Новости за 15.12.2015

SPOKANE, Washington - A smoke-filled cabin forced an Alaska Airlines flight from Seattle to Spokane to make an emergency landing.

WASHINGTON - Indiana has the seventh-highest high school graduation rate in the country.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands - The Dutch soccer association banned FC Twente from European competition for three years on Tuesday as punishment for "deliberately misleading" the body about a deal to sell player transfer fee rights to an outside investor.

MINNEAPOLIS - Prosecutors have filed a more serious charge against a man accused of shooting five people demonstrating outside a Minneapolis police precinct.

LONDON - Britain has decided to boldly go where others have gone before.

LONDON - The Iron Lady is auction gold.

BOULDER, Colorado - A man exonerated in the high-profile Central Park jogger case in New York has donated $190,000 to the University of Colorado's Innocence Project.

ATLANTA - Jacob Eason, the top-ranked quarterback from Lake Stevens (Washington) High School, has reaffirmed his commitment to sign with Georgia.

There are 41 postseason games scheduled to be played from Saturday to Jan. 11.

SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota - The NCAA has announced dates for next year's Division I women's basketball regional at the Denny Sanford Premier Center in Sioux Falls, and for the Division II Elite Eight at the city's Sanford Pentagon.

The popular "strokes gained" statistic was not introduced until four years ago, although the PGA Tour has data to track putting performances dating to 2004. Tiger Woods was No. 2 that year, followed by Brad Faxon and Steve Stricker. All have reputations as being great putters.

NEW YORK - Diane Sawyer's interview with Bruce Jenner when the former Olympian announced, "I am a woman," is among the 16 winners of the 2016 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards honoring work in broadcast, digital and documentary journalism.

Mark Rolfing could not imagine anything keeping him away from a golf tournament at Kapalua.

ASUNCION, Paraguay - Nicolas Leoz, the former head of the South American football confederation, is being extradited to the United States to face corruption charges linked to FIFA.

KABUL, Afghanistan - Supporters of the Islamic State group in Afghanistan are attempting to establish a regional base in the eastern city of Jalalabad, the commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, General John Campbell, said on Tuesday.

NEWARK, New Jersey - Three men were charged Tuesday in a computer hacking and spamming scheme that federal prosecutors in New Jersey said compromised the personal information of 60 million people and netted more than $2 million in profits.

Luke Bryan will return for the fourth time to co-host next year's Academy of Country Music Awards, alongside Dierks Bentley, who will be co-hosting for the first time.

MEXICO CITY - A Mexican state legislature is closing the door to foreign couples and male gays looking to have a child by surrogacy.

WEST POINT, New York - A veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will be the first female commandant of cadets at the U.S. Military Academy, one of West Point's top positions.

LONDON - The Irish fiance of "Downton Abbey" star Michelle Dockery has died after a long illness. He was 34.

NEW YORK - They say it's practice, practice, practice that gets you to Carnegie Hall. But for Sting, it was a chance encounter with Britain's Queen Mother when he was 10 years old that gave him the ambition and drive he needed to reach that hallowed stage.

INDIANAPOLIS - Former Subway pitchman Jared Fogle is appealing the more than 15-year prison sentence he received for possessing child pornography and having sex with underage prostitutes, which was longer than the maximum term prosecutors agreed to pursue as part of his plea deal.

ANKARA, Turkey - An Islamic State militant suspected of planning a suicide attack against the U.S. Consulate in Istanbul has been detained in Turkey, a government official said Tuesday.

BRUSSELS - The European Commission has unveiled a controversial plan for a European border guard agency that would deploy to member states overwhelmed by migrants - whether those nations want it or not.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands - United Nations judges on Tuesday ordered a retrial for two former allies of the late Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic who were acquitted in 2013 of setting up and arming notorious Serb paramilitary gangs that committed atrocities in Bosnia and Croatia during the 1990s Balkan wars.