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By STEVE OVERBEY Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Adam Wainwright pitched six scoreless innings, Tyler O’Neill hit a three-run homer and drove in a career-high five, and the St. Louis Cardinals celebrated Albert Pujols’ return with a 9-0 season-opening win over the Pittsburgh Pirates. Yadier Molina threw out a runner trying to steal second

By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Bobby Witt Jr. searched the crowd for his family before his highly anticipated big league debut Thursday, finally spotting them in the sea of Kansas City Royals fans that had bundled up for a blustery opening day. “I don’t know if they were even

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s GOP-led House has approved a roughly $46 billion state budget for the upcoming year bulked up by federal pandemic-related aid. House lawmakers passed the spending plan Thursday. It now goes to the Republican-led Senate. Legislators are responsible for finding ways to spend the billions of dollars in extra federal

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP National Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Winners of the Roberto Clemente Award will wear his No. 21 on the back of their caps for the rest of their major league careers. Major League Baseball called it a special tribute to Clemente’s enduring legacy. Thursday’s announcement on opening day was timed for the

By WILL GRAVES AP Sports Writer The Pittsburgh Pirates are building around third baseman Ke’Bryan Hayes. A person with knowledge of the agreement tells The Associated Press the Pirates and Hayes have come to terms on a new eight-year, $70 million deal with the 25-year-old Hayes pending a physical. The person spoke to the AP

NEW YORK (AP) — Winners of the Roberto Clemente Award will wear his No. 21 on the back of their caps for the rest of their major league careers. Major League Baseball said it was a “special tribute to his enduring legacy.” The announcement was timed for the 50th anniversary of the year in which

By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Cleveland Guardians began opening day Thursday by making official a $20 million, five-year contract with Emmanuel Clase, ensuring one of the breakout stars of the rechristened club will be closing games for the foreseeable future. The deal, which was agreed to over the

By WILL GRAVES AP Sports Writer The Pittsburgh Pirates are building around third baseman Ke’Bryan Hayes. A person with knowledge of the agreement tells The Associated Press the Pirates and Hayes have come to terms on a new eight-year, $70 million deal with the 25-year-old Hayes pending a physical. The person spoke to the AP

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A Chinese national who pleaded guilty earlier this year to stealing a trade secret from Monsanto while he worked in Missouri has been sentenced to more than two years in prison. Haitao Xiang, formerly of Chesterfield, Missouri, was sentenced Thursday in federal court in St. Louis to 29 months in prison

NEW YORK (AP) — Winners of the Roberto Clemente Award will wear his No. 21 on the back of their caps for the rest of their major league careers. Major League Baseball said it was a “special tribute to his enduring legacy.” The announcement was timed for the 50th anniversary of the year in which

BLUE SPRINGS, Mo. (AP) — Authorities say a woman has died after being pulled from a burning home in suburban Kansas City this week. The Kansas City Star reports that the 70-year-old woman died Wednesday, two days after firefighters were called to a fire at a duplex in Blue Springs and found her in the

By STEVE OVERBEY Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Ville Husso made 28 saves to lead the St. Louis Blues to a 4-1 victory over the Seattle Kraken. The Blues have won three in a row and recorded points in six straight games with a 5-0-1 mark. Robert Thomas, Justin Faulk, Ryan O’Reilly and Jordan

By STEVE OVERBEY Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Ville Husso made 27 saves to lead the St. Louis Blues to a 3-1 victory over the Seattle Kraken. The Blues have won three in a row and recorded points in six straight games with a 5-0-1 mark. Robert Thomas, Justin Faulk, Ryan O’Reilly and Jordan

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — All-Star outfielder Whit Merrifield and the Kansas City Royals agreed to a restructured contract late Wednesday in which the club exercised its option for next season and the two sides added a mutual option for 2024. Merrifield, who made his second All-Star team last season, will earn $7 million this

By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Every big leaguer thinks their team has a chance when they arrive to spring training. The old “hope springs eternal” cliché is, after all, more apropos to Major League Baseball than perhaps any other professional sport. It’s been a few years, though, since the

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri Supreme Court has thrown out the convictions of a Kansas City man who has spent 16 years in prison for a slaying that he and others contend he did not commit. In a two-paragraph order Tuesday setting aside Keith Carnes’ convictions, the state’s high court also ordered that

GALENA, Mo. (AP) — A judge has dismissed charges against three men prosecuted after a tourist boat sank and killed 17 people during a 2018 Missouri storm. KYTV-TV reports the judge dismissed the first-degree involuntary manslaughter charges against the men Tuesday. The three men, Kenneth McKee, Curtis Lanham and Charles Baltzell, were charged after a

By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor says that even though her views are often different than her colleagues, she realizes “there’s good in every one of them.” The 67-year-old justice spoke Tuesday at Washington University in St. Louis. Her appearance came in the midst of hearings on

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Bobby Witt Jr., widely considered the best prospect in baseball, has made the Kansas City roster and will start at third base in the Royals’ season opener against the Cleveland Guardians on Thursday at Kauffman Stadium. The move with the 21-year-old infielder was widely expected, especially after he hit well