Новости за 04.05.2017

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Little Rock police have arrested three men and accused them of stealing a live alligator from a downtown nature center. The three were charged early Thursday with commercial burglary, theft of property and criminal mischief. One also faces a charge of fleeing. Police say that, after the burglary at the Witt

ORLANDO, Fla. — University of Central Florida has given football coach Scott Frost a one-year contract extension. The school announced Thursday that Frost’s original contract will now run through the 2021 season and will include a $300,000 annual raise. The American Athletic Conference coach now earns $2 million per year after one season on the

WASHINGTON — Eight years later, Max Scherzer still finds a little extra motivation when he faces his first major league team. Scherzer struck out a season-high 11 to bounce back from his worst outing this season, and Washington defeated the Arizona Diamondbacks 4-2 on Thursday after losing Bryce Harper to a groin injury. Scherzer (4-2)

NEW YORK — Shake Shack says a key sales figure declined 2.5 percent in the first quarter as customer traffic fell. The New York-based burger company also lowered its sales forecast for the year, saying it now expects sales at established locations to be flat, down from its previous guidance for growth of 2 to

BRANDON, Miss. — A grand jury has indicted a man accused of leaving a trail of dead and wounded people and stolen cars in Mississippi, New Mexico and Kansas. District Attorney Michael Guest says grand jurors in Rankin County, Mississippi, indicted Alex Deaton Wednesday on charges of first-degree murder, auto theft, and drive-by shooting. He’s

WASHINGTON — Pitching religious free expression, President Donald Trump accused the former Obama administration Thursday of banning patients at a military hospital from receiving religious items from visitors. That episode is not quite as the president described it. Here’s what he said and what happened more than five years ago at Walter Reed National Military

San Antonio’s Tony Parker needs surgery to fix his left leg and won’t play again until next season. Toronto’s Kyle Lowry is dealing with a nasty sprained ankle. Utah’s George Hill is sitting out with a bad toe. Be careful out there, NBA starting point guards. Playoff injuries are piling up, with no team immune.

LOS ANGELES — U.S. immigration agents waste their time logging in and out of archaic computer systems while trying to track down foreigners suspected of overstaying their visas only to find out later that many visa holders have left the country, said a government watchdog report released Thursday. Agents and analysts must use 10 to

NEW YORK — Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Thursday: Zions Bancorporation, up 9 cents to $40.67 Banks rose as bond yields and interest rates turned higher. Marathon Oil Corp., down 68 to $14.17 Energy companies tumbled as the price of oil continued to fall. Capital Bank Financial Corp., down $2.25 to $39.80 The

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — The North Carolina High School Athletic Association will have fewer teams in many of its higher- and lower-classification playoff events. The NCHSAA announced Thursday that its board of directors has approved changes to playoffs for the 1-A and 4-A classifications in football, baseball, basketball, soccer, softball and volleyball. It will reduce

Oil prices and energy companies plunged Thursday, canceling out gains elsewhere in the market including in consumer goods makers, health care companies and banks. On Thursday: The Standard & Poor’s 500 index picked up 1.39 points, or 0.1 percent, to 2,389.52. The Dow Jones industrial average slid 6.43 points, or 0.03 percent, to 20,951.47. The

RIO DE JANEIRO — A judge in Brazil on Thursday sentenced eight men for planning an attack in the run up to the 2016 Summer Olympics, marking the first time that a much debated anti-terror law formed the basis of a case in Latin America’s largest nation. Federal Judge Marcos Josegrei da Silva sentenced the

HONOLULU — The wife of “Dog the Bounty Hunter” reality TV star Duane “Dog” Chapman should have a role in helping select the next chief of the Honolulu Police Department, the police commission’s chairman said. Beth Chapman’s background in the bail bonds business will be beneficial, Chairman Max Sword told fellow commissioners at a meeting

BOWMAN, S.C. — A man trying to attract extraterrestrials to South Carolina says an earthly visitor broke into his alien welcome center and stole a flat-screen TV. UFO Welcome Center owner Jody Pendarvis says the intruder breached the 23-year-old ramshackle building shaped like a UFO from a 1950s movie on April 22. Pendarvis told The

HOUSTON — Houston Texans inside linebacker Max Bullough has been suspended without pay for the first four games of next season for violating the league’s policy on performance enhancing substances. Bullough has spent his three-year career in Houston after he was signed by the Texans as an undrafted free agent in 2014. The 25-year-old appeared

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Florida officials revoked a racing greyhound trainer’s license after five dogs tested positive for cocaine after a race in January. According to records from the state’s Department of Business and Professional Regulation, Malcolm McAllister’s racing license was permanently revoked April 24. Urine samples for the dogs were taken by state employees

ALGHERO, Italy — Two riders from the Italian team Bardiani CSF have been kicked out of the Giro d’Italia on the eve of their nation’s biggest race after testing positive in an out-of-competition doping test. The UCI, the sport’s governing body, said Thursday that Nicola Ruffoni and Stefano Pirazzi returned positive tests for growth hormone-releasing

CINCINNATI — The Cincinnati Reds don’t play Pittsburgh again until August. They wish the wait wasn’t that long. Joey Votto doubled twice, drove in two runs and scored twice, leading Tim Adleman and the Reds over the Pirates 4-2 on Thursday. Adam Duvall drove in Votto both times as the Reds won for the fourth

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — If it’s May, Todd Pletcher must be at Churchill Downs preparing a horse — or several — for the Kentucky Derby. Just once since he first took a crack at America’s greatest race in 2000 has the trainer missed the Derby. Pletcher saddles three starters in Saturday’s race: Always Dreaming, Tapwrit and

NEW YORK — Marcus Gilchrist’s future with the New York Jets was uncertain when they drafted Jamal Adams in the first round last week. After they took another safety — Marcus Maye — in the second round, Gilchrist’s fate was sealed. New York released Gilchrist on Thursday, ending the veteran safety’s stint with the Jets

OMAHA, Neb. — A man accused of shooting two deputies, one fatally, while escaping from jail in western Iowa before being recaptured in Nebraska will head back to Iowa to face charges in the case. Wesley Correa-Carmenaty was in an Omaha jailhouse court Thursday, where he agreed to be extradited to Iowa to face first-degree

AMMAN, Jordan — A news website linked to Jordan’s military says an explosion went off in the market area of makeshift camp on the border with Syria, killing four people and wounding several others. The Hala Akhbar site says the blast went off Thursday evening in the Rukban camp that houses about 80,000 displaced Syrians.

CHARLESTON, S.C. — After a shoe with a human foot inside turned up on a dock in Charleston, South Carolina, investigators are trying to figure out whose it was and how it got there. A police report says a woman told Charleston City Marina employees on Monday that the shoe had been sitting on the

MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota Twins center fielder Byron Buxton was pulled from the game on Thursday against Oakland after running into the wall while tracking down a flyball in the fifth inning. The Twins say he was pulled for precautionary reasons and passed all the initial concussion tests. He will be evaluated again on Friday before

LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. — Ryan Howard was once one of baseball’s most feared sluggers, an MVP and World Series champion, the toast of Philadelphia. So what’s he doing here, in the sprawling suburbs of Atlanta, a minor leaguer at age 37 , playing alongside a bunch of 20-somethings, enduring bus rides and sparse crowds? “There’s more