All Stories from May 15, 2020 (Change date)
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Illinois widens test eligibility as virus deaths pass 4,000May 15, 2020 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - An additional 130 people have died of the coronavirus in Illinois, bringing the state's death toll to 4,058, state officials said Friday, as they announce...
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Stateville prison reopens F-House to hold COVID-19 inmatesMay 15, 2020 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - After Juan Rodriguez tested positive for COVID-19 last week at Stateville Correctional Center, he told his wife that guards moved him to a cell inside Sta...
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Tennis tours extend coronavirus breaks; 40-plus events offMay 15, 2020 7:00 am - More than 40 top-level professional tennis tournaments are off the sport's 2020 calendar because of the coronavirus pandemic as of Friday, when the men's and women's tou...
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Man paroled over coronavirus concerns charged in slayingMay 15, 2020 7:00 am - DENVER (AP) - A parolee suspected of killing a woman in Denver had been released from prison three weeks before the slaying because of concerns over the coronavirus. Cor...
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Bob Watson, All-Star slugger and executive, dies at 74May 15, 2020 7:00 am - Bob Watson, an All-Star slugger who became the first black general manager to win a World Series with the New York Yankees in 1996, has died. He was 74. The Houston Astr...
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System off Florida could become season's first named stormMay 15, 2020 7:00 am - FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - A trough of low pressure moving through the Florida Straits could organize over the northwestern Bahamas later Friday or Saturday and become...
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1st COVID-19 case detected in Rohingya camps in BangladeshMay 15, 2020 7:00 am - DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) - The first coronavirus case has been confirmed in the crowded camps for Rohingya refugees in southern Bangladesh, where more than 1 million are t...
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Tesla picks Austin, Tulsa as finalists for new US factoryMay 15, 2020 7:00 am - DETROIT (AP) - Tesla has picked Austin, Texas, and Tulsa, Oklahoma, as finalists for its new U.S. assembly plant, a person briefed on the matter said Friday. The person ...
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Colorful player, coach Pepper Rodgers dies at age 88May 15, 2020 7:00 am - ATLANTA (AP) - Pepper Rodgers, a colorful personality who helped Georgia Tech to an unbeaten season as a player in 1952 and went on to coach the Yellow Jackets as well a...
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FBI: Missouri man planning to bomb hospital killed himselfMay 15, 2020 7:00 am - MISSION, Kan. (AP) - A Missouri man who was planning to bomb a Kansas City-area hospital killed himself in March as FBI agents served a probable cause arrest warrant, th...