SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The fight against the new virus is continuing, with crews scrubbing everything from money to buses and quarantines in effect in places from a beachfront resort in the Atlantic to a remote island in the Pacific. The World Health Organization says the number of new cases reported outside China exceeded…
MARYLAND HEIGHTS, Mo. (AP) — Authorities say a part-time janitor has been charged with first-degree murder after shooting and killing a co-worker at a crowded suburban St. Louis community center before a police officer rushed inside and exchanged gunfire with the shooter. The suspect, 30-year-old Michael J. Honkomp, was seriously wounded. Maryland Heights police Chief…
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ST. LOUIS (AP) — Zach Sanford was in the right spot when the St. Louis Blues needed it most. Sanford had career-high nine shots on goal and finished with two goals and an assist, helping to rally the Blues to a wild 6-5 victory over the Chicago Blackhawks on Tuesday night. Sanford scored the tiebreaking…
Springfield, IL (AP) — The Illinois Sheriffs Association says some violent felons who had faced deportation are instead being released into local communities after their prison terms end as a result of a policy change by Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s administration. The sheriffs said Tuesday they object to ending the Department of Corrections’ practice of allowing…
Washington D.C. (AP) — Scientists can’t tell yet just how deadly the new respiratory virus that’s spreading the globe really is. Deepening the mystery, the fatality rate differs even from one part of China to another. In the outbreak’s epicenter in Wuhan, the World Health Organization put the death rate at 2% to 4%. But…