Новости за 08.12.2016

The Ring Magazine is making Muhammad Ali its 1966 Fighter of the Year, a half century after refusing to give him the award because of his disapproval of the draft for the Vietnam War and connection with the Nation of Islam.

ST. LOUIS — Two men have pleaded guilty to the $2 million robbery of an armored car, an inside job believed to be one of the biggest cash heists ever in St. Louis, federal prosecutors said Thursday.

JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Another board meeting of the region’s major transportation agency on Thursday produced few answers and continuing uncertainty over how the agency will spend its money over the next decade, particularly on a replacement for the nation’s busiest bus terminal, a battleground pitting New York and New Jersey factions.

RENO, Nev. — The latest in the shooting of a 14-year-old student at a Reno high school by a campus police officer (All times local, PST):

MAYS LANDING, N.J. — A New Jersey mother who prosecutors say gave her 7-month-old daughter methadone has pleaded guilty to aggravated assault in the baby’s death.

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. — The Minnesota Vikings’ season began with an ambulance rushing to team headquarters to save the leg of their starting quarterback.

OAKLAND, Calif. — The Ghost Ship is now gone. But there’s The Salt Lick, the ominously named Deathtrap and other converted warehouses where artists are holding emergency meetings behind locked metal doors.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Latest on missing Alaska plane with four on board (all times local):

A sampling of quotes from John Glenn:

“We are placed here with certain talents and capabilities. It is up to each of us to use those talents and capabilities as best you can. If you do that, I think there is a power greater than any of us that will place the opportunities in our way, and if we use our talents properly, we will be living the kind of life we should live.” — At NASA news conference in 1959 to introduce the Mercury 7 astronauts.

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ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — Trevor Siemian took a big step Thursday — whether that’s forward or back depends on how his sprained left heel responds to his first practice since getting hurt against Kansas City on Nov. 27.

WHISTLER, British Columbia — Snowy conditions have delayed a shipment of sleds and kept World Cup luge competitors off the ice.

CHICAGO — The purported leader of Chicago’s notorious Hobos street gang took the stand Thursday at his racketeering trial — one of the biggest in recent city history — to insist he didn’t order a deadly hit on a gang associate-turned-informant to stop him from providing evidence that could put the gang leadership behind bars for life.

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — Former top-10 player Kathy Rinaldi is the U.S. Fed Cup team’s new captain.

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — A U.S.-Canadian agency adopted a fiercely contested plan Thursday designed to improve environmental conditions along Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River by letting water levels rise and fall more naturally.

SALEM, Ore. — Researchers say seaborne radiation from Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster has been detected on Oregon shores.

IRBIL, Iraq — As Iraqi forces advanced toward the al-Salam hospital in Mosul earlier this week, encountering only light resistance from Islamic State fighters, commanders decided to seize the facility instead of sweeping the neighborhoods along the road leading to it.

FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — Nick Mangold’s season is over — and so might his tenure with the New York Jets.

FARGO, N.D. — The only thing that’s been worse than playing Football Championship Subdivision powerhouse North Dakota State in the last five years is playing the Bison more than once.

BISMARCK, N.D. — A company with a history of oil field-related spills in North Dakota and Montana is being hampered by winter weather in its cleanup of a “significant” pipeline break that leaked crude oil into a tributary of the Little Missouri River in western North Dakota, a regulator said Thursday.

LAS VEGAS — The Latest on the shooting death of a 13-year-old boy at a Las Vegas smoke shop (all times local):

BISMARCK, N.D. — For protesters fighting the Dakota Access pipeline, the messages from the Standing Rock Sioux reservation are confusing: The tribal chairman tells demonstrators that it’s time to leave their camp and go home. Another leader implores them to stay through the bitter North Dakota winter.

SYRACUSE, Ind. — The National Weather Service says blowing and drifting snow accumulating to as much as 6 inches is possible in northern Indiana.

MOSCOW — Chechnya’s strongman leader said Thursday that troops in the Russian province would be happy to fight the “scum” in Syria if they receive the Kremlin order.

OXON HILL, Md. — All-Star closers Aroldis Chapman, Mark Melancon and Wade Davis moved to different bullpens. Chris Sale boosted a big rotation in Boston. And the Washington Nationals got their fans talking — a lot.

OXON HILL, Md. — Boston’s Dave Dombrowski walked up to Brian Cashman outside the room where the winter meeting draft was about to start Thursday and gave the Yankees general manager a slap on the back.