• Prince William, 32, who is second-in-line to the British throne, began work as an air ambulance helicopter pilot and will work with medics responding to emergencies ranging from road accidents to heart attacks.
• Ludacris, the rapper and actor, and model Chrissy Teigen will host the 2015 Billboard Music Awards airing on ABC on May 17, Dick Clark Productions announced.
• President Barack Obama will make his first trip as president to Kenya, the country of his father's birth, in July for the Global Entrepreneurship Summit, the White House announced.
• George Pataki, the Republican former three-term New York governor, told Rita Cosby on WABC in New York that he'll probably run for president in 2016, suggesting that the only holdups are campaign-finance laws that would limit his fundraising once he formally declares.
• Rep. Tammy Duckworth, an Iraq War veteran and Democrat from Illinois serving a second term in the House, announced she's running for U.S. Senate in 2016, setting up a high-profile challenge to Republican Sen. Mark Kirk's re-election bid.
• Mumia Abu-Jamal, a former Black Panther serving life in prison for the 1981 murder of white Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner, was hospitalized in the critical care unit of a Pennsylvania hospital, said his lawyer Bret Grote, who added prison officials won't tell him why.
• Shelly Ashley-Palmertree, former circuit clerk of Warren County, Miss., was ordered by a judge to pay $1,250 a month in restitution after she pleaded guilty to stealing more than $100,000 from an account for crime victims.
• Owen Fazenbaker III, 32, a western Pennsylvania man, paid a $500 fine to avoid being jailed for missing jury duty 11 times in the past two years.
• Alicia Carroll, 28, of Garland, Texas, faces a charge of abandoning and endangering a child, accused of telling her 7-year-old daughter to hide in a trash bin outside a spa and then leaving her before the girl was found nearby 10 hours later.
• Joseph Aoun, the president of Northeastern University in Boston, reacted angrily to the discovery of swastikas drawn on a dry-erase board in the common space of a dorm, saying in an email to the campus community that "these actions are completely antithetical to the values of our university and all that we stand for."
A Section on 03/31/2015