Новости за 04.04.2016

STAMFORD, Connecticut - Supermodel Stephanie Seymour will get a drunken driving case in Connecticut dismissed if she completes alcohol abuse treatment, attends Alcoholics Anonymous meetings and meets with victims of drunken driving accidents.

NEW YORK - Kathleen Battle is returning to the Metropolitan Opera, 22 years after the company fired her and publicly accused her of "unprofessional actions."

CHISINAU, Moldova - An investigation into how politicians use offshore companies to hide their assets named a former Moldovan prime minister Monday as having shares in two offshore companies in the British Virgin Islands.

FAYETTEVILLE, Arkansas - The Arkansas Razorbacks dropped out of the Baseball America poll this week after dropping a series at home to Missouri.

BOSTON - The calendar may say spring, but winter struck the Northeast hard Monday, delivering a storm that could end up dropping as much as 10 inches of snow in some places.

HOUSTON - Allen Iverson, Shaquille O'Neal, Yao Ming, Sheryl Swoopes, Tom Izzo and Jerry Reinsdorf have been elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame.

STATE COLLEGE, Pennsylvania - Saquon Barkley's lunging hurdle of a Buffalo safety runs on repeat inside Penn State's practice facility, alongside handfuls of other frenetic highlights the Nittany Lions running back put to tape last season.

SALT LAKE CITY - Four men have been arrested for sexually assaulting a 9-year-old girl in a Utah home while her mother was in the garage smoking meth, authorities said Monday.

MIAMI - Giancarlo Stanton is excited about the revamped outfield wall at Marlins Park, and not just because the changes make it easier for him to hit home runs.

MARRAKECH, Morocco - Former runner-up Albert Montanes advanced to the second round of the Grand Prix Hassan II on Monday with a 6-4, 6-4 win over qualifier Franko Skugor on Monday.

MADRID - Spanish tax authorities said Monday they are investigating allegations of tax irregularities involving soccer player Lionel Messi after documents released by an international probe of offshore accounts.

PANAMA CITY - The Panamanian lawyers at the center of a scandal on the financial dealings of the world's rich and famous are an odd pairing of a German-born immigrant and a prize-winning novelist whose books sometimes mirror the seedy world of politics he's come across in his work.

RICHMOND, Virginia - Virginia's Democratic governor has vetoed a bill that seeks to force schools to notify parents if their children will be assigned books with sexually explicit content.

HIT, Iraq - Iraqi forces say they have entered the town of Hit, a week after launching an operation to retake the town from Islamic State group fighters.

PARIS - The Yves Saint Laurent fashion house appointed Anthony Vaccarello as creative director of its clothing line on Monday, replacing the departing Hedi Slimane.

PITTSBURGH - The Pittsburgh Pirates have locked up promising outfielder Gregory Polanco well into the next decade.

HOUSTON - Amanda Salazar watched for a year as colleagues at the Houston-based oil rig manufacturer where she worked lost jobs, victims of the latest oil bust. She realized it was time for a change before she too got a pink slip.

DAKAR, Senegal - Senegal has agreed to take in two Libyans who spent nearly 14 years in custody at the U.S. base in Cuba without charge, becoming the second country in West Africa to accept former detainees, officials said Monday.

NEW YORK - Honeywell said Monday that it promoted Darius Adamczyk to the newly created role of president and chief operating officer of the industrial company.

Biologic drugmaker Gilead Sciences Inc. said Monday that it will buy a subsidiary of Nimbus Therapeutics LLC and its experimental pill for an increasingly common metabolic disorder that causes life-threatening fat buildup in the liver.

NASHVILLE, Tennessee - A former Vanderbilt football player was drunk and manipulated by three of his teammates on the night that an unconscious female student was raped, an attorney for Cory Batey argued Monday - a departure from previous arguments that blamed a permissive college culture.

AUSTIN, Texas - Gov. Greg Abbott has written a book detailing how he overcame a freak accident that left him paralyzed from the waist down and outlining his plan to "restore the Constitution."

ORLANDO, Florida - There's one last orca birth to come at SeaWorld, and it will probably be the last chance for research biologist Dawn Noren to study up close how female killer whales pass toxins to their calves through their milk.

DURHAM, North Carolina - The Latest on a sit-in outside the office of Duke University President Richard Brodhead (all times local):

"Lust and Wonder" (St. Martin's Press), by Augusten Burroughs