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BOB SUTTON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Brendan Smith scored his first goal of the season with 2:57 remaining as the Carolina Hurricanes beat the St. Louis Blues 3-2. Brady Skjei and Sebastian Aho also scored for the Hurricanes, who avoided a second straight loss after holding a lead in third period. Andrei Svechnikov

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — Isiaih Mosley had a career-high 31 points as Missouri State topped Alabama State 78-60. Gerald Liddell led the Hornets on Saturday night with 14 points.

By JOE WALLJASPER Associated Press COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Tyler Badie rushed 34 times for 209 yards and a touchdown to help Missouri hold off a fourth-quarter comeback and defeat South Carolina 31-28. Badie leads the Southeastern Conference with 1,239 rushing yards on the season. The Tigers built a 17-point lead when Badie scored on

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — Jason Shelley ran for two touchdowns then fired a 55-yard scoring strike to Naveon Mitchell with 58 seconds left in the game to lift Missouri State to a 34-27 victory over Northern Iowa in Missouri Valley Football Conference action. Shelly’s game-winning throw came after the Panthers’ Theo Day and Deion McShane

By JOE WALLJASPER Associated Press COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Tyler Badie rushed 34 times for 209 yards and a touchdown and Missouri held off South Carolina’s fourth-quarter charge to defeat the Gamecocks 31-28 on Saturday. The Tigers built a 17-point lead when Badie scored on a 19-yard run with 12:31 left in the game. That’s

MURRAY, Ky. (AP) — DJ Williams ran for 121 yards and two touchdowns, Damonta Witherspoon rushed for 113 yards and a score and threw a TD pass and Murray State breezed to a 28-10 victory over Southeast Missouri State in Ohio Valley Conference play. Witherspoon connected with Jake Saathoff on a 25-yard halfback pass on

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Authorities say a driver intentionally struck and killed a St. Louis bar owner after a fight that began inside his establishment spilled outside. Twenty-six-year-old William Warden, of Imperial, was charged Friday with first-degree murder, armed criminal action and assault in the death of 54-year-old James Wors, of Oakville. No attorney is

LEE’S SUMMIT (AP) — Authorities have found a dead baby in a trash can outside a suburban Kansas City apartment. The Kansas City Star reports that the discovery was made Tuesday after a man called police and said he found the body in a closet and was so rattled he threw the remains in the

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — An overhead gondola would connect the downtowns of Kansas City, Kansas, and Kansas City, Missouri, under a proposal that a planning official is touting. The Kansas City Star reports that a 15-page preliminary study has been completed, although no money has been committed yet. But Gunnar Hand, the director of

COLUMBUS, Miss. (AP) — The first home of Tennessee Williams will undergo restoration, and a new life-size bronze statue of the playwright will be installed out front. The Tennessee Williams Home and Welcome Center has been awarded two grants from the Mississippi Department of Archives and History and the Mississippi Hills Heritage Area. The Victorian-era

By JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — COVID-19 and state abortion restrictions like a near-ban that took effect in Texas in September have people with unwanted pregnancies increasingly considering getting abortion pills by mail. The legality of mail delivery is uncertain in much of the U.S. because of the patchwork of state abortion

ST. LOUIS — Gibson Jimerson tossed in 18 points, Marten Linssen scored 15 and Saint Louis rolled to an 86-44 victory over Eastern Illinois in nonconference action. Reserve CJ Lane had 10 points to lead the Panthers (0-2), who made just 13 of 50 shots from the floor.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Keegan Murray scored a second straight career-high, putting up 25 points to lead Iowa in an 89-57 romp past Kansas City. The sophomore, who scored 24 points in the season opener against Longwood, scored 14 of his points in the first eight minutes of the second half to break the

WHEELING, Ill. (AP) — Police have arrested a man in the strangulation death of an Illinois woman whose 1-year-old daughter was found dead in an Indiana retention pond. According to published reports, 26-year-old Ahmeel Fowler has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of Ja’nya Murphy, whose body was found Tuesday in her Wheeling

HICKMAN, Ky. (AP) — A ferry that connects Kentucky and Missouri has reopened after a one-week closure due to a mechanical problem with one of the barge landing ramps. The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet says the Dorena-Hickman Ferry closed Nov. 5 and reopened at about 4 p.m. Friday. Parts were first expected to arrive in a

KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — Myrick Coil and Tyler Miller maintained their dominance of the Super Cat class Friday during the second competition day for powerboaters at the Race World Offshore Key West Championships in the Florida Keys. The day’s most dramatic incident occurred during the Stock V competition when boat with two men from

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The fate of a white Kansas City police detective charged in the fatal shooting of a Black man is now in the hands of a judge. Closing arguments were held Friday in the involuntary manslaughter trial of Eric DeValkenaere. Prosecutors said DeValkenaere violated the rights of Cameron Lamb when he

By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri health department is giving nursing homes a legal pathway to temporarily shut down if they face staffing shortages because of a COVID-19 vaccine mandate. An emergency rule published Friday allows facilities to close for up to two years without the hassle of

WHEELING, Ill. (AP) — Police say a child’s body found in a northwest Indiana retention pond has been identified as that of a 1-year-old suburban Chicago girl whose mother was found dead days earlier. Indiana State Police say the body found Thursday in a Hammond pond was identified as Jaclyn Angel Dobbs of Deerfield, Illinois.