Новости за 07.03.2016

MILFORD, Connecticut - A teenager accused of stabbing a classmate to death at their high school for rejecting his invitation to the junior prom pleaded no contest to murder Monday, and prosecutors said they will seek a 25-year prison sentence.

FLINT, Michigan - The latest on the lead-contaminated water crisis in Flint, Michigan (all times local):

ALBANY, New York - Average Wall Street bonuses were down 9 percent last year to $146,200 as industry profits declined, New York's comptroller reported Monday.

MURFREESBORO, Tennessee - Jim Freeman, a former media relations official for both the Daytona International Speedway and Talladega Superspeedway, has died. He was 73 years old.

COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho - An Idaho pastor who led the prayer at a weekend campaign rally for Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz was gunned down outside his church the following day but was expected to survive.

STOCKHOLM - The United Nations' lead official on climate change says the next U.N. leader should be a woman, but she has no plans to seek the job.

NICOSIA, Cyprus - The head of the International Monetary Fund says Cyprus has ended the IMF leg of a three-year rescue program 10 weeks ahead of schedule.

AURORA, Minnesota - It's been almost 10 months since an iron plant closed near Aurora, a century-old mining community in northeastern Minnesota. The only dentist retired in June, and nobody would take over his practice. The only drug store closed in August. And in January, the town of 1,600 residents lost its only grocery store.

Kentucky had the week's biggest jump in the Top 25, moving up six spots to No. 16.

Kansas is No. 1 in The Associated Press college basketball poll for a second straight week and for the fourth time this season.

INDEPENDENCE, Ohio - LeBron James has 28.6 million followers on Twitter. Lately, he seems interested in connecting with only a few of them.

NEW YORK - Verizon will pay a $1.35 million fine over its "supercookie" that the government said followed phone customers on the Internet without their permission. Verizon will also have to get an explicit "yes" from customers for some kinds of tracking.

BOGOTA, Colombia - Colombia has fined the app-based taxi service Uber for providing unauthorized transportation services.

INDIANAPOLIS - Cigarette and gas tax increases proposed by Indiana House Republicans to finance infrastructure improvements appear increasingly doomed as negotiations on a road funding plan continue in the waning days of this year's legislative session.

HARTFORD, Connecticut - Connecticut is the latest state to consider ending sales tax on feminine hygiene products like tampons and maxi pads.

INDIANAPOLIS - The Indiana Pacers signed troubled point guard Ty Lawson on Monday.

Denzel Valentine has done it all for Michigan State, and the senior is The Associated Press Player of the Year in the Big Ten.

TAMPA, Florida - Tampa Bay Buccaneers offensive lineman Logan Mankins is retiring after 11 NFL seasons.

LOS ANGELES - China has a new ally in its campaign to turn itself into a global cultural superpower: Matt Damon. And, behind him, a good chunk of Hollywood as well.

ITHACA, New York - Cornell University President Elizabeth Garrett has died of colon cancer after less than a year of leading the school. She was 52.

NEW YORK - Hundreds of police officers have lined Fifth Avenue in Manhattan for a farewell salute to a former colleague who was gunned down in Texas.

TAMPA, Florida - Tampa Bay Lightning forward Jonathan Drouin's will resume his career in the minors after the team lifted its suspension.

M. Ward, "More Rain" (Merge Records)

OKLAHOMA CITY - Two more victims of a former Oklahoma City police officer convicted of sexually assaulting women while on duty have joined a lawsuit against the city, its police chief and several police employees.

ELKHART, Indiana - A much needed renovation project is expected to start later this year on a city-owned railroad museum near downtown Elkhart.