Новости за 19.04.2016

LOS ANGELES - Blake Shelton's defamation lawsuit against In Touch Weekly will proceed after a judge Tuesday rejected a motion to dismiss the case by the tabloid's publisher.

FLOWERY BRANCH, Georgia - Matt Ryan didn't wait for this week's start of the Atlanta Falcons offseason program to jump into preparations for 2016.

KNOXVILLE, Tennessee - Tennessee has hired Sharrona Reaves to join the Lady Volunteers' coaching staff.

INDEPENDENCE, Ohio - LeBron James has enough to handle with the young and brash Pistons. He isn't about to fight their coach, too.

WASHINGTON - Government health officials will team up with minor league baseball as part of a new $36 million campaign to discourage rural teenagers from using chewing tobacco.

VINCENNES, Indiana - Police have identified a Vincennes man who was killed when his car collided with an Indiana Department of Transportation dump truck.

DALLAS - Add star Dirk Nowitzki to the long injury list for Dallas in the playoffs.

OMAHA, Nebraska - WBO super lightweight champion Terence "Bud" Crawford has been accused of causing $5,000 in damage to a hydraulic lift last week during a dispute with a body shop owner.

RIO DE JANEIRO - The man who may become Brazil's next president is almost as unpopular as the leader facing impeachment now, and stained by scandals of his own.

ENGLEWOOD, New Jersey - A New Jersey gallery has filed a federal lawsuit over a city code violation it received for displaying artwork of a partially nude woman in its store window.

EAST RUTHERFORD, New Jersey - The New York Giants have re-signed tight end Larry Donnell.

NASHVILLE, Tennessee - Goaltender Frederik Andersen will start Game 3 for Anaheim with the Ducks trailing 0-2 in their opening series with the Nashville Predators.

NEW YORK - A small chocolate milk company wanted to tout the ability of its drink in helping high school athletes recover from concussions to coincide with the Will Smith movie "Concussion," according to emails obtained by The Associated Press.

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's parliament approved a $97 billion budget for the current year, the official IRNA news agency reported Tuesday.

LONDON - The International Tennis Federation banned a Croatian official on Tuesday for 10 years for working at tournaments without telling organizers he had been suspended from the sport.

JERUSALEM - Ronit Elkabetz, a prolific Israeli actress and filmmaker whose work earned her stardom in France as well as at home, has died. She was 51.

BAGHDAD - Iraqi officials say police have unearthed two mass graves in the western city of Ramadi, with bodies of about 40 people killed by Islamic State militants.

DALLAS - A Dallas grand jury is scheduled to consider this week whether to charge troubled NFL quarterback Johnny Manziel with attacking his ex-girlfriend in a January incident.

SALT LAKE CITY - Morgan Scalley wasn't specifically groomed to become the defensive coordinator at Utah despite being in the program as a player and coach since 2001. But there's the 37-year-old barking at spring practices, trying to put his own imprint on virtually the same scheme the Utes have run since Fred Whittingham, coach Kyle Whittingham's father, installed it in 1992.

YAOUNDE, Cameroon - Some 2,000 illegally trafficked elephant tusks and hundreds of finished ivory products erupted in a ball of fire Tuesday as Cameroonian authorities conducted what was believed to be one of the largest burnings of poached wildlife goods in African history.

LOS ANGELES - You're mystified by the number of destined-for-failure shows on TV and figure you could make better picks than network executives.

BOSTON - She laughed. She wept. She walked. She ran. For amputee Adrianne Haslet, the Boston Marathon was a grueling 10½-hour odyssey.

DES MOINES, Iowa - An attorney for former Iowa State women's basketball player Nikki Moody said Tuesday that his firm disagrees with the university's finding that it was unable to substantiate her complaints of racial discrimination.

MINNEAPOLIS - The Minnesota Twins have placed third baseman Trevor Plouffe on the 15-day disabled list with a right intercostal strain.

MUNCIE, Indiana - Muncie's police chief has asked Indiana State Police to assist in investigating a fatal shooting involving a police officer.