COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Dru Smith hopes all of Missouri’s players-only meetings lead to this. Smith said the 20th-ranked Tigers met without coaches heading into Saturday’s game against South Carolina simply to make sure they were all of one mind heading down the season’s final stretch. Missouri certainly looked in sync, with Smith scoring 17…
BELLEVILLE (AP) — A man awaiting trial in the 2005 triple homicide in Belleville has died of COVID-19. St. Clair County Coroner Calvin Dye Sr. says that 55-year-old Samuel L. Johnson died of complications of pneumonia and COVID-19. Johnson had been in the county jail before his death at Memorial Hospital in Belleville. Johnson has…
DALLAS (AP) — Higher temperatures are spreading across the southern United States, bringing some relief to a region weary of winter. The region faces a challenging clean-up and expensive repairs from days of extreme cold and widespread power outages. In hard-hit Texas, where millions were warned to boil tap water before drinking it, the warm-up…