Новости за 19.01.2016

NEW YORK - From Arizona to Newfoundland to Nashville, Tennessee, John Scott will be an NHL All-Star after all.

SAN FRANCISCO - Super Bowl 50 will be a tailgate of two cities. The fan village and other activities are set in San Francisco, but the game will be played about 40 miles south in Santa Clara, home to Levi's Stadium and the San Francisco 49ers (though the 49ers will not be playing in the Feb. 7 championship).

NEW YORK - The International Energy Agency says oil prices may fall further this year due to low demand, warm winter weather and an oversupply of crude.

STATESVILLE, North Carolina - North Carolina authorities say two sheriff's deputies shot and killed a man who came at them with a knife after they attempted to serve him an eviction notice.

LANSING, Michigan - Only a year ago, Rick Snyder began his second term as Michigan governor promoting the same achievements that had propelled him to victory in 2014: The state was at last in the midst of an economic comeback, and Detroit had emerged from bankruptcy.

FORT WAYNE, Indiana - A Fort Wayne attorney and his former law firm are defending advice they gave to a former Navy SEAL who wrote a book describing the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.

NEW YORK - An al-Qaida member from Yemen pleaded guilty on Tuesday to U.S. terrorism charges that included accusations he helped an American recruit join the terrorist group, clearing the way for the New York native to hatch a plot against the Long Island Rail Road.

"River Road" (Touchstone), by Carol Goodman

NEW YORK - The NBA is celebrating the Chinese New Year with a TV spot featuring Jeremy Lin, Stephen Curry and James Harden.

CHEYENNE, Wyoming - Sheriff's officials found a woman dead of exposure and her teenage son suffering from frostbite Tuesday, ending a three-day search for a family of three that went missing while snowmobiling in the Medicine Bow Mountains.

KEY WEST, Florida - Organizers of the Quantum Key West Race week regatta have canceled scheduled heats because of high winds deemed "too dangerous" to sail in.

BERLIN - Volkswagen has named Hinrich J. Woebcken as its new chief for North America as it battles to restore confidence in the region following last year's emissions scandal.

LANSING, Michigan - The latest on the Gov. Rick Snyder's annual State of the State speech, which will be devoted mostly to Flint's drinking water crisis (all times local):

HONOLULU - With golf joining the Olympics for the first time since 1904, the PGA Tour is trying to put together a test event for the new course in Rio de Janeiro.

FORT WORTH, Texas - Lawyers in the U.S. for a Texas teenager known for using an "affluenza" defense in a fatal drunken-driving wreck said Tuesday that the 18-year-old is dropping his deportation fight in Mexico as they investigate whether he willingly fled the country.

Super Bowl 33

NEW YORK - Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Ken Burns has been chosen to deliver the 2016 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, according to the National Endowment for the Humanities, which produces the event.

SAN MARINO, California - On a typical day at the Chinese Garden at the Huntington Library in San Marino, the smell of flowers - jasmine, camellias - floats across the garden's man-made lake in the center, flanked by limestone rocks, airy pavilions and hand-carved bridges.

HAVANA - Colombia's government and the country's largest rebel group marked another milestone in their rapidly advancing peace talks Tuesday, jointly requesting that the United Nations establish an international observer mission to monitor a disarmament process that could end in a matter of weeks Latin America's longest-running guerrilla conflict.

MIAMI BEACH, Florida - A vestige of the drug wars that made Miami notorious for violence and smuggling in the 1980s is being razed, with its new owners anxiously sifting through the wreckage for any last traces of the reign of Pablo Escobar.

NEW YORK - Don Felder was still hoping he and Glenn Frey would speak again.

DETROIT - A Detroit man whose missing son was found in the basement after a highly publicized 11-day search pleaded guilty Tuesday to misdemeanor child abuse, closing a case that began more than 18 months with torture allegations involving a plastic pipe.

WHITE PLAINS, New York - A television director with credits on "Law & Order" and other shows has pleaded guilty to child pornography charges in New York.

WASHINGTON - Taiwan's new government will carefully manage relations with mainland China and wants Washington to keep encouraging reconciliation, a senior official of the victorious party said Tuesday.

ABUJA, Nigeria - Cameroonian troops pursuing Boko Haram fired rocket-propelled grenades indiscriminately that killed a family of four, then shot and killed two other civilians, trapped Nigerian villagers said Tuesday.