July 2020

MLB players begin reporting for tests as first workouts near

MLB players begin reporting for tests as first workouts near

By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer

Yoán Moncada has spent the past couple of months working out in what he called a “controlled and limited environment” in Florida, where the White Sox slugger could continue to get at-bats while protecting himself from the coronavirus.

Welsh receives bids, moves closer to new animal shelter

WELSH - Two bids have been received on a project that will see the animal shelter here rebuilt.

JDP Responds to JHS Call

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Daily News photo by Stacey Fontenot

Supreme Court’s abortion ruling raises stakes for election

NEW YORK (AP) — Supporters of abortion rights are elated, foes of abortion dismayed and angry, but they agree on one consequence of the Supreme Court’s first major abortion ruling since President Donald Trump took office: The upcoming election is crucial to their cause.

Supreme Court lifts ban on state aid to religious schooling

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday made it easier for religious schools to obtain public funds, upholding a Montana scholarship program that allows state tax credits for private schooling.

Wall Street tacks more onto its best quarter since 1998

NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is drifting higher in midday trading on Tuesday, a quiet coda for a rocking quarter that sent the U.S. stock market screaming back toward its record heights.

Golf tournament to help fund police training initiative

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The Travelers Championship is giving some of the money raised by last week’s golf tournament in Connecticut to help create a program to train police in how to deal with teens and young adults, especially in Black and racially diverse communities.

Europe restricts visitors from the US amid virus resurgence

(AP) - The European Continent on Tuesday reopened to visitors from 14 countries but not the U.S., where some of the states that pushed hardest and earliest to reopen their economies are now in retreat because of an alarming surge in confirmed coronavirus infections.

UN agency: Source of radioactivity in Nordics still unclear

BERLIN (AP) — The U.N. nuclear agency says slightly elevated levels of radioactivity that have been detected in northern Europe pose no risk to human health or to the environment but it’s still unclear what the cause was.

NFL awards 4 projects in helmet safety development program

(AP) - Four organizations have been awarded a total of $1.37 million by the NFL to support the creation of their helmet prototypes.