Новости за 15.03.2017

OMAHA, Neb. — A Nebraska judge is allowing former Creighton basketball star Maurice Watson Jr. to travel to his hometown of Philadelphia to rehabilitate his knee even though he’s charged with first-degree sexual assault in Omaha. The Omaha World-Herald reports that Watson was ordered Wednesday by a Douglas County District Court to stay at his

ALAMEDA, Calif. — Free agent linebacker Zach Brown is visiting the Oakland Raiders as the team looks for an upgrade at the position, a person familiar with the visit told The Associated Press. Brown will meet with the Raiders on Wednesday, said the person, who spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because the

SAN ANTONIO — LaMarcus Aldridge’s latest bout with heart arrhythmia kept him out less than a week, a big relief to the five-time All-Star as he and the San Antonio Spurs chase the Golden State Warriors for the top seed in the Western Conference. Aldridge was cleared to return to full basketball activities and was

WASHINGTON — After a blast of frigid temperatures, the National Park Service says horticulturists have found widespread damage in cherry blossoms that have reached an advanced stage in the bloom cycle. The park service said in a statement Wednesday that peak bloom for Washington’s famous cherry blossoms is still expected in the next week, but

The Macan, Porsche’s smallest SUV, is more affordable and more fuel efficient for 2017 and is stocked with more standard equipment, including a rearview camera. The new base model, called simply the 2017 Macan, has the Macan’s first four-cylinder engine and carries a starting retail price, including destination charge, of $48,850. That’s $4,745 less than

BASE PRICE: $47,800 for base model. AS TESTED: $53,620. TYPE: Front-engine, all-wheel-drive, five-passenger, compact crossover sport utility. ENGINE: 2-liter, double overhead cam, turbocharged, inline four cylinder. MILEAGE: 20 mpg (city), 25 mpg (highway). TOP SPEED: 142 mph. LENGTH: 184.3 inches. WHEELBASE: 110.5 inches. CURB WEIGHT: 3,902 pounds. BUILT AT: Germany OPTIONS: Premium package (includes Bose

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A lawsuit by the state of Kansas accuses the man at the center of a multi-state lottery number-fixing scam of working with two others to redeem two rigged lottery tickets for $44,000. Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt announced Tuesday he filed the Shawnee County lawsuit against Eddie Tipton and two others

LINCOLN, Neb. — The developer of the Keystone XL pipeline has donated $20,000 to the Nebraska Republican Party through a political action committee run by one of its U.S. subsidiaries. The Feb. 8 donation was made as TransCanada seeks approval for a route through Nebraska. It came from Columbia Pipeline Group, which was acquired by

WARSAW, Ind. — A northern Indiana man previously charged with failing to tell women he had sex with that he’s HIV-positive is facing another such charge. Thirty-seven-year-old Travis R. Spoor of Silver Lake was charged Tuesday with malicious mischief involving infected bodily fluids. He’s being held at the Kosciusko County jail on $251,000 bond. A

TIRANA, Albania — Kosovo prosecutors have brought abuse of office charges against an ethnic Serb government minister and two associates. They said in a statement Wednesday that Minister for Communities and Return Dalibor Jevtic and two associates allegedly authorized the use of a public vehicle by a private company, a radio station in a Serb-populated

ST. PETE BEACH, Fla. — Authorities in Florida are continuing to search for a college student on spring break and a charter boat crew member who went missing in turbulent Tampa Bay-area waters. Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said Wednesday during a news conference that 15 Colorado State University students were on a charter boat

ROME — European authorities say that an influx of Bangladeshis coming from Libya has contributed to a near-doubling of migrants arriving in Italy last month. The European Union’s Frontex border patrol agency said Wednesday that there were 10,900 detections of illegal border crossings into the European Union at the three main border crossings — some

BOSTON — The Latest on a pain management doctor who federal prosecutors say prescribed opioids to drug abusers (all times local): 12:55 p.m. A pain management doctor has apologized for falsely submitting claims for services he did not provide while prescribing opioids to patients at his four pain clinics in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Dr.

CHISINAU, Moldova — Moldovan prosecutors have detained the country’s agricultural minister on suspicion that he took part in a scheme to illegally expropriate state-owned vineyards and buildings. Prosecutors from the National Anti-Corruption Agency detained Agriculture Minister Eduard Grama Wednesday for a 72-hour period and searched the agriculture ministry and Grama’s home. Grama is one of

PARIS — The Latest on France’s presidential campaign (all times local): 7:55 p.m. French presidential hopeful Francois Fillon says he might have made mistakes but has asked the French people to judge him on his 36-year career in elected office to serve the nation. He is facing preliminary charges in an investigation of taxpayer-funded jobs

PARIS — France is talking about eventually lifting the national state of emergency that has been in force since the November 2015 Paris terror attacks. French Justice Minister Jean-Jacques Urvoas said during a speech Wednesday that the country had “created the conditions that make it possible to exit the state of emergency, without weakening ourselves

BUFFALO, N.Y. — No. 4 seed West Virginia (26-8) vs. No. 13 seed Bucknell (26-8) First round, West region; Buffalo, New York; 2:45 p.m. EDT. BOTTOM LINE: The Mountaineers have stumbled down the stretch, going 11-6 after opening 15-2, and are seeking to avoid repeating a first-round upset last year. That’s when third-seeded West Virginia

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — A black driver is suing an Iowa city and a white police officer who shot him during a traffic stop, leaving him paralyzed. Jerime Mitchell’s lawsuit filed last month in Linn County lists negligence and assault by Cedar Rapids and Officer Lucas Jones. It seeks unspecified damages and a jury trial,

WARSAW, Poland — The Latest on a Polish court issuing an arrest warrant for a Minnesota man sought in a Nazi massacre (all times local): 4:05 p.m. The son of a Minnesota man who’s the subject of an arrest warrant issued by a Polish court says his father is innocent of any war crimes. A

TOPEKA, Kan. — University of Kansas officials did not seek a Title IX investigation after a women’s basketball player said Jayhawks star Josh Jackson vandalized her car and that she was treated unfairly when she reported it, the woman’s father told a Kansas Senate committee. Tim Calvert, speaking by phone Tuesday to a Kansas Senate

JERSEY CITY, N.J. — A New Jersey woman has been reunited with her beloved pet dog that skipped out of her apartment six months ago. Tanya Flowers told The Jersey Journal (http://bit.ly/2nCfnyW ) that she spent days handing out hundreds of fliers and contacting animal shelters after her year-old Maltese named Paris vanished last September.

The Latest on legal challenges to the Trump administration’s revised travel ban (all times Pacific unless noted): 1:25 p.m. Washington state has again asked a federal judge in Seattle to block President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban. In new court filings Wednesday, Attorney General Bob Ferguson asks Judge James Robart to halt the new executive

NEW YORK — It’s 1 a.m. You’ve had a few too many at a crowded bar and walk out without paying the tab. Your credit card and driver’s license sit behind the cash register, leaving your personal info widely accessible while you sleep off those vodka tonics. There’s a new option that might lessen the

NEW YORK — A year after being fired, Derek Fisher is back in NBA arenas at the TV table. What he really wants is to be back in the coaching box. “There’s no question I’ll be back at it at some point,” Fisher said. In the meantime, he’s working as an analyst for TNT, and

NEW YORK — Randell Heath isn’t sure how hackers got into his company’s website — all he knows is a supplier called, saying the site had become an online store selling Viagra and Cialis. The problem might have been at the company that hosts the site. It might have been that Heath’s passwords weren’t strong