Four Sampdoria players, including one who had previously recovered, and three from Fiorentina have tested positive for coronavirus, the two Serie A clubs announced on Thursday.

The FAI have sought more clarity from Sport Ireland and the HSE as they look to nail down a return date for the game at all levels.

European soccer leagues got a glimpse of what the future might hold after football finally returned with the start of the South Korean K-League on Friday.

Attorney Javier Solano, in his final jury address Friday, insisted there was a “piece that didn’t fit” in the prosecution’s presentation against murder suspect Andres Fernandez in the June 30, 2016, shooting of Louis Barbati.

The city withheld explosive allegations of racism against two high-ranking NYPD cops accused of demanding arrests of black and Hispanic people, an attorney charged Friday.

The Friday morning deaths capped off a deadly three days across the city.

The diocese made the dramatic announcement after confirming positive coronavirus tests for two priests: One at a church in Queens, the other at a church in Brooklyn.

Patient Jessica Ellision recalled how she broke down and sobbed Monday when she finally received her medication after a three-hour wait — much of it in the crowded hallway where she feared the other patients might be infected. “It was so intense and so stressful, and you feel like you worked so hard not to be sick, but this is it now — this is how it happens,” said Ellison, 39, of the Bronx.

Runners are using their legs for deliveries now.

Suspect Donte West, 28, broke into a side door of the shoe store on Pitkin Ave. near Bristol St. in Brownsville about 8:45 a.m. Saturday and loaded up a Chevy Trailblazer with more than three dozen pairs of sneakers and nearly 40 baseball caps as cops arrived, police said.

Staff at New York City’s two federal jails, defense attorneys and inmates interviewed by the Daily News say the official numbers of COVID-19 cases obscure the magnitude of the crisis behind bars.

Martin Greenfield Clothiers, creator of Joaquin Phoenix’s “Joker” suit and tailor to the well-dressed from President Obama to Mayor Bloomberg, is taking on coronavirus. The venerable custom suit maker teamed with its union workers to start producing protective face masks, with local community groups first on their list of beneficiaries.

The special education courts are designed to protect the legal rights of those children, but the city’s system is so overburdened that vulnerable students wait months or years for help getting critical support, according to the legal complaint.

Teachers, parents, and supporters of Heketi Community Charter School in Mott Haven are fighting back, arguing that the school met its goals for academic growth.

City Council Member Debi Rose (D - Staten Island) said city students shouldn’t feel obligated to march with their schools or bands in the parade while event organizers refuse to let the Staten Island Pride Center march.

Nearly 20 groups representing New York City foster kids pleaded with officials to finally guarantee school buses to students in foster care so they no longer have to switch schools because they can’t get to class.

The sprawling CUNY system, which serves over 250,000 students — many of whom are low-income — across 25 campuses, remained open Tuesday, and has no confirmed cases of the virus among students or faculty.

VOICE Charter School in Long Island City — where 80% of students are low-income — is distributing bags full of pasta, rice and beans, granola bars and other non-perishables to hundreds of families Wednesday afternoon in case the school is eventually forced to close and kids miss out on school meals.

The college systems, which enroll a combined 700,000 students across the state, will move to a “distance learning model,” Cuomo said at a coronavirus-related press conference Wednesday.

The closure applies to Catholic elementary schools in Manhattan, Staten Island and the Bronx, the area covered by the New York Archdiocese. It will last from March 16 through March 20, “with the possibility of a lengthier closure,” according to diocese officials.

Closing most public schools and using the rest to serve at-risk students and families who rely on them to meet basic health needs would be a good way for the Education Department to handle the coronavirus crisis, the chair of the city council’s Education Committee said Thursday. City Council Member Mark Treyger suggested that adopting a “summer school” approach "could work in terms of a limited system shutdown while servicing the most vulnerable.”

New Dorp High School and the Richard H. Hungerford School were being shut down out of “an abundance of caution,” the DOE said on Twitter early Friday.

The private institute offers arts classes to 4,000 students mostly in Harlem, through classes at its building and at partner schools.

