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A Missouri man convicted in the death of his pregnant wife whose battered body was found about a week after she was reported missing was sentenced Friday to life in prison without parole. A jury in April found Beau Rothwell, 31, of Creve Coeur, guilty of first-degree murder, tampering with …

Large corporations are biting the bullet this summer and giving raises to retain their employees — and help them cope with inflation.  The average pay raise is around 3% a year, typically given between January and April. But soaring inflation, high gas prices and a tight labor market are creating …

A team searching the basement of a Mississippi courthouse for evidence about the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till has found the unserved warrant charging a White woman in his 1955 kidnapping, and Till’s relatives who initiated the search want authorities to finally arrest her nearly 70 years later. A warrant for …