Новости за 07.03.2016

CHICAGO - In what has seemed an almost daily occurrence on the campaign trail, protesters have blocked streets and buildings to call for the resignation of the Chicago area's top prosecutor, who took a year to charge a white police officer in the death of a black teenager shot 16 times.

NEW YORK - Exelon, in an effort to get its $6.8 billion buyout of Pepco approved, offered a new proposal Monday that it hopes will win the last regulator's support.

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador - El Salvador's supreme court ordered an investigation on Monday against former President Tony Saca for alleged illicit enrichment.

JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri - Missouri Senate leaders have decided to delay moving the news media off the chamber floor because of cost concerns.

AUBURN, Indiana - Authorities in northeastern Indiana are investigating the death of a child molesting suspect who was due to face trial later this month.

RICHMOND, Virginia - Virginia would be allowed to force condemned inmates to die in the electric chair under a bill the state Senate approved Monday as a response to the nationwide shortage of lethal-injection drugs.

WASHINGTON - Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer said Monday that inflation in the U.S. may be starting to tick up from too-low levels, a key condition for further interest rate hikes.

FLINT, Michigan - A lawsuit stemming from Flint's lead-contaminated water was filed Monday on behalf of the city's residents against Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder as well as other current and former government officials and corporations.

NEW YORK - U.S. stocks are mostly lower in late afternoon trading Monday as momentum from a four-day winning streak fades. Energy companies are jumping along with the price of crude oil and natural gas. Banks and technology companies are lower. Chipmaker Micron Technology is down 3 percent.

CLEVELAND - The Browns re-signed backup linebacker Tank Carder and extended qualifying offers to several players, including wide receiver Terrelle Pryor.

MONROEVILLE, Alabama - Famously private in life, "To Kill a Mockingbird" author Harper Lee is keeping her secrets even in death.

ATLANTA - The Atlanta Falcons on Monday said secondary coach Marquand Manuel asked the inappropriate question "Do you like men" to Ohio State cornerback Eli Apple during the NFL's annual scouting combine in Indianapolis.

MOSCOW - The Latest on Syria's conflict (all times local):

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday charged Rhode Island's economic development agency and Wells Fargo with defrauding investors in the state's disastrous $75 million deal with 38 Studios, the failed video game company started by former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling.

ST. LOUIS - Ferguson city leaders could end a potentially costly lawsuit from the U.S. Department of Justice as early as this month, now that the federal agency has assured them its plan to overhaul the city's embattled police and court system won't create an unmanageable financial burden, the mayor said Monday.

PITTSBURGH - Sheldon Jeter didn't dodge the question or put some kind of positive spin on it.

GAINESVILLE, Florida - Florida coach Mike White believes anything can happen in a conference tournament.

BOSTON - A college student who survived serious injuries in the Boston Marathon bombing was killed in a car accident in Dubai over the weekend, a spokesman for Northeastern University said Monday.

SANTA CLARA, California - Santa Clara has fired basketball coach Kerry Keating after nine years.

ENGLEWOOD, Colorado - His voice cracking with emotion, Peyton Manning said good bye to the game he loved at a news conference packed with friends, family and laughter.

BEVERLY HILLS, California - U.S. Olympic Committee leaders say athletes have to decide for themselves about competing at the Summer Olympics in Brazil, where the outbreak of the Zika virus has made some question the wisdom of traveling there this year.

ANKARA, Turkey - A Turkish court has ordered a news agency linked to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's top foe placed under the management of trustees, days after a similar ruling led to the takeover of Turkey's largest-circulation newspaper, Zaman, and sparked two days of protests.

SAN FRANCISCO - Activist investor Ancora Advisors is stepping up the pressure on photo sharing service Shutterfly to negotiate a sale of the company or reshuffle its board of directors if a deal can't be quickly worked out.

DOWNINGTOWN, Pennsylvania - Officials say a Pennsylvania man out on bail in a child sex abuse case fired six shots into his accuser's home before fleeing in a car that overturned, leading to his capture.

SIMI VALLEY, California - The funeral for former first lady Nancy Reagan will be held on Friday at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California.