Новости за 31.12.2015

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota Vikings cornerback Captain Munnerlyn has won the Korey Stringer Good Guy Award, for cooperation with the media.

NEW YORK (AP) — The volatile trading that defined 2015 led to a very choppy market for companies wanting to go public.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — It takes more than "Star Wars" to make an $11 billion year.

GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Ohio State and Notre Dame entered the season with legitimate national championship hopes and were still in the mix for the College Football Playoff late in the year.

An obstacle in 2015 could turn into a strength next season for No. 23 Wisconsin.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Facebook's making some of its users feel a lot older than they really are.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Ohio State defensive end Joey Bosa and running back Ezekiel Elliott will skip their senior seasons and declare for the NFL draft.

MANKATO, Minn. (AP) — In the 1905 painting, "Treaty of Traverse des Sioux," which hangs in the state Capitol, a Dakota chief and the United States Indian commissioner shake hands under a canop…

DENVER (AP) — About 150 workers, most of them immigrants from Somalia, have been fired from a Colorado meat packing plant after walking off the job during a dispute over workplace prayer.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The largest container ship to visit the U.S. has passed under the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco en route to the Port of Oakland.

TORONTO (AP) — Toronto police have arrested a man accused of causing a disturbance on an Air Canada flight from Calgary.

BALTIMORE (AP) — Clifton Gerald has seven bullets in his body. His kneecap, destroyed by a gunshot wound, is plastic and he's lost feeling in his right leg and his left hand. He's got a scar b…

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Gov. Mark Dayton says Essar Steel Minnesota has agreed to repay the state loans tied to its taconite plant project.

NEW YORK (AP) — In a story Dec. 30 about global deals, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Dow DuPont's products will include Ziploc bags and Saran Wrap. Dow Chemical developed thos…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — President Hassan Rouhani on Thursday ordered the accelerated production of missiles in response to possible new U.S. sanctions.

As the old year ends and the new one begins, many of us make new year resolutions. Reflecting on the state of Wisconsin as we enter 2016, it seemed to me that government leaders could also sta…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia Mayor-elect Jim Kenney bristles at the label "progressive."

NEW YORK (AP) — Frying pans included in a line of Martha Stewart cookware sets are being recalled because of metal discs that can pop off and cause injuries. Other recalled consumer products i…

PHOENIX (AP) — A man who was driving with his 4-yeear-old daughter and is accused of wounding another driver during a road-rage shooting in Arizona called 911 and stayed at the scene to await …

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Gov. Mark Dayton is giving lawmakers a deadline to decide on a special session.

U.S. stocks moved lower on the last day of the year as the market headed for a sluggish end to 2015. The modest losses in afternoon trading Thursday nudged the Standard & Poor's 500 index …

ATLANTA (AP) — Florida State quarterback Sean Maguire is back calling signals in the Peach Bowl after being carted off the field with a lower left leg injury earlier in the game against Houston.

NEW YORK (AP) — While the Standard & Poor's index is finishing 2015 around where it started, the index has been sharply divided between winners and losers. Four of the index's 10 sectors r…

BALTIMORE (AP) — The year 2015 has been an appalling one for bloodshed in Baltimore, with a homicide rate higher than it has been since 1993.

The latest developments on flooding in the Midwest (all times local):