Новости за 12.08.2016

RIO DE JANEIRO — Rickie Fowler isn’t showing much of a game at the Olympics. He plans to give himself an additional chance to impress Ryder Cup captain Davis Love III by playing next week in the Wyndham Championship. Fowler let another good round get away Friday at Olympic Golf Course with three straight bogeys

NEWARK, N.J. — A New Jersey woman has settled a lawsuit that will allow her to display a vanity license plate that reads “8THEIST.” The settlement was filed in federal court on Friday. Shannon Morgan lives in Maurice River in Cumberland County. She sued the state Motor Vehicle Commission in 2014 after it denied her

RIO DE JANEIRO — Kim Rhode stood at the base of the Olympic podium, unsure of what to do with her hands. She tugged at the bottom of her shirt, adjusted the sleeve, dropped her arms to the sides. Scanning the crowd, she locked onto a mop-haired boy sitting on a man’s shoulders, waving wildly

MADISON, Wis. — The Latest on a court ordering the release of Brendan Dassey (all times local): 6:25 p.m. An attorney for Brendan Dassey says she is “over the moon” about a federal court’s decision to overturn his conviction in a slaying that was profiled in the Netflix documentary “Making a Murderer.” Dassey was 16

RIO DE JANEIRO — Andrew Bogut rested his sore left knee against China. His Australian teammates didn’t relax without him. Bogut sat in street clothes on the bench, cheered and even collected basketballs at halftime Friday as Australia, so far the biggest surprise team in the men’s Olympic tournament, coasted to its third win by

NEW YORK — Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily on Friday: Nordstrom Inc., up $3.82 to $51.38 The department store chain said its anniversary sale results were strong, and it raised its annual profit forecast. Ruby Tuesday Inc., down 49 cents to $3.24 The restaurant chain reported weak sales and said it will close

NEW YORK — Alex Rodriguez returned to the infield, hugged a reception line of teammates and was handed the final ball from his final game with the New York Yankees. He walked to the area behind third base, leaned down and grabbed a handful of dirt. Baseball’s most notorious star of the last two decades

NEW YORK — Alex Rodriguez is in the starting lineup for his final game with the New York Yankees, batting third as the designated hitter against the Tampa Bay Rays and right-hander Chris Archer. Rodriguez is being honored in a pregame ceremony Friday. He said he has not thought about trying to continue his career

WOODBRIDGE, Va. — Francisco Mejia stepped out of the clubhouse and into the dugout with little fanfare. He did his usual turns in the batting cage, and the 5-foot-10, 175-pound catcher looked like just another 20-year-old in the minors. Yet Mejia is something of a modern-day Joe DiMaggio, plying his trade for the Lynchburg Hillcats

ALLENTOWN, Pa. — The Latest on the trial of a soldier accused of killing his teen girlfriend’s mother (all times local): 4:25 p.m. Jurors are now deliberating at the murder trial of a soldier who’s accused of killing his then-14-year-old girlfriend’s mother because she disapproved of their relationship. Jurors got the case of Army Spc.

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — A panel of judges has rejected an appeal for a new trial for a Pennsylvania man convicted in the 2002 strangulation deaths of a pharmacist and his girlfriend. Hugo Selenski was sentenced to life without parole plus 56 to 120 years in the slayings of Michael Kerkowski and Tammy Lynn Fassett. The

MADISON, Wis. — A federal court in Wisconsin has overturned the conviction of a man found guilty of helping his uncle kill Teresa Halbach in a case profiled in the Netflix documentary “Making a Murderer.” The U.S. District Court in Milwaukee on Friday overturned Brendan Dassey’s conviction and ordered him freed within 90 days unless

RIO DE JANEIRO — Maya Moore scored 12 points, and the U.S. routed Canada 81-51 Friday to clinch Group B in women’s basketball. The U.S. won its 45th straight Olympic game after a sloppy start where the Americans (4-0) had their two lowest scoring quarters in Rio. They led only 18-16 after the first quarter

RIO DE JANEIRO — The future is now for the U.S. men’s water polo team. That’s about all the Americans can do with what’s left of their time at the Olympics. The United States won silver in Beijing, but slipped to eighth in London and will fare even worse in Rio de Janeiro after losing

RIO DE JANEIRO — Before the gold, before the glory, there were tears. From the coaches. Long before the stunning exhibition on Thursday night that earned her the Olympic all-around title, Simone Biles was just a prodigy in the USA Gymnastics developmental program. She and coach Aimee Boorman would travel regularly to the Karolyi Ranch

INDIANAPOLIS — Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Evan Bayh was granted a temporary reprieve from disclosing personal financial information that all candidates for Congress must release. Bayh spokesman Ben Ray said Friday that the former Indiana governor and one-time senator was granted an extension. That allows Bayh to wait until October to disclose how he earns

CHERRY HILL, N.J. — A kiosk operator who was asked to stop selling anti-police brutality T-shirts and left a mall last month says he has received an apology and plans to reopen the kiosk. The Cherry Hill Mall asked Amir Miller to stop selling the $20 shirts because they were considered offensive. The shirts feature

RIO DE JANEIRO — Some 5,000 miles away from Brazil, longtime racewalking coach and competitor Don Lawrence was watching an online feed of Friday’s men’s 20-kilometer event at the Rio Games when the conversation turned to doping within the sport. The question was if it will ever be considered clean. “I don’t see that coming

FRANKFURT, Germany — A group of computer security experts say they figured out how to hack the keyless entry systems used on millions of cars, meaning that thieves could in theory break and steal items without leaving a broken window. The experts say that remote entry systems on millions of cars made by Volkswagen since

ROCKWOOD, Tenn. — A police officer accidentally fired a live round during active shooter training this week at a Tennessee middle school, officials said. No one was near the officer Thursday morning, and the bullet damaged a “minor little piece” of a cinderblock wall at Rockwood Middle School, Roane County Schools Superintendent Leah Watkins told

RIO DE JANEIRO — British Open champion Henrik Stenson is close enough to think about adding an Olympic gold medal to his silver claret jug. It just required a long and wild route to get himself into contention on Friday. Marcus Fraser of Australia got off to a quick start, stretched his lead to four

RIO DE JANEIRO — Olympic champion Germany held on to beat the Netherlands 2-1 Friday in their 200th meeting to top their pool in men’s field hockey at the Rio de Janeiro Games. Germany led 2-0 soon after halftime thanks to nice touches in front of goal, but the Dutch cut the margin just before

RIO DE JANEIRO — Alisha Glass, Carli Lloyd and Courtney Thompson huddle together during timeouts with their position coach, and words fly around for about a minute as they compare notes before returning to play. This tight-knit trio is playing a key role for the top-ranked Americans in their chase for the first U.S. gold

NEW YORK — A New York man convicted of sexually assaulting a woman who fell asleep next to him on an international flight has been sentenced to two years in prison. U.S. Attorney Robert L. Capers says 43-year-old Staten Island resident Nadeem Mehmood Quraishi was sentenced Friday. Emirates flight attendants say Quraishi told them he

CLEVELAND — Cleveland Indians designated hitter Carlos Santana is out of the lineup against the Los Angeles Angels on Friday, a day after suffering a contusion on the right side of his head when he was hit by a foul ball in the dugout. Santana was standing behind the railing on the top step of