Новости за 10.08.2017

PAPILLION, Neb. — The Kansas City Royals will play the Omaha Storm Chasers in an exhibition next March to kick off the 50th year of the Royals having their top farm club in the Omaha area. The Storm Chasers announced on Thursday that the game is March 26 at Werner Park. It will be the

INDIANAPOLIS — Jim Caldwell skipped the homecoming parade Thursday and got right to work. With the first of two joint practices in Indianapolis before Sunday’s preseason opener, the Detroit Lions coach didn’t have time to shake hands, recount stories or reminisce about the decade he spent on these very same fields. Besides, it’s not his

RALEIGH, N.C. — Duke men’s basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski will have a total knee replacement surgery, leading the team to cancel this month’s exhibition trip to the Dominican Republic. The school announced Thursday the Hall of Fame coach will have the procedure this weekend on his right leg at the university hospital in Durham. Krzyzewski

MEXICO CITY — Mexican authorities say they have caught a female drug gang leader who was allegedly responsible for much of the violence in the Caribbean resort city of Cancun. The government said in a statement late Wednesday that federal police and marines caught Leticia Rodriguez in the central state of Puebla. Mexico’s most popular

PHILADELPHIA — A former director of the home shopping network QVC has been charged with defrauding the company out of more than $1 million that he used to pay for a lavish lifestyle, prosecutors said Thursday. James Falkowski, 42, duped the company into paying for hundreds of thousands of dollars in spa treatments, clothing, Botox

SEATTLE — The Seattle Storm have fired Jenny Boucek and promoted assistant Gary Kloppenburg to interim head coach for the remainder of the season. The team announced the moves Thursday. The Storm (10-16) have lost four straight games and are fighting to make the playoffs. Kloppenburg last was a head coach in Tulsa in 2012-13.

BEDMINSTER, N.J. — President Donald Trump said Thursday that he will officially declare the opioid crisis a “national emergency” and pledged to ramp up government efforts to combat the epidemic. “The opioid crisis is an emergency. And I am saying officially right now: It is an emergency, it’s a national emergency. We’re going to spend

JERUSALEM — Directly addressing his nationalist base, a beleaguered leader accuses the news media of obsessively promoting a liberal agenda, conducting a “witch hunt against me and my family,” and trying to overturn unpalatable electoral outcomes through sinister legal machinations. This may sound like President Donald Trump. But this time it is Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Arkansas’ senior senator says he will have surgery next week as a follow-up to emergency heart surgery he had three years ago. In a handwritten note posted in a photograph on Twitter Thursday, Sen. John Boozman said 30 percent of patients who have had surgery for a torn aorta need additional

TAMPA, Fla. — A Florida group trying to preserve Confederate monuments is backing a new effort: erecting a statue of Snooty the manatee. The only thing is, the Florida branch of Save Southern Heritage doesn’t want a Snooty statue to replace a Confederate war memorial. Snooty, the 69-year-old manatee, drowned last month after getting caught

LOGANVILLE, Ga. — The father of a 7-year-old girl had to scramble after a foster care worker took her — and not another girl with a similar name — from their school in suburban Atlanta. Sean Harris says he panicked when he went to pick up his daughter from after-school care and discovered she wasn’t

MADISON, Wis. — The Wisconsin Senate’s top Republican said Thursday that he wants to know when the jobs Taiwanese electronics maker Foxconn has promised to create in the state will materialize, as his caucus ponders whether to approve an incentive plan for the company. Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald has said he doesn’t know if

INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Supreme Court has upheld the murder and arson convictions and life in prison without parole sentences for a man convicted in a deadly Indianapolis house explosion. The court ruled unanimously Thursday in rejecting the appeal by 58-year-old Bob Leonard. It found, among other things, that there was sufficient evidence for the

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — Investigators have concluded that a federal prosecutor whose body was found on a Florida beach had killed himself. The Hollywood Police Department issued a statement Thursday saying detectives and the medical examiner determined that 37-year-old Beranton J. Whisenant Jr.’s death was caused by a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Whisenant’s fully clothed body was

NEW YORK — Facebook once failed to buy Snapchat; ever since, it’s tried to copy it, mostly without success. Until now. Facebook’s Instagram Stories, a clear Snapchat clone, has more daily users than Snapchat itself — and parent company Snap Inc. should be very worried. Snap’s latest earnings report isn’t helping either. On Thursday, the

SAN FRANCISCO — Uber’s head of global operations is the latest executive to step down at the troubled ride-hailing company. Ryan Graves told staff in an email Thursday that he will transition out of his role as senior vice president of global operations in mid-September. Graves will remain on Uber’s board. Graves was Uber’s first

ANDERSON, Ind. — A central Indiana mayor is hoping work on the city’s downtown will attract younger people to the area. Anderson Mayor Thomas Broderick told The Herald Bulletin that historic buildings are being restored, work on a brewery and distillery continues, a new bus terminal has been proposed and trails around Shadyside Lake will

TOMS RIVER, N.J. — A New Jersey parolee has admitted he stabbed a fellow halfway house resident 90 times, killing him, over an argument about a football game. Twenty-six-year-old Anthony Strong pleaded guilty to murder Thursday in Superior Court in Toms River. He was charged with killing Frank Campagna, who was found dead in his

NEW YORK — Foreign-stock funds have been some of this year’s biggest winners, but many investors aren’t feeling the full benefit. When buying a foreign-stock fund, investors increasingly have two options: One insulates investors from the swings in returns that can be caused by shifts in the dollar’s value against the euro, yen and other

ROCKLAND, Maine — An airplane traveling from Maine to Boston has had to make an emergency landing because one of its cabin doors opened midflight. The Portland Press Herald reports nine passengers and the pilot were on a Cape Air flight traveling from Rockland on Wednesday when the top section of the boarding door opened.

NCAA member schools will be required to provide sexual violence education for all college athletes, coaches and athletics administrators under a police announced Thursday by the organization’s board of governors. Campus leaders such as athletic directors and school presidents will be required to attest that athletes, coaches and administrators have been educated on sexual violence

LONDON — The Latest from the world championships (all times local): 9:55 p.m. Ramil Guliyev of Turkey earned the biggest upset of the world championships by winning the 200 meters ahead of Wayde van Niekerk. Guliyev held on in the finishing straight to win in 20.09 seconds, .02 seconds ahead of Van Niekerk. Jereem Richards

RALEIGH, N.C. — A North Carolina woman detained in Honduras says she is relieved to be home after authorities mistook a soda can-shaped safe for drugs. Amanda Laroque, who owns a bar in Raleigh, was held in jail for several days after she was arrested at the airport on July 30 on the Caribbean island

BENTONVILLE, Ark. — Walmart said Thursday it’s investigating a photo that’s attracted interest on social media by purporting to show a sign reading “Own The School Year Like A Hero” atop a gun-filled case in one of the company’s stores. The sign is apparently one that’s used in Walmart’s current superhero-themed “back to school” marketing

Two of Pablo Picasso’s silver platters are among the hundreds of rare items curated from collections around the world that will be on display and sold during a special exhibition in New Mexico’s art capital of Santa Fe. The Objects of Art show , which runs through the weekend, also includes furniture from the home