Новости за 29.02.2016

CHICAGO - Grain futures were mostly lower Monday on the Chicago Board of Trade.

TEMPE, Arizona - Ji-Man Choi's baseball career had stalled a bit last summer in his sixth pro season. The South Korean prospect says he decided to get it moving again by learning how to switch-hit in the middle of the year.

TEHRAN, Iran - Iranian moderates have won a majority in the Assembly of Experts, a clerical body that is tasked with choosing the supreme leader of the Islamic Republic, and which was previously dominated by hard-liners.

HONOLULU - The Honolulu Medical Examiner's office says a Canadian teenager killed in a tour helicopter crash in Pearl Harbor earlier this month died of brain damage from drowning.

MILWAUKEE - Henry Ellenson will have made a lasting impression at Marquette even if the freshman never plays a home game for the Golden Eagles after Tuesday's finale at the Bradley Center.

NEW ORLEANS - The nation's boom in cheap natural gas - often viewed as a clean energy source - is spawning a wave of petrochemical plants that, if built, will emit massive amounts of greenhouse gases, an environmental watchdog group warned in a report Monday.

FORT WAYNE, Indiana - Police said Monday that multiple people may have been involved in the fatal shooting last week of two men and a teenager in a Fort Wayne house.

FAYETTEVILLE, Arkansas - University of Arkansas shortstop Michael Bernal has been named Southeastern Conference baseball's co-Player of the Week.

MINNEAPOLIS - A person with knowledge of the situation tells The Associated Press three Minnesota men's basketball players were suspended after an illicit video appeared on one of their social media accounts.

ALAMEDA, California - The Oakland Raiders signed punter Marquette King to a five-year, $16.5 million contract extension Monday to keep him off the free-agent market next week.

BOSTON - Victims of clergy sexual abuse are reveling in the Oscar won by "Spotlight" - the story of The Boston Globe's investigation into the scandal - but say they don't hold out much hope that the elevated status from the film's Best Picture award will prompt changes at the highest levels of the Roman Catholic church.

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, California - Authorities are scheduled to formally change the names of some of Yosemite National Park's most iconic attractions unless an 11th hour settlement to a bitter legal dispute is reached.

Avalanche general manager Joe Sakic was busy attempting to improve Colorado's bid to make the playoffs, while a majority of his NHL counterparts stood pat as the league's trade deadline hit Monday afternoon.

FAIRFIELD, Connecticut - General Electric is promising to boost its earnings by about 15 percent in each of the next three years and dole out $67 billion to shareholders as CEO Jeffrey Immelt tries to create a sleeker, "digital industrial" company.

ROANOKE, Virginia - Police in Virginia say an 18-year-old man ignored their commands to drop a pistol before he was fatally shot by officers.

NEW YORK - A spirited brainstorming session over some noodles, vegetables and rice.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - The administrators of a top luxury hotel in Puerto Rico have been arrested and charged in a tax evasion case as the U.S. territory cracks down on corruption amid a worsening economic crisis, officials said Monday.

PHOENIX - New Milwaukee Brewers pitching coach Derek Johnson wants to keep his message simple.

NEW YORK - New York City's campaign finance laws don't allow corporations to give money directly to people running for city office, but that hasn't been a hurdle for some companies trying to influence public policy.

MEXICO CITY - Mexico's state-run oil company said Monday it will slash spending by 22 percent and reduce unprofitable production by about 100,000 barrels per day as Petroleos Mexicanos struggles with liquidity problems and past-due payments to its suppliers.

BRADENTON, Florida - Jim Harbaugh says he doesn't care about critics of Michigan's spring practice trip to Florida nor does the coach understand all the fuss about the Wolverines being snowbirds for a week.

NEW YORK - If the Washington Redskins decide to place the franchise tag on quarterback Kirk Cousins, it will cost them $19.95 million for 2016 under the values agreed upon by the NFL and the players' union.

IOWA CITY, Iowa - The University of Iowa's interim campus police leader interfered with an investigation into a hit-and-run drunk driving accident by his stepson after the two left an Iowa City bar, driving away before officers could interview him, according to records obtained by The Associated Press.

LOS ANGELES - The Latest on the crash of a Google self-driving car with a public bus (all times local):

ATLANTA - The Atlanta Braves are bringing back former 10-time Gold Glove center fielder Andruw Jones as a special assistant to baseball operations.