Новости за 20.03.2017

ASHBURN, Va. — The Washington Redskins have re-signed offensive tackle Ty Nsekhe. The 31-year-old started four games at left tackle last season when Trent Williams was serving a suspension. The team announced Nsekhe’s deal Monday. Nsekhe was an exclusive rights free agent along with fellow offensive lineman Vinston Painter, who the Redskins re-signed last week.

LAKE CHARLES, La. — Police and witnesses say just about everything went wrong for a Louisiana woman when she tried to rob a bar. Barbara Boyd, manager at Linda’s Lounge in Lake Charles, says the woman came in early Saturday, carrying what appeared to be a rifle and demanded money. When the bartender refused, she

Just in time, West Virginia’s Bob Huggins is getting the most out of his top three guards. Jevon Carter, Daxter Miles Jr. and Tarik Phillip were terrific on offense in a win over Notre Dame on Saturday that propelled the Mountaineers into the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament. The trio combined for 54 of

NEW YORK — Washington’s day of high-stakes political drama on Monday played out much differently depending on where motivated television viewers decided to get their news. CNN, Fox News Channel and MSNBC all followed FBI Director James Comey’s testimony before a congressional committee Monday morning live. For a while, so did ABC and NBC, cutting

ATHENS, Greece — Police in Greece have discovered and neutralized eight parcel bombs, addressed to European Union finance officials and businesses in various European countries, at a postal sorting office near Athens. The discovery Monday came after letter bombs were sent last week to the German Finance Ministry and the Paris office of the International

NEW YORK — Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Monday: Wells Fargo & Co., down $1.04 to $57.63 The bank reported numbers from February that indicated its sales practices scandal is still taking a toll on its business. Dominion Diamond Corp., up $2.28 to $12.20 Washington Cos. offered to buy the diamond mining company

METAIRIE, La. — Pelicans forward Solomon Hill hopes New Orleans can sell its fan base on the benefits of patience and continuity — tough as that may be for a team on the brink of missing the playoffs for a second straight season. Recently, though, the Pelicans have begun seeing more of the results they

SAN JOSE, Calif. — As his U.S. teammates trained under cloudy skies on a brisk Bay Area morning, Tim Howard sat on the sidelines and stretched out his shoulders. He balanced on his left leg and warmed up his hips. This is the new normal for Howard, fresh off his 38th birthday and a November

After an early-afternoon slump, U.S. stocks finished mostly lower Monday in a quiet day of trading. Banks fell along with bond yields as stocks fell for the third straight day. On Monday: The Standard & Poor’s 500 index gave up 4.78 points, or 0.2 percent, to 2,373.47. The Dow Jones industrial average declined 8.76 points

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A lawyer for the family of a missing Tennessee high school student says a teacher now accused of kidnapping her had been investigated by the school system after another student reported seeing the teacher kiss the girl. Yet according to attorney Jason Whatley and school records, teacher Tad Cummins was allowed to

Another week of dominant pitching has Oregon State off to a 17-1 start. The Beavers, who own the best ERA in the country by far, will find out how good their arms really are this week when Arizona (15-4) visits Corvallis. They’re coming off their first road sweep against Arizona State since 1966, holding the

OLD ORCHARD BEACH, Maine — Maine’s state fire marshal says a man burned down his parents’ house and killed three pets while trying to exterminate ants in his basement with matches. Investigators say 21-year-old Devon Doucette was trying to incinerate the ants with wooden matches when one of them ignited combustible materials. The fire quickly

AMES, Iowa — Nearly seven years to the day he was hired, the Fred Hoiberg era is over at Iowa State. Steve Prohm is now completely in control of the Cyclones’ future. The last of Hoiberg’s recruits completed their careers Saturday in an 80-76 loss to Purdue in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. government is barring passengers on Royal Jordanian Airlines flights from bringing laptops, iPads, cameras and other electronics in carry-on luggage on certain U.S.-bound flights starting Tuesday, the airline said in a tweet Monday. The airline said cellphones and medical devices are excluded from the ban. Everything else, the airline said, would

MINNEAPOLIS — The Golden State Warriors and Minnesota Timberwolves will play two preseason games in China in October. The league said Monday the games will be in Shenzhen on Oct. 5 and Shanghai on Oct. 8 as part of the NBA’s Global Games China series. The Warriors are an excellent draw and should help the

NEW YORK — Gannett has named Joanne Lipman as the editor-in-chief of USA Today, one of the country’s biggest newspapers. Lipman has been with McLean, Virginia-based Gannett Co. since December 2015 and will keep her chief content officer position. A former Wall Street Journal reporter and editor, she founded a Conde Nast business magazine, Portfolio,

LAS VEGAS — The Latest on the attempted-murder trial of former mixed martial arts fighter War Machine (all times local): 2 p.m. A jury in Las Vegas has found a former mixed martial arts fighter known as War Machine guilty of kidnapping and sexually assaulting his porn actress ex-girlfriend. Jurors deadlocked Monday on two attempted-murder

INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana House has approved a bill enabling domestic violence victims to retain their phone numbers and to protect pets when they leave an abusive relationship. The House voted 95-0 Monday to approve the measure. It returns now to the Senate to approve changes. Republican Sen. Erin Houchin’s measure gives victims a way

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Brad Underwood is back home. While the 53-year-old was born in McPherson, Kansas, Illinois became home when he served as an assistant coach at Western Illinois from 1992-2003. It was then that he matched wits with Lon Kruger and Bill Self, and he saw what it meant to play against Illinois. He

SALISBURY, N.C. — Police in North Carolina say a woman faces second-degree murder charges after allegedly injecting a teen with nonmedical silicone in a plastic surgery procedure at her home. Salisbury police tell local media outlets that 42-year-old Kavonceya Iman Cornelius turned herself in Monday after warrants were issued. According to police, an investigation showed

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University will continue to hold tuition costs at 2012 levels through the 2018-19 academic year. Purdue says school President Mitch Daniels announced the extension of the tuition freeze Monday. Indiana residents’ tuition will remain about $10,000, out-of-state students will pay about $28,800, and international students will pay about $30,800. Purdue

TORONTO — A Canadian man accused of breaking into hundreds of millions of Yahoo email accounts poses an “extremely high flight risk” due to alleged ties to Russian intelligence agents, U.S. authorities say. U.S. law enforcement officials call Karim Baratov a “hacker-for-hire” paid by members of the Russian Federal Security Service. In an application for

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A teenager who was 12 years old when he killed a homeless man in Florida has been sentenced to 30 years in prison. The Florida Times-Union (https://goo.gl/5v2qYk) reports that the now-15-year-old boy was sentenced Monday. He pleaded guilty to second-degree murder last year for the 2014 killing of 54-year-old Thomas Zona Trent

PHILADELPHIA — A 5-year-old Pennsylvania boy has died days after he was choked when the family dog pulled on his scarf as they played in the snow. The Philadelphia coroner’s office says John Bruno died Saturday at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, where he had been under heavy sedation since Wednesday’s accident. Police say his mother

NEW ORLEANS — Inmate advocates say a recent disturbance at the long-troubled New Orleans jail appears to have been far worse than jail officials initially let on — including inmates freeing other inmates from cells, fights among inmates, at least one fire and two serious inmate injuries. In weekend press releases, the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s