Новости за 21.11.2018

RENTON, Wash. — The conversation takes place throughout the week inside the Seattle Seahawks training facility. A group of four or five throwing out suggestions and discussing whether their idea can actually be executed. By the time Friday rolls around, a final decision has been made and the group spends part of the day seeing

With three games on Thursday, fantasy football players need to get their lineups in place before scarfing on turkey and pie. This week looks to have less potential than previous weeks for scoring, with the Falcons-Saints game on Thursday night shaping up to have the most fantasy upside. Playoff time in most fantasy leagues is

MILWAUKEE — The question has haunted authorities in Wisconsin for more than a month now: Where is 13-year-old Jayme Closs? Detectives have pursued more than 2,300 leads, watched dozens of surveillance videos and spent countless hours searching for Jayme, trying to figure out what happened to her ever since her parents were fatally shot in

GARY, Ind. — A Chicago-area woman was nearly three times over the legal alcohol limit when she slammed her SUV head-on into another vehicle in northwestern Indiana, causing the deaths of a couple, their son and herself. Indiana state police said Wednesday that 25-year-old Tiara Davis’ blood-alcohol content was .22 percent on Sept. 1 when

JUBA, South Sudan — South Sudan is making its first big foreign investment pitch since declaring an end to civil war, but the oil-rich nation faces hesitation from some companies that want to make sure the fragile new peace deal holds. The country is eager to make up for $4 billion in lost revenue caused

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — It all comes down to the final six minutes of a six-month journey to Mars. NASA’s InSight spacecraft will enter the Martian atmosphere at supersonic speed, then hit the brakes to get to a soft, safe landing on the alien red plains. After micromanaging every step of the way, flight controllers

LOS ANGELES — “Spider-Man” star Tom Holland has tasted pumpkin seeds, but never actual pumpkin. However, all that changed for the British actor during a recent Thanksgiving cooking lesson with “Avengers” co-director Joe Russo and chef Jessica Largey who introduced him to kabocha squash, a delicacy known as Japanese pumpkin. The exclusive cooking lesson was

LOS ANGELES — When Southern California offensive coordinator Tee Martin told incoming freshman Amon-Ra St. Brown to learn all three wide receiver positions, it was intended for his future development. St. Brown would stay at one spot in his first season, the same approach Martin used successfully with former Trojan stars Nelson Agholor and JuJu

NEW YORK — Bundle up, Spongebob. New York City’s big Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade will take place amid frigid cold and strong winds that could potentially ground the giant character balloons, which have caused mishaps and injuries in the past when gusts have blown them off course. The police department is monitoring wind gauges along

LAS VEGAS — Regulations and paperwork are driving up costs for financial institutions serving marijuana companies doing business in states with legal pot sales, a cannabis banker told a conference in Las Vegas. Sundie Seefried told hundreds of cannabis trade show attendees at MJBizCon last week that a subsidiary of her Colorado credit union had

PEORIA, Ariz. — A pigeon that had flown the coop with only its bedazzled vest is nesting back home in Phoenix. The Arizona Republic reports Marlette Fernando and her husband were reunited Tuesday with their pet pigeon Olive. The bird was brought to the Fallen Feathers bird rescue center in Peoria more than a week

WEST PALM BEACH, Florida — President Donald Trump said he may attend next year’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner now that organizers have scrapped the usual format featuring a comedian. But he may not be thrilled with the replacement. The correspondents’ association announced this week that Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow — biographer of presidents

NEW YORK — Jimmie Allen has made history as the first black artist to have his debut single reach No. 1 on country radio, and it happened on the same week Kane Brown, who is black and white, has the top country and pop album in the U.S. Allen said he cried when he got

INDIANAPOLIS — A man who admitted fatally stabbing a woman in a downtown Indianapolis apartment complex’s gym has been sentenced to 45 years in prison. Twenty-six-year-old Cody Weir of Avon was sentenced Tuesday in Carina Rodriguez’s killing after pleading guilty to murder. A Marion County judge sentenced him to 55 years, but suspended five years

NEW YORK — A nearly silent, drone-sized aircraft has shown it can fly, thanks to a scientist who was inspired by watching “Star Trek” as a child. With neither propellers nor jets, the airplane gets its thrust by applying a strong electric field to the air. That general idea has been demonstrated at science fairs,

BALTIMORE — New Baltimore Orioles general manager Mike Elias called upon a familiar face to help rebuild the club, hiring former NASA engineer Sig Mejdal from the Houston Astros to be assistant general manager for analytics. Mejdal will report to Elias and will oversee all aspects of the club’s growing analytics effort and serve as

Now that we’ve seen Big 12 football break out in the NFL — Rams 54, Chiefs 51 — can we get a college hoops score out of the Saints? The Who-Dats will be rocking the Superdome on Thanksgiving night, with New Orleans facing its archrival, the Atlanta Falcons. The Saints are running away with the

NEW YORK — Toys R Us and Bon-Ton may be gone but they haven’t been forgotten. Companies like Target and online mattress company Casper are creating playbooks to pick up market share that those and other defunct or dying retailers left behind. Casper, for instance, is teaming up with department stores like Nordstrom to introduce

HAMMOND, Ind. — A northwestern Indiana man has been sentenced in federal court to 28 years in prison for crimes that included a slaying prosecutors say was committed to further his standing in the Latin Kings street gang. The U.S. Attorney’s office says 22-year-old Anton James Jr. of Hammond, Indiana, pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy.

NORMAN, Okla. — Oklahoma wishbone masters Jamelle Holieway and Charles Thompson get nostalgic when they watch Kyler Murray bring an electric quarterback run element to coach Lincoln Riley’s Air Raid offense. Holieway led Oklahoma to a national championship as a freshman in 1985. He rushed for 2,713 yards in his career, the most of any

WASHINGTON — Liberty University has announced that first lady Melania Trump will participate in a “town hall” discussion at Liberty University next week about the opioid epidemic. Also participating in the Nov. 28 event will be Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and Dianna Hart, whose daughter Demi Lovato

LONDON — Facebook has appealed its 500,000-pound ($644,000) fine for failing to protect the privacy of its users in the Cambridge Analytica scandal, arguing that U.K regulators failed to prove that British users were directly affected. Britain’s Information Commissioner Office leveled the fine after concluding Facebook processed the personal information of users unfairly by giving

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A South Carolina sheriff says when a man who may have committed as many as 90 homicides recently confessed to a killing he first investigated as a rookie 40 years ago, it gave him a little peace of mind. Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott says 79-year-old Samuel Little told Texas investigators he

NEW YORK — No location is more central to the iconography of the Western than Monument Valley. Its majestic sandstone buttes, a revolving backdrop for John Ford, have been the setting for countless stagecoach chases and John Wayne passages. And thanks to the Coen brothers’ “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs,” this hallowed Colorado ground is

Southeastern Conference teams may not bother taking a spin on this year’s coaching carousel. While at least one coach has been fired already in each of the other Power Five conferences, the SEC doesn’t have any coach on the brink of being let go heading into the final weekend of the regular season. Barring a