Новости за 20.12.2016

DECATUR, Ga. — The case of a 40-year-old Georgia slaying has come to an end with a guilty plea from a convicted cop killer and escape artist who’s already serving life for kidnapping and armed robbery.

ANTIOCH, Calif. — A common food-borne bacteria caused an illness that left three people dead and sickened 22 others who attended a dinner at an events hall in the San Francisco suburb of Antioch on Thanksgiving Day, health officials said Tuesday.

FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. — The Atlanta Falcons can afford to be patient with Julio Jones’ return from a sprained toe.

BOSTON — U.S. Sen. Edward Markey warned Tuesday that any effort by President-elect Donald Trump to roll back renewable energy regulations will face fierce opposition from a newly galvanized environmental movement.

NEW YORK — Dick Latessa, a veteran Broadway actor who was in the original productions of “Follies,” ”Brighton Beach Memoirs” and “The Will Rogers Follies” and who won a Tony Award playing Harvey Fierstein’s onstage husband in the original cast of “Hairspray,” died Monday, Fierstein said. He was 87.

NEW YORK — The stunning image rocketed around the world, via Facebook and Twitter and other social media: an Associated Press photographer’s close-up of an agitated gunman just moments after he had assassinated Russia’s ambassador to Turkey.

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — The NCAA has informed Rutgers that an 18-month investigation into the department of athletics has found seven potential violations.

HOUSTON — A week after a chemical leak at an asphalt plant in Corpus Christi triggered a four-day water ban, the Texas attorney general’s office has joined an investigation by state and federal environmental authorities and key questions remain unanswered.

MILWAUKEE — Marquette University is adding to its J.R.R. Tolkien Collection.

MILAN — Milan vice president Adriano Galliani says his team will be at a disadvantage in its Italian Super Cup match against Juventus in Qatar after having to cancel its flight on Tuesday.

iBook charts for week ending December 18, 2016 (Rank, Book Title by Author Name, ISBN, Publisher ):

NEW YORK — Television viewers are feeling the spirit of the season.

Two of the four most-watched cable channels last week, Hallmark and Freeform, devote their prime-time schedules to holiday-themed programming this time of year. Hallmark turns on the tinsel for November and December and generally sees the network’s best ratings of the year.

For the broadcast networks, a holiday special by the musicians Pentatonix reached 7.5 million people last week and highlights of “Saturday Night... Читать дальше...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Guided by one of the nation’s most dynamic players, Philadelphia power St. Joseph’s Prep walked away from Hersheypark Stadium on Dec. 10 with the Pennsylvania State Athletic Association Class AAAAAA football title.

GREENSBORO, N.C. — With her team playing its second road game in three days, coach Cori Close was just hoping UCLA would find a way to get better against North Carolina A&T on the Aggies’ home court.

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Reigning Class AAAA champion Erie Cathedral Prep earned top billing Tuesday with the release of the Pennsylvania Football Writers All-State team.

HUDDERSFIELD, England — American coach David Wagner has rejected interest from Bundesliga clubs to stay at Huddersfield Town and try to lead the club into the English Premier League.

NEW YORK — A Russian criminal group is running a massive fraud that has been siphoning off millions of digital advertising dollars a day for a couple of months, a firm that specializes in detecting online-ad fraud says.

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Since the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association adopted the mercy rule in 1998, only one high school football program has cleared 15 consecutive wins under a running clock.

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis on Tuesday freed a Vatican monsignor convicted of leaking confidential documents to journalists, granting him a Christmas-time clemency and ending an embarrassing episode for the Holy See.

CINCINNATI — The Bengals waived long snapper Tyler Ott on Tuesday, no longer needing a backup with Clark Harris recovered from a groin injury.

NEW YORK — The Staten Island Yankees are keeping their name, abandoning a fan vote that included Pizza Rats as an option.

WICHITA, Kan. — Spirit AeroSystems has filed a $20 million construction permit for the building where it manufactures a part of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner in Sedgwick County.

WASHINGTON — One of the Middle East’s richest kingdoms said Tuesday it would host its annual Washington party at Donald Trump’s new hotel, underscoring the president-elect’s unusual status as the owner of a major venue for events in the U.S. capital.

SOUTH BRUNSWICK, N.J. — A tractor-trailer carrying 40,000 pounds of syrup has jackknifed near the New Jersey Turnpike, spilling its load onto the roadway.

BOCA RATON, Fla. — A 300-pound metal sculpture of a satanic pentagram, erected as an atheist protest to a public park’s Nativity scene, was severely damaged on Tuesday when it was pulled to the ground by vandals.