Новости за 30.06.2017

CALGARY, Alberta — The Calgary Flames have signed defenseman Michael Stone to a three-year deal reportedly worth $10.5 million. The Flames acquired Stone from Arizona before last season’s trade deadline to add stability to their defense. He had two goals and four assists and was a plus-5 in 19 regular-season games with Calgary, and added

KRAKOW, Poland — Midfielder Mitchell Weiser scored the winning goal as Germany beat high-scoring Spain 1-0 to win the Under-21 European Championship on Friday. Spain was in a formidable form in the tournament, scoring 12 goals in four previous wins. But the favorite failed to replicate its flowing attacking football in the final. The Germans,

WEST GOSHEN, Pa. — The Latest on recent high school graduate fatally shot in road rage crash (all times local): 4:45 p.m. Authorities have released a sketch of the gunman believed to have fatally shot a recent Pennsylvania high school graduate during a road rage incident. West Goshen Police Chief Joseph Gleason says the shooter

DENVER — Denver has finalized rules for the nation’s first licensed pot clubs. To open, clubs first need neighborhood approval. They can’t allow indoor smoking or on-site pot sales. Denver voters approved recreational marijuana clubs in November. But a state board banned the sale of alcohol at places allowing pot use. Interested businesses so far

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Late Penn State football coach Joe Paterno’s family dropped a lawsuit Friday against the NCAA over its use of a report in the Jerry Sandusky child molestation scandal to punish Paterno and the university. Paterno’s estate, his son Jay and former assistant William Kenney discontinued their case. The NCAA called it a

CONCORD, N.H. — The Latest on a report that students at an elite New Hampshire prep school were engaged in a new competition of sexual conquest (all times local): 4:20 p.m. A girl who was sexually assaulted at an elite New Hampshire prep school says the institution continues to operate “in a bubble of denial.”

HAVANA — Cuban officials say more than 30 percent of the country’s farmland is now worked by private farmers under one of the key market-oriented reforms adopted by President Raul Castro to save the country’s struggling socialist economy. Vice President Marino Murillo made the announcement in remarks published Friday by state media. He said 1.9

Calvin Harris, “Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 1” (Columbia Records) A photo of a sun-kissed, empty beach is on the front of DJ/producer Calvin Harris’ new CD and there’s a palm tree on the back. That’s appropriate for what is a strong contender for album of the summer. The 10-track “Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 1” is

RIO PUERCO, N.M. — Flying 3,000 feet (914 meters) above desert scrubland in New Mexico, Nick Stanzak taps the first smokejumper on the shoulder to signal it’s his turn to leap from the twin-engine plane. In pairs of two, a team of eight elite firefighters from Idaho and Montana parachute down to the dry Rio

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The Latest on a lawsuit filed against tennis star Venus Williams for the death of a man in a car crash (all times local): 3:30 p.m. The attorney representing the family of a Florida man who died after a car crash with tennis star Venus Williams says there might be video.

CROWN POINT, Ind. — A Gary, Indiana, man accused of killing seven women has objected in court to his planned trial date on murder charges in two of the slayings. Darren Vann appeared in court Friday morning for the first time in more than a year, handcuffed and flanked by sheriff’s police. The (Northwest Indiana)

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — NBC picks up its half of the NASCAR schedule with Saturday night’s race at Daytona International Speedway. Its task: Stop the ratings slide. Fox Sports wrapped up its portion of the season last week with the least-watched race at Sonoma Raceway since 2002. Not counting rainouts, all 15 Cup Series races

LAS VEGAS — At a nondescript building near the Las Vegas Strip, workers in scrubs, hair nets and surgical masks furiously attached labels to sealed jars as others checked on growing marijuana plants or carefully weighed buds. The frenzied activity is focused on one goal: Getting dispensaries ready to start selling recreational marijuana Saturday in

DENVER — Colorado has nearly 129,000 underground oil and gas pipelines within about 1,000 feet (300 meters) of occupied buildings, according to energy company reports ordered by the state after a fatal house explosion blamed on a severed gas line. Friday was the deadline for companies to test those lines for leaks, and about 9,500

NEW YORK — Paul Gottinger, who applied nearly a year ago to bring his Iranian fiancee to the United States so they could be married, went to bed feeling hopeless. The Trump administration’s travel ban, as first outlined on Wednesday, required people from six mostly Muslim countries to have a business or close family relationship

NEW YORK — Ian Penny is replacing David Prouty as general counsel of the Major League Baseball Players Association in a transition following a new labor contract. The 53-year-old Penny joined the union in 2010 after 10 years with the National Hockey League Players Association and most recently served as senior labor counsel. Matt Nussbaum,

MINNEAPOLIS — The Minneapolis City Council voted overwhelmingly on Friday to raise the city’s minimum wage to $15 an hour over the next few years, joining other large U.S. cities that have increased basic wages. The ordinance passed 11-1. For large businesses with 100 or more employees, the higher wage will be phased in over

IBIUNA, Brazil — A prospect with a 94 mph fastball gets a lot of attention, no matter where he is pitching — even when that prospect is a diminutive 16-year-old from a country with little baseball tradition. Eric Pardinho’s blazing fastball has brought scouts to this city 50 miles west of Sao Paulo in soccer

CLEVELAND — Unable to chase any high-profile free agents, the Cavaliers want to retain one of their own. With an eye on closing the gap on Golden State after losing in the NBA Finals, the Cavs will extend a contract offer to free agent forward Kyle Korver after the negotiating period begins at 12:01 a.m.

NEW YORK — A doctor with a rifle hidden under a lab coat opened fire Friday at the Bronx hospital where he used to work, killing one person and wounding six others before taking his own life, authorities said. The shooting started at 2:50 p.m. inside the Bronx Lebanon Hospital, drawing a heavy police presence

INDIANAPOLIS — An Indiana official says the state won’t be able to provide much of the information requested by President Donald Trump’s commission investigating alleged voter fraud during the 2016 election. The commission led by Vice President Mike Pence asked state election officials this week to provide data including names, party affiliations, addresses and voting

LOS ANGELES — The FBI says 14 people have been charged in connection with a series of assaults on Los Angeles County jail inmates, allegedly at the behest of the Mexican Mafia prison gang. The FBI’s Los Angeles field office says an investigation over the past 12 months found the assaults were directed by Mexican

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Longtime racing writer Norma “Dusty” Brandel has won the Squier-Hall Award for NASCAR media excellence. NASCAR officials made the announcement Friday at Daytona International Speedway. Brandel has covered auto racing for more than six decades, becoming the first woman to report from inside the NASCAR garage when she covered her first

RIO DE JANEIRO — A 76-year-old woman and her daughter were killed Friday during a shootout between police and drug traffickers in a Rio de Janeiro slum, apparently hit by stray bullets. Marlene Maria da Conceicao was shot in the neck in the doorway of her home in the Mangueira slum. Neighbors told The Associated

LAS VEGAS — Sin City is getting ready to launch its latest legal vice. Marijuana facilities are ramping up their work for expected lines starting early Saturday in Las Vegas and other Nevada cities that will begin selling pot for recreational use after voters approved it in November. But it won’t be a free-for-all in