Новости за 27.10.2016

FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — Kyle Schwarber’s big-time World Series impact for the Chicago Cubs is no surprise to New York Jets wide receiver Jalin Marshall. The two were football teammates at Middletown High School in Middletown, Ohio, with Schwarber a hard-hitting linebacker while also serving as a power-hitting slugger for the baseball team. “He was

Just because Wayne Gretzky laced up his skates in an alumni game over the weekend doesn’t mean the NHL is back to the 1980s. It just feels like it. Goals are coming fast and furious through the first two weeks of the season, with scoring at a pace that hasn’t been seen in over a

ROCKVILLE, Md. — A Maryland man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison in the drunken-driving death of a police officer who was struck while working DUI enforcement. Montgomery County State’s Attorney’s spokesman Ramon Korionoff says the sentence was handed down Thursday for 47-year-old Luis Reluzco, who pleaded guilty to vehicular manslaughter in the

NEW YORK — Amazon wants you to order your turkey, stuffing and cranberry sauce online this Thanksgiving — its latest effort to make its Prime subscription service a central part of food shopping, much the way it’s done for other consumer goods. Right before the cooking-heavy months of November and December, Amazon rolled out a

PORTLAND, Ore. — A Portland, Oregon, woman says her red Subaru was stolen from her driveway — and then it reappeared with an apology note and gas money. Erin Hatzi tells The Oregonian/OregonLive (http://bit.ly/2eeHeRh ) that her husband noticed the car was missing on Tuesday night and she posted security camera stills on Facebook, asking

MCLEAN, Va. — USA Today publisher Gannett, suffering from the ongoing print-ad declines that have hurt the broader newspaper industry, is cutting jobs as it reported a loss in its latest quarter. The company said it is cutting 2 percent of its staff. Gannett had nearly 19,000 employees at the end of 2015, suggesting more

NEW YORK — CBS says “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” has elected to broadcast a pair of live episodes the week of the presidential election. The two live telecasts will air in the regular CBS “Late Show” slot — 11:35 p.m. EST — on Monday, Nov. 7, and Wednesday, Nov. 9. They will bookend

TAUNTON, Mass. — An off-duty sheriff’s deputy and others who helped end a stabbing rampage at a Massachusetts mall say they’ve grown close since the deadly May attack. Plymouth County Deputy Sheriff James Creed, his wife and the wife of one of the victims spoke publicly for the first time Thursday about the attacks. Creed

CHICAGO — Sugar pills worked as well at preventing kids’ migraines as two commonly used headache medicines, but had fewer side effects, in a study that may lead doctors to rethink how they treat a common ailment in children and teens. It’s the first rigorous head-to-head test in kids of two generic prescription drugs also

BALTIMORE — The videotaped statements of two Baltimore officers charged in the death of a young man whose neck was broken in the back of a police van have been released publicly for the first time. Obtained by WBAL-TV, the statements of Sgt. Alicia White and Officer Garrett Miller recount the events that led to

BERLIN — Southern Spain will become desert and deciduous forests will vanish from much of the Mediterranean basin unless global warming is reined in sharply, according to a study released Thursday. Researchers used historical data and computer models to forecast the likely impact of climate change on the Mediterranean region, based on the targets for

VICKSBURG, Mich. — A group of men from Michigan have returned from a bachelor party in Tennessee with a stray dog and her litter of puppies in tow. MLive (http://bit.ly/2e1fCSd ) reports that groom-to-be Mitchel Craddock and his friends were on a 5-day trip at a cabin in the woods when a stray dog approached

BROOKSIDE, Ala. — Wildfires are charring hundreds of acres daily in the South as drought conditions worsen across the region, and the heavy, widespread rains that officials say are needed to end the threat are nowhere in sight. A crew using bulldozers worked to put out a wildfire that spread gray smoke across the rural

ORLANDO, Fla. — Teams on the cusp of becoming bowl eligible don’t usually have to hold open tryouts on campus looking for players in the middle of the season. That is exactly what UCF coach Scott Frost did last week. Injuries to scholarship players have thinned the scout team to near desperate levels and the

Tove Lo, “Lady Wood” (Island Records) Pop singer Tove Lo warns us at the very top of her strong sophomore album that maybe we shouldn’t always believe her. “You know I’m under the influence/So don’t trust every word I say,” she sings. And, after that warning, we’re off on a deliciously murky trip into dark

NEW YORK — A citizen journalist group that reports secretly from the Islamic State stronghold of Raqqa is being honored with a $50,000 prize for courage. The New York-based Train Foundation announced Thursday that this year’s Civil Courage Prize will go to the group Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently . The group was formed in

ANAHEIM, Calif. — The Anaheim Ducks signed holdout Hampus Lindholm to a six-year, $31.5 million contract through the 2021-22 season on Thursday, ending a stalemate with their talented Swedish defenseman. The 22-year-old Lindholm scored 92 points in 236 games over the past three seasons, developing into one of the NHL’s top young blueliners with a

MILWAUKEE — A Milwaukee police officer whose fatal shooting of a black man sparked a weekend of violent unrest in the city has been ordered to stand trial on unrelated sex assault charges. Dominique Heaggan-Brown appeared in Milwaukee County Circuit Court in handcuffs Wednesday as he waived his right to a preliminary hearing. The 24-year-old

JERUSALEM — In the innermost chamber of the site said to be the tomb of Jesus, a restoration team has peeled away a marble layer for the first time in centuries in an effort to reach what it believes is the original rock surface where Jesus’ body was laid. Many historians have long believed that

NEW YORK — A federal lawsuit is challenging a New York state law that makes it a misdemeanor to show a marked election ballot to others. The lawsuit filed late Wednesday in Manhattan federal court seeks to have the law banning so-called “ballot selfies” declared unconstitutional. The lawsuit said publishing a voted ballot on social

BELLEFONTE, Pa. — Lawyers for a former Penn State assistant football coach urged a judge and jurors Thursday to find the university liable for how it treated him after it became public that his testimony helped prosecutors charge Jerry Sandusky with child molestation. Mike McQueary is seeking more than $4 million in lost wages and

Alejandro Escovedo, “Burn Something Beautiful” (Fantasy Records) Alejandro Escovedo may not be a household name, but he should be. The 65-year-old singer-songwriter emerged in the 1970s as a punk rocker, gained acclaim as a soulful Texas-based alt-country star and has been holding down the roots rock mantle for years. The styles all co-exist wonderfully on

COLUMBIA, Mo. — Dolphus Morrison, a longtime horseman and the breeder of the great filly Rachel Alexandra, has died. He was 82. He died Wednesday at a nursing home and had Alzheimer’s, his wife, Ellen, said. Morrison was involved in thoroughbred racing for more than three decades when he and trainer Hal Wiggins struck gold

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles firefighters rescued a delivery truck driver from a deep and narrow hole at a construction site Thursday. The 30-year-old man fell up to 50 feet down the 24-inch-diameter hole and landed feet-first on compacted soil, according to Fire Department spokesman Brian Humphrey. Urban search and rescue specialists responded along with

BERLIN — New images from a NASA satellite indicate that the European Space Agency’s experimental Schiaparelli lander created a shallow crater on Mars when it plummeted to the surface last week. ESA lost communication with Schiaparelli shortly before the probe was supposed to touch down on Oct. 19. Two days later, pictures taken by NASA’s