Новости за 25.10.2016

MIDDLEBOROUGH, Mass. — Four of the five victims who died in a fiery wrong-way crash this week were young men who attended two Massachusetts colleges. The men identified by state police on Tuesday were in a car heading north on Interstate 495 in Middleborough early Monday morning when they were struck head-on by a car

WASHINGTON — U.S. home prices climbed at a solid pace in August as more home buyers competed for fewer available properties. The Standard & Poor’s CoreLogic Case-Shiller 20-city home price index rose 5.1 percent in August, after a 5 percent gain in July. Portland, Seattle and Denver reported the strongest year-over-year increases for the seventh

HAMPTON, N.H. — A bottled message sent out to sea by a New Hampshire man more than five decades ago has been returned to his daughter. WMUR-TV (http://bit.ly/2dFgqsy ) reports the message was discovered by Clint Buffington of Utah while he was vacationing in the Turks and Caicos. Buffington says he found a Coke bottle

CHARLESTON, S.C. — Hurricane Matthew flooded roads and homes and tore branches from trees, but there has been one upside to the storm: bigger shrimp. South Carolina Department of Natural Resources biologist Jeff Brunson tells The Post and Courier of Charleston (http://bit.ly/2eFo4GL ) that in some places along the coast, larger shrimp have moved from

PRISTINA, Kosovo — An international prosecutor on Tuesday charged a group of Kosovo Albanians and Serbs, including a former lawmaker, with organizing a crime ring involved in money laundering, bribery, fraud, abuse of power and tax evasion. The European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo, or EULEX, made the indictment Tuesday. In a statement

MINNEAPOLIS — The easy thing for the Saunders family to do would have been to walk away. Flip Saunders’ fingerprints are all over the Minnesota Timberwolves — from the players on the roster to the new scoreboard that hangs in the arena. One year after his death, his presence is still a strong one at

MILAN — Residents in a town on Italy’s Adriatic coast are blockading a hostel to prevent the arrival of 12 female migrants, one of them pregnant, who were to be housed there, in a sign of growing tension amid persistent migrant arrivals. The impasse in the town of Goro came after new government figures showed

ISTANBUL — A human rights group said Tuesday that Turkish police have tortured or abused detainees following the failed coup attempt in July, a claim that Turkish officials deny. In a 43-page report published Tuesday, Human Rights Watch said that a state of emergency adopted after the coup attempt — which is still in effect

LOS ANGELES — Rita Wilson’s phone has been blowing up — and it’s all David S. Pumpkins’ fault. Ever since her husband, Tom Hanks, appeared on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” as the strange man in the pumpkin suit in that haunted elevator, Wilson has received all sorts of crazy David S. Pumpkins things, including clips,

BERLIN — A German aid group urged the European Union on Tuesday to reconsider its plans to train Libyan forces to conduct sea rescue operations after a vessel labeled as belonging to the country’s coast guard attacked a dinghy full of migrants last week. Dozens of people were feared dead in the incident. Sea-Watch, a

ISLAMABAD — The head of the International Monetary Fund has praised Pakistan for “successfully completing” a three-year program under which Islamabad received $6.7 billion after signing a bailout package with the fund amid fears of default. Pakistan received the last tranche of $102 million under this package last month. In a statement after concluding her

DENVER — Anheuser-Busch says it has completed the world’s first commercial shipment by self-driving truck, sending a beer-filled tractor-trailer on a journey of more than 120 miles through Colorado. The company says it teamed with self-driving truck maker, Otto, and the state of Colorado for the feat. The trailer, loaded with Budweiser beer, began the

INDIANAPOLIS — Eli Lilly’s profit slipped 3 percent in the third quarter and the drugmaker fell well short of Wall Street expectations as competition and a loss of patent protection chopped revenue for some key products. Company shares started sliding early Tuesday after Lilly also reaffirmed its forecast for 2016 earnings and gave its revenue

McLOUD, Okla. — A 25-year-old woman convicted of second-degree murder for pushing her husband to his death from the 25th floor of their apartment has died in an Oklahoma prison, corrections officials said Tuesday. Amber Hilberling was pronounced dead at 5:33 p.m. Monday at the Mabel Bassett Correctional Center, where she had been serving a

NAIROBI, Kenya — The U.N. human rights chief warned Tuesday against the “alarming rise in hate speech and incitement to violence against certain ethnic groups” as fighting continues in South Sudan. Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein called the “hateful rhetoric between Dinkas and Equatorians highly dangerous” and could lead to “mass atrocities if not reined in,” spokeswoman

BENTON HARBOR, Mich. — Whirlpool Corp. (WHR) on Tuesday reported third-quarter earnings of $238 million. The Benton Harbor, Michigan-based company said it had net income of $3.10 per share. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, came to $3.66 per share. The results did not meet Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of four analysts

NEW YORK — JetBlue Airways Corp. (JBLU) on Tuesday reported third-quarter net income of $199 million. The New York-based company said it had net income of 58 cents per share. The results did not meet Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of nine analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 60 cents

MOGADISHU, Somalia — A suicide truck bomber struck an African Union base in central Somalia on Tuesday, and extremist group al-Shabab claimed responsibility for the attack. The bomber detonated the explosives-laden vehicle at the gates of the base in Beledweyne town where soldiers from Djibouti are stationed, said Somali police officer Ahmed Ali. Sheikh Abdiaziz

The NCAA committee that proposed football recruiting reforms, which include the addition of early signing periods, wants to create more transparency and access for coaches and players in a process that has been accelerated in recent years, said a key member of the group. Nebraska athletic director Shawn Eichorst told The Associated Press the football

SHANGHAI — Winning a PGA Tour event for the second straight year, especially the manner in which Justin Thomas rallied in Malaysia, made it easy to assume that a player of his polish and power could be on the verge of breaking through to the next level. Consider the last two weeks. Thomas began the

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s intelligence minister is defending his agents’ handling of a visit by a gay Utah state senator after hard-liners alleged it represented a security breach. Mahmoud Alavi made the comments on Tuesday in an open session of Iran’s parliament. Alavi says Sen. Jim Dabakis was under “full surveillance” during his six-day visit

OMAHA, Neb. — Attorneys have begun closing arguments in the case against a former medical student accused of killing four people with ties to an Omaha medical school, including an 11-year-old boy. Anthony Garcia’s attorneys focused during the last day of testimony Monday on the prosecution’s timeline and other aspects of the prosecution’s case. Garcia

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Charges have been dropped against a Libertarian congressional candidate from Indiana who was arrested in Louisville after an alleged struggle over his phone during a September traffic stop. Russell Brooksbank says he feels that “justice was served.” Brooksbank had been charged with traffic violation of failing to signal and assaulting a police

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — Sprint Corp. (S) on Tuesday reported a loss of $142 million in its fiscal second quarter. The Overland Park, Kansas-based company said it had a loss of 4 cents per share. The results beat Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of 14 analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for a

PEORIA, Ill. — Caterpillar’s third-quarter profit was essentially cut in half with the global economy stuck in a funk, and the company said that it expects that malaise to extend into next year. The construction and mining equipment maker lowered its outlook for the year and shares of Caterpillar slipped almost 2 percent in midday