Новости за 21.10.2015

LAS VEGAS - Nevada state officials said Tuesday they don't know what sparked an apparent explosion and fire at a closed commercial radioactive waste dump in a predominantly rural county, but they vowed that the state will handle the investigation and cleanup.

PHOENIX - Authorities say an unruly passenger caused an American Airlines flight from San Jose, California, to Dallas-Fort Worth to be diverted to Phoenix.

CHESTERTON, Indiana - A politically connected developer is warning that Indiana could owe him millions of dollars if setbacks scuttle his contract to bring fine dining, a banquet hall and bar to a lakefront state park surrounded by the state's towering dunes.

BALTIMORE - The husband of the state's attorney who is prosecuting six officers in the death of Freddie Gray is considering a run for mayor of Baltimore.

NEW YORK - The robbery crew that pulled off one of the biggest heists in U.S. history - the $6 million Lufthansa theft immortalized in "Goodfellas" - was elated at first, but became fearful of being robbed itself, a turncoat mobster testified Tuesday at the trial of his former Mafia boss.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - The South Pacific nation of Vanuatu was shaken Wednesday by a magnitude-7.3 earthquake, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.

KANSAS CITY, Missouri - A federal judge in California has granted conditional class certification to minor league baseball players who are suing Major League Baseball teams for failing to pay them minimum wage.

IRVING, Texas - On the eighth of 11 questions concerning whether Dez Bryant would play six weeks after breaking his right foot in the season opener, Dallas coach Jason Garrett had heard about enough.

LOS ANGELES - Southern California thought its painful lack of depth was supposed to improve this season after the completion of heavy NCAA sanctions.

SANTA CLARA, California - No need to remind Colin Kaepernick of the numbers.

MEXICO CITY - Tiger Woods has not started rehabilitation for a second back surgery he had a month ago, and he said Tuesday he would face another "tedious and long" process that suggests it might be awhile before he competes again.

CARACAS, Venezuela - Brazil is pulling out of a South American mission to observe crucial legislative elections in Venezuela over what it says a lack of guarantees by the socialist government and its veto of the choice to head the delegation.

LOS ANGELES - Bill Cosby has replaced his longtime lawyer in a pair of lawsuits filed by women claiming they were sexually abused by the comedian decades ago.

EAST RUTHERFORD, New Jersey - Tom Coughlin was frustrated with the New York Giants after their loss to the Philadelphia Eagles, and nothing had changed a day later.

NEW ORLEANS - New Orleans Pelicans guard Tyreke Evans has had arthroscopic surgery on his right knee.

TORONTO - The guy everyone wanted to talk to outside the Blue Jays dugout before Game 4 of the American League Championship Series wasn't a coach or player, but a 9-year-old boy wearing a fake beard.

NEW YORK - Thousands of customers of pre-paid debit cards backed by hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons remain without access to their money more than a week after technical problems first began plaguing the cards.

ALAMEDA, California - Walt Powell is hoping to give a needed spark to Oakland's struggling return game.

SPARTANBURG, South Carolina - Wofford has broken ground on its new basketball facility, which will be named after NFL team owner and college alumnus Jerry Richardson.

TUCSON, Arizona - An actor who mistakenly fired real bullets during a shootout re-enactment in Tombstone, Arizona, knicked a tourist several yards away, according to 911 calls released Tuesday.

PARIS - Arsenal remains bottom of Group F in the Champions League but the Gunners finally got their campaign underway with a 2-0 win over Bayern Munich on Tuesday.

SANTA BARBARA, California - Santa Barbara police have detained a 22-year-old man they say crashed a wedding, then bit an officer and a police dog during a six-minute melee.

GLENDALE, Arizona - The Arizona Coyotes have heard relocation rumblings almost since the day former owner Jerry Moyes took the team into bankruptcy in 2009.

ST. FRANCIS, Wisconsin - Milwaukee Bucks player John Henson said Tuesday that the owner of a Wisconsin jewelry store where he says employees racially profiled him apologized for what happened.

A free black man convicted of helping slaves escape to freedom in the 19th century will be posthumously pardoned by Delaware's governor, two people who supported the pardon said Tuesday.