Новости за 13.04.2016

CAMP PENDLETON, California - The Latest on Navy Secretary Ray Mabus' talk with Marines on women in combat (all times local):

TOPEKA, Kansas - The Kansas Supreme Court has agreed to consider a groundbreaking ruling that determined the conservative state's constitution protects abortion rights independently from the U.S. Constitution.

EL SEGUNDO, California - Defenseman Drew Doughty is the bedrock of the Los Angeles Kings' run to two Stanley Cup titles and their return to the postseason this week.

JONESBORO, Arkansas - New Arkansas State basketball coach Grant McCasland has announced the hiring of an associate head coach.

MIAMI - Some Cuban Americans are complaining that Carnival Corporation is unfairly excluding them from sailing with the company when the cruise line heads to Cuba for the first time in decades.

LOS ANGELES - A police officer who shot and killed an unarmed homeless man near the Venice boardwalk last year violated departmental policy, the Police Commission ruled Tuesday.

ST. LOUIS - The lengthy legal debate over a Minnesota program that keeps sex offenders confined indefinitely after they complete their prison sentences shifted south Tuesday as state officials urged a federal appeals court nearly 500 miles away to overturn a judge's ruling that the program is unconstitutional.

NASHVILLE, Tennessee - The postseason offers the opportunity for a fresh start, and Predators goaltender Pekka Rinne couldn't be happier.

DURHAM, North Carolina - Duke says its human resources department is reviewing the women's basketball program. Two players left the team after this season, and one left in the middle of last season.

NEWARK, New Jersey - New Jersey Transit's director defended the use of audio surveillance systems on some of its trains Tuesday, as some questioned the monitoring's legal and ethical underpinnings.

CHAPEL HILL, North Carolina - There was no long mourning period for North Carolina coach Roy Williams after the heartbreaking loss in the NCAA championship game. Within days he was on the recruiting trail and meeting with current players to talk about next season.

MEXICO CITY - Mexico's central bank boss is criticizing Donald Trump's proposal to block remittances from Mexicans living in the U.S. as a way to force Mexico into paying for a border wall.

DETROIT - Demand for Tesla's new Model 3 has been eye-popping, with consumers pre-ordering about $13.7 billion worth of the electric sedans nearly two years before they go on sale.

OMAHA, Nebraska - CSX's first-quarter profit fell 19 percent as coal demand continued to weaken and the railroad hauled 5 percent less freight overall.

NEW ORLEANS - Developers want to bring life back to a rusting and ghostly theme park on the edge of the swamps outside New Orleans more than 10 years after it was abandoned when Hurricane Katrina left it underwater.

NEW ORLEANS - The Latest on the shooting death of Saints' player Will Smith (all times local):

AUGUSTA, Georgia - Don't feel sorry for Jordan Spieth because he had to put the green jacket on Danny Willett right after throwing away the Masters.

WASHINGTON - A coalition of environmental groups sued federal regulators Tuesday over long-sought pollution standards for airliners and cargo planes.

NEW YORK - Compared to last year, Jim Nantz lost more than half his audience with the NCAA men's basketball championship game's move from CBS to cable television's TBS.

JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri - More than 60 businesses including some of Missouri's biggest corporate names joined a coalition opposed to state legislation that would protect businesses objecting on religious grounds to same-sex marriages, the latest sign of a backlash against such proposals across the country.

OLYMPIA, Washington - Washington Gov. Jay Inslee on Tuesday fired the head of a beleaguered state psychiatric hospital after a man charged with murder escaped from the facility last week.

INDIANAPOLIS - The Indiana Supreme Court upheld a second death sentence for a southern Indiana man Tuesday, this time for fatally strangling a woman whose body was found buried in his backyard.

TRENTON, New Jersey - A former Camden, New Jersey, firefighter accused of collecting a state disability pension while working as a martial arts instructor and participating in competitive mixed martial arts has been convicted of theft by deception.

McLEAN, Virginia - When Simratpal Singh entered the U.S. Military Academy at West Point back in 2006, he did something he thought he would never have to do: shave his beard.

The NCAA football rules committee has postponed the use of electronic devices such as laptop computers and tablets by coaches during games until 2017.