Новости за 06.03.2016

INDIANAPOLIS - Though it's the last thing elected officials want to discuss in an election year, a proposed tax increase is on the table as Republican Gov. Mike Pence and lawmakers negotiate in the waning days of the GOP-dominated Legislature's spring session over how to finance improvements to the state's deficient infrastructure.

CONFLANS-SAINTE-HONORINE, France - Australian sprinter Michael Matthews won the Paris-Nice prologue on Sunday to grab the Race to the Sun's yellow jersey.

MILFORD, Connecticut - A Connecticut teenager charged with fatally stabbing a classmate in their high school hallway on prom day is facing a deadline to accept a plea deal.

MONTICELLO, Indiana - The new owner of the Indiana Beach amusement park is giving it an overhaul going into the opening of its 90th anniversary season.

CONCORD, New Hampshire - Lawyers for John Deere and other farm and heavy equipment managers are taking their case to the U.S. Supreme Court following a state court decision that rejected most of their challenges to New Hampshire's Auto Dealers Bill of Rights law.

LONDON - Christian Benteke won and converted a coolly taken penalty deep into injury time to earn 10-man Liverpool a 2-1 win at Crystal Palace on Sunday, boosting his team's faint hopes of finishing in the Premier League's European places.

SCHONACH, Germany - Joergen Graabak of Norway pipped Fabian Riessle of Germany for the second time in three days to win the final Nordic combined World Cup of the season Sunday.

WICHITA, Kansas - The smiling, blissful and confused-looking emojis dotting the electronic landscape may hold the key to ferreting out grade-school children's true feelings about foods, Kansas researchers say, and could help schools across the nation cut down on lunchroom food waste.

BIDDEFORD, Maine - Scientists say ultrasound technology normally used on pregnant women can be used to gain insights about the reproduction of tiger sharks.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Ajax beat Willem II Tilburg 4-0 Sunday to stay one point behind defending champion PSV Eindhoven in the two-horse race for the Dutch Eredivisie title. PSV beat Groningen 3-0 on Saturday night.

ALEXANDRIA, Louisiana - Hospital officials called it an accident when a 70-year-old psychiatric patient was fatally injured in an altercation with a nursing assistant at a Department of Veterans Affairs medical center in central Louisiana three years ago.

PARIS - Marseille's poor home form continued as struggling Toulouse secured a 1-1 draw at the Stade Velodrome on Sunday in the French league.

JASNA, Slovakia - Unbeaten in her favorite discipline for more than a year, Mikaela Shiffrin still had to congratulate Frida Hansdotter of Sweden on winning the World Cup slalom title on Sunday.

CARDIFF, Wales - Newly-elected Gianni Infantino is standing firm against the FIFA administration's determination that he is only an ambassadorial president, declaring he will be the ultimate boss of world football.

OSLO - Martin Fourcade of France took his third biathlon worlds title Sunday, winning the 12.5 kilometer pursuit in 32 minutes, 56.5 seconds.

CAIRO - The Latest on Egypt blaming the 2015 assassination of the chief prosecutor on the Muslim brotherhood and the Palestinian militant group Hamas (all times local):

WARSAW, Poland - Hundreds of women have marched in Warsaw to demand greater accessibility to abortion, better working conditions and more state support in raising children.

BRUSSELS - European Union leaders will look to persuade Turkey's prime minister at a summit on Monday to slow the flow of migrants traveling to Europe and take back thousands who do not qualify for asylum.

PARIS - The man who found a wing fragment of the Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 that disappeared nearly two years ago on a beach in the French Indian Ocean island of La Reunion has found an unidentified gray item with blue border in nearly the same spot.

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut - A Connecticut museum is marking the 175th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision that granted freedom to enslaved Africans held captive aboard the ship Amistad.

RACE: 20th Indianapolis 500

ENGLEWOOD, Colorado - Peyton Manning surveyed the landscape of his brilliant career and called one last audible. He's retiring a champion.

AHMADABAD, India - The western Indian state of Gujarat was placed on high alert Sunday after officials said they received intelligence reports that around 10 suspected militants from Pakistan had entered the state.

IDOMENI, Greece - The Latest on the influx of refugees and other migrants into Europe (all times local):

IDOMENI, Greece - At least 18 people drowned off the Turkish coast while trying to reach Greece Sunday, while Macedonian authorities imposed further restrictions on refugees trying to cross the Greek border.