Новости за 23.02.2016

INDIANAPOLIS - Alexander Rossi is joining the IndyCar Series after leaving Formula One.

GREENBELT, Maryland - The latest on a child pornography scandal at a Maryland elementary school (all times local):

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico - An Albuquerque woman is expected to face child abuse charges after she crashed on a busy freeway during rush hour and left behind her 18-month-old child, who was ejected from the vehicle, police said.

ATLANTA - The owner of a Georgia-based insurance firm is requiring all of his employees to get permits to carry concealed weapons and providing each of them with a handgun.

JONESBORO, Arkansas - The scheduled Arkansas State at Mississippi baseball game is being postponed because of the threat of inclement weather in Mississippi.

PHOENIX - For Brewers manager Craig Counsell, it's all about laying a foundation for the future.

ATHENS, Greece - A Greek junior cabinet minister has resigned over comments in which he inferred that leftwing Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras misled protesting farmers by promising, before last year's elections, to improve their situation.

U.S. Soccer is launching a Girls' Development Academy program next year aimed at the cultivation of elite-level players.

STORRS, Connecticut - Connecticut's Breanna Stewart got a brief glimpse of her basketball future during a three-day U.S. training camp.

NEW YORK - The Latest on a court hearing for a New York woman who claimed she was coerced into confessing to her involvement in the death of man targeted for robbery (all times local):

ATHENS, Greece - A group of Greek anarchists has disrupted the evening news broadcast of state ERT TV after forcing their way past a guard to enter the live studio.

PHILADELPHIA - Bill Cosby is using secret court filings to try to bully and intimidate the accuser and other witnesses in his criminal sex-assault case, the woman's lawyers charged in a new court filing.

BOULDER, Colorado - A Colorado woman who prosecutors said was obsessed with having a baby and concocted elaborate lies to convince those close to her that she was pregnant was convicted Tuesday of cutting a nearly 8-month-old fetus from a stranger's womb.

JACKSONVILLE, Florida - The El Faro's former chief engineer said five Polish nationals aboard the vessel when it sank would not have been working on projects connected to the freighter's engines.

ZURICH - Sheikh Salman raised the stakes in the FIFA presidential election Tuesday by contending that rival Gianni Infantino's plan to significantly increase cash payouts to federations would bankrupt football's troubled governing body as it faces a $560 million deficit.

SANTA CLARITA, California - Authorities say two people were killed and another was injured in a crash involving a big rig that spilled lemons across State Route 126 near Santa Clarita.

MINNEAPOLIS - Minnesota Timberwolves center Nikola Pekovic has been ruled out indefinitely as he recovers from right Achilles tendon surgery he underwent last April.

TORONTO - Justin Trudeau will become the first Canadian prime minister to participate in Toronto's annual gay pride march.

NEW YORK - The hospital center that dispatched paramedics and treated Eric Garner as he died after being placed into a chokehold by police has agreed to pay $1 million to the family, according to court records obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press.

LAS VEGAS - World Series of Poker organizers aim to raise the number of winners in the 2016 tournament in Las Vegas, and say the roster of entrants should top 100,000 for the first time.

PHILADELPHIA - Police outside Philadelphia released video Tuesday showing a man overdosing on heroin on a crowded transit bus and being revived by police officers carrying a lifesaving drug.

SOSUA, Dominican Republic - Sarah Kershaw, a former reporter for The New York Times, has been found dead in the Dominican Republic.

BELGRADE, Serbia - The bodies of two Serbian embassy staffers believed killed in U.S. airstrikes last week on an Islamic State group camp in western Libya have been flown back home.

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Arabia says a man from Bahrain has been shot and killed during a security operation in the kingdom's east.

LOS ANGELES - Embattled media company Viacom says it's fielding interest from investors who want to take a strategic minority stake in its movie studio, Paramount Pictures, heeding calls from shareholders frustrated at the company's sagging performance.