Keyshawn Davis took several weeks to choose his path to boxing stardom after the Tokyo Olympics were postponed. Thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, the top professional prospect on the U.S....
April 20, 2020
The NFL's practice draft Monday to test technology and communications for the real thing beginning Thursday night had no major hangups. There were some technical glitches at the outset, when...
April 20, 2020
Publix completed its month-long U-turn on facial covering and masks during the coronavirus pandemic on Monday, the first day all employees are required to wear facial coverings. An email from...
April 20, 2020
Mayor Eric Garcetti released a pandemic-wounded spending plan Monday for the coming year that he called “a document of our pain” that includes service cuts and worker furloughs to manage...
April 20, 2020
Robert Loomis, a blue-chip editor of old-fashioned sense and persistence who in more than 50 years at Random House encouraged, prodded and befriended William Styron, Maya Angelou, Calvin Trillin and...
April 20, 2020
The virtual racing has been cute and kept everyone entertained but NASCAR needs to get back to the real thing, quickly, for the financial and mental health of the sport....
April 20, 2020
Gov. Ron DeSantis appointed some of Florida's most powerful political leaders and business executives Monday to a committee that will map out the state's reopening from the coronavirus shutdown that...
April 20, 2020
Major League Baseball players are upset over the prospect teams may seek additional pay cuts if games are played in empty ballparks due to the coronavirus outbreak. Their anger was...
April 20, 2020
Two environmental groups filed a federal lawsuit Monday to stop a proposed underground natural gas pipeline from Idaho to Wyoming, saying it would harm protected grizzly bears and other wildlife....
April 20, 2020
Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly announced Monday that she has directed state agencies to avoid filling open positions not essential to dealing with the coronavirus pandemic and to eliminate discretionary spending...
April 20, 2020
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp on Monday rolled out aggressive plans to reopen the state's economy, saying many businesses shuttered to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus may reopen their doors...
April 20, 2020
Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred has made a move that allows teams to lay off or cut the pay of major and minor league managers, coaches, trainers and full-time scouts starting...
April 20, 2020
Gov. Henry McMaster is rolling out details of a program that his office says will allow South Carolina's economy to “recover more quickly than any other states in the country”...
April 20, 2020
A growing protest movement against stay-at-home orders designed to slow the spread of the coronavirus reached Kansas City Monday, with between 75 and 100 people attending a rally to demand...
April 20, 2020
Best Buy closed its stores during the COVID-19 pandemic but is still completing orders placed through BestBuy.com, the retailer's app or over the phone. Customers will have the option to...
April 20, 2020
As unemployment surged during the early weeks of the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S., Florida processed its hundreds of thousands of new claims more slowly than any other state, according...
April 20, 2020
Family members of four of the eight passengers killed in a helicopter crash with Kobe Bryant and his daughter have joined the NBA star's widow in filing wrongful death lawsuits...
April 20, 2020
Another Royal Caribbean crew member from the Oasis of the Seas cruise ship died Monday, according to a recording from the ship's captain obtained by the Herald. “Our dear fellow...
April 20, 2020
State revenue from the Mississippi Lottery decreased in March as people began facing restrictions because of the coronavirus pandemic. The Mississippi Lottery Corporation said it deposited $9.9 million into the...
April 20, 2020
Calling nursing homes ground zero of the coronavirus crisis, federal officials said Monday they plan to start tracking and publicly sharing information on infections and deaths in such facilities to...
April 20, 2020
Dave Seaton, the longtime former editor and publisher of the Winfield Daily Courier and a member of a prominent newspaper family, died Saturday. He was 80. His son, David Allen...
April 20, 2020
Just when you thought its handling of the pandemic couldn't get any worse, Brussels plunges to new depths by giving countries with far fewer cases much more than those who've...
April 20, 2020
The Latest on the effects of the coronavirus outbreak on sports around the world: ___ Bengals quarterback Andy Dalton and his wife, J.J., have donated $150,000 to a local fund...
April 20, 2020
The British prime minister's wanton dereliction of duty in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic has killed thousands and he must be held accountable. Boris Johnson must go. Recent revelations...
April 20, 2020
The Covid-19 epidemic will certainly give a boost to digital sexual games, but hopefully it will also lead to a new appreciation of physical intimacy and we will remember that...
April 20, 2020
The planet and its wondrous inhabitants take center stage this week in celebration of Earth Day. Several documentaries will spotlight the wonders of the outside world, while a live R&B...
April 20, 2020
A woman was killed and a man was seriously injured when the vehicle was struck by a train in Camden, The Missouri State Highway Patrol said. Ashley Harder, 32, of...
April 20, 2020
With the distinct possibility of pro sports resuming in empty venues, a recent poll suggests a majority of U.S. fans wouldn't feel safe attending games anyway without a COVID-19 vaccine....
April 20, 2020
With students completing school work remotely during the coronavirus pandemic, officials say more youths are filling their days by doing farm labor and other agricultural jobs. Educators and farm-worker advocates...
April 20, 2020
Until Monday, Oregon was the only state that allowed nonunanimous jury convictions. The U.S. Supreme Court ended that in a decision involving a murder conviction in Louisiana which, until 2019,...
April 20, 2020
Just 40,193 Floridians who have filed for unemployment since March 15 have received their benefits, according to a new website the state launched Monday. That's less than 3% of the...
April 20, 2020
JBS USA said it is temporarily shutting down its big pork processing plant in southwestern Minnesota because of an outbreak of COVID-19 among workers, the latest closure of a major...
April 20, 2020
Miami Marlins CEO Derek Jeter told team employees during a conference call Monday he is forgoing his salary during the coronavirus pandemic, a person familiar with the discussions told The...
April 20, 2020
A northern Illinois nursing home that announced last week that 22 residents and one staffer had died of the coronavirus said Monday that the virus had claimed the life of...
April 20, 2020
The chief of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians says he has tested positive for COVID-19, and he is urging people to follow advice of health professionals to try to...
April 20, 2020
Iran on Monday began opening intercity highways and major shopping centers to stimulate its sanctions-choked economy, gambling that it has brought under control its coronavirus outbreak — one of the...
April 20, 2020
Some big restaurant chains have obtained loans from the government under a small-business relief program, leading business groups to cry foul even though the loans are within the guidelines of...
April 20, 2020
Madrid has felt eerily like a ghost town ever since the radical lockdown began almost six weeks ago, but an investigation is now looking into whether the heavy-handed approach by...
April 20, 2020
Kansas has received more personal protective equipment and supplies to expand COVID-19 testing in communities with meat processing plants. Gov. Laura Kelly announced Monday that the federal supplies will go...
April 20, 2020
The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide a case from Georgia about the reach of a federal computer hacking law. The case involves Nathan Van Buren, who was a police...
