Новости за 24.12.2015

NEW YORK (AP) — Fiat Chrysler Automobiles is recalling nearly 450,000 SUVs worldwide in two separate recalls that includes the Jeep Grand Cherokee.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Des Moines police say an officer accidentally fired his gun while practicing his "quick draw."

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — As Green Bay Packers coach Mike McCarthy made clear after last week's victory at Oakland, winning, not "style points," is what matters.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Eagan police have arrested five Las Vegas after they allegedly used counterfeit credit cards with stolen numbers to buy thousands of dollars' worth of gift cards.

CHICAGO (AP) — Grain futures were lower Thursday on the Chicago Board of Trade.

ST. CLOUD, Minn. (AP) — Prosecutors have accused a St. Cloud woman of biting her husband's ear off during an argument over beer.

ALFALFA, Ore. — The ranch is a flurry of activity, and Rachael Scdoris is at the center of it.

NFL players wear week-to-week blinders. They like to say they’re strictly focused on the next game.

NEW YORK (AP) — Kiddie tablets have grown up.

WINONA, Minn. — Two more defendants have been formally charged in the fatal shooting of a Winona man in October.

Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Thursday on the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq stock market:

EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (AP) — The El Nino weather pattern that has much of the country basking in unseasonable temperatures has forced some fancy footwork for outdoor skating rink operators.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — One of eight people arrested during a flash protest that briefly tangled holiday travel at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport remained in jail Thursday, with the…

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — When LeBron James walks into Oracle Arena for the first time since Game 5 of last season's NBA Finals, he knows it will trigger unpleasant thoughts about how his Clevela…

NEW YORK (AP) — A scandal is roiling the world of fancy chocolate: Did two brothers misleadingly sell remelted chocolate and sprout beards to cultivate a hipster appeal?

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A University of Vermont basketball player has been suspended for eight games for reselling textbooks.

A contentious rewrite of tenure rules for the state’s public university faculty has advanced to the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents, months after lawmakers stripped tenure prot…

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks closed slightly lower in extremely light trading Thursday as investors remained on the sidelines ahead of Christmas. The price of crude oil continued to recover.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The latest on Black Lives Matter demonstrations to protest the police killing of a young black man in Minneapolis (all times local):

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Jerry Brown on Thursday pardoned Robert Downey Jr. for a nearly 20-year-old felony drug conviction that sent the Oscar-nominated actor to jail for nea…

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson was held out of practice for the second consecutive day as he deals with a sprained left ankle.

NEW MARTINSVILLE, W.Va. (AP) — Officials say no one was injured after a train that was carrying propane derailed in West Virginia.

Stocks closed slightly lower in extremely light trading Thursday as investors remained on the sidelines ahead of Christmas. The price of crude oil continued to recover. U.S. markets will be cl…

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan forces backed by U.S. air strikes pushed back a Taliban onslaught Thursday in a strategically important district in the southern Afghan province of Helmand, of…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Washington region is breaking weather records on a warm and soggy Christmas Eve.