Smithfield temporarily shuts pork plant due to coronavirus

Smithfield temporarily shuts pork plant due to coronavirus

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A Smithfield Foods pork processing plant in South Dakota will temporarily close for cleaning after more than 80 employees were confirmed to have the coronavirus, the company announced Thursday.Smithfield Foods plans to suspend operations in a...
Yanks most valuable in MLB at $5 billion, Forbes estimates

Yanks most valuable in MLB at $5 billion, Forbes estimates

NEW YORK (AP) — Forbes estimates the New York Yankees are baseball’s most valuable franchise at $5 billion, up 9% over last year and 47% more than the No. 2 Los Angeles Dodgers at $3.4 billion.The Yankees are second among all sports in Forbes’ evaluations to the...
Lockdowns mean millions of women can’t reach birth control

Lockdowns mean millions of women can’t reach birth control

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The callers were in tears. One by one, women in homes across rural Zimbabwe had a pleading question: When would family planning services return?Lockdowns imposed to curb the coronavirus’ spread have put millions of women in Africa, Latin America...
Rural Indiana virus worry: ‘What more could I have done?’

Rural Indiana virus worry: ‘What more could I have done?’

GREENSBURG, Ind. (AP) — The coronavirus pandemic surged into Sean Durbin’s farm-speckled Indiana county much faster than most other parts of rural America, contributing to at least 10 deaths and dozens of serious illnesses.Decatur County and two other counties in...
Panic grocery buying slows; iPhone sales plummeted in March

US economy unlikely to recover as rapidly as it collapsed

BALTIMORE (AP) — President Donald Trump has been telling voters that the U.S. economy will leap back to life “like a rocket,” stronger than ever after its bout with the coronavirus.But there is a reason economics is called the “dismal science.” There are emerging...