Новости за 01.03.2016

SYRACUSE, New York - Syracuse tailback Devante McFarlane has left the football program.

INDIANAPOLIS - The Indiana Senate has approved a bill that would ban abortions sought due to a fetus' genetic disability.

HARTFORD, Connecticut - Two Connecticut residents who were deported to Italy several years ago because of criminal convictions are asking the federal government for permission to return to the state to appear before state lawmakers, who subpoenaed them to testify about their experiences.

GREENSBORO, North Carolina - The 2016 all-Atlantic Coast Conference women's basketball teams, announced Tuesday by the league with player's school, class and position.

PORTLAND, Maine - The highest court in Maine on Tuesday upheld the robbery conviction of a man who was stripped of his right to a court-appointed attorney because he couldn't get along with five different lawyers.

EAST RUTHERFORD, New Jersey - John Johnson, an athletic trainer in the New York Giants organization for 60 years, has died. He was 98.

GREENSBORO, North Carolina - No. 2 Notre Dame placed three players on the all-Atlantic Coast Conference women's basketball team.

KANSAS CITY, Missouri - Top administrators at the University of Missouri's Columbia campus on Tuesday condemned at least the fourth case of anti-Semitic graffiti in a dormitory in less than a year as the school grapples with racial unease that toppled two executives in November.

MIAMI - Joe Johnson's family is already with him in Miami, and if the seven-time All-Star gets his way they will not be moving again anytime soon.

COLUMBIA, South Carolina - In South Carolina, it's still technically illegal to work - or let people dance - on Sundays. Juveniles can't play pinball. And it's illegal to challenge anyone to a sword or gun fight.

ST. PETERSBURG, Florida - The Latest on the case between wrestler Hulk Hogan and the website Gawker. (All times local):

PHILADELPHIA - A judge has agreed to hear arguments on changing a five- to 10-month jail sentence imposed on a suburban police chief's daughter in a group attack on a gay couple that prompted Philadelphia to add sexual orientation to its hate crime laws.

CINCINNATI - A New York woman suspected of sickening her 4-year-old son by injecting something into his hospital feeding tube pleaded guilty under a deal with prosecutors to child endangering in Cincinnati.

NEW YORK - Like other cable and satellite companies, AT&T is trying to win new customers by making it a little easier to sign up for and watch TV.

TUNIS, Tunisia - Tunisia's defense minister says his country is talking to Berlin about allowing German forces to train Libyan soldiers on Tunisian soil.

INDIANAPOLIS - The author of a bill to recognize hate crimes in Indiana says there likely won't be any effort to revive the proposal even as supporters say they plan to push for the measure before the legislative session ends.

NEW YORK - Two years after a planned deal fell through, Hachette Book Group is purchasing the Perseus Books Group, bringing together two of the country's largest publishers.

INDIO, California - A California school district has reversed course and will now ask students wearing anti-gay stickers on their identification badges to remove them pending further investigation.

CARY, North Carolina - The volume of cyberattacks on the country's largest electric company is astounding, and much of it is coming from computer hackers backed by foreign governments, Duke Energy Corp. CEO Lynn Good said Tuesday.

MANILA, Philippines - A gunman attacked and wounded a Saudi preacher and a diplomat from Saudi Arabia's embassy late Tuesday before being killed by policemen in the southern city of Zamboanga, police said.

ECHO SUMMIT, California - The Latest on the Sierra Nevada snowpack that supplies water to California when it melts in the spring (all times local):

TUNIS, Tunisia - Germany has concluded a deal with Tunisia to repatriate Tunisians whose asylum bids have failed as part of a plan to reduce the large influx of migrants to the country.

WARSAW, Poland - Polish prosecutors are investigating if workers have violated laws protecting buried human remains when they apparently dug up bones at the site of a former Nazi concentration camp and a Jewish cemetery.

LINTHICUM, Maryland - At the airport, safety is more important than sexy.

PHILADELPHIA - Authorities say a worker was fatally struck by a one-ton garbage bale at a Philadelphia trash-transfer station.