Новости за 29.07.2016

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Stephanie White has the perfect calling card as she hits the recruiting trails during the WNBA’s Olympic break working on her other job as coach of the Vanderbilt Commodores. Coaches, players and parents can simply take a look at her fast-paced Indiana Fever. Those games also are proving a great teaching tool

BOSTON — Former Democratic Vice President Al Gore’s daughter and other activists arrested during a natural gas pipeline protest in Boston have returned to court. Karenna Gore, activist Tim DeChristopher and four others appeared Friday in Municipal Court. They’d previously pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor charges of trespassing and disturbing the peace following the June

NEW YORK — Stocks ended slightly higher on Friday, helped by better-than-expected quarterly results from Google’s parent Alphabet and retailer Amazon and a modest recovery in oil prices. On Friday: The Dow Jones industrial average fell 24.11 points, or 0.1 percent, to 18,432.24. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index rose 3.54 points, or 0.2 percent,

NEW YORK — Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily on Friday: Alphabet Inc., up $25.50 to $791.34 Google’s parent company topped estimates in the second quarter as its revenue surged more than 20 percent. Exxon Mobil Corp., down $1.25 to $88.95 The oil company’s quarterly profit was its smallest in almost 17 years and

GREENVILLE, N.C. — East Carolina has extended baseball coach Cliff Godwin’s contract by three years. The deal announced Friday by the school runs through the 2022 season. Godwin has taken the Pirates to the NCAA Tournament in each of his two seasons and guided them to the Lubbock Super Regional this year. East Carolina won

ORLANDO, Fla. — The Latest on the Zika virus in Florida (all times local): 4 p.m. U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson is asking Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to reconvene Congress so lawmakers can pass an emergency spending bill to fight the spread of the Zika virus. Nelson sent McConnell a letter Friday after health officials

ALLEN PARK, Mich. — Darius Slay took the field for Detroit’s first practice of training camp with his contract concerns in the past. Slay signed a four-year extension with the Lions worth about $50 million, a deal that lasts through the 2020 season. The 25-year-old cornerback was heading into the fourth and final season of

TEMPE, Ariz. — A Tempe police lieutenant with nearly 20 years of experience shot and killed a robbery suspect that he believed had a gun, authorities said Friday. Officials identified Lt. Edward Ouimette (wah-MET’), 52, as the officer who fired his weapon during a foot pursuit Wednesday, fatally hitting Dalvin Hollins, who is black. No

ISTANBUL — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday he was dropping all lawsuits against those charged with insulting him. Speaking at an event in the Turkish capital, Ankara, commemorating those killed and wounded during a failed July 15 military coup, Erdogan said he was withdrawing all the lawsuits for insults against his person. “For

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. — Veteran NFL receiver Hakeem Nicks decided this offseason that persistently lobbying New Orleans Saints coach Sean Payton for a job gave him the best chance at salvaging his career. The 28-year-old Nicks, who participated in his first practice of Saints training camp on Friday, is coming off several seasons in

DALLAS — A South Texas research facility has been fined after 13 primates died of hyperthermia in overheated rooms, a federal official said Friday. Covance Research Products in Alice was fined $31,500 for four violations of the U.S. Animal Welfare Act following the 2014 deaths of the cynomolgus monkeys, said Tanya Espinosa, a spokeswoman for

WASHINGTON — A surprisingly lackluster economy last quarter served as a reminder of how choppy the pace of growth has been since the Great Recession ended seven years ago. Businesses pared their stockpiling and investment through the spring. But consumers — the heart of the U.S. economy — kept spending. Most economists foresee faster, if

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The mother of a 24-year-old man who was fatally shot by Kansas City police in 2013 has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners and the officer who shot her son. Narene Stokes-James filed the lawsuit on Thursday, the Kansas City Star reported (http://bit.ly/2aQdg5y ).

SCITUATE, R.I. — An investigation into former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling’s failed video game company, 38 Studios, has resulted in no criminal charges, authorities announced Friday. The yearslong investigation found “no provable criminal violations” of state law, according to a report released by the state police and the state attorney general’s office. Attorney

LANCASTER, Pa. — A Pennsylvania teenager has been sentenced to at least 54 years in prison for his role in the stabbing death of a sixth-grade math teacher during a burglary at her home. Seventeen-year-old Marcus Rutter pleaded guilty earlier this month to breaking into teacher Nicole Mathewson’s home, robbing her and killing her in

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — Players joining a new NFL team say that digesting their new playbook is a lot like learning a new language. Then that goes double for Mark Sanchez, who isn’t just absorbing the parlance of Gary Kubiak’s West Coast offense in Denver but also mastering the tongue of his Mexican-American roots. “I think

COLUMBIA, Calif. — Four family members died in a small-plane crash at a Northern California airport earlier this week. Family and friends identified the pilot as Daniel Kruetzfeldt; his wife, Kristen Kruetzfeldt; his mother, Mary Chandler; and his stepfather, Claude Chandler, the Modesto Bee newspaper reported Friday (http://bit.ly/2aD4z21 ). The Kruetzfeldts leave behind three children.

RIO DE JANEIRO — A Brazilian low court judge has accepted charges against former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva for allegedly obstructing the corruption probe at state-run oil giant Petrobras. The date of the trial has not yet been set. The decision published on Friday names Silva and five others as co-conspirators in an

SARANAC LAKE, N.Y. — A Canadian rugby player has collapsed and died of an apparent heart attack at a tournament in the Adirondack Mountains. Officials tell the Adirondack Daily Enterprise (http://bit.ly/2an4VYC ) that Gerhard Veit collapsed late Friday morning during a match at the 43rd annual Can-Am Rugby Tournament in Saranac Lake. A group of

DUBUQUE, Iowa — Dubuque officials say they hope to auction off homes and other buildings, rather than demolish them to make way for a roadway construction project. Public auctions will be held Aug. 13 for six homes and other farm-related structures that must be moved or demolished by Dec. 1, The Telegraph Herald reported (http://bit.ly/2aifDSS

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — A Canadian couple found guilty of terror charges will walk free after a judge ruled Friday they were entrapped by the country’s national police force in a police-manufactured crime. Justice Catherine Bruce of the British Columbia Supreme Court said police instigated and skillfully engineered the acts committed by John Nuttall and

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — More than half of the wounded survivors of a nightclub shooting in Fort Myers — eight out of 12 injured — have withdrawn their criminal complaints, potentially hindering the police investigation and prosecution, the city’s police chief said. Two young teenagers were killed in Monday’s mass shooting. Fort Myers interim Police

OSWIECIM, Poland — Pope Francis and his predecessors St. John Paul II and Benedict XVI each came to the memorial at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camps in southern Poland. Each visit reflected the pontiffs’ personal history and style. Each visit was closely watched by Catholics, Jews and others, especially because the wartime pontiff, Pius XII, has

INDIANAPOLIS — A former Indianapolis private high school boys’ basketball coach was sentenced Friday to 14 years in prison for trying to entice a 15-year-old student to have sex with him. A federal judge ordered the prison term for former Indianapolis Park Tudor School coach Kyle Cox, who pleaded guilty in May to a charge

BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombia’s government ombudsman’s office says that nearly 1,300 Cubans who hope to make their way to the United States are stranded in miserable conditions near the Panamanian border. William Gonzalez is ombudsman for the Urabia region. He tells The Associated Press that the 1,297 Cubans who arrived in the town of Turbo