Новости за 09.01.2019

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Jim Chaney is returning to Tennessee for a second stint as the Volunteers’ offensive coordinator after spending the last three seasons at Georgia. Chaney replaces Tyson Helton, who left shortly after the regular season to become Western Kentucky’s head coach. Chaney received a three-year contract worth a total of $4.8 million. “Jim

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The NFL and the NFL Players Association has released a joint statement saying an independent administrator found Panthers safety Eric Reid received the “normal” number of drug tests this season and he was not the subject of targeting by the league. The statement says “there is no evidence of targeting or any

JOHANNESBURG — The United Nations says some 30,000 people have fled fresh fighting in northeastern Nigeria amid what the government has called an extremist resurgence. A statement on Wednesday by the U.N. humanitarian coordinator for Nigeria, Edward Kallon, says clashes between Nigeria’s military and armed groups near Lake Chad late last month triggered “massive displacement”

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — A teenager has fallen from the ninth floor of a high-rise condominium building in Florida and died. WKMG-TV quotes Miami Beach police as saying that Samuel Farkas fell off a balcony at the La Costa condominium. They say the teenager would have turned 16 on Wednesday. According to the station, a

MAGNOLIA, Miss. — A Mississippi sheriff says a mother called deputies to her home for help days before her daughters are accused of stabbing and shooting her to death. Pike County Sheriff Kenny Cotton told news outlets Tuesday that deputies went to Ericka Hall’s residence last week when she reported that her 12- and 14-year-old

Boeing is keeping its title as the world’s leading maker of airliners, a nose ahead of Airbus. Europe-based Airbus, which assembles some planes in the U.S., said Wednesday it delivered 800 commercial aircraft in 2018. That’s six less than Boeing’s record year, announced earlier this week. The Chicago company has major manufacturing sites in Washington

With each pedal-stroke of his 80- and now 90-year-old legs, Carl Grove sought to show his fellow Americans that old age can be rich and rewarding. His bike is his soapbox. As time caught up with many of his peers, the former United States Navy Band saxophonist , who played for U.S. presidents and visiting

NEW YORK — NBA fans on Twitter will soon have a say in who they’re watching. The league, Twitter and Turner Sports announced a plan Wednesday where fans in the U.S. will be able to vote for which player they want to see in an isolated camera view stream for 20 select regular-season and playoff

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — A person with knowledge of the decision tells The Associated Press that Denver Broncos general manager John Elway has decided on Chicago Bears defensive coordinator Vic Fangio as his new head coach. The person spoke on condition of anonymity Wednesday because the team hadn’t announced the hiring. Fangio has spent 34 years

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — The U.S. Tennis Association says former top-10 player Mardy Fish is the country’s new Davis Cup captain. Fish’s appointment to succeed Jim Courier was announced Wednesday. Courier stepped down in September. The 37-year-old Fish won six titles in singles and eight in doubles as a player, earned a silver medal for

LAWRENCE, Kan. — Kansas running back Pooka Williams has been granted diversion in a domestic battery case. The Kansas City Star reports Williams appeared in court Wednesday. If he successfully completes diversion, the domestic battery charge would be kept off his record. An affidavit alleges that Williams punched an 18-year-old woman in the stomach and

MOSCOW — Russia’s Foreign Ministry says it has summoned the Japanese ambassador over recent statements from Tokyo about disputed Pacific islands. The Soviet Union took the four southernmost Kuril Islands during the final days of World War II. Japan asserts territorial rights to the islands, which it calls the Northern Territories. The decades-long dispute has

JOHANNESBURG — The United States military says it has carried out an airstrike in southern Somalia that killed six al-Shabab extremists. The U.S. Africa Command statement on Wednesday says Tuesday’s airstrike targeted an al-Shabab camp near Yaaq Braawe in the Bay region. Two strikes on Monday near Baqdaad killed four al-Shabab members, and one on

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Saudi Arabia, one of the world’s largest oil producers, says it has 268.5 billion barrels of proven crude oil reserves, a figure higher than previously known. The kingdom had previously reported reserves of 266.3 billion barrels of oil. Saudi Arabia’s Energy Ministry also revised upward the country’s gas reserves to 325.1

NEW YORK — Text messages sent by the Mexican drug lord known as El Chapo about narrowly avoiding capture in 2012 have become the latest damaging evidence at his U.S. trial. Joaquin Guzman (wah-KEEN’ gooz-MAHN’) texted to his wife that a raid on a coastal mansion in Baja happened very quickly, but that he was

DETROIT — A Detroit man whose 7-year-old daughter was struck and killed when she went for help after he crashed a stolen van has pleaded guilty to manslaughter. The Wayne County prosecutor’s office says 47-year-old Wilburt Dion Thomas also pleaded guilty Wednesday to second-degree child abuse and operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated with an

NEW DELHI — India’s Parliament on Wednesday approved a bill providing a 10 percent quota in government jobs for the poor members of upper castes who have been excluded from existing quotas for low-ranking castes. The Congress party and other opposition parties supported the legislation, but criticized Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government for getting it

INDIANAPOLIS — The launch of Synovia Solutions’ new app in 2015 was a bit like running a bus route on the first day of school. There was a lot of uncertainty about the course it would travel, and no one would have been surprised if things started out rolling slowly or the ride had been

LOGANSPORT, Ind. — Alexis Miller was born near the ocean but grew up 1,000 miles inland in Logansport. And while bottlenose dolphins don’t swim through the Eel or Wabash rivers, it didn’t stop her from achieving her dream of working with the nautical neighbors of her birthplace. Miller was born in Daytona Beach, Florida. She

SCHERERVILLE, Ind. — As consumer goods prices have come down over time, you don’t see many television repair shops, tailors and cobblers anymore. In fact, there are just a fraction of the 100,000 shoe repair shops that operated in the United States back in the 1930s. People now simply replace whatever’s broken. Except for their

VINCENNES, Ind. — In September of 1967, Red Skelton wrote a letter to his then wife, Georgia — as he so often did — expressing some thoughts he had about patriotism. On Jan. 14, 1969 — 50 years ago — he shared those thoughts with the world. “That’s what I find really cool about this

OKLAHOMA CITY — Minnesota forward Andrew Wiggins attempted to clarify comments Wednesday that he used the word gay to describe Oklahoma City Thunder guard Dennis Schroder’s behavior during their game. Thunder center Nerlens Noel was taken off the court on a stretcher in the third quarter after Wiggins collided with Noel on a dunk attempt

PHOENIX — Police have served a search warrant to get DNA from all male employees at a long-term care facility in Phoenix where a patient who was in a vegetative state for years gave birth, triggering reviews by state agencies and putting a spotlight on safety concerns for severely disabled or incapacitated patients. Hacienda HealthCare,

LAKE CITY, S.C. — A South Carolina town’s post office will be named in honor of its first black postmaster, who was lynched in 1898 after he refused to resign. The Post and Courier reported Tuesday the Lake City post office will be named for Frazier B. Baker. U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn says it ensures

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The federal government shutdown has scrambled plans for a Missouri prayer breakfast after Ben Carson had to cancel as the keynote speaker. A spokesman for the U.S. Department Housing and Urban Development said Wednesday that the agency could not pay for the secretary’s travel to Missouri because of the shutdown. Carson