Новости за 03.08.2018

DALLAS — The Dallas Mavericks have re-signed backup center Salah Mejri, who will join former European teammate and rookie third overall pick Luca Doncic. Mejri has spent the past three seasons in Dallas. The 32-year-old Tunisian has career averages of 3.3 points and 4.0 rebounds in 168 games. He led the Mavericks in field goal

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Call it a tail-wagging ending to a doggone good story. After a year — and dozens of miles — apart, a pit bull named Ratchet has been reunited with his owner, thanks to the dogged determination of a South Carolina dog lover. Esther Atkins was walking her dog this week when she

WESTFIELD, Ind. — Adam Vinatieri vividly remembers his last game against Morten Andersen. The Danish-born kicker had already logged more than 20 seasons in the NFL, was well into his 40s, nearing the end of his career and still kicking as well as anyone in the league. Back then, Vinatieri marveled at how the seemingly

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Television is in danger of storytelling overload with diminishing returns to viewers, FX Networks’ chief executive said Friday. His previous caution that there was too much TV was overly narrow, Landgraf said: “There’s too much story, there’s too much narrative.” That leads to the “impossibility of surprising the audience, of providing

OAKLAND, Calif. — Friends and family are remembering an 18-year-old woman who was stabbed to death at a train station in Oakland, California, in an unprovoked attack against her and her sister. About 200 people gathered Friday at a church for a solemn service to honor Nia Wilson, who was stabbed to death July 22

DETROIT — A 60-year-old Detroit man is accused of threatening two reporters, damaging their vehicles and assaulting a police officer. Edmund Gilliam was charged Friday with three counts of felonious assault, one count of resisting and obstructing, and four counts of malicious destruction of property. He’s expected to be arraigned Saturday. Prosecutors allege Gilliam threatened

PISCATAWAY, N.J. — Morning rain gave way to a sunny sky as Rutgers began training camp amid optimism under third-year coach Chris Ash. However, Ash couldn’t escape the cloud surrounding his program, as well as the one where worked before taking the Rutgers job, Ohio State. While Ash deals with an investigation into credit card

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — An Argentine human rights group says DNA tests have determined the identity of a person taken from his mother as a baby by the country’s former dictatorship. That brings the number of such cases to 128. The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo said Friday that the person is the biological

PITTSBURGH — Jung Ho Kang, who finished third in the NL Rookie of the Year voting in 2015 while playing for the Pittsburgh Pirates, has undergone season-ending surgery on his left wrist. The team said the surgery was performed Friday in Pittsburgh. The 31-year-old infielder had been playing with the Pirates’ Triple-A Indianapolis when he

LONDON — The players finished their soccer matches and huddled waiting to discover who would have to undergo doping tests. The random draw completed, two men went off to provide urine samples. They just had to put their controllers down first. Less than three weeks after the World Cup finished, the finals of the video

DENVER — To summon a recent reliever, Cubs manager Joe Maddon didn’t even need to signal his bullpen. He just pointed toward his first baseman. Now pitching: Anthony Rizzo . That’s no sort of curveball, either. In an increasing trend this season, position players are making more appearances on the mound to save wear and

BOSTON — The Latest on an auction of iconic memorabilia associated with the late President John F. Kennedy (all times local): 3:30 p.m. A rocking chair that the late President John F. Kennedy used to meet with world leaders in the Oval Office has sold at auction for $50,000. The chair and other iconic items

NEW YORK — The Trump administration has dropped a two-year investigation into how Exxon Mobil Corp. factors climate-change regulations into its calculations of the value of its assets, the company said Friday. The Securities and Exchange Commission informed the energy giant in a letter dated Thursday that it would not recommend an enforcement action against

A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue headlines of the week. None of these stories is legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked these out. Here are the real facts: NOT REAL: Liberal Who Destroyed Trump’s Hollywood Star To Be Banned From Voting For

BISMARCK, N.D. — A 107-mile bicycle race is being held in western North Dakota’s badlands along the Maah Daah Hey Trail. The Maah Daah Hey 100 is Saturday. Organizer Nick Ybarra tells The Bismarck Tribune about 550 are expected to compete. The race will include options for teams and shorter distances of 75, 50, 25

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — There was a moment of time when Atlantic City evoked images of Tyson and Gatti as much as tables and gamblers. Donald Trump and Don King dominated the fight game as much as any heavyweight contenders. And when the next pay-per-view blockbuster bout was up for bid, AC always had a

ALBANY, N.Y. — The National Rifle Association is suffering grave financial harm that threatens its ability to pursue its advocacy mission because of a “blacklisting” campaign by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New York regulators, the gun rights group said in a federal lawsuit. In an amended version of a federal lawsuit filed in May, the

ALBANY, N.Y. — The National Rifle Association is suffering grave financial harm that threatens its ability to pursue its advocacy mission because of a “blacklisting” campaign by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New York regulators, the gun rights group said in a federal lawsuit. In an amended version of a federal lawsuit filed in May, the

FORT WAYNE, Ind. — A judge has set a Feb. 11 trial date for an Indiana man charged in the 1988 abduction, rape and killing of an 8-year-old girl. John D. Miller, of Grabill, is charged with murder and child molestation in the killing of April Tinsley. The 59-year-old Miller appeared to tremble during Friday’s

LARAMIE, Wyo. — Trying to find a weakness on Wyoming’s defense might be a fool’s errand. The Cowboys led the nation in takeaways last season and led the Mountain West in yards per play, points per game and opposing touchdowns allowed. But if you had to pick, cornerback might be the spot you’d settle on.

CLEVELAND — Andrew Miller has been activated by the Cleveland Indians after missing two months because of inflammation in his right knee. Right-hander Zach McAllister was designated for assignment Friday. The Indians also announced outfielder Tyler Naquin underwent right hip surgery on Thursday and is expected to resume baseball activities in 6 to 10 weeks.

BEIRUT — For nearly three years, green buses have filed into Syria’s Idlib province, bringing those evacuated from other opposition enclaves that fell to government forces — thousands of defeated rebel fighters, wanted activists and civilians who refused to go back under President Bashar Assad’s rule. They now face what is likely to be the

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Atlanta will try to become the first filly to win the Hambletonian in 22 years when she takes on 17 rivals in trotting’s most prestigious event at the Meadowlands. Undefeated in five starts, the Rick Zeron-trained filly is the 3-1 second choice in the first of two $100,000 heats for 3-year-old

LOS ANGELES — “I just shot at a cop,” the man with blood dripping from a bullet wound in his arm tells one of 40 people he has just taken hostage at a Los Angeles supermarket. In a gripping account published Friday by the Los Angeles Times, one of those hostages describes how she and

BILLINGS, Mont. — New York Jets linebacker Dylan Donahue received a three-month suspended sentence and was fined $1,000 for a DUI crash in his hometown of Billings, Montana. The Billings Gazette reports Donahue pleaded guilty Friday through his attorney and was sentenced at the same Municipal Court hearing. Donahue was charged after hitting an abandoned