Новости за 16.03.2018

NEW YORK (AP) — The women’s basketball NCAA Tournament is set to tip Friday and here are a few players that may be the difference between a top team making a deep run in the tournament and not making it out of the first weekend. All the players come from the major conferences. GUARDS: Lexie […]

DALLAS (AP) — Loyola-Chicago’s biggest fan is the team chaplain who prays with the players before games and gives them scouting reports the next day. So 98-year-old Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt was more thankful than shocked when Donte Ingram hit a last-second 3-pointer to beat Miami in the Ramblers’ first NCAA Tournament game in 33 […]

UCLA and Arizona State flamed out in the First Four. Arizona got drubbed by a Mid-American Conference team that had never won an NCAA Tournament game. Just like that, the Pac-12 can Pac-It-In. Buffalo’s 89-68 win over fourth-seeded Arizona on Thursday night leaves no Pac-12 teams left in the tournament. It’s the first time since […]

STOCKHOLM (AP) — North Korea’s foreign minister was expected to meet with his Swedish counterpart Friday for a second day after making a surprise trip to Stockholm that has fueled speculation about a possible meeting between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho landed at Stockholm’s Arlanda […]

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee’s Republican House and Senate leaders say the state isn’t paying lawmakers or staffers to attend a California legislative summit. In a letter Thursday, Senate Speaker Randy McNally and House Speaker Beth Harwell said the state won’t cover the National Conference of State Legislatures conference trip in Los Angeles because of […]

NEWARK, Del. (AP) — A popular internet meme asks if Super Bowl-winning Baltimore Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco is indeed elite. Regardless of that answer, the University of Delaware says his latest donation definitely is. In a Wednesday release, the university touted “a significant gift to the future of UD Athletics” made by the alumnus and […]

NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian officials have arrested a doctor and two of his associates as they were about to carry out a banned sex determination test for a pregnant woman in a car in a secluded forest. State health officials in a joint operation with police sent a decoy pregnant woman to the accused, […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Health officials say a case of measles has been found in an international traveler arriving in Memphis, Tennessee. The Shelby County Health Department says in a news release that the traveler arrived in Memphis on Monday. Officials say the traveler sought medical care and was placed in isolation, and there was […]

BROOKSVILLE, Fla. (AP) — The police chief of a small Florida city has been fired as officials consider getting rid of the police department. The Tampa Bay Times reports that Brooksville City Manager Mark Kutney fired George Turner on Wednesday. Kutney said Thursday that a number of issues had caused him to lose confidence in […]

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The West Virginia Supreme Court has ordered the license annulment of a lawyer who court documents say had sex with a client and caused her to violate the terms of her probation. WCHS-TV reports the court Thursday ordered Chapmanville lawyer Benjamin F. White’s license annulled and that he should pay legal […]

WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) — A man is accused of assaulting a woman and fatally beating a man who intervened in North Carolina. Wilmington police spokeswoman Linda Thompson tells The StarNews of Wilmington that 58-year-old Edward Alan Pearson was inside a store Monday night when he warned the woman against going outside with 31-year-old Hakeem Sanders. […]

LABELLE, Fla. (AP) — An endangered Florida panther has died. It’s the 12th panther found dead this year and the first death not attributed to a vehicle strike. The cause of death wasn’t immediately known. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission says that the remains of the 7-year-old male were collected Wednesday on a […]

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia elections officials are set to give voters clearer instructions on how to fill out ballots properly after a disputed election was decided by drawing a candidate’s name from a bowl. WTOP-FM reports that the State Board of Elections is set to adopt new ballot requirements later this month. State law […]

BECKLEY, W.Va. (AP) — A former West Virginia lumber company executive has been sentenced to three years and five months in federal prison for embezzling more than $800,000. U.S. Attorney Mike Stuart says 43-year-old James Matthew Miller was sentenced in federal court in Beckley on two counts of wire fraud. He also was ordered to […]

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says reported DUI offenses on college campuses in the state have increased by more than 60 percent. The TBI said in a Thursday statement that its annual crime study detailing the volume and nature of crime on Tennessee’s college and university campuses also found that overall, […]

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The Kentucky National Guard is holding a farewell ceremony for aviators deploying to the Middle East. A statement from Maj. Steve Martin says Friday’s ceremony is being held at the Boone National Guard Center in Frankfort for soldiers of the fixed-wing unit, Detachment 4, Company C., 2-245th Aviation. Officials say the […]

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky officials say unemployment rates fell in 119 counties across the state between January 2017 and January 2018. Only Carter County had a higher jobless rate during that time. The Kentucky Center for Education and Workforce Statistics says Woodford County had the state’s lowest jobless rate at 2.9 percent. Fayette County […]

PIPPA PASSES, Ky. (AP) — An electric utility says a beaver had gnawed a tree that fell on a power line and caused an outage affecting roughly 1,000 customers in Kentucky. Kentucky Power says in a statement that the customers’ electricity was out for roughly half an hour Thursday after the tree fell near Pippa […]

MARYVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The U.S. House has passed legislation that would honor a longtime Tennessee newspaper editor who advocated for completion of the Foothills Parkway with a bridge on the parkway named for him. Tennessee Republican U.S. Rep. John J. Duncan said the legislation would name the bridge on the new section of the […]

HOBBS, N.M. (AP) — A Dallas company and a France-based multinational corporation are forming a joint venture to license an interim storage site in West Texas for high-level nuclear waste. The Hobbs News-Sun reports Orano USA and Waste Control Specialists announced on Tuesday their intent to form the joint venture. Waste Control Specialists had notified […]

LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — A Republican Maine House candidate now has an opponent after he used Twitter to attack two students who survived a shooting at a Florida high school, calling one of them a “skinhead lesbian” and the other a “bald-faced liar.” Democrat Eryn Gilchrist filed to run against Leslie Gibson Thursday, eliminating his […]

ROSWELL, N.M. (AP) — Federal safety officials have rescheduled a meeting to determine the probable cause of a fatal 2015 collision involving two freight trains in New Mexico and issue safety recommendations aimed at preventing similar wrecks. The National Transportation Safety Board reset the meeting in Washington for April 10 after a meeting that was […]

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Federal and state experts in drought assessment and long-range forecasting are expected to provide an overview of the critical situation facing much of the United States’ southern high plains. They’re meeting Friday as dry conditions intensify from the plains of eastern New Mexico to the Texas Panhandle and parts of Colorado, […]

BARNSTEAD, N.H. (AP) — Two police officers in New Hampshire came to the aid of an elderly woman by shoveling her walkway so she could get to her doctor’s appointment. WMUR-TV reports the woman called Barnstead Police Thursday because she could not get out of her house due to the accumulated snow. Police say two […]

ESSEX JUNCTION, Vt. (AP) — Hundreds of students at a Vermont high school poured out of their building to take part in their version of a national campaign of student walkouts following a snow day. Essex High School had a snow day Wednesday, so students had to wait until Thursday to make their way outside […]