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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Marcus Fitzgerald Jr. had a season-high 23 points as Tennessee State topped Southeast Missouri 95-84. Carlos Marshall Jr. had 18 points for Tennessee State (6-8, 1-1 Ohio Valley Conference). Shakem Johnson added 16 points and three blocks. Kassim Nicholson had 15 points. Phillip Russell had 22 points for the Redhawks (6-11, 1-3).

DENVER (AP) — The Denver Broncos will be without cornerbacks Pat Surtain II and Ronald Darby for their regular-season finale against Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs. Surtain is out with a calf injury and Darby is sidelined by a shoulder ailment. It’s not an ideal situation going against Mahomes and offensive weapons such

PAHRUMP, Nev. (AP) — The woman dubbed the “Hollywood Madam” when she was accused in the mid-1990s of running a Los Angeles prostitution ring says she’s moving out of a southern Nevada town where she’s lived for about 15 years. Heidi Fleiss told the Pahrump Valley Times she’s angry that someone shot one of her

By WARREN MAYES Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Pavel Buchnevich had two goals and an assist, Ville Husso stopped 26 shots and the St. Louis Blues beat the Washington Capitals 5-1. Torey Krug, Oskar Sundqvist and Ivan Barbashev also scored to help the Blues improve to 8-2-2 in their last 12 games, and 10-0-1

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — The Denver Broncos activated kicker Brandon McManus and punter Sam Martin off the reserve/COVID-19 list on Friday, 24 hours before their season finale against the Kansas City Chiefs. They also placed starting cornerbacks Patrick Surtain II (calves) and Ronald Darby (shoulder) on IR and placed cornerback Nate Hairston on the reserve/COVID-19

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A judge has sentenced a Missouri man to 28 years in prison for the 2019 killing of his wife, whose body he buried in a state park and whose death he misled the authorities about for more than a year. The sentence Judge Brouck Jacobs gave to 26-year-old Joseph Elledge was

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A 54-year-old Kansas City woman has been sentenced to six years in prison for a fatal traffic crash that occurred while she was driving drunk. Tonya Rolf pleaded pleaded guilty in November to driving while intoxicated involving the death of another person. She was sentenced on Thursday. Court documents say

MURRAY, Ky. (AP) — Murray State will become the 11th member of the Missouri Valley Conference on July 1. University officials announced Friday the Board of Regents accepted an invitation from the Missouri Valley Conference and will be leaving the Ohio Valley Conference. The Missouri Valley does not include football or rifle. Murray State is

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The New Hampshire attorney general’s office says it has reached a $21.1 million settlement with a Missouri company over the inaccurate reporting of pharmacy benefit services cost. Centene and its affiliates Granite State Health Plan, Inc. and NH Healthy Families, Inc. are responsible for one of three health plans in New

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Gov. Mike Parson’s administration is set to open debate on increased spending this year for state employee pay and other services. The Republican governor proposes adding $91 million in additional spending to give 5.5% raises to prison guards, social service workers and people who treat the mentally ill. Parson

By MARK SHERMAN and JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court’s conservative majority appears skeptical of the Biden administration’s authority to impose a vaccine-or-testing requirement on the nation’s large employers. Fully vaccinated themselves for arguments Friday, the court’s six conservative justices appeared to view the administration’s requirement for businesses with at least

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Hospital officials across the state say a continuing surge in COVID-19 cases is straining their ability to provide care, particularly for patients who come to emergency departments. Some hospitals report people are waiting in emergency rooms for hours because of a lack of beds or staff, while rural hospitals are unable

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (AP) — Rex Dearmont Rust, co-president of the Missouri-based media company Rust Communications, has died. The company’s flagship newspaper, the Southeast Missourian in Cape Girardeau, reported that Rust died Thursday evening after a yearlong battle with cancer. He was 52. Rust grew up in Cape Girardeau and graduated from Harvard University in

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Police in St. Louis are investigating the shooting of two men that left one of them dead. Police say the shooting happened Thursday night in the Wells Goodfellow neighborhood. Officers called to the scene for reports of gunshots found a man who had been shot several times, and he was soon

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Officials say a man has died in a house fire on the north end of St. Louis. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that firefighters were called around 8 p.m. Thursday for a fire in a two-story home in the Walnut Park East neighborhood. Officials said a father and son lived in

By MARK SHERMAN and JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is hearing arguments on two major Biden administration work rules to bump up the nation’s vaccination rate against COVID-19 at a time of spiking cases because of the omicron variant. The justices on the conservative-oriented court are hearing arguments Friday about

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri man who admitted to burying his wife’s body and misleading authorities for more than a year about her whereabouts is set to be sentenced for killing her. Jurors in November convicted 26-year-old Joseph Elledge of second-degree murder in the killing of 28-year-old Mengqi Ji, whom he met after she