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By DAMIAN J. TROISE – AP Business Writer Shares alternated between small gains and losses in Wall Street afternoon trading on Friday, as investors ended a bumpy week with greater uncertainty about where to go next. The S&P 500 Index was down 0.1% at 12:26 p.m. Eastern. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 18 points, … Read more
COLUMBIA, Mo. — Dennis Gates has landed his first recruit in Missouri. Mohamed Diarra, a 6-foot-10 junior college pretender from Garden City Community College in Kansas, announced his verbal acceptance of Mizzou on Friday. Recently named Jayhawk Conference Player of the Year, Diarra averaged 17.8 points and 12.6 rebounds per game last season while shooting … Read more
By MAE ANDERSON – AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Small businesses battered by the pandemic, inflation and shipping woes face another challenge: taxes. Tax season can be complicated for everyone, but with the April 18 filing deadline approaching, small business owners, contractors, entrepreneurs and others are faced with an ever-changing set of rules … Read more
By CHRIS MEGERIAN and CATHY BUSSEWITZ – Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) – The United States and the European Union on Friday announced a new partnership to reduce the continent’s dependence on Russian energy, the start of a year-long initiative to further isolate Moscow after its invasion of Ukraine. As part of the plan, the US … Read more
Chicago Bulls (42-31, 5th in Eastern Conference) vs. Cleveland Cavaliers (41-32, 6th in Eastern Conference) Cleveland; Saturday, 8 p.m. EDT CONCLUSION: Chicago visits Cleveland to break their five-game road slide. The Cavaliers are 9-5 in division games. Cleveland is seventh in the Eastern Conference with 10.3 offensive rebounds per game, led by Jarrett Allen with … Read more
By ERIC TUCKER – Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Four Russian officials, including hackers from a state intelligence agency, have been charged with maliciously hacking critical infrastructure around the world, including the US energy and aviation sectors between 2012 and 2018, the US Department of Justice and the UK Foreign Office announced Thursday . Among … Read more
AP MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Seven-time LPGA Major winner Karrie Webb has been nominated to captain Australia’s golfers at the Paris 2024 Olympics. Golf Australia said on Friday that Webb would replace 1991 British Open winner Ian-Baker Finch, who led Australia at the sport’s inaugural event in Rio de Janeiro in 2016 and again in … Read more
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Tennessee Senate passed legislation that would largely remove the ability of local governments to halt oil and gas pipelines and other fossil fuel infrastructure projects if they don’t want them in their cities and counties . The Senate’s 22-7 vote Thursday moves action in the GOP-supermajority legislature to the House … Read more
Defenseman Torey Krug will be out for at least a week and maybe longer after sustaining a hand and wrist injury in Washington on Tuesday. The Blues say Krug has struggled with an upper-body injury week in and week out. Krug was smacked in the left hand by Washington’s Nick Jensen at the end of … Read more
ST. LOUIS — The number of people living in the city of St. Louis fell below 300,000 in 2021, and the metro area also saw a decline in population, the US Census Bureau said in new estimates released Thursday. The numbers, while estimates, heighten concerns about stagnant growth in a region that looks set to … Read more