Новости за 20.12.2018

EVANSVILLE, Ind. — An Evansville man has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for the death of a neighbor who was killed when a bullet traveled through an apartment wall. Ricardo Abreu accepted a deal Thursday and pleaded guilty to reckless homicide and criminal recklessness in the death of 41-year-old Toni Bittler. The Evansville

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The Latest on the Florida school shooting aftermath (all times local): 3:50 p.m. A lengthy police report on the Florida school shooting says suspect Nikolas Cruz still had 188 live rounds when he abandoned his AR-15 rifle and blended in with students fleeing the carnage. Police also collected 70 spent shell

ST. LOUIS — A Missouri judge has denied Johnson & Johnson’s bid to overturn a $4.7 billion jury verdict awarded to 22 women who said the company’s talcum powder contributed to their ovarian cancer. St. Louis Circuit Judge Rex Burlison, in a ruling Wednesday, cited evidence of what he called “particularly reprehensible conduct” by Johnson

WASHINGTON — A proposal that could pump more than $1 billion into helping the U.S. tech industry develop powerful “quantum computers” is now on the desk of President Donald Trump. Congress sent the bill to the White House this week after it passed easily in both chambers. Quantum computers don’t really exist yet in a

SOUTH BEND, Ind. — The South Bend Tribune says it won’t publish a newspaper on Christmas or New Year’s Day. The Tribune says it wants to give employees a break, especially carriers who deliver the paper. It also says the news cycle typically “comes to a grinding halt” around the two holidays. The Tribune says

CHICAGO — The Latest on a man facing charges in connection with the deaths of two Chicago police officers struck by a train (all times local): 2:55 p.m. The attorney for the gunman police were searching for when two Chicago officers were struck and killed by a train says he happened upon a fanny pack

ATLANTA — The Latest on the crash of a business jet in Atlanta (all times local): 3:20 p.m. Atlanta fire officials say three people in a business jet died when the plane crashed into a park. Atlanta Fire Rescue Sgt. Cortez Stafford said a home near the park was damaged in Thursday’s crash on a

WASHINGTON — There was one thing that supporters and detractors of former President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul agreed on for years: unpopular fines on Americans forgoing coverage were essential for the plan to work because they nudged healthy people to get insured, helping check premiums. Now it turns out that might not be so.

CHICAGO — The Chicago Bulls expect forward Bobby Portis to miss two to four weeks because of a sprained right ankle. Portis was injured in the fourth quarter of Wednesday’s loss to Brooklyn. The team said an MRI on Thursday showed no structural damage. The game was Portis’ fifth since returning from a sprained ligament

If you simply can’t get enough Ruth Bader Ginsburg, these last few years have been glorious — a Tumblr account, T-shirts and totes with her face, “Saturday Night Live” parodies, a workout book and a CNN documentary. This year — marking the Notorious R.B.G.’s 25th anniversary on the Supreme Court — will end with another

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — A farmer who owned an Iowa grain brokerage has pleaded guilty to falsely marketing $140 million dollars’ worth of corn, soybeans and wheat as “certified organic.” Sixty-one-year-old Randy Constant of Chillicothe, Missouri, pleaded guilty to wire fraud Thursday under a plea agreement with federal prosecutors in Cedar Rapids. Constant faces a

NEW YORK — Now that he’s staying with the New York Yankees, J.A. Happ would like to see Manny Machado join him in the Bronx. “You get any kind of player like that on a team, that would be exciting,” the pitcher said Thursday, three days after finalizing a $34 million, two-year contract. Machado, one

BALTIMORE — Fears of a recession have been mounting with the U.S. stock market appearing to be headed for its worst December since 1931 — during the Great Depression. Wall Street’s sustained slump has been fueled by investor concerns about lower corporate profits, higher corporate debt, a festering trade war between the United States and

NEW YORK — Health officials on Thursday reported an outbreak of bacterial infections in people who got injections of stems cells derived from umbilical cord blood. At least 12 patients in three states — Florida, Texas and Arizona — became infected after getting injections for problems like joint and back pain, the Centers for Disease

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — North Carolina coach Roy Williams says he plans to coach “as long as I feel good and have my health.” UNC announced Wednesday an eight-year extension for Williams through the 2027-28 season, when he would be nearly 78 years old. Asked if he could see himself coaching to 2028, Williams quipped

“Sins As Scarlet” (Minotaur), by Nicolas Obregon Each author brings a different hue to the city or region he or she is writing about. Nicolas Obregon’s stunning second novel shows Los Angeles from the perspective of Kosuke Iwata, a former Japanese police detective who is now a private investigator in California. Born in Japan, where

CHICAGO — The Chicago Cubs and Entercom announced a multiyear contract extension to radio play-by-play announcer Pat Hughes on Thursday. Hughes, who joined the Cubs radio broadcast in 1996, will enter his 24th season as the voice of the Cubs alongside analyst Ron Coomer on WSCR-AM. Terms were not disclosed. Hughes began his baseball play-by-play

ATHENS, Greece — Organizers of Greece’s top division have called off games scheduled for this weekend after referees announced a two-week walkout to protest the beating of a colleague by unknown assailants. The country’s soccer federation said Thursday that Greek cup matches would go ahead as scheduled. It said top-league referees called the walkout “for

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina quarterback Jake Bentley believes the Gamecocks made progress during the regular season. He can’t wait to see that continue against Virginia at the Belk Bowl. “A bowl win would be icing on the cake,” Bentley said Thursday. The Gamecocks (7-5) take on the Cavaliers (7-5) in Charlotte, North Carolina, on

EBENSBURG, Pa. — A former Pennsylvania pediatrician has admitted he sexually assaulted 31 children, most of them patients. Dr. Johnnie Barto of Johnstown pleaded guilty on Thursday to sexually abusing two family members and admitted to sexually assaulting more than two dozen patients. The abuse spanned decades and typically involved girls and boys between ages

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Rhode Island’s unemployment rate held steady at 3.8 percent in November. The state Department of Labor and Training said Thursday that the November rate was unchanged from October, and was one-tenth of a percentage point higher than the national rate. The state’s rate was seven-tenths of a percentage point lower than November

ATLANTA — Newly hired coach Geoff Collins has added a second tight end, Tyler Davis, a graduate transfer from UConn, to Georgia Tech’s class of early signees. The addition of Davis (6-foot-4, 243) on Thursday gives Collins, the former Temple coach, 18 players in his first signing class. The early signing period continues through Friday.

INDIANAPOLIS — Authorities say remains found last summer in an Indianapolis park have been identified as a man from El Salvador. The FBI says the remains were recovered in connection with an ongoing investigation of the MS-13 gang in Ohio. Experts using DNA believe the man was Israel Mejia-Martinez, whose last address was Usultan, El

BILLINGS, Mont. — The Latest on the Trump administration’s miscalculation of safety benefits of electronic brakes for oil trains (all times local): 12:15 p.m. Supporters of more advanced brakes on trains hauling explosive fuels are pushing back against a Trump administration decision to scrap their mandatory use following the revelation that derailment risks were miscalculated.

ZEPHYRHILLS, Fla. — The Latest on severe weather hitting central Florida (all times local): 2:10 p.m. A 90-year-old woman was taken to a hospital after a roof fell on her during a heavy rainstorm in central Florida. The Lakeland Ledger reports that Marie Weddle was hit on the head when part of her condominium’s roof