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TOKYO (AP) — Simone Biles will not defend her Olympic title. The American gymnastics superstar has withdrawn the all-around competition to focus on her mental well-being. The decision comes a day after Biles removed herself from the team final following one rotation because she felt she wasn’t mentally ready. Jade Carey, who finished ninth in…
TROY, Mo. (AP) — An eastern Missouri woman already serving a life sentence for one murder has pleaded not guilty to killing her friend a decade ago. Pamela Hupp entered her plea during a brief hearing Tuesday over the 2011 death of Elizabeth “Betsy” Faria. Prosecutors contend Hupp stabbed Faria four days after persuading her…
GILLETTE, Wyo. (AP) — Retired Sen. Mike Enzi, a Wyoming Republican known as a consensus-builder in an increasingly polarized Washington, has died. He was 77. Former Enzi spokesman Max D’Onofrio says Enzi died peacefully Monday surrounded by family and friends. Enzi had been hospitalized with a broken neck and ribs three days after a bicycle…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The attorney general in Missouri has sued in an effort to halt a mask mandate that took effect Monday in the St. Louis area amid a rise in COVID-19 cases that are burdening a growing number of hospitals around the state. The mandate, one of the first to be reinstated…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson is about to pick up his duties as chairman of a select committee to investigate the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection. As the longtime chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, the Democrat is familiar with being in a leadership role. But the Jan. 6 panel will be a new…
NEW YORK (AP) — Jackie Mason, a rabbi-turned-jokester whose feisty brand of standup comedy got laughs from nightclubs in the Catskills to West Coast talk shows and Broadway stages, has died. He was 93. Mason died Saturday in Manhattan, the celebrity lawyer Raoul Felder told The Associated Press. Mason started in show business as a…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The new mask mandate in the city and county of St. Louis that takes effect this week is being criticized by several state and local elected officials. Starting Monday, masks will be mandatory in indoor public places and on public transportation for everyone age 5 or older, even for those who…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Police say a former star high school basketball player who played briefly for Notre Dame and Missouri was shot to death in north St. Louis County. Twenty-seven-year-old Cameron Biedscheid was shot Friday night on the block where he lived. Police did not indicate if they have any suspects in the shooting.…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri could get as much as $500 million to help victims of the opioid epidemic as part of a tentative settlement with the three biggest U.S. drug distribution companies and the drugmaker Johnson & Johnson. Republican Attorney General Eric Schmitt on Thursday announced Missouri’s share of the $26 billion deal…
TOKYO (AP) — The Tokyo Olympic organizing committee has fired the director of the opening ceremony because of a Holocaust joke he made during a comedy show in 1998. Organizing committee president Seiko Hashimoto says opening ceremony director Kentaro Kobayashi has been dismissed. He was accused of using a joke about the Holocaust in his…