Новости за 16.08.2015

NASHVILLE, Tennessee - Former inmates at a privately run Nashville jail say they worked without pay building bean-bag "cornhole" games, plaques shaped like footballs, birdhouses and dog beds so that officials could sell them through their personal business at a flea market.

WOLCOTTVILLE, Indiana - Authorities say a woman suffered minor injuries when the airplane she was riding in crashed in northeastern Indiana.

GALESBURG, Illinois - An Illinois man scheduled to be executed next month in Oklahoma for his role in a 1997 killing is raising questions about his case, telling a newspaper in his hometown that Oklahoma is going to "kill an innocent man."

MILWAUKEE - A 29-year-old man is facing a first-degree sexual assault of a child charge after being accused of following a 5-year-old boy into a drug store bathroom and assaulting him.

GARY, Indiana - Street gangs at war with one another over drug trafficking are driving a surge in homicides in Gary, law enforcement officials say.

AUBURN, Indiana - A northeastern Indiana police chief says his department's disciplinary committee has recommended action against two officers in connection with cash and weapons missing from its property room.

DES MOINES, Iowa - The heavily funded super PAC backing Republican Jeb Bush will spend at least $10 million on television time in the earliest voting presidential primary states, the first salvo in a massive TV ad campaign to support the former Florida governor's bid for the Republican nomination.

NEW HOLLAND, Pennsylvania - A deflating hot air balloon struck overhead electrical wires after landing in a Pennsylvania field, shocking three people including one who was given CPR by a bystander, authorities said Sunday.

MIAMI - A Miami teen who pleaded guilty to killing his mother and throwing a party while her body was still inside the home will spend 28 years in prison.

BLADENBORO, North Carolina - Authorities say two people suffered minor injuries when their small plane crashed while trying to take off in North Carolina this weekend.

Dish Network and Sinclair Broadcast Group announced an agreement Sunday extending their contract, enabling the satellite TV provider to broadcast Sinclair's local channels and averting a possible blackout.

NEW YORK - New York has a star-studded jury pool and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is due to join a long list of celebrities who have made the trip to lower Manhattan to sit with hundreds of others who could be picked to decide trials.

DETROIT - Five years after Dan Gilbert uprooted his online mortgage company from the Detroit suburbs to the troubled city, one of the most prominent players in redeveloping downtown says the deals and dirt-digging will continue.

SEASIDE HEIGHTS, New Jersey - The owners of a Jersey shore amusement pier that became an iconic image of the damage wrought by Superstorm Sandy have received approval to rebuild part of the site.

INDIANAPOLIS - Police say an Indianapolis man has confessed to killing his wife whose body was found in Fort Harrison State Park.

TERRE HAUTE, Indiana - A chemical leak sent at least 15 people to a hospital for treatment before it was stopped at a plant on Terre Haute's south side, authorities said.

CHICAGO - The adult ads on Backpage.com are endless - written in a sort of risque code to avoid implying something illegal, yet still obvious invitations for sex, adorned with suggestive photos and videos. Many in the fight against sex trafficking loathe the website, particularly since some escorts in the ads have turned out to be minors who've been forced into the sex trade.

SAN FRANCISCO - Going through a divorce has been difficult for Sepideh Saeedi. Not understanding what's happening in court because she isn't proficient in English has made the process even harder.

NEW YORK - The squad in stop-sign-red jackets and berets strode through Central Park, on guard for signs of crime.

TAHAWUS, New York - New tank car safety standards coupled with a slump in oil-by-rail shipments are causing headaches for many in the railroad business, but for a struggling scenic railroad in the Adirondacks and other short-line operators, they may bring salvation.

GIDDINGS, Texas - Doug Hutchison wears a badge and carries a gun but his most effective weapon in the pursuit of livestock thieves in the nation's largest cattle-producing territory may be his smartphone.

FRANKLIN, Indiana - A statewide database is helping nurses keep track of students who need vaccinations before the new school year begins in Indiana.

HANOVER, Indiana - A southeastern Indiana sheriff said a 43-year-old man was shot dead after charging at deputies in a "highly agitated manner" after being struck by a stun gun.

WASHINGTON - Under a decades-old program with the government, telecom giant AT&T in 2003 led the way on a new collection capability that the National Security Agency said amounted to a "'live' presence on the global net" and would forward 400 billion Internet metadata records in one of its first months of operation, The New York Times reported.

SHARPVILLE, Indiana - A 17-year-old male from central Indiana was killed when a car he was driving left the road and struck a tree.