Новости за 28.03.2016

PATERSON, New Jersey - A New Jersey hospital has launched an opioid-alternative program to cut down on the abuse of the drugs that have helped to fuel a deadly crisis.

LAHORE, Pakistan - In an emotional televised address, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif vowed Monday to hunt down and defeat the militants who have been carrying out attacks like the Easter bombing that targeted Christians and killed 72 people.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Alaska regulators are working with an Alaska Native organization that wants to serve its nursing home residents nutrient-rich seal oil, a traditional staple that's banned in public settings because of its high risk for botulism if not properly processed.

KISSIMMEE, Florida - The Atlanta Braves released high-priced outfielder Nick Swisher on Monday, ditching a former All-Star whose numbers plummeted the last two seasons.

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic - Deivis Ventura is still just a candidate for the Dominican Republic's Chamber of Deputies, but he feels like he's already scored a victory.

McLEAN, Virginia - A student who said he was wrongly expelled from George Mason University for engaging in consensual, sadomasochistic sex has won a federal lawsuit demanding his reinstatement.

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut - A former executive of an audio-visual equipment company has pleaded guilty to insider trading.

ATLANTA - Poor weather will be one area of focus for federal investigators trying to determine what caused a medical helicopter to crash in southeast Alabama, killing all four people aboard, a federal authority said Monday.

NEW YORK - Avon agreed to make changes to its board Monday in order to avoid a proxy fight with some of its shareholders who collectively own more than a 3 percent stake in the company.

TUCSON, Arizona - Arizona freshman guard Justin Simon is transferring after playing sparingly his lone season in the desert.

LAS VEGAS - UNLV is turning to Chris Beard to run its men's basketball program.

CLEARWATER, Florida - Wherever he goes, Charlie Manuel feels the love.

TRENTON, New Jersey - All schools in New Jersey would have to immediately test drinking water for lead contamination under a bill state lawmakers proposed on Monday, weeks after elevated lead levels in Newark schools prompted officials to shut off sinks and drinking fountains.

BUENOS AIRES - Argentina's pro-business government is pulling the plug on its involvement in the Spanish-language TV network that was started by the late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez over what it said was the broadcaster's blacklisting of alternative viewpoints.

MEDICINE LODGE, Kansas - Fire crews continue to monitor a massive wildfire that's scorched an area about the size of Oklahoma City in a sparsely populated part of southern Kansas and northern Oklahoma. Here's a look at where the fight against the fire stands, what's been done to control it and the damage done.

SCHOHARIE, New York - The fourth trial for a 54-year-old New York man accused of killing his estranged wife in 2001 will be heard by a judge, not a jury.

NEWARK, New Jersey - A New Jersey woman accused of fatally stabbing her boyfriend during a dispute over their Xbox console has pleaded not guilty to reckless manslaughter and weapons charges.

As dominant as Florida has been in college baseball, the Gators can't seem to solve Kentucky.

NEW ORLEANS - Former long-time NBA coach Mike Dunleavy Sr. is taking his first college coaching job at Tulane, joining a program that has languished at or below .500 for most of the past two decades since last appearing in the NCAA tournament in 1995.

JERUSALEM - The head of an organization representing Jewish communities worldwide says it is launching a new initiative to counter the anti-Israel boycott movement on college campuses.

CHICAGO - The Latest on the city of Chicago's search for a new police superintendent (all times local):

RICHMOND, Virginia - Four advocacy organizations are asking Virginia's governor to force the state inspector general to immediately release its report on a mentally ill man's death in a Portsmouth jail.

PORTLAND, Maine - Maine's congressional delegation on Monday asked the Obama administration to resist efforts to ban the import of live Maine lobsters by European Union countries, saying the discovery of American lobsters in Swedish waters doesn't warrant such harsh measures.

NEW YORK - Though congressional Republicans' bid to defund Planned Parenthood was vetoed by President Barack Obama, anti-abortion activists and politicians are achieving a growing portion of their goal with an aggressive state-by-state strategy.

ALVA, Oklahoma - A partial skull and two tusks of a prehistoric Columbian mammoth have been found in northwest Oklahoma.