Новости за 10.08.2016

CLOVIS, N.M. — A 19-year-old man charged in New Mexico with having an incestuous relationship with his mother told authorities he believed he could take care of her and keep her safe from abusive men like those in her past, a criminal complaint states. Caleb Peterson’s statement to police came after he and his mother

RIO DE JANEIRO — Tony Parker is keeping his minutes down as he gets back into game shape. Good thing for France he was ready to play at the end. Parker hit the go-ahead jumper with 31 seconds left, and the French beat Serbia 76-75 on Monday in an Olympic men’s basketball game. Sitting on

NEW YORK — Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily on Wednesday: Yelp Inc., up $4.19 to $36.83 The business review site posted strong quarterly results and raised its revenue projections for the year. Walt Disney Co., up $1.19 to $97.86 The media giant posted strong results as movies like “Captain America: Civil War” and

CLEMSON, S.C. — Clemson’s Greg Huegel rose from fill-in, “grocery store kicker” to leading the nation in field goals during the Tigers run to the College Football Playoffs. Now, he’s working to become more versatile and stay among the game’s best. “Last year, I was a lot more nervous going into the season,” Huegel said.

NEW YORK — A federal judge in San Francisco has dismissed a lawsuit accusing Twitter of supporting the Islamic State group. The families of two men killed in Jordan claimed that Twitter had contributed to their deaths by allowing the group to sign up for and use Twitter accounts. The judge agreed with Twitter that

RIO DE JANEIRO — Rafael Nadal went from being scheduled for a busy-as-can-be Wednesday to a day off at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, thanks to rain that forced postponement of all 26 matches. And now the 14-time Grand Slam champion will need to play three matches on Thursday, instead — weather permitting, of course.

RIO DE JANEIRO — With Olympic medals starting to roll in, Brazilians looking to toast their success might try a sakerinha. Yes, that’s a real drink — a fusion of Japanese sake and the national cocktail, the caipirinha, that is as thoroughly Brazilian as samba and sun. Though few visitors flooding into the country for

FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — Nick Folk has patiently waited over nine months to kick in an NFL game again. Fully healed from a quadriceps injury that cut short his season, and facing yet another challenge for his job, the veteran kicker is eager to walk onto the field at MetLife Stadium on Thursday night when

SAN FRANCISCO — A medical transport plane broke up in flight last month and crashed into a densely forested California mountain range, killing all four people aboard, federal investigators have determined. The National Transportation Safety Board’s preliminary findings emerged this week from interviews with witnesses, an investigation at the crash scene and data collection. No

RIO DE JANEIRO — Diana Taurasi and her U.S. teammates knew they’d be in for a test against Serbia. The end result was another blowout victory, but the Americans couldn’t put it on cruise control like they had in their first two wins. Taurasi scored 22 of her Olympic-best 25 points in the first half

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Matt LeBlanc says he’s not sure whether he will be back for more “Top Gear.” Speaking to TV critics Wednesday at an annual summer event, LeBlanc said of returning to the heart-pumping car show, “I don’t know. I’d like to. There’s nothing officially happening yet. Follow the BBC.” He said his

POTEAU, Okla. — Records indicate that the railroad crossing where a woman and her three sons died Sunday in eastern Oklahoma had been flagged for safety improvements since at least 2011. Thirty-seven-year-old April Goines and her sons were killed when the car they were riding was struck by a train in Poteau. Her daughter was

CHICAGO — Lawyers for a white Chicago police officer charged in the 2014 shooting death of an unarmed black 17-year-old won’t have access to his juvenile records. Cook County Juvenile Court Judge Patricia Martin ruled Wednesday that Officer Jason Van Dyke has no legal right to the confidential files simply because he’s charged with murder

NEW YORK — Grammy-winning singer The Weeknd is donating $250,000 to the Black Lives Matter movement. The singer made the announcement Wednesday, days after donating $38,000 to the University of Toronto to establish an Ethiopian studies program. The parents of The Weeknd, born Abel Tesfaye, are from Ethiopia, but raised the performer in Canada. Black

RIO DE JANEIRO — Men’s golf gets four days to make up for four months of negative chatter about whether it even belongs in the Olympics. Not even a dreary sky with occasional rain could dampen the enthusiasm Wednesday on the final day of practice at Olympic Golf Course. “No matter what happens this week,

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Three quarterbacks will be in the spotlight on Thursday night when the Saints and Patriots open their preseason schedules. It will be just another tuneup for two of the league’s most productive veteran signal callers, Tom Brady and Drew Brees. For the other, it will serve as an important prelude to an

PETERSBURG, Alaska — It wasn’t a record breaker, but it was still a helluva halibut. Petersburg radio station KFSK reports (http://bit.ly/2b8JfBE) that fishermen Brian Mattson and Doug Corl hauled in the catch of a lifetime Sunday with a 396-pound halibut in southeast Alaska. The fish was nearly 8 feet long. They used a winch to

NEW YORK — Delta Air Lines is spending $150 million this year on technology upgrades, including a better mobile app. But what CEO Ed Bastian never saw coming was a vulnerability to its reservations and operations servers that would cripple his airline for days. A computer outage Monday morning grounded planes around the world, stranding

SALVADOR, Brazil — There won’t be a third soccer gold medal for Argentina. Nor a second for defending Olympic champion Mexico. The traditional powers were eliminated early from the men’s Olympic tournament, dealing another blow to Argentine soccer following the senior team’s loss in the Copa America final in June and the ongoing crisis enveloping

Two festivals and the world premiere of an opera that Kurt Vonnegut finished shortly before his death will celebrate the writer’s legacy this fall in his hometown, Indianapolis. “Happy Birthday, Wanda June,” based on Vonnegut’s play by the same name, will be performed for the first time Sept. 16-18. The opera will be staged right

BOSTON — The Latest on the arrest of former New England mob boss Francis “Cadillac Frank” Salemme (all times local): 3:55 p.m. Former New England Mafia boss Francis “Cadillac Frank” Salemme (sah-LEHM’-ee) has made a brief court appearance in federal court in Boston. The 82-year-old Salemme was charged Wednesday with the murder of a witness

TOPEKA, Kan. — Kansas’ education commissioner says there are several challenges the state faces in its education system. The Topeka Capital-Journal (http://bit.ly/2b4bYDm ) reports that commissioner Randy Watson told the Kansas Board of Education on Tuesday that the state must work with students and their families to improve high school graduation rates. According to Watson,

PHOENIX — A teenager in the Phoenix suburb of Youngtown threw his 3-year-old brother down a flight of stairs before fatally stabbing him multiple times with a carving knife, according to court documents released Wednesday. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office investigators said in the probable cause statement that the attack came “without warning or provocation” and

IOWA CITY, Iowa — An internal investigation into a national jackpot-fixing scandal has concluded that a single former lottery employee was responsible for any drawings that were manipulated, but it failed to uncover proof of his guilt. The report for the Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL) found that the group’s former security director, Eddie Tipton, worked

OKLAHOMA CITY — A man accused of fatally stabbing his father, the state’s former labor commissioner, suffers from paranoid delusions and is mentally incompetent to stand trial for first-degree murder, a psychiatrist wrote in a report released Wednesday. An Oklahoma County judge did not make a determination on Christian Costello’s competency but ordered him returned