Новости за 19.04.2016

NEW YORK - Target is making a stand on the debate around what type of bathrooms transgenders can use.

BOSTON - Atsede Baysa learned a little about the Boston Marathon's history a few days before she ran in it, hearing how Bobbi Gibb was turned down for a spot in the 1966 event but ran anyway to show that women could handle the 26.2 miles.

MONTGOMERY, Alabama - Gov. Robert Bentley's former law enforcement secretary sued his old boss Tuesday, saying that Bentley wrongly fired him.

NEW YORK - Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Tuesday on the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq stock market:

MINNEAPOLIS - Milwaukee guard Akeem Springs has joined Minnesota this season as a graduate transfer.

MINNEAPOLIS - Scooter Gennett hit a tiebreaking single in the ninth inning and the Milwaukee Brewers beat Minnesota 6-5 Tuesday, ending the Twins' four-game winning streak.

RICHMOND, Virginia - A paramedic-firefighter who disappeared last week always put others first, and authorities are asking the public to return the favor by calling police if they have any information that might help search crews scouring the rugged terrain of the Shenandoah National Park.

CONCORD, New Hampshire - The families of a Vermont couple killed when a former Fortune 500 executive crashed his pickup truck into their SUV on a New Hampshire highway have settled lawsuits related to the crash.

PHOENIX - A judge on Tuesday allowed a man charged in freeway shootings that rattled Phoenix last year to be released from jail amid questions about evidence authorities say links him to the crimes.

PHOENIX - The Phoenix Suns are retaining Earl Watson as head coach for next season.

SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo has hung out a "for sale" sign without doing much to improve its curb appeal.

NEW YORK - Voters across New York are casting ballots in presidential primaries that could be pivotal for both Republicans and Democrats.

FLINT, Michigan - A class-action lawsuit over Flint's contaminated water was dismissed Tuesday, with the judge saying constitutional claims by residents are barred by the federal Safe Drinking Water Act.

ORCHARD PARK, New York - Bills safety Aaron Williams tempers the enthusiasm he has of participating in offseason workouts with a hint of trepidation when outlining the next hurdle in his recovery from neck surgery.

WASHINGTON - The FBI is facing an increasing struggle to access readable information and evidence from digital devices because of default encryption, a senior FBI official told members of Congress at a hearing on digital encryption Tuesday.

CHICAGO - Milt Pappas, who won 209 games during his 17-year career with the Baltimore Orioles, Cincinnati Reds, Atlanta Braves and Chicago Cubs, has died. He was 76.

DENVER - A Colorado corrections officer who killed a man during a shootout between two biker clubs at a Denver motorcycle show won't face criminal charges because his self-defense claim makes it unlikely a jury would convict him, prosecutors said Tuesday.

STUTTGART, Germany - Two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova swept past qualifier Luisa Chirico 6-0, 6-0 on Tuesday to reach the second round of the WTA Porsche Grand Prix.

TULSA, Oklahoma - An oil and natural gas producer has laid off 42 employees, including 38 at its headquarters in Tulsa.

CONCORD, New Hampshire - A Roman Catholic priest who served as the face of the church in New Hampshire during the sex abuse scandal was granted parole Tuesday on two of his convictions for stealing $300,000 from a hospital, a bishop and a dead priest's estate. But he'll still serve at least two more years in jail to complete his full sentence.

HAVANA - Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro delivered a valedictory speech Tuesday to the Communist Party that he put in power a half-century ago, telling party members he will soon die and exhorting them to help his ideas survive.

MADRID - Celta Vigo missed a chance to move closer to the top in the Spanish league by drawing with Espanyol 1-1 on Tuesday.

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge says prosecutors at an upcoming criminal trial for Pacific Gas & Electric Co. cannot show jurors a segment of a pipeline that exploded in a San Francisco Bay Area neighborhood or discuss how many people were killed or homes destroyed.

BERLIN - Chancellor Angela Merkel's center-right party is joining forces with the environmentalist Greens and the center-left Social Democrats to freeze out a nationalist party in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt.

ST. LOUIS - The Latest on a U.S. Department of Justice settlement calling for changes in Ferguson, the St. Louis suburb where 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot and killed by police (all times Central Daylight Time):