Four people have died with Covid in the last five days, taking the total island death toll to 33.

Police in Richmond, Ky., have arrested a 51-year-old man for allegedly murdering a local couple. Thomas C. Birl, of Cadiz, is accused of killing Christopher and Gracie Hager, 54 and 52 respectively, of Richmond, a city about half an hour south-southeast...

Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas said he regrets signing an April law banning mask mandates as infections soar among the unvaccinated youth there.

"No one's being asked to go off to fight radical Islam or fight a foreign enemy. We're being asked to make responsible medical decisions," he told AP.