Новости за 18.10.2016

BRUGES, Belgium — FC Porto came from behind to beat Club Brugge 2-1 Tuesday with an injury-time penalty to become a challenger in Champions League Group G. Brugge, hit with a slew of injuries, got its first goal in the group in the 12th minute when forward Jelle Vossen latched on to a rebound, kept

CHICAGO — The owner of two education-services companies has pleaded guilty to offering bribes and kickbacks to the former head of Chicago Public Schools. Federal prosecutors on Tuesday said Gary Solomon entered into a plea agreement admitting he offered former school district CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett bribes and kickbacks in exchange for her steering $23 million

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — When Gerad Parker was 12 and growing up in tiny Louisa, Kentucky, just across a bridge from West Virginia, he began cutting his coaching teeth, giving basketball instructions to elementary school students in his backyard. On Sunday, the 35-year-old Parker was called into athletic director Mike Bobinski’s office and told that

LEICESTER, England — Leicester’s decision to prioritize the Champions League over the Premier League is being vindicated. Riyad Mahrez made it three wins out of three for Leicester in Group G on Tuesday, clinching a 1-0 victory over FC Copenhagen that left his team requiring only one win from its final three games to make

PATERSON, N.J. — A New Jersey man testifying that he saw two men open fire before a 12-year-old girl was killed was caught texting from the witness stand Tuesday. Caurie Swinger was testifying in the case of two men charged in Genesis Rincon’s murder when sheriff’s officers saw him on his phone, The Record reports

MOSCOW — Igor Akinfeev may just have been the unluckiest man in the Champions League on Tuesday. The CSKA Moscow goalkeeper was trying to rid himself of an unwanted record — now standing at 10 years and 40 games without a Champions League clean sheet — and produced some spectacular saves against Monaco. But Akinfeev

STANFORD, Calif. — Stanford coach David Shaw said running back Christian McCaffrey is feeling better and is hopeful that the 2015 Heisman Trophy finalist will be back in the lineup against Colorado on Saturday. McCaffrey has been sidelined since suffering an undisclosed injury in the first half against Washington State on Oct. 8. He did

The first half of the 2016 college football featured the emergence of a new star quarterback, the re-emergence of an old Pac-12 power and the end of an era at LSU. Texas is back! Nope. Houston to the playoff! Nah. Tom Herman to LSU? Tom Herman to Texas? Tom Herman to the Chicago Bears? This,

NEW YORK — Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily on Tuesday: Netflix Inc., up $18.99 to $118.79 The streaming video company reported strong international subscriber growth, and its U.S. results were better than excepted. Del Taco Restaurants Inc., up $1.11 to $13.74 The restaurant chain raised its annual profit and revenue projections after it

The NBA’s general managers are expecting a third straight Golden State-Cleveland matchup in this season’s NBA Finals, with the Warriors the pick to reclaim the title. Such was the consensus from the annual poll of general managers by NBA.com . The Warriors and Cavaliers each got 97 percent of the votes cast by GMs when

SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Yahoo Inc. (YHOO) on Tuesday reported third-quarter net income of $162.8 million. The Sunnyvale, California-based company said it had net income of 17 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, were 20 cents per share. The results topped Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of 11 analysts surveyed by

BRUSSELS — A man has briefly held a group of people hostage in a supermarket in a Brussels suburb before surrendering to police. Nobody was injured and authorities say there was no indication of any terrorist motive. Brussels justice spokeswoman Ine Van Wymersch said Tuesday night, “we have no indications that this would be a

IOWA CITY, Iowa — Judging Iowa cornerback Desmond King for postseason honors won’t be easy. King might be the first Hawkeyes player to be considered for an All-America team simply because he stepped on the field every week. Teams have avoided throwing anywhere near King, the reigning Thorpe Award winner as the nation’s top defensive

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Former U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the case of an Alabama death row inmate he says could be “very likely actually innocent.” Meese filed a brief saying “basic notions of fairness” require a review of the conviction of Bill Kuenzel, who was convicted of

CINCINNATI — Cedric Ogbuehi got a holding penalty that wiped out a first down. On the next play, Andy Dalton was sacked for a safety , and the New England Patriots had grabbed the momentum. Ogbuehi’s latest flub prompted the Cincinnati Bengals to bench the right tackle for the next three series. It didn’t make

LOS ANGELES — The Latest on the trial of a lawsuit accusing NBA star Derrick Rose and two others of gang rape (all times local): 1:08 p.m. Closing arguments are beginning in the trial of a lawsuit alleging NBA star Derrick Rose and two friends raped an incapacitated woman. The arguments in Los Angeles federal

ATLANTA — The Latest on the scheduled execution of Gregory Paul Lawler in Georgia. (all times local): 4:20 p.m. The Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles has declined to halt the execution of a prisoner who shot and killed a police officer. Gregory Paul Lawler is scheduled to die Wednesday by injection of the barbiturate

NEW YORK — Charles Barkley didn’t want Kevin Durant to join the Golden State Warriors and isn’t sure Durant changes things now that he’s there. In Barkley’s mind, the Warriors are still a flawed team. “Let me say this: I still think they got some of the same issues this year with that team,” Barkley

EL PASO, Texas — A Texas man faces mandatory life in prison over a 2008 murder-for-hire scheme in Mexico in which his wife, her sister and their father were killed. Samuel Velasco Gurrola of El Paso was convicted Monday of conspiracy to commit murder in a foreign country and conspiracy to cause foreign travel for

Curt Schilling believes his bloody sock shouldn’t be compared to Cleveland Indians pitcher Trevor Bauer’s bloody finger. Bauer started Game 3 of the AL Championship Series against the Toronto Blue Jays on Monday but threw just 21 pitches before getting removed as blood dripped from his hand. Bauer cut his finger last week repairing a

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Graduate students at Harvard University are organizing an election to decide whether to unionize. A group of graduate students reached an agreement with Harvard’s administration on Tuesday to hold an election on Nov. 16 and 17. The vote will allow Harvard’s 3,500 teaching and research assistants to decide whether they will be

NEW YORK — Long-time business correspondent Ali Velshi is joining MSNBC. The news network announced Tuesday the immediate appointment of Velshi, best known from his more than a decade as a CNN anchor and its chief business correspondent. He joined the Al Jazeera America network in 2013, remaining there until it ceased operations earlier this

BADANA, Iraq — This farming village east of Mosul was turned into a bunker during more than two years of Islamic State rule: A network of tunnels and cramped living quarters betrays an extremist group increasingly forced to operate underground by a punishing air campaign and mounting territorial losses. Wrested from IS control on the

WASHINGTON — Foreign holdings of U.S. Treasury securities fell again in August as China, the biggest foreign owner of Treasury debt, trimmed its holdings for the third straight month. The Treasury Department reported Tuesday that total foreign holdings dropped 0.8 percent to $6.20 trillion in August following a 0.5 percent decline in July. China reduced

DECATUR, Ill. — Millikin University’s football team decided to stay in its locker room during the national anthem Saturday, leaving one player standing alone on the sideline. The Herald & Review (http://bit.ly/2eBL3Vn ) reports sophomore Connor Brewer stood for the anthem. Millikin spokesman Bryan Marshall said Brewer “did what he felt like he needed to