Новости за 28.01.2016

NEW ORLEANS - A 25-year-old man, apparently homeless, was arrested Wednesday for setting a fire for warmth that ended up blanketing part of the city in smoke and forcing the closure of historic Canal Street, the city's fire chief said.

ST. LOUIS - The Ferguson Police Department has agreed to overhaul its policies, training and practices as part of a sweeping deal with the Justice Department following the 2014 fatal police shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown, city and federal officials announced Wednesday.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - The threat of instability in Haiti prompted the Organization of American States on Wednesday to authorize a special mission to help the troubled nation find a way out of a simmering political crisis and set a new date for a runoff election.

LOS ANGELES - The investigation of a daring California jail break has led to the arrests of five people, with more expected soon, but the three inmates who escaped remain at large, the Orange County sheriff said Wednesday.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado - A man who acknowledged killing three people at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs has been transferred to a state hospital for a mental competency exam.

SAN DIEGO - A former Cub Scout leader who often invited children to his suburban home to swim denied Wednesday that he is the former host of a children's television show who went by the name "Mr. Wonder" and is wanted in Louisiana on charges that he sexually abused children during a camping retreat nearly four decades ago.

INDIANAPOLIS - Pharmacists are one step closer to gaining the authority to require a prescription for certain cold medicines as the Indiana House explores proposals to undermine methamphetamine cooks.

DES MOINES, Iowa - A naturalized U.S. citizen from China entered a plea agreement with federal prosecutors Wednesday, admitting he participated in a conspiracy to steal seed corn from U.S. companies.

HUNTSVILLE, Texas - The Latest on the execution of James Freeman for the slaying of a Texas game warden (all times local):

SAN FRANCISCO - It won't be long before Facebook's 1.6 billion users have more ways to quickly express their feelings on the world's largest social network.

BOSTON - Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. on Wednesday reported a loss of $75.5 million in its fourth quarter, but its adjusted profit beat Wall Street expectations on strong sales of its new cystic fibrosis drug.

SANTA ANA, California - The latest on the 3 inmates who escaped from a California jail (all times local):

JACKSON, Mississippi - Mississippi's attorney general said Wednesday that he will ask lawmakers to approve the firing squad, electrocution or nitrogen gas as alternate methods of execution in case the state is prevented from giving lethal injections.

RIVERWOODS, Illinois - Discover Financial Services (DFS) on Wednesday reported fourth-quarter net income of $500 million.

SEATTLE - The latest information about a fatal shooting at a Seattle homeless encampment. (All times are local.)

BRIDGETON, Missouri - A Missouri agency has found more off-site radiation contamination near a St. Louis-area landfill where nuclear waste was illegally dumped four decades ago.

SACRAMENTO, California - The Latest on Gov. Jerry Brown's proposal to reform sentencing (all times local):

NEW YORK - Cate Blanchett will make her Broadway debut next winter in Anton Chekhov's first - and long-forgotten - play.

FRANKFORT, Kentucky - The Kentucky Senate voted Wednesday to ban the sale of fetal body parts, the latest reaction to undercover Planned Parenthood videos in Texas that led to a grand jury indictment of two anti-abortion activists.

CHEYENNE, Wyoming - The Wyoming Game and Fish Commission will discuss and could adopt new measures on Thursday to protect big-game migration routes, including areas where antelope and mule deer make some of their species' longest known seasonal treks in North America.

FARMINGTON, New Hampshire - It wasn't a trip to Disney World or a One Direction concert that sent a Maine girl into tears of ecstasy. It was an opportunity to see Donald Trump.

DURHAM, North Carolina - Sorority activities at Duke University have been halted after a new member's alcohol-related hospitalization.

COOLIDGE, Arizona - Authorities say two men and a woman have been found fatally shot on a highway west of Coolidge.

RICHMOND, Virginia - One of three Virginia men charged in an alleged plot to attack synagogues and black churches has pleaded guilty to a robbery conspiracy.

SALT LAKE CITY - A federal judge will decide whether nearly 200 children from a polygamous group were volunteering or forced to work long hours picking pecans during a 2012 harvest on a southern Utah ranch.