Новости за 04.04.2016

NEW YORK - Bernie Worrell, funk's "Wizard of Woo," is amazed at the lineup of friends and admirers expected to turn out for his benefit concert: George Clinton and Nona Hendryx, Jonathan Demme and Bootsy Collins, Paul Shaffer and Living Colour.

BEIRUT - The Latest on the interconnected conflicts in Iraq and Syria (all times local):

CONCORD, New Hampshire - Gas prices are still climbing in northern New England.

ALBANY, New York - The Latest on the springtime storm sweeping through the Northeast (all times local):

NEW ORLEANS - A man is facing a possible 20 years to life in prison after being accused of stealing $31 worth of candy bars from a New Orleans store.

FAYETTEVILLE, Arkansas - Alvaro Ortiz shot a 3-under-par 69 to tie for a spot at the top of the leaderboard as Arkansas finished third at the Aggie Invitational golf tournament in Bryan, Texas.

OCEASIDE, New York - A Long Island man is accused of pushing his wife's hands into a boiling deep fat fryer during an argument at their Chinese restaurant.

FAYETTEVILLE, Arkansas - Missouri pitchers held Arkansas to one run to beat the 15th-ranked Razorbacks in a college baseball game.

CHESTERTON, Indiana - The agency that runs the South Shore commuter trains in northwest Indiana is planning a series of public hearings on a proposed 2.5 percent fare increase to pay for upcoming improvement projects.

LOS ANGELES - Drone delivery might be years away in the U.S., but it's becoming a reality in Rwanda this summer.

MILWAUKEE - Tailgaters outside Miller Park will be bundled up for a chilly start to the Milwaukee Brewers' Opening Day.

DHAKA, Bangladesh - Police seized grenades, pistols and bullets from a house in a northern Bangladeshi village on Monday, a day after an explosion killed two suspected militants.

ROME - Lazio has fired Stefano Pioli and named Simone Inzaghi its new coach following a 4-1 derby loss to Roma.

BERLIN - The German football federation has opened proceedings against Cologne sporting director Joerg Schmadtke for throwing chewing gum toward the Hoffenheim coaching area during a Bundesliga game Sunday.

NEW YORK - Times Square was briefly evacuated over the weekend as police investigated a suspicious box truck with wires protruding from its dash board and gas canisters behind its seats.

INDIANAPOLIS - About three dozen artists from Indiana have been tasked with creating their own take on the "Welcome Race Fans" banner that canvass the city during the auto racing season.

INDIANAPOLIS - Officials at Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne plan to host a conference focused on improving the physical and mental health of LGBT students.

CORYDON, Indiana - Retiring Indiana Supreme Court Justice Brent Dickson is set to hear his final arguments this month in the same tiny southern Indiana courtroom that housed the state's original Supreme Court.

VIENNA - A live tank shell now is in a safe place - but only after Austrian police scrambled to escape a potentially explosive situation.

LONDON - The notorious British spy Kim Philby is shown in newly uncovered footage addressing East German spies about his life as a double agent secretly helping the Soviet Union.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - The U.S. Navy says it has seized a weapons shipment in the Arabian Sea from Iran likely heading to war-torn Yemen.

TALKEETNA, Alaska - A helicopter rescued an experienced Japanese climber from an Alaska mountain where spring storms had created significant avalanche risks.

FRANKFURT, Germany - The unemployment rate inched down to 10.3 percent in February in the 19 countries that use the euro.

BERLIN - The Latest on the publication by a coalition of media outlets of an investigation into offshore financial dealings by the rich and famous (all times local):

BEIJING - Animal rights activists are seeking to shut down an annual summer dog meat festival in southern China blamed for blackening the country's international reputation as well as fueling extreme cruelty to canines and unhygienic food handling practices.