Новости за 04.03.2016

SCHONACH, Germany - Joergen Graabak took advantage of Fabian Riessle's crash in the final meters to clinch victory for Norway over Germany in a Nordic combined World Cup team event on Friday.

FLORENCE, Kentucky - Longtime Churchill Downs and Turfway Park track announcer Mike Battaglia is stepping away from the booth and moving into a role as vice president at Turfway in Florence, Kentucky.

IOWA CITY, Iowa - The University of Iowa has demoted its interim public safety director days after The Associated Press reported he was accused of interfering in an investigation into a hit-and-run accident involving his stepson.

JACKSONVILLE, Florida - The Jacksonville Jaguars have tendered one-year contracts to defensive end Ryan Davis and defensive tackle Abry Jones.

GREENSBORO, North Carolina - Jessica Thomas hit 5 of 6 from long distance and scored 21 points and No. 21 Miami, the fifth-seed, took control in the second half to defeat No. 14 Florida State, the four-seed, 74-56 on Friday in the quarterfinals of the ACC tournament.

BUFFALO, New York - Buffalo Bills starting left tackle Cordy Glenn wasted little time signing the team's $13.7 million franchise tender.

SCITUATE, Massachusetts - Parishioners who have occupied a church closed by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston more than a decade ago have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear their appeal.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Thousands of inmates lined up in prisons across Puerto Rico on Friday to cast early ballots in the U.S. territory's Republican primary, some saying they hoped the elections can help lift the island out of an economic crisis.

ARLINGTON, Virginia - Henrik Lundqvist was flipping mad that referee Trevor Hanson wouldn't blow his whistle to stop play. Run over by teammate Ryan McDonagh seconds earlier, the injured New York Rangers goaltender took the situation into his own hands and flipped the net over to get a stoppage.

CLEMSON, South Carolina - Clemson has rewarded its nine football assistants with raises totaling $1.085 million after the Tigers run to the national championship.

KNOXVILLE, Tennessee - Tennessee guard Kevin Punter Jr. will undergo season-ending surgery to repair the stress fracture in his right foot that has sidelined the Volunteers' leading scorer the last four games.

INDIANAPOLIS - Daily fantasy sports companies would be regulated by the Indiana Gaming Commission under a bill endorsed by state lawmakers.

SCOTTSDALE, Arizona - Outfielder Ryan Raburn and the Colorado Rockies have agreed to a minor league contract.

ST. LOUIS - Ron Baker hit 5-3-pointers and scored 25 points and league champion Wichita State used a late 11-0 run to rally for an a 66-58 win over eighth-seeded Loyola Chicago in the quarterfinals of the Missouri Valley tournament on Thursday.

A line of weather radios that can overheat and post a fire hazard are among this week's recalled products. Others include mugs that have been mislabeled as being safe to microwave.

CHARLESTON, South Carolina - The great-great-grandson of a slave who commandeered a Confederate ship and took it to Union forces blockading the South Carolina coast is the new president and CEO of the planned $75 million International African American Museum in Charleston.

DURHAM, North Carolina - Duke's Brandon Ingram has a knack for foiling North Carolina.

BAIE-MAHAULT, Guadeloupe - Gilles Simon overcame a sloppy start to beat Vasek Pospisil in straight sets and give France a 2-0 lead over Canada in their Davis Cup first-round tie with Yannick Noah as the team's new captain.

JACKSONVILLE, Florida - South Carolina hadn't struggled like this offensively all season. Not on the road. Not versus ranked teams. Not even against three-time defending national champion UConn.

NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nevada - An electric carmaker that was granted up to $335 million in incentives to build a factory in Nevada said this week it will put up a $75 million bond so taxpayers aren't on the hook if its planned car factory goes belly-up.

LOS ANGELES - Detectives are investigating a knife purportedly found some time ago at the former home of O.J. Simpson, who was acquitted of murder charges in the 1994 stabbings of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman, a police spokesman said Friday.

CHICAGO - Two new studies bolster evidence that feeding babies peanuts or other allergy-inducing foods is more likely to protect them than to cause problems.

ST. ANN, Missouri - Gayle McCormick, the lead singer of the group Smith, which recorded the 1969 top-10 song "Baby, It's You," has died in suburban St. Louis.

DENVER - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says it plans to return to the Gold King Mine in southwestern Colorado this spring or early summer to resume preliminary cleanup work after it inadvertently triggered a 3-million-gallon spill of wastewater there in August.

SCOTTSDALE, Arizona - Baltimore Ravens linebacker Terrell Suggs was arrested Friday on a suspended driver's license after investigators say his car hit a curb and he told them he may have been asleep.