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FILE - In this Friday, March 27, 2020 file photo, William Samuels delivers caskets to the Gerard Neufeld Funeral Home during the coronavirus pandemic in the Queens borough of New York. A report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021 finds that life expectancy in the United States dropped a staggering one year during the first half of 2020 as the coronavirus pandemic caused its first wave of deaths. Minorities suffered the biggest impact, with Blacks losing nearly three years and Hispanics, nearly two years, according to preliminary estimates. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
US life expectancy drops a year in pandemic, most since WWII

By Marilynn Marchione Feb. 18, 2021 12:01 AM EST

FILE - This Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020 photo provided by the California Office of Emergency Services (OES) shows hospital beds set up in the practice facility at Sleep Train Arena in Sacramento, Calif., that is ready to receive patients as needed. This is the deadliest year in U.S. history, with deaths topping 3 million for the first time. It's due mainly to the coronavirus pandemic that has killed nearly 320,000 Americans. (California OES via AP, File)
VIRUS TODAY: Deaths to set record, consumer confidence down

By The Associated Press Dec. 22, 2020 12:58 PM EST

FILE - This Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020 photo provided by the California Office of Emergency Services (OES) shows hospital beds set up in the practice facility at Sleep Train Arena in Sacramento, Calif., that is ready to receive patients as needed. This is the deadliest year in U.S. history, with deaths topping 3 million for the first time. It's due mainly to the coronavirus pandemic that has killed nearly 320,000 Americans. (California OES via AP, File)
US deaths in 2020 top 3 million, by far most ever counted

By Mike Stobbe Dec. 22, 2020 12:01 AM EST

Michigan is an outlier in electing university boards

By Anna Liz Nichols Oct. 25, 2020 10:41 AM EDT
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — As Michigan voters look at their ballot in November they will have the unique option to elect three university governance boards. As the...

FILE - This Dec. 11, 2019 file photo shows gravestones at a cemetery in New Jersey. The U.S. suicide death rate fell slightly in 2019, the first annual decline in more than a decade, according to new government data. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
US suicide rate fell last year after decade of steady rise

By Mike Stobbe Oct. 23, 2020 12:59 PM EDT

CDC has not reduced the death count related to COVID-19

By Beatrice Dupuy Aug. 31, 2020 06:22 PM EDT
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention did not “backpedal” on the number of deaths caused by COVID-19, reducing the figure from nearly 154,000 to...

FILE - This Sept. 7, 2019, file photo, Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh watches from the sideline in the first half of an NCAA college football game against Army, in Ann Arbor, Mich. Harbaugh, who has two years left on his deal, says he was close to a contract extension before coping with the pandemic became a priority. (AP Photo/Tony Ding, File)
Harbaugh was close to a new deal at Michigan before pandemic

By Larry Lage Jul. 08, 2020 04:30 PM EDT

PGA’s quiet return ... NHL preps ... MLB draft

Jun. 12, 2020 02:05 AM EDT
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — The PGA Tour has made a quiet return into action after being disrupted for months by the coronavirus outbreak. There was a moment of...

Update on the latest sports

Jun. 12, 2020 12:47 AM EDT
PGA-COLONIAL PGA Tour gets back to business FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Golf is the second major sport in the U.S., behind...

Live golf...NFL racial concerns...Blue Jays border issues

Jun. 11, 2020 07:40 PM EDT
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — The PGA Tour is back after 90 days. Ryan Palmer hit the first official shot since March 12 at 8:46 a.m. in a symbolic nod to social...

Update on the latest sports

Jun. 11, 2020 11:24 AM EDT
PGA-COLONIAL PGA Tour gets back to business FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Golf is the second major sport in the U.S., behind...

FILE - In this Tuesday, May 5, 2020 file photo, an orange biohazard tag hangs from a body bag in an isolated refrigerated unit set aside for bodies infected with coronavirus at the Cook County morgue in Chicago. The best sources of data on deaths from any cause is death certificates. But there time lags from when a death occurs, when a doctor or medical examiner assigns a cause, and when death certificates are filed, sent to health officials, and checked and counted. In a minority of cases, autopsies are performed, which can cause even more of a delay. So generally speaking, the most complete death counts are about two weeks old. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Experts say US coronavirus death count is flawed, but close

By Mike Stobbe May. 27, 2020 04:15 PM EDT

Update on the latest sports

May. 14, 2020 08:56 AM EDT
VIRUS OUTBREAK-SPORTS AP Source: NFL extends virtual offseason work through May UNDATED (AP) — The NFL has updated its...

Update on the latest sports

May. 13, 2020 04:23 PM EDT
VIRUS OUTBREAK-SPORTS AP Source: NFL extends virtual offseason work through May UNDATED (AP) — The NFL has updated its...

FILE - In this Wednesday April 8, 2020 file photo, a rabbi, background, finishes a prayer during a burial service as gravediggers prepare a plot for the next burial at a cemetery in the Staten Island borough of New York. According to data released in late April, the U.S. has seen at least 66,000 more deaths than usual so far this year, according to government data, and the new coronavirus accounts for much — but not all — of the increase. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
Coronavirus and other causes driving surge in US deaths

By Mike Stobbe Apr. 30, 2020 05:21 PM EDT

Update on the latest in sports:

Apr. 25, 2020 12:27 AM EDT
NFL-DRAFT First night of NFL draft draws record 15.6 million viewers UNDATED (AP) — Housebound football fans gave the...

Update on the latest in sports:

Apr. 24, 2020 07:27 PM EDT
NFL-DRAFT First night of NFL draft draws record 15.6 million viewers UNDATED (AP) — Housebound football fans gave the...

Update on the latest sports

Apr. 24, 2020 11:05 AM EDT
NFL DRAFT The Latest: SEC breaks draft record with 15 1st-round picks UNDATED (AP) — The first round of the NFL draft...

Update on the latest sports

Apr. 23, 2020 06:42 AM EDT
MLB-RED SOX-SIGN STEALING Red Sox stripped of pick, Cora banned in sign-stealing scams NEW YORK (AP) — The Boston Red...

Update on the latest sports

Apr. 22, 2020 10:34 PM EDT
MLB-RED SOX-SIGN STEALING Red Sox stripped of pick, Cora banned in sign stealing scams NEW YORK (AP) — The Boston Red...