Новости за 16.09.2016

Spain, Japan and Australia took 2-0 leads in their Davis Cup World Group playoffs on Friday, although Rafael Nadal was a late withdrawal from his scheduled opening singles match in New Delhi. The official reason given was an upset stomach, but Feliciano Lopez, who replaced Nadal and beat India’s Ramkumar Ramanathan 6-4, 6-4, 3-6, 6-1,

Stocks closed moderately lower Friday, pushed down, in part, by a decline in the price of oil, which sent energy companies lower. Investors continue to remain on edge regarding the possibility of the Federal Reserve raising interest rates at its meeting next week. On Friday: The Dow Jones industrial average fell 88.68 points, or 0.5

SOMERVILLE, N.J. — A judge admitted on Friday he erred when sentencing a former “Melrose Place” actress for a deadly 2010 drunken-driving crash. Somerset County Superior Court Judge Robert Reed said actress Amy Locane-Bovenizer should’ve served an additional six months, according to NJ.com. “That was my error,” he said during a tense status conference on

GOLDSBORO, N.C. — A North Carolina woman sought after her mother’s corpse was found in a freezer sold at a yard sale has been arrested, Goldsboro police said Friday. Marcella Jean Lee, 56, was arrested Thursday in Carolina Beach, about 100 miles south of Goldsboro, on a felony charge of failure to report a death,

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. — The Minnesota Vikings have ruled two starters out against Green Bay due to knee injuries, defensive tackle Sharrif Floyd and cornerback Xavier Rhodes. They’re still trying to be secretive about their starting quarterback for Sunday, even though all signs have been pointing toward Sam Bradford making his debut. Coach Mike Zimmer

CHICAGO — Milwaukee center fielder Keon Broxton has left the Brewers’ game against the Chicago Cubs with a broken right wrist. Broxton slammed into the wall in left-center while tracking down Tommy La Stella’s drive in the third inning Friday at Wrigley Field. He went down immediately after the play and was helped off the

WASHINGTON — Foreign holdings of U.S. Treasury securities fell in July as China, the biggest foreign owner of Treasury debt, trimmed its holdings. The Treasury Department said Friday total foreign holdings dropped 0.6 percent in July to $6.25 trillion following a 1.1 percent increase in June. China reduced its holdings 1.8 percent to $1.22 trillion,

LYNDON, Kan. — Regional health care clinics in the small towns of Alma and Lyndon will close. Stormont Vail Health announced the closures, The Topeka Capital-Journal (http://bit.ly/2d417em ) reports. Officials said the 4 percent Medicaid cuts, totaling $3 million in reduced reimbursements, and the state’s failure to expand Medicaid were the main factors in the

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Florida is making a strong push to catch up in the facilities race of college athletics. A little more than a year after finishing a $17 million indoor practice field and with a $65 million renovation to its on-campus arena nearing completion, the Gators announced concepts for the next phase of upgrades

Kool Keith, “Feature Magnetic” (Mellow Music Group) Even as his aliases multiply, Keith Thornton has more than 30 releases under the name Kool Keith alone. His latest, “Feature Magnetic,” is an album featuring collaborations with rappers from all schools of hip-hop. These guest MCs are a big part of the story. MF Doom is in

TORONTO — Filmmaker and actor Rob Reiner says those who support Donald Trump for president are aiding and abetting racism. Reiner made the remarks Friday when asked about the timing of his Woody Harrelson-led Lyndon B. Johnson film “LBJ,” which made its debut at the Toronto International Film Festival. Reiner says the emergence of Trump

NEW YORK — Even before Frank Ocean released his albums “Endless” and “Blonde” on Apple Music last month, he and his label decided the relationship was over. A person familiar with the situation told The Associated Press that Ocean’s label, Def Jam, decided to let the singer out of his contract early because the relationship

TAMPA, Fla. — More than 200 million gallons of contaminated waste water from a fertilizer plant in central Florida leaked into one of the state’s main underground sources of drinking water after a massive sinkhole opened up beneath a storage pond, a phosphate company said Friday. Mosaic, the world’s largest supplier of phosphate, said the

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The Latest on the indictments of four police officers in South Carolina(all times local): 3:45 p.m. Indictments say a South Carolina police officer failed to properly investigate 88 cases assigned to him over four years. A state grand jury charged former Horry County Police officer Darryl Williams with misconduct in office. The

NEW YORK — Johnson & Johnson said Friday that it is paying more than $4.3 billion in cash to buy the eye health unit of Abbott Laboratories as it seeks to boost its vision business. The unit, called Abbott Medical Optics, makes lasers and other equipment used for cataract surgeries and laser vision correction procedures.

BALTIMORE — Police are asking residents of a northwest Baltimore neighborhood and members of the LGBT community for information on the fatal shooting of a transgender woman. Police spokesman T.J. Smith spoke at a news conference Friday in the area where 32-year-old Crystal Edmonds was found. Smith says she was found about 3 a.m. with

They get downgraded in the draft and told their NFL lifespan rarely goes beyond their 30th birthdays. In the pass-happy pro football world, running backs sometimes become afterthoughts. Then, guys like C.J. Anderson, DeAngelo Williams, Matt Forte and Carlos Hyde go wild on the field. Yes, the Patriots and Saints have found ways to prosper

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — As night fell over Happy Valley on Friday, hundreds of Joe Paterno’s former players gathered outside the school’s baseball stadium to celebrate their accomplishments and the coach who inspired them before he left a polarizing legacy. About 50 yards from where a statue of Paterno was removed by the university after

PARIS — French officials say three men have been charged and jailed after a woman was allegedly lured on Facebook by one of them and then gang-raped near the Eiffel Tower. A police official said Friday that three Algerian men were arrested earlier this week in a Paris hotel under suspicion of taking part in

COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Police say six more members of the now-suspended Sigma Nu chapter at Texas A&M University face drug-related charges in the overdose death of a fellow student. College Station police Lt. Steve Brock on Friday announced warrants for the additional fraternity members who attended the Aug. 20 party at the group’s house.

BOLIVAR, Tenn. — Police in Tennessee say a man fatally shot his estranged wife 10 times in front of her children and then led police on a chase before turning the gun on himself. News outlets quote Bolivar police as saying that 26-year-old Camille Thompson was taking her two oldest children to school Thursday morning

OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma prison officials say officers discovered a false wall with an “escape hatch” inside a halfway house that holds prisoners who are nearing the end of their sentences. The Oklahoma Department of Corrections said Friday that officers found the false wall while searching for contraband at the Center Point halfway house in

NEW YORK — Chipotle says its top marketing executive is back on the job, after being placed on leave this summer as a result of drug possession charges. The burrito chain says Mark Crumpacker’s return was announced internally Sept. 8. Crumpacker is Chipotle’s chief creative and development officer and had been in charge of the

Robert Glasper Experiment, “ArtScience” (Blue Note Records) The Robert Glasper Experiment hoists a jazz sail on “ArtScience” for a spirited cruise on seas of soul, dance, funk and pop. Recorded in New Orleans in two weeks, the band wrote most of its self-produced third album and even handles the vocals instead of relying again on

SALISBURY, Md. — Maryland-based Perdue Farms says it will stop the controversial practice of inserting plastic into its male chickens’ nostrils. In a statement released this week, the company says it will use an alternate method to prevent them from eating the food of nearby hens. Instead of inserting plastic tubes into the male birds,