Новости за 03.04.2021

SAN ANTONIO (AP) - Arizona's Aari McDonald is used to being overlooked. Now that people are paying attention, she asks they pronounce her name correctly.

ROME (AP) - Italy entered a three-day nationwide coronavirus lockdown Saturday to deter Easter travel and get-togethers even as the country's variant-fueled spike in new infections began to wane.

ROME (AP) - Pope Francis urged his coronavirus-weary flock to not lose hope even through the continued “dark months” of the pandemic as he celebrated a scaled-back Easter vigil service in St. Peter’s Basilica on Saturday.

HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) - A Texas man has been sentenced to three years and two months in prison in a deadly Kansas crash.

A couple who enjoyed New Hampshire's outdoors left $144,000 from their estate to the state Fish and Game Department for its K-9 and endangered wildlife programs.

LEICESTER, England (AP) - When even Benjamin Mendy is scoring, it's a sign of just how well the quadruple chase is going for Manchester City.

BOSTON (AP) - The number of COVID-19 infections in Massachusetts schools is growing but a school official insists that schools are “very safe.”

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) - The half-brother of Jordan's King Abdullah II was asked to “stop some movements and activities that are being used to target Jordan's security and stability,” the country's top general said Saturday amid the arrest of former senior officials close to the ruling monarchy.

SAN ANTONIO (AP) - The last time that Tara VanDerveer and Stanford were playing for a national championship, the Pac-12 had just 10 schools and the Cardinal were the standard bearer for the conference.

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - One of the oldest marine industries in the United States suffered the least productive year in its recorded history last year, in part because of the coronavirus pandemic.

JEROME, Idaho (AP) - A tool that fell from a vehicle along Interstate 84 flew through the windshield of another vehicle along Interstate-84 on Friday night, killing the driver.

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) - Lawrence would ban so-called gay conversion therapy for LGBTQ minors under an ordinance that is headed to the city council for consideration.

CARLE PLACE, N.Y. (AP) - An SUV driver on Long Island was critically injured Friday in a crash with a police department ambulance, police said.

LAS VEGAS (AP) - A car being driven the wrong way on a metro Las Vegas freeway collided head-on with another car, killing both drivers, the Nevada Highway Patrol said.

BOONEVILLE, Miss. (AP) - A community college in Mississippi is making it easier for students to take classes this summer.

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) - Haskell Indian Nations University faculty are signaling frustration with the college's top leader over free speech and governance issues with a vote of “no confidence.”

Teen girls facing murder charges for the carjacking that killed a delivery food driver near Nationals Parks last month are reportedly being offered plea agreements by prosecutors in Washington, D.C.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum on Friday warned the state is headed to a “tough fire season” as he visited Billings County, where a fire had prompted him to call a statewide wildfire emergency.

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp said Saturday that Major League Baseball "bowed down to the cancel culture" by moving its All-Star game from Atlanta in response to the state's new voting law.

Maryland basketball scooped a second key transfer Saturday, securing former Rhode Island point guard Fatts Russell to run the offense in College Park. Russell announced his decision on Instagram, and his addition solves another issue the Terrapins had throughout the 2020-21 campaign.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) - Missouri conservation officials are asking people to save the ticks they come across while tromping through the woods and toss them in the mail.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Fewer students are filling out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid that is known as the FAFSA.

MALTA, Mont. (AP) - The Fort Belknap Indian Community has sued to halt a Bozeman-based mining company from assessing whether rock at an old mine in the Little Rocky Mountains contains gold.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Wisconsin's second-most-populated county announced that starting Wednesday it will no longer require people at outdoor gatherings to wear masks or keep crowds to a certain size, as long as they stay distanced from each other.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - Wichita State University has announced it's dropping its coronavirus restrictions after GOP lawmakers overrode Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly's newly reissued mask order.