Новости за 25.09.2015

BOSTON - The milestones keep piling up for David Ortiz.

MIAMI - Alec Asher struggled in his first four major league starts. He was much sharper in his fifth but he still couldn't get a win.

DENVER - Jairo Diaz's late-season audition for the role of setup man hit a bump Thursday.

DENVER - These days, the Pittsburgh Pirates are spreading their clutch play around, and Pedro Alvarez was the latest to step into the spotlight.

MEXICO CITY - President Enrique Pena Nieto told the families of 43 students who disappeared a year ago in southern Mexico during a meeting Thursday that he would create a new special prosecutor for all of the country's thousands of missing people.

ATLANTA - Jane Fonda said she plans to continue her effort to prevent teenage pregnancies through the Georgia-based nonprofit organization she founded in 1995, when the state had one of the highest teenage birth rates in the country.

TOKYO - Japan's education minister, Hakubun Shimomura, has submitted his resignation due to troubles with planning for Tokyo's National Stadium, a main venue for the 2020 Olympic games.

BOSTON - Evan Longoria's 20th home run put him in exclusive company.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Walrus carcasses were found last week on a northwest Alaska beach, but the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says the deaths appear to be natural.

EAST RUTHERFORD, New Jersey - Washington cornerback DeAngelo Hall left the Redskins' game Thursday night against the New York Giants with what was described as toe injury to his right foot.

BRISTOL, Connecticut - The last time the Seattle Storm drafted No. 1 overall in two straight WNBA drafts, they chose Lauren Jackson and Sue Bird, beginning an era that included 10 straight playoff appearances and two WNBA titles.

CHARLESTON, West Virginia - West Virginia's Josh Lambert and Maryland's Brad Craddock became fast friends last December when Craddock won the Lou Groza Award as the nation's top place-kicker and Lambert was a finalist.

POTAMAC RIVER - According to the Maryland Department of the Environment, 10,000 gallons of latex used for paper coating spilled from the Verso paper mill into the North Branch of the Potomac River during a four-hour period.

TORONTO - Canadian opposition leaders accused Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper of playing divisive politics Thursday in a French-language debate ahead of next month's election.

BOSTON - Dave Dombrowski didn't have to go far in his search for a new general manager - as it turned out, his man was already in the office.

MEMPHIS, Tennessee - Cincinnati quarterback Gunner Kiel was injured on a high hit in the first quarter of the Bearcats' game against Memphis on Thursday night.

SEATTLE - A "duck boat" tour vehicle and a charter bus carrying foreign students to a college orientation event collided on a busy Seattle bridge Thursday, killing four students and injuring dozens of others.

MIAMI - J.T. Realmuto's RBI triple in the seventh inning broke a scoreless tie and the Miami Marlins held on for a 1-0 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies on Thursday night.

SEATTLE - The latest on a crash between an amphibious tour vehicle and a charter bus in Seattle (all times local):

PHILADELPHIA - Alek Torgersen threw two touchdown passes to Justin Watson and Pennsylvania beat Villanova 24-13 on Thursday night to snap the Quakers' 14-game losing streak in the series.

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina - In a recent TV commercial, New Orleans Saints quarterback Luke McCown somberly ponders the existence of a wireless network provider's backup generators, saying "I bet if they had their chance, some of those backups would really shine."

NEW YORK - Pope Francis plunged into the melting pot of New York on Thursday after reminding the country of its immigrant origins in the first papal speech before Congress. At an evening prayer service in St. Patrick's Cathedral, he thanked American nuns for their strength and courage in a deeply meaningful acknowledgement of their service following a yearslong Vatican crackdown.

TOKYO - Japan inched back into deflationary territory in August as lower oil prices pulled core inflation excluding volatile food prices lower.

NEW YORK - Pope Francis made a rousing show of gratitude for American nuns on Thursday while thanking clergy for persevering through the priest sex abuse scandal, seemingly intent on moving the U.S. church beyond recent crises.

NEW YORK - When Pope Francis arrived for his first visit to New York, he again slipped into the backseat of a tiny Fiat 500L and was ferried away amid gas-guzzling SUVs and police cars.