Education officials, in a Friday morning webinar, instructed all city principals to prepare for an extended shutdown by assembling materials to send home with students, reviewing how to use online teaching platforms and deciding how to communicate with families, according to a copy of the presentation obtained by The News.

The annual math and English exams administered annually to New York 3rd-8th graders, as well as exams for English Language Learners, will no longer be given this school year, said Board of Regents Chancellor Betty Rosa and interim state Education Commissioner Shannon Tahoe.

But the centers, slated to open Monday, are currently limited to children of healthcare and transit workers and first-responders - and advocates worry homeless students will be left behind.

Many of the city's foster youth were thrust into uncertainty last week when CUNY ordered them out of their dorms due to coronavirus. Unlike their peers, these students have no childhood bedrooms to return to, and often no families who can help them through the shutdown of the economy or the closing of their colleges.

Twenty-two of the city’s 25,000 paraprofessionals have died from the coronavirus, a rate four times higher than the rest of the 150,000-employee Department of Education, according to the agency’s data.

Maira Ramirez feels a pang of guilt when her phone buzzes with class assignments while she’s working double shifts at a kosher market to support her financially-strapped family during the pandemic. “I would be at work and see the notifications pop up on Google Classrooms," said Ramirez, a 20-year-old student at West Brooklyn Community High School — a transfer school for students who have struggled in traditional high schools. “I’d be like ‘Damn, I can’t even do them.'”

Union officials say school bus workers will be hit hard by the cuts.

The lawmakers say the city should turn its attention to pricey contracts, testing payments and administrative costs before axing $181 million from school budgets that cover the salaries of teachers, social workers, and other staff.

The Offaly football manager John Maughan says he has cannot see the inter-county Championship being played this year.

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An already-unlikely motive in the Ahmaud Arbery murder case became even more suspicious on Friday. The two Georgia men who were caught on video shooting the unarmed jogger to death in February claim they were chasing a suspect behind a series of burglaries in the area. But a local police official said the last break-in the neighborhood was reported nearly two months before the shooting.

Declan Kidney had big boots to fill when he replaced the departing Eddie O'Sullivan as Ireland rugby union coach on this day in 2008.

Ireland's historic 2013 Women's Six Nations Grand Slam victory is the latest of our RTÉ Sport Classics which you can watch on RTÉ2 and the RTÉ Player at 9.30pm tonight. Niamh Briggs, who played a key role in that triumph relives the glory day before she watches it back for the first time.

It's St Patrick's Day 2013. The pubs are open, you can shake all the hands in the world, and Ireland Women are on the cusp of a historic Grand Slam. Join us here for a trip down memory lane.

Accelerating ice melt in the Himalayas may imperil up to a billion people in South Asia who rely on glacier runoff for drinking water and more.

Quantum physics impacts the technology students use every day. Use these resources from NOVA broadcasts, NOVA Digital, and What the Physics!? to introduce quantum concepts to your classroom.

Neutron star innards are not your mom’s lasagna.

A sobering analysis suggests that animal species aren’t adapting fast enough to maintain their numbers in the face of rising temperatures.

The trifecta, discovered by NASA’s TESS, includes a “super-Earth” and two “sub-Neptunes” in a system called TOI-270.

An AI chip designed to mimic certain aspects of the human brain has given a bicycle an unprecedented level of autonomy.

Both treatments rely on infusing patients with antibodies that latch onto the virus and block it from invading cells.

The threat of mercury in seafood was curbed with regulations, but climate change could drive levels back up.

American pikas’ responses to climate are driven by location, location, location.

New data from NASA’s Curiosity rover suggests that water vacated Mars in fits and starts.

NOVA Labs Intern Chloe Nosan reflects on her experience working on the platform's newest resource on global climate change: The Polar Lab.

As a professional international downhill mountain biker, and now commentator, Andrew 'Needles' Neethling brings 18 years of experience in all aspects of the cycling industry into podcast form.
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LAUSD's decision to temporarily shut down schools causes an enormous disruption. And it's not clear how helpful the move will be in slowing coronavirus spread.