Cruise ships hit by coronavirus outbreaks have quickly found themselves with no ports for thousands of passengers as countries on four continents have quarantined vessels or kept them at sea...
March 8, 2020
Roberto Luongo wore the No. 1 jersey primarily because he thought the number signified being the best at everything. For the Florida Panthers, there was never anyone better. “No. 1...
March 8, 2020
The NBA, NHL, Major League Baseball and Major League Soccer are all weighing plans to restrict access to locker rooms as a precaution to protect players from exposure to the...
March 7, 2020
When 57 mushers line up Sunday for the official start of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, it will be the second-smallest field in the past two decades. Only last...
March 7, 2020
China's exports fell by double digits in January and February as anti-virus controls closed factories, while imports sank by a smaller margin. Exports tumbled 17.2% from a year earlier to...
March 7, 2020
Negotiators from the Florida House and Senate worked through the weekend to begin reconciling a $1.4 billion chasm in their respective spending plans, but on Saturday appeared to be making...
March 7, 2020
The number of people in Massachusetts who have tested positive for the new coronavirus jumped to 13 on Saturday, up from eight on Friday, state health officials announced. That includes...
March 7, 2020
Kaitlin Urka's goal of having an all-female crew work an NHL game will become a reality on Sunday. The St. Louis Blues-Chicago Blackhawks telecast on NBCSN will be the first...
March 7, 2020
The Washington Senate on Saturday unanimously passed a measure that exempts feminine hygiene products from the state's sales and use tax. The measure now heads to the House for consideration....
March 7, 2020
Miles College has promoted its interim president to the post permanently. The announcement of Bobbie Knight's new role as president came during Thursday's Spring board meeting, Al.com reported. Knight assumed...
March 7, 2020
When 57 mushers line up Sunday for the official start of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, it will be the second-smallest field in the past two decades. Only last...
March 7, 2020
AC Milan announced the firing of chief football officer Zvonimir Boban on Saturday — the latest upheaval involving the club's management since Silvio Berlusconi sold the club in 2017. The...
March 7, 2020
Megan Thee Stallion says she works extremely hard in the studio writing music, and so became more than a little worried when she almost couldn't release her new album because...
March 7, 2020
California Gov. Gavin Newsom and his wife reported more than $1.2 million in income during his final year as the state's lieutenant governor, the majority of it from outside business...
March 7, 2020
Vice President Mike Pence, tasked with spearheading the U.S. response to the eruption of novel coronavirus cases, discouraged elderly Americans from taking cruises Friday after 21 people tested positive for...
March 7, 2020
A Democratic state senator objected to a new Senate rule requiring a detailed explanation for every item a legislator puts into the state budget. Sen. Brad Hutto made the objection...
March 7, 2020
The owners of a California-based food company plan to open a $37 million bakery in Georgia. Gov. Brian Kemp's office announced that Sugar Bowl Bakery's metro Atlanta operation will be...
March 7, 2020
The clock is ticking for Florida lawmakers as they sprint toward adjournment. They're already losing an hour this weekend because of Daylight Savings Time. Significant policy and budget hurdles remain...
March 7, 2020
The Democratic presidential primary is down to two major candidates, and it shows. Former Vice President Joe Biden and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders are spending their first weekend as their...
March 7, 2020
The rare Tiehm's buckwheat stands less than a foot tall (30 centimeters) in Nevada's rocky high desert, its thin, leafless stems adorned with tiny yellow flowers in spring. To the...
March 7, 2020
Missouri lawmakers are considering new guidelines to regulate delivery robots that may soon be roaming St. Louis and other communities in the state. The proposed law is aimed at allowing...
March 7, 2020
A Georgia man has admitted to defrauding investors through a foreign currency trading scam, federal prosecutors said. Kevin Perry of Cartersville appeared in federal court Thursday to enter a guilty...
March 7, 2020
From their keen taste for sun-ripened pot to their first meeting at a pro-marijuana rally in college in the 1990s, everything about Chip and Jessica Baker fits the stereotype of...
March 7, 2020
Officials from Chicago and the NHP Foundation celebrated the opening of a renovated historic housing unit offering affordable single-room occupancy. Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Friday that restoration of the Mark...
March 7, 2020
The UN-mandated report which accuses Russia of alleged war crimes in Syria heavily relies on anonymous sources and lacks evidence but smacks of deliberate disinformation intended to halt the eradication...
March 7, 2020
As the stock market convulses, airline schedules buckle and businesses worry their overseas supply lines will snap, President Donald Trump is looking on the sunny side of an economy clouded...
March 7, 2020
Those engaged in heated arguments over whether Joe Biden or Bernie Sanders is best placed to defeat Trump need to look at the stats, which indicate that the incumbent will...
March 7, 2020
House Speaker Jay Lucas sees South Carolina's opportunity to sell or overhaul state-owned utility Santee Cooper as a chance to reshape the future of energy, at least where he lives....
March 7, 2020
With every passing hour, Lisa Egan of Colorado becomes increasingly worried about her 90-year-old father's exposure to the novel coronavirus on the Grand Princess cruise ship. Cliff Egan is one...
March 7, 2020
VIRUS OUTBREAK NEW YOR (AP) — The NBA wants its teams to prepare to play games without fans if necessary because of the coronavirus crisis, but LeBron James already says...
March 7, 2020
The best way to prepare for Covid-19 and endure quarantine is obviously to watch as many pandemic-related movies as possible. Here is a list of the very best ones to...
March 7, 2020
People walk by the original Miami, Florida, every day and don't even know it. Or they think the downtown corner where Miami's first residents lived is a ruptured sewage line...
March 7, 2020
An Ohio man driving a boat near a southwest Florida beach has been charged with fatally striking a swimmer and fleeing the scene, officials said. James Allen, 77, was arrested...
March 7, 2020
Tom Calhoun was surprised when he showed up for a ribbon-cutting at his childhood home in Belleville and discovered that the red brick had been painted blue. The paint job...
March 7, 2020
Cristina Otera, 59, has never filled out the U.S. census survey even though she's lived at the same yellow corner house where she raised her children and now grandchildren for...
March 7, 2020
Thousands of people were confined to a cruise ship circling in international waters off the San Francisco Bay Area Saturday after 21 passengers and crew members tested positive for the...
March 7, 2020
SpaceX launched another load of station supplies for NASA late Friday night and nailed its 50th rocket landing. The Falcon rocket blasted off with 4,300 pounds (1,950 kilograms) of equipment...
March 7, 2020
The components needed for a massive wind farm under development in eastern New Mexico have started to arrive by rail. Xcel Energy said Friday that the wind turbine parts for...
March 7, 2020
After tests revealed Friday 21 people aboard the Grand Princess had tested positive for COVID-19, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced they will quarantine the 1,100-member crew...
March 7, 2020
The out-sized impact of a major tax break bill on Miami-Dade County has the local hospitality industry fearful that the bill language would fundamentally change the county's 35-year-old marketing arm...
