest (all times local):

DALLAS - Television ratings for the first College Football Playoff semifinals held on New Year's Eve dropped approximately 36 percent from last season when they were played on New Year's Day.

JERUSALEM - A gunman opened fire at a popular bar in the central Israeli city of Tel Aviv on Friday afternoon, killing two people and wounding at least three others before fleeing the scene, police said.

ATHENS, Greece - Chinese artist Ai Weiwei wants to raise consciousness about the plight of refugees through his, and his students', art.

TORONTO - A law banning the sale of e-cigarettes to people to under the age of 19 has gone into effect in Ontario.

INDIANAPOLIS - Indiana's first river otter trapping season since the furry species was reintroduced to the state in the 1990s has seen trappers take two-thirds of the state's limit less than halfway into that season.

GLENDALE, Arizona - Ohio State's NFL-bound defensive end Joey Bosa was ejected from the Fiesta Bowl in the first quarter for targeting.

CLEVELAND - Protesters upset by a decision not to indict police officers in the fatal shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice are continuing their call for the Cleveland prosecutor to step down.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A spokeswoman for the family of a man who died when his plane struck two buildings in downtown Anchorage says the crash was a suicide.

ANKARA, Turkey - The Turkish president's office said Friday that Recep Tayyip Erdogan was not advocating a Hitler-style government when he called for a state system with a strong executive.

ROCHESTER, New York - A western New York bar owner who says his restaurant was the one identified by authorities as the target of a would-be terrorist says the man arrested in the plot is an aggressive panhandler.

ORCHARD PARK, New York - The Buffalo Bills will be without running back LeSean McCoy for their season finale against the New York Jets.

LONDON - Iceland's long-serving president says he will not be seeking re-election this year after leading the country for 20 years.