Новости за 07.03.2016

CROYDON, England - A former Chelsea team doctor spent more than six hours at a private hearing in front of an employment judge Monday for her constructive dismissal case against the English Premier League champions, following a dispute with then-manager Jose Mourinho.

LONDON - A British judge has adjourned a hearing on rival claims to head Libya's $67 billion sovereign wealth fund, saying Monday that he expects Libya to clarify the situation soon.

GREENSBORO, North Carolina - The all-Atlantic Coast Conference teams and individual award winners, as announced Monday following a vote of the league's 15 head coaches. First-team votes were worth five points, with second-team votes worth three points and third-team selections worth one point.

MOSCOW - Russia's largest carmaker, AvtoVAZ, famed for its Lada cars, is to replace Swedish chief executive Bo Andersson following heavy losses.

BANGOR, Maine - A Maine sex offender charged last week with killing a 16-year-old girl nearly 36 years ago has been ordered held without bail.

GREENSBORO, North Carolina - The Atlantic Coast Conference's coaches have selected Virginia's Malcolm Brogdon as their player of the year.

BOULDER, Colorado - University of Colorado women's basketball coach Linda Lappe has agreed to resign after a 7-23 season.

PHILADELPHIA - Drexel has fired coach Bruiser Flint after a 15-year run without an NCAA Tournament appearance.

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania - Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf is preparing to raise the minimum wage by nearly $3 an hour, to $10.15, for state government employees and workers on jobs contracted by the state.

NEW YORK - Joseph Gordon-Levitt has dropped out of a movie adaptation of Neil Gaiman's "Sandman," saying he and the studio don't see "eye to eye" on the project.

KISSIMMEE, Florida - Tommy Giordano sits in a folding chair behind home plate at Champion Stadium, a stopwatch in his right hand, a lineup card in his lap, his eyes darting this way and that, always searching for the next great player, be it another Joe DiMaggio. Or Hank Aaron. Or Cal Ripken Jr.

AUSTIN, Texas - Texas coach Shaka Smart said injured center Cam Ridley's availability for postseason tournaments remains unclear.

VENDOME, France - French rider Arnaud Demare produced a late sprint to clinch the first stage of the Paris-Nice race on Monday and claim his biggest victory since winning the national championships two years ago.

INDIANAPOLIS - The Colts released backup quarterback Josh Freeman on Monday, leaving them with only two quarterbacks on the roster.

OWINGS MILLS, Maryland - The Baltimore Ravens have signed cornerback Shareece Wright to a three-year deal, two days before he was eligible to become a free agent.

NEW YORK - What sort of grit and ingenuity did it take for slaves in the Old South to flee from a plantation that had been their world for their entire lives, then head 600 or 700 miles north without any clear idea of what "north" is or what was likely to await were they sufficiently lucky to reach their destination?

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles authorities say the wife of former Eagles band member Randy Meisner was killed when a rifle she was handling accidentally discharged and shot her in the head.

MOSCOW - The Russian Geographical Society says two of its explorers have achieved the deepest dive ever recorded below ice.

MURFREESBORO, Tennessee - Tennessee's state police agency is investigating what led an officer to shoot at a suspect who had children inside his vehicle in Murfreesboro.

ATLANTA - When Rick Ross posted a photo of himself on Instagram posing with Diddy, a woman joked on his page about the burly, bearded rapper wearing shades inside a nightclub.

GRANDE-SYNTHE, France - Doctors Without Borders did something in France on Monday that aid groups normally do in much poorer, more troubled places: opened a humanitarian camp for migrants.

TULSA, Oklahoma - State regulators are asking oil and gas producers in central Oklahoma to restrict wastewater disposal operations to help temper a sharp increase in the number and severity of earthquakes.

LONDON - A prosecutor has urged a judge to ignore sentencing guidelines and throw the book at a gang of robbers who stole millions from a safe-deposit company.

MCGRANN, Pennsylvania - Authorities are investigating the death of a man whose body was found at the edge of a western Pennsylvania creek after he went panning for gold.

Buddy Hield had quite a repeat performance to post a remarkable first in the 20 seasons of Big 12 basketball.