Новости за 07.02.2016

CAMARILLO, California - The average price of gasoline has dropped 8 cents over the past two weeks, to $1.82 a gallon.

NEW YORK - The Latest on the collapse of a construction crane, which killed a pedestrian (all times local):

CROWN POINT, Indiana - An effort in Lake County seeks to keep juvenile offenders out of jail by providing them with alternatives.

NEW YORK - Game on. On advertising's biggest night, Super Bowl ads are aiming for optimism.

SAN FRANCISCO - Three people died in a fiery crash after a car fleeing authorities crashed into a taxi in San Francisco streets, officials said Sunday.

BERLIN - German police on Sunday searched the homes of two men suspected of being part of an extremist organization, prosecutors said.

SEATTLE - A former IRS agent in Seattle is set to face trial this week on accusations that he solicited and received a $20,000 bribe from a medical marijuana dispensary.

SEOUL, South Korea - The Latest on North Korea's launch of a long-range rocket (all times local):

LOS ANGELES - Demolition crews brought down a portion of a famed downtown Los Angeles bridge sooner than expected, allowing for the early reopening Sunday of a section of U.S. 101 that was closed for much of the weekend.

BAGHDAD - A spokesman for Iraq's prime minister said Sunday that a security wall is being built around Baghdad but that it is "not politically motivated" or aimed at "achieving demographic change."

LOS ANGELES - The 43rd annual Annie Awards were a joyous affair for "Inside Out."

NEW YORK - Chet Kanojia, the founder of startup TV service Aereo, has a new offering that could shake up the cable industry again. His new Internet service, Starry, would compete with cable companies in big cities.

PITTSBURGH - A fourth transplant patient who contracted a fungal infection during a mold outbreak at a western Pennsylvania hospital has died, officials said Sunday.

SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS, Mexico - Pope Francis' visit to the heavily indigenous Mexican state of Chiapas appears aimed at celebrating the region's "Indian church," a mix of Catholicism and indigenous culture once considered a thorn in the side of standard liturgy by the Vatican.

SACRAMENTO, California - California voters embraced the idea of building the nation's first real high-speed rail system, which promised to whisk travelers from San Francisco to Los Angeles in under three hours, a trip that can take six hours or more by car. Eight years after they approved funding for it, construction is years behind schedule and legal, financial and logistical delays plague the $68 billion project.

ORLANDO, Florida - A shooting erupted inside a nightclub packed with hundreds of people in the city's tourist district early Sunday, killing two people and injuring 10 others, authorities said.

KENTON, Ohio - Authorities say a man shot an Ohio police officer before he was found dead in his car from a gunshot wound.

ROCKMART, Georgia - A coroner says a man has died and six others were injured in an explosion at a plant in northwest Georgia.

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Hamas, the Islamic militant group that rules Gaza, said Sunday that it has executed one of its own commanders over unnamed "moral and behavioral violations."

LOS ANGELES - The Latest on the demolition of the 6th Street Bridge in Los Angeles (all times local):

CINCINNATI - The University of Cincinnati has hired an outside consultant for nearly $400,000 to review its police department for reforms in the aftermath of an officer's fatal shooting of a motorist during a traffic stop over a missing front license plate.

CAIRO - Egypt's Interior Ministry says it has killed four "terrorist elements" in a gunfight after security forces raided a house south of Cairo where they were making explosives.

LOS ANGELES - With bright sunshine, warm temperatures and a deep blue sky, Friday was the kind of Southern California day made for just about anything. For Mary Falstrom, a longtime pilot, that meant flying.

INDIANAPOLIS - Forty-five states have hate crime laws, but Indiana isn't one of them.

LANTZ, Spain - The inhabitants of a northern Spanish mountain village have taken part in an age-old Carnival festival that re-enacts a legendary confrontation between good and evil.