Новости за 02.01.2016

MADISON — It was a proposal that some lawmakers said caught them off-guard.

MIDDLETOWN, R.I. (AP) — Former students who claim they were sexually abused at a prestigious Rhode Island boarding school are calling for an independent investigation after the school issued a…

COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — Kelsey Mitchell scored 28 points, and No. 9 Ohio State stunned No. 6 Maryland 80-71 Saturday, dealing the Terrapins their first loss in Big Ten play since joining the …

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — Joel Berry II scored a career-high 19 points and hit the go-ahead 3-pointer with 5:07 left to help No. 7 North Carolina beat Georgia Tech 86-78 on Saturday.

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia's execution Saturday of 47 prisoners, including an influential Shiite cleric, threatened to further damage Sunni-Shiite relations in a regional struggl…

OSHKOSH, Wis. (AP) — Dr. Daniel Gale had no choice but to get to work when a big late-December snowstorm struck Wisconsin.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Gov. Jay Nixon of Missouri and Gov. Bruce Rauner of Illinois toured flood-ravaged areas Saturday as near-record crest predictions of the Mississippi River and levee breaks thr…

Lopsided games and having the College Football Playoff semifinals on New Year's Eve led to a 13 percent drop in TV ratings for the New Year's Six Bowls from last year.

ROME (AP) — An Italian parliament-mandated health survey has confirmed higher-than-normal incidents of death and cancer among residents in and around Naples, thanks to decades of toxic waste d…

SANAA, Yemen (AP) — The truce in Yemen between Shiite rebels and a Saudi-led military coalition has formally ended, according to Saudi Arabia's state-run news agency.

ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Police on Saturday recanvassed an eastern Pennsylvania neighborhood where a 5-year-old boy with autism wandered away from a New Year's Eve party without shoes or a coat.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — As the days get shorter, first grade teacher Esmeralda Jiménez watches the dimming afternoon sky outside her classroom window the way her pupils watch the clock at dismissal time.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A man who was fatally shot by Las Vegas police while holding a cellphone that was mistaken for a gun had recently been convicted of multiple crimes in Arizona, his attorney sa…

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. (AP) — A video of a Duluth man rescuing a deer from a frozen river is spreading on social media.

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Tens of thousands of people attended funerals in the West Bank on Saturday for Palestinians killed in violence over the past few months during a period of near-daily…

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

NEW YORK (AP) — A civil trial set to start this month in New York City will test the legal boundaries of hundreds of claims remaining against General Motors Co. stemming from faulty ignition switches.

MILWAUKEE (AP) — December 2015 has gone down as the warmest on record in Milwaukee, eclipsing a record that had stood since 1877.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The latest on the fatal shooting of a suspect by police who mistook the cellphone he was holding for a gun (all times local):

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota nonprofit has a name problem that it hasn't been able to shake.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Major decisions on copper-nickel mining, a water quality summit and a push to reduce carbon emissions by Minnesota's utilities will be among the top issues on Minnesota's en…

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Catholic student center at the University of Wisconsin in Madison holds its final Mass on Sunday before its demolition.

PARIS (AP) — Paris will commemorate the victims of the attacks on the satirical Charlie Hebdo newspaper and a kosher supermarket that left 17 people dead in January last year.

BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — Two former prime ministers are running neck-and-neck in presidential elections to end years of violence pitting Muslims against Christians in the Centra…

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — With same-sex marriage now legal nationwide, lawmakers in numerous states are preparing for a new round of battles in 2016 over whether to grant discrimination prote…