Новости за 23.09.2019

MONTEREY, Calif. — It feels like the 1990s again in IndyCar, which closed its season with a throwback tour to a pair of treasured old haunts, a compelling championship race and a rookie class that proved the little series can still attract top talent. Is IndyCar back? Not exactly. But the slow rebuild back to

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Louisville says forward Malik Williams will miss six to eight weeks with a broken right foot, leaving the Cardinals without their third-leading returning rebounder for the early part of the season. The 6-foot-11, 245-pound junior had a screw inserted into his fifth metatarsal on Monday after injuring the foot in practice on

ELMONT, N.Y. — Work has begun on a $1.3 billion arena for the New York Islanders hockey team at Belmont Park. The 19,000-seat arena will also include shops, restaurants and a hotel. Work is expected to be completed in time for the 2021-2022 season. Until then, the Islanders will play home games at the Nassau

INDIANAPOLIS — Vatican officials have suspended the Indianapolis archbishop’s decision to stop recognizing a Jesuit-run high school as Catholic because it defied his order to fire a teacher in a same-sex marriage. The leader of Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School in Indianapolis announced Monday that the Vatican had temporarily suspended Archbishop Charles Thompson’s decree while the

The sister of a Louisiana man who died during an underwater marriage proposal in Tanzania last week says authorities have conducted an autopsy but didn’t provide his cause of death. Mandy Hoffman tells The Associated Press that brother Steven Weber Jr. died Thursday at a resort on Pemba Island. Hoffman says authorities informed her of

BILLINGS, Mont. — Kanye West has held an outdoor worship service that attracted thousands of people to the Wyoming city where he owns a ranch. The Billings Gazette reports West held the free event Sunday on the grounds of The Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody. The center estimates 3,800 people attended the

WOLFSBURG, Germany — Wolfsburg maintained its unbeaten start to the Bundesliga with a 1-1 draw against Hoffenheim on Monday. Sebastian Rudy scored his first goal for Hoffenheim since returning from Schalke to put the visitors ahead in the sixth minute, but Wout Weghorst set up Admir Mehmedi with a backheel for the equalizer in the

ST. PAUL, Minn. — After their six-year streak of making the playoffs came to an end, the Minnesota Wild went through an eventful summer in which the major change was made in the front office, not to the roster. The Wild were the fifth-lowest scoring team in the league last season. Among their top seven

INDIANAPOLIS — Simone Biles is heading to Germany to try to become the most decorated female gymnast in world championship history. Biles headlines the six-woman U.S. team that will travel to Stuttgart early next month. The defending world and Olympic champion has collected 20 world championship medals during her career. She needs one more to

GLENDALE, Ariz. — The Arizona Coyotes have for years sought someone who could boost their biggest weakness, scoring. Numerous players have arrived in the desert expecting to fill that void and, though some have had moderate success, the Coyotes never could find a true difference-maker. Phil Kessel could be that player. The Coyotes made one

WOODWORTH, La. — Louisiana wildlife agents say a stolen cellular game camera kept sending pictures, letting them identify the man who had it. He and the man he said he’d bought it from were arrested. A Department of Wildlife and Fisheries statement Monday said 55-year-old Kurt Wiggins is accused of theft and 53-year-old Ernie Jenkins

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — The Latest on the trial of a Chinese real estate heiress charged with killing her children’s father (all times local): 4:45 p.m. Lawyers for a San Francisco Bay Area heiress charged with killing her children’s father say she’s been wrongly accused of a crime that was committed by someone else. Defense

DUBUQUE, Iowa — A jury Monday convicted an eastern Iowa hog farmer of using a corn rake to kill his wife, agreeing with prosecutors who argued he was enraged that she was having an affair. Jurors found Todd M. Mullis, 43, guilty of first-degree murder in the death of Amy Mullis, according to the Telegraph

A group of US judges don’t seem inclined to order a new trial in a copyright fight over the Led Zeppelin song, “Stairway to Heaven.” Members of an 11-judge panel at a Monday hearing before the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco harshly challenged plaintiffs who argued that a new trial is

PITTSBURGH — The Latest on an apparent mass drug overdose (all times local): 3:45 p.m. Police say a man has been arrested on suspicion of providing a white powdery substance tainted with fentanyl at an after-party in Pittsburgh, leading to the death of three men. Pittsburgh Public Safety spokesman Chris Togneri says Peter Rene Sanchez

SAN FRANCISCO — The Latest on expected power shut-offs in Northern California (all times local): 1:15 p.m. Pacific Gas & Electric says it could cut power Monday evening to about 21,000 customers in an area of Northern California that suffered the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in state history last year. Forecasters have warned of

LOS ANGELES — Todd McLellan wants to make the Los Angeles Kings playoff contenders again. He faces an uphill climb in trying to make that happen. McLellan, who was named coach on April 15, inherited a roster with five players age 32 or older that had the fewest points in the Western Conference last season,

ST. LOUIS — A St. Louis newscaster who has been off the air since uttering what he called an unintentional racial slur while talking about Martin Luther King Jr. in January is now out of a job. KTVI-TV general manager Kurt Krueger told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that the station and Kevin Steincross parted ways

NEW YORK — Emmy Award viewership plunged to 6.9 million people, a drop of 32% from last year. The Nielsen company says it’s the first time ever that viewership for television’s biggest awards show has slipped below 10 million viewers. The show, telecast Sunday night on Fox, had no host and competed with a popular

DALLAS — Tyler Seguin and captain Jamie Benn are already talking about what they haven’t been able to do in six seasons together with the Dallas Stars: reach the playoffs in consecutive years. The franchise hasn’t made back-to-back trips to the postseason since a long stretch of Stanley Cup contention ended in 2008, so it’s

PHILADELPHIA — The parent company of the Philadelphia Flyers has spent the weeks leading up to the season unveiling their best offseason acquisitions. There has been a $265 million overhaul to the arena. There are $25 tickets at a refurbished standing room only area at the highest point inside the Wells Fargo Center and Comcast

HONOLULU — A former Army medic stationed in Hawaii is expected to plead guilty to the murder of his wife, about a week before a trial was about to begin in a case involving porn, sex charges and a love triangle. Michael Walker’s attorney Birney Bervar tells The Associated Press his client plans to plead

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — An Associated Press photographer has been wounded in a shooting that erupted outside Haiti’s Senate when a senator fired a pistol during a confrontation with opposition protesters. Dieu-Nalio Chery was hit in the jaw by what appeared to be a fragment of one of the bullets fired by Sen. Ralph Fethiere Monday

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Chiefs faced a crucial third-and-long with just under two minutes to go, clinging to a 33-28 lead over the Baltimore Ravens and hoping to put the game away. Mahomes dropped back to pass, looked left and lured the entire defense that direction, then flicked the ball the other

SAN FRANCISCO — Google is restarting a practice in which human contractors listen to and transcribe some voice commands people give to the company’s artificial intelligence system, Assistant. But this time Google is taking steps to make sure people know what they are agreeing to. The company suspended its transcription practices after more than 1,000